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Manchester United managed to return to winning ways in the Premier League last night, after a dominant 4-1 thrashing of bottom-placed side Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Ruben Amorim’s men produced one of their best performances of the campaign to date, to put themselves into sixth place and just a point off the top four.

Hearts will no doubt have been in the mouths of all supporters at the break, after Jean-Ricner Bellegarde ensured the game was level going into the break.

However, three goals in the second half secured a seventh league victory of the 2025/26 campaign for the Red Devils – now extending their run to just one loss in the last nine outings.

One player deserves massive credit for his showing at Molineux on Monday night, with the first-team member massively excelling during the well-deserved triumph.

Bruno Fernandes’ stats against Wolves

Bruno Fernandes has often struggled throughout the ongoing campaign, as Amorim has decided to utilise him in a deeper-lying midfield role rather than the number ten position.

It’s required the Portuguese international to think more defensively, which has no doubt had an effect on his output within the final third in the Premier League.

However, his showing against Rob Edwards’ men was arguably his best of the season to date, with the 31-year-old notching two goals and an assist in the triumph.

Such a tally takes him to 10 combined goals and assists in his first 15 appearances of the season, but it was his underlying figures that highlighted his impressive display.

He featured for the entirety of the contest and registered 55 completed passes, whilst creating five chances for his teammates – with both the highest of any player in the meeting.

Bruno also completed 12 passes into the final third, and only misplaced eight passes in total, further highlighting his incredible performance with the ball at his feet.

However, without the ball, the midfielder was just as impressive, as seen by his tally of 100% tackles won, seven recoveries made and a total of five combined aerials and ground duels won.

The United player who is as undroppable as Bruno

As seen by his tally of 15 starts out of a possible 15 in 2025/26, there’s little denying that Bruno is undroppable and certainly one of Amorim’s most important players.

Numerous other players are starting to force themselves into such a bracket, with Bryan Mbeumo just one player who should be a starter week in and week out.

The Cameroonian international netted once again in the clash in the West Midlands, subsequently taking his league tally to six this campaign – the most of any player in the squad.

He registered four shots on target against the hosts, whilst also completing two dribbles – largely being a menace to the Wolves backline during the victory last night.

However, the backline has been a cause for concern over the last couple of weeks, especially with the absence of centre-back Matthijs de Ligt in the last two matches.

As a result, youngster Ayden Heaven has been thrown in at the deep end, but he’s managed to impress – with his showing at Molineux certainly one to remember.

It was just his second start of the season, but the 19-year-old appeared unfazed and produced numerous impressive figures that could make him undroppable within the manager’s current side.

The teenager registered 36 passes during his minutes on the pitch, subsequently achieving a completion rate of 100% – the highest of any player who started the match.

Ayden Heaven – stats against Wolves
Statistics	Tally
Minutes played	69
Touches	49
Passes completed	36
Pass accuracy	100%
Blocks made	1
Clearances made	7
Duels won	100%
Fouls won	2
Stats via FotMob

He also made seven clearances, three of which were with his head, whilst making three recoveries, which enabled him to be in the right place at the right time when called upon.

Heaven’s dominance at the heart of the three-man defence was further highlighted by his impressive tally of six combined duels won – also at a success rate of 100%.

It’s no mean feat for such a young defender to start in the middle of a Premier League defence, but Heaven has made it look routine over the last couple of weeks.

Given his tender age, expectations will no doubt need to be managed by Amorim, but it is certainly hard not to get excited by the youngster after his showing at Molineux.

He’s certainly done enough to cement his place in the starting eleven for the run-up to Christmas, potentially being a huge asset for the club in their hunt for Premier League glory in the years ahead.

