Newcastle United have splashed the cash under PIF in recent years, welcoming a number of European stars to St James’ Park. The spending spree has also worked, with the Magpies qualifying for the Champions League back in 2023 and again in 2025, while also winning the EFL Cup.

Football FanCast takes a look at the most expensive transfers of all time for Newcastle.

Detailed look at Newcastle's 10 most expensive signings…

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Harvey Barnes

£38m from Leicester City

Winger Harvey Barnes was a long-term target for the Magpies, who eventually signed him from Leicester City for £38m after the Foxes were relegated from the Premier League in 2023.

Barnes had a brilliant individual campaign but couldn’t keep the club in the top-flight, instead signing a five-year St James’ Park deal. The Englishman arrived at the club with plenty of Premier League experience during his time with Leicester and has gone on to star in black and white.

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Bruno Guimaraes

£40m from Lyon

What a signing. Sky Sports has Bruno Guimaraes’ fee at £40m in January 2022, and he was so good in his initial six month-spell that Newcastle could have sold him for double that last summer, with reports suggesting champions Manchester City could have been plotting a player-plus-cash deal to bring the midfielder to the Etihad Stadium.

Instead, they held onto the Brazilian, and that was certainly the right move. Bruno looks like one of the best midfielders in the Premier League right now and Newcastle will do well to find a better signing anytime soon.

8

Joelinton

£40m from Hoffenheim

Joelinton arrived for a club-record fee from Hoffenheim as the answer to Newcastle’s goalscoring woes in the summer of 2019. The £40m they paid, per The Guardian, always looked strange as the Brazilian had only scored seven times the previous season, while the most he’d ever managed was eight.

Thus, many joked about Joelinton during his early days on Tyneside, and it appeared Newcastle had made the wrong transfer as he finished his first campaign with two goals. However, it turned out they were just using him in the wrong position. After switching to a midfield role, the player looked transformed and now that £40m fee looks like a very good deal.

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Jacob Ramsey

£43m from Aston Villa

Jacob Ramsey

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Anthony Gordon

£45m from Everton

Sky Sports say Newcastle paid £45m for Anthony Gordon, which sounded like a lot at the time. However, the winger has now justified that fee and is one of the first names on the teamsheet.

In fact, Gordon’s displays during his first full season with the Magpies resulted in him being linked with a move away from the club. Instead of leaving, though, the Englishman signed a fresh long-term Newcastle deal towards the end of 2024.

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Yoane Wissa

£55m from Brentford

On what was a dramatic deadline day in the summer of 2025, Yoane Wissa signed for Newcastle with 30 seconds to spare before the window slammed shut.

A long-term Newcastle target, Wissa pushed for a move to the Magpies from Brentford, costing £55m and taking the number 9 shirt at St James’ Park.

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Anthony Elanga

£55m from Nottingham Forest

Newcastle’s early summer signing in 2025 was Anthony Elanga, who cost £55m after an impressive few years at Nottingham Forest.

The pacey right-winger contributed to four goals in five games against the Magpies for Nottingham Forest, which may have caught PIF’s eye.

3

Sandro Tonali

£55m from AC Milan

Sandro Tonali arrived in a high-profile transfer from AC Milan in 2023, however, months after Newcastle splashed the cash, the Italy international was suspended for ten months following illegal betting charges.

The midfielder returned in 2024, and since then, Magpies supporters have seen why the club were willing to spend £55m on his signature, with Tonali a regular in the starting lineup.

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Alexander Isak

£60m from Real Soceidad

The arrival of Alexander Isak was a coup for Newcastle and a true statement that they wanted to sit at the top table. The Swedish striker was one of the top young strikers on the planet and few questioned the £60m fee in 2022, as reported by the BBC.

However, the summer of 2025 changed everything between Isak and Newcastle, with the forward going on strike, looking to sign for Liverpool. He got his wish, with the Magpies recieveing a British record £125m fee for Isak from Liverpool.

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Nick Woltemade

£69m from Stuttgart

Prior to Isak’s departure, Newcastle broke their transfer record by signing young German forward Nick Woltemade from Stuttgart.

