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From a practical point of view, Norwich City’s 4-1 defeat to Aston Villa at the weekend was quite damaging to their season.

The two teams went into the game at Villa Park level on points, and in a season that has been usually tight at the bottom of the table, beating the teams around you will likely prove more important than ever. However, from an emotional point of view, the loss was absolutely devastating.

In recent seasons, the two clubs have sparked up a kind of new-age derby. Unlike rivalries of old, that tended to be solely dictated by the proximity of the teams, Villa and Norwich’s hostilities are founded on boardroom relations. In the money-driven world of the Premier League, it is not surprising that we have come to support of chairmen as much as our players.

It was perhaps fitting then that the man who has most recently found himself as the rag doll between the two clubs would open the scoring. Wes Hoolahan, who has been out of favour at Norwich all season and only found himself on the pitch due to the injury of Leroy Fer, found the net within the first three minutes.

As Norwich streamed forward after taking the lead, the club’s refusal to sell the 31-year-old playmaker may have seemed like a very shrewd move indeed. After all, the Canaries are in a relegation battle with Aston Villa and Hoolahan is the kind of player who can provide the creative spark needed to break teams down – something that  Villa have struggled to do all season. However, in truth, it is more likely that the off-field relations between the clubs provided a bigger obstacle to the Irishman moving in January than any on-field reasons.

The roots of the feud stem back to the final game of the 2011/2012 season. Norwich hosted Aston Villa at Carrow Road, having already secured Premier League survival in their first season back in the top flight. Villa, under Alex McLeish’s stewardship, sat four points below the Canaries and could still potentially be relegated.

In this context, it is perhaps surprising that then Norwich manager Paul Lambert was being strongly linked to leaving the club to join the struggling Villians. However, just over two weeks after beating Villa 2-0, Lambert would hand in his resignation at Norwich City. Three weeks later he would be confirmed as the new manager of Aston Villa.

Norwich, having initially attempted to stop their manager leaving by refusing his offer of resignation, sought damages from the Scot for breach of contract. Lambert issued a counter-suit against his old club for unpaid bonuses. Perhaps the only civil thing in this whole dispute is that the three parties involved managed to come to an agreement before it reached a tribunal.

While some, Lambert in particular, may have hoped that this would signal the end of hostilities between the clubs, this has not been the case. Only months after settling on compensation the two teams would again engage in an off-field battle over youth goalkeeper Jed Steer. However, this time, the new-found enemies could not come to an agreement and Villa were eventually forced to pay Norwich more compensation by tribunal.

The Steer case was apparently the straw that broke the camel’s back. By the end of January, Norwich chief executive David McNally reportedly refused to even pick up the phone to Aston Villa in negotiations over Hoolahan. Despite the Irishman only starting six league games and turning 32 before the season ends, the Canaries were apparently unwilling to listen to any offers. One gets the impression that if any other club than Villa had come to the table, Norwich would have talked.

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The pain felt by the Norwich board when they looked at the league table on Monday morning was likely far greater than teams usually experience after losing key battles.  As football continues to become increasingly politicised, don’t be surprised to see more rivalries move from the terraces to the boardroom.

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While it may have been the Reds may be anchored in the Premier League’ lower half after the club’s worst start to a season in more than 100 years there was cause for optimism in the wake of the Europa League victory on Thursday. It may not be how Brendan Rodgers envisaged his first month in the Anfield dugout playing out but it’s no surprise to see him marked down as the favourite to be the first managerial casualty of the new term. Still, the win in Switzerland will have lifted spirits inside the dressing room ahead of Sunday’s clash with fierce rivals United. A win against all the odds would almost certainly kickstart Rodgers’ managerial career on Merseyside and if he can harness the spirit and resolve shown in midweek, that saw them snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, they stand a genuine chance of causing an upset against Sir Alex Ferguson’s title chasing side.

This week on does Rodgers need to continue blooding his talented youth contingent and which Spanish duo is he lining up to replace Steven Gerrard?

