’s young star Tom Cleverley may be handed a new contract of £80k per week before the end of the year according to Mirror Football.
The England midfielder still has two and a half years left on his current contract, with wages of £40k per week, signed at the beginning of last season. However United are keen to not let time on his present deal run down any further and wish to bring his pay up to the level of some of the club’s star players.
Ferguson is keen to reward the 23-year-old’s rapid progress since being selected for the first XI during Man United’s impressive start to the 2011/2012 Premier league season.
Plagued by injury, Cleverley’s involvement in the first team diminished, and lacked opportunities to impress Roy Hodgson before Euro 2012. However, the midfield playmaker was selected and given a key role in Team GB’s football squad at the London Olympics.
This season, Cleverley, playing in a more advanced role, has shown his goal scoring abilities with two goals in six appearances. Ferguson now appears convinced that the talented youngster is a big part of the Red Devils’ future and wishes to tie him down to a long-term deal.
The central midfielder has also broken onto the international scene, being selected by Hodgson and starting in both of England’s qualifying matches against Moldova and Ukraine.
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Considering Cleverley’s salary was £40k per week before his career for club or country actually took off, the United board feel the player deserves a better deal.
Speaking recently, Sir Alex explained the midfielder’s importance to the club: “”He is very mature in what he does because he’s got a fine footballing brain, and there’s no doubt he’s one of the biggest prospects in the English game.”
Sam Allardyce is hoping to take advantage of Southampton’s poor start to the season at Upton Park this this weekend.
The West Ham boss has witnessed his side enjoy a good start to the campaign, which sees them occupy eighth spot after seven games.
And he wants to improve on the Hammers’ impressive start to their first season back in the Premier League by taking advantage of Southampton’s struggling start and leaky defence this weekend.
He told West Ham’s official website: “We need to bounce back from a disappointing result [against Arsenal] but a very gutsy performance and then get back on the victory trail at home.
“Southampton have not had the best of starts and have had some difficult games and have been conceding a number of goals and we’ve got to try and take advantage of that.”
Nigel Adkins’ Saints have shipped 20 goals in their opening seven Premier League games this season and find themselves just a point above the bottom three, which is something Allardyce hopes to capitalise on when the sides meet on Saturday lunchtime.
“From our point of view we’d like to beat them on the basis that we have both been promoted and we both know how much of a struggle it is in year one. If you can pick up points from teams of similar standing to you then you take three points and they don’t get any points,” he added.
“It’s almost a six-pointer this early in the season. If we win, they’d only have four points and we’d have 14 and that’s a massive gap that they’d have to try and close over the coming games.”
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Allardyce also praised the efforts of the West Ham fans who he believes help intimidate the opposition at Upton Park.
He said: “We’ve played some good football and played one of the big boys and even though we lost the fans were right behind us until the end.
“It gives us a good platform to beat the opposition. It intimidates the opposition and it is hugely supportive for us. That can help to give us that extra drive to get the positive result.”
Reading striker Jason Roberts has spoken out following the appalling scenes during last night’s England Under 21’s match in Serbia. The veteran forward believes that UEFA has failed to properly deal with past cases of racism at international matches which has allowed for racist behaviour to continue.
England’s black players, most notably Danny Rose, were subject to monkey-chanting and missile throwing from the Serbian crowd throughout the game, followed by a violent confrontation with the Serbian squad and management at the full time whistle.
In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live immediately after the game, Roberts said: “I was absolutely fuming at what I saw. To think this was an England Under-21 game and another generation of players is seeing this sort of behaviour makes me very sad and makes me aware of the fact we haven’t moved far enough.
“Everyone says UEFA needs to be stronger, do this and do that. They’ve shown they have no stomach for this battle. They haven’t taken it on in the past. I doubt they will now with paltry fines and slapping on the wrists.”
In recent years, UEFA have handed out small penalty fines to countries that have failed to control their racist fans. In 2004, Spain were fined £44,750 for racist chanting and another £40,000 during Euro 2012. Bulgaria were fined £34,000 in 2010 for racist chanting and Croatia were fined £10,000 in 2008 for fans displaying racist banners. In 2007, Serbia were fined £16,500 for racist chants toward Nedum Onuoha however the punishment has clearly not acted as a sufficient deterrent to Serbian fans or the Serbian football authority.
“So that’s why it’s time for players to take action. I’ll go one further and say players should walk off the pitch because – guaranteed – if that happened, things would change.
