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26 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Standard</strong> August 3 to 9 2014<br />
Sport<br />
Lampard<br />
set for City<br />
loan move<br />
Lampard was released by Chelsea this summer<br />
after 13 years at Stamford Bridge, his 211 goals<br />
in 649 matches making him the club’s record<br />
scorer<br />
MAnchester city are<br />
set to sign former chelsea<br />
midfielder Frank<br />
Lampard on loan from new York<br />
city Fc.<br />
Lampard was released by chelsea<br />
this summer after 13 years<br />
at stamford Bridge, his 211 goals<br />
in 649 matches making him the<br />
club’s record scorer.<br />
the 36-year-old signed for new<br />
York city last month on a twoyear<br />
contract.<br />
the Major League soccer franchise<br />
is owned by Manchester<br />
city and baseball giants new<br />
York Yankees, but the team’s season<br />
does not start until March<br />
2015.<br />
Manchester city declined to<br />
comment, but Lampard could<br />
be at their carrington training<br />
ground as early as next week for<br />
manager Manuel Pellegrini to<br />
monitor his fitness.<br />
the loan deal is likely to run<br />
until mid-January, and city plan<br />
to register the england international<br />
for both their Premier<br />
League and champions League<br />
campaigns.<br />
Manchester city won their second<br />
Premier League title in three<br />
years last season, with chelsea<br />
finishing third.<br />
the two sides meet at etihad<br />
Former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard<br />
stadium on september 21.<br />
During his time at stamford<br />
Bridge, Lampard was chelsea’s<br />
vice-captain and won the Premier<br />
League title three times and<br />
the champions League and europa<br />
League once apiece.<br />
the former West ham player<br />
also helped the Blues win four FA<br />
cups and the League cup twice.<br />
On signing for new York city<br />
Fc, Lampard said: “new York<br />
ticks all the right boxes for me.<br />
It’s very exciting.”<br />
Former spain striker David<br />
Villa (32), has also joined the MLs<br />
franchise, though he will spend<br />
three months on loan at Melbourne<br />
Fc, Manchester city’s<br />
Australian partner club.<br />
Manchester city chief executive<br />
Ferran soriano said: “One<br />
of the reasons David Villa and<br />
Frank Lampard decided to come<br />
to new York is because they know<br />
who manages and who owns the<br />
club.”<br />
Lampard, who won his 106 th<br />
england cap during the World<br />
cup in Brazil, said he would<br />
make a decision on his international<br />
career once his club future<br />
was finalised.<br />
At his official new York unveiling,<br />
Lampard said: “I’m going to<br />
keep fit, that’s the main thing.<br />
how I do that is not clear yet.<br />
“I’m going to sit round with<br />
people at the club and sort that<br />
out.”<br />
A number of MLs players have<br />
spent the Us close-season on loan<br />
to Premier League clubs, including<br />
clint Dempsey at Fulham,<br />
Landon Donovan at everton,<br />
robbie Keane at Aston Villa and<br />
thierry henry at Arsenal.<br />
— BBCSport<br />
Suarez’s appeal on august 8<br />
BArceLOnA striker Luis suarez’s<br />
appeal to the court of Arbitration<br />
for sport (cAs) against a<br />
four-month ban for biting will be<br />
heard on August 8.<br />
the Uruguay forward was punished<br />
after biting Italy defender<br />
Giorgio chiellini at the 2014 Fifa<br />
World cup in Brazil.<br />
An initial appeal against the<br />
27-year-old’s suspension was rejected<br />
by Fifa.<br />
the appeal has been filed by suarez,<br />
Uruguay and Barcelona, the<br />
spanish club he joined last month<br />
in a £75m transfer from Liverpool.<br />
cAs has agreed to fast-track the<br />
case, and it is thought a verdict<br />
could be announced by the end of<br />
the week after the hearing.<br />
Barcelona’s first match of the<br />
new La Liga season is on August<br />
24, but if the ban is upheld, suarez<br />
will be out until late October.<br />
Under the terms of the suspension,<br />
he is banned from “any<br />
football-related activity”, which<br />
