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Have your say on latest loan arrival Meghoma
Brentford left-back Jayden Meghoma says he's "hungry and excited" to get going at Rangers after joining the Ibrox club on loan. The 19-year-old links up with Russell Martin's side having spent the second half of last term on loan at Preston North End. The defender previously had spells with Tottenham and Southampton and was handed his senior debut for the Saints by Rangers boss Martin in 2023. "I am very excited to be here," Meghoma said."It is a fantastic club, and I know a lot about the rich history of Rangers. When the deal was presented to me, I thought straight away that it would be a fantastic opportunity for myself and my family."The main thing for me is getting results. Rangers is a big club, and I am ready, I am hungry and excited to get going."Boss Martin says Meghoma is a player with "potential, real athleticism and a great attitude".Rangers fans, what do you make of the signing? Are you pleased to bolster your defence? Rangers now have four loan signings, including three in defence - does that concern you?Have your say on Meghoma signing
The Guardian
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New season, same strife between the sticks for Manchester United
New seasons are never new starts, not entirely. The sun may have been shining and the temperature in the mid-twenties. There may have been new kits on the pitch and new flags in the stands. There may have been an obsessive focus on the new signings. There may, among home fans, perhaps especially those refreshed in the new marquee behind the Stretford End, have been a giddy expectation that this season couldn't be as bad as last for Manchester United. But the roots of a game run deep, stretching back into the mulch of the past. This was a game shaped by events last December. Arsenal are good at set-pieces; United are vulnerable to inswinging deliveries. In December last year Arsenal beat United 2-0 at the Emirates Stadium, both goals the result of corners. United had André Onana in goal for that one, but Tottenham had taken notice of the susceptibility to balls arced into the goalmouth, the way United struggled to protect their keeper. Two weeks later, Spurs played United in the Carabao Cup. Altay Bayindir was in goal for that one and suffered the indignity of being beaten direct from a corner by Son Heung-min. United don't like inswingers and Bayindir really doesn't like inswingers. Declan Rice is good at taking inswingers. And so there was a certain inevitability to what happened after 13 minutes. United had looked vaguely threatening. Arsenal had been rattled enough to commit four fouls in that period. Then Arsenal won a corner from their left. Rice whipped it in, Bayindir flapped and would have scored an own-goal had Ricardo Calafiori not nodded the ball in the line from the goal-line. United, perhaps, could point to the way William Saliba, having grappled with Mason Mount, bumped into him just as the ball arrived, and perhaps, given the new directives to referees to crack down on holding, a foul could have been given. But then there were half a dozen incidents that could have been penalised one way or the other in the box from that one corner; any refereeing decision in such circumstances could not but feel arbitrary. Fundamentally, with more decisive goalkeeping there wouldn't have been an issue. David Raya's assertive punch to clear an inswinging free-kick from Bruno Fernandes early in the second half, cuffing Matthijs de Ligt out of the way, showed the way to do it. Maybe the analogy was never entirely apt. Maybe building from the foundations up doesn't necessarily mean getting the defence right. Maybe as football increasingly becomes about content production there is some sort of commercial logic in prioritising the goalscorers and the creators, the players who will look good clipped up, or, to continue the metaphor, the spire, the ornamentation on the roof. But on the other hand, it doesn't much matter if you've spent £200m on forwards if you're going to concede goals like that. Particularly if you don't then actually score yourself. There were positive signs from both Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha but the most incisive United player, yet again, was Amad Diallo, who came off the bench to play at right wing-back ten minutes into the second half. United, perhaps, would consider themselves unfortunate. Patrick Dorgu hit the post and Raya had to make seven saves, more than any other goalkeeper on the opening weekend. But only his reflex stop down to his left to keep out a Cunha effort from a narrow angle was a save that he would not necessarily be expected to make. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion To point out that United drew this fixture last season and that they're therefore doing worse this season is on one level meaningless. But equally this is a manager whose win percentage is at 37.2%, the worst in half a century – and if United fail to win at Fulham next week, he will drop below both Frank O'Farrell and Wilf McGuinness to have the worst win percentage of any United manager since Herbert Bamlett, who was sacked in 1931. Context matters. There was plenty of mitigation on Sunday afternoon. The closer you zoom in the more excuses can be found: a goalkeeping error, new players settling in, a couple of close-run things. But it won't take many more bad results for faith in Amorim to wane. When form has been so bad, it's only natural to catastrophise: if they don't win at Craven Cottage, the next home match, against newly promoted Burnley, takes on a ghastly aspect: not merely a game they should win, but a game they have to. This season is not discrete from last. New signings, a resetting of the table, new hope, cannot erase the footfalls that echo in the memory. Poor results are a problem not only in themselves but for the impact they have on games to come: time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future.
BBC News
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Man Utd 0-1 Arsenal: What Arteta said
Arsenal beat Manchester United 1-0 in their opening Premier League fixture on Sunday and boss Mikel Arteta believes his team showed resilience to 'find a way to win'. "We came here away and won which is a big result. We were clearly not at our best," Arteta told BBC Match of the Day."We attacked the box and we reacted well to unusual mistakes. The team reacted time after time in an incredible way. Very proud of that because that is why we got the opportunity to win the game."We showed a resilience and a will to win. They put you on the ropes here, you will have to have moments when you suffer. To find a way to win at this ground, I'm very happy with the team."On the new signings: "They have made a good impact on the team, they had a great attitude. Physically some of them are still not at the level we require for 95 minutes but we will get there."Speaking to Sky Sports about Viktor Gyokeres and Martin Zubimendi, Arteta added: "Very happy with them, the ones that came in as well, they had a massive impact in the game. Some are still not at the highest level that they need to get to but we will get there."