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“We will be doing a handshake as there always is and, as regards to the Luis Suarez-Patrice Evra thing, I think it’s just a non-story for this day. Despite what the media says, nobody has gone and told Luis Suarez what to do. Luis is a grown-up, as I’m sure is Patrice Evra, and I think those players, like every other player on the pitch that day and everybody in the stadium, will recognise this isn’t a day to talk about who is going to shake whose hand. This is about everybody being together for a much more important cause.” Ian Ayre plays down the pre-game hysteria over the ‘handshake’ between Luis Suarez and Patrice Evra

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Manchester United may have avoided the nightmare scenario where they finish the season trophyless while Liverpool and Manchester City scoop the two biggest prizes on offer but there is no doubt that Jose Mourinho requires reinforcements this summer.

The thrilling nature of Liverpool’s rampage into the Champions League final and the beautiful football played by Pep Guardiola’s record-breaking Manchester City team throw Mourinho’s stodgy United side into stark contrast and the erratic and boring style of play will stop washing with the majority of their fanbase if it is not bringing trophies to Old Trafford.

One man who has been linked with a move to United to bolster Mourinho’s midfield options is Sergej Milinkovic-Savic but reports suggest that United had been put off by the bumper £87.5m pricetag slapped on his head by Lazio.

So we asked you whether that valuation was fair and it turns out the majority of you do; 61 per cent of Reds fans think it is a price worth paying for the midfield powerhouse…

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Philippe Coutinho’s departure has elevated the level of competition in Liverpool’s midfield, freeing up a spot at the tip of the engine room. While that’s most likely to be filled by Adam Lallana for the rest of the season as the Reds’ most creative remaining midfielder, the two places behind him appear to be up for grabs – especially with captain Jordan Henderson only just overcoming an injury problem.

Jurgen Klopp tends to rely on Emre Can’s power and defensive awareness in big games, but who should partner the German international just behind Lallana? The most obvious options are versatile veteran James Milner, who started and scored a penalty last time out against Everton, and 45-cap Netherlands international Georginio Wijnaldum.

So Liverpool fans, bearing in mind how important the midfield battle will be this Sunday when Manchester City come to Anfield, with Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva in such fine form, who would you start in the engine room? Let us know by voting below…

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Newcastle United and Sunderland seemed to have put their rivalry aside for a moment in order to launch an astonishing attack on Northumbria Police, the force that oversees their Premier League derby encounters.

The force had previously insisted that they had no influence over kick off times for the Northeast derby, and in direct response to this claim the respective clubs released this joint statement: 

“Newcastle United and Sunderland are surprised and disappointed with the statement issued yesterday by Northumbria Police in which the force claims that the police cannot direct changes to kick-off times for the clubs’ fixtures, referring in ­particular to the derby games,” the statement read.

“Over a number of years both clubs have made repeated representations to Northumbria Police to try and reach agreement over kick-off times to enable a traditional 3pm kick-off, or later, to enable broadcasters to give the game consideration in the majority of their time slots for live coverage.

“Police forces up and down the country have been able to police high-profile derby matches for years, including most recently Cardiff v Swansea, at 4pm, Arsenal v Tottenham at 5.15pm, and Manchester City v Manchester United at 4pm.                                                 

“In recent years, Northumbria Police have rejected every request made by the clubs for later kick-off slots, including Saturday 5.30pm, Sunday 4pm and Monday 8pm.

“To issue a statement stating that they do not direct changes to kick-off times is false and absurd. 

“Newcastle and Sunderland will now inform the Premier League that all future fixtures between the clubs will be available for kick-off times to suit the clubs, the League and their broadcast partners, and will expect Northumbria Police to police these games.”

It seems a shame that we have to detract from what is one of the most hotly contested derbies in our game, but after the 111 arrests made following Sunderland’s 3-0 victory last term it would seem the furore is justified.

The statement released seems to some a little strange, and is better read as part as a more general breakdown in relations between the clubs and police in recent seasons. Both clubs cite TV coverage as a reason for pushing kick-offs back, but in reality the lunchtime slot that this tie usually occupies has more often than not seen the game televised anyway, for me this is a much more wide-reaching issue.

