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Crystal Palace have now joined the race to sign an “outstanding” new centre-back, following a new update on Marc Guehi’s future at Selhurst Park.

Palace looking to sign Guehi replacement

After Liverpool missed out on the signing of Guehi on deadline day, it remains up in the air where the England international will end up, but according to a new update, a move to Real Madrid could be on the cards, as the Santiago Bernabeu is the Palace captain’s priority destination.

Oliver Glasner remained tight-lipped when asked for an update on the defender’s future, saying: “You will ask me all these questions again and again and again. I need to find one answer. I will always tell you the same, as long as I don’t know anything else. Because, believe me, if I knew something. I would tell you.

“I don’t know what will happen with Marc [Guehi]. I don’t know what will happen with new players, and I don’t know what will happen with JP [Jean-Philippe Mateta], I don’t know anything.”

However, the Eagles have now started planning for life after Guehi, with the 25-year-old’s contract set to expire at the end of the season, and the likes of Manchester City’s Nathan Ake and Lens star Samson Baidoo have emerged as targets.

According to a report from Caught Offside, Crystal Palace have also joined the race to sign Udinese centre-back Oumar Solet, having sent scouts to watch the Frenchman in action, but there could be competition for his signature from rival Premier League clubs.

Indeed, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Aston Villa, West Ham United and Manchester United have also been credited with an interest in Solet, who is represented by the same agent as Brennan Johnson, and could be available in a loan-to-buy agreement during the current transfer window.

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The Melun-born defender has been a key player for Udinese in the Serie A this season, making 18 appearances, while he also caught scout Antonio Mango’s eye during his time at Red Bull Salzburg.

Having averaged 1.89 tackles per 90 over the past year, the Udinese ace ranks in the 80th percentile, when compared to other centre-backs, with an average of 1.52 blocks per 90 placing him in the 83rd percentile.

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The 6 foot 4 colossus is also known for his ability to push forward, being described as “marauding” by scout Jacek Kulig, which could make him a solid replacement for Guehi, who is also capable of making an impact in attack, picking up two goals and two assists in the Premier League this term.

Solet could be an exciting addition to Glasner’s squad, but rival interest from the likes of Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester United could pose a problem.

West Ham have made the ‘only’ concrete bid for an in-form striker, and his club have promised to let him leave on the condition they get a suitable fee.

West Ham fail to beat Brighton in thrilling 2-2 draw

West Ham’s alarming winless run reached eight matches following a dramatic 2-2 draw with Brighton that featured three first-half penalties at the London Stadium.

The result leaves the Hammers four points adrift of safety, still in eighteenth, while Brighton extended their own barren run to six games without victory.

West Ham struck first when Lucas Paqueta’s clever pass released Jarrod Bowen to round Bart Verbruggen and finish calmly in the tenth minute, with Brighton equalising through Danny Welbeck’s penalty after Max Kilman tripped Yankuba Minteh.

Welbeck actually missed a second spot kick moments later when his audacious Panenka struck the crossbar following Lucas Paqueta’s foul on Lewis Dunk.

West Ham then regained their advantage deep into first-half stoppage time when Paqueta converted from 12 yards after Dunk handled Callum Wilson’s goalbound effort.

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Brighton manager Fabian Hürzeler introduced Kaoru Mitoma and Brajan Gruda at half-time and the changes proved decisive when Joel Veltman capitalised on Alphonse Areola’s poor punch from a corner to tap home the equaliser sixteen minutes after the restart.

Brighton appealed for another penalty when Mitoma went down under Bowen’s challenge, but VAR declined to intervene.

Both sides created late opportunities without finding a winner, condemning each team to end 2025 mired in poor form and desperately seeking improvement in the new year.

It was yet another stark reminder that West Ham’s options simply aren’t good enough, and how January could be crucial in determining their Premier League survival.

Nuno Espírito Santo hooked Callum Wilson midway through the second period with no decent alternative on the bench, with West Ham trying to remedy that behind-the-scenes.

According to reports this week, West Ham could turn to Viktoria Plzen striker Rafiu Durosinmi.

