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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Fantasy Premier League announce 2025/26 position changes
Fantasy Premier League is due to return for the 2025/26 season imminently and the game has announced several position changes for the new season. A total of 11 players have been reclassified for the 2025/26 campaign, potentially boosting or decreasing their appeal to FPL managers. Matheus Cunha is arguably the most prominent player to have had a positional change this season. The Brazilian has been reclassified from a forward to a midfielder, meaning he will now receive an additional point per goal and be eligible for clean sheet points. Cunha scored 15 goals in the Premier League last season, earning a £62.5m transfer from Wolves to Manchester United. Jarrod Bowen is among the player who have moved in the opposite direction. The West Ham captain is now classed as a forward in FPL. A fantasy favourite in recent seasons, the change perhaps reduces his appeal. Other interesting changes are Cody Gakpo (Liverpool) and Omar Marmoush (Man City) from forward to midfielders. Marmoush scored seven times in 16 league appearances for City, following his January arrival from Eintracht Frankfurt. Elsewhere, Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal) and Keane Lewis-Potter (Brentford) have been reclassified from midfielders to defenders. FPL position changes for 2025/26 Myles Lewis-Skelly – Arsenal (Midfielder to Defender) Keane Lewis-Potter – Brentford (Midfielder to Defender) Iliman Ndiaye – Everton (Forward to Midfielder) Ryan Sessegnon – Fulham (Defender to Midfielder)= Cody Gakpo – Liverpool (Forward to Midfielder) Omar Marmoush – Manchester City (Forward to Midfielder) Matheus Nunes – Manchester City (Midfielder to Defender) Nico O'Reilly – Manchester City (Midfielder to Defender) Matheus Cunha – Manchester United (Forward to Midfielder) Jarrod Bowen – West Ham United (Midfielder to Forward) Rodrigo Gomes – Wolves (Midfielder to Defender) Read – See more – Follow The Football Faithful on Social Media: | | | |
Telegraph
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Danny Dyer: ‘Working-class people should be running the country'
Danny Dyer gets straight down to business, as he tends to. 'This is a huge year for me,' the actor says, relaxing into a large leather sofa in the East End office where he has just had his picture taken. 'The first six months have been incredibly emotional. My daughter Sunnie turned 18, so we had a big '80s-themed party. A couple of weeks after that, I won the Bafta. I didn't think I would win it. It's the first time I've been acknowledged really, so to actually win it, and win it for a comedy performance, for Mr Bigstuff, which is me going into territory I'm not known for, I was just so happy. 'And then, of course, my daughter getting married to the man of my dreams. It doesn't happen often. I'm sure there's many men who give away their daughters to arseholes. You can't choose who your kid falls in love with, but I think for the first time in history I'm more in love with him than she is.' At the end of May, Dyer's eldest daughter, Dani, 28, married Jarrod Bowen, the captain of West Ham United Football Club. For her father, an Irons fan since childhood, it was a dream come true. So how was the father of the bride's speech? 'I wanted to keep it light,' he says. 'So I said: 'Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, today's not about me, it's about this wonderful couple.' Then I go under the table and bring out my Bafta. I thought: 'Oh my God, is this narcissistic?' But the cheer it got… I needed to make people laugh, so that's what I did. The speech was written for me really because I alluded to me being more in love with him than her. Then I got us all to stand up and sing 'Bowen's on fire and he's married Dani Dyer' [an updated take on a West Ham football chant]. So yeah, it's been an amazing start to the year. Big milestones, you know what I mean?' All that and he still found the time to promote Marching Powder, written and directed by his old friend Nick Love, a surprising success at the box office. If it was always possible that Dyer would get his dues, it has not always looked likely. He has been winning over different audiences, demographic by demographic, for 30 years. There were the ravers who loved his unforgettable film debut as Moff in Human Traffic (1999), and the football fans won over by his charming hooligans in Mean Machine (2001) or The Football Factory (2004). Then there was playwright Harold Pinter, the Nobel laureate, who saw in a gifted London lad an echo of himself, and the EastEnders viewers, who were treated to nearly a decade of Dyer's Mick Carter, the landlord of the Queen Vic, a geezer with a heart of gold. Last year, however, Dyer added the upper-middle classes – and US audiences – to his list, with his show-stealing turn as Freddie Jones in the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper's 1988 Cotswolds bonkbuster Rivals. Alongside Aidan Turner and Alex Hassell, more conventional heartthrobs, it was Dyer who won viewers over with his depiction of the self-made millionaire (with a heart of gold). The Telegraph said he brought a 'surprising sweetness' to the role, in a five-star review. 'The Jilly Cooper thing opens me up to middle- and upper-class people who never would have known about me before,' Dyer says. 'Earls and lords, I've noticed they know who I am now. Not that I hang out with a lot of them.' We meet while he is midway through filming the second series of Rivals, and his upper lip is covered in Freddie Jones's distinctive moustache, a thick Tom Selleck slug of a thing. Tall and broad, in person Dyer carries himself with the assurance of someone whose charisma has commanded every room he has been in for as long as he can remember. He speaks rapidly, sentences peppered with curses and rhyming slang. 