Whether fans like it or not the police have a responsibility to enforce the law and ensure the safety of supporters that go to games, they have a right to interfere. Undoubtedly policing could be improved; a degree of understanding and education is probably required to ensure that some of the unnecessarily heavy-handed treatment of supporters isn’t repeated.

For police though the game is a lot more than just turning up and keeping an eye out for troublemakers; the planning that goes in has to be thorough and be in tandem with the respective clubs especially during derbies. In my opinion the stance taken by Sunderland and Newcastle is not only churlish but also wholly irresponsible. To push back the kick off for a game that has too often boiled over into the stands is ridiculous, for some a 5:30pm kick-off would simply mean a few extra hours drinking before the big game and from a policing point of view this just isn’t safe.

Both clubs would argue that policing should take a backward seat when it comes to football, it is their right to decide when games are staged and it is the role of the police to manage them when the time comes. The majority of the time this is fine, because fortunately in our country, in the last few decades at least, we do not have a history of hooliganism and violence. Yet when it comes to a derby as fractious as that of the Tyne-Wear it is in the interests of everyone that the police are able to take a much more controlling role in the event.

Of course Northumbria Police can do a lot better, both clubs are frustrated that they have co-operated in the past only to still see tensions reach a head.

The situation clearly isn’t perfect, but that doesn’t mean that clubs should go it alone. A breakdown in relations between police and clubs just sets a worrying precedent for the future policing of football in this country.

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Liverpool new boy Fabio Borini has had no problem setting at Anfield according to his agent, reports Sky Sports. 

Borini became Brendan Rodgers first signing as Liverpool boss this summer, signing from Roma for a fee of £10 million.

The 21-year-old has already played six times for his new club, but has managed  just the one goal in a Europa League qualifier.

Following Liverpool’s failings to replace Andy Carroll on deadline day, Borini finds himself one of just two senior strikers at Anfield alongside Luis Suarez, but the young Italian has not let the pressure affect him.

Agent Marco De Marchi told romanews.eu: “Fabio settled immediately.

“He has already been in England and he already knows the Premier League’s atmosphere and environment.

“He spent an extraordinary season with Roma but when he got Liverpool’s offer there were several assessments with the club and at the end Fabio decided to accept to go.

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“The presence of Brendan Rodgers on the bench surely had an influence.”

Rodgers worked with Borini during his successful promotion campaign with Swansea, with the Italian scoring 6 goals during a loan spell that helped secure Swansea’s top flight status.

Philippe Coutinho’s departure from Liverpool to Barcelona in January was not entirely unexpected.

However, many thought that Jurgen Klopp would have recruited a replacement within the winter window.

It did not transpire in the end, so it seems that a new attacking midfielder will be on the transfer wishlist this summer.

According to The Guardian, the Reds will step up their pursuit of Lyon star Nabil Fekir, who is valued at £45m by Transfermarkt.

The 24-year-old scored 23 goals and created eight assists in 40 appearances in all competitions this season.

The France international, who received a call-up to the World Cup squad, has similar attributes to Coutinho, and he is also very versatile.

Fekir predominantly plays in an attacking midfield position, but he can also switch to the right wing and has on occasion played as a centre-forward.

Liverpool fans have been getting excited by the prospect of the attack-minded star joining Klopp’s revolution, and it is easy to see why.

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The Frenchman will provide an added boost to an already formidable force, which includes Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane.

Many supporters think that Fekir is the right replacement for Coutinho.

Having taken West Ham from 18th to 11th place in the space of twelve games, it’s easy to forget the hostile response David Gold and David Sullivan received when they announced the appointment of David Moyes back in November. And having taken Crystal Palace five points clear of the relegation zone after the Eagles failed to earn any during their first seven games of the season, it’s equally easy to forget he pejorative connotations that surrounded Roy Hodgson when he was brought in as the south London club’s unassuming saviour.

Now, as Paul Lambert takes charge of Stoke City in the wake of a social media backlash, after the Potters failed to attract their three preferred candidates to succeed Mark Hughes, the Scot must find his own way of casting amnesia over an unconvinced majority at the Bet365 Stadium and the wider Premier League audience by guiding a side in the relegation zone back to safety.