West Ham make 'only' concrete bid for Rafiu Durosinmi

According to journalist Pete O’Rourke this week, West Ham submitted a £12 million bid for Durosinmi, but reports from the Czech Republic actually state the real fee is much lower.

iSport and journalist Jonas Bartos state that interest from the Hammers represents the ‘only concrete offer’ received thus far when it comes to the Nigeria international, despite murmurs of interest from other clubs.

While O’Rourke claimed West Ham tabled £12m for Durosinmi, Czech sources indicate the actual figure offered stands significantly lower at around £4.3 million.

Plzeň have deemed this sum unacceptable and remain unwilling to sell their influential striker below their asking price despite his desire to test himself in England’s top flight.

Despite reports to the contrary, ISport claim that the 22-year-old’s contract actually expires in 2027, rather than 2026 mentioned elsewhere, and this gives Plzen more leeway to demand extra cash.

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Plzeň also supported him through serious knee injuries and subsequent operations that derailed a nearly-completed transfer to Eintracht Frankfurt in 2023.

That being said, the club have promised Durosinmi they will greenlight his exit to an elite European league, provided any interested party meets their valuation.

The powerful striker has scored seven league goals in 18 appearances this season alongside four strikes in European competition, totalling around 22 this calendar year in all competitions.

Interest from Benfica, Lazio and multiple Premier League and Championship clubs continues to build around Durosinmi as the transfer window looms.

The forward particularly impressed gainst Lazio in March’s Europa League round of 16, scoring once and providing an assist across both legs of the tie.

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Scott Weenink will be stepping down as New Zealand Cricket (NZC) chief executive. He has cited differences with “several member association” and the players’ association when it comes to “future priorities of NZC and long-term direction of the game” for his decision. Weenink will step away from the position on January 30, 2026 after a two-and-a-half-year stint.”After careful consideration,” Weenink said in a media statement, “it has become clear that I hold a different view from several member associations, and the NZCPA [New Zealand Cricket Players’ Association], on the future priorities for NZC, including the long-term direction of the game and the best role for T20 cricket in New Zealand. Given these differences, I believe it is in the best interests of the organisation that new leadership takes NZC forward from here.”While I am saddened to leave after such a successful period, I do not wish to create ongoing instability by continuing without the support of some key stakeholders. I depart with pride in the excellent progress made by NZC during my time as CEO, and confidence in the people in NZC who will carry the game forward.Related

• Plans being developed for NZ20 league in January 2027

“I will return to the role of executive chair of Xceda Group, subject to regulatory approvals, in the new year. I will take with me great memories of my time with NZC.”Weenink was appointed chief executive of NZC in August 2023, and under him, New Zealand won the women’s T20 World Cup and a men’s Test series in India in 2024 and made the final of the men’s Champions Trophy in 2025.His announcement came in the wake of new that plans were being put in place to launch the NZ20, a franchise-based T20 league in the country, by January 2027.The league’s operating model would be similar to that of the Caribbean Premier League, with the tournament receiving the license from NZC but being managed independently. That tournament, once it’s in place, will replace the men’s and women’s Super Smash.The league requires approval from NZC. Don MacKinnon, who heads the NZ20 establishment committee, wishes to have clarity over that call, ideally by January 2026.

