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38 — Vanguard, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2020 Osimhen to cost Napoli 100m euros – Pundit N igeria international, Victor Osimhen who moved to Napoli at the end of last season from Lille, could cost the Serie A club a whooping 100 million euros if performance-related variables and wages in his signing are included, reports have said.. In the two Serie A matches the Nigerian has played so far, the former Lille forward has scored once and provided one assist. Following a bright start to his career at Napoli so far, highlyrespected Sky Sport Italia pundit Paolo Condò reckons that Victor Osimhen is living up to his billing. Napoli fans will be excited about their record acquisition, having opened his goalscoring account against Atalanta on Saturday and in CRYSTAL PALACE 1 BRIGHTON 1: Late Mac Allister strike steals point for Seagulls A LEXIS MAC ALLISTER came off the bench to blast home the equaliser as Brighton snatched a dramatic late draw against rivals Palace. The Eagles looked to be earning the bragging rights after Wilfried Zaha’s firsthalf penalty kept up his personal crusade against Brighton. Zaha’s 19th minute effort was the seventh time he has scored against Palace’s fierce rivals – more than he has struck against any other team in the country. But Argentine Mac Allister stunned the hosts when he crashed home the leveller from the edge of the box just before the match moved into stoppage time. The Seagulls started the better of the two teams and Yves Bissouma went close for the visitors on 11 minutes when he crashed a shot from just outside the area into the side netting. Then when Ben White seized on a loose pass from Tyrick Mitchell into the box and dragged a shot just across the face of goal, the alarm bells were ringing for Palace. •Osimhen the previous match he notched an assist. Condò gushed about the qualities Osimhen brings to the table and believes the Super Eagles striker is replicating his form at Lille, for whom he scored 18 goals over the course of 2019-2020. In quotes carried by Mundo Napoli, Condò stated : “Napoli are absolutely Sheff Utd 1 Fulham 1: SHARP’S late penalty saves Sheffield United B •Sharp ARCELONA expect Lionel Messi to join Manchester City at the end of this season. Messi, 33, was close to re-uniting with Pep Guardiola during the most recent transfer window. However, the deal was scuppered when Barcelona made it clear they would fight him all the way over his exit. Messi believed he had a clause in his contract allowing him to leave for Rivers to inaugurate committee on Gov. Wike’s tourney T he Rivers State Ministry of Sports will on Monday, October 19, 2020, inaugurate a committee to organise the 2nd edition of Gov Wike Pre-Season Tournament. The inauguration, expected to be performed by the Rivers Sports Commissioner, Hon Boma Iyaye at the Conference Room of the Ministry, will have in attendance the Permanent Secretary, Sir Honour Sirawoo, FA Chairman in Rivers State, Chris Green, among others. The pre-season tournament is expected to have 16 teams, drawn from the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) and Nigeria National League (NNL). The tournament is primarily aimed at preparing Nigerian clubs ahead of the 2020/2021 NPFL season and CAF Club competitions. The state-owned football club, Rivers United is among the teams participating at the tournament that would afford the team the opportunity to test its strength against other clubs. in the running for the Scudetto! “This Osimhen is keeping 100% of all the good things we thought of seeing him in Lille, on a tactical level he is opening the opponent’s defenses. If he arrives in the area you don’t take the ball away from him, he runs, shoots and even scores. The spaces he creates for his teammates are fabulous”. Diego Costa ruled out of Champions League opener against Bayern Munich A tletico Madrid have suffered a severe injury blow with Diego Costa ruled out of their Champions League group stage opener against Bayern Munich after being forced off with a muscle strain in Saturday’s win over Celta Vigo. Diego Simeone’s men returned to •Diego winning ways thanks to goals from Luis Suarez and Yannick Carrasco, but the gloss was taken off the win when Costa had to go off injured. The Spaniard is likely to miss his team’s next six games, meaning Simeone will have to manage without him for their tricky test against last season’s Champions League winners on Wednesday night. BILLY SHARP’S late penalty saved Sheffield United after Fulham thought they had bagged their first win of the season with an Ademola Lookman stunner. Both sides were pointless heading into the match and it looked like the Cottagers had nicked it after Lookman’s solo strike in the 77th minute. But Blades skipper Sharp, who had only come on as a sub four minutes earlier, smashed home from 12- yards after Aleksandar Mitrovic’s high foot. It was a terrible afternoon all round for the Serbian, who smashed his own spot-kick off the bar with the game at 0-0 before missing a great chance at the death to win it. But while neither Chris Wilder or Scott Parker will be happy with the point, they are both on the board to leave Burnley rooted to the bottom of the table. Sheffield