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The National
8 hours ago
- Sport
- The National
Daniel Cummings set for West Ham move as Celtic fee revealed
The talented young striker is out of contract at the Hoops and is the latest Scottish youngster to be tempted by a move down to England. The Scottish champions were keen to keep the 19-year-old and offered fresh terms but were knocked back in favours of the English Premier League side. Cummings has had first-team involvement at Celtic and made his Champions League debut against Aston Villa this season. He is capped up to under-19s level for Scotland and scored 23 goals in the Lowland League for the B team last season. The Irons had two offers turned down by Celts earlier this year but were able to offer Cummings a pre-contract and he was reported to be in "advanced talks" with them as his deal ran down. Read more: Former Celtic goalkeeper set to depart Ange Postecoglou's Spurs this summer Celtic's total profit on Jeremie Frimpong as Liverpool timeline emerges It was claimed back in February that West Ham had promised the player a first-team role next season, manager Graham Potter and sporting director Mark Noble keen to persuade him to make the move. He will be doing so in the coming days, according to Fabrizio Romano. The ransfer guru said: "Daniel Cummings will join West Ham on July 1st, agreement done and here we go! "Celtic talent has scored 30 goals this season and made his Champions League debut at Villa Park. "Medical complete and deal done. Celtic will get €300k training compensation." Cummings will join former Hibs youngster Josh Landers who has already been signed by West Ham.
Scottish Sun
8 hours ago
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
Celtic ace who bagged 30 goals for youth side agrees to join historic Premier League club as compensation fee confirmed
IN THE MONEY Celtic ace who bagged 30 goals for youth side agrees to join historic Premier League club as compensation fee confirmed Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) CELTIC starlet Daniel Cummings is all set to leave Parkhead and join West Ham, according to reports. And the final compensation fee has been revealed. Sign up for the Celtic newsletter Sign up 1 GDaniel Cummings scores against Slovan Bratislava in the Uefa Youth League Credit: Getty Daniel Cummings scored 30 goals for the Hoops youth side this past season. And he began to attract interest from the Premier League during the last year. A number clubs from down south were interested in the young Scot but West Ham and Brighton emerged as the favourites. But it soon became clear that he had his heart set on a move to London - despite Celtic being keen to keep him. The Parkhead side were ready to offer him a new deal but Cummings was intent on moving to Englnd. And a transfer was all but agreed back in February - but the crucial compensation figure was still up in the air. Cross-border rules on development mean that West Ham will have to stump up £300,000 for the player, even though he is technically leaving on a Bosman. Cummings, who made his Champions League debut at Villa Park when Brendan Rodgers' men travelled there to face Aston Villa, is all set to join the Hammers on July 1. That's according to transfer guru Fabrizio Romano. It's also reported that Cummings has completed his medical, with all the fine details between the two clubs agreed. Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers has STRONGER transfer case after final defeat Brentford, Fulham, Ipswich Town, Wolves and newly-promoted Burnley and Sunderland were at one point also keeping tabs on the Scotland youth international. Cummings, 19, rose through the Celts youth academy and made his B team debut in 2022. Since then he's played for Scotland at under-17 and under-19 level. Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
That new Universal Epic Universe theme park in Orlando? An MTSU graduate helped build it
Universal Orlando has opened the nation's first major theme park in more than 20 years — and a Tennessean had a big part in creating it. Susan Cummings — from Spencer, Tennessee, about an hour east of Murfreesboro — is the executive producer for the Super Nintendo World section of the buzzy new Epic Universe park in Orlando. Cummings, 57, a 1990 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, led a team that designed the part of the park that brings decades of Nintendo games to life. Super Nintendo World includes areas like Super Mario Land, Yoshi's Adventure and Donkey Kong Country. Cummings is even featured in Universal Studios' promotional video for Super Nintendo World. In a phone interview with The Tennessean, Cummings said she has been surprised at how emotional some of the park's first visitors got when they saw their beloved Nintendo games in 3D. "Oh, my gosh, I saw people wiping away tears and saying, 'I can't believe I'm here,'" Cummings said. "People have strong multi-generational ties to these games. They are places you'd never expect to actually visit. You just them on screens large and small, but you'd never expect to be there." Cummings, who has been working on Super Nintendo World for six years, said she loves seeing visitors' strong reactions. "That's the good stuff," she said. "You forget all struggles with construction and budgets when you see someone experience it. That's why you do it." Cummings moved to Orlando after graduating from MTSU to pursue her dream of becoming a stand-up comedian. A friend's brother, comedian Joby Saad, was working in Orlando, and Cummings started opening for his shows and serving as emcee. While trying to launch her own comedy career, Cummings started working for theme parks in Orlando to pay her bills. Soon, Cummings found herself working at higher and higher levels in the Universal Studios theme park world. Cummings credits her time as a theater major at MTSU with launching a career in entertainment. In addition to being part of student productions, Cummings performed stand-up for the first time in Murfreesboro after one of her professors, Deborah Anderson, got her a slot at an open mic night. "I also remember getting a lot of parking tickets outside Schardt Hall where I lived for a few semesters!" she said. Reach Brad Schmitt at brad@ This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: MTSU grad helped build that new Universal Epic Universe theme park
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Replacing Kemi would be as useful as rearranging chairs on the Titanic
