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Steve Nicol: Chelsea won’t sign Liverpool target Virgil van Dijk this summer
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Steve Nicol doesn’t think Chelsea will sign Virgil van Dijk this summer
That’s the opinion of Steve Nicol who thinks Antonio Conte has plenty of options at centre-back with the likes of David Luiz and Gary Cahill.
The ex-Liverpool man also believes a move for Van Dijk will set back any club upwards of £50m.
The Dutchman handed in a transfer request earlier this week as he looks to force a move to a major club in the Premier League.
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“For him I think it would be a great move, again I’m not so sure Chelsea are desperate because you’ve got (Gary) Cahill, you’ve got (David) Luiz,” Nicol said on ESPN FC.
“They have choices at centre-back, particularly if they play three.
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Premier League kits then and now: How the strips from 1992 compare to the 2017 shirts
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Stream live Premier League match commentaries this season on talkSPORT.com – or tune in via your radio. Click here for upcoming match commentary details.
It’s 25 years since the inaugural Premier League season and plenty has changed in the English top flight since then.
Not least the clubs that comprise the elite in England (and Wales).
In the 1992-93 season, the Premier League was made up of 22 clubs. Fast forward 25 years, and not only has that number long since been cut to 20 teams, but only nine were present in the division back then and now.
Take a look at the gallery above to see how their early 1990s kits compare to the modern versions.
Which do you prefer? Comment below!
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Stat Pack: Saints vs Swansea City
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Southampton have won six of their last eight meetings with Swansea in the Premier League (W6 D0 L2).
Swansea’s only win at St Mary’s in the Premier League came in February 2015, with Jonjo Shelvey scoring the winner that day (D1 L3).
The Swans have failed to score in six of their 10 Premier League contests against Southampton.
In their last 10 Premier League seasons, Southampton have picked up an opening day win once (1-0 v West Brom in 2013, D5 L4).
Southampton have never won an opening day home fixture in the Premier League (D5 L4).
Swansea are unbeaten in their last three Premier League games to start the season (W2 D1).
The Swans will play away on the opening weekend in the Premier League yet again - only one of Swansea’s previous six Premier League seasons has started at home (2013-14, lost 4-1 to Manchester United).
Southampton will be looking to record their 1000th home league win in this match, since joining the Football League Third Division South in 1920-21 (P1881 W999 D485 L397).
Only one team – relegated Sunderland (16) – scored fewer home Premier League goals than Southampton’s tally of 17 last season.
Swansea loan signing Tammy Abraham – who has only two previous Premier League games to his name, both as a substitute for Chelsea – was the top scoring teenager in the Football League last season, netting 23 goals for Bristol City in the Championship.
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Alexandre Lacazette, Romelu Lukaku, Alvaro Morata - who is your team’s No 9?
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With Premier League squads taking shape, we take a look at each side’s No 9 entrusted with goalscoring duties this campaign.
Modern day squad numbers might not hold the gravitas that they used to - teams up and down the land no longer simply line up from one to 11 - but certain shirt numbers are still more coveted than others, with No 9 still seen as the leading marksman.
Alan Shearer, Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole are just some of the famous No 9s of Premier League seasons past - but as well as some high-profile summer signings carrying the weight of expectation, this term’s No 9 club features a few players still struggling to shine in front of goal.
Who is your club’s No 9 this season? Will they live up to the billing? Take a look…
The 2017/18 Premier League season kicks off with a Friday Night Football clash between Arsenal and Leicester. Watch live from 7pm on the new Sky Sports Premier League and Main Event channels.
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Gallery: Lemina’s first training session
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Jamie Carragher: Why I think Virgil van Dijk will choose Liverpool over Chelsea
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Virgil van Dijk has handed in a transfer request at Southampton
The Southampton defender is in demand with Chelsea also keen on his signature.
He’s handed in a transfer request but the Saints are adamant he will not be sold.
However, the situation seems so toxic that it appears something has to give.
And Kop legend Carragher has a feeling the lure of being the main man, rather than a bit-part figure at Chelsea, could swing it in Liverpool’s favour.
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Best goal? Sportsmail reflects on 25 years of Premier League football
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The Premier League is heading into its 25th season, with the English top flight still regarded as one of the most competitive competitions in world football.
Since the start of the 1992-93 season, there has been no shortage of drama, from Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’ to Leicester City’s fairytale season.
