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27 minutes ago
- BBC News
Charlton sign winger Apter from Blackpool
Charlton Athletic have signed Rob Apter from Blackpool for an undisclosed 22-year-old winger scored eight goals in 57 appearances for the Tangerines and was named League Two young player of the year while on loan at Tranmere Rovers two seasons Under-21 international Apter has signed a four-year contract and becomes Nathan Jones' seventh summer signing as the Addicks prepare for life back in the Championship, following their League One play-off final victory over Leyton Orient in May."I'm made up to sign for this massive club and I can't wait to play in front of you fans at The Valley," Apter told the club's website. , external"As soon as I spoke to the gaffer I knew it was the place for me - everything about the project is so exciting." Apter added: "I feel like I'm ready to play at Championship level now and I want to step up and show everyone what I can do."After coming through the youth ranks at Blackpool, Apter has spent time on loan at Chester, Scunthorpe United and Tranmere, where he scored 13 goals in 40 appearances. He has represented Scotland at under-19 and under-21 level.
The Sun
29 minutes ago
- The Sun
Calamity club once sponsored by Tyson Fury face being kicked out of league within days as local food bank steps in
MORECAMBE football club are days away from calamity amid their "soul-destroying" financial woes and collapsing takeover deals. The Shrimps face the possibility of being banned from playing their first National League game of the season, which is just three weeks away, after their owners have been unable to pay staff and players. 3 Morecambe are owned by Jason Wittingham's Bong Group Investments, but have been up for sale since 2022. Financial issues in that time has seen the club slapped with transfer embargoes and impacted on-field performances with Morecambe relegated twice in the last three years. Now players and staff are seeing their livelihoods impacted as the club have been unable to pay wages. The club's playing staff were paid just a third of their wages in June and will be able to leave Morecambe for free if they are not paid their next paycheck by Friday. Financial issues have also meant that school proms, weddings and wakes that were scheduled to be held at their ground, the Mazuma Stadium, have been cancelled. The dire financial straits have seen a local food bank offer to help employees struggling to make ends meet, while an Indian restaurant fed players for free earlier this month, according to the Guardian. Fans have even tried to raise funds for the players themselves, generating £362 in a whip-round that was politely refused by the team. Lifelong fan David Freer, 62, has described the whole ordeal as "soul-destroying" to the Guardian. 3 Fans have been left in the dark as a public war has played out between the club's current owners, their prospective buyers and the board of directors. The Bond Group had previously announced their intentions to sell the club to London-based investment firm Panjab Warriors - who have since loaned £6million to Morecambe. However, Panjab Warriors have since accused Bond Group of "deliberately jeopardising the very existence of the club in a last-ditch effort to alter terms that were already agreed". And things came to a head when Whittingham announced last week that he is selling the club to a mystery third party and not the Panjab Warriors - who had already been ratified by the EFL. SunSport have contacted Morecambe and the National League for comment. Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, Lizzi Collinge, suggested that Whittingham is using the club to leverage his own finances. Using parliamentary privilege in the Commons last week, she said: "I suspect that Jason Whittingham has built a house of cards, and it is now falling down around his ears. 'Morecambe FC is being held hostage, and it breaks my heart … The likes of Jason Whittingham should never have been allowed to buy a football club.' Panjab Warriors have also announced that is is considering legal action against the Bond Group for possible "misrepresentation and bad faith dealing'. The club is on the brink of collapse and could be the latest to fall victim to the gaping holes in rules surrounding football governance. It all comes just four years after Morecambe were playing at the highest level they ever have in their history in League One. The Shrimps have even had sponsorship from local fan Tyson Fury in the past. Former boxing heavyweight champion Fury has even floated the idea of purchasing the club himself in the past. Speaking to TalkSPORT in 2022, he said: "I'm thinking about buying Morecambe Football Club, they're in League One at the moment. "So I was thinking I invest X amount of millions in them. Basically throw it at them and keep them going up. "I've been offered to buy Morecambe Football Club. I own all the training facilities anyway and the training gym. So who knows? "You might be looking at a football club owner."
The Guardian
29 minutes ago
- The Guardian
Football transfer rumours: Nicolas Jackson to join Manchester United?
The Villa Park Rehabilitation Centre for Disaffected Souls Who Learned the Hard Way that Old Trafford is No Longer the Theatre of Dreams or Let's Be Honest Even Hopes could soon have a new arrival. After helping Marcus Rashford discovery his joie de football last season, Unai Emery reportedly wants to do to the same for Alejandro Garnacho, while also injecting him with an eye-watering level of tactical detail and a hitherto unseen desire to do the defensive hard yards. Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur are also listening to Garnacho FM for the latest, which could result in an unlikely swap deal. The word on the street is the Manchester United's search for a centre-forward has reached Nicolas Jackson, who might as well have a red shirt to go with the red cards he's started collecting. Villa and Milan also have a soft spot for Jackson's unique brand of excellence, incompetence and occasional noggin-loss. But Villa might be advised to delete Chelsea's number for the next few weeks: according to some of today's rags, Chelsea's main transfer target this summer is Villa's potential superstar Morgan Rogers. Just as Pep Guardiola dreams of a team of midfielders, so Chelsea's recruitment department are moving ever closer to an XI made up solely of attacking midfielders and wide forwards. Milan and Man Utd are also engaged in an entirely metaphorical arm wrestle for Brighton left-back Pervis Estupiñán, who fancies a new challenge and will sure as flip get one if he joins either of those two. Detestors of all things Man Utd will be pleased to know we're almost done with them for today. Before we go, Juventus are the latest club to consider a move for Marcus Rashford. English football's love/hate/actually-he's-really-good-isn't-he relationship with Granit Xhaka will resume if he becomes the most high-profile arrival of Sunderland's £££tastic transfer window. Saudi Pro League club Neom FC are keen to scupper that particularly initiative. Ademola Lookman, the man whose Europa League final hat-trick in 2024 denied Xhaka's Leverkusen an InvinciTreble, is wanted by Inter. And Bayern Munich, who are back at the summit in Germany after the horrific one-year drought imposed upon them by Leverkusen, have highlighted VfB Stuttgart's Nick Woltemade as Harry Kane's eventual replacement. Stuttgart have told Bayern where to stick their offer of €50m + €5m in add-ons, a 10 per cent sell-on clause and a few laminated posters of Mario Gómez. But we know how this usually ends. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion West Ham are doing things quietly, the Graham Potter way, but have already made one outstanding signing in Senegal left-back El Hadji Malick Diouf. Next on their list is one or possibly both of Harvey Elliott, Liverpool's curly-haired bundle of infectious creativity, and Bournemouth's Marcus Tavernier.
