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A shirt worn by Cristiano Ronaldo has smashed an auction record – knocking great rival Lionel Messi off top spot in the process.

Ronaldo jersey goes on sale at auctionTops list for most valuable match-worn shirtsPortuguese edges out great rival MessiFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?

MatchWornShirt.com has revealed that the top donned by Ronaldo during Portugal's 5-0 World Cup qualifying win over Armenia, where the 40-year-old bagged a brace, is currently at £61,657 (€71,0126) in a live auction. Even with four days to go, the Portuguese's shirt has surpassed the website's previous number one sale – Messi's Paris Saint-Germain-worn jersey against Reims in 2023. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ronaldo and Messi's shirts make up eight of the top 10.

AdvertisementGetty Images/GOALMATCHWORNSHIRT’S TOP 10 MOST VALUABLE SHIRTSCristiano Ronaldo – €71,026 (£61,657)Lionel Messi – €55,019 (£49,446)Lionel Messi – €50,517 (£44,598)Heung-Min Son – €48,907 (£41,221)Cristiano Ronaldo – €45,012 (£39,148)Lionel Messi – €43,623 (£38,689)Cristiano Ronaldo – €43,206 (£36,942)Lionel Messi – €42,786 (£36,786)Cole Palmer – €41,127 (£34,411)Lionel Messi – €37,405 (£33,372)THE BIGGER PICTURE

Ronaldo and Messi will go down as some of the greatest footballers of all time, with the debate raging on about who is the best. But football fans have been truly privileged to see the Al-Nassr ace and the Inter Milan star play for so long. Despite being in the winter years of their careers, fans still clamour for a piece of them.

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The MWS website states that there are still four days and four hours left, at the time of writing, for fans to bid for Ronaldo's Portugal shirt. The ex-Manchester United and Real Madrid man is clearly still a phenomenon in the sport.

Tottenham are continuing their plans to back Thomas Frank in the transfer market ahead of his first full season in charge, amid the drama surrounding Morgan Gibbs-White and his potential move to N17.

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Spurs remain in pursuit of the England international, despite Nottingham Forest’s threat of legal action against both the Lilywhites and his agent (Sky Sports), with reliable journalist Fabrizio Romano confirming that Gibbs-White is their priority as of now.

Tottenham appeared set to sign the 25-year-old nearly a fortnight ago after a round of quick-fire talks, even going as far as to book a medical for Gibbs-White on July 11, but Forest’s legal objections have seriously delayed his switch to London.

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There have even been some reports that this Forest reaction is down to Tottenham hijacking Man City’s part-exchange deal for Gibbs-White involving James McAtee (Football Insider), with Evangelos Mariniakis and co furious at the attacker’s last-gasp U-turn.

While this theory is yet to be backed up elsewhere, the consensus is that Spurs are still hopeful of eventually sealing a deal for Gibbs-White, but in the meantime, chairman Daniel Levy and co have other targets in mind as well.

Tottenham are keen on a new holding midfielder, amid repeated links to Bayern Munich’s Joao Palhinha, and there is a belief that Frank’s side are also looking at signing another centre-back too (The Telegraph).

Brentford star Yoane Wissa, who scored 20 goals in all competitions under Frank last season, also remains a top target.

Spurs face stiff competition from Newcastle United for the Congolese’s services, with the Magpies already having a £25 million offer turned down for him in the last few days.

There is an expectation that Eddie Howe’s side will go back in with an improved offer, but we cannot discount Tottenham, as explained by reliable journalist Ben Jacobs.

Yoane Wissa in London for crunch talks over Brentford future

Jacobs, taking to X, claims that Wissa is now in London for talks over his Brentford future after departing their pre-season training camp in Portugal.

The reporter says that while Newcastle are confident they can sign the 28-year-old, Wissa is also open to joining Tottenham, so there remains a distinct possibility that Frank could reunite with his ex-star striker at Hotspur Way.

Spurs’ boss has already praised Wissa’s “nose for goals”, and if signed, question marks will surely surround the long-term future of Richarlison, who’s attracting rumoured interest from a host of clubs abroad.

“I think they are super players,” said Frank about Wissa and his former Brentford side in 2023.

“Wissa, we knew, has always been a goalscorer. He scored seven goals in the first season and seven in the second in the Premier League, for a player that didn’t play much. It’s remarkable. I definitely think he is best as a 9. He’s got that nose for goals.”

علق مجدي عبد الغني، لاعب الأهلي السابق، على تصريحات حسام غالي عضو مجلس إدارة القلعة الحمراء، بشأن رغبته في الترشح على منصب الرئيس في يوم ما.