After starring at the U21 European Championships, Woltemade was linked with the likes of Bayern Munich but instead moved to St James’ Park in a deal worth £69m.

Chelsea enjoyed a breakthrough 2024/25 campaign under Enzo Maresca, finishing fourth in the Premier League, lifting the Conference League and capping it off with Club World Cup glory in the summer.

Their 3–0 win over PSG in the final underlined the squad’s growing maturity – even if it remains the youngest in the Premier League with an average age of 23 years and five months.

The club has continued to double down on its long-term strategy: stockpiling young talent and tying them down to lengthy contracts.

This window alone saw the arrivals of João Pedro, Jamie Gittens, Jorrel Hato and Liam Delap for significant fees.

Chelsea’s model revolves around snapping up rising stars before their values skyrocket, while also staying compliant with Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR).

The new season has begun with mixed results.

A pair of victories over Fulham and West Ham suggested Chelsea could carry momentum forward, but stalemates with Crystal Palace and Brentford exposed lingering inconsistencies.

Part of that inconsistency stems from turnover in key attacking areas – most notably the departure of Noni Madueke.

Madueke's departure and his replacement by Estevão

Madueke’s Chelsea career always carried intrigue.

Signed as a right-winger with flair and directness, he contributed 20 goals and nine assists in 92 appearances before leaving this summer.

His £52m move to Arsenal was met with disbelief in North London, where over 5,000 fans signed a petition titled #NoToMadueke opposing his arrival.

Yet for Chelsea, the sale offered financial upside and an opportunity to reset. The replacement came swiftly.

Estevão, the Brazilian teenager dubbed “Messinho,” had already been secured from Palmeiras in a £29m deal.

The 18-year-old has made a name for himself in Brazil, racking up 83 appearances, 27 goals and 15 assists – including a memorable strike against Chelsea in the Club World Cup.

By the time he arrived at Stamford Bridge, his market value had soared to €60m (£55m), as per Transfermarkt.

Estevão has wasted little time in showing why the club put their faith in him.

Already capped seven times by Brazil and with a goal to his name at senior international level, he made an immediate impression by registering an assist against West Ham.

His profile fits neatly with Chelsea’s youth-driven approach: technically gifted, creative in the final third, and able to offer direct end product.

Statistically, he is already more efficient than his predecessor Madueke, with higher involvement in chance creation and a greater contribution per 90 minutes across his young career.

Why Garnacho could be the better Madueke replacement

While Estevão excites, another summer signing could prove the more immediate solution.

Alejandro Garnacho’s arrival from Manchester United was high-profile and contentious, ending his 144-game spell at Old Trafford, where he produced 26 goals and 22 assists.

At Premier League level, he boasts 24 goals and assists in 94 games. For comparison, Madueke has just 18 goals and assists under his belt in England’s top-flight, albeit from 71 outings.

At just 21, this young “diamond” – as hailed by talent scout Jacek Kulig – already has Premier League experience and eight caps for Argentina, offering Chelsea a player with both upside and proven credentials.

The comparison between Garnacho and Estevão is fascinating. Over their careers to date, Garnacho has averaged 0.27 goals per 90, compared to Estevão’s 0.37, as per FBref.

Yet the Brazilian edges almost every creative metric: 0.75 goal involvements per 90 versus Garnacho’s 0.40, 5.39 shot-creating actions per 90 compared to 3.78, and a higher success rate in take-ons (3.26 to 1.45).

He also attempts and completes more progressive passes, underlining his playmaking instincts.

Garnacho, however, carries advantages in directness and experience.

He takes more shots per 90 (3.49 vs 3.00) and has a better understanding of the pace and physicality of English football.

The stylistic contrast is clear.

Estevão offers finesse, vision and technical flair, while Garnacho thrives on dynamism, running at defenders and producing moments of explosiveness.

In theory, Chelsea may not need to choose: both profiles could balance each other in the long run.

But in the short term, Garnacho’s readiness to impact games in the Premier League may prove invaluable as Chelsea look to cement their top-four status.

What is striking is how Chelsea’s handling of Madueke’s departure reflects the broader philosophy at Stamford Bridge.