To celebrate 25 years of the Premier League, we asked Sportsmail’s experts to pick their best player and best goal of the era.
Thierry Henry: It was like he was playing a different game at times. He used to glide, he was so smooth. The way he used to run down the left, cut inside and bend one into the corner was amazing. If you closed your eyes you could picture him doing it time after time.
He was an incredible footballer, scored unbelievable goals and if you had him in your team you would have won league after league. He had a sensational appetite to win. There have been some brilliant Premier League players — Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Alan Shearer, Roy Keane, Patrick Vieira — but Henry was the one.
Roy Keane: Would have got in any Premier League team of the last 25 years. A leader and warrior and a much better technical footballer than many people appreciate.
Thierry Henry: I am a huge fan of Roy Keane — he was very influential in that unbelievable Manchester United era — and Alan Shearer’s goals put him up there, but the best has to be Henry.
Not only was he the best player in the Premier League, he was the best player in world football for a period. You could not say that about many others. In the Invincible team he was unplayable. The goals he scored and the threat he was in that Arsenal team were absolutely sensational.
Paul Scholes: I loved how this serial winner was so brilliantly effective and reliable without being the slightest bit flash. We’ll overlook his tackling.
Ryan Giggs: The boy wonder who accumulated a treasure chest of trophies. A fixture in Manchester United’s team, capable of regularly providing moments of jaw-dropping brilliance.
Thierry Henry: An Olympic sprinter with football boots instead of spikes. At his peak, his pace, power and swagger made him almost unplayable.
Dennis Bergkamp: A true magician. Scorer of great goals, and creator of them.
Thierry Henry: A player with more flair, grace, skill and athleticism than anyone else we have seen in modern English football.
Alan Shearer: Guaranteed goals wherever he played. At Blackburn 113 in 133 games was incredible. Honourable mentions: Thierry Henry, Paul Scholes.
Paul Scholes: In terms of pure talent, it has to be Cristiano Ronaldo. But for a personal favourite: Scholes. He was a joy to watch, so utterly at ease on the ball and with a mind like no other.
His passing was blade-of-grass perfect and his shooting absolute dynamite. He was tough and no-frills too, which appealed ever more as the game shifted on.
Thierry Henry: Close between Henry and Eric Cantona, who you suspect was never quite as good as he wanted to be. Henry is an example of sustained, bankable brilliance.
Ryan Giggs: Was a player unsurpassed in terms of longevity and consistency of success.
Thierry Henry: Football should be fun. Thierry Henry on a football pitch made the game fun. One touch and go. Defenders feared his turn of pace and goalkeepers rarely worked out which part of their goal he’d target next. At his prime one of the best to play the game.
Alan Shearer: The greatest goalscorer in the Premier League. Englishman who scored the simple and the spectacular.
Ryan Giggs: Great to watch. Longevity of his career underlined dedication to his craft
David Silva: Underappreciated because of his lack of goals but he is magical on the ball and with his vision.
Ryan Giggs: A dribble wizard turned master craftsman, who won it all.
Matt Le Tissier: One-man goal of the season contest. And everything the Premier League was not supposed to be — understated, unfashionable, slightly out of condition and not interested in chasing the money.
Thierry Henry: He was breathtaking to watch, scorer of stunners and owning the classiest sidefoot in world football.
The most incredible goal I have seen live. There have been great volleys from Alan Shearer, Henry’s dribbling, great team goals, but the most dramatic I have seen was Aguero snatching the title for City — and denying United — in the dying seconds of the season.
The moment, added to Martin Tyler’s commentary and Gary Neville’s face — that makes it for me!
So exquisitely unique that even now — after endless viewings — I still can’t work out exactly what he did, never mind how he did it.
An incredible goal. There are a lot of good strikes and people who lash the ball in but this was Le Tissier at his best. He turned a couple of players inside out and then placed it from about 35 yards into Tim Flowers’ top corner.
Flowers tried to save it but eventually took his hands away because he’s nowhere near it. It was the fact that he didn’t go for sheer power that did it for me. He knew what he was doing, he placed it with amazing accuracy. A stunning goal.
The way he salvaged a win for Spurs in the dying seconds with this wonderful strike summed up everything about a world star who was made in the Premier League.
Not the most spectacular, not the most obvious but the dramatic strike that defined the greatest Premier League match played in the last 25 years.