And yet, Moyes’ success at West Ham makes that challenge far less almighty than it might seem. There is no guarantee of history repeating itself in the Premier League, or the factors behind one club’s ascendancy being applied to neatly to another, but the similarities between the clubs and the managers are difficult to ignore.

After all, just one point and two places separated Stoke and West Ham at the end of last season, and both belong to the category of regular mid-tablers who have found themselves suddenly overtaken in the current campaign by more pragmatic, better organised teams of lesser quality. The Premier League’s usual pecking order, barring the top six, has fallen apart this season and it’s the sides who’ve attempted to play more ambitious football in recent years – Stoke, West Ham, Swansea, Everton, Palace and Southampton – who have endured the greatest suffering.

In terms of quality, there isn’t a chasm between Stoke and West Ham, and both have paid the price for poor organisation amid a season in which those with the greatest solidity at the back have reigned supreme. That is what Moyes has brought to the London Stadium; he’s still working with the same players Bilic left behind, but has found the right balance between the industrious rigidity to match that of teams like Brighton and Huddersfield, and the quality to eventually overcome them.

Clearly, Stoke City face the same problem; Xherdan Shaqiri and Joe Allen are amongst the most talented midfielders you’ll see in the bottom half of the table, but any quality they’ve offered this season has been counteracted by the Potters conceding the third-most goals after 23 games of any side in Premier League history.

No doubt, that is where Stoke’s biggest problems lay, but arresting them certainly isn’t beyond Lambert. West Ham once again provide inspiration; they conceded more than two per game under Bilic, but have gone on keep three clean sheets from the twelve Premier League games Moyes has managed – including two, incredibly, against Arsenal and Chelsea. Likewise, while Stoke’s defensive record this season has been gravely concerning, it’s as much a consequence of Hughes’ failure to provide consistency at the back as the actual quality of the Potters’ personnel.

Stoke have fluctuated between three and four at the back throughout the season and neither system has proved particularly effective, while injuries and the balance of a squad have been major problems as well. Tellingly, Erik Pieters and Kurt Zouma are the only Stoke defenders to make more than 15 starts in the Premier League this season and Mame Biram Diouf has made more starts as a right wing-back, 13, as he has a centre-forward. Stoke have already addressed one of those issues by signing an actual right-back in Mortiz Bauer, who showed glimpses of promise in his debut against Manchester United despite the 3-0 scoreline. It’s now a matter of keeping other key defenders fit, particularly Zouma and Ryan Shawcross at the heart of defence.

And much like Moyes, Lambert is a strong candidate to provide the basic defensive organisation Stoke have lacked this season. It would be wrong to label the Scot a defensive manager – his greatest managerial triumph to date, Norwich City’s back-to-back promotions, was achieved with an aggressive side that centred around the technical qualities of Wes Hoolahan – but he showed with Aston Villa that he’s capable of grinding out results in that fashion should circumstances dictate.

Much has been made of the goal-shy, direct football of Lambert’s final few years at Villa Park, but he left with an average of just 1.3 goals conceded per game and managed to keep them on the right side of the drop line. If Stoke averaged the same this season, their goal difference would be -7 – better than Everton in ninth – rather than -27.

Likewise, it’s worth remembering what Lambert actually had to work with at Villa excepting Christian Benteke; a team of young players mostly from the lower tiers of English football and lesser foreign leagues, only a small handful of which – Fabian Delph, Marc Albrighton, Ciaran Clark, Matthew Lowton and Ashley Westwood – are still plying their trade at Premier League level. Stoke’s current squad contains far greater experience, far greater quality and far more players with proven Premier League pedigree. We’re talking about former Champions League winners like Shaqiri and former Premier League winners like Zouma and Darren Fletcher.

That is not to say sharpening up at the back will instantly push Stoke clear of relegation bother. There are other intrinsic flaws as well; the whole team lacks dynamic pace and energy, but particularly at the heart of midfield, and Hughes’ overreliance on Peter Crouch towards the end of his tenure was as much a problem as a solution in terms of style of play. Clearly, Stoke need to bring a few more signings through the door before the January window slams shut and another source of goals is vitally needed.

