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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Who has made Troy's Premier League team of the season?
Troy Deeney has been picking his team of the week throughout 2024-25 - but who makes his Premier League team of the season? Here are his choices. Do you agree? Give us your thoughts using the comments form. And you can vote for your player of the season from the 11 players he's picked too - just vote at the bottom of the page. Matz Sels (Nottingham Forest): Sels ended up sharing the Premier League Golden Glove with Arsenal's David Raya - but I just think for the season that Forest have had, he gets the vote. Yes, the Forest front players have been exceptional but he has pulled off big saves more or less every week. When you look at the team Raya has in front of him and the team Sels has in front of him, the Forest keeper has been better. William Saliba (Arsenal), Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa) and Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool): Three exceptional centre-backs and leaders - it's not necessarily about picking captains but figureheads from a defensive point of view. The team will only be as good as these three guys defend. Van Dijk obviously won the league, and signed a new Liverpool deal. In my opinion, he's the best centre-back in world football. Konsa is growing week on week, month on month, to be an exceptional centre-back. He's on his way to being England's centre-back that we can rely on. Saliba has had a little end to the season that has made me question him - but when he and Gabriel are playing, it works well. He needs an aggressive partner so he can be the Rolls Royce. Honourable mentions for Nikola Milenkovic and Murillo at Forest. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool): The easiest one to pick. Across the Premier League this season, there hasn't been any solid right-back who's been consistent and injury free. An honourable mention for Aaron Wan-Bissaka at West Ham - but Liverpool won the league, and Alexander-Arnold gets the nod. Milos Kerkez (Bournemouth): I was going to go with Myles Lewis-Skelly but he didn't start the season. He was superb over the second half of the season, though. Kerkez has been one of Bournemouth's unbelievable performers and one of the reasons they've moved so high up the league. Declan Rice (Arsenal) and Bruno Guimaraes (Newcastle): Both players have taken a massive leap in their game this season. Rice has added goals and has become one of the top three holding midfielders in world football. His ability to run and press and dominate games without the ball is exceptional. Now he's adding what he can do with the ball. It's taken his game to another level. All he needs to do now is start winning trophies. Guimaraes has captained Newcastle to the EFL Cup. He has gelled that midfield, he's scored massive goals for them and he is the life and soul of that Newcastle team. They cannot afford to lose him and hopefully now with Champions League football, they won't do that. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool): I'm running out of words to say about Salah. His ability to score and assist goals is massive. Liverpool giving him the deal he wanted suggests that there is no-one in the market who can do what he can. They'd have to buy two or three players. He's been excellent and had the season of his life. Long may that continue. It's great that he's staying in the Premier League. Bryan Mbeumo (Brentford): Mbeumo finished with 20 Premier League goals, and he'll be one of those players that Brentford might have to sell so they can go and get others. I'd be really interested to see how he does at Manchester United. He could grow into that shirt and operate if they change formation - he can do that. He has that ability to take penalties and free-kicks. Alexander Isak (Newcastle): There can only be one. The best striker in the Premier League, and the best in world football currently in my opinion. He has everything in his game. Even though he misses a few games here and there through injury, he was only six goals behind Salah. That's unbelievable when you think he's missed more games than Salah and plays for a team who just about got into the Champions League on the last day. Arne Slot (Liverpool): In his first season, he took Liverpool to the title. He handled all of the negativity with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk exceptionally well - and and looks as though he's already on a roll with who he's going to get in next. He's handled the media well too. Honourable mentions for Eddie Howe and Nuno Espirito Santo. Newcastle did dip during the season, and Forest tailed off towards the end, so they miss out for that. Do you agree with Troy's selections? Who would be in your team of the season? Have your say using the comments form below: All your football quizzes in one place Get football news sent straight to your phone
Telegraph
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Telegraph
Nathan Jones interview: A lot of people said I overreacted but I am an emotional man
