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Serie A: Why ex-Man Utd midfielder, McTominay is doing well at Napoli – Conte

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Napoli manager, Antonio Conte has suggested that midfielder, Scott McTominay is doing well at the club because he gave him a ‘main role’ in his team.

Recall that McTominay was signed by Napoli in a £25.7 million deal from Man United last summer.

The Scotland international has been an immediate hit in Serie A, scoring 11 goals and providing two assists so far this season.

McTominay struggled to establish his best midfield role since making his first-team breakthrough for Man United in 2017.

The 28-year-old scored only seven goals for Man United in his final season with the Red Devils before he was sold.

Speaking at his pre-match press conference on Friday ahead of Napoli’s Serie A clash with Lecce on Saturday, Conte said: “I have always said that you have to find solutions in the search for goals.

“When there is this type of situation you have to find a cooperative and tactical solutions, even for improvement.

“I think McTominay is stronger today than when he arrived from United. Here he has grown a lot.

“I think that he, himself, feels stronger, with more knowledge, that he is also reaching an important stage of his age to understand where to go in his career because up to now he has been in the middle, he has never had a main role at United that instead we have given him here, he has grown a lot by working, today he is complete.”

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Club World Cup 2025: Chelsea thrash PSG 3-0 to win final

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Chelsea thrashed Paris Saint-Germain 3–0 in the Club World Cup final on Sunday.

The Blues were considered underdogs ahead of the game, in which they came up against the Ligue 1 and Champions League winners.

However, it was the Premier League club who flew out of the blocks in the first half, scoring the three goals that effectively decided the match.

Cole Palmer curled in a pair of identical goals from the right side of the box, putting Chelsea firmly in control at the MetLife Stadium.

Palmer then provided a slide-rule pass for João Pedro to make it 3–0, his third goal of the tournament since joining Chelsea.

There were no goals in the second half, as Enzo Maresca’s men held on to win the Club World Cup, in addition to the UEFA Conference League they clinched last month.

For PSG, they will not be winning an unprecedented sextuple, but they will have a chance to claim the UEFA Super Cup next month against Tottenham.

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Sporting President, Varandas reacts as Viktor Gyokeres skips pre-season amid Arsenal transfer push

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Frederico Varandas, Sporting CP president has expressed his displeasure after Viktor Gyokeres failed to turn up for the club’s pre-season amid the striker’s push to join Arsenal this summer.

Gyokeres is very desperate to join the Gunners and as a result he didn’t sto report to camp on Saturday evening for Sporting’s pre-season.

Arsenal supposedly offered a €65m bid plus €15m in performance-based add-ons, but Sporting wants a €70m plus a further €10m in bonuses for the Swedish player.

Speaking on the development, Varandas said (via Fabrizio Romano): “If they don’t want to pay Viktor’s fair market value, we are very comfortable with that for the next three years.

“This strategy is also making it more complicated for the player [Gyokeres] to leave.

“Nobody is above the interests of the club. Whoever they are”.

Varandas added that Sporting is calm as everything will be resolved before the summer transfer window will close.

He, however, suggested that the club will be imposed a huge fine on Gyokeres for not showing up for pre- season and the player will be asked to offer an apology.

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EPL: Replace Sanchez, you can’t win any trophy with him – Obi Mikel tells Chelsea

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John Obi Mikel, former Chelsea midfielder, has urged the Blues to replace goalkeeper, Robert Sanchez this summer.

According to the former Super Eagles captain, Chelsea can’t win any trophy in the new season with Sanchez as their number goalkeeper.

“A lot of the Chelsea fans can agree that we need another top goalkeeper because Sanchez isn’t doing it,” Obi Mikel told talkSPORT.

“The goalkeeper situation needs to be sorted out. We can’t go into the new season with Sanchez, I am sorry.

“I am sure that 99% of the Chelsea fans will agree with me that Sanchez isn’t the goalkeeper that’ll win us trophies. Definitely not.”

Last month, Obi Mikel urged Chelsea to sign Benfica goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin.

The former Nigeria international insisted that Chelsea need Trubin in the new season.

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