'I've paid for my wedding whistle [and flute, suit] but not my trotters [shoes],' he explains to the stylist on the Telegraph photo shoot. Sunglasses are 'bins'. As far as I can tell, everyone he meets is charmed. The second series of Mr Bigstuff is out this week. Dyer plays the hard-living Lee, who comes to stay with his mild-mannered estranged brother Glen (Ryan Sampson, who writes the series). The role allows Dyer to make the most of his natural comic timing. 'There's a lot of love on that job,' he says. 'We really worked our bollocks off to try to create something that was slightly different, a bit punky, that has real heart to it even though it's funny as f—k.' Apart from his acting, millions more know Dyer for his public persona: drug-loving, pint-swilling cockney geezer who discovered, via an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, that he was descended from Edward III; host of documentaries about UFOs and gangsters; defensive father of Dani when she appeared as a contestant on Love Island, ultimately winning; spokesman on the perils of toxic masculinity in a Channel 4 documentary; renowned critic of David Cameron having 'his trotters up' in the wake of the Brexit vote. At times, Danny Dyer the public figure has eclipsed Danny Dyer the actor. Dyer was born in 1977 in Custom House, east London, the eldest child of Antony Dyer, a painter and decorator, and Christine, and grew up on a council estate. Danny has said his full name is misspelt 'Danial' on his birth certificate because his father had been drinking before registering his son. He has a younger brother and sister. His parents split up when he was nine, after his mother discovered that his father had another family – he has two half-sisters, one five years younger and another 10 years younger. Dyer was always 'cheeky', in his description, with a talent for making people laugh. He was encouraged to act at an early age, but money was tight; he would jump the barriers to get the Tube to a drama school he went to in Chalk Farm. It was there, during his teens, that he was spotted by an agent who put him forward for a role in Prime Suspect 3, with Helen Mirren. He met his wife, Joanne Mas, when they were both 14. They finally married in 2016, but had their first child, Dani, in 1996 when Danny was just 18. He had to juggle his acting work with being a young father. After Prime Suspect he did a typical round of bit parts in big series, including A Touch of Frost, Soldier Soldier and The Bill, before his film break as Moff, the slacker son of a policeman, in Human Traffic. The film became an instant cult hit for its unmoralising depiction of young people living for the weekend, and Dyer was its breakout star. 'There's no training on how to be famous, and how do you stay grounded and authentic to yourself? Because you become a cartoon character. I know I did.' Fame in his early 20s had two powerful effects on Dyer's life. It was after meeting him at an audition that Harold Pinter recognised a raw talent, like him a boy from the East End finding success in a world dominated by the middle classes. Pinter cast Dyer in Celebration, a new play, in 2000, and a revival of No Man's Land the following year, as well as a revival of The Homecoming in 2008. 'We had a very interesting relationship,' he says. 'He wasn't in my life long enough, but I think he's always with me somehow. I don't know what that means, but higher powers and all that. I'm not religious, but I do feel like there's something guiding us through life.' Young and famous but not rich, Dyer found himself being offered endless opportunities to behave like Moff in real life – going on the piss, getting high, living it up – which he took up enthusiastically. 'I think I was always destined to end up in rehab,' he says. 'My first film was Human Traffic, which was a huge success, and I was the most hedonistic one in it. I loved drugs at the time. People wanted to take drugs with me so I got wrapped up in it. I went along with it.' Despite Pinter's imprimatur, Dyer's subsequent work failed to hit the same heights as Human Traffic. A couple of hooligan- and gangster-themed films in the early 2000s, including The Football Factory and The Business, cemented his image as a hard-living cockney. In 2000 Jo had temporarily kicked him out, draining the bank account and denying him access to their young daughter. (In a recent interview, he said Jo 'controls everything now'.) 'I started to get offered a lot of stuff and said yes far too much to stuff I shouldn't have said yes to,' he says. 'Bad films, and of course once they come out your stock lowers. I realised that. I was known as 'DVD Danny', which was detrimental. Where do you go after that? My profile was raised enough that I could do personal appearances in nightclubs, which was a whole career back then. But that fuels the drugs and drink. I went through a period of being a DJ. It's a recipe for disaster. Your doors are closing in the acting business and you think: 'How long can I stretch this out for?' But nightclubs were closing. It just stopped, and you think: 'What the f—k am I going to do now?'' With bailiffs at his door, he was saved in 2013 by EastEnders, which gave him regular work on one of the biggest programmes in the country. He was perfect as the gruff but lovable Mick Carter. By the time he married Jo in 2016, they'd added two more children, Sunnie and Arty (now 11). Dyer's performance won him three National Television Awards, in 2015, 2016 and 2019. It was after one of these parties that he realised his substance use was out of control, when he couldn't get his jeans on in his en-suite loo. 