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Lakers Rumors: Lakers Could Inactive Russell Westbrook

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Lakers Rumors: Lakers Could Inactive Russell Westbrook
Per a Lakers insider, the Lakers could look to send their incumbent starting point guard away from the team, reports Alex Kirschenbaum for The Telegraph.
The Los Angeles Lakers’ trade that netted them seasoned 3-and-D veteran guard Patrick Beverley, in exchange for the relatively low price of young fringe role players Talen Horton-Tucker and Stanley Johnson, could spell the end for L.A.’s best-paid player.
A source informs Jovan Buha of The Athletic that, with Beverley en route, it becomes increasingly more possible that the Lakers will distance themselves from incumbent starting point guard Russell Westbrook, formerly a nine-time All-Star and the 2017 league MVP. The source indicates that the Lakers could still seek to trade Westbrook, or may also opt to send him away from the team before training camp commences next month.
That latter move has become en vogue in recent seasons for expensive ex-All-Star veterans. This season, Westbrook is set to make $47.1 million in the final year of the maximum-salary contract he inked while still with the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Houston Rockets sent a healthy John Wall away from the club for all of the 2021-22 season rather than buy out the former five-time All-Star point guard, while Oklahoma City took the same approach with former five-time All-Star big man Al Horford during the second half of the 2020-21 season.
The Thunder were eventually able to offload Horford to the Celtics. The Rockets were not so lucky, and wound up agreeing to a buyout of Wall this summer. Wall joined an absolutely loaded Los Angeles Clippers roster on a two-season, $13.2 million deal.
In the first season of his second stint with the Celtics, a 36-year-old Horford served as a full-time starter and the team returned to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2010, falling in six games to the Golden State Warriors. Will such a rosy outlook befall Westbrook, wherever he winds up next? Time will tell, though he lacks the two-way off-ball ability of either Horford or Wall that allowed them to evolve into the next phase of their long careers.
Going from a star attraction in his first season with the Lakers to persona non grata even before his second season starts is quite the descent for Westbrook. Though his counting stats were reasonable in 2021-22 (18.5 points, 7.4 rebounds and 7.1 assists per game across 78 healthy regular season contests), the Long Beach native and UCLA alum had an adverse influence when it came to actually win anything. In the closing minutes of most games, Westbrook would ignore his teammates, hog the ball, and force up awkward jumpers, while letting opposing players lap him on the other end of the floor.
The 6’3″ floor general has lost a step, but he does not seem to have realized that yet. While Westbrook still remains fairly athletic, and could on paper in a reduced role contribute as an above-average passer and solid defender, he has seemed reticent to make that transition. Should that approach persist, Westbrook faces an uncertain NBA future. Maybe he should have said hello to LeBron James at that Summer League game after all.

Champions League draw: Premier League sides largely content with group stage

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Champions League draw: Premier League sides largely content with group stage
The Champions League draw has been made for the upcoming group stages, which will be completed in record time before the World Cup begins in mid-November. In spite of only two the English sides being seeded first, it appears they have avoided any major threats to top spot, writes Ruairidh Barlow for Caughtoffside.

Group A: Liverpool, Ajax, Napoli, Rangers

 

Jurgen Klopp’s side will take on Erik ten Hag’s former side, now under Alfred Schreuder. How many of their stars they will have remaining is still open to debate. Their trip to Ibrox should be an electric occasion but the strongest opposition look to be Luciano Spalletti’s Napoli. They will be looking to challenge for the Scudetto and have rebuilt well after losing many of their veterans.

 

 

Group D: Eintracht Frankfurt, Tottenham, Sporting Lisbon, Marseille

 

Spurs will face a number of useful sides in Group D, but have to be considered strong favourites for the group. West Ham became well-acquainted with Eintracht’s talents last season, but Oliver Glasner’s side have an uphill task to replicate those performances. Sporting made it through to the knockout stage last year but was destroyed by Manchester City, while Marseille are returning to the competition after missing out last year.

 

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Group E: AC Milan, Chelsea, Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb

 

Thomas Tuchel’s side will face the newly-crowned Italian champions, including a reunion with Fikayo Tomori. Milan will be determined to improve from their fourth-place finish from last season but were roundly beaten by Liverpool last season. RB Salzburg and Dinamo Zagreb have proven against Bayern Munich and Spurs in recent years that they are no pushovers, but Tuchel will not be disappointed with his draw.

