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Scottish Sun
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- Scottish Sun
Newcastle to launch improved £35million Yoane Wissa bid – but Brentford will block transfer until they sign replacement
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) NEWCASTLE'S cursed striker chase is set to continue with Brentford REFUSING to let wantaway Yoane Wissa go without signing a replacement. The Magpies will launch an improved £35million move for the 28-year-old, who only has 12 months left on his Bees deal, after already having a £30m bid rejected. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 5 Newcastle are set to bid for Yoane Wissa Credit: Getty 5 Keith Andrews spoke about the striker's future after the defeat to Nottingham Forest Credit: Getty Confidence was mounting within St James' that they would land the DR Congo forward in time to unleash him against Liverpool next week. And that only mounted when Brentford completed the £37m signing of Dango Ouattara from Bournemouth. But the Burkina Faso ace is viewed as a replacement for Bryan Mbeumo, who was sold to Manchester United, and that is forcing Newcastle to wait for Wissa. Brentford are continuing to hunt for a new centre-forward and SunSport understands they will not sanction Wissa's exit until they do. READ MORE ON FOOTBALL NOT KEANE Roy Keane launches 'garlic bread' rant at awkward moment between Guehi & Glasner And, in bad news for the Toon, it is believed the Bees are not close to finding a new main man to play up top. They were interested in Arnaud Kalimuendo but the 23-year-old looks set to join Nottingham Forest instead. Wissa, meanwhile, remains desperate to complete a move to Tyneside so he can realise his Champions League dream and was left out of the Bees' 3-1 defeat to Forest. Eddie Howe wants him just as badly - especially after his Toon side kicked off the campaign without a recognised forward after on-strike Alexander Isak refused to play. SUN VEGAS WELCOME OFFER: GET £50 BONUS WHEN YOU JOIN And the Magpies' need for a new striker was evident as they failed to turn their dominance into three points as they drew 0-0 at Aston Villa. Newcastle have missed out on Liam Delap, Joao Pedro, Hugo Ekitike and Benjamin Sesko in their so far unsuccessful hunt for a new frontman this summer. Newcastle have completed the signing of the Aston Villa midfielder Jacob Ramsey 5 5 Dango Ouattara has joined Brentford from Bournemouth Credit: Getty Now they are bracing themselves for another testing week as they attempt to re-open negotiations with Brentford. 5 TRANSFER NEWS LIVE - KEEP UP WITH ALL THE LATEST FROM A BUSY SUMMER WINDOW
BBC News
2 minutes ago
- BBC News
Lyons hails 'extra special feeling' after netting Killie winner
Kilmarnock captain Brad Lyons says it was an "extra special feeling" to score the winning goal in Sunday's League Cup victory over Dundee United. The midfielder returned to the starting line-up for the cup clash at Rugby Park and volleyed through the legs of United goalkeeper Yevhen Kucherenko for his goal which saw Killie come away with the victory. "Scoring is always nice but it's that extra special feeling when you win the game with your goal," the 28-year-old said. "I spoke to the gaffer and we said I need to help the team out more by chipping in with more goals so delighted to get on the end of this one."Stuart Kettlewell's side will face St Mirren at Rugby Park in the quarter-final next month and Lyons insists his teammates are looking forward to the clash. "It'll be a great battle," he added "Every game with us and St Mirren is so I think it'll be a great atmosphere and a great game but we've got to concentrate on our league form first and foremost, then we can concentrate on the cup. "We are getting good results and playing decent but we can play a lot better and hopefully we'll see that in the future games."