The club are not afraid to part ways with established players if they believe a younger, cheaper and potentially more valuable alternative exists.

Estevão embodies that philosophy – a long-term project with world-class potential.

Garnacho, meanwhile, provides a safety net, ensuring the team does not lose momentum while the Brazilian adapts.

For Chelsea, the question is not whether Madueke will be missed, but whether the combination of Estevão and Garnacho can deliver more than he ever did.

The early signs suggest they just might.

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Mathys Tel has revealed the pain of being left out of Tottenham's Champions League squad left him fuming, but has vowed to use the snub as motivation and prove his doubters wrong. Spurs' decision was due in part to the club's struggles to meet UEFA's homegrown player quota, which forced manager Thomas Frank to reduce the squad size from 25 to 22, meaning several players had to be excluded, including Tel.

Tricky start to life under new boss Frank

Tel made permanent his move to Spurs earlier this summer in a £30 million ($40.2m) move from Bayern Munich, after joining on loan in February, but the 20-year-old forward has struggled for consistent playing time under boss Frank this season. He played just 19 minutes in Tottenham's first three league matches of the season, facing stiff competition from players like Richarlison, Brennan Johnson, and Mohammed Kudus. However, Tel recently scored his first goal of the season in Spurs’ Premier League victory over Leeds United and then started the match against Aston Villa. But the Champions League snub has been a bitter pill for him to swallow. 

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Tel, speaking to , has revealed his pain over missing out on Europe's elite cup competition, but vowed to bounce back. He said: "To be honest, I was very, very mad for a lot of weeks. But I was like, 'use this and show him you need to be on the squad list'. Bad things help me more than good things to be better. So I will face a lot of bad things, but I'm going to be OK with that. I'm not in the squad list right now, but I will do everything to be in the squad list in January. This is a new challenge for me, I love challenges. I’m a fair person and I was not on a good day for the [Super Cup], I didn't play well enough.

"If I'm a gaffer and I can see a player is not good enough, I will maybe do the same. So in my mind I was like 'this is fair because we've got a lot of good players. It's OK'. After the game against Leeds, he pushed me to the fans and that was quite emotional for me. Because he showed me that 'I didn't put you in the squad, but you're still there, I still believe in you, I'm still behind you'. It's not because 'you didn't do this or I don’t like you'."

Message of support from Spurs hero

Tel has stayed in touch with one of his former Bayern teammates, a player who remains a legend in north London – Harry Kane. Kane has shared words of support with Tel, a move which has been warmly welcomed. Tel further told the Telegraph: "Kane helped me a lot. Four days ago, he sent me a voice note and we spoke together about how I can be better, about finishing, positioning in the box.

"He told me 'whenever you want to call me, just call me. We're going to talk together and try to find what is the best work for you'. It's very good because he takes his time to talk to me. To explain how I can be better. For me, he's the best striker in the world and now he has played 13 games and scored 21 goals. We are in October! He told me 'whenever you want, just call me or text me and we will talk. If you want to talk about football, if you don't want to talk about football, you want to talk about life, I'm always there for you'. He's a very good guy."

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AFPChances coming thick and fast for Tel

There will be plenty of opportunity for Tel to prove his doubters wrong in the coming weeks as Tottenham have an action-packed schedule in cup and domestic action. Following the clash with Monaco in midweek, Spurs face Everton in the league, Newcastle in the League Cup and then there's the eagerly-anticipated London derby with Chelsea on November 1.

Looking ahead to 2026, Everton have reportedly joined the race to sign a former Real Madrid defender alongside a number of Premier League rivals.

David Moyed "thrilled" with Crystal Palace win

Without a win in four games in all competitions and heading into the Hill Dickinson to host a Crystal Palace side without a defeat in 19 games, Everton looked destined for an uphill battle on Sunday. The Eagles had just defeated the Premier League champions in Liverpool and were after another Merseyside scalp – taking the lead through Daniel Munoz.

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From there, it seemed as though Everton were set to hand Palace the 20-game unbeaten run that they were after, only for the Hill Dickinson to get its most dramatic moment yet.