A knock on the head didn’t seem to affect Paul Harris’ batting © AFP

Paul ‘Sachin’ Harris
He’s tormented Pakistan enough with the ball, but it was now Paul Harris’ turn to do so with the bat. He arrived early this morning and took a crunching blow to the head to begin with. But the more he hung around, the better he got. Having survived a barrage of bouncers and frustrating Danish Kaneria with the sweep, he pulled out the day’s glory off Mohammad Asif: a drive on the up, straight enough past the stumps, elbow high, Sachin Tendulkar’s trademark stroke. It was, for Pakistan, the most dispiriting moment of the day.Are we in Johannesburg? – III
Perhaps learning from Pakistan’s mistakes earlier, Dale Steyn kept it full in his first over and Kamran Akmal duly played-and-missed on several occasions. However, reverting to the shorter length, Steyn was edged over the slips for a four, straight-driven for another, pulled past mid-on for a third, driven to cover for three and finally driven to the backward point boundary to end a 19-run over.Guard of honour
As Inzamam-ul-Haq strode out of ODIs in Jamaica, he was given a guard of honour by his team-mates. A repeat of that, with the South African team lining up near the pitch and welcoming the local hero as he ambled in at the fall of Akmal’s wicket, for what could very well be his last outing. As suggested by our very own Cricinfo journalist, it might well have been a tactic employed for a flow of emotions which, in turn, could lead to an early dismissal.Nel kneels to pray
Pakistan’s openers were tearing into South Africa’s attack, Andre Nel was tearing into Pakistan and something had to give. In the 14th over of the innings, Butt left a ball from Nel that angled in and missed the stumps by a few inches. Nel’s follow-through is one of cricket’s great sights; this time he curved round, off the pitch and knelt down cursing his luck. Anywhere else, that would’ve been that. In Pakistan, during Ramadan, and on a ground where Mohammad Yousuf first knelt down in a prayer of thanks (for his double century), the gesture was significant, as the crowd’s roars of approval proved.Rattled yet again
Younis Khan, with an aggressive century in his previous Test outing a few days ago, was welcomed by a loud Lahore crowd, hoping for a repeat of aggression right from the start. Clipping his second delivery to midwicket for three, Younis was on his way. Well, until a quick delivery, prompting a rash drive, sneaked in between bat and pad to peg back Younis’ off stump. A reckless shot to be dismissed cheaply again, this was the third time Younis had his stumps rattled in three consecutive innings.Marathon man
Pakistan are in the midst of a fitness makeover and Kamran Akmal appears to be one of the beneficiaries. He told David Dwyer, the new fitness trainer, that he felt the freshest he has ever been after keeping for 90 overs under the Karachi sun. He kept here for 125 overs before calmly trotting out to open Pakistan’s innings. A flurry of boundaries and a second half-century, off only 56 balls, suggests he wasn’t kidding about how fresh he feels. If only he could hold on to the catches.

Tom Moody: job comes first © Getty Images

Tom Moody has insisted that he will honour his contract as Sri Lanka’s coach despite security concerns for foreign nationals in the volatile region. Escalating violence in Sri Lanka, where a three-decade-old separatist ethnic conflict has claimed more then 60,000 lives, forced Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s website to issue warnings of kidnapping for ransom.”It has not got to the point where it has stopped me from thinking about doing my job,” Moody told . “When you’re out of the country it probably appears a bigger deal and more of an issue than it is to the people who are here. The Sri Lankan people have grown relatively immune to these kind of things. It’s not as though the people are daring not to venture outside. There has been a significant increase in the military and police presence, which is comforting. In a way, I’m becoming immune, too.”South Africa’s withdrawal from a tri-series last month following a bomb blast in a Colombo marketplace was another indication of the fragility of the situation. Moody, though, felt that no cricketer was safe from danger: “I think there has to be a realisation that in this day and age, no matter whether you’re in London, Sydney or Colombo, you have to be mindful of the unpleasant possibility of terrorist action”.Already tipped as a strong candidate to succeed John Buchanan as coach of Australia after the World Cup, Moody looked back at Sri Lanka’s recent success. “Things had been very good. We took a lot of confidence out of the England series,” he said. “From a team and an individual point of view, the build-up over the last six months has been really pleasing. This is something we have worked hard at. It’s certainly not something that happened overnight.”This has been 14 months in the making. South Africa’s withdrawal was frustrating from the viewpoint of momentum. The more wins we could have got under the belt, the better. But with the bad comes the good. It has given us the opportunity to rest our guys, and gives those with a few niggles time to recover.”