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Trent Rockets men’s coach on tactical differences of new format and England’s need for a premier short-form competition

Matt Roller19-Jul-2021Covid-19 cases are on the rise in the UK and on Monday, government restrictions were eased even further. Entire teams have been forced into self-isolation in county cricket, with Derbyshire forced to cancel their final two T20 Blast group games due to a lack of available players. Tom Harrison, the ECB’s chief executive, was firm in emphasising last week that the mental toll of bubbles meant they were no longer feasible, but the Hundred – which starts on Wednesday night – can ill-afford a spate of cases over its four-week group stage.It is a familiar scenario for those involved in the competition who have worked in franchise cricket over the last six months. Andy Flower, who will coach the Trent Rockets men’s team, is one of them: he was in India working as Kings XI Punjab’s assistant coach when the IPL was curtailed in May, either side of which he coached Multan Sultans to the PSL title, initially in Pakistan and then in the UAE after an outbreak among players caused a postponement.”I’ve been away from the UK for three-and-a-half months,” he tells ESPNcricinfo via Zoom, shortly before finishing his 10-day hotel-room quarantine period. “We talk about adaptability being really important for players in the short formats of the game and it’s equally important for us on the coaching or leadership front. One of the most important aspects in having a good chance in a franchise competition is adaptability.Related

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“Almost every franchise in every competition is being affected by late pull-outs – the Hundred is obviously being seriously affected at the moment. We had a recent situation where Wahab Riaz – who came in for Nathan Coulter-Nile – had a visa problem and won’t be available for the first few games [Marchant de Lange has been signed as his replacement]. That’s an obvious example of having to be flexible and understanding at this time.”Not that it has affected Flower’s success. He comes into the Hundred on the back of a remarkable run of results coaching franchise teams, just under two years after leaving his role at the ECB: he has won the PSL, taken St Lucia Zouks to their first CPL final, and led teams to first and second-placed finishes at the Abu Dhabi T10.Success with Multan was unexpected after they had started slowly in the Karachi leg of the PSL. “We did come from almost nowhere,” he says. “The conditions in Abu Dhabi were much fairer and made for better, more interesting cricket and suited our attack more. [Blessing] Muzarabani, the tall fast bowler from Zimbabwe, was central to our plans and was a revelation for us; Imran Tahir was solid as a rock and generally inspirational; and Sohaib Maqsood was a major difference in our fortunes.”His role at Trent Rockets, he admits, is “a bit of a play to nothing”. As things stand, he is only due to coach them in the first season of the Hundred following Stephen Fleming’s withdrawal for family reasons, and has inherited a squad already picked by Fleming, Mick Newell (general manager) and Kunal Manek (analyst). He had a meeting with Lewis Gregory, the Rockets’ captain, during the Karachi leg of the PSL about the tournament and has been in regular contact with him throughout England’s white-ball series against Pakistan.He has had some time to think through the nuances of the new format, but expects tactical trends to evolve gradually through the group stages. “I’ve been involved in T10 as well so I’m used to an even quicker, more attacking form of the game but I’d imagine it’s going to be similar to T20 – though might feel slightly different in that we’ve got these 10 balls from one end. There might be a few tactical differences and if you can get the edge on the opposition through understanding those better and quicker, then that’s what we need to do.”An area where it will feel different to T20 is the option [for one bowler] to bowl 10 balls in a row, so how do you deploy some of your more powerful resources like Rashid Khan? When he operates for his IPL side, he bowls overs 8, 10, 12 and 14 in the middle and usually people find it hard to attack him. Getting a feel for the Hundred and what it’s like to bowl 10 balls in a row and how effective that is, we’ll have to assess that in real time.”

“I’m a very big supporter of a premier short-format competition for England. We all know the power and reach of the IPL, various other countries have excellent franchise competitions. England needed its own”Andy Flower

