Why Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp faces transfer problem because of Andy Robertson
Andy Robertson has established himself as Liverpool's No 1 left-backThat’s the verdict of Raphael Honigstein. The Reds won the Champions League for the sixth time under Jurgen Klopp last season to add to a 97-point Premier League season, a tally nine points higher than the club had ever previously managed. Given the strength of the Liverpool squad, Klopp is only expected to do minor business this summer with acquisitions designed to add further depth as opposed to replacing players in the starting eleven. Establishing himself as one of the best left-backs in Europe, Robertson has been pivotal to Liverpool’s success and delivered 13 assists for the Merseyside outfit last season. “So a left-sided player, primarily someone who is the back-up for Andy Robertson but who could then also play in more advanced positions.
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June 19, 2019 05:15 UTC
Liverpool transfer news: Dembele and Aubameyang to be pursued if one thing happens
Liverpool are set for a quiet transfer window this summer in a stark contrast to a year ago. Bleacher Report also mention Arsenal hitman Aubameyang, who played under the German during their time at Borussia Dortmund. Liverpool transfer news: Ousmane Dembele and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang have been linkedLiverpool transfer news: Arsenal star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang played under Jurgen Klopp beforeAnd they say that, if he were to fall out with anybody over in north London, it would suit the Reds. Meanwhile, speaking before the club’s Champions League final win over Tottenham, Klopp opened up on the Reds’ transfer plans. Liverpool transfer news: Ousmane Dembele has always been admired by Jurgen Klopp
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June 19, 2019 05:01 UTC
Man Utd boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told to target THREE players after Paul Pogba exit hint
The 26-year-old only returned to Manchester United three years ago in an £89million move but is a target for fellow Frenchman Zinedine Zidane at Real Madrid. Juve are believed to be interested in bringing Pogba back to Italy while Paris Saint-Germain have been mooted as another potential suitor if Neymar leaves this summer. But player-turned-pundit Tony Cascarino thinks United should sell Pogba and use the funds to strengthen across the board after finishing sixth in the Premier League last year. And Cascarino says Leicester City’s Wilfried Ndidi, PSG midfielder Marco Verratti and N’Golo Kante of Chelsea should all be targeted by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Marco Verratti should be a target for Man Utd, says Tony CascarinoCascarino thinks Wilfried Ndidi could be a good fit at Old TraffordMan Utd should try an ambitious pursuit of N'Golo Kante, says Cascarino
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June 19, 2019 05:01 UTC
Man Utd on red alert after Matthijs de Ligt 'rejects' Barcelona despite transfer agreement
De Ligt, 19, is wanted by a host of teams throughout Europe, and his future has been one of the biggest talking points of the summer. The centre-back had a superb season for Ajax, as he captained them to a Champions League semi-final and a domestic double. However, according to Spanish newspaper Marca, De Ligt has rejected the move chance to swap Amsterdam for Catalonia. Man Utd have been given a big boost after Matthijs de Ligt rejected BarcelonaMatthijs de Ligt had a solid season for AjaxBut his agent, Mino Raiola, apparently played a big role in the decision to snub the move. Mino Raiola is apparently the reason Matthijs de Ligt rejected Barcelona
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June 19, 2019 04:58 UTC
Ai Weiwei: ‘My life never has any certainty. It’s very hard to see where is home’
It’s a torrential day in Sheffield, and my umbrella collapses on the walk across the city to the hotel where the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is staying. He’s waiting for me in a nondescript meeting room with a notebook in which he is drawing a luxurious umbrella. He is low-key in a grey jacket and dark blue sweatshirt, his greying beard positively well-mannered compared with some of its more unruly outings. Ai is an artist who constantly responds to the world, whether with it’s sketches, Instagram posts of everyone he meets or a personal and artistic engagement with injustices. It’s for the last that he’s in Sheffield for the documentary film festival Doc/Fest, at which he’s presenting The Rest, his second film about…
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC
President Trump loses defence chief Patrick Shanahan on eve of re-election campaign launch
Patrick Shanahan, the acting defence secretary, withdrew from the confirmation process for a permanent position to avoid scrutiny of his family’s private life KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERSThe launch of President Trump’s re-election campaign was jolted yesterday by the departure of his defence secretary in the midst of the US military stand-off with Iran. Shortly before heading to Florida for his formal 2020 rally, Mr Trump announced that Patrick Shanahan had pulled out of the confirmation process for family reasons, another big departure from an administration bedevilled by record staff turnover. Nine of the top 21 White House and cabinet positions have changed at least once under Mr Trump compared with three at the same point of the Clinton administration, two under Barack Obama and one under George W Bush. Mr Shanahan, 56, a former Boeing executive, wanted to avoid public re-examination of domestic violence incidents including the arrest of his ex-wife…
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC
Investors ‘most bearish’ since the crisis
Global investors are more rattled and risk-averse than at any time since the financial crisis, according to the latest barometer of fund manager sentiment. The world’s big institutional shareholders have been dumping equities and retreating to lower-risk bonds and cash in expectation of a downturn. The abrupt souring of investment mood in recent weeks was captured by Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s closely watched monthly survey of fund managers. The shift out of equities into bonds this month was the second biggest on record, as investors made their lowest allocation to shares since March 2009, in the weeks immediately after the banking crisis. Investors raised their allocations to cash from 4.6 per cent last month to 5.6 per cent, the biggest shift since the crisis…
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC
