Leny Yoro

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!It will not have escaped your attention that we here at Big Website are true football hipsters. Football Daily was into gegenpressing in the nascent days of Ralf Rangnick; we bought a Napoli shirt in the pre-mohawk Marek Hamsik era and, as we hammered Premier Manager for 18 hours straight, we drank fluorescent orange fruit beers before they showed up in any pub with a dodgy firestick. When it comes to assessing the transfer scene of summer 24, then, it’s the B-side deals that really wet our whistle, not the chart-toppers. So you can keep your Kylian Mbappés, your Endricks and even your Leny Yoros (sorry, Manchester United, but signing a generational teenager wanted by Real Madrid and paying £50m for the privilege hasn’t flown under anyone’s radar). Where are the bargains?Seeing Héctor Vivas’s composite image of players in yesterday’s Football Daily (full email edition), I couldn’t help but be reminded of the madness of Joseba Etxeberria’s testimonial for Athletic Bilbao” – Robert Morgan.I was at that match snapped by Héctor Vivas and the photo is a lot more exciting than sitting through the actual 90 minutes was” – Jim Hearson. Continue reading...

Games in Philadelphia and Columbus are no longer harmless fun. They’re warm-ups for league matches being staged overseasSign up to Soccer with Jonathan Wilson hereOn a sunny summer Saturday in Inglewood, California, two of the Premier League’s most historic rivals met on the pitch, and the biggest news had nothing to do with the score of the game. Rather, two key injuries for Manchester United (Rasmus Højlund and new addition Leny Yoro) drew headlines after Arsenal’s 2-1 win in which the London side’s two key Gabriels (Jesus and Martinelli) scored.It is just pre-season. In all likelihood, the injuries were the biggest thing to come out of a game between these opponents in this location. But it may not be that way for much longer. Soon, games like this week’s Liverpool-Arsenal clash in Philadelphia or Chelsea-Man City in Columbus could actually have an impact on the league table.This is an extract from Soccer with Jonathan Wilson, a weekly look from the Guardian US at the game in Europe and beyond. Subscribe for free here. Jonathan will return from his summer vacation next week with a mailbag edition ahead of the new season. You can email your questions to [email protected]. Continue reading...