قدم المدير الفني لفريق برشلونة، هانز فليك، آخر التحديثات الخاصة بشأن فريقه وذلك قبل مواجهة خيتافي في الدوري الإسباني.
ويلاقي برشلونة نظيره خيتافي ضمن منافسات الجولة السابعة من منافسات الدوري الإسباني “لاليجا”، على ملعب “مونتجويك الأولمبي”، غداً الأربعاء.
ويحتل برشلونة صدارة ترتيب الدوري الإسباني لكرة القدم برصيد 18 نقطة.
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وقال هانز فليك في المؤتمر الصحفي قبل المباراة: “كل مباراة مختلفة عن الأخرى، علينا أن نضع الخطة المناسبة لمباراة خيتافي، وآمل أن ينفذها اللاعبون”.
وأضاف فليك: “لقد حللنا لقاء فياريال، وأعتقد أننا بحاجة للتطوير في بعض النواحي، هناك الكثير الذي يجب تقديمه، لكن علينا أن نمضي خطوة بخطوة”.
وحل إمكانية التعاقد مع حارس مرمى جديد، أكد فليك: “أود القول أولًا إن إنياكي حارس محترف، ويتدرب بشكل قوي، بالتأكيد هذا أمر صعب للحارس الثاني، إنه يملك ثقتنا، لكننا سنرى ما سنقوم به لاحقًا، وإذا استدعى الأمر تغييرًا ما فسنقوم بذلك، لكننا لسنا على عجلة من أمرنا”.
وعن روبرت ليفاندوفسكي، أشار: “لست متفاجئًا من أدائه الرائع، إنه يسجل حاليًا ويقوم بعمل رائع، كل مافي الأمر أنه عليك أن تعطيه التعليمات التي يود أن يقوم بها في الملعب، والسعي أيضًا أن يسجل بقية اللاعبين”.
وبشأن مستوى رافينها: “لم يفاجئني ما يقدمه، كل لاعب يقدم كل ما لديه من أجل النادي، نحن بحاجة له في المباريات، والجميع يحبونه في غرفة الملابس، ويقدم كل شيء للنادي، وهذا ما أحتاجه من اللاعبين”.
وحول إمكانية إراحة لامين يامال: “سنرى ما سيحدث، حاليًا لايبدو أنه بحاجة لراحة، هو يشعر بحالة جيدة، لا أعتقد أنه بحاجة لراحة غدًا، علينا أن نبدأ غدًا بفريق جيد، ويامال يقدم هذا الموسم مستوى مذهلًا، وعلينا أن نواصل ذلك”.
وواصل حديثه عن يامال قائلاً: “جودة اللاعبين لا علاقة لها بالسن، أعتقد أنه بإمكانه أن يصبح الأفضل في العالم في المستقبل”.
وعن موعد عودة أراوخو: “إنه بخير ويبلي جيدًا، لا أعرف متى يمكنه العودة، نحن لا نحتاج أراوخو فقط لقوته البدنية، لكن لمستواه الدفاعي أيضًا، عودته ستكون تعزيزًا قويًا لنا”.
يخوض فريق الاتحاد مباراة قوية أمام منافسه الأخدود، اليوم الخميس، في المواجهة التي تجمع بينهما ضمن منافسات مسابقة الدوري السعودي للمحترفين موسم 2024- 2025.
ويستضيف الاتحاد نظيره الأخدود على ملعب الأمير هذلول بن عبد العزيز، ضمن منافسات الجولة السادسة من مسابقة الدوري.
ويتواجد اتحاد جدة في المركز الثاني بجدول ترتيب الدوري السعودي ولديه 12 نقطة من الفوز بـ4 لقاءات وتلقي هزيمة وحيدة، وسجل لاعبوه 15 هدفاً وتلقت شباكه 6 أهداف.