After selling onrushing goalkeeper Ed De Goey with a dummy on the byline, Kanu floated in a shot from the tightest of angles that left two World Cup-winning defenders in Marcel Desailly and Frank Leboeuf floundering. This last-minute strike completed a hat-trick that saw us win from 2-0 down!
Perhaps the most inventive free-kick in the Premier League era. Flick up, volley, goal. Truly audacious, utterly brilliant.
Extraordinary — back to goal, flick of the foot and a stunning volley on the turn.
Stunning display of skill, balance, pace and precision from the sadly departed Villa man. Brilliant goal, brilliant celebration.
Possibly because it came during the early days of my match-going experience but this chip has a magnetism about it like no other goal in my memory. It was a cold winter night but Cantona strutted across the pitch and delivered a finish that hung in the air before hitting its target with millimetre precision. Then that celebration.
Only his brain and feet could have come up with that.
‘Barnes, Rush, Barnes, still John Barnes… Collymore closing in!’ Late, late goals are great. This one had an impact, a 4-3 scoreline ending Newcastle’s title hopes. Pure drama and a deafening roar from the Kop.
The flick, the turn, the finish. A thing of beauty.
Peter Crouch for Stoke against Manchester City in 2012 deserves a mention but, for importance, Aguero’s title clincher in 2012
‘Yeboah with a chance,’ said the commentator, arguably the biggest overstatement in football history. Better because he hit the bar.
Arrogance, skill and style — everything that defined Henry — in an extraordinary bundle.
I can still hear the commentary: ‘It’s a great run, now what about the finish? Oh! That’s not bad either!’
Back to goal, flick up under pressure from Denis Irwin and a volley all in one movement to leave Fabian Barthez helpless.
We also asked our experts to pick the best manager and, bar one dissenting voice, they all plumped for Sir Alex Ferguson.
Arsene Wenger: If it were not for Wenger, the Premier League would not be in the shape it is today. Revolutionised the game.
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Tottenham close in on first signing of the summer with Paulo Gazzaniga
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Tottenham are close to sealing their first signing of the summer with Southampton goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga set for a move to London.
Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino wants back-up for No 1 Hugo Lloris and has identified his countryman as the man he wants.
The pair have worked together before during the Argentine manager’s spell in charge at St Mary’s.
Gazzaniga, 25, has made 21 Premier League appearances for the Saints - but his chances of more game time are minimal at St Mary’s due to England international Fraser Forster.
Tottenham have come under question for biding their time in the current market, with less than a month of the transfer window remaining.
Spurs were also interested in Valencia full back Joao Cancelo, though have since stepped back on any move for the player.
The 23-year-old is expected to join Juventus, though Spurs’ Premier League rivals Chelsea have also entered the equation.
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Who scored your club’s first Premier League goal?
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With the start of the new season now just around the corner, we look at who netted your club’s first goal in the Premier League…
The 2017/18 campaign sees Brighton and Huddersfield compete in the Premier League for the first time. That means a season of firsts lies ahead, with the dressing room bragging rights up for grabs in West Yorkshire and on the south coast as players vie to be their club’s first Premier League goalscorer.
That accolade has already been bestowed upon some familiar and not-so familiar faces at the other 18 Premier League clubs - feats that cannot be unwritten.
Who netted your club’s first strike? Think you know the answer? Well, read on to find out….
The 2017/18 Premier League season kicks off with a Friday Night Football clash between Arsenal and Leicester. Watch live from 7pm on the new Sky Sports Premier League and Main Event channels.
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QUIZ: Match Martin Tyler’s famous commentaries with the goals
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As we embark on another Premier League season, we look back at some of Martin Tyler’s famous commentaries, and ask you to match them up with the goal.
We’ve gathered 10 of Tyler’s most emotive sound bites from the last few decades, from overhead kicks to last-minute winners, and edited out the name of the goalscorer.
We’ve left out ‘Aguerooooo’, because that’s just too easy, and this selection of goals should test even the most ardent of football fans.
Watched enough hours of Premier League Years to recite Tyler’s best moments off by heart? Test yourself below…
Let us know your scores in the comments section below but please adhere to our House Rules. If you wish to report any comment, simply click on the down arrow next to the offending comment and click ‘Report’.
The Premier League kicks off on Friday evening with Arsenal v Leicester, live on Sky Sports Premier League from 7pm, and remember to check in to SkySports.com for the return of Martin Tyler’s column from next week.
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