'It was my moment of clarity,' he says. 'It's an odd story, but that was my moment of going, 'Oh God, you've got to sort your life out, you're going to die.' Of all the things that had happened, all the weird moments, that was the moment.' He checked into rehab soon after. It took another visit to stick, but he is in a good place now. 'I'm in control of my life,' he says. 'I don't do drugs any more, but I love a nice cold pint outside in a beer garden.' He has taken up meditation, too. 'We're only on this earth once. You need to experience as much stuff as you can and squeeze as much joy out of it as you can, and not beat yourself up too much. I've got a good balance at the moment. It took a long time to get there.' The success of Rivals, the Bafta for Mr Bigstuff and his increasing acceptance by the establishment has meant a flurry of high-profile interviews, including Desert Island Discs and Louis Theroux 's podcast, in which Dyer has had to revisit the more difficult moments in his life. Most memorably, for ITV's The Assembly, broadcast in April, he was addressed by neurodivergent members of the public, who asked disarmingly frank questions. 'My dad just wasn't a very good dad,' he replied to one. 'He didn't know how to do it. He told me when I wasn't allowed to hold his hand any more. I was trying to cross the road, and I went to hold his hand and he went, 'No, we don't do that any more.'' By the end of the programme, Dyer was leading a guided meditation. 'Because things have been going so well I've been doing some quite heavy [interviews],' he says now. 'My worry is always upsetting my family. I've been very open about my life and talking about stuff that is important to me, but I don't want to embarrass my dad. He's one of my best mates now, but there was a whole period when he wasn't in my life. He left me. He was a bit… he had to have a few conversations after [ The Assembly ] aired. He was proud of me, but he remembers things slightly differently to me. In his old age he's opened up a lot. He's an old-school masculine man, born in the '50s. But now we talk, we cuddle and say 'I love you' to each other.' He is equally conscious of dragging Jo back through the most difficult parts of their relationship. 'I've tried to be aware of rolling my family members into my fame because they never asked for it,' he says. 'Especially with my wife, who I've put through a lot of s—t over the years, and I'd be f—ked without her, so I'm grateful she's the person she is. She ain't no f—king wallflower, let me tell you that. She humbles me every day. I wouldn't have had the career I've had without her. She was willing to sacrifice her career to bring up children, to let me try and be an actor and fail miserably, and then get a part and get us out of trouble. Me bringing up stuff I've done in the past is not nice for her, of course it ain't.' Dyer's articulacy and frankness, together with his background, have made him a kind of de facto spokesman on subjects far beyond acting: masculinity, addiction, mental health, working-class culture, politics. Seven years ago, a clip of him speaking on Good Evening Britain, where he was a guest alongside Jeremy Corbyn, went viral after he called David Cameron a 'twat' and accused him of being 'in Nice with his trotters up' leaving others to sort out the Brexit mess. Dyer had voted for Brexit, but felt the execution was disappointing. 'I just posed the question about what it was,' he says. 'What the f—k does Brexit actually mean? We're 10 years down the line. Have we left or not?' How does he feel about Keir Starmer? 'He's a f—king non-entity. I feel sorry for the people when he goes to a factory and they put these poor people behind him and you can tell they all hate his guts. We need a leader. He's not a leader. I don't know what the f—k he is. He's only in power because the Tories were such c—ts. 'Nobody in politics is likeable,' he adds. 'Where's the working-class people? They should be running our country, not people pretending they're working class because they've had a pint in a pub.' Now that Dyer finds himself in the unexpected position of being renowned enough to get projects green-lit on his own, he would like to help other working-class actors get a leg-up. 'What's important to me now is I try to do good, classy work, and if I've got the clout, to roll in as many young working-class people and give them some opportunities. Let's audition some kids who've never auditioned before, really get the raw talent, not necessarily Rada-trained kids.' He hopes there will be a third series of Mr Bigstuff, possibly more Rivals. He is in discussions for a play about his relationship with Pinter, provisionally called When Harry Met Danny. 'I think I'd want to play Harold,' he says. 'He always wanted me to do more theatre.' He thinks Pinter would be 'very proud' to see him today. In a career full of surprises, few are greater than the fact it took a Jilly Cooper adaptation – and nearly 30 years – for the wider world to wake up to the talent in Danny Dyer that Pinter had recognised at once. 'I'm grateful that I'm still able to ply my trade,' Dyer says. 'So many people do a couple of good things and disappear off the face of the earth, but I've managed to keep going. But God, I've had my dry spells and my spells of going, 'Oh my God, I'm never going to work again.' I've made some bad decisions. But at the moment it's all coming together.' He excuses himself. It's a glorious afternoon and he fancies a couple of pints in the sunshine.