After equalising through Iliman Ndiaye in the final 15 minutes, the stage was set for someone to become a hero and that someone was Jack Grealish. The Manchester City loanee was perfectly placed to benefit from Munoz’s clearance and simply deflected home to hand his side a 93rd-minute winner.

David Moyes, like every Everton fan inside the Hill Dickinson, was left “thrilled” by his side’s dramatic comeback – telling reporters: “I’m thrilled with the three points, thrilled with the result.

“Mixed emotions on the performance. Not very good at all in the first half and could have been three down, but kept defending, kept stuck at it, showed a bit of resilience.

“I’ve been waiting on a late goal here. Aston Villa was 0-0, we couldn’t quite get the winner against West Ham, so I was hoping we’d get one of them. Thankfully, we got it today.”

Having sealed the three points, Moyes’ side now sit as high as eighth in the Premier League and providing an early marker to become shock contenders for a European place – something that should boost their transfer ambitions.

Everton join race to sign Mario Gila

According to The Boot Room, Everton have joined the race to sign Mario Gila from Lazio in 2026. The former Real Madrid defender has attracted interest from all around the Premier League, with Tottenham Hotspur, Crystal Palace and Bournemouth all joining Everton in the battle to secure his signature.

It’s no real surprise that interest is rising in the 25-year-old, who has been one of few bright sparks in Maurizio Sarri’s struggling Lazio side.

Former Lazio sporting director Igli Tare was also full of praise for the Spanish defender after signing him from Real Madrid, saying: “He is fast, intelligent and never puts a foot wrong. He can become one of the top 3-4 defenders in the world and it wouldn’t surprise me if Real wanted him back.”

Considering concerns that Jarrad Branthwaite could still leave Everton, Gila wouldn’t exactly be a bad signing to welcome in 2026. The Spaniard is at the peak of his powers and already has impressive experience under his belt.

It would be yet another ambitious move from The Friedkin Group, who’d be signing a former Real Madrid gem ahead of their rivals.

Croft oversees victory in first match as interim coach to soothe county cricket’s crisis club

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Steven Croft got cricket’s equivalent of the new manager bounce in his first game as Lancashire’s interim head coach as the Lightning beat Worcestershire Rapids by seven runs in their Vitality Blast opener at Emirates Old Trafford.Red Rose legend Croft, a Blast-winning captain in 2015, was elevated from his position on the coaching staff when Dale Benkenstein left the club on Wednesday following a winless first seven Championship matches.Lightning captain Keaton Jennings top-scored with 66 off 38 balls in 176 for eight, while left-arm spinner Fateh Singh impressed with two for 23 from four overs on his career T20 debut for the Rapids.England left-arm seamer Luke Wood, released from the ODI squad to play, then returned two for 39 from his four overs as Worcestershire, needing 15 from the last over, finished on 169 for seven.Jennings and opening partner Luke Wells raced out of the blocks against a Worcestershire attack who failed to settle, sharing 79 inside the first eight overs.Wells pulled New Zealand quick Jacob Duffy for one particularly big six over midwicket in 35 off 22 balls.Jennings cut, pulled and slog-swept his three sixes, two of which came in a 30-ball fifty on a true pitch with sizeable boundaries.Ethan Brookes took a superb catch at deep midwicket to help left-arm spinner Tom Hinley, on T20 debut, remove Jennings as the Lightning fell to 112 for three after 12 overs.Brookes threw the ball up before going over the rope and catching it on the dive once he’d returned to the field.Brookes – one for 26 from four overs – also impressed with his canny medium pacers. But Singh’s spin was to the fore late on.He had Chris Green caught and bowled for a golden duck and Jack Blatherwick caught at long-off in his last over as Lancashire reached 158 for six after 18 overs. Australian overseas Ashton Turner contributed 31 on his Red Rose debut.Ed Pollock then skewed Wood high to cover in the opening over of Worcestershire’s reply before Kashif Ali blasted three sixes in 39 off 21 balls. Two were off Mitch Stanley’s pace, one gloriously arrow straight.Kashif fell when he miscued at pull at the leg-spin of Wells to long-leg.And that was the first of three wickets to fall for 22 inside four overs as the Rapids fell from 71 for one in the seventh over to 93 for four in the 11th. Blatherwick’s pacy short ball had captain Brett O’Oliveira caught behind for 30 before, next ball, Adam Hose miscued a pull at Tom Aspinwall to short fine-leg.From there, the Lightning squeezed.Worcestershire failed to score a boundary between the first ball of the ninth over and the first of the 16th, where they reached at 125 for five, needing 52.Gareth Roderick was smartly run out by a throw to the striker’s end from Josh Bohannon at long-on.Brookes hit the lion’s share of 17 off Blatherwick in the 16th over as the Rapids got going again.But he fell to Wood for 28 in the penultimate before seamer Tom Aspinwall (one for 25 from three overs) brilliantly defended that 15 off the last to boost Lancashire.

