What happened there? Isn’t that the highly rated kid who jumped ship from Barca last summer?
Stoke youngster Wright-Phillips signs new deal
D’Margio Wright-Phillips
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Stoke City youngster D’Margio Wright-Phillips has signed a new two-and-a-half-year deal at the club.The 20-year-old is the son of Shaun and grandson of Arsenal legend Ian Wright.
Wright-Phillips made his debut in the Potters’ FA Cup win over Leyton Orient and kept his place for the Championship victory at Hull.
Manager Michael O’Neill said: “He is still a young player with a great deal of development ahead of him but he has really impressed myself and the coaching staff with his attitude and willingness to learn and deserves his new contract.”
Fuck, I feel very, very, old.
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Yeah, he was at the head of the class that insiders were saying was comparable in talent as the group that fueled Pep’s success. Notably, none of those reviews I read, and I read several, included Gavi or Nico in them. And certainly none included Ezzalzouli, Balde, or Jutgla. It seems maybe Barca knew what they had on their hands better than the insiders did.
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Who knows, might he’s still highly rated. Young player, new club, new league, new country. Leipzig had/have their own issues this season, second manager in charge, etc.
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I’m not entirely sure how taking Chambers out of Arsenal weakens them though.
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N’Dri Philippe Koffi from Reims to Pacos Ferreira on loan.
Simone Verdi from Torino to Salernitana on loan.
Marcelo (not that one!) has signed for Bordeaux as a free agent until the end of the season.
Andy Carroll has signed for WBA as a free agent until the end of the season.
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Vlahovic to Juventus has been confirmed.
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Jordan Torunarigha from Hertha to Gent on loan.
Stefano Sensi from Inter to Sampdoria on loan.
Kevin Paredes from DC United to Wolfsburg for £5.8m.
Riccardo Ciervo from Roma to Sassuolo on loan.
Andreas Skov Olsen from Bologna to Club Brugge for £6.3m.
Louie Barry from Villa to Swindon on loan.
Rasmus Hjolund from Copenhagen to Sturm Graz for £2.2m.
Sang-bin Jung from Suwon Bluewings to Wolves for £1m and then loaned out to Grasshoppers.
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Indeed.
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ESPN have had a headline for the last few days that reads “racist Vlahovic banner at Fiorentina” indicating that the ultras frustrated at the move referred to him as a gyspy. Does no one edit these things anymore? Can they not see how their intended meaning could have been conveyed with more clarity?
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66 million seems insane. You can pick a local lad off the park who’d bang in 20 a season in that league.
Nah, I don’t think so. Certainly not insane. Carroll in his time coming here was much more insane than this. I didn’t see enough of Vlahovic so I’m not best to judge his current quality and ceiling (but he does look more and more convincing), but I think financially it wasn’t a huge question mark, but more where exactly he’d go and when. He’ll also be on £110k per week. Haaland will be financially probably even less of a question, but again, where he goes exactly.
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Delano Burgzorg from Heracles to Mainz on loan.
Arthur Cabral from Basel to Fiorentina confirmed, £12.6m.
Federico Fazio from Roma to Salernitana on a free.
Mads Bidstrup from Brentford to Nordsjaelland on loan.
Felipe Caicedo from Genoa to Inter on loan.
Valerio Verre from Sampdoria to Empoli on loan.
Nadiem Amiri from Leverkusen to Genoa on loan.
Njegos Petrovic from Red Star Belgrade to Granada for £1.3m.
Adama Traore from Wolves to Barca on loan confirmed.
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Esequiel Barco from Atlanta to River Plate on loan.
Samuel Gigot from Spartak Moscow to Marseille for £1.8m and then left on loan at Spartak for the rest of the season.
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Mateusz Praszelik from Slask Wroclaw to Hellas Verona on loan.
Wessel Dammers from Groningen to Willem II on loan.
Morten Frendrup from Brondby to Genoa for £3.1m.
Samuele Ricci from Empoli to Torino on loan.
Ederson from Corinthians to Salernitana for £5.4m.
Danylo Ignatenko from Shakhtar to Bordeaux on loan.
Strong rumours linking Cantwell leaving on a loan to the Championship??? Firstly, why would Norwich allow him to leave on loan when they need to fight relegation? Secondly, why would Cantwell go to the Championship now? Even if no PL club wants him, he can just stay on in Norwich?
Because he’s rubbish.
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