The Herald Scotland
2 minutes ago
- The Herald Scotland
Rangers may need Champions League, but Russell Martin doesn't
Mess up qualification for the new format and tens of millions of pounds disappear down a manhole. The plans Andrew Cavenagh and Paraag Marathe have to rebuild the team, improve the structure and functions of the club and spruce up the stadium would be delayed. They'd have less wiggle room to negotiate UEFA's financial sustainability rules. The fans who've already seen enough of Martin would have more reasons to want him gone. Here's the thing, though. Unless there's a rapid and dramatic improvement in the general standard of defending, beating Club Brugge only buys some time. The fall-out is a couple of stations behind, hurtling down the tracks. The patience of fans paying through the nose for season tickets has been spent in recent years. They're fed up seeing points dropped against the Dundees and Motherwells of this world. After the boardroom chaos, Michael Beale and Philippe Clement, new owners, new investment, a new technical director, a new manager and new players were supposed to usher in a new beginning. Now here they are enduring the same old results and performances, delivered – this time – by a coach they didn't want in the first place. And while a morale-boosting win over the Belgians might get some of the naysayers back onside, there's no guarantee of keeping them there. If an undercooked team spent their games in the Champions League proper against the best teams in Europe serving up as many gilt-edged chances as they did to Panathinaikos and Viktoria Plzen, they'd run the risk of a hammering or two. At this point in time, Martin needs that scenario like he needs another tactical schooling from Steven Pressley. Plzen might easily have turned a 3-0 defeat in Glasgow into an aggregate victory. The Czech side mustered 27 shots on target, 21 of them inside the box. In their opening six games of the season – the others were against Panathinaikos, Motherwell and Dundee – Rangers conceded 101 attempts on goal. League One Alloa breached them twice with two goals so ridiculous they'd have damaged the credibility of the Keystone Cops. Give John Souttar carte blanche to pass the ball out from the back and the only way to watch games against Real Madrid, PSG, Bayern or Liverpool would be through the cracks of the fingers. They're simply not ready for that. Whether Rangers or Celtic are ever really ready these days is a fair question. The pretence that Scottish clubs can still compete against Europe's super clubs, with their oil sovereign funds, vast television revenue and £100 million signings, has gone the same way as landline telephones and the Sinclair C5. Read more: Stephen McGowan: If Rodgers quits Celtic again, board only have themselves to blame Stephen McGowan: Brexit makes Scottish players too expensive for Scottish clubs The Champions League isn't really about glory or prestige or going toe-to-toe on the big stage anymore. The best a team from these parts can really hope for is to win a couple of home games and limit the number of spankings on foreign soil. In a good season they might make it to a play-off or a last 16 tie no one will remember in 20 years' time. Strip away the fat cheque at the end and they'd be better off in the Europa League. At least there they might make an impact. The blood money on offer from UEFA might help the new owners of Rangers to build something better and more sustainable. Unless things stabilise on the pitch quickly, it won't do much to improve the mood music around Martin. You can hear the knives being sharpened already. There's already mutterings of 'the new Michael Beale' and a conviction that Martin didn't do nearly enough to merit a crack at the job in the first place. The system and style of play has yet to click and Andy Halliday almost broke the internet when he went on Open Goal and spelled out where he thinks his former team-mate is getting it wrong. In an ideal world, a Rangers manager would make it to October avoiding calamity in Europe and defeat in the first Old Firm game of the season. In the real world, very few of them ever do. Michael Beale suffered a difficult night in Eindhoven (Image: Alan Harvey - SNS Group) Months after reaching a European final, Giovanni van Bronckhorst was undone by a 4-0 thrashing at Parkhead and an embarrassing set of results in the Champions League. Two years have passed, meanwhile, since Beale offered a fair summary of a chastening night in Eindhoven. Hopes of qualifying for the group stage had been brutally cut short by a ruthless PSV side. But for the excellence of goalkeeper Butland – him again – the 7-3 aggregate scoreline could have been even worse. 'For this team, this game came far too soon,' said Beale in a rare moment of brevity. Five days later Rangers lost to Celtic in the first derby of the season at Ibrox and the Englishman could have packed his man bag and left by a side door there and then. This time last year it was Clement's turn to be chewed up and spewed out by the Champions League meat grinder. After a 2-0 defeat by Dynamo Kyiv the Belgian blamed a Jefte dismissal for his team's demise saying it was the 'worst decision [he'd] seen in more than 30 years of football.' Two weeks later Rangers lost 3-0 at Parkhead and supporters began to regard the day Clement got the job as a bigger cock-up than the red card flashed by Italian referee Marco Guida. If Martin suffers the same Champions League fate as Beale and Clement and follows it with a defeat to Celtic days later, the former Scotland defender would have a notion of how Custer felt at Little Bighorn. The job of bedding in a raft of new signings, fixing the heads of the old ones and finding a winning style of play takes time and patience. Change the manager before Christmas and the new regime become indistinguishable from the old one. Rightly, they aspire to change the record, hold their nerve and take the club in a more stable direction while Martin speaks of ignoring the outside noise. The trick is to prevent the din growing so loud that the men in grey suits are left with no choice. Martin compares the task of transforming Rangers to turning around a tanker and to stop oil spewing into the River Clyde he really needs a number of things. A strong supportive boardroom, a decent left-back, a central defender comfortable on the left side, a nailed-on goal scorer and a west end cuppa with Andy Halliday. The last thing he needs now is a one-way ticket to the killing fields of the UEFA Champions League.