Criticised in the past for his slow scoring rates, KL Rahul has evolved into a quick-scorer, finishing IPL 2025 with 539 runs at a strike rate of 149.72

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Moody: ‘Rahul has managed to adjust again to a different role’

KL Rahul’s IPL is over. Next up is Test cricket, five Tests in England. Then much else before we get to the next T20 World Cup, in February-March next year in India and Sri Lanka. Rahul is hoping to make that squad – “the World Cup is in my mind” – even though he hasn’t played a T20I since November 2022.”Yes, I want to get back in the T20 team and the World Cup is in my mind, but for now it’s just trying to enjoy how I’m playing right now,” Rahul said in a interview with Nasser Hussain on the sidelines of IPL 2025. He’s done with the IPL now, his team Delhi Capitals (DC) having been knocked out of the race to the playoffs some time ago, but Rahul ended as their highest run-getter: 539 runs in 13 innings at a strike rate of 149.72.Scoring a lot of runs in the IPL isn’t new for Rahul, who scored 520 in IPL 2024, 616 in IPL 2022, 626 in IPL 2021 and 670 in IPL 2020, which earned him the Orange Cap. The issue has been with his strike rate, failing to top 140 in the last many seasons, which has seen him being edged out of the India T20I side.Related

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“I obviously had some time to think about my white-ball game and white-ball cricket; I was quite happy with my performances and where I was,” Rahul, who had once come under fire for saying “strike rate is very, very overrated”, said. “But [there] was a time probably 15 months ago or 12 months ago where I realised that the game is slightly getting ahead or it’s changing and becoming much more faster, and I said this in an interview as well, that it’s become more about the team that hits more boundaries is winning the games more often than the team that’s, I can’t say playing smarter, but the team that doesn’t hit as many boundaries is always finding themselves on the losing side.”When India won the T20 World Cup in 2024, Rahul wasn’t a part of the line-up.”So that’s where white-ball cricket is getting and I haven’t been part of the T20 team in the last couple of years. [That’s] given me some time to think about my T20 game as well,” Rahul said. “So, overall, just sitting and thinking about where I can get better, where the game’s gone and what I need to do to catch up with the game and what can I do to perform and get back in the T20 team, what can I do to become an important player for my team in ODI and T20 overall in white-ball cricket…”Just sitting and thinking about these things, I’ve come up with certain things obviously with the help of coaches that I’ve worked with, Abhishek Nayar is one of the guys I’ve worked with in the last 12 months quite a lot. He’s come into the Indian team as a batting coach [but has been removed since] so I spent a lot of time with him and he really helped in helping me change my thinking and helping me work on my game.”KL Rahul scored at 149.72 this season. He hadn’t crossed 140 in the five preceding seasons•BCCIIn early April, on a video posted on the IPL website, Rahul was engaged in a bit of banter with Kevin Pietersen, the DC mentor. The video showed Rahul quoting Pietersen from an earlier time as having said, “Watching KL is like sitting and watching the paint dry on the wall.””Did I say that,” Pietersen asked, to which Rahul replied, “Yeah.” And Pietersen, never short of a quick comeback, finished with, “Well, I’m glad you changed your game.”For the record, Rahul’s strike rate of 149.72 in IPL 2025 is a steep rise from his 136.12, 113.22, 135.38, 138.80 and 129.34 in the five preceding seasons.”I think it’s good to have a little bit of banter, and yeah, I mean, these were times when I still used to read and see stuff that was said about me,” Rahul told Hussain. “There is obviously a drive if someone’s saying that I can’t do something or someone’s saying that is the most boring player to watch in T20 cricket or in the powerplay… I mean there’s a bit more in me when I go into the next game.”I’ve spent a couple of weeks with KP here at the IPL and you realise that they don’t mean any harm to you, just what he’s seen on TV and it’s what he felt and he said that on TV. So there’s nothing more. So it’s been easy for me since I started seeing it that way: if someone is a commentator or a fellow cricketer has said that, obviously it’s what he’s seen and what he feels so that you don’t take it personally I think that’s a bit easier.”