وقال مجدي عبد الغني في تصريحات لقناة “الشمس”: “حسام غالي أرى أن عليه هجوم مبرمج ومخطط ومنظم من الذباب الإلكتروني بعد تصريحاته الأخيرة، رغم أنه لم يُخطئ في حق أحد، كل مشكلته أنه تفاجأ بالأجواء الموجودة في كرة القدم، تكلم عن الصدمة التي شعر بها بعد أن أصبح عضو مجلس إدارة، مثلما أنا صُدمت عندما دخلت اتحاد الكرة”.

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وتابع: “حسام غالي عليه هجوم شرس.. ماذا قال وأخطأ في حق من؟! لم يذكر اسم أحد، هو نجم كبير وابن من أبناء الأهلي العظماء وعنده فكر محترم وشخصية محترمة، كيف للأهلاوية أن يظهروه على أنه خائن، أنتم من تسيئون لأبناء الأهلي، تعلمنا في الأهلي القيم والمبادئ وهي عندما ترى شيء خاطيء تقول، طالما لم تنفذوا بالمبادئ (بتعلموهالنا ليه؟)”.

وأردف مجدي عبد الغني: “الخطيب أعطى للأهلي وهو لاعب وعضو إدارة وأمين صندوق ورئيس، لكن الأهلي لا يقف على (أتخن تخين)، الأهلي سيظل نادي القرن الذي يحقق بطولات، هل هناك أحد مُخلد؟، الخطيب عندما يقول إنه لن يخوض انتخابات الأهلي نظرًا لظروفه الصحية، (إيه الدوشة اللي حصلت دي)”.

وأضاف: “الخطيب لا يبحث عن منصب، (هو لازم الواحد يموت في المكان إللي هو فيه؟)، الرجل قال منذ فترة إنه مريض ولن يستطيع أن يستمر، لا يوجد إنجاز حققه سينسى، (يلا طلعوني أبو لهب بقى وقولوا إني بقول أي كلام، يلا اشتغلوا يا بتوع الكتائب الإلكترونية)”.

Founder of African Caribbean Engagement programme ‘hopeful’ that sport is now awake to the needs of Black community

Andrew Miller16-Jul-2024Ebony Rainford-Brent, the founder and chair of the ACE Programme, says she is more hopeful than ever that English cricket understands the needs and challenges of Britain’s Black communities, one year on from the publication of the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) report into the sport’s structural inequalities.Speaking at the launch of a new strategy, ‘Road to Representation’, which seeks to bring ten cricketers through the programme and into the professional game by 2030, Rainford-Brent said that the tone of cricket’s conversation about race had been transformed in the four years since the ACE programme was founded in response to a 75 percent decline in Black British professional players.”I’ve gone from hopeless five years ago, in terms of people recognising there are issues around inclusivity within the game, and now I’m really hopeful,” Rainford-Brent said. “I think we’ve recognised the problem and we’re putting in initiatives across the game in response to the ICEC report. But I think it’d be a decade’s worth of real work to say the game has fully changed and opened up.”After launching at The Oval in January 2020, ACE (which stands for African Caribbean Engagement) has since expanded to five further hubs in Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield. A total of 26,000 young players have been engaged with the programme, of whom 200 are considered ‘elite potential’.Young players at The Oval as part of Surrey’s ACE programme•Surrey CCCACE’s rapid impact was recognised earlier this year when it was named as one of three target charities – alongside Chance to Shine and Lord’s Taverners – that will share £14 million of government investment, as part of a new drive to improve access to cricket at state schools over the next five years.Later this summer, ACE will announce the first recipients of its new Rookie Contracts – fully-funded opportunities for two young players (one male, one female) to develop their careers at first-class counties. And, with 21% of ACE Academy players now graduating into county pathways, Rainford-Brent is optimistic that their target of ten professional players before the end of the decade is attainable.”The reality is it’s a big, ambitious challenge, but that’s what we’ve been about with ACE over the past five years,” she said. “We’re already seeing that one in five of our talented youngsters are making it through to the talent pathway at junior counties, and some of those were hardly engaged with cricket before, or simply didn’t have the support. So if we keep producing at the rate that we are, we believe it’s possible to see that talent come through.”Related

