Garnacho's hint, Pogba closes in on comeback and a legend retires
Garnacho's hint, Pogba closes in on comeback and a legend retires
Another week begins with all of the latest transfer news, rumours, speculation and done deals.
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Copenhagen starlet Roony Bardghji is reportedly being pursued by Barcelona this summer.
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Is Alejandro Garnacho dropping hints here?
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As one career prepares to resume, another has ended.
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First up, after the reduction of his doping ban, it seems Paul Pogba is nearing a return to professional football.
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Welcome to Monday's coverage of the latest transfer updates from across the world of football.
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His record since taking over from Cooper at the end of November last year is one of the worst in the club's history and Leicester have set unwanted Premier League records. Cooper was sacked after a five-game winless run but Leicester were two points above the relegation zone with 10 points at the time. Leicester took that decision just five months after appointing Cooper partly because they felt the team was on the wrong course and in need of new direction. Under Van Nistelrooy, the direction of travel was even worse. It was hoped Van Nistelrooy's aura as a hugely respected and successful former player would lift a squad struggling to cope with the Premier League after an unsettled pre-season and difficult start to the campaign. According to sources close to the squad, the Leicester players initially were impressed a former player of his stature was coming in rather than a coach with no playing background, like Cooper. Advertisement Van Nistelrooy seemed to have had that impact at Old Trafford. Following Ten Hag's exit in October, he won three of his games as interim head coach, including two matches against Leicester, but what impressed the hierarchy at the King Power was the apparent bond he had with the players, especially Casemiro, who ran to celebrate one of his goals with Van Nistelrooy on the touchline. It was hoped Van Nistelrooy would set new, high standards and generate a similar response from the Leicester players. They had struggled to connect with Cooper's more relaxed methods after their Championship-winning season under Enzo Maresca, a close friend of Van Nistelrooy from their time as team-mates at Malaga and a coach with similar philosophies. Unlike Maresca, Van Nistelrooy didn't have a pre-season to work with his players but, more concerningly, he arrived without any backroom staff. 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Vardy started all but two of the games under Van Nistelrooy, despite turning 38 in January. Like the majority of the squad, Vardy liked and respected Van Nistelrooy. Vardy has now left the club after his contract expired, but not before he had described the campaign as a 'a s** show'. His stature brought respect from the players but Van Nistelrooy quickly began to find that while they could carry out his instructions on the training pitch at Seagrave, it was becoming a different matter under the pressure of matchdays. After four points from his first two games, there was a startling deterioration. Save for a 6-2 drubbing of Queens Park Rangers and then a much-needed away win at Tottenham Hotspur, Van Nistelrooy's Leicester sank fast as confidence and belief in what they were being asked to do eroded. Tensions started to emerge, with Van Nistelrooy criticising Facundo Buonanotte's selection of moulded studs in one game. He also made three players who commuted long distances to Seagrave — Conor Coady, from Liverpool, and Harry Winks and Jannik Vestergaard from the London area — aware he wanted them to avoid tiring journeys by staying over at the hotel at Seagrave when a morning training session followed an afternoon session the day before. Advertisement Winks, who initially moved to Nottinghamshire when he signed but moved back to London to be near family, became a father in mid-March and expressed his desire to support his partner. While Van Nistelrooy had sympathy for his midfielder's situation, he demanded players put their preparation first. Winks did not feature in another squad under Van Nistelrooy. In March, the Dutchman also said he had 'dealt with' an incident when Vestergaard had, with the club's permission, brought his dog to training because he had no one to look after it that day. Van Nistelrooy began to trust a smaller section of his squad. The home defeat to Newcastle in April was the fourth consecutive defeat in which he named the same starting line-up. He returned to his preferred system at Brighton and Hove Albion afterwards and turned more towards younger players in the final games of his tenure, with one eye on the next campaign. Despite stating in his first press conference he was not wedded to one system of play, he stuck stubbornly to the same system he utilised at PSV, a 4-2-3-1 with a high full-back pushing on, one winger and one wide player coming in to play as a second No 10 — a system not dissimilar to Cooper's. It wasn't until the away trip to Chelsea at the start of March that he changed to a back five. Some players felt a change of approach should have come earlier, although the continued run of defeats proved that the problem for Van Nistelrooy was not his chosen system but the aptitude of the players at his disposal — specifically the athleticism and fitness of the squad to play an intense, pressing style. Initially, Van Nistelrooy favoured the more experienced front three of Vardy, Jordan Ayew and Bobby De Cordova-Reid because they were better at understanding how he wanted them to press from the front, but the new signings hardly featured towards the end as Van Nistelrooy changed tack. Advertisement Only attacking midfielder Bilal El Khannouss from the £80million spent in the summer by Cooper appeared consistently under Van Nistelrooy. Oliver Skipp, signed from Tottenham Hotspur for £20million, started just two games under Van Nistelrooy, while £15million defender Caleb Okoli hardly featured and loanee Buonanotte was used predominantly as a substitute. Odsonne Edouard, whose arrival on loan from Crystal Palace took up the other Premier League loan spot, featured in just one squad, as an unused substitute. Both Cooper and Van Nistelrooy said Edouard's exclusion was to do with numbers — they only used one striker and that was Vardy, but even when Van Nistelrooy went to two frontmen, with Patson Daka partnering Vardy, Edouard was not even on the bench. Such a waste of money hampered Van Nistelrooy, who had said he was given assurances when discussing the position with Leicester that there would be funds available. When the January transfer window came around, that assurance faded, with the club's ongoing concerns over profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) overriding any pledges. Van Nistelrooy wanted more attacking options, especially a winger, with Abdul Fatawu ruled out for the season with an ACL injury, and a central defender to help ease defensive issues, as well as a right-back. He got a full-back, Woyo Coulibaly from Parma, but he made only five appearances and just one start, and he was substituted at half-time of that game —February's home defeat to Brentford. As Van Nistelrooy seemed to lose confidence in his players, they seemed to lose confidence in what they were being asked to do. When they conceded an early goal, all belief and fight evaporated. Van Nistelrooy is usually calm and measured, but he could also express anger when required. He would use the tactic sparingly but there was typically little response. Losing and costly individual errors became a cycle Van Nistelrooy could not break as the season spiralled out of control. Advertisement He had the air of a defeated, broken man after the Newcastle loss, but after relegation, he stressed his desire to carry on and rebuild Leicester in the Championship, asking for clarity from the club's senior management so the planning could start. '(I am) still hoping to find out,' Van Nistelrooy said before the home game with Southampton on May 3. 'The quicker the better in the best interest of the club.' The club has now made that decision. It is hypothetical to say Cooper would have kept Leicester in the Premier League if he hadn't been replaced by Van Nistelrooy, but there is also no escaping Leicester's woeful record under Van Nistelrooy. The failure of the club's recruitment policy was also one of the biggest contributing factors to the relegation. The decision to remove Van Nistelrooy could have come sooner but the financial consequences of sacking two managers and their staff in one season was not insignificant in regards to Leicester's issues with PSR. Not many managers survive losing as many games as Van Nistelrooy, especially when losing nine consecutive home games without scoring a single goal. Despite this record, the fans' anger was directed more towards the club's board than Van Nistelrooy. When the axe fell post-relegation, it was almost merciful, but his reputation as a coach has been severely damaged. As for Leicester, the ramifications of another relegation could last a lot longer. The next manager will not only have to oversee a complete squad rebuild — which will likely be restricted by financial pressures — he must build bridges with a fanbase that has become increasingly disconnected from the club. Whoever that may be, the Leicester City job now requires a Herculean effort.