Harry Kane has revealed the worst moment of his career following England's qualification for the 2026 World Cup. The Three Lions eased to a 5-0 win over Latvia in Riga on Tuesday night to maintain their 100% record. Captain Kane, meanwhile, is looking to right some wrongs and has set himself an ambitious goal target as he looks to continue his rampant form.

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  Kane has been scoring for fun

  Kane bagged a brace against Latvia on Tuesday night having sat out the 3-0 win over Wales last week due to injury. A two-goal salvo in Riga were Kane's fifth and sixth of World Cup qualifying and extended his scoring streak for club and country to eight matches.

  The 32-year-old has made an imperious start to the 2025-26 campaign as he looks to follow up last season's Bundesliga success. Indeed, Kane has already scored 16 Bayern goals across just nine outings for the Bavarian powerhouse.

  Bayern are the outright favourites to win the Bundesliga for the second year running and a real contender to lift the Champions League in Budapest next summer. Kane will be hoping it's a pre-cursor for the World Cup as England look to win the famous trophy for the first time since 1966.

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• 'Probably the worst that I felt in any moment'

  Kane is also looking to right some World Cup wrongs as he aims to captain England to international glory. The striker missed a decisive penalty against France in the quarter-finals in Qatar in 2022 having already netted from the spot as England fell to a 2-1 loss to Didier Deschamps' side.

  "I’d say that was probably the worst that I felt in any moment," Kane told . "Obviously I’ve lost finals before. To have that responsibility, you almost feel like it fell on my shoulders and I guess not being able to execute something that I’ve been able to execute many times in my career… I think that was the hardest part to process and take.

  "I learnt from that, the way that motivated me to get even better and improve, not just from the penalty side in terms of improving my technique but as an all-round player. To know I want to be back there, I want to help England get back there."

  Kane has revealed that miss prompted a change to his penalty taking technique, adding: "I changed my technique a little bit. I improved in that sense which I was proud of.

  "And that’s always what I will try and do. In terms of that [penalty miss] being my last memory [of a World Cup], yeah, I’m looking forward to the next World Cup to try and put that right, to try and go further, to try and lift the trophy as we all dream of doing.

  "And the opportunity is always there when that is coming around. I think those moments only shape you as a person, as a player and it’s definitely helped me to become a better player."

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  England captain reveals goal target

  The Three Lions skipper has also revealed his ambitious goalscoring target for the national team. Tuesday's brace in Latvia took him to 76 England goals, and he believes he has what it takes to reach a century.

  "I think it’s there," Kane said when asked if 100 international goals was a realistic target.

  "The way I’m feeling right now, I’m not slowing down any time soon. I want to stay at this level for as long as I can. I’m on 76 now so that leaves 24 and we have a few more games between now and the World Cup and then try [to] edge closer to that 100.

  "I am extremely proud to have broken Rooney’s record and now to be going ahead like I am. It is hard to process while I am still playing. In life it’s always about the next moment and the next camp, the next game. I’m aware that it’s a special achievement. I’ll be hungry for as many goals as possible and we’ll see how far I can go."

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• Kane issues rallying cry

  England qualified for the World Cup with two games to spare. And while some may feel the Three Lions can take their foot off the gas against Serbia and Albania next month, Kane has issued a rallying cry for teammates to maintain this momentum.

  "I said in the changing rooms never take this for granted but ultimately we will come back in November [for the final two qualifiers at home against Serbia and away against Albania] and there are two more important games to carry on the momentum we are building so far," Kane said.