 

 

Group G: Man City, Sevilla, Borussia Dortmund, Copenhagen

 

On paper, this group looks on the trickier side for Manchester City. Serial European force Sevilla has not started this season well, however, looking a shadow of its former self. Borussia Dortmund is equally something of an unknown quantity at this point in the season too, without Sebastian Haller to lead the line. Copenhagen is unlikely to keep even an obsessive like Pep Guardiola up at night either.

 

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp points out two positives about tough Champions League draw

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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp points out two positives about tough Champions League draw
Jurgen Klopp believes that Liverpool’s Champions League group stage draw represents a ‘proper challenge’ as they head into battle against Ajax, Napoli and Rangers – although he believes that there are two positives despite being drawn in a group that could see them be tested to the max, writes Will Lancaster for Caughtoffside.

All three sides come with European prestige; Ajax are four times winners of the European Cup, Napoli have featured on the continent every single year since 2009-10 and Rangers have played in two UEFA Cup finals in the last 15 seasons.

 

Klopp knows it will be a tough test to progress despite being one of Europe’s best sides – if not the best – in the Champions League over the past five seasons.

 

But the German has highlighted two positives of the draw in Group A this time out, claiming that his team know the players of Napoli and Ajax well after coming up against them in recent years – alongside playing against former players when his side travel up to Ibrox in Rangers’ first group stage game since 2010.

 

“The first thing to say is this is a proper, proper challenge,” Klopp told the club’s official website.

“All of the clubs have quality, they all have pedigree and I would say they all have a chance. The good thing is that we do also, so it makes sense for us to look forward to the challenge and give it a try.

 

“We did not ask for any favors and we have not been given any but this is not a competition where you can look for easy ways through because the standard is always unbelievably high. The difference this year is that the group stage will be shorter than usual, so we will have to be ready not just for the quality of the opposition but also for the different demands and rhythms.”

 

“We will not have to look too hard to find information about our opponents, though. It was only a couple of years back that we played two really tough matches against Ajax and we get drawn against Napoli pretty regularly, so we know quite a bit about both of them and they know quite a bit about us. I know there will also be some new lessons to be learned, though. There always are.

 

Napoli and Liverpool squared off in the Champions League back in 2018/19. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

 

“Rangers are a new opponent for us but we know them, too. Their story over the last few years has been really interesting and they did really, really well to qualify for the group stage, given the teams they were up against in the qualifying matches.

 

“We also know a couple of their players well. Ryan Kent has had a great development since moving to Scotland and Ben Davies is just starting out on his journey with Rangers, so it will be good to come up against them.

 

“The only certainty right now is that all of the six games will be incredibly competitive and really intense. I’m excited about it. It is a proper football group and, like I said, a proper challenge.”

 

Gianluca Scamacca’s heroics helps West Ham book place in Europa Conference League group stages

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Gianluca Scamacca’s heroics helps West Ham book place in Europa Conference League group stages

Gianluca Scamacca has thrust himself into contention to kickstart West Ham’s Premier League season after another goal in Europe, Andy Sims reports for Independent.ie.

 

The Italy striker, a £30million summer signing from Sassuolo, scored his second goal in two play-off ties against Danish side Viborg as the Hammers booked their place in the group stage of the Europa Conference League.

 

Scamacca has yet to start a Premier League game but, with West Ham bottom of the table without a point or a goal from their first three matches, he must be in line to start at Aston Villa on Sunday.

 

Manager David Moyes told the club website: “I thought Gianluca did a lot of good things.

 

“Again, we can’t be expecting too much from him too soon. We need to give him a chance to get ready, but he certainly did a great job for us.

 

“Look, he scored two goals for us in two games, so he’s certainly getting a lot closer to being ready to play now.”

 

Scamacca opened the scoring with a near-post volley from Tomas Soucek’s cross after 22 minutes.

 

Said Benrahma and Soucek also found the net after the break to put the seal on a 3-0 win in Denmark and a 6-1 aggregate success.

 

West Ham reached the semi-finals of the Europa League last season and Moyes has targeted another run in the lower-tier Conference League.

 

“It is a special thing being in Europe and what makes it really special is that you don’t get it very often,” added Moyes.
 

