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Victor Lindelof to Manchester United: The Red Devils are set to decide this week whether to sign the Swede now or wait until summer
JORGE MENDES is one of the biggest powers in the transfer market - and he’s involved in some huge prospective deals.
The Portuguese is agent for Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho, as well as megastars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Diego Costa and Radamel Falcao.
So far this year he’s been involved with deals, or prospective transfers, involving United, Chelsea, West Ham, Southampton and Manchester City.
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Revealed: The Premier League’s most successful academies
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Manchester United’s academy has produced more of this season’s Premier League stars than any other.
There have been 29 of the academy’s graduates - those who were at the academy when they made their senior debuts - to feature for the division’s clubs this season.
Those players have racked up 395 appearances in all competitions between them this season, more than any other club’s academy graduates. They’ve also played a total of 27,179 minutes of game time, which is also more than any other academy’s graduates have managed.
Only four of United’s academy graduates have turned out for the club this season though - Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford and Timothy Fosu-Mensah.
The rest are spread far and wide across the division such as Ryan Shawcross at Stoke, Danny Welbeck at Arsenal, Danny Simpson and Danny Drinkwater at Leicester and Will Keane at Hull.
Southampton and Tottenham have the Premier League’s next most productive academies.
Both clubs have had 16 of their academy graduates play for Premier League sides.
Spurs’ graduates have been more used though clocking up 13,997 minutes of game time to the Saints’ 12,790.
Arsenal are the top club for using their own academy graduates.
The Gunners have had 15 of their graduates feature for a Premier League side this season, 11 of whom have actually played for Arsene Wenger’s side.
The graduates of current Premier League sides only account for just over a quarter of game time played by those clubs this season though.
Just under a fifth, 18 per cent has been by players to come from the academies of sides currently in the lower leagues. Leeds’ academy is the most productive of those with seven current Premier League stars hailing from the West Yorkshire club’s famed academy.
The remaining 56 per cent of the game time played by Premier League players has been by those to come from overseas academies.
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Goals by James Ward-Prowse and Jay Rodriguez have put Southampton in control in their Premier League encounter with struggling champions Leicester at St Mary’s.
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Southampton 3-0 Leicester: Ward-Prowse, Rodriguez and Tadic strike
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James Ward-Prowse may be a Saint, but there is the touch of the devil about his delivery and if he starts to play like this on a regular basis then Southampton — and England — will have some player at their disposal.
The midfielder’s mind-bending technique produced one goal, set up another and it was a touch unfair that Dusan Tadic did not allow him to take the penalty for the third as Southampton easily dispatched reigning Premier League champions Leicester City.
Ward-Prowse has impressed as captain of England’s Under 21s and was close to a senior call-up under former manager Roy Hodgson, who publicly spoke of his admiration for the player.
Yet this was only his first goal in 22 appearances and sixth in 157 for the club. He has been asked to add more goals and crucial contributions to his game and should he do so then the 22-year-old’s early potential could yet be realised.
‘Since the beginning of the season he has made good progress, he is strong with a good presence, good physical recovery and quality on the pitch,’ manager Claude Puel said.
‘It is important also because it gives us situations with a good right foot on free-kicks, this gives us opportunities to score like the second goal with Jay Rodriguez.’
Ward-Prowse’s opener came in the 26th minute and while all of Southampton’s previous attacks had come down the left, as if by some masterful deception — as wicked as Ward-Prowse’s balls into the box — they scored from a move down the right.
Full back Cedric Soares had ploughed forward and cut the ball into the path of his team-mate, who was positioned just inside the box to the right of goal.
Such was the verve with which he struck the ball, first-time and right-footed, it whipped toward the far left of goal and though Kasper Schmeichel got the faintest of fingers to it the effort still nestled inside the left post.
Ward-Prowse’s delivery played a huge part in their 39th-minute second and the curve on the ball at the very least matched that strike.
From 40 yards out, he sent a free-kick hard and true into a place no opposition defender or goalkeeper wishes to see, and consequentially Leicester defender Robert Huth headed the ball inadvertently into the path of Rodriguez, who finished tidily from an angle to the left of goal.
Leicester’s performance was epitomised by captain Wes Morgan: at 2-0 down when the ball dropped to the centre-back from a set piece and he was only five yards out and with no-one around, he somehow shot over.
Then in the final five minutes he brought down substitute Shane Long inside his own box and Tadic made it three from the spot when many supporters were calling for Ward-Prowse to take it.
It was telling, also, that Jamie Vardy, second top-scorer in the league last season with 24 goals, failed to have a single shot on target and has only five this campaign.
‘If we don’t give him the last pass it’s difficult for him try to do everything alone,’ Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri said. ‘The strikers needs somebody who can make the right pass to them.’
The Italian admitted relegation is realistic prospect and the result left them only five points clear of third-bottom Crystal Palace, adding: ‘For this reason I want 40 points. I said this from the beginning of the season our target is 40 points. It’s important to achieve this as soon as possible.’
Nathan Redmond came close early on with a free header and low shot, both from Tadic’s deliveries from the left-hand side.