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Mohammed Kudus transfer talk set to rumble on as West Ham stance offers encouragement to rivals
Mohammed Kudus is one of those players whose name just seems perennially present in gossip columns and transfer rumour mills every time the window opens, forever being touted for a big move to the latest linked club. He remains, though, at West Ham. For now. Advertisement There are many reasons for his name being the subject of so much transfer talk, chief among them, of course, that Kudus is an extremely talented footballer and, on his day, a bona fide matchwinner at the highest level. Why wouldn't he be a wanted man? Also worth noting is his status as the most high-profile active Ghanaian footballer and an icon for millions of fans right across Africa. His career success and trajectory matter hugely to a great many people. But heightened speculation about Kudus's future over the past month is even less surprising given it has also become clear that West Ham consider only Jarrod Bowen, their captain, as strictly not for sale under any circumstances this summer. The board are aware of Kudus's hefty market value, given he is still 24, and would consider selling the player this summer if an opportunity arose to improve their financial wiggle-room. Any sale of Mohammed Kudus would be a welcome financial boost to West Ham (Getty Images) That explains why Chelsea were unexpectedly offered the chance to sign Kudus during the first summer transfer window earlier this month. No formal offer has yet been made for the versatile forward by any club, and there is a significant disparity between the respective valuations Chelsea and West Ham have for the player. Advertisement Kudus remains on their list of targets this summer, though talks between the clubs are not advanced at this stage, and he is also attracting reported interest from Arsenal and Tottenham. How much of that derives from West Ham or his representatives doing the leg work rather than clubs reaching out themselves is unclear, but the interest is there. And it has also been reported that Manchester United considered a player-swap-plus-cash deal for Kudus which West Ham declined. Much could be decided at the beginning of next month. He has a 10-day release clause which comes into effect on July 1 and runs until July 10. During that time, he can be bought out of his West Ham contract by European clubs for £80million, Premier League rivals for £85m or Saudi sides for £120m. That could be when interest in the forward intensifies even more. His quick feet, injection of pace away from flummoxed opponents, and ruthless finishing were immediately unleashed on Premier League defences when Kudus joined West Ham from Ajax for £38million in August 2023, but this last season somewhat passed him by. Advertisement Like the club more broadly, there was a vacancy about how he played. Though he scored and assisted a handful of times each, for long periods he appeared isolated and uninvolved. His employers doubtless took note — if not actively concerned by his drop-off in output from the previous season then certainly more willing to at least consider his sale, especially if that means alleviating the club from what is effectively a sell-to-buy policy. If West Ham are banking on any player sale bumping up the coffers this summer, it is Kudus, who is believed to be keen on moving on, though he would not force through an exit. Whether he and West Ham do part ways remains to be seen, but one thing is absolutely guaranteed. Those Kudus transfer rumours are not going away. They could rumble on and on all summer.
BBC News
10-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Gutted to see him go' or 'good riddance' to Kudus?