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The new strategy also aims to accelerate female participation within ACE, with hopes that the current figure (circa 20%) could be closer to a 50-50 split by 2030. To that end, they have launched a new scheme called ‘Blaze Her Trail’, aimed at girls who have already achieved elite-level success in other sports, in particular athletics.”We realised with the women’s game, the development rate is slower,” Rainford-Brent said. “And we realised we wouldn’t get to representation if we just go through the traditional way. You look at other sports, bobsleigh and rowing do acceleration programmes, so we’ve done the same, and found female sprinters from our target demographics – guns of athletes who have competed at the highest level and are now trying to convert to fast bowlers.”Rainford-Brent recalled an encounter some years ago with Denise Lewis, the Olympic heptathlete, as part of the inspiration behind the initiative.”She was someone I idolised growing up, but Denise had never played cricket, although with her javelin background she just knew how to get into position. We don’t know how it will pan out, but a lot of people in the talent pathway have had the same theory. If it comes off, we will have another conversion pipeline in the next few years.”

Wolverhampton Wanderers are resigned to losing talisman Matheus Cunha this summer as Manchester United close in on a move for the Brazilian.

The £62.5m release clause has been activated, which means Vitor Pereira will be looking to bolster his attacking options this summer.

Jorgen Strand Larsen has enjoyed a decent debut campaign at Molineux, but further additions will be needed if the club are to push into the top half of the Premier League table next term.

What could the manager do with the services of a prime Raul Jimenez next season?

Why Raul Jimenez was a success at Wolves

The Mexican striker signed for the Old Gold on an initial loan deal for the 2018/19 season, going on to score 17 goals in all competitions for the club.

In the following campaign, he was even better. Jimenez scored 27 goals and grabbed a further ten assists as the club finished seventh in the top flight and reached the quarter-finals of the Europa League.

This is still the last time a player has scored over 20 goals in a single season for the Molineux side, as the centre-forward suffered a few horrendous injuries that impacted his effectiveness.

Indeed, he would only score another 13 times for the Midlands side before being sold to Fulham for just £5m in the summer of 2023. The player has enjoyed an Indian summer in London, scoring 12 top-flight goals this campaign alone.

Wolves haven’t replaced his goals, despite the antics of Cunha and Larsen this term. Might this change in the summer as Pereira eyes a Serie A striker?

Why Wolves must sign Lazio striker Taty Castellanos

Castellanos has an insatiable eye for a goal that would immediately get the supporters onside, especially as he could have the potential to replicate the feats of Jimenez should he move to England.

Reports in Italy claim that the Old Gold are seeking a move for the Lazio frontman, although a price tag of around £29m has been placed on his head.

The 2024/25 campaign was a prolific one for the Argentinian striker. Not only has he found the back of the net 14 times for the Rome-based club, but he has also added eight assists, proving how effective his all-round game is.

Lauded as “extraordinary” by Lazio manager Marco Baroni in October, Castellanos would be an interesting signing for Pereira this summer.

With Cunha departing, goals will have to come from somewhere. Could the Lazio talisman be their main man next season?

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When compared to positional peers in the Italian top flight, the 26-year-old ranks in the top 2% for total shots per 90 (3.84) and in the top 12% for touches in the opposition penalty area (5.69) per 90 this season.

Impressive statistics, but would he be able to carry these performances into the Premier League?

Time will tell, of course, but with the money generated from the sale of Cunha, some must go into signing a new striker.

Csstellanos might just be the ideal signing for Pereira this summer.

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Nottingham Forest are now interested in signing another Manchester City player alongside James McAtee this summer, according to a new report.

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The Reds still have a lot to play for in this campaign, but given what they can achieve, the hierarchy at the City Ground are already putting plans in place ahead of the summer transfer window opening.

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Forest have been heavily linked with strengthening their forward line this summer, as Nuno Espirito Santo wants to take some of the burden off Chris Wood. But the Reds are also looking at improving their midfield options, and a recent report has revealed that the Premier League side are working on a deal to sign Douglas Luiz from Juventus. Forest are set to have intensified talks with his representatives, and an offer could soon be on its way.

As well as working on potentially signing Luiz, Forest are also among the teams interested in signing McAtee from Man City. The Englishman will enter the final 12 months of his contract this summer, and while it is unclear if City are ready to sell, Forest are keeping an eye on his situation.

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But McAtee is not the only City player who is on the Premier League side’s radar, as according to Caught Offside, Forest have now surprisingly joined the race to sign Jack Grealish from City.

The report states that the Reds see Grealish as a statement signing, especially if they can secure Champions League football for next season. However, they are not alone in the race for the England international, as teams such as Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa, and West Ham are also keeping an eye on his situation.

