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Cody Gakpo to Liverpool

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Chelsea complete Marc Guiu signing from Barcelona



Chelsea have completed the signing of 18-year-old striker Marc Guiu from Barcelona.

He has signed a six-year deal to keep him at the club until 2030.

The Athletic reported Chelsea had reached an agreement in principle to sign Guiu and were set to activate a €6million release clause in his Barcelona contract.
He is being seen as a Chelsea acquisition rather than one for Strasbourg, who are in their multi-club model and already used as an alternative venue to develop players.
“It’s an immense joy to sign for Chelsea and I struggled to sleep ahead of the journey here because I was so excited,” Guiu said. “Ever since I was small, it was my dream to play in the Premier League.
“Now I have the opportunity to come here to Chelsea and I will work my hardest to be successful for the club.”
Guiu is a product of Barcelona’s La Masia youth academy, having been at the club since 2013.
He rose to prominence last season after scoring a match-winning goal in October’s 1-0 win against Athletic Bilbao to become Barcelona’s youngest-ever player to score on debut, at the age of 17 years and 291 days.

Guiu first appeared in the first team squad during pre-season in 2023, featuring on Barcelona’s tour of Japan.
Guiu subsequently spent last season alternating between Barcelona’s first team and Barcelona Athletic, the club’s reserve side which plays in the Spanish third tier.
The Spain youth international made seven first-team appearances during the campaign, scoring twice.
Chelsea have been in the market for striking reinforcements this summer, with Nicolas Jackson their first-choice centre-forward last season.

The Athletic reported they had an offer of €32.5million (£27.4m) plus add-ons rejected for Atletico Madrid forward Samu Omorodion. They have also held talks with the representatives of Lille striker Jonathan David, and held an interest in Aston Villa’s Jhon Duran.
Romelu Lukaku, Armando Broja, David Datro Fofana and Mason Burstow are among the attacking options returning to Stamford Bridge this summer following loan spells last season.

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Ziyech makes Galatasaray move permanent

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Galatasaray have signed Morocco international Hakim Ziyech from Chelsea on a free transfer, the Turkish Super League champions said in a statement.
The 31-year-old former Chelsea midfielder made a loan move to Galatasaray in a deal reportedly worth 3.6 million euros ($3.86 million) last year in August with the option to sign permanently on a free transfer if certain conditions were met.
“The football player will be paid a net seasonal wage of 2.85 million euros ($3.05 million) for the 2024-2025 season, Galatasaray said in a statement late of Friday.

“In accordance with the agreement, if the conditional extension option is realised, the football player will be paid a net seasonal salary of 2.85 million euros for the 2025-2026 season.”

Chelsea signed Ziyech from Ajax Amsterdam in 2020. He made 107 appearances and scored 14 goals for the club, winning the Champions League, UEFA Super Club and Club World Cup.
“We thank Hakim for his efforts during his time at Chelsea and wish him well as he begins the next chapter of his career,” Chelsea said in a statement.

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Ethan Mbappe joins Lille following PSG departure




Ethan Mbappe, the younger brother of Real Madrid and France star Kylian, has joined Lille on a free transfer after leaving Paris Saint-Germain.

The 17-year-old made five appearances for PSG across all competitions last term, making his senior debut against Metz last December.
He was expected to leave the Ligue 1 champions after his older brother sealed his long-awaited move to the Santiago Bernabeu, but he will stay in France with Lille.
The midfielder has signed a three-year contract with his new club, his first professional deal after he had played on a youth contract with PSG.

Speaking to the club's website, he said: "I am very happy to join LOSC. I look forward to starting this adventure and meeting my new team-mates, the staff, as well as the supporters.
"For me, at my age, staying in France was the best option to progress. I think LOSC was the best project. It is one of the best in France. It's a real pride to be able to play here."

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How Marcus Rashford and Manchester United reached a sorry, confusing divorce


The striker has joined Aston Villa until the end of the season putting an end to United’s latest saga





Ruben Amorim was contemplating the notion of a humiliation. It wasn’t a question about Crystal Palace beating Manchester United – they do that most seasons, sometimes twice in a campaign now – or even about his side losing five of their last six home league games and trailing for much of the other to the bottom club.
Rather, he was asked if it would be humiliating if Marcus Rashford, the player he had banished even before his exile to the Midlands was rubberstamped, proves prolific on loan at Aston Villa. “Humiliating? It’s not embarrassing,” Amorim replied. “When you loan a player - and I don’t think it’s official - you expect him to play and to improve, so there is nothing humiliating there.”

