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      Nottingham Forest captain Joe Worrall completes shock loan transfer to Euro giants as he joins ex-Arsenal star

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      NOTTINGHAM FOREST captain Joe Worrall has joined Besiktas on loan until the end of the season.The Turkish transfer window is open until February 9 which gave Besiktas time to complete the deal.
      Joe Worrall has joined Besiktas on loanCredit: Getty
      Worrall, 27, has found his game time limited this season and was even banned from training in December along with Scott McKenna.
      The centre-back did return to the first-team squad and played a minute against Newcastle.
      McKenna departed on loan to Copenhagen while Worrall was linked with a move to Championship side Middlesbrough.
      A proposed Deadline Day move to Sheffield United also collapsed despite Worrall reaching an agreement with the Blades.
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      But the defender has had his wish to leave fulfilled after Besiktas had a loan bid accepted.
      The Turkish side has the option to make the deal permanent at the end of the season.
      Worrall made 226 appearances for Forest and has been captain since 2021, so played a pivotal role in their promotion from the Championship in 2022.
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      He will join compatriot and former Arsenal and Liverpool player Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain at Besiktas.
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      The Turkish giants also possess several former Premier League stars including Cenk Tosun, Arthur Masuaku and Gedon Fernandes.
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      Playing in the Premier League today would be a doddle for me – midfielders get away with murder, claims Graeme Souness

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      LIVERPOOL legend Graeme Souness insists it would be a doddle playing today in the Premier League.The former Scotland international played in England for Tottenham and Middlesbrough before he was snapped up by the Merseyside giants.
      Graeme Souness believes it would be a doddle to play in the Premier League nowCredit: Kenny Ramsay
      Liverpool swooped for him in 1978 and the ex-Anfield captain won the lot with the club before his departure in 1984.
      Souness, 70, is now a popular pundit after enjoying a successful managerial career following his retirement from playing.
      He has hit the headlines for criticising Paul Pogba and several other modern-day stars over recent years.
      But he was told while appearing on talkSPORT today by one caller that it is a lot faster and more competitive in the top-flight these days than when he played.
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      However, the fiery Scot, who lifted the European Cup three times at Liverpool, believes the current crop of talents “get away with murder”.
      Souness said: “When I played and after I played, I accept things have changed, is it quicker?
      “All our training was to do one or two touch on far inferior pitches to what they have today.
      “Does that mean we have better technique? We were playing on plough fields, whereas the guys today play on carpets.
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      “We had smaller squads, and I think we won the league one year with 15 players in the squad.”
      He continued: “Listen, to make a direct comparison, I would love to play today. I think it would be an absolute doddle to play, an absolute doddle.
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      “I think midfield players today get away with murder; you see them, and some are regarded as proper midfield players.
      “They get on the ball and pass it sideways – there are lots of them who have been bought for lots of big money.
      “If you had come to Melwood, our training ground at Liverpool, and watched a small-sided game under Ronnie Moran, you know what the most common thing you would have heard?
      ‘Play it forward, play it forward’.
      “He would stop the game and say, ‘Look, I am 50, I can pass it sideways. You play it forward, look forward.’”
      Souness then said: “Today, this is what happens, and I had a term for it at Liverpool, and I fell foul in my second game at home.
      “It would be rude of me to mention the term I had because it relates to a player who played at that time.
      “What it meant was, ‘don’t be doing that here, son, you go back into the back four and take a nice easy pass, no pressure, and you pass it square’.
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      “The modern midfield player does it all the time now. They get the ball and then pass it out to the full-back under no pressure.
      “If I had gone and sat in the back four and told Mark Lawrenson or Alan Hansen to give me the ball, they would have told me to f**** off.”
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      Premier League TV games announced as Liverpool vs Man City title clash is handed rarely-seen kick-off time