  England's first set of games next March are yet to be decided but reports earlier this month suggested that are keen to host Uruguay and Japan as they gear up for next year's World Cup.

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O Palmeiras está cada vez mais próximo de zerar a dívida com a Crefisa pela compra de jogadores com dinheiro emprestado da patrocinadora. Segundo informou o Uol e confirmou o Lance!, a quantia caiu para R$ 43 milhões e foi informada em reunião do COF (Conselho de Orientação e Fiscalização). Além disso, no balanço do mês de julho, o clube teve um superávit de R$ 28,9 milhões, bem acima do previsto.

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No fim de 2019, que é considerado o auge da dívida com a empresa de Leila Pereira, o valor do débito era de R$ 172 milhões. Ou seja, em cerca de três anos e meio, a gestão palmeirense conseguiu cortar em quatro vezes esse montante.

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O motivo desse abatimento é a mudança na forma com que o clube quita o valor. Anteriormente, apenas a venda dos jogadores contratados com o dinheiro da Crefisa era a fonte do pagamento. De um tempo para cá, com as conquistas dos últimos anos, o “bônus” pago pela patrocinadora a cada troféu também passou a valer como forma de abater a dívida, o que ajudou a deixar o débito como está.

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No acordo com a empresa de Leila, o Palmeiras poderia fazer o abatimento conforme fosse negociando os atletas, e caso eles saíssem do clube sem custos, haveria um prazo de dois anos para que o valor fosse pago com juros amigáveis para facilitar a quitação. Para se ter uma ideia, o Verdão pagou quase R$ 65 milhões desse débito somente em 2022.

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Outra boa notícia para o Palmeiras é o resultado financeiro do mês de julho. Depois de fechar os seis primeiros meses do ano com déficit acumulado de R$ 2,7 milhões, o clube abriu o segundo semestre com R$ 28,9 milhões de lucro. Ou seja, já amenizou os valores negativos do semestre anterior.

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Segundo o orçamento do Verdão, o valor previsto como superávit de julho era R$ 11,7 milhões, bem menor do que acabou sendo arrecadado no período. A grande diferença foi no quesito “negociação de atletas”, já que o Alviverde faturou R$ 26,5 milhões a mais do que o orçado para o mês.

Já o resultado anual também sofreu um impacto diante do lucro de julho. Em 2023 o superávit já está em R$ 26,2 milhões, também por influência da negociação de jogadores, que estão em R$ 40,5 milhões a mais do que foi previsto nos sete primeiros meses do ano. Assim, o que foi orçado como déficit de R$ 2,2 milhões no período, está positivo muito por conta dos números do “mês 7” de 2023.

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Despite defeat at Anfield before the international break, Arsenal return to action against Nottingham Forest on Saturday lunchtime to much excitement.

However, Mikel Arteta will be without key figures William Saliba, Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka, the latter facing a race against time to be available for next Sunday’s huge clash with Manchester City in North London.

In the past, injuries have derailed the Gunners’ title hopes and dreams, because they’ve simply not had the squad depth to cope with key absences.

Now though, after spending over £250m in the summer transfer market, that has changed, so Arteta must unleash a few of his summer signings, one who some are forecasting could become even better than Saka.

Eberechi Eze's home debut

Ahead of Arsenal’s first home game of the season, a 5-0 demolition of Leeds United, Eberechi Eze was presented to the Emirates crowd.

It was a genuinely spine-tingling moment, with Eze himself taken aback by the welcome home he received, 14 years after being released as a child, thinking his dream was dead.

Now though, after he was given a mere brief cameo at Anfield, Eze is ready to take centre stage, with those attending Saturday’s clash with Nottingham Forest doing so in anticipation of witnessing a home debut to remember.

As noted by Match of the Day, Arsenal have the second-lowest expected goals from open-play in the Premier League this season, their figure of 1.57 above only that of newly-promoted Sunderland, continuing a problem that has hampered Arteta’s team for a while.

This underlines why Eze has been signed, adding that much-needed creativity, but he may not be the only summer signing Arsenal will be hoping can shine this weekend and beyond.