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بينما يخوض الأخدود مباراة اليوم وهو يحتل المركز الثالث عشر في جدول ترتيب الدوري السعودي، ولديه 4 نقاط من الفوز في مباراة وحيدة وتعادل لقاء آخر وتلقي 3 هزائم. موعد مباراة الاتحاد والأخدود اليوم في الدوري السعودي
وتنطلق مباراة الاتحاد والأخدود، اليوم الخميس 3 أكتوبر الجاري، في تمام التاسعة مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة والسعودية. القناة الناقلة لمباراة الاتحاد والأخدود اليوم
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During his tenure at Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp has been at the helm of some of the club's most exciting signings in history. Players such as Alisson and Virgil van Dijk were both brought to the club by the German and have since excelled.
This is shown by both the Premier League and Champions League title the side won whilst under the guidance of the 56-year-old. Klopp managed to turn a team with a fan base who didn't believe into world champions, a feat which many have tried and failed to do.
However, although the vast majority of Klopp's additions to his squad have benefited the side massively, there are some which seem to have left a sour taste in the mouths of some fans.
An example of one of these signings is that of Takumi Minamino. During his stint with the Reds, Minamino was often loved and hated by fans due to the inconsistency he showed.
Takumi Minamino's Liverpool career in numbers
After arriving at the club on the 1st January 2020 for a fee worth £7.25m, he didn't manage to contribute to a single goal or assist for the Reds for the remainder of the season.
That said, during Liverpool's run to both the 2021/22 Carabao and FA Cup finals, he was one of Klopp's best players, managing to score an impressive seven goals in just nine games. It was for that form that journalist Josh Bunting claimed he was "undervalued" by the manager.
If the Japan international managed to consistently put out numbers like this in the league, he could have very easily benched either Sadio Mane or Roberto Firmino during their 'hay-days' for the Reds.
However, during that same season, the winger only played a total of 176 minutes in the Premier League and only managed to score three goals in the process.
It was this lack of consistency which resulted in Klopp choosing to sell the Japan international to Ligue 1 side, Monaco, in the summer of 2022 for a fee worth £15m.
Whilst with Monaco, the Minamino which tore Liverpool apart with a stellar performance (footage below) in the 2019/20 Champions League came out.
Takumi Minamino's stint at Monaco in numbers
As aforementioned, Minamino now plys his trade for Monaco. The winger is 29-years-old and has an almost guaranteed starting spot within the French club's set-up.
However, it hasn't all been smooth sailing since he arrived. Last season was his first in Ligue 1 and his inconsistency once again showed through.
The 29-year-old has played a total of 25 times in all competitions and only managed to contribute to five goals. He has, however, been deployed across the front three and, on occasion, in attacking midfield throughout the season.
Monaco's Takumi Minamino
Following his poor first campaign at the club, Monaco's then sporting director, Paul Mitchell, spoke about the attackers' form: "Takumi Minamino is [the signing] that has had the most difficulty integrating for the time being," he said.
"We have to be patient. I hope that his goal against Reims will lead to many more. It's paradoxical because he's the oldest player on the list (of arrivals)."
It now, however, seems as if their patience has paid off, as, Minamino has seemingly turned over a new leaf and is now outperforming one of Liverpool's star-signings, Dominik Szoboszlai.
The pair have an equal number of goals and assists with both contributing to five goals and four assists each. However, Minamino has managed to achieve this output in 11 fewer games than Szoboszlai has, which showcases how settled he is now.
This upheaval in form likely has a lot to do with Monaco's manager, Adi Hutter, as he knew Minamino from his RB Salzburg days.
This gave the Austrian an idea of where best to capitalise on the Japan international's strengths and how best to use them in a tactical system.