It was one of the most extraordinary sights of the season. Moments before the final whistle in Charlton Athletic's play-off semi-final victory over Wycombe Wanderers, Nathan Jones sank to his knees on the touchline and raised his arms in rapturous prayer. With his eyes closed and his back arched, the Charlton manager was overcome by a swirl of different emotions. There was relief, of course, that Charlton's dream of promotion to the Championship remains alive. There was pride in his team, who now face Leyton Orient in Sunday's League One play-off final. And there was also, he said after the game, a sense of what this could mean for his own personal quest to answer those who have doubted him in recent years. All the emotions for Charlton manager Nathan Jones as the final whistle sounds at the Valley! 🥹 — Sky Sports Football (@SkyFootball) May 15, 2025 Inevitably, the dramatic nature of his behaviour on the touchline did not impress everyone. On Talksport, former Watford captain Troy Deeney described it as 'a little bit too much'. And in the brutal world of social media, Jones was pilloried by some less-than-friendly accounts. None of this, though, will feel particularly new to a manager who remains one of the most fascinating – and divisive – coaches in the English game. A deeply religious man who enjoyed enormous success with Luton Town, building a reputation as one of the brightest coaching minds in the Football League, but also lasted only nine months at Stoke City and just 95 days at Southampton. Is Jones a genuine managerial expert, or a coach who excels at so-called smaller clubs but struggles to impose his methods at bigger teams? It is still hard to say. Your answer might depend on which team you support. What is evident, however, is that promotion with Charlton this weekend would add further weight to the argument that it was Stoke and Southampton who got things wrong during his time at those clubs, rather than Jones himself. To be clear, Jones is not personally worried about such discussions. These are debates for the outside world, rather than issues for him to confront. 'I have no idea what the perception is of me,' he says ahead of Sunday's final. 'I don't do that. I am not looking at my standing or what it [promotion] does for me. I want to be at this football club. I love where we are and I want to take this club forward.' 'I am emotional and sometimes that runs away with me' But that is not to say he is unaware of the mixed response to his actions last week. 'I am an emotional person and sometimes that runs away with me. That was an outpouring of relief and emotion. I can't remember why it happened, how it happened. It just did. 'A lot of people have said it's probably an over-reaction. I have been guilty of those in my career, both as a player and as a manager. That is something I have to live with. I work really hard, and a lot of people in my life sacrifice a lot of things for me to be able to do that. Sometimes all that comes to the fore.' Many of those who have worked with Jones, or played for him, would say that this passion for the job is one of his defining qualities. His intensity and personal sense of drive is clearly a fundamental part of his personality as a manager, whether other people like his style or not. 'People are looking for something to bring you down' 'What happens during a 90-minute game, you can't control it,' he says. 'That's sport, that's emotion. When someone wins a gold medal, do we criticise them if they jump around and run around? No, because it's emotion and euphoria. That's the great thing about sport. 'Now, people just want to see a reserved, calm [manager] where you don't speak out of turn or give anyone anything [away]. That's the trickery. It's any time you are in front of the media. The higher you go, the worse it is. They look for things to pick you up on, to twist and turn, and that is the world we live in. It's sad, really. I don't really care [about the perception] but I am aware that the world, society and people are looking for something to bring you down.' If Jones can lead Charlton to success on Sunday, it would mark an extraordinary turnaround since his appointment in February last year. He took over a team who had not won a match for 14 games and were only three points above the relegation zone, and kept them up comfortably. This season, they won 16 of their final 23 games to reach the play-offs. 'I am very proud of that,' Jones says. 'It is tough to turn around, especially with such a big club as this. To come from where we were, to where we are now, it has been a meteoric rise. A lot of people have had to do a lot of good work for that. We feel it is just rewards for a really good body of work over the last 14 months.'
The Sun
24-05-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Jobe Bellingham ready to step out of brother Jude's shadow and ‘explode' for Sunderland in Championship play-off final
LAST year it was Jude Bellingham enjoying his crowning moment at Wembley Stadium. Now younger brother Jobe is preparing for his own date with destiny under the arch. 5 5 It was on June 1, 2024 that England ace Bellingham, 21, celebrated lifting the Champions League with Real Madrid. Jobe, 19, was at Wembley to watch Jude officially announce himself as a world superstar — and the brothers celebrated together on the pitch afterwards. But, 358 days later, it is the Sunderland star who now has the opportunity to become the first Bellingham to make it to the Premier League. Jude's path from Birmingham City to Madrid via Dortmund is known up and down the land. Though it started in the same Brum academy, Jobe is doing things differently. And despite the difficulties of following in his brother's footsteps, he is forging his own identity after a brilliant season on Wearside. SunSport columnist Troy Deeney, who knows the Bellingham brothers from his time at St Andrew's, said: 'Jobe is going to be on the biggest stage against a Premier League-worthy team in Sheffield United. Everyone is going to be looking at him. 'Maybe this is Jobe's chance to finally step out of his brother's shadow. I hope he shows everyone what he is capable of. JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS 'He's a top, top player. He's going to be a machine. I was at the play-off semi-final second leg at Coventry and as the game went on he got stronger, not weaker. 'They've got this thing — Jobe and Jude — where it's time to dig in and they explode. 'He's tweaked his game a little bit as well this year. He's gone a bit more defensive. 