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      PREMIER LEAGUE TV matches for March have been announced with 14 fixtures selected.Liverpool vs Manchester City is the pick of the games and has been handed a rare kick-off time – 3:45pm on March Sunday 10.
      Liverpool vs Manchester City will kick off at 3:45pmCredit: Alamy
      Fourteen matches have been selected for TV coverage
      Liverpool will be shown twice more in March including the Merseyside Derby on March 17, which will air on Sky Sports.
      While Brighton’s trip to Anfield will feature as a double-header before City vs Arsenal on March 31.
      The champions also visit the Seagulls live on air, with Brighton’s game against Nottingham Forest rearranged due to their participation in the Europa League.
      West Ham’s match against Burnley on the same day, March 10, has also been rearranged because of the competition with the fixture originally supposed to take place a day before.
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      Other stand-out TV fixtures include Aston Villa v Tottenham on March 10 and Arsenal vs Chelsea on March 16 at 12:30pm.
      Manchester United will feature in the late Saturday game once again when they take on Brentford in an 8:00pm kick-off.
      The Red Devils have previously played Burnley and Newcastle in that timeslot this season.
      United vs Brentford takes place on Saturday March 30, with Sky Sports showing Aston Villa v Wolves in a 5:30 kick-off.
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      While TNT Sports will air Newcastle vs West Ham in the lunchtime kick-off on the same day.
      There is also one Monday Night Football clash for fans to look forward to when Newcastle visit Stamford Bridge on March 11.
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      Liverpool set to break Anfield attendance record in Burnley clash with new stand to be fully open

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      LIVERPOOL are set for a record attendance when Burnley visit Anfield on Saturday.The expanded Anfield Road End will finally be fully open after being redeveloped over the last few years.
      Liverpool’s Anfield Road End is set to open completely this weekendCredit: Getty
      The upper tier has been open for several weeks but seats in the middle tier have been vacant while work on executive lounges was being completed.
      However that work is now finished and 3,000 more tickets are available for the Burnley clash.
      Liverpool are expecting that to boost attendance to the 60,000 mark – beating the current record for a league game of 58,757, which came against Chelsea in December 1949.
      The overall record attendance at Anfield is 61,905 for the FA Cup tie against Wolves in 1952.
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      Capacity is expected to be increased to 61,000 once two more rows of seats are installed at the back of the lower tier of the Anfield Road End.
      The £80million project was initially expected to be completed at the beginning of the season but was hit by delays.
      The tickets for the new section will go on sale on Tuesday and 2,500 will be hospitality seats.
      Liverpool still need to ensure emergency conditions tests are passed, and will work with the city council to get the green light.
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      The Reds are looking to bounce back from their 3-1 defeat to Arsenal on Sunday.
      Jurgen Klopp’s side are still top of the Premier League table although the Gunners are now just two points behind, with Manchester City five points off with two games in hand.
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      Only Jose Mourinho can sort Chelsea out, Pochettino has failed and will get hammered in the Carabao Cup final

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      IT IS CLEAR Mauricio Pochettino at Chelsea is not working and that the club is in a malaise.Only one man can change that: Jose Mourinho.
      Jose Mourinho is the only man that can change ChelseaCredit: Getty

      For most of the past two decades Chelsea have had a win-at-all-costs mentality.
      The players have been strong – physically and mentally – and the football has been effective and efficient.
      Players like John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Diego Costa were beloved at Stamford Bridge – and hated everywhere else.
      However, post-Roman Abramovich’s era, Chelsea feel like a club without an identity on or off the pitch.
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      Chelsea doesn’t feel like Chelsea anymore. Reappointing Mourinho would immediately give us that identity back.
      Despite managing great clubs like Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Manchester United, when you think of Mourinho, you think of Chelsea.
      It was Mourinho who established this identity in his first spell as manager, three years in which he won two Premier League titles, two League Cups and an FA Cup.
      Much is made of the third season of his second spell where things went spectacularly wrong, but in the second season he won a third Premier League title and another League Cup.
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      In the first he took Chelsea to the semi finals of the Champions League, achievements that look a million miles away from the current position at Stamford Bridge.
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      He is a serial winner and has proved this throughout his career.
      Mourinho is also a charismatic leader, and while there are some talented young footballers at Stamford Bridge, there is a dearth of talismanic figures at the club for fans to hang our hopes on.
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      Critics of Mourinho will say his style of football is from a bygone era, that the game has evolved through the tactics of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp.
      But anyone watching Chelsea under Pochettino and Graham Potter would struggle to find any kind of style of football at all.
      Everyone knows how Mourinho is going to set up. Ask people to describe how Chelsea play under Pochettino… they will struggle.
      The League Cup final is looming large at the end of the month, and as well as being an important trophy in its own right, it is the only realistic chance of European football next season.
      Under Pochettino there is no chance we will win it.
      With serial winner and talismanic leader Mourinho in charge we might. Bring him home.