Leicester almost gifted them another midway through the second half, when Schmeichel and Christian Fuchs traded nervous passes at the back, until the defender played the ball straight to Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg who, one-on-one, should have converted.
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5 things we learned from Southampton 3-0 Leicester City
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Southampton got back to winning ways in the league after four successive defeats thanks to a comfortable win over Leicester.
First-half goals from James Ward-Prowse and Jay Rodriguez sent Leicester tumbling to another away defeat as they suffered more misery on the road.
It is now 11 league games without a win as their dreadful title defence continued.
And Rodriguez gave the hosts a 2-0 lead they were never in danger of losing when he pounced on Robert Huth’s poor header and lashed a second past Kasper Schmeichel.
Dusan Tadic put the icing on the cake from the spot late on after Wes Morgan felled Shane Long.
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Claude Puel’s men were staring at a fifth straight league defeat when they welcomed Leicester to St Mary’s. That hasn’t happened since 1998 and had they lost again it would have increased the heat on Puel.
Reaching the EFL Cup semi-finals is a notable achievement but in the league, where Southampton have continually improved in each of the last three seasons, they have underachived.
Going out of the Europa League at the group stage was also a big disappointment. Thankfully for Puel they avoided another setback thanks to a slick first-half performance and then saw the game out comfortably in the second half.
The next month could be horrible for Leicester. They have had a torrid time on the road this season and have yet to win away in the league all season.
It is now 11 games without a league win on their travels after this setback.
Four of their next five games are away from the King Power and if they don’t halt the slide sharpish the Foxes will find themselves sucked closer to the dropzone, out of the FA Cup – they travel to Derby next week – and could also be staring at a Champions League exit with an away trip to Sevilla next month.
The young forward was wasteful when he got into shooting positions but at least he showed a bit of life. He was the one Leicester attacker who tried to make things happen even if his final decision was often the wrong one.
He has had to be patient since he joined Leicester a year ago and this was just his fourth start of the season, all coming since December.
With Riyad Mahrez, Ahmed Musa and Marc Albrighton all under-performing this season he has now got his chance and added a bit of pace and spark to the Leicester attack that has been missing this campaign.
Leicester really struggled to cope with Southampton down both flanks, though it wasn’t just their wide attackers causing the problems. Both Saints full-backs flew forward at every opportunity making it double trouble for Leicester.
Cedric Soares combined with Nathan Redmond to help set up the first goal from the right-hand side.
And down the left Ryan Bertrand and Dusan Tadic worked in tandem and produced a string of dangerous deliveries all game as they gave the overworked all Danny Simpson a tough afternoon.
Few defenders can be as key to their clubs hopes as Virgil Van Dijk.
He is one of the two best centre-backs in the league alongside Tottenham’s Toby Alderweireld. And his importance to Southampton has gone up a notch following Jose Fonte’s departure to West Ham on Friday.
He has inherited the armband from the Euro 2016 winner and had already taken over as the club’s defensive lynchpin, even while stalwart Fonte was here.
He received a deserved standing ovation when he was forced off with an ankle injury in the second half.
But among the applause would have been anxiety and concern about how Southampton will get a result at Liverpool in Wednesday’s EFL Cup semi-final without him. If he doesn’t recover, their chances will decrease significantly.
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Southampton increased the pressure on Leicester City by inflicting a second straight 3-0 defeat on the champions at St Mary’s on Sunday afternoon.
The hosts led 2-0 at the break after strikes by James Ward-Prowse, his first goal since September, and Jay Rodriguez.
Dusan Tadic’s late penalty ensured the Foxes, who are still waiting for their first away win in the Premier League this season, remain deep in trouble in 15th place, five points above the relegation zone. The 37 goals they have now conceded is more than they shipped throughout the whole of last season.
The result moves Claude Puel’s side up to 11th, although the victory was soured by captain Virgil van Dijk going off with an ankle injury early in the second half.
Southampton made one change from their loss to Burnley in their last league game, with Rodriguez replacing Shane Long in attack.
Meanwhile, the visitors made three alterations from their 3-0 home defeat to leaders Chelsea with Danny Simpson, Shinji Okazaki and Demarai Gray replacing Marc Albrighton, Ben Chilwell and Ahmed Musa.
Southampton showed no signs of having one eye on their midweek EFL Cup semi-final second leg at Liverpool, with the Saints just one game away from Wembley, as they were on the front foot from the off.
Puel’s men had lost their last four games but Leicester No 1 Kasper Schmeichel was forced to turn a Nathan Redmond shot behind for a corner in the early exchanges.
However, midway through the first half Southampton broke the deadlock after a flowing move down their right flank involving Redmond and full-back Cedric Soares, whose clever pull back found Ward-Prowse. And the midfielder swept home despite Schmeichel getting a hand to his effort.
With six minutes remaining in the first half, Southampton doubled their lead, although Leicester will not be happy with how they defended Ward-Prowse’s inswinging free kick.