More than just Arsenal's Bukayo Saka back-up

When Noni Madueke was recruited from Chelsea for £52m in the summer, plenty of eyebrows were raised, but the early signs are that this could be a shrewd piece of business.

In defeat to Liverpool, the 23-year-old was the Gunners’ most dangerous attacker throughout, always giving Miloš Kerkez something to think about, even if the end product was lacking.

Nevertheless, based on what he has produced so far, speaking on the Arscast, Philippe Auclair believes Madueke is simply far too good to merely be considered a Saka back-up, and his statistics last season support this argument.

Shots

80

14th

Shots per 90

3.54

4th

Big chances missed

14

18th

Progressive carries

154

3rd

Carries into the box

93

3rd

Attempted take-ons

102

25th

Touches in the box

184

5th

As the table notes, Madueke ranked behind only Jérémy Doku and Mohamed Salah when it came to progressive carries last season, also ranked in the top five in terms of shots per 90 and touches in the opposition’s penalty area.

He has certainly impressed Thomas Tuchel, starting three of England’s last four World Cup qualifiers, including both this month, scoring his first-ever international goal against Serbia at Stadion Rajko Mitić in Belgrade on Tuesday.

During the international break, former Manchester United defender Paul Parker was so impressed with Madueke that he exclaimed “I actually think he’s better than Bukayo Saka”, praising his frightening pace and ability to strike fear into defenders.

Given that Saka has been consistently excellent since first breaking into the Arsenal team in early-2020, this is a bold claim.

However, this competition for places can only be a good thing for Arteta, given that his star man is currently sidelined with a hamstring injury, having sat out more than three months last season due to the same issue, missing 19 games, unquestionably derailing the Gunners’ title aspirations.

On Saturday specifically, it is tough to forecast who Ange Postecoglou will deploy at full-back, given that Ola Aina is set to spend three months on the sidelines, after sustaining a serious hamstring injury during Nigeria’s 1-1 draw with South Africa in Bloemfontein on Tuesday.

It won’t be Oleksandr Zinchenko at left-back, he’s ineligible to face his parent club, but whoever it is will not relish coming up against Madueke, who will surely start in Saka’s place, looking to score his first Arsenal goal.

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It’s advantage Arsenal in the Premier League title race after Liverpool’s recent slips and former player Jack Wilshere believes that one player will be the “key” for Mikel Arteta.

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On a day that saw the Gunners go top of the Premier League, it wasn’t an afternoon without one frustrating moment.

Yet again, captain Martin Odegaard was forced to depart in the first-half after picking up another injury concern. The Norwegian has already had a stop-start opening to the current campaign and could now be set for another spell on the sidelines.

Providing an update on Odegaard’s injury, Arteta told reporters in his post-match reaction: “With Martin it was a clash knee to knee. It’s not looking very positive at the moment.”

The Spaniard was also forced to provide an update on Declan Rice, who asked to come off after discomfort in his back. The Arsenal boss said: “With Declan he was struggling with back pain and he asked me to come off. Let’s see what the doctor says now and what is best for him.”

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In truth, despite sitting top of the Premier League and in excellent form, the international break comes at a good time for the Gunners. It provides them with the perfect opportunity to ensure that Rice is fully fit and Odegaard finally recovers from recent injury woes.

Alas, even if they’re left with no choice but to go on without those two, Wilshere believes that it’s another player who’s going to be “key” to Arsenal’s title hopes.

Wilshere: Timber the "key" for Arsenal

For all of Bukayo Saka’s excellent work and the solid partnership between Gabriel and William Saliba, it is another star who stands out for Wilshere. According to the former midfielder, Jurrien Timber is the “key” to Arsenal’s title hopes after making such an impressive start to the current campaign.

Wilshere’s praise is certainly justified, too. Timber has been a revelation ever since returning from injury at Arsenal and the West Ham game was no different. The Dutchman had six touches in the West Ham box, wasn’t dispossessed once and made six tackles in another complete performance from the versatile fullback.

As time goes on, the £90,000-a-week star looks more and more important for Arteta and Arsenal as they look to build on their lead at the top of the Premier League.