“You can sometimes find people who treat it with a bit of disrespect, but I wanted to make sure we treat it with great respect because I want us to try and do well and compete in it.

 

“Now we’ve got another period of European football and playing games in places we’ve maybe not done before, so we look forward to it.

 

“The only way you get in Europe is if you do well in your domestic league, so we’ve done well in our domestic league the last couple of years.

 

“That got us in it, and I want to try and do well in it.

 

“We tried really hard last year and we had a great run in it and now we’ll obviously try and do the same in this competition.”

AEW Dynamite Results: Jon Moxley Defeats CM Punk To Become Undisputed AEW World Champion

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AEW Dynamite Results: Jon Moxley Defeats CM Punk To Become Undisputed AEW World Champion
According to The Overtime, CM Punk & Jon Moxley are unable to keep their hands off each other, forcing AEW to push their unification title match to tonight. While CM Punk was mending a broken foot, Jon Moxley was holding down the fort as Interim AEW Champion, because Punk refused to vacate. Tonight, we will end this night with just one AEW Champion, and they can hold a belt that actually means something. With All Out looming, however, whoever wins won’t have long before their next big defence – meaning a quick victory could be vital tonight.

The Ohio crowd was seemingly 100% behind Jon Moxley, but he doesn’t care about things like hometown advantage. He’s just here to kick ass, and specifically the ass of someone who hasn’t wrestled since the Dynamite after AEW Double Or Nothing 2022. Meanwhile, Moxley has been tearing it up against the likes of Chris Jericho, Konosuke Takeshita, & Hiroshi Tanahashi.

 

Jon Moxley Runs CM Punk Out Of The Arena

 

As the bell rang, we’d get duelling chants for both men – thrilled to see them lock up. Moxley drove Punk into the corner and would hit some heavy elbow strikes, asking for Punk to bring the aggression. Punk obliged, before hitting a head kick and falling over in pain. He used the previously injured foot and instantly paid for it.
Moxley would hit the King Kong Lariat, and rained in the Hammer & Anvil elbow strikes. He’d go after the ankle of Punk, before nailing the Death Rider. Moxley was on fire and would hit the Paradigm Shift This one was already over, and we have the Undisputed AEW World Champion!

Doctors would check out CM Punk, while Moxley celebrated. He’s officially the first two-time AEW World Champion, a well-deserved accolade after the summer he’s had. No more Interim on his name, Moxley is back on the top of AEW. CM Punk would be helped the back by staff, and he’d glare back at Moxley with a sad look in his eyes.

 

Could this be the end of CM Punk in AEW? Will he return to defeat Jon Moxley? Let us know what you think in the comment section down below.

Basketball: Jury awards Vanessa Bryant US$16 million in suit over crash site photos

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Basketball: Jury awards Vanessa Bryant US$16 million in suit over crash site photos
According to The Straits Times, a jury awarded Vanessa Bryant US$16 million (S$22.2 million) on Wednesday in her lawsuit against Los Angeles County over the inappropriate sharing of photos of human remains from the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, and her daughter, Gianna, along with seven others.

Chris Chester, whose wife Sarah, 45, and daughter, Payton, 13 were among those killed in the crash and who joined the suit, was awarded US$15 million.

 

On a foggy Sunday morning in January 2020, Kobe Bryant, 41, and eight others were flying from Orange County to a youth basketball tournament in a suburb north of Los Angeles when the pilot became disoriented in the clouds. The helicopter crashed into a hill near Calabasas, California, and everyone on board was killed, including Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers star whose stature in Southern California far transcended basketball.

As news of the crash and the identity of the victims rippled around the world, law enforcement officials, investigators, journalists and fans of Bryant headed toward the rugged crash scene.

 

In those first hours after the crash, Vanessa Bryant alleged in her lawsuit, Los Angeles County firefighters and sheriff’s deputies were allowed to take unnecessary close-up photos of human remains around the site, including the bodies of Kobe and Gianna Bryant, and the photos were then shared among sheriff’s deputies and firefighters.

 

Vanessa Bryant testified in court that a few days after the emotional public memorial for her husband of almost two decades, she was told about a Los Angeles Times report that one of the deputies, Joey Cruz, had shown photos to a bartender and another bar patron, who filed a complaint with the sheriff’s department.

“I felt like I wanted to run down the block and just scream,” Bryant testified. “But I couldn’t escape. I can’t escape my body.”