There is a case that, given Amorim’s hardline approach has weakened United’s negotiating stance over a footballer who once looked their most valuable asset, it is vital Rashford does score goals aplenty for Villa. Should Amorim remain in charge at Old Trafford, there may be no way back, given the way that whatever is said in press conferences or on Instagram, the teamsheets have given little evidence of a rapprochement. It may have been a throwaway remark, and a very quotable one, when Amorim said last week he would rather put his 63-year-old goalkeeping coach Jorge Vital on the bench than Rashford if the forward did not give his maximum every day. It nevertheless felt revealing.

Rashford is far from blameless, and not merely in going public in his wish to leave. The suspicion is that his misdemeanours are more numerous than has been acknowledged. He has long looked a man who found little joy in playing for United. And yet, even a few months ago, United may have priced him at £50m. Now he will go on a subsidised loan. His huge pay packet could make it hard for United to offload him for free on a permanent basis. But Villa have an option to buy as part of the loan deal; succeed there and there is a greater chance of a market for him, either in the Midlands or further afield.

His talent is such that he attracted interest this window from AC Milan, Juventus, Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund; yet how much of it was opportunistic, looking for United to pay vast amounts to take Rashford off their hands? The idea of Barcelona tempted Rashford; the reality of Barcelona’s straitened finances made any deal difficult.
Meanwhile, United have paid Rashford more than £2m in wages since he last played. A 13-game absence has been unlucky for United; or they have been architects of their own misfortune. Amorim may argue, as Erik ten Hag did when expelling Jadon Sancho from the first-team picture, that he was prioritising standards, building the culture of the club. In each case, results scarcely suggested an improvement was fashioned by omitting a well-paid player.
United have lost six of those 13 games. In the Premier League, they have been beaten five times in nine outings, four of them at Old Trafford. Rashford’s preferred position is operating off the left, but in those 13 matches, United’s two main strikers scored a lone goal. Rasmus Hojlund got none, Joshua Zirkzee one. Even that was freakish, when Tottenham’s Fraser Forster passed the ball straight to Bruno Fernandes. By the Palace defeat, Amorim had resorted to using midfielder Kobbie Mainoo in the middle of his attack. A bizarre choice backfired.


Rashford has not played for Man Utd since December but will look to regain his form at Aston Villa

Over those 13 games, only three United players scored more than once: defender Lisandro Martinez, Fernandes and Amad Diallo. They became horribly reliant on the latter two. Meanwhile, a player with 138 United goals, leaving him sandwiched by the greats Tommy Taylor and Cristiano Ronaldo on the all-time list, languished unused. It offered other echoes of last season’s Sancho saga, when a high-calibre attacker was ignored by a losing, low-scoring team.
By coincidence, Sancho and Rashford scored in Ten Hag’s first win. In November, Rashford got Amorim’s reign off to a flying start with a goal in 81 seconds. Now it looks a false dawn for each, and not merely because Amorim’s side now have a lone first-half goal in 14 matches, and even that was a penalty.
All of which heightens the need for a forward signing on deadline day, even if Mathys Tel, one option, has not scored all season, and Christopher Nkunku, who may prove another, is sadly injury prone. Meanwhile, Rashford looks set to play in the knockout stages of the Champions League, perhaps propelling his new club into next season’s competition as well.

Because if it often looks dangerous to loan high-class players to a rival, United’s plight is such that Villa are not really direct competitors. Unai Emery’s team are only eighth but eight points and five places above United. That is an indication of how United’s campaign is going wrong. Some of the fault for that could lie with Rashford but United’s plight worsened without him. Amorim can be eloquent but he is yet to explain how United have benefited from his absence.

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Neymar new salary at Santos Revealed as Brazil star set for staggering 89.14 per cent Cut

After an underwhelming outing with Al Hilal, Neymar has parted ways with the Saudi club and has joined his boyhood club Santos in Brazil.

The former Barcelona star left Al Hilal last week and is set to feature for Santos with a six-month contract at the club. He played only seven matches for Al Hilal in an injury-marred stint, thus forcing the Saudi club to terminate the contract amid astronomical wages.


Neymar at Santos unveiling

Neymar new salary at Santos
As Neymar returns to South American football, the Brazilian player has been forced to take a gigantic pay cut. The massive amount that Neymar was earning at Al Hilal is by no means possible anywhere in football. Santos, as per latest reports, will be paying Neymar £135,507 per month, which is around £32,500 per week, translating to around Rs 1.45 crore per month in Indian currency.

Neymar set for huge Pay Cut
Neymar will be taking a massive pay cut as he moves to the Brazilian club. He was earning a tax-free salary of €1.5 million at Al Hilal, which is around Rs 13.36 crore per week.

But after the Santos move, Neymar has endured a financial pay cut of 89.14 per cent. The former PSG player may have taken the salary cut, but it is imperative for him to get back to form and get minutes under his belt.
Neymar is currently in for a six-month contract and if he can reinvent in this time, the 32-year-old may well make a return to Europe again, with a much bigger salary in the summer.