Grealish, who earns £300,000 a week (£15.6m per year) at the Etihad, is under contract until the summer of 2027, but given he has played just 19 games in the Premier League this season, with only seven coming as a starter, his time with City may be coming to an end.

Since moving to the Etihad in a deal worth £100 million, his career has kind of stalled, and a move to someone like Forest could rejuvenate his football career. Despite the lack of game time, Grealish is a player Pep Guardiola likes, as he labelled him “incredible”.

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“I want him to make goals and assists, and he does too, but it’s not about that. It’s about his contribution without the ball and what he can produce for the other ones. We didn’t sign Jack Grealish for the incredible goals or assists at Aston Villa. It was for another reason. He competes with top, top players as well, and he knows it perfectly. He never complains about that.”

Manchester United are now considering a shock move to sign an “exceptional” attacker from one of their bitter rivals this summer, according to a report.

Man Utd pursuing new attacking midfielder

In truth, very few Man United players can hold their heads up high this season, given that they are on course for their worst-ever Premier League finish, but Bruno Fernandes has once again proven himself to be a top player.

The 30-year-old has 17 goals and 18 assists to his name in all competitions, most recently scoring in the 5-4 victory against Lyon to help his side progress to the Europa League semi-final, which is the Red Devils’ last chance to make a success out of this season.

Fernandes has put in some top-drawer performances, but United’s league position underlines the fact they cannot rely solely on the Portugal international, and they have now set their sights on a new attacking midfielder.

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RB Leipzig’s Xavi Simons appears to be one of the main targets for the summer, with INEOS reportedly sanctioning a £115m+ offer for the Dutchman, despite the financial difficulties at Old Trafford.

However, there have also been suggestions that Man United could look at bringing in a cheaper alternative, with a report from The Telegraph revealing they are now monitoring developments around Manchester City attacking midfielder James McAtee.

McAtee’s future at the Etihad Stadium is up in the air, as he is set to enter the final year of his contract this summer, and he wants to receive regular game time next season, having only played a sporadic role for City this term.

There is widespread interest in the 22-year-old, with the likes of Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, AC Milan and Bayer Leverkusen also in the picture, so there could be stiff competition for his signature.

"Exceptional" McAtee needs regular game time

The 22-year-old is now at an age where he needs to receive regular game time, but Pep Guardiola has been unwilling to give the attacking midfielder a consistent run in the side, often limiting him to appearances from the substitutes’ bench.

However, the Englishman has impressed when given the opportunity, scoring seven goals in all competitions this season, while he also caught the eye of reporter Ryan Taylor during his time with Sheffield United.

Back in January, it was reported Man City would be willing to cash-in on the Salford-born midfielder for just £25m, which feels like a fair fee, given his talent.

However, it seems very unlikely that City would be willing to sell McAtee to their bitter rivals, especially considering there is widespread interest from other English and foreign clubs.

All the stats highlights from the two high-scoring matches at the BBL

Namooh Shah11-Jan-20251 For the first time in the history of the BBL, two players scored a hundred on the same day: 121* by Steven Smith and 109 by Matthew Short.251 for 5 by Adelaide Strikers is the second-highest team total in the BBL after 273 for 2 by Melbourne Stars in 2022. It was only the second time a team crossed the 250-run mark in men’s T20s in Australia.3 Hundreds by Smith is the joint most by any player in BBL, equaling Ben McDermott’s record.ESPNcricinfo Ltd446 Runs scored in the match between Strikers and Heat, is the second most in a BBL game, bettered only by 459 runs in the game between Strikers and Hurricanes in 2023. The 426 runs by Sydney Sixers and Perth Scorchers earlier on Saturday is the sixth highest.220 for 3 by Sixers is their highest total in the BBL, going past 213 for 4 they scored against Stars in 2021.49 Balls taken by Short to complete his hundred is the fastest by a Strikers player, bettering Travis Head’s 53-ball hundred on New Year’s Eve against Sixers in 2015.ESPNcricinfo Ltd6.4 Overs taken by Strikers to score the team 100 is the third fastest by any team in the BBL, with the top two spots with Heat: in six overs against Thunder in 2020 and 6.3 overs against Stars in 2019.134 Runs scored by Strikers in the first 10 overs is the second most by a team in a BBL innings, behind 158 runs by Heat against Stars in 2019.26 Number of sixes in the match between Strikers and Heat, is the joint most in a BBL match, equaling the sixes scored during the match between Sixers and Stars in 2020.The 60 boundaries in the match between Strikers and Heat is also the second most behind the 61 by Strikers and Stars in 2023.