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“The (official UEFA) match report doesn’t even mention what happened. I think that just shows they would like to sweep it under the carpet and make out we don’t have these problems in football when clearly we do,” Roberts added.
Ryan Giggs future at Manchester United looks uncertain after the club put back contract talks with the long serving midfielder until the end of the season, reports Goal.com.
The United legend was set to start talks about renewing his existing one-year rolling contract within the next month but it is now understood that officials at the club will not open dialogue until May at the earliest.
The Welsh midfielder turns 39 at the end of the month and he recently admitted that the current campaign could be his last. He has made over 900 appearances for the Red Devils since making his debut in 1991 and scored twice in the Capital One Cup defeat to Chelsea on Wednesday.
Commenting on the midfielder’s fine display after the cup loss Sir Alex was keen to highlight his durability. “I think in Ryan Giggs, we saw a player of unbelievable proportions, in terms of playing the 120 minutes at 39 years of age next month and it’s a credit to himself.”
However Giggs missed out on selection in yesterday’s 2-1 victory over Arsenal and he looks set to play a bit-part role this season.
The veteran, who has featured in every Premier League season for the Old Trafford outfit, recently admitted that he realises that he is no longer a key player in Sir Alex Ferguson’s side and may now view it as the opportune time to retire while still on top.
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Everton manager David Moyes believes that Marouane Fellaini will leave the club unless they can qualify for the Champions League.
The Belgian has been in fine form so far this season, which has led to interest from the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea.
It appears the speculation may have turned his head, as last week he admitted he could leave the club at the end of the season.
Moyes conceded that he will not keep the midfielder against his will and believes that if the Toffees qualify for the Champions League he may stay:
“I am not in the mood now to keep the fight going all the time because we have had to do this with a lot of players,” He is quoted by The Independent.
“But Felli knows what I think and I think that more than anything he’d love to take Everton into the Champions League.
“But I think I have got to that stage at Everton where I say: ‘Look, we have lost some really good players but I don’t think it has stopped us progressing as a team.”
“In fact, people might say that Everton have lost good players but they have improved.
“We sold Joleon Lescott, we sold Mikel Arteta and, though we have felt really down when we lost those players, we have had to pick ourselves up and find others.
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“The club will always be bigger than any player or manager and the players we have brought in are showing that.”
It’s believed that Everton are holding out for a fee in the region of £30m for their star man.
Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Brad Friedel is happy to stay at White Hart Lane for the foreseeable future despite his game time being limited this season.
Spurs signed highly rated French stopper Hugo Lloris in the summer and the new competition has wasted no time in impressing both Andre Villas-Boas and the Spurs fans with his outstanding individual displays.
Friedel captained the side in the Europa League in midweek and itseems that the majority of his game time will now come in secondary competitions with Lloris keeping goal in the Premier League.
The loan deadline closed for English Football League clubs last week and it was rumoured that Friedel’s former club Blackburn Rovers made a last gasp effort to bring the American back to Ewood Park but were unsuccessful.
Despite these rumours and slipping down the pecking order at Spurs, Friedel is happy to stay in North London as he is concentrating solely on Tottenham.
“I cannot answer questions (about a potential January move),” Friedel told Sky Sports.
“It’s all hypothetical. Right now I am a Tottenham player and I am very happy here.
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“I have no idea (about Blackburn’s interest). When I was apparently contemplating doing a medical I was at home having Thanksgiving dinner with my family.
“What happens between club and club a lot of times players don’t know. At the end of the day I am contracted to Tottenham and am concentrating on Tottenham.”
Alan Pardew is thought to be pursuing a January move for Dynamo Kiev striker Artem Milevskiy as a replacement for the wantaway Demba Ba.
The Newcastle boss has so far failed to talk Ba into signing a long-term deal, leaving the club worried they will receive a £7million bid in January, triggering a buy-out clause in the Senegalese star’s contract.
Milevskiy could be a viable option if Ba leaves the Toon. The 27-year-old is out of contract this summer and Kiev would rather take in £6m in the January transfer window than lose him for nothing in the summer.
That would represent a vastly cut-down price from the £14million price-tag Kiev placed on him when Roy Hodgson tried to sign him at Liverpool two years ago.
Pardew might have to face some stiff competition to secure Milevskiy’s signature. The striker’s agent Barry O’Connor told The Sun: “There is plenty of interest from more than one club in England.”