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But the conclusive analysis is a simple one; the challenge of taking Stoke clear of danger is by no means beyond Lambert, despite his immediate unpopularity. In another similarity with Moyes, his negative reputation is a consequence of taking the wrong jobs and the wrong time and being typecast as a defensive manager of dour demeanour.

But just as the Scot has proved at West Ham, those reputations can change very quickly in football – with the right tools in place, Lambert is more than capable of transforming his, and Stoke’s season.

A display to warm the hearts of even the most pessimistic Manchester United fans; last night’s 5-0 romp was by far the most emphatic victory of the Moyes tenure. A display that probably emphasised just how far the club have come in recent weeks and suggestive of a United side very much on the up.

It is easy to forget that Leverkusen are a side flying high in the Bundesliga and until yesterday unbeaten at the Bay Arena. It was a result that not only confirms safe passage to the knockouts but one that truly signals the beginning of an exciting new era at the club.

When a side win so convincingly it is often hard to pick out the star performers, for United last evening the whole side deserve some credit. But even so it was the mercurial talents of Wayne Rooney that still managed to dazzle. Rooney has been in scintillating form of late, at the moment anything of worth seems to come through the Englishman in one way or another. Last night typified this trend, Rooney setting up the first four goals before eventually being substituted late on. The ball to pick out Valencia for the first was exquisite, the kind of vision and craft that you only get from world-class players, and for me that is exactly what Wayne Rooney is.

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Last night wasn’t an anomaly; Rooney has been the star man for United these last few weeks. Rooney has scored two of United’s last ten goals and set up a further seven, forget Van Persie this an is the keystone to the clubs Premier League successes.

Rooney’s success under Moyes was never an inevitability. Rumours of a previous rift spilling over and suggestions that Rooney would be no more than a squad player, things didn’t look rosy in August. But the turnaround has been marked, as one of only a few world-class players at the club Moyes has embraced Rooney and he is now starting to enjoy the results of his faith.

United’s gain is England’s as well. If you think United are short on genuine quality, then for England the situation is even more desperate. Granted we now have a crop of rising youngsters, but in Wayne Rooney England have a player that can compete with the best that the world has to offer. With the golden generation on the way out, Rooney is probably England’s last hope of really achieving something special this summer. This isn’t to say the rest aren’t very good, but clearly none come into this illustrious world-class category.

Rooney is the sort of player that can single handedly turn a game, these players are few and far between and that is why such a premium is placed on them. United are seeing these benefits already, Rooney being the man to step up to the plate when others are struggling to make that incisive break through.

Expectations are pretty low for Brazil next summer, we are very much in a transition phase under Hodgson and for that reason we may have to settle for mediocrity, at least short term. With a fit and firing Rooney though, there is a potential to achieve so much more.

United at the moment are a pretty average team, undergoing something of a revival because at their helm they still have a collection of world-class players. For England it is even starker and if Rooney can continue his current form there is no reason why this trend of overachievement can’t extend into the international arena.

Moyes has succeeded in bringing Rooney in from the cold, probably his best bit of management to date. Hungry for goals and firing on all cylinders, Rooney is in destructive form.

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Sunderland midfielder Kieran Richardson has completed a £2 million move to Fulham. The former Manchester United midfielder conducted talks with Martin Jol after Sunderland accepted the bid.

Richardson was not included in the 18 for the Capital One Cup second round victory over Morecambe, and speaking to The Mail Online, O’Neill revealed the reason afterwards:

“A club has made an offer for him today and we, as a club, have accepted that, and it gives Kieran the opportunity to find out for himself.

“If it doesn’t materialise and he comes back, I’ll still be pleased, but it’s a position we might have to go and have a look at. Jack [Colback] played very, very well there tonight, but Kieran wanted to pursue this and have a look at this, finding we had accepted the offer, and I will see what comes of it.”

It comes as no surprise that the former Manchester United player, who is in the final year of his contract, has left the Stadium of Light after weeks of speculation over his future. O’Neill has already been linked with a series of replacements, and he confirmed he would look to make progress on that front once the deal went through. He continued: “It is something, if Kieran does go, that we would have to look at.”

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