There are a few details to iron out within the squad. Joe Root is likely to be available for the opening rounds and Flower is yet to decide which order the top four – Root, Alex Hales, D’Arcy Short and Dawid Malan – should come in. He is hoping that the strong Notts core of five players plus assistant coach Paul Franks will be able to exploit their high-scoring home ground to their advantage, though cautions against the idea that every game will be a run-fest. Franks will be joined by Mal Loye (batting), Tom Smith (bowling) and Nic Pothas (fielding) on the coaching staff, while Flower is particularly pleased that Jonathan Trott – a mainstay of his successful England side – has recently been appointed in a backroom role.As for his star batters, Flower is enthusiastic about the opportunity to deal with Hales again, having worked closely with him as a young player making his way in international cricket during his time as England’s head coach and tracked his recent progress in franchise leagues. “I’ve always been a real fan of his batting,” he says. “His skill against spin is undervalued; not only the power game, but he’s a good off-side player, and willing to sweep against spin when he needs to.”I feel for him, actually, because we all deserve second chances in my opinion. I’d don’t know what goes on behind closed doors with England but I can’t see why he would be ostracised any longer. One thing he’s done pretty well is that he hasn’t let it affect his form and I applaud him for that – he’s able to focus on what he needs to, as opposed to being distracted by the topic.”I’m not quite sure how we’ll go with the top four but they’ll all had lots of success. I think Root is an excellent T20 cricketer, actually – one of his greatest strengths, ever since he first played for England, has been that he plays at a tempo that the match or situation or his team requires. His understanding of the game is that good that he can do that. [Root and Malan] are both intelligent and skilful cricketers who will do what’s required of them.”And as for the ? Does Flower think English cricket needs the Hundred? “Without a doubt,” is the unequivocal response. “I’m a very big supporter of a premier short-format competition like this for England. We all know the power and reach of the IPL and there are various other countries that have excellent franchise competitions. England needed its own. It’s really important financially for the ECB and for the future of the game in this country that it works.”It’s great that a women’s competition is operating at the same time with the growth of the popularity of the women’s game in the UK. And the better standard of cricket is good for the future of English cricket: playing under pressure in a competition with a global reach is good for all these young English cricketers. We’ve seen what it’s done for young Indian cricketers, and I can only imagine that this is going to be a very good thing for English cricket.”

Burns demonstrates his priceless ability to remain unflustered after ball beats bat on his way to a maiden Test ton that had seemed so improbable