'When he came through at Birmingham, he was a No 10, driving into the box. Now he's more of a No 8. Breaking up the play, getting box to box, coming up with goals.' The talented teen has been a key part of the Black Cats' promotion charge, all the while playing in a new role. Jobe, who left Birmingham for the Stadium of Light in 2023, was deployed as a false nine for the majority of his first season and scored seven times. The stats back up how he has become one of the best midfielders in the Championship. With 47 chances created and 78 tackles won, he is making a difference at both ends of the pitch. 5 5 While his four goals and three assists are not to be sniffed at either, it is with each passing defensive performance that he is finding his home. Jobe has made 221 recoveries this term to add to the chances he has made, numbers that highlight just how much of a box-to-box man he has become. And this was never more evident than in the two-legged play-off semi-final triumph over Coventry with the eyes of the world on him. He won six aerial duels, made 12 clearances and produced 11 defensive actions — including a tremendous block to deny Haji Wright a late first-leg equaliser. Sunderland legend Michael Bridges, a three-time promotion winner with the club, said: 'He's shown with the position change that he's a key player in what Regis Le Bris is trying to do, and we are reaping the benefits. 'Certain players have an aura of intimidation about them. 'I look at Jobe and think he's got this presence and people are fearful of him because of his engine and quality on the ball. 'He's a coach and manager's dream because he's embraced it so much. The world's his oyster. 'I would hate to think he's going to be living in his brother's shadow but, unfortunately, that's the world that we live in. 'We'll ask if he can emulate Jude and who are we to say that he can't? 'He's got every opportunity as long as he stays injury free and focused on his game and off-the-field antics don't distract him.' As his admirers continue to grow, it could even be argued his attributes would perfectly complement Jude's if they ever lined up together in the middle of the park. That could happen one day for England but, for now, Jobe is looking to next month's European Under-21s Championship. Borussia Dortmund already have eyes on luring another Bellingham to blossom with them in Germany, while even more clubs across the continent will be monitoring his displays over the coming weeks. There seems to be a mounting feeling that no matter what, this weekend's Wembley showdown could be his last for Sunderland. However, the Black Cats will hope that securing a return to the top flight after eight years could keep him for at least another season. Even with Dortmund in pole position for the £25million-rated star, the prospect of being the first Bellingham to dazzle in the Premier League could just be too tantalising to resist for Jobe.
The Sun
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Goals 4 GOSH: Date, kick-off time and how to watch star-studded charity match as Chelsea legend Eden Hazard makes debut
CHELSEA legend Eden Hazard will nostalgically lace up his boots to feature in the star-studded Goals 4 GOSH charity match. This is set to be the fifth edition of the match which is put on to support Great Ormond Street Hospital. 1 Regional Development Director at Funeral Partners, Jamie Groves, spearheads the event and all the proceeds go to GOSH. Celebrities from TV, entertainment and music will also grace the pitch including the likes of Bionic from BBC's Gladiator, YouTube superstar Danny Aarons and UK rapper Swarmz And not only will fans get to watch a thrilling game of football, but there will be a lot of fun family activities on the day. When is the Goals 4 GOSH charity match? Goals 4 GOSH will take place on Sunday, May 25 - which is also the final day of the Premier League season. The huge charity match is scheduled to get underway at 4pm BST. Organisers have announced that there will also be a content creators tournament that is expected to start at around 10:30am BST. Plough Lane - the home of AFC Wimbledon is the chosen venue for this great event. How can I watch the Goals 4 GOSH charity match? Details of how to watch the Goals 4 GOSH charity match are yet to be confirmed. However, tickets are available for purchase through the official Goals 4 GOSH Instagram page. All proceeds will be going to the Great Ormond Street Hospital. Who is playing in the Goals 4 GOSH charity match? Eden Hazard Eman SV2 Wayne Routledge Troy Deeney Grime Gran Ron Hall Manny Joel Baya Gemma Davison Beau the Beard Nathan Dawe Swarmz A Star Lianne Sanderson Shane Long Danny Aarons Adrian Mariappa Joe Cole Jason Euell Paul Gorton Leon Jackman Nathan Khider Marc White Jay & Poppy Matty Briggs Specs Gonzalez Fara Williams Bionic Jolie Sharpe Stuart Douglas Colin Kazim-Richards Lia Lewis Big G Fenners Junior Andre Katie Chapman What has been said? Jamie Froves and Charlotte Styles won the Care Award for consistently putting such an incredible Goals 4 GOSH event. Speaking after winning the award, Jamie said: 'To be honest, I didn't realise there were even awards going on. 'Getting chosen, as the winner was a bit mind-blowing. 'Every single penny makes such a difference when it comes to the hospital's equipment, beds and everything else. 'They rely so much on the funding that the charity provides. 'So, it is a massive thanks to every single player, volunteer, supporter and everybody involved.'
Scottish Sun
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
I'll shed a tear for Goodison Park, when I walked out at Everton's stadium I knew I had made it
IT will be a sentimental day for the blue half of Merseyside on Sunday when Evertonians say goodbye to Goodison Park after 133 years. And there will be one big Brummie shedding a little tear too because Everton's home is very special to me. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Troy Deeney ranks Goodison Park in his top five stadiums Credit: Getty 2 The striker made his Premier League debut at the ground Credit: Getty You never forget your first time and, a decade ago, Goodison was the place where I made my Premier League debut for...