Killing of Kassel politician Walter Lübcke raises fear of terror from far right
German security experts fear that the country may be facing a series of terrorist attacks after a man was detained on suspicion of carrying out the country’s first far-right assassination of a politician since the war. Walter Lübcke, 65, president of the city of Kassel and a vocal champion of Angela Merkel’s migration policies, was shot in the head at close range in the garden of his home two weeks ago. The authorities now believe that he was murdered by Stephan Ernst, whose DNA was found at the scene. He is a hard-right activist with previous convictions for planting a pipe bomb outside a refugee shelter in 1993 and attacking a trade union march in 2009. Ernst, 45, is said to have had ties to…
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC
Tory leaders’ debate: Cuts to social care funding went too far, admits Hunt
Jeremy Hunt told Red Box last week that that local councils had been hidden victims of the funding cuts ANDY RAIN/EPAJeremy Hunt admitted last night that the government had not spent enough money on social care and was now paying the price. During a fractious debate, the foreign secretary said that “some of the cuts in social care did go too far”. The admission came after he had identified the social care crisis as among his top priorities if he were to become prime minister. Andrew Gwynne, the shadow secretary for local government, tweeted: “Jeremy Hunt: ‘I believe we cut social care funding too much’. Surely he meant to say, ‘I’m sorry I cut social care funding too much’?”According to Age…
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC
Enterprise agencies now have a wellbeing remit, but risk losing their focus
Last week Scotland’s two state-funded enterprise agencies rolled out new strategies for the next three years. Highlands and Islands Enterprise can trace its roots back more than half a century, to 1965. Scottish Enterprise was first launched as a national development agency ten years later. Scottish Enterprise sees itself as a national player in what the state can do to facilitate a thriving economy. When Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise were created in 1991, their structures were decentralised through networks of local enterprise companies of…
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC
British Airway’s owner IAG pledges to buy 200 of Boeing’s 737 Max jets
The owner of British Airways gave a huge boost to Boeing yesterday by announcing plans to buy 200 of the American aircraft maker’s 737 Max jets. International Airlines Group said that it had “every confidence” that the aircraft, which has been grounded after two fatal crashes, would return to the skies in the next few months. IAG, which also owns the Iberia and Aer Lingus marques, signed a letter of intent at the Paris Air Show to order a combination of 737-8 and 737-10 models for delivery between 2023 and 2027. List prices put the value of the deal in the region of $24 billion, although an order of this size typically would attract a steep discount. The announcement is a massive fillip for Boeing,…
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC
City watchdog to investigate how Woodford fund plunged into crisis
Neil Woodford’s Equity Income Fund has been frozen to stop it being overwhelmed by withdrawals Jenny Goodall/ANL/REX/ShutterstockThe City regulator has started an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crisis engulfing Neil Woodford’s investment firm. Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, confirmed yesterday in a letter to Nicky Morgan, the MP who chairs the Commons’ Treasury committee, that the watchdog was looking into the events that led to the suspension of Mr Woodford’s main fund on June 3. The Equity Income Fund has been frozen for an indefinite period to stop it being overwhelmed by withdrawals by investors concerned by its poor performance. It has dealt a blow to Mr Woodford, 59, once considered Britain’s most successful stockpicker. The problems caused by the wave of redemptions from the fund have been exacerbated by Mr Woodford’s decision to invest part…
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC
Jonny Bairstow quietly impressive while James Vince frustrates
Jonny Bairstow was interviewed on television in between innings at Old Trafford. In truth he was not the man that everyone wanted to hear from, but he gave a nice snippet of the dressing-room view of Eoin Morgan’s spectacular innings. “Ridiculous knock,” he said. “We were seriously entertained up there.”Bairstow had been able to watch it all, as it had been his dismissal at the end of the 30th over that brought Morgan to the crease. With England 164 for two at the time and looking to kick on, there had been some consideration given to promoting Jos Buttler so it was not a bad decision for the captain to decide that he was the man to take England to an impregnable total.
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC
The Times view on Boris Johnson and the Tory leadership contest: Wide Open
The second round of voting in the Conservative leadership contest, which removed just one contestant, Dominic Raab, does little to change expectations as to the final outcome. Boris Johnson cemented his status as the frontrunner, boosting his tally of votes from 114 to 126. But the question as to who should join him in the final two, to go forward to a poll of the party membership, remains wide open. Just 13 votes separate second placed Jeremy Hunt on 46 and fifth placed Sajid Javid on 33. Much will now hinge on what happens to the 30 votes cast for Mr Raab, the former Brexit secretary, who came sixth and…
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC
Perjury bill could keep businesses afloat amid false insurance claims
Charlie Flanagan, the justice minister, is to bring forward amendments to the Perjury and Related Offences Bill LEAH FARRELL/ROLLINGNEWSA new bill that aims to prevent people from lying in court would help to tackle fraudulent insurance claims and could stop companies going out of business, an industry body has said. People convicted of perjury could face ten years in prison and a fine of up to €100,000 under the proposals, to be examined by the cabinet. The Perjury and Related Offences Bill was brought forward last year by Pádraig Ó Céidigh, an independent senator. Charlie Flanagan, the justice minister, is to bring forward amendments to the bill that would put the offence on a statutory footing. Perjury, defined as intentionally lying in court, is a common law offence but is rarely prosecuted.
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June 18, 2019 23:01 UTC