      Why Chelsea must STICK with PochTODD BOEHLY would be a fool to sack Mauricio Pochettino before this month’s Carabao Cup Final, SunSport’s Chelsea correspondent Andy Dillon writes.
      Todd Boehly would be a fool to sack Mauricio Pochettino before this month’s Carabao Cup Final.
      But then all common sense went out of the window along with the personal effects of three other managers since the American chairman took over Chelsea less than two years ago.
      Boehly and his pal Behdad Eghbali bought Chelsea for £2.5bn in May 2022 and promised to invest a further £1.75bn in revolutionising the entire squad.
      They have certainly done that. Pochettino is famed for his ability to develop young players but is getting nowhere fast with the costly collection of individuals dumped on him by Chelsea’s transfer department
      Getting them to the Carabao Cup final on February 25 is a miracle. That they look destined to get ripped apart by Liverpool at Wembley is another matter.
      Pochettino admits his job is not safe. But one thing is for sure, he will not quit. As much as some of those Chelsea fans calling for his head in Sunday’s humiliating 4-2 home defeat by Wolves would like.
      They were also singing for former owner Roman Abramovich – so Boehly is not safe either. 
      The deposed Russian, now in exile, is always the person of first resort that a bunch of supporters used to winning big things every year reach for when times are tough. It won’t happen so the fans need to get used to that idea. More

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      Frank Lampard tipped to become new Chelsea women’s manager just eight months after leaving Stamford Bridge

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      FRANK LAMPARD has been tipped to become the next Chelsea women’s manager.Legendary boss Emma Hayes will leave Stamford Bridge at the end of the season to take over as USA women’s head coach.
      Frank Lampard has been tipped to return to ChelseaCredit: Getty
      Lampard has been tipped to replace Chelsea women’s boss Emma HayesCredit: Rex
      Chelsea are rigorously looking for a new women’s managerCredit: Rex
      Izzy Christiansen is adamant Lampard would be the perfect candidateCredit: Getty
      That will cap off a glittering 12-year stint for Hayes who won a staggering six Women’s Super League titles, five Women’s FA Cups, two Continental Cups, the Spring Series and the Community Shield.
      The Blues are now rigorously searching for the 47-year-old’s replacement, who will surely have some massive boots to fill.
      However, former England international Izzy Christiansen is adamant Lampard would be the perfect candidate.
      That is because the men’s team’s record goalscorer knows the club inside out and his character would lead to a smooth transition to a new and prosperous era.
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      Christiansen told Live Score: “I do have a name in mind but I’ve never heard anyone throw it out there… Frank Lampard.
      “He’s somebody who knows the club inside out. From my experiences at Everton, listening to him speak, he’s the right type of character.
      “His level of communication and knowledge of the game could be really effective and I think you’ve got someone well accustomed with what it means to be Chelsea.
      “I don’t have any knowledge on whether he’d want it or not but it makes sense to me.
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      “To be honest, I sit in a party where it doesn’t have to be a female, doesn’t have to be a male — it just needs to be the right person for the job.
      “There’s no gain in Chelsea going, ‘Right, let’s pigeonhole this, it has to be a female’.
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      “If they want to continue or attempt to continue the dominance they’ve had domestically, it has to be the correct appointment.”
      That would mark Lampard’s third return to Stamford Bridge after his stunning 13-year playing career came to an end in 2014.
      The legendary midfielder first came back as manager in 2019 and enjoyed a successful debut season as the Blues finished fourth despite a transfer embargo.
      However, the 45-year-old tactician’s second season was marred by poor results and he was swiftly replaced by Thomas Tuchel, who went on to win the Champions League.
      Lampard returned as caretaker boss in April for an abysmal second stint that saw him losing eight out of 11 matches, of which he won only one before his departure in June. More

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      Thomas Partey ‘set to leave Arsenal at the end of the season’ as £45million signing fails to shake injury woes

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      ARSENAL are allegedly set to offload Thomas Partey this summer.The 30-year-old midfielder moved to the Gunners in 2020 in a £45m deal from Atletico Madrid.
      Arsenal will reportedly offload Thomas Partey this summerCredit: Getty
      He became big a fan favourite at the Emirates but the Ghana international has hardly featured this term due to injury.
      Partey was deployed at right back for the opening three games of the campaign, but he has featured just one more time since.
      The star has been out since October following thigh surgery.
      That was after he also missed the entirety of September with a groin problem.
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      Partey recently jetted out to Dubai with the rest of Arsenal’s squad for a warm-weather training camp as he was finally given the green light to make his return.
      However, he suffered another injury blow last week as boss Mikel Arteta revealed before their 3-1 victory over Liverpool that his ace is set to be out of action again.
      He said: “With Thomas unfortunately we had a little setback a few days ago.
      “I’m not a doctor, but he felt something in a very similar area and he wasn’t able to train the last few days.”
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      Now the Daily Mirror has claimed that his days in North London appear to be over.
      They report that “Partey is expected to leave Arsenal at the end of the season after failing to shake off persistent injury problems”.
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      Arteta was open to selling Partey following the arrival of Declan Rice back in July.
      But they failed to receive a suitable bid.
      Juventus are now understood to be interested in signing him but opted against making any move last month due to his recent absence through injury. More