The Ukraine international has spent his entire career at Dynamo Kiev, where he has won every domestic honour available to him and may well feel this is the right time to move and see how he would fare on a different stage.
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He operates in the hole behind the striker and so might be seen as a player who could support Papiss Cisse up front.
Milevskiy has netted 87 goals in 273 appearances for Kiev and has won 50 national team caps.
Newcastle transfer target Andreas Granqvist has confirmed he is happy to stay with Italian side Genoa, despite speculation over a January exit.
The Sweden international defender has been tracked by a host of European clubs, including Zenit St Petersburg, Serie A duo Lazio and Roma, and Newcastle’s Premier League rivals Sunderland and Liverpool.
Granqvist has already featured in England’s top division, enduring an unsuccessful 18-month spell at Wigan, where he made just 14 appearances.
He has since rebuilt his career in the Dutch Eredevisie with FC Groningen and lately in Serie A, after earning a £2million move to Genoa in the summer of 2011.
The 27-year-old has established himself as a key player for the Italian outfit, who are currently languishing in second bottom position in the league table.
But the Swede, who scored an equaliser in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Torino, admits he may not leave Genoa and his fate rests with the club’s hierarchy.
“I’m fine to stay with Genoa, but I don’t know what will happen,” Granqvist told The Shields Gazette. “Everything depends on the President.”
And Granqvist’s agent Simon Canovi has stressed that Genoa need to keep the services of the defender if they are to stave off the threat of relegation.
“He is a player of real value which may be important for Genoa to climb the table,” said Canovi.
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“I think it is normal that Andreas is appealing to other clubs.
“But in my opinion, there are not many strong defenders like Granqvist around and they cost too much.”
While not all in the footballing fraternity will necessarily be too sad to see the back of 2012, if you’re Arsenal’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, you’ll probably be wondering how the year ahead could possibly come close to the one he’s just experienced.
Indeed, after a year in which he made his first Premier League start for Arsenal, scored his first Premier League goals for the club as well as becoming their youngest Englishmen to score in the Uefa Champions League, the man nicknamed the Ox achieved more in the first six months of last year than many of his younger compatriots may in an entire career. But it didn’t stop there.
Throw in a nomination for the PFA Young Player of the Year, a call up to Roy Hodgson’s Euro 2012 squad as well as amassing nine caps and a goal for his country, such has been the unrelenting speed of the ex-Southampton man’s rise in English football, there’s hardly been a chance to take stock of the outstanding 12 months he’s just enjoyed.
Which makes it all the more bizarre that as we start the New Year, the 19-year-old seems to be facing his first pockets of criticism since making the move from St. Mary’s in 2011.
While it’s hardly as if Oxlade-Chamberlain has been facing any kind of wicked backlash from supporters, as we pass the half-way mark in the season so far, it’s been suggested that for a player who’s made such stunning strides in recent times, a return of only two goals and two assists in 19 games isn’t quite at the level of output that perhaps it should be.
Perhaps the key word in that last passage is one of expectation. Rightly or wrongly, the performances of Oxlade-Chamberlain and the remarkable progress he’s made from hot prospect to fully fledged England international, have naturally raised the bar in what people perceive to be an acceptable level of output.
And if you consider how prolific the Gunners have been in front of goal this term, perhaps supporters aren’t completely missing the point when it comes to harbouring a little disappointment to Oxlade-Chamberlain’s performances in front of goal.
For all Arsene Wenger’s defensive woes, it’s hardly as if his side have looked anemic when it comes to putting the ball in the back of the net. Despite currently sitting sixth in the Premier League table, Arsenal have scored 40 times this season; a tally bettered only by the two Manchester United and Manchester City who sit first and second respectively. And when you consider who else has been scoring this season, it’s no surprise the heat is on Oxlade-Chamberlain to start racking up his contribution a little.
No one expects him to match Theo Walcott and his 14 goals and counting in all competitions, but you would expect him to be perhaps be doing a little better than his solitary two goals; one of which came in the league and the other in the League Cup. To give you a bit of perspective, Arsenal fans have been quick to maul Gervinho at times this season for his poor performances, but he’s found the net five times for the club this season. This isn’t to say supporters haven’t been justified in their critique of the Ivorian, but considering he’s fighting with Oxlade-Chamberlain for a place in the team, it’s hardly an unfair comparison to make.
Yet refreshingly for supporters, it’s not just those frequenting the Emirates who are longing to see a little more from Oxlade-Chamberlain, with the player himself admitting his frustration at his lack of quantifiable output.
