Key events
Speaking of transfer news, Liverpool have finalised a deal worth up to £123m for Bradley Barcola. The winger is scheduled to undergo a medical this weekend.
Chelsea confirm Emiliano Martinez signing
Chelsea have completed the £7.5million signing of Emiliano Martinez from Aston Villa. The goalkeeper said: “I’m delighted to be at this football club. Coming to Chelsea, for me and my family, was an easy decision to make and I’m just over the moon – I can’t wait to get started.
“I want to be successful here. I’m someone who wants to win at everything I do and I want to bring that here to this football club because it’s a football club that wins titles, so I think it’s a good match.
“I’m all passion and I play with my heart. I will give 100 per cent every game, every training session to make the club, my teammates and the supporters proud.”
How the table looks after yesterday’s results…
Elsewhere in the Premier League, Hull continued their winning start against Coventry and Everton clinched a last-minute equaliser against Bournemouth.
Víctor Muñoz rescued a point for Liverpool yesterday against Nottingham Forest in Andoni Iraola’s first Premier League match in charge of the Reds at Anfield.
Yesterday’s results
Jonathan Liew
“Time for Tottenham to start panicking? This is, of course, a subtle trick question. Tottenham is one of those clubs that never actually stops panicking. They panic when they concede and they panic when they score. They panic when they have the ball and they panic when someone else does. They have a coach in Roberto De Zerbi whose face evokes a state of permanent alarm, the expression of a man perpetually having a toilet door opened on him. One year they even managed to panic their way to the Europa League. For the ever-rattled Spurs fan, this club is less a treasured devotion and more a lifelong haunting, broken up by occasional panic substitutions…”
In a further blow to Spurs, De Zerbi also revealed that Richarlison, Kevin Danso and Pape Matar Sarr all want to leave.
He admitted: “Richarlison, I don’t know. He said too many times he wants to leave. Danso came to me two days ago and he said he wants to leave. Pape Sarr the same but he suffered a small injury, but he is almost ready to train.
“I love these players, and they are great guys. I have very good relationships. But if they want to leave, they have to bring the economic solution to the club, and they can go and we find other players.”
Roberto De Zerbi has admitted his biggest challenge for his Tottenham team will be to find “the right mentality”, as they fell to a second consecutive defeat at the start of the Premier League season.
“It’s the biggest problem, it’s the biggest challenge and the biggest target is to find the right mentality,” De Zerbi said after the match. “You can’t find the right mentality in the transfer market. Football is a magical thing, you can change a lot of players and you can find the balance immediately or you need more time. I want to achieve this target as soon as possible … but I am in no doubt that we will reach it.”
In case you missed it, Tottenham suffered their second defeat of the campaign yesterday against Newcastle. Paul MacInnes was at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for the clash.
Today’s Premier League fixtures
Preamble
Hello, good morning and welcome to another matchday live! We have four Premier League fixtures to look forward to today as Chelsea host Brighton, Leeds United take on Brentford, Fulham travel to Sunderland and Manchester United face Ipswich Town.
Also today, there is League One action along with fixtures in the Bundesliga, LaLiga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Scottish Premiership.
We’ll also be looking back at yesterday’s results as Hull City and Newcastle United both walked away with wins.
And finally, with the transfer window coming to a close in just two days, we’ll be keeping tabs on all the latest movements.
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