We asked for your views on Tottenham agreeing a £55m fee to sign Mohammed are some of your comments:Leigh: It's good riddance as far as I'm concerned. Once he made it clear that he wanted to join Tottenham, there was no way back. And those stats don't tell the whole truth, he was bang average, lazy and uninterested for a large chunk of last season. Let's just hope the money is reinvested by Sullivan. I have my Loved Kudus, so strong on the ball, took people on and created space for others. Only weakness maybe was releasing it at the right moment. The problem was he was best suited to the position where Jarrod Bowen excels. Gutted to see him go, especially to Sad news, great player. Our board cannot run a bath, let alone a club. Big hole to Most fans happy to see him go, but the price seems low. We just don't seem to be capable of keeping players happy so they want to stay or getting a good deal for them. Apart from Declan Rice, I cant think of anyone recently where it felt like we got a good price. Let's see if we can spend the money Despite Kudus' dribbling stats, he struggled to have a positive impact on the game for us and he was often guilty of overplaying in the wrong areas of the pitch. So while he has so much potential, I don't think his loss will make or break our season. It'll be more important what we do with the funds from the Can never play Kudus in his best position as he isn't as good as Bowen. Seemed uninterested last season and if we use the money wisely we could do better. Never seemed loyal to the club and West Ham was always a stepping stone to take him further. Once Spurs can't offer Champions League football anymore, I'm sure he will lose interest there Total joke. West Ham can't buy any players until they have let Kudus go and at such a ridiculously low price. If we want to compete at the top level, the board need to sell the club. Big stadium, small club, no Very angry with the decision to sell at a cut price if there was a £85 million release clause. If he plays like his first season, Spurs have a great deal. My concern is by accepting the deal, how much debt are West Ham in? And how much money will Graham Potter be given to strengthen a weak squad? A relegation battle ahead for sure.
Daily Mail
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Danny Dyer leaves newly married daughter Dani aghast as he makes X-rated sex confession while reminiscing about his honeymoon
Danny Dyer horrified newly married eldest daughter Dani on Tuesday while reminiscing about his sex-fuelled honeymoon in central Italy. Dyer and long-term partner Joanne Mas exchanged vows in 2016, some 24-years after they first met, before spending their honeymoon in picturesque Tuscany. But the former EastEnders star shared more than was strictly necessary about the romantic getaway while joining Dani for the latest instalment of their Live And Let Dyers podcast. Dyer, 47, reminisced after Dani - who married West Ham United and England footballer Jarrod Bowen in May, admitted her own honeymoon had been ruined by bad weather. 'The weather was terrible, it rained for three days,' she said. 'But we were very lucky, because it always stopped raining when we went for lunch and for dinners and stuff. 'We just could never sunbathe, and there's not really much to do there, so, we just binged the whole series of MobLand. 'We ate and I'd just drink champagne and have loads of baths!' Chipping in with recollections of his honeymoon break to Italy, Danny said: 'To be fair, you shouldn't really be getting out of bed a lot in your honeymoon, because me and your mother ended up in Florence, and you know, we was appalling!' 'I mean, honestly, I look back on it and I think, 'f***ing hell! How on earth did I manage to get in those sorts of positions!' After a mortified Dani branding him 'disgusting,' he added: 'What do you mean disgusting? There was two people sharing their love. Them days are long gone now!' The 28-year old former Love island winner had previously branded her new husband and his friends 'd***s' for taking PlayStations to their lavish wedding. Dani married the West Ham United captain in an outdoor ceremony at the £500-a-night Langley Hotel in Iver, Buckinghamshire, on May 31. She recalled: 'He said he ain't staying with me the night before, he went, "No, I don't want to stay with you". [sic] 'They were all taking, him and their mates, their PlayStations to the hotel. I was like, "You're all a bunch of d***s. Why are you all excited over playing PlayStation when you're going to be a husband?" Back in 2000, Dyer's wild behaviour culminated in Jo catching him cheating on her, causing her to kick him out and clear their bank account (pictured 2006) 'He went, "Yeah, that don't change nothing, I'm still playing".' Dani - a parent to twins Summer and Star with Bowen and four-year-old son Santiago with former partner Sammy Kimmence - later admitted his attachment to the PlayStation would continue well after their honeymoon was over. She added: 'Then he said to me, "What are we doing on the Sunday after the wedding?" 'I said, "I don't know, we'll probably just be hanging, like, we'll come home". He went, "Oh, no, I just didn't know if I could play football champs on the Sunday".' 'I went, "Yeah play football champs, that's fine Jarrod, absolutely."' Live And Let Dyers is available to listen to now on Global Player, or wherever you get your podcasts.
