Blog 2: Transfer & Team News

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Premier League restarted yesterday after it was put on hold for nearly 100 days because of the outbreak of COVID-19. With the first two matches, Aston Villa Vs Sheffield United and Manchester City Vs Arsenal. All the fixtures are supposed to be played behind closed doors, with five substitutes being allowed per side as the players look to get back in form after a long break. Implications rise for most of the clubs as they face reduced revenues which could see most of the players who were tipped to leave their current team to stay there.

TRANSFER NEWS

Hakim Ziyech has confirmed that he would be joining the blues on July 1st despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Morocco International agreed to move to Chelsea earlier this season and is set to link up with them before the start of the new season.

RB Leipzig striker and German International Timo Werner has asked the club to not consider him in the squad for the upcoming Champions League matches which are set to restart in August. As the player is on a brink of joining the Premier League side Chelsea .F.C and reports suggest that he will be leaving after the current season of Bundesliga is finished.

With Hakim Ziyech already through the door and Timo Werner on his way, Chelsea manager Frank Lampard is on a spree of signing young talents this summer as he aims to add Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Kia Havertz to his squad which would improve the team.

Chelsea has been linked with yet another transfer and this time it's one of the world's best player Christiano Ronaldo(How good does that sound Chelsea fans?), the club is eying a sensational move for the talisman this summer and is prepared to spend 120 Million Euros to get the Juventus forward to play at the Stamford Bridge. It will be an astonishing move for the Portuguese forward as he will be returning to the league where he started his professional career and scored 118 goals with Manchester United over a decade ago.

Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho is on a transfer radar as well, after the Barcelona loanee joined the Bundesliga side F.C Bayern Munich he scored some tremendous goals and gave huge support to the team but with the club not interested in extending the contract the 28-year-old will probably head back to the Spanish league. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that the club is not interested in resigning the player as they look for other options.

Napoli striker Dries Mertens has expended his stay at the club until 2022 as the club announced, the 33-year-old was linked a move to Barcelona but will now stay in Italy till 2022

Newcastle United have received a new £350m takeover bid from the CEO of US TV company Clear TV, Henry Mauriss and would like to take over after the 2019-20 season ends.

Champions League

2019-20 Champions League was on hold since 11th March due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the whole football community was wondering when the league will restart well here's the update. UEFA announced on 17th June 2020 that the Champions League quarter-finals, semi-finals and final will be played as a straight knockout tournament in Lisbon, Portugal in August. All these ties will be single-leg fixtures.

Schedule-

7-8 August: Round of 16-second legs (venues to be confirmed)
12-15 August: Quarter-finals (Lisbon)
18-19 August: Semi-finals (Lisbon)

23 August: Final (Lisbon 

Team News

La Liga-

As of 18/06/2020 F.C.Barcelona is leading the race of La Liga and have extended their lead by winning against Leganes where the youngster Ansu Fati was the first player to go on the scorecard and later a penalty was scored by Lionel Messi in the second half( He never disappoints does he?). Barcelona squad is still short of some players after Arturo Vidal was suspended and Ousmane Dembele who is injured since February due to Hamstring injury and is expected to return int he month of august.

Bundesliga-

F.C.Bayern Munich has been crowned the champions of Bundesliga 2019-20 after their 0-1 win over Werder which saw Robert Lewandowski score his 31st goal of this season the match also saw Alphonso Davies receiving a red card which means he is set to miss the next match. In the first half, Davies clocked in at a speed of 36.51 km/hr, smashing the Bundesliga sprint record. The Canadian youngster is now officially the fastest player in the Bundesliga.

Premier League-

The first two matches of the Premier League after 100-days suspension took place yesterday which saw Aston Villa Vs Sheffield United ending as a goalless draw where both the sides looking rusty. The second game, however, saw Manchester City take on the Gunners and clinched a 3-0 victory at the Etihad Stadium with Raheem Sterling, Kevin de Bruyne and Phil Foden each scoring a goal. David Luiz on the other side received a red card for a foul just 4 minutes after the start of the second half and gave a penalty away.

Coppa Italia-

S.S.C.Napoli is the winner of 2019-20 Coppa Italia after their victory over Juventus on Wednesday, Both the sides struggled to score a goal in 90 minutes which saw the match ending with a penalty shootout. Alex Meret gave his best performance after he denied the Juventus striker Paulo Dybala to score the first penalty. Buffon too gave an amazing performance after two breathtaking saves at the very end of the first 90 minutes of the game.

Sarri Situation-

The former Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri joined the Italian side, Juventus, last summer after just one year at Chelsea. The 2019-20 Serie A season has not been so good for Juventus who won the league for the 8th time in a row last year but looks like the streak is going to end after looking at how sloppy and how over defensive the team plays now. Former Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri was sacked by the club in 2019 despite wonderful management for 5 years at the club. The players say that the style of play under Allegri was more aggressive and it's completely different with Sarri. Players at Chelsea also reported that his exercises and drills were boring and some players would even skip the sessions because of that. The players are not able to adapt and there might be a slight chance that the current manager would be sacked too after a devastating start.

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