means he cannot train with his<br />
club or enter the confines of any<br />
stadium, although players’ union<br />
Fifpro argues the details “lack<br />
clarity”.<br />
suarez is also banned from playing<br />
for Uruguay for nine matches<br />
and was fined 100 000 swiss francs<br />
(£66 000).<br />
— BBCSport<br />
Newcastle hopeful of Ferreyra loan deal<br />
MAnAGer Alan Pardew hopes<br />
newcastle United can complete<br />
a deal to sign shakhtar Donetsk<br />
striker Facundo Ferreyra on loan.<br />
the 23-year-old Argentine is one<br />
of six shakhtar players who have<br />
opted not to return to Donetsk because<br />
of the on-going conflict in<br />
Ukraine.<br />
Pardew is keen to add a forward<br />
to his squad, with six signings already<br />
made.<br />
“It’s something that is not done,<br />
but we’re working to see if that<br />
can happen,” Pardew said.<br />
Ferreyra scored six goals in<br />
only five starts for Ukrainian<br />
league champions shakhtar last<br />
term, following spells at Velez<br />
sarsfield and Banfield in his<br />
home country.<br />
“Facundo is a good presence<br />
on the pitch, a big guy at 6ft 2in,<br />
a player who has gone to the<br />
Ukraine and has been okay,”<br />
Pardew said.<br />
“If we manage to secure him, he<br />
would be a player who we’d expect<br />
to do a lot better here.”<br />
Meanwhile, Pardew has played<br />
down the likelihood of a deal for<br />
Queens Park rangers striker Loic<br />
remy, who scored 14 goals in 27<br />
games for the Magpies on loan<br />
last season.<br />
remy (27), was expected to join<br />
Liverpool before a deal collapsed,<br />
and Pardew had confirmed his interest<br />
in re-signing the France international<br />
earlier this week.<br />
“We’ve not really had much<br />
contact with Loic and I don’t see<br />
that evolving if I’m honest,” added<br />
Pardew.<br />
“Whatever happened at Liverpool<br />
is irrelevant really, because<br />
he’s had plenty of chances to<br />
come to us. — BBCSport<br />
New football betting<br />
rules enforced<br />
neW rules which prevent players<br />
and coaches from betting on any<br />
worldwide footballing activity will<br />
help in the fight against match-fixing,<br />
says Football Association general<br />
secretary Alex horne.<br />
Players from the top eight tiers<br />
of the english game are banned<br />
from betting on the sport under<br />
new rules which came into force<br />
on Friday.<br />
“We are really proud of the integrity<br />
of the game in this country<br />
and it is really important people<br />
trust... what is happening on<br />
the pitch,” said horne.<br />
“We want to keep our message<br />
as simple as possible — and it cannot<br />
be more simple that as a player<br />
you cannot bet at all on football.”<br />
club employees and match officials<br />
are also restricted by the new<br />
rules, which prevent gambling on<br />
any football-related matters, including<br />
results, goalscorers, ingame<br />
play, player transfers, manager<br />
changes or promotions and<br />
relegations.<br />
the Football Association will<br />
visit all clubs to talk about the<br />
Football betting tickets<br />
fresh regulations and have produced<br />
a number of educational<br />
videos.<br />
Players and stakeholders from<br />
clubs in the Premier League down<br />
to the northern and southern and<br />
Isthmian Leagues are affected.<br />
the rules apply to bets made in<br />
person, online, on the telephone or<br />
with friends. Participants are also<br />
not allowed to instruct any third<br />
party to place any bet on their behalf.<br />
Previously, participants were<br />
prohibited from betting on a match<br />
or competition in which they were<br />
involved or could influence.<br />
tottenham’s Andros townsend,<br />
cameron Jerome — on loan at<br />
crystal Palace from stoke last season<br />
— and Dan Gosling, who has<br />
joined Bournemouth this summer,<br />
are among those who have<br />
breached current betting regulations.<br />
Winger townsend was fined<br />
£18 000 by the FA in June 2013,<br />
striker Jerome £50 000 last August<br />
and midfielder Gosling £30 000 in<br />
March. — BBCSport
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