George Dobell02-Aug-2019Birmingham is not a classically beautiful city. Unlike Paris, for example, it was bombed heavily in the war. And afterwards it was rebuilt hurriedly and cheaply to ensure its factories continued to supply the country that had come to rely on it.For it was here that the Spitfire was built. Here where the munitions were made that helped defeat the Nazi empire. Here where, the night after a bombing raid that lasted 13 hours in 1940, the synagogue in the centre of the city opened its doors and offered its help to the community. Here where the computer, the pen, the whistle and the internet have their roots. Here where the first world’s oldest cricket league was established and here where the first plastics – cellulose-based, so biodegradable – were invented. Elgar and Shakespeare lived locally. Unions were born in the region and the city became a model for the multicultural community.Now, if you’re the sort who thinks of beauty in terms of sunsets and white teeth, in terms of Instagram ‘influencers’ and Love Island contestants, this may not mean much. But maybe, in an unconventional way, there is beauty aplenty in Birmingham, its history, its invention and its people.So maybe it was fitting that this was the scene for Rory Burns’ maiden Test century. He is not, by any means, a classically beautiful batsman. He plays, unlike Joe Denly, few of those elegant strokes that have a crowd purring their approval. And in this innings he had a control percentage of just 75 per cent; remarkably low for a Test centurion. 34 times he played and missed. Only Joe Root, of England players, has a century – the one against Australia at Cardiff in 2015 – with a higher false shot percentage in the CricViz database.But this was an innings, in its way, all the more impressive for those very reasons. While other England openers of recent times may have become flustered by the regularity of ball beating bat, Burns has the priceless ability to put such moments behind him and concentrate on the next delivery. And while many of the words used to describe have an air of faint compliment about them – ungainly, limited, resilient and phlegmatic – they could also have been used to describe Alastair Cook. And his career worked out OK, didn’t it?Burns came into this match under considerable pressure. It wasn’t just that he hadn’t made 30 in his previous six Tests innings, it was that his dismissals at Lord’s – particularly his second-innings dismissal, where he reached to defend a wide delivery and edged behind – did not befit an opening batsmen. Many prominent pundits recommended dropping him and there was concern about him from the England management.Burns knew all this. But he didn’t fret about it any more than he wasted energy worrying about those balls beating his bat. Instead, he avoided the newspapers – “I stuck my head in the sand,” as he put it – cleared his mind and went for several sessions with the man who had coached him since he was six years old. Neil Stewart is not as well-known as his brother Alec or his dad Micky, but several generations of Surrey batsmen swear by him. And somewhere in those sessions, he reminded Burns of the qualities that have made him one of the top run-scores in Division One of the County Championship in each of the last three seasons.So Burns was more compact here. And while he was beaten really quite often, he ensured he played the line of the ball and did not follow it. And even when it seemed he was stuck on 99 – he spent 10 balls there; only two England batsmen have spent longer on the score this century – he retained his composure and waited for the ball that was in one of his scoring areas. One he could turn, nudge, nurdle or drop into a gap. By stumps he had recorded the fifth century by an England opener in their last 100 Test innings and the first in the first Test of a home Ashes since Graham Gooch in 1993.Rory Burns celebrates his maiden Test hundred•Getty ImagesHe had some fortune. He was lucky to survive a leg-before appeal off Nathan Lyon on 21 – had Australia reviewed, he would have been out – and three or four times, he flashed outside off stump. But he wasn’t dropped, he didn’t tire and he will resume, in the morning, for his seventh session in succession on the field.”I just tried to stay true to what has got me here,” Burns said. “I just tried to stay level. I wasn’t tired; I’ve done that [bat all day] before in county cricket. But it’s quite a slow, attritional wicket and, in a way, that probably suits how I go about my business. It was nice to just keep going on the treadmill and be as stubborn as I could be.”There may be a lesson here. Burns has, in many ways, developed the tough way: he wasn’t drafted straight onto the Surrey staff and he didn’t play lots of England age-group cricket. Instead he went to university – he was a product of the MCCU system at Cardiff – played club cricket overseas and found his own way to do things over years in county cricket. A method that is built on resilience and mental strength as much as it is range of stroke and natural ability. Maturing through those institutions may have been key.He has a series of unusual trigger movements which he has worked out for himself. It includes an odd peer towards the leg side, as if the midwicket fielder has just said something appalling about his parentage, as the bowler runs in, a flourish of the hands as he completes his backlift and a stance which suggests he is mooning the square-leg umpire. But there is logic in there: the jerk towards the leg side is to ensure his head is level and his dominant eye is trained on the ball; the flourish of the hands is to ensure his wrists are relaxed and do not push at the ball and the stance is to ensure he is balanced. “You wouldn’t coach kids to do it that way,” he said with a smile afterward. “But sometimes you have to scrap.”Now compare that to James Vince. Who looks pleasing. Who oozes class. Who graduated, at every stage, through England systems and was seen as a future star from his teenage years. But on the evidence of what we’ve seen so far, who looks to have the game – the mentality as much as the technique – to succeed in Test cricket? Sometimes aesthetics can fool us into making the wrong judgments about players.Cricket is an odd game for spectators. Many of those making their way to the ground in the morning would have been excited for the day ahead yet delighted to reach lunch and then tea having experienced some uneventful cricket. There was none of the drama of the Ireland Test at Lord’s. Instead it was wonderfully, reassuringly incident free. The run-rate – 2.96 over the course of the innings so far – is England’s sixth lowest in any Test innings since April 2016. And yet it was, from an England perspective, arguably as encouraging a day with the bat as they have enjoyed this year.For this contribution from Burns – and Root, to be fair, who set a fine example by taking 70 balls to hit his first boundary – was exactly what England have required for years.They have been down the route of taking the attack to bowlers. They have experimented with aggressive openers and attempting to hit bowlers off their length. It took them nowhere. Instead they have taken the more old-fashioned route here: they’ve waited they’ve accumulated and they’ve started to ground down an attack that already looks a bowler short. Saturday presents a great opportunity to build a match-defining position.Burns has given them the platform. And, from an England perspective, what a beautiful platform it is.

يواصل فريق مانشستر سيتي نتائجه الجيدة في الفترة الأخيرة، خاصة في بطولة الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز، بفضل النجم إيرلينج هالاند الذي يمكن القول إنه يحمل راية النادي بمفرده في الوقت الحالي.

وحقق مانشستر سيتي فوزًا، مساء أمس الأحد، على برينتفورد بهدف دون رد في الجولة السابعة من الدوري الإنجليزي، ليرتفع رصيده إلى 13 نقطة في المركز الخامس.

جاء فوز مانشستر سيتي عن طريق هدف إيرلينج هالاند، الذي عزز صدارته لقائمة هدافي الموسم الحالي من الدوري الإنجليزي، 2025/26، برصيد 9 أهداف.