Whatmore: Will only leave when he is not wanted © Getty Images

Dav Whatmore, the Bangladesh coach, said Thursday he would quit only when he feels he is not doing his best to improve the Test minnows’ fortunes in international cricket.Bangladesh’s cricketing image suffered yet another blow when they lost the second and final Test against Sri Lanka by an innings and 69 runs on the third day at the P. Saravanamuttu stadium to surrender the series 2-0.It was Bangladesh’s 35th defeat – and 24th by an innings margin – in 40 matches since gaining Test status in 2000. They have won just one Test, against a depleted Zimbabwean side at home early this year.Whatmore, who was named Bangladesh coach in 2003, said, “As soon as I feel that I am not wanted or not doing a good job I will go, like I did with Sri Lanka in 1996 before my contract expired.”The Australian coach was referring to his quitting the Sri Lankan coaching post soon after helping them win the 1996 World Cup.”I will continue to push the cause of Bangladesh cricket,” said Whatmore, whose contract lasts up until the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies.Under Whatmore, Bangladesh have sprung a few major surprises in one-day cricket. They beat India at home last year and then beat World Cup winners Australia in a triangular series match in England in June.Whatmore said his team had a chance of putting pressure on Sri Lanka before losing both the Tests by an innings margin inside three days.”We gained advantage on the first days of both the Tests but handed it over to the opposition.”Don’t forget they were 48 for four here. If the catch of (Tillakaratne) Dilshan had been taken it would have been 60-5,” he said of the dropped catch before the Sri Lankan batsman had reached double-figures.Dilshan went on to make a career-best 168 to help his side post a massive 457-9 declared in the first innings.Bangladesh managed just 191 and 197 to end their tour on a disappointing note. They were also beaten in three one-dayers before the Tests.

ScorecardAfter two days of keenly contested cricket, Zimbabwe A mustered up some batting courage to go five runs ahead in their second innings with all ten wickets intact. Brendan Taylor and Stuart Matsikenyeri scored half-centuries in an unbeaten 126-run stand as Zimbabwe A cleared a 121-run first-innings deficit. South Africa A had earlier made 307, a score that looked unlikely given the precarious position they were in midway through their innings.On the first day, Zimbabwe were in deep trouble. They had been bowled out cheaply, with Paul Adams and Albie Morkel eking out eight wickets. To make matters worse, the South Africans notched up 88 runs pretty quickly. Only Mark Vermuelen and Edward Rainsford stood their ground, but even their contributions were quickly beginning to pale with this overpowering South African display.But on the second next morning, Rainsford ransacked the batsmen. An overnight score of 88 for 1 became 115 for 6, and Rainsford had his hand in four of those dismissals. Abraham de Villiers scored 91, but the middle order couldn’t take the heat. The Zimbabweans were well and truly back, but not for the last time, the game turned. Morkel (76), Adams (35) and Garnett Kruger (55) took the team past 300. The last four wickets added nearly 200 runs.You’d expect the Zimbabweans to crash after such an energy-sapping time in the field. To their credit, they shrugged off the setback and went about building their innings and tried to put themselves in a position to win the game. This game has already had plenty of excitement, and the next two days will probably make for decent viewing.