In characteristically no-nonsense fashion, former Number 10 aide Dominic Cummings has declared that Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is a 'goner' and that she is likely to be deposed within a year. In a wide-ranging interview with Sky News, Cummings also referred to the Conservative Party's existential crisis, suggesting the party has 'crossed the event horizon and actually aren't salvageable'. Cummings, in all likelihood, is right on both fronts. In the last parliamentary term, Badenoch's political stock rose a great deal – and deservedly so. During the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK following the police killing of George Floyd, Badenoch courageously defended the UK's record on racial equality and challenged divisive notions of 'white privilege'. Indeed, she went as far as saying that Britain is the best place in the world to be black. Few could argue that black people would find a better package of political freedoms, economic opportunities, social stability, and legal protections anywhere else in the world. Badenoch reinforced her credentials as an anti-woke trailblazer by resisting the forces of radical transgenderism and protecting the integrity of female-only spaces. The symbolism of a confident black woman taking to task these toxic forms of racial and gender identity politics was powerful. But regrettably, Badenoch's period as party leader has been underwhelming – and the warning signs were there during her leadership campaign. This included claiming to have become 'working class' when she started working at McDonald's at the age of 16 – despite hailing from a middle-class family where her father was a general practitioner who later established a publishing company, with her mother being an academic lecturer. Badenoch herself attended the private International School Lagos (ISL). Her remarks exposed a complete lack of understanding of the stubbornly rigid nature of Britain's class system, perhaps due to the fact that she spent much of her childhood outside of the UK. Furthermore, in a more recent interview on Sky News with Trevor Phillips, Badenoch provided a verbal rags-to-riches autobiography which simply didn't come across as relatable at all. Badenoch's leadership has been drab and her instinctively free-market beliefs are a world away from the experience of many British voters who live in left-behind communities which have been battered by the harsh economic and cultural winds of globalisation. But truthfully, she is the leader of a party which is dying. The last parliamentary term of Conservative government was defined by numerous policy failures over issues such as immigration and asylum, bitter in-fighting, and all-round chaotic governance. Liz Truss's treatment of Britain as some kind of laboratory for her reckless ASI-IEA experiment was beyond destructive for the Conservative Party's historic reputation for economic competence. The traditional Tory vote is being cannibalised by Reform UK – with Farage so confident that he is already the leading figure of the British political Right, he is now focused on parking his turquoise tanks on Labour's red lawns. One can have their views on Badenoch. But replacing her as Tory leader may well be useful as rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
North Wales Chronicle
2 days ago
- Politics
- North Wales Chronicle
Badenoch to go ‘probably this year', says former No 10 adviser Dominic Cummings
Dominic Cummings described the Conservative Party leader as a 'goner', and said Reform UK could win up to 150 seats at the next election with 'Nigel and an iPhone'. He described Nigel Farage's Reform UK as a 'vehicle' for voters to say they 'despise' Westminster. Conservative shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately defended Mrs Badenoch, who she described as a 'good leader' during a 'hard time' for her party, and suggested Mr Cummings was trying to 'rock the boat'. In a Sky News interview, Mr Cummings said: 'Kemi is going to go, probably this year.' He added: 'There's already people who are organising to get rid of her, and I think that that will work. If it doesn't work this year, it will definitely happen after next May. 'She's a goner, so there's going to be a big transition there.' The former No 10 adviser also said that the Conservative Party had possibly 'crossed the event horizon and actually aren't salvageable', and added that 'it might be dead'. On Reform UK, which has five seats in the Commons, he said: 'They can win 50, 100, 150 seats with Reform as Nigel and an iPhone. 'But they can't win an overall general election and have a plan for government and have a serious team able to take over in Downing Street and govern and control Whitehall with one man and an iPhone.' Mr Cummings told the broadcaster that 'Reform is a vehicle for people to say 'we despise you, Westminster, we hate both the old parties, we hate Whitehall, we hate the old media, we hate the whole f***ing lot of you''. He added: 'Farage going up in the polls is the expression of that core feeling.' Mr Cummings also reflected on Mr Johnson's departure from Downing Street in September 2022, accusing the former prime minister of 'rewriting history, and a lot of the media just kind-of went along with it'. Reflecting on how some insiders felt at the time, Mr Cummings said: ''We told people we were going to do a whole bunch of things, he's now doing the opposite – OK, we should get rid of him.'' Asked about Mrs Badenoch's leadership, Ms Whately told Times Radio on Wednesday: 'It was always going to take some time for people to want to hear from us.' Mrs Badenoch beat rival Robert Jenrick in the head-to-head final stage of her party's leadership election last year. Ms Whately said she had heard from senior Conservatives who had told her to ''give it at least two years before people are going to want to hear from you again''. Responding to Mr Cummings, she later told Sky News: 'We do know that Dominic Cummings likes to rock the boat, that's something he has a track record of doing. 'My experience working alongside Kemi Badenoch is that she is a good leader and she's leading our party through a hard time. 'Now, we had a really tough election result clearly at the last general election. People told us very clearly at the ballot box that they were frustrated with us, I think particularly frustrated at some of the things that happened at the tail end of our time in government, including the time that Dominic Cummings was in fact involved, clearly when Boris Johnson was prime minister. 'And people were for instance very unhappy about the rising cost of living driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but we need to take the time to listen to what people are telling us, to reflect on that, and to come back with the right offer to the public at the next general election.' Ms Whately said Mr Farage had a 'big state answer' to political problems alongside 'an irresponsible set of unfunded fantasy economics'.