The search for a new bowling spearhead following Lasith Malinga’s retirement, however, could make the team sweat
Andrew Fidel Fernando in Colombo31-Jul-2019
Dasun Shanaka plays a flick•Getty Images
In many ways, this was a low-octane bilateral series. It came on the heels of the World Cup. There was no major hype around it beyond Lasith Malinga’s retirement. There was a sense of fatigue around Bangladesh’s performance, and they were missing their best player in any case. But, despite all that, could the 3-0 result be a new dawn for Sri Lanka in ODIs?There is no clear answer to that, because they have had false dawns, of course, and there is increasingly no such thing as linear progression in Sri Lankan cricket. But their new captain, at least, believes the team’s ODI stocks to be in decent health as he contemplates building a team into the next World Cup cycle. The third ODI, in particular, featured encouraging performances from relatively young players who had not featured in Sri Lanka’s World Cup squad. Dimuth Karunaratne thinks this is reason to be hopeful.”The young players grabbed their chances really well – the four players whom we put in the team today put up their hands and did a great job,” he said. Those four were allrounder Dasun Shanaka (30 runs off 14 balls, and 3 for 27), seamer Kasun Rajitha (2 for 17), allrounder Wanindu Hasaranga (12 not out off five balls, and 1 for 16) and Shehan Jayasuriya (13 off seven balls at the death).”If there’s a lot of competition and there’s a strong bench, if a player is injured I can easily bring another player,” Karunaratne said. “I think this is the way we have to build a good line-up. This is the time we have to bring some youngsters for the next couple of years. We’ve had an issue recently where we didn’t have that strong bench. But players are now ready, and they’ll grab the chances that come their way.”Apart from the pool of players that performed well during this whitewash, there are others, who could play an important role in the next World Cup cycle, Karunaratne said. “Beyond this team, there are others around as well, who are unable to break into this side at the moment – players like Niroshan Dickwella and Danushka Gunathilaka.”You need a lot of players to build up that competition within a team, so that players are constantly putting pressure on each other to perform. If you have a strong bench, the players who are in the team have to take that responsibility. There are a lot of players trying to get that chance, so there’s pressure on the XI. I have a team I can work with. The youngsters have a great energy about them as well.”Despite his optimism, he did point out an area of particular concern – the bowling. With the retirement of Lasith Malinga, Sri Lanka have lost their most penetrative ODI operator, and will now seek a new spearhead. “We need to find bowlers who can get us wickets,” Karunaratne said. “We have to find those players who deliver in tough situations. Today, pretty much everyone had a bowl, and they came up with wickets. That’s what I expect when I make a bowling change – that whoever comes on will build pressure and make those breakthroughs.”
A torcida do Bahia ligou o sinal de alerta. O contrato do atacante Gilberto se encerra em dezembro e o seu futuro dentro do clube é incerto segundo o presidente Guilherme Bellintani.
Em conversa com a Rádio Metrópole, o mandatário do Tricolor explicou que a pandemia da Covid-19 atrapalhou as finanças do clube e deu a sua visão sobre o caso.
‘Ele tem contrato até dezembro, investimento significativo do clube. Pelas circunstâncias atuais, a renovação dele é muito difícil, mas é um jogador que gosta de ajudar o Bahia. A gente sempre tem abertura, converso com empresário dele. Se o clube se recuperar financeiramente e o Gilberto quiser, esse acerto vai ser feito. Preciso muito que o clube se recupere para fazer propostas não só por Gilberto, como outros jogadores. A gente fez contrato com ele pré-pandemia. Hoje estamos gerindo o clube com zero receita de bilheteria. Temos que ajustar orçamento. Posso não ser o presidente que contrata os melhores jogadores, mas não serei um presidente irresponsável’, declarou.
Vale lembrar, que o atacante Gilberto está livre para assinar um pré-contrato com qualquer clube a partir de junho.
Artilheiro
Nesta temporada, Gilberto vive novamente uma excelente fase ao marcar seis gols, em oito partidas disputadas pelo Bahia.
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ظهر مدرب مانشستر سيتي بيب جوارديولا في مؤتمر صحفي اليوم الجمعة، وسُئل عن مستقبله قبل مواجهة فولهام في الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.
ويلتقي مانشستر سيتي مع فولهام غدًا السبت، في مباراة بالدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز “البريميرليج”.
وقال جوارديولا عن قيام الجماهير برفع لافتة تطلب منه البقاء: “يجب أن يحضروا لي الفاتورة التي يجب أن أدفعها مقابل اللافتة، لا أريد إنفاق المال لهذا السبب”.
وأضاف: “ماذا يمكنني أن أقول؟ شكرًا جزيلاً، لقد وقعت في الحب منذ اليوم الأول الذي وصلت فيه إلى هنا، دعنا نرى، سيحدث ما هو مقدر”.