The normally imperious Robert Huth inadvertently headed the Englishman’s delivery straight into the path of the unmarked Rodriguez, who beat Schmeichel with a low drive at his near post.
Incredibly, that was the first time the Saints had scored more than one first-half goal in the league this season, and despite the hosts losing influential captain Van Dijk 10 minutes after the interval, their defence was rarely threatened.
The closest the Foxes came to getting back into the game was when Huth headed a cross from the right into the path of centre-back partner Wes Morgan, who somehow side-footed over the target from three yards out.
Leicester were made to pay for that miss when substitute Long raced through on goal, only to be upended by Morgan’s clumsy challenge. Tadic making no mistake from the spot to record just his second top-flight goal of the campaign, and his first since September.
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Dušan Tadić felt Southampton showed their determination to beat Leicester City as they saw off the champions 3-0 at St Mary’s.
After taking a first half lead through James Ward-Prowse, the hosts never looked back, and saw Jay Rodriguez double their advantage before the break.
Tadić, who played the full 90 minutes, stepped up late on to convert a penalty which ensured there was a more comfortable look to the scoreline, and the Serbian was delighted with the overall performance as Saints stopped a run of four consecutive Premier League defeats.
“I think it was a really good game from us,” he said. “I think from the beginning of the game we showed that we wanted to take three points and after four defeats we knew that we needed to win this game and I think we showed with our mentality and the way that we played.
“We never had four defeats in a row in the Premier League this season so we really needed this and we showed from the first moment today that we wanted to win this game and in the end we are happy.”
Saints hadn’t scored a league goal since the end of December, but they put that right in emphatic fashion against the Foxes.
“In the past three games we have created a lot of chances but not scored so many goals and this was one of the reasons,” said Tadić.
“But it’s important that we create chances and then the goals will come.”
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Saints beat the reigning Premier League champions 3-0 at St Mary’s, sending them into the second leg of their tie with the Reds high on confidence, as well as with a 1-0 aggregate lead.
Rodriguez, who scored in between efforts from James Ward-Prowse and Dušan Tadić, was thrilled with the team’s display against the Foxes.
"It was very good,” he said. “Three goals and a clean sheet – you can’t ask for more really from the lads. It’s a good result going into the game on Wednesday now.
"I think there were good moments in the first half. We looked dangerous and we looked solid at the back. We got the two goals, which was important.
“First half was good and second half they changed formation, which made it difficult for us, but I thought we dealt with it well.
"I thought we kept the ball well, we were happy to get the third and that was that.
"It’s important to get the confidence and the feel-good factor of winning. We know we’ve got a tough game now against Liverpool at their place, and we want to get to the final, which would be massive for us.”
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Southampton 3-0 Leicester: Rampant Saints back on form
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Saints brought their four game Premier League losing streak to end as James Ward-Prowse, Jay Rodriguez and Dusan Tadic condemned Leicester to their 11th top flight defeat of the season with a 3-0 win at St Mary’s.
Saints eased to victory, leaving Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester looking short of ideas in attack and worryingly frail at the back.
Saints’ cruise-control win was tempered by an ankle injury to captain Virgil van Dijk, leaving Claude Puel’s men short of centre-backs after Jose Fonte’s £8m switch to West Ham in midweek.
England Under-21s cap Jack Stephens filled the breach, and now Saints will hope Van Dijk can recover in time for Wednesday’s EFL Cup semi-final second leg at Liverpool.
Leicester’s decline continued unchecked on the south coast as last year’s defensive linchpins Robert Huth and Wes Morgan were again exposed.
Huth inadvertently laid on Southampton’s second goal, his attempt at a headed clearance turning into a knock-down that let the lurking Rodriguez sneak in and finish with relish.
And a potential own goal from Morgan was chalked off owing to a foul from Maya Yoshida. That reprieve hardly spared the visitors’ blushes however, with Tadic adding Saints’ third with a late penalty.
Southampton dominated from the off, deservedly taking the lead on 25 minutes through a crisp attack.
Van Dijk’s raking crossfield pass handed Cedric Soares time to exchange passes with Nathan Redmond and set the Saints off and running.
Redmond then bisected the defence down the inside-right channel, Cedric whipped in a low cross - and Ward-Prowse finished sweetly past Kasper Schmeichel.
And the Foxes conspired to compound their own misery when Huth headed a lofted free-kick straight into Rodriguez’s path for the Saints striker to double the hosts’ lead.
Leicester failed to cure their malaise after the break but Saints failed to capitalise, with Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg missing two clear-cut openings in quick succession.
The former Bayern Munich midfielder fired two low shots wide in near carbon-copy situations, the second proving most wasteful.
When Hojbjerg intercepted Christian Fuchs’ stray pass and raced through on goal Saints’ third appeared odds-on. Schmeichel was left to breathe a sigh of relief though as he watched Hojbjerg’s strike fly wide of the upright.
Leicester avoided yet more ignominy when Morgan’s own goal was chalked off, for a push by Yoshida. The day was still to worsen for Ranieri and company however, with Tadic firing home emphatically late on from the spot to round off a Southampton win which was all too easy.
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