 

Another woman, a relative of some of the crash victims, testified that a Fire Department official showed some of the photos at a gala where communications staff were receiving an award.

 

In the suit, Bryant accused the county of negligence and of violating her constitutional right to privacy. Her lawyers argued that orders from Fire Department and Sheriff’s Department officials to delete the images after inquiries were begun amounted to the destruction of evidence and an attempted cover-up.

 

Bryant and Chester sought damages for emotional distress brought on by worrying that the photos could surface publicly on the Internet at any time.

Lawyers for the county acknowledged that the photos were taken and were shared, but they argued that the effort to delete them was thorough enough to keep the photos from appearing for the past 21/2 years, and therefore the photos had not been publicly disseminated. The photos were not introduced as evidence in the trial.

 

“To claim privacy and then put all these details in public – it defies logic,” said Mira Hashmall, a lawyer for the county, in her closing statement.

 

The county’s lawyers argued that although some county policies were violated, the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights were not. And they said those police officers, firefighters and other emergency responders need the flexibility to document accident scenes before federal investigators or coroner’s officials arrive, so the taking of the photographs was justified.

 

The verdict came after a trial lasting nearly two weeks that was in some ways a typical Los Angeles celebrity legal spectacle. Bryant arrived each day at the gleaming, cube-shaped federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles in a black sport utility vehicle and walked briskly past photographers as she entered and left the building.

 

Rob Pelinka, the general manager of the Lakers, testified in the trial, and several of Bryant’s friends, including professional soccer player Sydney LeRoux and singer Ciara, appeared in the gallery to support her.

The suit was an uncommonly visible effort to hold two colossal and insular agencies – the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles County Fire Department – to account for behavior that lawyers for Bryant and Chester argued had “shocked the conscience”.

 

Throughout the trial, the plaintiffs’ lawyers portrayed sheriff’s deputies and firefighters as motivated by a kind of macabre voyeurism that they said was embedded in the agencies’ culture.

 

They played video of Sheriff Alex Villanueva talking about how, “since the invention of the Polaroid,” law enforcement officers have been creating so-called death books, documenting the bodies they had seen in the course of their work.

 

The agencies had no explicit policies in force that would bar officers from making images of human remains, so the practice was allowed to continue essentially unchecked until citizens spoke up.

 

The agencies’ internal efforts to investigate what had happened in the Bryant case were sloppy and incomplete, the plaintiffs’ lawyers argued.

Villanueva, who took the witness stand just after Bryant, testified that he had offered “amnesty” to deputies for coming forward with the images and then deleting them.

 

In closing arguments, Craig Lavoie, who represented Bryant, showed the jury a flow chart of how the photos had spread. There were question marks on the chart for people who, according to witness testimony or official reports, had received the images but whose electronic devices were never searched.

 

“If I asked all nine of you to give a percentage chance these photos would end up online, I’d get nine different answers,” Lavoie told the jury. “But none of them would be zero. And when it’s your husband, your child, you don’t get the luxury of cold percentages.”

 

Jerry Jackson, Chester’s lawyer, asked the jury to consider awarding a total of as much as US$75 million to the plaintiffs – US$2.5 million each for past suffering, plus about US$1 million for each year of their remaining life expectancy – a formula that would add up to US$30 million for Chester and US$40 million for Bryant.

 

“Ladies and gentlemen, you can’t award too much for what they’ve been through,” Jackson told the jury.

 

He asked the jury to divide the burden of paying the damages evenly between the sheriff’s and fire departments; both are funded by Los Angeles County taxpayers.

 

In their closing arguments, lawyers for the county said that ultimately, the case was about photographs that almost no one had seen.

 

“This is the case of a photograph but there are no photographs,” Hashmall said.

Evidence Provided; New twist in Don King’s Dispute with Frank Warren

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Evidence Provided; New twist in Don King’s Dispute with Frank Warren
RingNews 24 docks evidence of boxing Promoter Don King on the dispute with Frank Warren and Queensberry Promotions:

For two months DKP has been requesting bank wire instructions for Queensberry Promotions in order to pay Daniel Dubois’s purse. Yet, never received them.

 

The pretender Frank Warren spoke to IFLTV in the UK, “Frank Warren wants to make clear that none of that dispute should involve him.” And more importantly, Warren says King is trying to distract from having to pay Dubois what he’s owed.”