وأفاد: “أنا جزء من هذا النادي، في أعماقي وأفضل طريقة للدفاع عن النادي هي الفوز بالمباريات والقيام بعملي بأفضل ما يمكن”.
واستطرد: “لا يمكننا أن نسيء فهم سبب وجودي هنا، أنا المدير الفني، الشخص في النادي الذي يتحدث أكثر من خلال جميع وسائل الإعلام، لإرسال رسائل إلى المشجعين، وبالطبع سأدافع عن ناديي، أنا أثق بهم، بجميع الأشخاص الذين يعملون هنا، لسنوات عديدة”.
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وأصر: “أعرفهم جيدًا، أكثر بكثير من أي منكم، أفضل طريقة للدفاع هي القيام بعملنا على أفضل وجه، كل شخص يعمل هنا لديه مسؤوليته الخاصة”.
وأكمل: “بالطبع هناك مواقف في السنوات الثماني والتسع، كانت موجودة دائمًا، بعضها متوقع، وبعضها أكثر صعوبة في التعامل معها ولكن هذا هو الحال، لا شكاوى وعليك أن تفعل ما عليك القيام به، أنا جزء من هذا النادي، وليس مجرد المدير الفني، أنا أحب هذا النادي وسأظل كذلك دائمًا”.
وبشأن بقائه في النادي، رد جوارديولا: “لن أتحدث عن هذا الموضوع، سيحدث ما هو مقدر”.
وعن سجل مانشستر سيتي ضد فولهام، أشار: “لا أحب هذا السؤال، لا تسألني هذا السؤال مرة أخرى من فضلك”.
وعن كيفين دي بروين وعدم انضمامه لمنتخب بلجيكا بسبب الإصابة، أردف: “كيف يمكنك اللعب للمنتخب الوطني وأنت لم تلعب من قبل؟ لم أفهم ذلك أبدًا، لم يقل لي إنه سيعتزل اللعب مع بلجيكا، إنه مصاب في تلك المباراة ولن يكون متاحًا”.
وأوضح: “دي بروين ليس جاهزًا لمباراة الغد، باستثناء ناثان آكي وكيفين دي بروين ورودري وأوسكار، فإن الباقي بخير”.
وعن قائمة الفريق في كأس العالم للأندية، أفاد: “من هم أقوى اللاعبين؟ أيهم؟ إذا أخبرتني أي اللاعبين أقوى من الآخرين؟ لا أفهم”.
وأتم: “نذهب بكامل الفريق هناك، لا نذهب لمباراة واحدة، لا أعرف كيف يتم الاختيار، هذا اللاعب أفضل من هذا، ربما يكون اللاعب الأقوى بالنسبة لهم في حالة سيئة لأسباب عديدة، مهنية وشخصية وإصابات، لن أقول قبل المباراة أي لاعب سأعتمد عليه، سأقرر”.