ولا يتصدر هالاند قائمة هدافي الدوري الإنجليزي فقط، ولكنه يتربع كذلك على عرش أكثر المسجلين للأهداف مع مانشستر سيتي ذلك الموسم في البريميرليج، بفارق شاسع عن باقي زملائه.

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وسجل مانشستر سيتي 15 هدفًا حتى الآن في موسم الدوري الإنجليزي، بواقع 9 أهداف لـ هالاند وهدف لكل من تيجاني ريندرز ريان شرقي، ماتيوس نونيز وفيل فودين، إلى جانب هدفين عكسيين.

هذا الأمر يظهر مدى أهمية هالاند لـ مانشستر سيتي في ذلك الموسم تحديدًا، مع تأثير غياب النجم المصري عمر مرموش، الذي لم يشارك مع الفريق منذ إصابته في مباراة مصر وبوركينا فاسو في وقت سابق من شهر سبتمبر.

وانضم مرموش إلى مانشستر سيتي قادمًا من آينتراخت فرانكفورت في يناير الماضي، حيث شارك في النصف الثاني من موسم 2024/25، وسجل 7 أهداف وصنع هدفين في 16 مباراة في الدوري الإنجليزي آنذاك.

ولم يتمكن مرموش من التسجيل بعد في الموسم الحالي من البريميرليج، واكتفى بصناعة هدف واحد، ورغم ذلك فإن غيابه مؤثر بكل تأكيد على القوة الهجومية لفريق مانشستر سيتي، ويزيد من الأعباء على كاهل هالاند بمفرده.

Joe Root’s reliance on his two best seamers demonstrated how England had erred in their selection

George Dobell at Kensington Oval25-Jan-2019At least with batting collapses the pain is over quickly. At least with batting collapses, the dismissed batsman can escape to the dressing room to lick their wounds and nurse their regrets in private.There’s no hiding place for bowlers. No hiding place in the field. So while England’s suffering on the third day might not have been dramatic as their suffering on the second, it was every bit as brutal.Here England’s pain was endless. As the runs and records mounted – never before have England conceded such a large seventh-wicket stand, never had they conceded such a high score to a No. 8 batsman and never had they been hit for eight sixes in an innings by a West Indies player – the holes in the England team and the errors in their selections were laid bare. This was torturous and inexorable.It is understandable in such circumstances that Joe Root should rely on James Anderson and Ben Stokes. They are, by a distance, his most reliable bowlers. So it was not surprising that he turned to them when he needed a wicket, when he needed control and when he didn’t know what else to do.But he has to look after them. And the sight of them starting new spells long after West Indies’ lead passed 500 was worrying. By the time he took his fourth new ball in two-and-a-half days, Anderson was reduced to bowling in the mid-70s mph. And while Stokes’ pace and energy remained high – really, you couldn’t fault either man for their efforts – you wondered at what cost: he is as precious an asset as England possess; it would be a mistake to ask him to carry too onerous a burden.The game, by that stage, was gone and the damage limitation should have been done by the spinners and support bowlers. Instead Anderson bowled 48 overs in the match and Stokes 50.3; only the second time in his career he had bowled 50 in a Test. By the end, they had spent 14-and-a-half hours in the field, broken only by England’s own two-and-a-half hour innings.Perhaps history offers us a lesson here. In the first year or two of the 1980s, Ian Botham – as a swing bowler not so different to Anderson and as an allrounder not so different to Stokes – found himself bowling in a game against Oxford University. He should never have been required to do so but, at some stage during it, he sustained a back injury. Some believe he was never quite the same again.The decision to bowl Anderson and Stokes for long might also have encouraged Holder to bat on. If he could exhaust England’s best bowlers it was not impossible he could rule them out of the rest of the series and he later admitted he saw a chance to “grind them down and keep them out in the heat”.It is, remember, just six days until the start of the second Test. Anderson is 36 and managing a shoulder problem that may well be causing him more pain than he makes out. Stokes, too, has undergone an operation on his left knee and suffers from ongoing back pain. There was no game at stake here; no hope that a magical spell could make the difference.Long before the end of West Indies’ second innings, factory-farmed chickens were getting together and muttering about the appalling conditions in which Anderson and Stokes are expected to work. Asking them to bowl in these conditions is like asking Picasso to pop round and paint your bathroom ceiling; like using a Ferrari to deliver rubble to the dump; like using Pegasus as a pit pony.Ben Stokes endured a frustrating morning•AFPPart of Root’s problem was the performance of his other bowlers. Sam Curran, for all his youthful promise, is not a Test opening bowler at this stage of his career. Perhaps, one day, he may be. But at present he is too reliant on swing and not quite able to compensate with control or other skills. He may well have a role to play in a four-man seam attack but, as one of three, he leaves too much required of his colleagues.The performance of the spinners was more worrying. They should have taken the main bowling workload, but Root didn’t seem to feel he could trust either of them. Moeen Ali’s first over of the day saw Holder thrash him for three successive boundaries, while Adil Rashid struggled with both his length and his pace in conceding nearly seven an over including five sixes. For him to bowl only nine overs in the innings – fewer than Root – is a damning indictment of his performance and the confidence the captain had in him.Rashid didn’t impress in the field, either, with Trevor Bayliss seen slapping his leg in frustration after a misfield gave away a single. It will be a surprise if he plays in Antigua.So it was understandable that Root didn’t trust some of his bowlers much. But he was party to the decision to pick two spinners. And he was party to the decision to prefer the wicket-taking potential of Rashid to the reliability of Jack Leach. He was also party to the decision to pick a left-arm swing bowler instead of a hit-the-deck seamer. In asking Stokes and Anderson to carry so much of the burden, he was tacitly admitting he and the other selectors had erred.There were some encouraging moments for England. Even towards the end, Jos Buttler and Root pulled off fine stops in the field. After every wicketless over, Anderson was applauded back to his position on the boundary by spectators who recognised his hard work. And despite his own disappointments, Curran made some diving stops on the boundary to save a run or two. There’s no faulting the spirit or the efforts. The opening batsmen started well, too. The weekend brings them opportunity.And there, perhaps, is the mitigation for England. For this pitch that looked so troublesome when 18 wickets fell on day two, suddenly appeared becalmed. Local knowledge suggests it may remain becalmed for much of day four, too, though some deterioration is likely on day five. It will be interesting to see if West Indies bowlers – faster or taller though most of them are – will be able to coax any more life out of it.But days like this expose holes. And West Indies have found a few in this England side.