Speaking to the Evening Standard last month, while he appeared aware of supporters concerns, he seemed steely in his resolve to keep ‘plugging away’ for the side.
“For me, I want to be getting more goals and more assists so I am always beating myself up when I don’t,” he said.
“I guarantee I will always give 100 per cent and will try to get on the scoresheet a bit more as well. I am never happy with myself. I know I have got quite a good shot so when an opportunity comes about and I don’t hit the target or make the keeper work, I’m not a happy boy.
“I’m just going to keep plugging away, keep working hard in games and in training. But the main thing is that the boys are getting the results.”
While things might not have necessarily gone his way in front of goal this term, most importantly for Oxlade-Chamberlain, it doesn’t appear to be affecting his resolve, which considering his tender 19 year, displays a sense of maturity that some of his more experienced, underperforming teammates could take a long look at. But asides from his age, most importantly for Oxlade-Chamberlain is the fact Wenger now appears happy to give him a solid run of games in the league.
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It’s worth noting that he’s only started a mere eight of Arsenal’s 20 Premier League games, with five of those starts coming in the last four weeks. It’s no surprise that his recent run in the side over Christmas has coincided with a spike in form and now he’s getting starts in this Arsenal side, the youngster has the perfect platform of which to push on into the New Year.
But for whatever his output in front of goal, it’s worth noting that not even a year has passed since Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s first Premier League start in an Arsenal shirt. For all the heady progress he’s made for both club and country, there is still a long way to go before he resembles anything nearing the finished product.
It must be hard to retain patient at the moment if you’re an Arsenal fan, but for Oxlade-Chamberlain, the rewards on offer supplant any frustrations that fans may currently be feeling.
Wolves have seen the extensive investment in youth academy bear fruit in the past year or so, players like Danny Batth, Jake Cassidy, Antony Forde, Liam McAlinden, Matt Doherty and, most impressively, David Davis have all progressed into mature players fit to throw on the old gold when called upon.
There is one player though who has more mystery around him than an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, he is one of the most highly rated players by academy bosses at the club and fans rave about his ability at such a young age, yet he has never played for the first team, bar a seven minute cameo in the game against Chelsea in the Capital Once Cup at the start of this season. This Albanian born player has already represented England at under sixteen and seventeen level and was the subject of the famous misquote by academy manager Ian Evans who was reported to say that he was the first “100 million pound player”, what he actually said was a little more restrained, Evans could see “a lot of money” being spent on him.
Zeli Ismail joined Wolves at the tender age of ten and was drafted into the academy where his raw talent was to be honed by the academy managers at the time. In 2010 he was given his first professional contract on his seventeenth birthday, what a present, sort of, and had to wait a good long while to make his debut, this came against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on the 25th September in a game that will not live long in the memory of any Wolves fan, we lost six nil and conceded three inside eighteen minutes, Ismail was put on with seven minutes to go and, as you probably guessed, did not have much of an impact on the game and/or the final score. However, the first team experience gained, from just being around the seniors and visiting the European Champions ground will aid his development and experience in the game.
When Wolves limped across the Premier League line in May and were thrown into the Championship at the end of last season, there were quiet whispers that one the club’s best kept secrets would be given a chance to show off his ability to the crowds of Wolverhampton. This whisper was given credence when Wolves appointed Solbakken in the summer, a manager who appreciated the art of tactics and who could, possibly, but ultimately did not, give this young precocious talent a platform. Similar to Brendon Rogers bringing through Raheem Sterling, however the purchase of Sako, Peszko and Razak Boukari were always going to the limit the chances of Ismail, which in hindsight, and given Wolves woeful league position and equally woeful form, is a shame. Maybe he could have been the shot in the arm Wolves needed.
Ismail is predominantly a winger, a very modern forward thinking one at that. He is not a winger that stays out on the wing the whole game and he will not be there to whip balls in for the full ninety minutes, whether that is something Wolves need is another issue. What he is though is a player with a low centre of gravity, the effortless and graceful ability to use both left and right foot and a frighteningly quick acceleration over short distances, that have left many under twenty one fullbacks needing stitches in their shorts, (Click the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLht3JPUqFc Pretty stunning right?). Ironically, this is the very type of player which Wolves find so impossible to defend against, see the Crystal Palace games, both home and away, Blackpool game at home and to a certain extent Brighton at home as prime examples of how Wolves, seem to combust and implode as soon as a technically gifted winger is put on the pitch, it is so utterly predictable. So for the academy to produce one of these very players for their own is something that only our beloved club could do.