What if it’s July 14 again. What if England v New Zealand had gone another way. It’s not just the fans who are wondering all that could have been
Alagappan Muthu18-Jul-2019
Trent Boult catches a Ben Stokes shot, but…•Getty Images
What if it’s July 14 again? What if Lord’s is still packed? And hushed. Trembling as one of the greatest ODI finishes of all time is still unfolding. Well, that’s the reality for most of the New Zealand players right now. Even one of their best ever players could not help but look back and wonder.Trent Boult was on the midwicket boundary when Ben Stokes launched Jimmy Neesham in his direction. A man renowned for taking outstanding boundary catches steadied himself under the ball, then leapt up and caught it with both hands and looked stunned, as if he knew, in that moment, the game had changed. England now needed 22 runs from eight balls. New Zealand were favourites to become world champions.And then Boult stepped back. Right onto the boundary rope. It was just one of the many things the fast bowler continues to replay in his head.ALSO READ: ‘You are looking for one run’ – Gutted NZ try and make sense of the unbelievable”I suppose it’s just natural to nitpick and pull apart a game like that,” he said upon arriving in Auckland. “Firstly, to be involved in it was obviously very amazing. But you know, you just wonder those little kind of things that went your way, or didn’t go your way or whatever, it could’ve been a totally different game. Yeah, of course, I’m living the last over throughout my mind a lot. Somehow we were hit for six along the ground which has never been happened before. And then, yeah, couple of run outs, to bowl them out and to see the scores level and to lose was a pretty unique situation.”Boult had more than made amends by bowling that 50th over and ensuring England didn’t get past New Zealand’s 241. Then in the Super Over, he kept them to 15 runs, even though both times he had to contend with Stokes hitting near yorkers to the boundary. And quite apart from taking the burden of the entire game – and his country’s chance of winning a first World Cup – on his shoulders, he finished with 17 wickets from 10 matches, including a hat-trick against Australia. It was an immense performance.But when asked about the final and if he would do anything differently, Boult said: “I’m sure you could appreciate it’s a nerve-wracking scenario to be a part of. A lot of people over there interested. A lot of people watching on the TV. It was an amazing stage to be on. Obviously saw what it meant for the Englishmen to get across the line. It could have been us. Unfortunately it wasn’t. No one is probably going to get closer to winning the World Cup or losing the World Cup as us.”You see a lot of disappointment in cricketing fans around the world, not just Kiwis but a lot of supporters that wanted us to win. It’s a shame to let everyone down really. It’s hard sitting on a plane for 15 hours. A lot of Kiwis there were saying ‘we felt for you’ kinda thing. Yeah don’t really know too much more to say really. Obviously we’re all hurting and yeah sorry for letting everyone down.”ALSO READ: What the luck! NZ and the randomness of life by Osman SamiuddinAnd that brings us to the catch that wasn’t. “Obviously the priority is on the ball itself,” Boult said. “That’s all I was really worried about. Silly of me obviously to not know where the rope was. Similar to the catch I got against the West Indies earlier in the tournament but they’re quite quirky boundaries [in England]. They’re not actually circles. They’re kinda octagons and squares and all sorts of things. Obviously you can imagine my feeling when I felt my left shoe hit the cushion and it was too late for me to throw it to Marty [Guptill, who was waiting for the relay catch].”The captain, and player of the tournament, Kane Williamson wouldn’t allow a match so epic to boil down to just a few moments. Like that overthrow in the last over that bounced off Stokes’ bat and into the third man boundary, turning two runs into six. Until then, New Zealand were working hard to make England feel the brunt of scoreboard pressure.”If you pull it back to the last 10 overs,” Boult said, “If you could keep pushing the run-rate up towards 7, 8, 9 an over, I thought Jos [Buttler] and Stokes did extremely well to be there and build a partnership and obviously given the chance to try and chase it down. But yeah, take it as deep as possible. Of course me standing on the rope in the 49th over probably didn’t help either but yeah we wanted to leave them as many as possible in the end. But yeah, for a Super Over to eventuate, I don’t know if you know there was going to be a Super Over in a World Cup final so there you go. And 15 apiece, it’s pretty hard to swallow.Pretty tough to swallow, Kane Williamson said of the defeat in the World Cup final•Getty Images
“When I saw three off two, that’s when the umpires said to us there would be a Super Over. Obviously we had a job to defend three of two balls and we did that and then Super Over it was. Yeah, just a crazy game to be part of.”New Zealand, ranked No. 2 by the ICC, have competed in eight World Cup semi-finals – a record – and two successive finals. Two very different finals.”Obviously to have it in our backyard in 2015, in front of all our family and friends and the hype and everything that comes with a home tournament, we can’t escape it,” Boult said. “It was one of those things over there, different time zone, different part of the day. No offence but we didn’t hear too much of what was going on back home unless you really scouted it off. But hey it was a great time to get there and obviously to be so close is the thing that hurts the most. Yeah, the final in 2015 was a no show in my opinion. We were outplayed from kinda the first couple of overs. Definitely didn’t hurt as much as the other day did.”So how was he planning to cope? “Well, I’m gonna go home for the first time in about four months. Probably gonna walk my dog along the beach and try and put it aside. I’m sure he won’t be too angry at me. And hey we’ve got a quick turnaround before we go to Sri Lanka in a couple of days time and back in the saddle. Like I said, it’s not gonna be something that disappears in the next couple of days. It’s probably something that’s gonna be hard to swallow for the next couple of years.”There was one last question for Boult before he could go back to his family and try to come to terms with July 14.”Do you feel cheated?””No.”
