🚨#Arsenal Arsenal are preparing a bid for Mikel Oyarzabal, impressed by his World Cup displays.
📌 The 29‑year‑old forward is under contract with Real Sociedad until 2028.
👀 Barcelona and Seri A giants are also interested.
The top four teams in the world rankings have made the World Cup semi-finals for the first time.
Fifa introduced a new draw format for this tournament to ensure the four top seeds wouldn't meet until this stage, if they all won their groups.
🚨⚫️⚪️ Besiktas are confident to seal all details of Leandro Trossard deal in few days.
Agreement done with Arsenal at €20m total package confirmed by #AFC. 🫱🏻🫲🏼
Deal until 2029 plus option offered, as @yagosabuncuoglu reports.
Final green light needed from Trossard. 🇹🇷
80% - @England have won 16 of their 20 matches under Thomas Tuchel across all competitions, giving him the best win rate of any manager to take charge of more than 10 matches with a single European nation.
Standards.
🚨#Arsenal Arsenal are considered the strongest candidate for Bradley Barcola.
📌 Contract extension talks with PSG have stalled; his agents want to explore options before the World Cup.
💰 Potential transfer fee: £130M.
Alvarez finally came alive at this World Cup, and it happened as Arsenal’s competition for him may be easing
Aletico really don’t want to sell to Barca/Madrid
PSG have cooled, as they don’t want to sell Barcola to Arsenal
https://t.co/zxn839ujJH
4- Breel Embolo is the fourth player on record to receive a second yellow card for simulation in the FIFA World Cup and the first since Asamoah Gyan for Ghana vs. Brazil in 2006.
Dive.
Former Premier League referee Graham Scott (@refsplaining) on the controversy surrounding Jude Bellingham's first goal against Norway:
"The Skycam attached to cables that hovers above the pitch may have played an unwitting part in Jude Bellingham’s goal just before half-time.
"The on-field team would only spot such contact if the ball’s trajectory was affected dramatically. The VAR could intervene if there was evidence one of the teams suffered an obvious disadvantage, but that has to be clear and obvious.
"Strictly speaking, you can make a case for outside interference, which means there should be a dropped ball. But in practice there has to be some evidence of impact.
"You would allow play to continue if the ball hit a paper cup or small piece of debris on the pitch if it made no difference to the play. It’s hard to be sure here, but in any event it’s unlikely the VAR would even consider checking a camera angle up in the gods when reviewing the attacking phase.
"He would have been focusing on the actions of the players in the build-up, and there was no obvious reason to dig so deep, especially given the pressure on all video officials not to be too forensic, nor to delay the game in an apparent quest to find something wrong with what appeared to be a perfectly valid goal."
Norway 1-2 England reaction 🔗 https://t.co/v9JNbWgRUr
@El_Sporo@Psychoag@unitedtunnel@JacobsBen Anticipate the on field ref becoming a more peripheral decision-making figure (or at least until such a time as wearable technology gives them access to replays/more real-time automated decisions - like the watch buzz for ‘ball over the line’ etc)
@El_Sporo@Psychoag@unitedtunnel@JacobsBen Fair perspective.
The strength of the rules for so long was that they were supposed to have uniform application at all levels of the game. Obviously we’ve departed more and more from this recently with the implementation of video technology at the top level.
@MissSassbox Yeah, he had a moment when he could’ve played Haaland in and he didn’t (hater) 😭
Then the angle closed down and it was too late (technical…essentially his own technical limitations).
TLDR: Totally should’ve passed 😭