 

Don King: “That statement from the pretender Frank Warren is totally false!!! And that what Frank Warren said is completely untrue.”

 

Frank: “They (King and Dubois) are the contracting parties, not me. He owes the money to Daniel Dubois. This is all smoke screens – the usual bullshit you get.”

 

Don King: “The money is owed to Dubois’s promoter (Queensberry Promotions) Frank Warren for Dubois contractually.

 

“The fact is He’s (King) got a contract and that contract’s between them. That’s who he owes money to. I’m nothing to do with that contract. I’m not his manager. I’m his promoter.

 

Don King: “If all the above statements from the pretender to be Frank Warren are true… then how can the pretender Frank Warren, direct me to deduct $475,000 from Daniel Dubois’s purse to purchase the TV broadcast rights for the UK for BT Sports TV??? For Frank Warren (Queensberry Promotion) I have never talked to Daniel Dubois, and all of the business that I have conducted for Daniel Dubois has been conducted through his promoter Frank Warren (Queensberry Promotions). Enclosed are the paragraphs:

 

Congratulations Frank, to you for your new WBA heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois. He is a very fine young man and a potentially great heavyweight champion. However, Frank, deserves much, much better treatment than he is receiving from that guy who says, “it’s all bullshit”, pretending to be Frank Warren. I am sorry to say this Frank, but I don’t know who that guy is. Nor, do I want to know who that guy is.

 

However, I asked the honourable Frank Warren, my friend, to tell me what amount he wants me to deduct or to apply as a partial payment on the old debt that you owed me. I also mention that if you did not want to make any payment at this time, just let me know, either way your word and your directions was good enough for me. So, I reached out to your new champion, Daniel Dubois, through another party, and the champion Dubois advised me to go through Mr. Leon Margules. So, I am sending Mr. Margules a check, or a bank wire for the entire amount of what I had deducted as payment of the old debt between Frank Warren and Don King. Which will result into the honorable Frank Warren’s old debt owed to me being put back on the shelf again. But I have no doubt that Frank will pay me the old debt, and that we will work together again. Working together works!!!

 

Thanks Frank,

Don King

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Leigh Wood will defend his WBA Featherweight World Title against Mauricio Lara

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Leigh Wood will defend his WBA Featherweight World Title against Mauricio Lara

Leigh Wood will defend his WBA Featherweight World Title against Mauricio Lara at the Motorpoint Arena Nottingham on Saturday September 24, live worldwide on DAZN (excluding Australia and New Zealand).

 

Wood (26-2, 16 KOs) memorably stopped Michael Conlan in the 12th and final round of his epic first defence of the WBA 126lbs title back in March, knocking the Irishman out of the ring in brutal fashion to end their Fight of the Year battle.

 

‘Leigh-thal’ was heavily dropped in the opening round and looked to be heading towards his third loss in the pros before brilliantly fighting back to earn a stunning win that will be talked about for many years to come.

After a fight with WBA ‘Super’ Champion Leo Santa Cruz failed to transpire, in an incredibly gutsy move, Wood has chosen to prove himself against one of the most feared knockout artists in world boxing.

 

Lara (24-2-1, 17 KOs) floored and ruthlessly finished Josh Warrington in a sensational upset behind closed doors at The SSE Arena, Wembley in February 2021, ending the IBF Featherweight World Champion’s unbeaten record

 

‘Bronco’ rematched Warrington in front of a sold-out Headingley Stadium in Leeds seven months later, but a nasty cut over the left eye of the Mexican in round two caused by an accidental clash of heads resulted in the contest ending in a technical draw.

 

The power-punching 24-year-old blitzed Emilio Sanchez in three rounds earlier this year on the undercard of Roman Gonzalez vs. Julio Cesar Martinez in another destructive show of brute force to put the 126lbs division on notice.

 

Rossington’s IBO Lightweight title holder Maxi Hughes (25-5-2, 5 KOs) aims to continue his incredible run of form when he takes on Sheffield’s former IBF Featherweight World Champion Kid Galahad (28-2, 17 KOs) in a Yorkshire derby.

 

‘Maximus’, who is undefeated since November 2019, landed the IBO crown with a shutout points win over dangerous Mexican Jovanni Straffon in September last year before making a successful first defence against Ryan Walsh in March.