O Vasco volta a campo nesta quarta, às 21h30 (de Brasília), para enfrentar a Tombense (MG), pela segunda fase da Copa do Brasil. O duelo será em jogo único e em caso de empate, a vaga será decidida em cobranças de pênaltis. Invicto desde sua chegada ao comando técnico do Cruz-Maltino, Marcelo Cabo enfrentará a segunda equipe de Minas Gerais na competição.
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Vale lembrar que na primeira fase, o Gigante da Colina eliminou a Caldense, após empatar por 1 a 1 no Estádio Ronaldão. Do outro lado, o Gavião Carcará superou o o Nova Mutum-MT, ao empatar sem gols fora de casa. A Tombense é a atual vice-campeã do Campeonato Mineiro tornando-se uma força do interior do estado.
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Para o duelo decisivo desta quarta, Marcelo Cabo terá à disposição os cinco jogadores que foram poupados diante do Bangu: Léo Matos, Leandro Castan, Germán Cano, Marquinhos Gabriel, e Ernando, que se recuperou de lesão. Além deles, o comandante relacionou pela primeira vez os atacantes Léo Jabá e Morato, que poderão fazer as suas estreias com a camisa do Gigante da Colina.
Pelo lado da equipe mineira, o departamento médico do clube irá reavaliar, mas o técnicoBruno Pivetti deverá ter os retornosdo lateral-esquerdo Manoel e dos atacantes Rubens, Keké e Caíque. O time não perde há cinco partidas no Campeonato Mineiro e ainda sonha com uma vaga na próxima fase da competição estadual.
FICHA TÉCNICA TOMBENSE X VASCO
Data/Hora: 07/04/2021, às 21h30 Local: Antônio Guimarães de Almeida – Tombos (MG) Árbitro:Leandro Pedro Vuaden (RS) Assistentes:Jorge Eduardo Bernardi (RS) eJose Eduardo Calza (RS) Onde ver: TV Globo, Sportv 2, Premiere e tempo real do LANCE!
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Tottenham Hotspur have produced a number of impressive young players from their academy who have gone on to forge impressive careers for themselves.
Ollie Skipp, who has made 20 appearances in all competitions this season, is the only regular first-team player at the moment who came through the youth set-up.
However, Harry Kane, who left to join Bayern Munich last summer, is perhaps the best example of a player breaking through the academy to become a star for the club.
The England captain racked up 278 goals and 64 assists in 430 appearances for the Lilywhites in all competitions before his switch to Germany.
Ange Postecoglou should now be looking to the current crop of youngsters to unearth the next Skipp or the next Kane over the coming months and years.
One player, however, who slipped through their grasp at a young age was Chelsea centre-forward Armando Broja, who had been part of the Tottenham academy.
Why Tottenham lost Armando Broja for £0
In an interview with Chelsea's website, Broja once revealed that he spent two years with Spurs from U8s through to the end of his U9s season.
He stated that Blues scouts were impressed by his performances against them and they decided to snap him up after his two campaigns with the Lilywhites academy.
This meant that Tottenham lost the promising striker for nothing as they were unable to convince the prospect to continue his development in North London.
Of course, there is no telling how a player will develop and grow, both technically and physically, at such a young age but Chelsea being interested in him suggests that he was showing great potential at that point.
Chelsea striker Armando Broja.
Perhaps if Spurs could have kept him if they had fought harder to keep hold of Broja and made it clear that they were the best place for him to continue his progress, with a clear pathway to eventually make it through to the older age groups and, then, the first-team many years down the line.
This is all, however, with the benefit of hindsight as the Albania international has gone on to forge a Premier League career for himself and still has plenty of time left to develop further.
Tottenham may look back on their failure to keep him as a howler, given his progression since his move across London, and they should use it as a warning for the next time a club attempts to snap up one of their prospects at a young age, and possibly fight harder to retain them.