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Pedro era visto como uma das maiores revelações do Corinthians nos últimos anos, e o presidente Duílio Monteiro Alves justificou a venda pela necessidade do clube em quitar dívidas à curto prazo.

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– Não acho uma venda pequena, pode ser que ele valha mais lá na frente, e torcemos para isso, é patrimônio do clube. Infelizmente, o Brasil não vende no valor final, na segunda venda na Europa os valores são mais altos. Isso é mercado, não Corinthians. Então 9 milhões de euros por 50% do jogador é uma excelente venda. Podíamos esperar mais? Não podíamos – disse o mandatário ao programa Os Donos da Bola, da TV Bandeirantes.

Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca looks set for a busy summer indeed. He may be close to leading the Blues to their first trophy since 2021, but the Italian is already thinking ahead to next season.

There has been no shortage of big-name players being linked with a move to Stamford Bridge in recent weeks.

Real Madrid superstar Rodrygo is one trending target, with reports coming from Spain that the club would love to sign the Brazilian.

Hugo Ekitiké has emerged as another potential option to bolster Maresca’s frontline this summer. Journalist Simon Phillips claimed that Chelsea had been scouting the Frenchman ahead of the summer transfer window following his excellent campaign for Eintracht Frankfurt.

While the need for attacking players is obviously key for Maresca, especially if the club secures Champions League qualification for 2025/26, bringing in another centre-back or two is equally important.

Across all competitions this season, the club have conceded 57 goals, including 43 in the Premier League.

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They will face tougher competition in Europe certainly, heightening the need for a defender capable of stepping up to the plate.

It looked as though they were frontrunners to sign Bournemouth defender Dean Huijsen, but that plan was scuppered recently…

Chelsea have missed out on Dean Huijsen

Following an excellent season for the Cherries, Huijsen certainly attracted attention from elsewhere, and it appeared as though he would be leaving the south coast sooner rather than later.