The hype and expectation surrounding this player is utterly incredible, made even more so that hardly anyone has seen him play. He is a bit like Wolves’ secret weapons that, at this point in time, have failed to deploy, probably because the season is going so wonderfully to plan, right? I remember first hearing about this guy a few years back, the amount of praise about him from Wolves fans, that plus the misinterpreted quote by the aforementioned Ian Evans, made me Google Ismail to see if he was a) Real and b) A player that Wolves could produce! It turned out he was both, fortunately. Sketchy reports suggest that Chelsea and Arsenal did the very same thing as yours truly, probably a bit more extensively however, as two separate bids, when he was fourteen, from the abovementioned clubs, in the region of two million pounds, were rejected, as the club attempted to keep one of its roughest of rough diamonds.
This further embeds how much of a prospect he is and how very long it has been that we have been discussing and salivating over some of the ability he possesses. It begs the question, will he ever break through? Obviously he is still incredibly young and developing away from the media and honing his game in private is probably the best option for him. On the other hand, it seems baffling that this clearly talented player who reflects the modern attacking football has not been given a chance, especially in the Championship, to show what he can do against some experienced fullbacks. The changing of the guard at Molineux recently and the fact Wolves are more likely to go down than go up may finally give him his chance. Furthermore Bakary Sako may be on his way to the Premier League in the summer, especially if Wolves, God forbid, get relegated again.
Ismail was loaned out on the 22nd November to join up with MK Dons, a move made to kick start the young man’s career and give him the invaluable experience of first team football. That added to the fact he was to be managed by a very highly rated manager in Karl Robinson a man only thirteen years Ismail’s senior. He would slot in at a club where the pressure on Ismail would not be sky high, we could see this as another organic step in his career maybe, a way that would give him first team football but not to the extent that pressure would ruin him as a player. In a world where every single thing a footballer does is analysed (supposedly) and if he happens to have a bad game the knee jerk culture that exists within football and the media dictates that he is now not a good player, until next week when he is good again. Ismail would get none of that, he could concentrate on playing first team football under the youngest manager in the Football League. He made nine appearances for the MK Dons, mostly substitute ones at that, and he returned to Wolves around a week ago. A pity that he did not show the ability he clearly has, however, having that first team experience week in week out, going to games, being part of a team, being selected, little things like that are priceless for a rough diamond like Ismail.
I discussed Zeli Ismail with MK Dons writer, Greg Trumper, after seeing Ismail at more depth than most Wolves’ fans he said that he “spoke to the manager Karl Robinson when he first arrived and he told me he was rated as the next 40 million pound player” and that he “was taken off as he had been booked and his tackles were late and it was to save him getting sent off and he was not being undisciplined as I thought but more clumsy I’m told and I found Zeli to be nice quiet mellow type”. Greg spoke about his sadness at Ismail leaving, “sad to see him go and can not understand why he did not start more games so we could get a decent look at him”
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Maybe this return will see him drafted into the first team at some point, Saunders clearly sees something in him, hence the return from MK Dons, it is clear that Saunders is assembling, with varying degrees of success, a team of hard working players who are prepared to give one hundred percent every game, a team that is hungry for success and, unlike several Wolves teams, knows how to win. We have seen him give young players a chance since he took over, Jake Cassidy for instance, he had an impressive debut against Blackburn and showed a lot of promise for the future.
In conclusion, Wolves have a new manager who could finally give him a chance, this is all speculation whether he will or not, but I am sure each and every Wolves fan who has seen him whether it be on social media or at Compton will want to see him have a run out for the first team. The flip side of this argument is, is he overrated? His only professional run outs have been against League one opposition and players that are still under the age of twenty one, he has had/been given the opportunity to play against better teams. In fairness it is hard to agree with that, Ismail posses a lot of ability, a breathless gift to swagger past defenders using both feet with ease and an eagle eye for the back of the net. The amount of hype around the young man makes us think he is older than he is, he is still only nineteen years of age, Ismail has a brilliantly bright future ahead, he is maturing and developing away from the critics, and his transition to the first team should be seamless. Given time, I am sure we will be singing “There’s only one Zeli Ismail!” in the near future, because, by the looks of it, there really is only one.
(Huge thanks to Gregg Trumper for the insight on Zeli Ismail, really great to have another insight, follow him on Twitter @Gunnerdon)