Armando Broja's current market value
Having left Spurs for £0, Broja has worked his way into senior football over the last few years and is currently valued at a whopping £35m by Chelsea.
TalkSPORT reported on deadline day at the start of this month that the Blues wanted that figure to sell him permanently during the recent January transfer window.
However, they allowed him to join fellow Premier League side Fulham on loan until the end of the season, in a deal that could cost the Cottagers up to £4m based on his appearances.
Marco Silva's side decided to bring him in to bolster their forward line as he has previously showcased his quality at the top level with Southampton and Vitesse.
After a superb return of 16 goals and five assists in 35 matches for Chelsea's U18 team, Dutch side Vitesse secured his services on loan for the 2020/21 campaign.
The then-teenager, who was once described as "magnificently unique" by U23 scout Antonio Mango, caught the eye with his performances in the Netherlands as he scored 11 goals and provided three assists in 34 appearances in all competitions.
Broja's Eredivisie exploits caught the eye the attention of the Saints, who swooped to bring him to lead the line for them in the Premier League the following season.
2021/22 Premier League
Armando Broja
Appearances
32
Starts
21
Goals
Six
Big chances missed
Five
Big chances created
Two
Stats via Sofascore
As you can see in the table above, the young marksman enjoyed a solid first season in the top-flight of English football with more goals scored than big chances missed, which suggests that he performed well in front of goal with the opportunities that his teammates provided him with.
A significant knee injury, that kept him out for 39 matches during the 2022/23 campaign, has stunted his development since those two seasons with Vitesse and Southampton.
Broja has scored one goal in six starts in the Premier League so far this season and will be hoping to get back to his best at the top end of the pitch during his time with Fulham.
Overall, Spurs missed out on a very valuable talent, who is now 22 and already valued at £35m with plenty of experience under his belt, and that is why they had a howler with his departure to Chelsea at a young age.
Tottenham's current impressive academy marksman
The Lilywhites will now be hoping that their current U21 centre-forward – Jamie Donley – fulfills his potential and can emerge as a talent as valuable as Broja.
Postecoglou has handed him three appearances in the Premier League already this season and his record at youth level suggests that the quality is there for him to be a future star for the club.
The 19-year-old starlet has racked up an eye-catching six goals and 12 assists in 12 appearances for the club's U23s throughout the 2023/24 campaign.
23/24 EFL Trophy
Jamie Donley
Appearances
Three
Goals
Two
Assists
Three
Big chances created
Two
Key passes per game
3.3
Stats via Sofascore
As you can see in the table above, Donley was on fire in the EFL Trophy earlier this season with his ability to both score and create goals as a centre-forward.
The teenage whiz, who scored 26 goals in 40 matches for Tottenham's U18s, has an impressive record in front of goal at youth level and is starting to be integrated into the first-team, with his three league cameos this term.
Spurs will now be hoping that Donley can progress and translate his incredible academy form over to the senior team in the coming months and years, so that they can forget all about the howler they had with Broja and uncover another star striker from the youth team.