According to the Mail, Chelsea were targeting a swoop for the Spanish defender, with the report claiming fellow admirers Liverpool, believed that the Blues were leading the chase.

Recent developments, however, now mean that the youngster won’t be making the move to London this summer.

Real Madrid activated the £50m release clause in his contract in order to secure his services at the end of the season.

This is a big blow for Maresca, as capturing Huijsen, especially with clubs such as Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Liverpool showing interest, would have signalled a statement of intent.

Now, the Italian will have to turn to other defensive targets ahead of the transfer window opening on June 1. By that time, the Blues will know which European competition they will be playing in next season.

Could this allow the club to sign more high-profile players?

Chelsea keen to open talks with teenage defender

Maresa could turn to Premier League defenders Marc Guehi and Jarrad Branthwaite as potential alternatives this summer, according to Sky Sports.

It is likely both Crystal Palace and Everton will attempt to put Chelsea off by placing huge price tags on their prized assets. If so, the Blues could well turn to the continent for another centre-back.

According to TEAMtalk, with Huijsen now unavailable, Chelsea are reportedly keen on opening talks with Ajax defender Jorrel Hato.

The 19-year-old is a sought-after player, with the likes of AC Milan, Liverpool and Arsenal all showing interest in prising him away from the Netherlands.

Ajax have set an asking price in the region of €45m-€50m (£38m-£42m), meaning if the Blues were to sign him, he would be cheaper than Huijsen.

The report claims that talks are set to begin soon between the Premier League side and Hato. If so, Maresca will be looking to get this deal over the line as quickly as possible.

Why Chelsea must sign Jorrel Hato

Football talent scout Jacek Kulig is used to waxing lyrical about young talent, but his praise for Hato back in 2023 proves just how highly-rated he really was.

“17 years of age. De Toekomst’s Finest. One of the most talented CBs of his generation in Europe.” Said Kulig and the youngster has gone from strength to strength since.

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Year joined

Hakim Ziyech

2020

Daishwan Redan

2017

Juan Familia-Castillo

2016

Per Weihrauch

2006

Moubarak Boussoufa

2002

Jesper Gronkjaer

2001

Mario Melchiot

1999

Despite only turning 19 in March, the Ajax sensation has already racked up 111 competitive appearances for the club, registering 13 goal contributions in that time.

Although the club collapsed over the final few games, allowing PSV Eindhoven to steal the Eredivisie title away from them, Hato enjoyed a wonderful campaign.

His 90% pass accuracy in the top flight was third-best in the squad, behind only Youri Baas and Josip Sutalo, while he ranked first for tackles (1.9), fifth for interceptions (0.7) and third for clearances (2) per game for Ajax.

He also won 4.1 total duels per game – a success rate of 52% – while recovering 4.2 balls per game in the Eredivisie this term.

These performances led Kulig to hail him for his “immense quality” and for having an “excellent season” for the Dutch club.

Huijsen may be on his way to Madrid, but is there a case for Hato to perhaps turn out to be the better long-term prospect for Chelsea?

Why Jorrel Hato can be a better signing than Dean Huijsen

While Huijsen is a superb centre-back, Hato offers positional flexibility which could see him thrive under Maresca.

Not only is he an excellent ball-playing centre-back, but Hato is also just as comfortable at full-back, particularly on the left side of the defence.

Domestically this season, the Dutch youngster has registered eight goal contributions for Ajax, along with recording 0.45 goal-creating actions, winning 36 tackles, making 33 carries into the final third and taking 413 touches in the final third.

Compare these statistics to Huijsen, however, and it is clear who could fit into Maresca’s style better.

The Spaniard has recorded four goal contributions for the Cherries this term, while he also recorded 0.12 goal-creating actions, wins 26 tackles, made 29 carries into the final third and has taken only 137 touches in the opposition’s final third in the top flight.

Hato’s ball-playing ability in advancing out of his own half could give Chelsea a new dimension next season.

Huijsen may have been flavour of the month for a while, but for a cheaper transfer fee, Maresca could sign a defender who has the potential to be even better.

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ByDan Emery May 18, 2025