We need to draw appropriate lessons from Pakistan team’s gratifying but unconvincing performance in Sri Lanka to help remain on track towards building a top-level team.I would like to offer some views to make this rebuilding process truly productive and enduring.Historically, the term rebuilding when used around a cricket team usually has an unsavoury context. It has often been used to rationalise any consistent failure of a team by maintaining that it was in a rebuilding process.I was in the West Indies recently and the conversation with knowledgeable cricket fans was invariably about what was wrong with both Pakistan and West Indies cricket. I tried to explain that “actually we were rebuilding”, to which they shot back, “Maaan, they all say that; look at the West Indies, we have been rebuilding for the last ten years.”This left me wondering about all those statements in recent years by Pakistani cricket management dismissing any losses with remarks that there is nothing to worry about, “we are preparing for the World Cup”. In fact, even the term rebuilding was used several times in this context.In this latest round we are now being made to believe as if the concept of rebuilding has just been discovered, and that we have to persist with it and on top to have confidence in the Board as it rebuilds. The results however tell a different story.In all honesty, the General running the cricket board has also done some good things for Pakistan cricket for which, I am afraid, he has not been given due credit.So, for all its shortcomings, I am resigned to accept the existing system, which in any case is not accessible to my influence or capacity to change.In a good cricket administration the rebuilding is not an event but a process. And a good process does not have to be assigned any labels, rebuilding or anything else.It would be pertinent to begin here with a popular misconception, which is the concept of not changing a “winning combination”. When we win, even if it is against Bangladesh, or a below strength regular competitor, up goes the slogan that not only our cricket has been rejuvenated but also that we have found a “winning combination”. Just because a team has won a match or even a tournament does not make it a winning combination, not to be altered under any circumstances.I have seen matches in the past which were won purely by the efforts of one or two players, especially bowlers, and often in the face of some rank bad performance by some others whose retention in the team should have been reviewed but this never happened with us.The approach to rebuilding should be marked neither by complacency nor panic. Old players who are past their prime should in normal course be eased out before they become deadwood and a liability. And this has to be done irrespective of any past public adulation they may have enjoyed. Indeed, their mythical status often owes to their image building by the Board itself with such appellations that so and so is a “national asset” etc. And unfortunately the label remains in currency long after the player has passed on from being a national asset to a national “heritage”.It creates discipline problems besides making it hard to drop such players. The media also, which is otherwise very knowledgeable and professional, sometimes creates pressures for the Board by lobbying on behalf of players. And there are different, and often conflicting and contradictory, voices speaking for differentplayers. Who does the Board listen to?Now what is the best way to blood in new and young players?To bring them in one by one in phases, so that there are older and experienced players still around to take them under their wings, guide them and facilitate their initiation. Look at what happened when a completely changed and young team was fielded against the Australians resulting in their being shot out in fifties in both the innings.There is another way to bring in new players. They should be introduced when the team is still strong and on a winning streak. It is much easier on the morale of a young player to be initiated as part of a winning team, not a losing team. See how even some of the players with no exceptional talent have blossomed by beinginitiated into the current winning Australian team. I am sure if they had been brought into a losing outfit they would have by now come and gone, never to be heard of again. Even in our own team some of the most successful inductions were done in the glory days of our cricket, under Mushtaq’s and Imran’s captaincyThirdly, if possible we should wait for not too tough a competitor to introduce a new player, specially a batsman, and do so preferably in a home series. Remember some of our best players in the past were introduced in a home series – such as Mushtaq Mohammad, Majid Khan, Asif Iqbal, Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad, Saleem Malik, and Inzamam (even though it was a one day series), to name only a few. It is true there were no neutral umpires or TV replays then and we may have had the advantage of having a few “nationalistic” umpires, but the argument still holds.I shall conclude this article with two suggestions for the Board. One relates to the team and the other to the Board.Firstly about the team and especially the batsmen. I shall begin by saying that Miandad is potentially the best coach we can have. And I compliment the Board for appointing him. It was sad he had to leave just before the 1999 World Cup, because certain players got so carried away about the sudden resurgence of the team, to which Miandad had indeed contributed, that they thought they could get rid of him and claim credit for the likely win at the World Cup themselves. And they engineered his exit. I would not name any names. Miandad may not have been a very personable man but he always gave his very best to the team and the country. I think he is an ideal coach, for the batting at least.But I am going to suggest something else. Anyone who has listened to Ian Chappell doing commentary cannot help being terribly impressed by his extraordinary insight into the game. When he is giving expert comments on the batting, each ball is analysed with remarks as comprehensive, insightful and penetrating as an essay. I would suggest the Board dig out videos while he was commenting on Pakistan batsmen. And give them to our batsmen for guidance, particularly to those who are still playing. Indeed other players who have just joined in and have not been to Australia can also benefit.At the same time we should show our players videos of cricketing greats from others countries specially batsmen with excellent technique such as Greg Chappell, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Barry Richards. I hear Barry Richards had a very effective technique to play swinging and seaming balls. I have omitted Viv Richards and Brian Lara, because of their unique talent allowing them to play unconventional shots that may be hard for others to copy.It might also be a good idea to give our players some lessons in psychology. Now there have been numerous books written to help sportsmen with the techniques of peak performance and optimal experience. Anthony Robbins’ books on peak performance can be very useful and on optimal experience, I highly recommend the book “Flow” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.Lastly, a word of advice to the PCB. I would say if the team is to be rebuilt, so should be the Board. Please reform and restructure yourself. I know a beginning has been made, for the first time, but it needs to be carried through. Every one’s responsibility has to be delineated and made autonomous as far as possiblespecially that of the Selection Committee. And there is no need for the Chairman to be getting involved in team selection or to address the media so often. We continue to hear different and even discordant voices on selection. This has to be remedied.And finally one more thing. Pakistan cricket has gone through so much controversy and strife, that I would advise the Chairman not to appoint people to sensitive positions who may have been playing cricket until very recently, and may have some scores to settle. I am not referring to any specific individuals; it is just a general advice.Good luck to the team and the Board.Ed: Touqir Hussain is former Ambassador of Pakistan to Japan