Nash replaces Joe Clarke and joins Alex Hales in unbroken first-wicket stand to reach Finals Day
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A bleak season at Trent Bridge might yet have something to redeem it. Seemingly doomed to relegation in the County Championship, thrashed here at the semi-final stage in the One-Day Cup, Nottinghamshire inflicted a humbling on Middlesex that no one could have anticipated to reach a third Vitality Blast Finals Day in four years.Middlesex, after such an impressive start, may have only just scraped into the quarter-finals, but with AB de Villiers and Mujeeb Ur Rahman back in tandem and Eoin Morgan threatening to cap off his own outstanding year, this was a moment in which they gave themselves a real chance. And 160, to which Morgan contributed 53 off 31 balls, did not seem a terrible score.Yet they were utterly demolished. Alex Hales, taking another step towards redemption, smashed 83 off 47 balls, sending seven sixes soaring into the night sky. Chris Nash, given his first outing of the season after being surprisingly preferred to Joe Clarke, hit 74 from 53.Middlesex dropped key catches, putting Nash down on 31 on, Hales on 47 and 56, but after they had been 76 without loss in six overs, a target of 161 that looked likely to be a challenge to a Nottinghamshire side with no reputation for fortitude this summer suddenly seemed rather modest. At the same stage – or rather, just one over later – Middlesex had been four down for 44, with de Villiers already gone.”We had talked all year about trying to play the perfect game,” the Nottinghamshire captain, Dan Christian, said. “About trying to take early wickets, restrict them in the middle, have a good death period, get off to a good start with the bat and try to cash in and, well, it was just about perfect.”Hales smote three of his sixes in that dramatic opening passage, which began with Nash clipping Mujeeb’s opening ball for four and continued with boundary after boundary, a dozen in total. Mujeeb, normally so hard to get away at the top of an innings, went for 31 in his first two overs.The first dropped catch, which should have been so easy for Steven Finn at mid-off, allowed Nash off the hook on 31. The others, by Toby Roland-Jones at deep midwicket and Steve Eskinazi at deep backward square, should have been held as well but whether they influenced the outcome was doubtful. With plenty of batting to come and the target already within reach, Middlesex’s fate was probably irreversible.Hales and Nash were past 100 by the ninth over, with the luxury of coasting through the middle overs before launching another assault that saw Hales demonstrating the full range of destructive shots that make him such a formidable opponent in this form of cricket when the force is with him. Fittingly, his seventh six, a howitzer blow deep into the crowd at deep midwicket, ended the match.With Morgan, the man who seemingly was central to dashing Hales’s World Cup dreams in such a brutal manner earlier in the year, standing just a few yards away, it must have felt a sweet moment.”I think that was him back to his best,” Christian said. “He has played some really important innings for us this year but that was the best. We saw him hitting top-of-the-stumps balls back over the bowler’s head, which is what he can do.”Five of the six completed group matches on this ground this season were won by the team batting first, yet Nottinghamshire this time decided it suited them to chase and as Middlesex stumbled to 43 for 4 in the seventh over they appeared to have made a good decision.Spin was the effective weapon as Nottinghamshire made these early incisions. Matt Carter, the tall offspinner, took two wickets in his second over, Paul Stirling picking out deep midwicket before Dawid Malan, taking a big stride down the pitch, was bowled.Imad Wasim, left-armer, did likewise in his second, dealing the visitors a major setback when de Villiers, looking in ominously good touch when he strong-armed Harry Gurney to the boundary in the previous over, launched a muscular slog-sweep directly into the hands of Ben Duckett, a foot in front of the boundary at square leg. Eskinazi, attempting to scoop the next delivery down the leg side, made poor contact and was caught behind. John Simpson kept out the hat-trick ball.Much now rested on Morgan to reproduce some of his heroics of Taunton last week as Middlesex, their form having faltered after a blistering start in the South Group, pulled off that astonishing record run chase to qualify for the last eight.With the scoreboard showing 66 for 4 at the halfway stage, he went on the attack, going inside out to send Samit Patel six rows back into the seats at extra cover before pulling the same bowler high over midwicket in the next over. Simpson found Hales at long-on a couple of balls later but he and England’s World Cup-winning captain had added 47 in six overs.Simpson’s replacement with Roland-Jones brought no loss of momentum and for the first time Middlesex looked capable of posting a score they might defend, not least when Hales, at long-off to Gurney, could only palm the ball over the rope with Morgan ready to turn towards the pavilion.Morgan profited from the reprieve, but not heavily, completing a 30-ball half-century by taking another maximum off the next ball, but slicing the one that followed to be caught at wide third man. Only a couple of overs remained in the innings but it may have cost Middlesex 20 runs.As it was, on a ground which has seen lower scores this season than have been customary, 161 to win looked much more of a test than it proved to be, thanks to the brutality of Hales and Nash.”I think pretty much everything that could have gone wrong for us did,” Middlesex skipper Malan said. “We lost wickets at crucial times and to be 40-odd for four was not good enough. Getting 160 on the board, we thought we had a slight sniff if we bowled well enough at the top but they batted so well we were behind it from the first six.”