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      Premier League cult hero and USA legend’s daughter now making her own way in football

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      BRIAN McBRIDE made a career of scoring goals wherever he played.And now his daughter has clearly inherited the family’s shooting boots as she makes her own way in football. 
      Brian McBride is considered a Fulham legend after his spell at Craven CottageCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
      McBride and wife Dina have three daughters – Ashley, Ella and FreyaCredit: https://twitter.com/BMcBride20
      His youngest Freya has inherited her dad’s shooting bootsCredit: https://twitter.com/BMcBride20
      McBride Sr, 51, came through collegiate soccer before going pro with Milwaukee Rampage in 1994.
      One season with Wolfsburg followed before he really made a name for himself back in America with Columbus Crew.
      During his eight-year spell in Ohio, though, he twice headed out on loan to play under David Moyes in North-West England, firstly with Preston and then Everton.
      A heavy collision during his Preston debut meant he required surgery to remove a blood clot in his arm while a rib was also removed in the operation. 
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      Moyes turned to McBride to help give the Toffees a much-needed boost – and he scored against Tottenham less than ten minutes into his Premier League debut past compatriot Kasey Keller.
      Then in January 2004, Fulham snapped up the striker and he became a cult hero in West London.
      In his four-and-a-half years with the Cottagers, McBride was twice named player of the year before assuming the captaincy in 2007.
      His 41 goals in 154 appearances secured his legendary status, cemented with a bar inside Craven Cottage named after the popular American.
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      McBridge returned to the MLS with Chicago Fire in 2008 and came out of retirement for a brief cameo for Wembley FC in their FA Cup run alongside fellow former Premier League stars in 2012.
      On the international stage, meanwhile, he managed 30 goals in 96 caps for the USA – including becoming the first American man to score at two World Cups and was MVP as they were crowned 2002 Gold Cup champions. 
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      McBride married his bride and childhood family friend Dina Lundstrom in 2002 – with her father even coaching a young Brian.
      The couple moved back to their hometown of Arlington Heights in Illinois when McBride signed for Chicago Fire, less than an hour’s drive from the stadium. 
      It is understood the family live five minutes from McBride’s childhood home – and just two from Dina’s. 
      They have three daughters – Ashley, Ella and Freya.
      And the former footballer clearly loves being a doting father and husband with plenty of heartwarming social media posts.
      That includes those cheering his youngest Freya on in her sporting ventures.
      As well as her proficiency on the volleyball court, she has also taken up football.
      McBride shared a video on Twitter in November 2023 of teenager Freya storming in at the back post to fire home with a great finish.
      ‘Love to see it’
      Her dad wrote: “My youngest’s first goal for her new team FC United U16 GA.”
      Plenty of football fans flooded the comments with reference to McBride Sr’s own ability to find the net.
      One said: “Deadly in the box like her dad.”
      Another added: “We love to see it!”
      A third wrote: “You taught her how to get on the end of a cross I see!”
      And a fourth commented: “Congratulations!”
      Then mum Dina replied: “My poor video skills!”
      But super-encouraging Brian responded: “Not at all. I was impressed you caught it on tape. I was sitting right next to you and didn’t know you were filming it.”
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      McBride also launched his own soccer academy in Illinois, works as a TV pundit and was USMNT general manager from 2020 to 2023. 
      He has also spoken for the Central Ohio Diabetes Association and at events for the Concussion Legacy Foundation to promote safer sport and support athletes affected by chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brain. 
      McBride battles with Italy’s Fabio Cannavaro at the 2006 World CupCredit: EPA
      The striker scored at the 1998 and 2002 tournamentsCredit: Corbis – Getty
      McBride scored 41 goals for the Cottagers in 154 gamesCredit: AP:Associated Press
      The doting father regularly posts pictures of the familyCredit: https://www.instagram.com/bmcbride20/ More