The VCA have announced the following Under-17s squad for 2001/2:

• Rhys Adams (Hawthorn-Monash University)
• James Allan (Geelong)
• Nathan Allen (Gippsland)
• Scott Anderson (Gippsland)
• Lincoln Blake (Central Highlands)
• Ashley Brown (Northcote)
• Mich Buchanan (Geelong)
• Peter Buszard (Richmond)
• Phil Carroll (Richmond)
• Lachlan Crawford (Geelong)
• Tom Evans (Camberwell Magpies)
• Dean Gunawardana (Prahran)
• Adam Hardy (Camberwell Magpies)
• Matthew Harrison (Geelong)
• Matt Hurley (Gippsland)
• Jack Joslin (Footscray-Victoria University)
• Chris Lee (Central Highlands)
• Ben MacRae (Melbourne)
• Aaron Mato (Essendon)
• Peter Nevill (Melbourne)
• Timothy O’Brien (Footscray-Victoria University)
• Brian O’Carroll (Frankston Peninsula)
• James Pearson (Camberwell Magpies)
• Scott Sanders (Central Highlands)
• Kane Shaw (Richmond)
• Peter Siddle (Dandenong)

Thirteen players will be selected to represent Victoria in the Australian Under-17s Championships to be held in Melbourne on 4-15 January 2002

Bangladesh batsman Mahmudullah has rued the five washed-out days during the series against South Africa, saying that playing against the No. 1 Test side would have been valuable experience for a growing team. He said the players would now have to use the Bangladesh Cricket League, which is reportedly going to be held soon, to tune up for the two Tests against Australia in October.”It would have helped us immensely had there been ten days of cricket, whether we won, lost or drew the matches,” Mahmudullah said after a third successive day of the second Test in Mirpur was lost to rain. The last two days of the Chittagong Test had also been washed out. “We would have played ten days against the best team in the world, and tested our skills better against them. It will be good if there is BCL before the Australia series, gives us a chance to play matches before a big series.”There was sunshine at the Shere Bangla Stadium around 2.00 pm on Sunday, less than half an hour after the fourth day was abandoned. Both teams were at the venue, but the ground was not fit for play following a heavy afternoon downpour. This Test, and with it the two-match series, is certain to be drawn.On the first day, Mahmudullah had made 35 after batting for more than two hours, and he said it was a crime to get out after putting in the hard work to get a start. “I think everyone understands the need to take the opportunities,” he said. “It is always hard to score the first 20-30 runs. It is the major hurdle. Then one has to play normally. Three-four of us got out in the 30s and 40s. I think it is a big crime. We have to find out, by speaking in groups and individually, how we can get out of this.”Over the last three days, like the other players, Mahmudullah has also been frustrated by the weather. “I think it is quite a tough situation. It is quite frustrating when you prepare yourself mentally for a five-day game and three days on the trot get called off. But it is important that one doesn’t lose focus. It is also important to enjoy and relax when we are back at the hotel. When we head to the ground, we have to switch on since we have to get prepared for the match.””At breakfast today I was talking to Imrul about what would have happened had the match taken place properly. We sometimes talk about such things. We spend time in the hotel room but when we are together, we talk cricket. We share ideas. He [Nasir Hossain] was telling me in the morning that he isn’t feeling well. He has been not out for two days. We all want to play but we have to face the circumstances. Let’s see what happens tomorrow.”