United had not scored in their first two home games but they should have been out of sight at half-time – with Oli McBurnie the main culprit. The Scot glanced his first header just wide before scuffing a golden chance onto his shoulder that allowed Alphonse Areola to react. But if you cannot score yourself, at least you can rely on Fulham’s generous defence to help. Koeman hints Messi will leave Barca next summer free, but Barca refuted that and made it clear they would only allow him to go if his £630million release clause was triggered. Not wanting to take his beloved club to court, and after speaking with new boss Ronald Koeman, Messi decided he would remain at the club this season. The Catalan giants accept he will be on his way to the Etihad in around eight months time. Koeman recently explained how he helped convince Messi to stay for this season: “I was always hoping Messi would stay for this season. “If he had left in the summer, I would have had a very different situation at Barca. “He wanted to leave but the club was very clear to him. The buy out clause was so high, that not a single club in the world was going to pay that in these times. “I went to his house and took time to listen to all the things he said. But I also explained to him that I had not been a part of the problems he had with the club and told him how I was going to work to change things. Victor Moses took pay cut to join Spartak Spartak Moscow General Director Shamil Gazizov has revealed that Victor Moses lowered his salary before sealing a transfer to the Russian Premier League club two days before the close of the summer transfer window in the country. The former Nigeria international has been loaned out to Spartak for the remainder of the season, with the Muscovites having an obligation to buy the versatile wing-back should he play the required amount of games and they qualify for next season’s Champions League. When asked if there was an obligation to buy Moses, Gazizov told Russian sports daily Sport Express : “If we are in the Champions League, we can buy him”. Probed further, he added : “ We can buy him if he plays a certain number of matches. If we get into the Champions League with him, I think there will be no questions.” The Spartak Moscow chief revealed that Moses has expressed his desire to play for the club and accepted a pay cut to get the deal over the line. “ T h e footballer wants to play for Spartak. This is the •Messi •Moses Aguero will face no retrospective action for grabbing shoulder of assistant referee M anchester City striker Sergio Aguero ‘will face no retrospective action’ for grabbing shoulder of assistant referee Sian Massey-Ellis during Arsenal win. The Argentine was arguing a throw-in decision given to Arsenal when he put his hand on her shoulder. Pep Guardiola defended Aguero, insisting the striker’s action was clearly not aggressive. The City boss said: ‘Come on guys, Sergio is the nicest person I have met in my life. Look for problems in other situations, not in this one.’ Not everyone agreed with Guardiola, however, as Match of the Day pundit Ian Wright branded Aguero’s actions ‘unnecessary’ and ‘patronising’. In Sky Sport’s postmatch coverage, Aguero’s former teammate Micah Richards said the incident ‘didn’t look good. most important point. And everything else is particular. He did not come here to earn money,” Gazizov stressed. When asked if his new number 8 was earning less than he pocketed at Chelsea, Gazizov answered : “Yes, but only slightly.” •Aguero He said: ‘He didn’t need to do it really. You have to respect the officials. I think she deals with the situation really well. ‘He’ll know better. I don’t think we need to go over the top on it but he shouldn’t be touching the officials, it doesn’t look good.’ Lampard’s men will miss out on top four — Leboeuf rank Leboeuf is ‘not convinced’ by FChelsea’s £90million club-record signing Kai Havertz and claims his former side will struggle to finish in the top four with their current form - despite a summer splurge in excess of £200m. Chelsea’s sluggish start to the 2020- 2021 campaign continued on Saturday with a disappointing 3-3 draw against Southampton at Stamford Bridge. Timo Werner found the net twice in 28 minutes to see Chelsea go 2-0 up, but it was fellow new boy Havertz who was caught in possession and robbed of the ball, allowing Danny Ings to claw one back for Southampton at a crucial moment just before half-time. Che Adams went on to capitalise on a lack of communication between Kurt Zouma and Kepa Arrizabalaga to draw the Saints level. Havertz did, however, tap in his first league goal to restore their lead before Jannik Vestergaard equalised. Despite the German getting off the mark in the Premier League, Leboeuf has doubts about his capabilities. Speaking to ESPN, he said : ‘I’m not convinced about Havertz, I’m not that optimistic.’ But Leboeuf did share his enthusiasm over Werner, saying: ‘I’m very pleased with Werner, he’s a real satisfaction.’ Saturday’s draw leaves Chelsea with just two wins from five league games and Leboeuf fears on current form that Frank Lampard’s side could struggle to finish in the top four. He added: ‘I’m not convinced at all about Chelsea right now.
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