 

Galahad will be looking to return to winning ways up at Lightweight after suffering a shock knockout loss to Spanish veteran Kiko Martinez in what was supposed to be a routine maiden defence of his IBF title at the Sheffield Arena in November 2021.

 

Denaby Main’s Terri Harper (12-1-1, 6 KOs) leaps up in weight to challenge Scotland’s Hannah Rankin (12-5, 3 KOs) for her IBO and WBA Super-Welterweight World Titles in an intriguing England vs. Scotland clash.

 

Former IBO and WBC Super-Featherweight World Champion Harper lost her titles at the hands of the USA’s Alycia Baumgardner on the undercard of Galahad vs. Martinez last year before landing the WBA Intercontinental Lightweight Title against Yamila Belen Abellaneda in March.

 

Rankin captured gold by decision over Maria Lindberg over 10 rounds at the Tottenham Hotspur FC Banqueting Hall in November 2021 before defending her belts against Mexico’s Alejandra Ayala at The SSE Hydro, Glasgow in May.

 

“I maybe have a handful of fights left and I want them to be my biggest,” said Wood. “I want to be tested. I’m filling arenas now and I want to keep that momentum going. Every fight should be a step forward, not backwards. Mauricio Lara is dangerous but high risk high reward, I’m confident I can do what Josh Warrington couldn’t do and get the job done.”

 

“I’m very excited,” said Lara. “This is the opportunity that I have worked so hard for and I am not going to miss it. I am aware that Leigh Wood is a great fighter, but no one is going to take away the possibility of me becoming a World Champion. I’m going to England for the third time and it’s like I’m fighting at home.”

 

“This is an unbelievable fight and Leigh Wood has massive cojones for stepping up to the plate again in Nottingham,” said Matchroom Sport Chairman Eddie Hearn. “Last time out he gave us one of the most dramatic fights for many years and fans can expect all the drama again on September 24. It’s a huge card with Terri Harper stepping up the divisions attempting to become a two-division champion against Hannah Rankin and a brilliant Yorkshire derby for the IBO title between Maxi Hughes and Kid Galahad with lots more to be announced. Expect another incredible atmosphere at the Nottingham Arena on September 24.”

 

“This is an all-action card from top to bottom and a great way to kick off our UK autumn schedule,” said Joe Markowski, EVP at DAZN Group. “Wood vs. Lara will be an absolute humdinger of a fight and in Hughes vs. Galahad and Rankin vs. Harper, we have two fights that are worthy of headlining shows by themselves. Do not miss this fight night! Live and exclusive, on DAZN.”

 

Tickets for Wood vs. Lara are priced at £40, £60, £100, £150 and £250 (VIP)

 

Matchroom Fight Pass members will be able to purchase tickets from midday on Thursday, August 25. Priority ticket info will be emailed directly to eligible members ahead of the on-sale time.

 

General Sale tickets can be purchased via Stage Front and Motorpoint Arena Nottingham from midday on Friday, August 26.

Serie A results and fixtures

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Serie A results and fixtures
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Nottingham Forest set to sign Serge Aurier as Reds make 19th transfer

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Nottingham Forest set to sign Serge Aurier as Reds make 19th transfer
Nottingham Forest is reportedly set to sign Serge Aurier on a free transfer following his release from Villarreal at the end of the season – offering the Ivorian a second bite of the Premier League after his stint at Spurs came to an abrupt end at the start of last season, Will Lancaster posts for Caughtoffside.

Aurier joined Tottenham in 2017 from Paris Saint-Germain for £23m, and he sporadically impressed under Mauricio Pochettino and Jose Mourinho despite failing to start over Kieran Trippier – before falling behind Emerson Royal and Matt Doherty in the pecking order.

 

That led to the termination of his contract, and he subsequently signed for Villarreal – but injuries plagued his time under Unai Emery however, and he once again is looking for a new club.

 

However, according to the Daily Mail, Steve Cooper’s men have bit the bullet and look poised to complete a deal for him.

 

Injury to Omar Richards has seen them look for more signings and Aurier has been selected due to there being no transfer fee involved.

 

He will compete with Harry Toffolo and Neco Williams for the full-back roles, adding a sense of experience and leadership amongst the 19 signings Forest have made in what can only be described as an insane overhaul this season.
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