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Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 7, 201969
Palace turn down Everton
bid worth £80m for Zaha
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CRYSTAL PALACE have
underlined their
determination to hold on
to Wilfried Zaha by
turning down a player-
plus-cash bid from
Everton worth around
£80million.
The latest offer was £70m
plus midfielder James
McCarthy and striker Cenk
Tosun on loan. Everton
boss Marco Silva is
desperate to sign a
winger before thetransfer window closes at
5pm tomorrow and is
pushing hard to make
Zaha that man.
But Palace’s resolve is
proving just as strong,
with chairman Steve
Parish defiantly
maintaining their stance
that Zaha will not leave.
Palace have already sold
Aaron Wan-Bissaka to
Manchester United and do
not want to lose another
prized asset.MOISE KEAN insisted
racist bigotry did not
force him out of Italy as
he looked forward to
becoming Everton’s main
man. The Italy striker
was subjected to
persistent monkey
chants when Juventus
played Cagliari in April.
He was then criticised by
his own captain
Leonardo Bonucci.
‘Racism is horrendous
and we have to fight÷against it,’ said the
19-year-old, who has
joined Everton for £30m.
‘I didn’t leave Italy
because of what
happened. No, absolutely
not. I like Everton. This is
the reason I came here.’
ARSENAL have had a
first bid worth up to £55m
for 20-year-old French
centre back Dayot
Upamecano rejected by
RB Leipzig.
Arsenal’s 19-year-old
midfielder Emile Smith
Rowe spent the second
half of last season on loan
at Leipzig and the German
club want the midfielder
to return — either÷permanently or on loan —
as part of a deal for
Upamecano. Arsenal are
in need of a centre back
after Laurent Koscielny’s
£4.6m move to Bordeaux
was confirmed yesterday.
NOTTINGHAM FOREST
have banned a fan who
sent Derby’s Duane
Holmes a racist message
on social media.
The club also reported
the supporter to the
police and criminal
charges may follow.
Forest said in a
statement: ‘The club will
take further action
against the individual÷when the outcome of
the police enquiries
and the criminal process
is known.’
THE FA are launching a
free streaming platform
dedicated to women’s
football from the start of
the 2019-20 season.
The FA Player will show
more than 150 domestic
games live, including all
Women’s Super League
matches. The FA’s director
of the women’s game Kelly
Simmons said: ‘This is a
pivotal and significant step
in the FA’s journey to grow
the women’s game and
attract new audiences.’÷HES ISSUES
are stacking up for ragged England...
...but don’t panic,
Archer’s back with
6 wickets and a ton!
JOFRA ARCHER did all he
could yesterday to prove his
fitness for the second Ashes
Test with half a dozen
second-team wickets plus a
hundred for sussex —
immediately after his county
coach Jason Gillespie said
England missed a trick by not
playing him at Edgbaston.
The 24-year-old was given the
task of bowling 15 overs on
the first day of three against
Gloucestershire at sussex’s
leafy Blackstone Academy
Ground but required only
12.1 to demolish opponents
containing 10 players aged 20
or under. staking his claim to
replace the injured Jimmy
Anderson at Lord’s next week
he returned figures of six for
27, then followed up with 108
runs from 99 balls — his one
scare coming shortly before
his dismissal when
6ft 9in scotland
international
seamer AdrianNeill struck him a glancing
blow on the helmet, which
required an obligatory
concussion check.
Uncapped at Test level,
Archer was selected for the
first squad of the series last
week but wrapped in cotton
wool over concerns that the
side injury suffered in the
World Cup would not be up to
the rigours of a five-day
match. Sportsmail columnist
Gillespie told talksPORT: ‘He
has to play. To be perfectly
blunt he had to start the
first Test but the powers
that be decided he wasn’t
quite ready.
‘But you’ve got to remember
everybody was saying he
wasn’t ready for 50-over
cricket before the World Cup
— he’d not played enough
games, hasn’t done this,
hasn’t done that. I think we
all saw what a great World
Cup Jofra Archer had. I think
England missed a trick a little
bit because they thought he’d
not played enough first-class
cricket. For me, pick a guy
when he’s in form. He adds
another dimension to this
England
bowling
attack —
he’s got pace,
bounce,
movement off the
seam, through the air.’
Bowling with a wind and
gentle slope in his favour,
Archer struck when his 13th
delivery enticed a nick from
Tom Price that was
spectacularly scooped up,
one-handed, by wicketkeeper
Joe Billings.
‘I certainly was a bit further
back than normal and it’s
probably the quickest I’ve
kept to,’ said Billings.
switching ends, Archer later
cleaned up the tail with three
for five in his blistering third
spell. Not that the figures
were important — nor the
long handle that saw him
crash four sixes and a dozen
other boundaries in getting
to 100 on a day that England
confirmed the 37-year-old
Anderson would miss Lord’s
due to his freshly damaged
right calf.REUTERS Brainless shot: Jason Roy must adapt GETTY IMAGES End of the line? Jimmy Anderson GETTY IMAGESwithout their best bowler, Jimmy
Anderson, who was officially ruled
out of the second Test yesterday.
Could this be the beginning of the
end for England’s greatest bowler? It
is premature to write off Anderson
but calf problems are an ‘old man’s
injury’ and age is creeping up on the
37-year-old. That’s a big worry.CAN IT BE ROY OF THE
UNLIMITED OVERS?
IT Is to be expected that a coach
backs his players and Bayliss
certainly did that with Jason Roy
yesterday. ‘If he gets out the way he
did here, we’ve got to take it on the
chin,’ said Bayliss of Roy’s horror
shot against Nathan Lyon. ‘If you’ve
been applauding him for playingthose kind of shots elsewhere, it’s a
bit hard to be too critical if he gets
out playing that way.’
Well yes, but there is positivity and
there is brainlessness and Bayliss
privately knows this was a derelic-
tion of duty from Roy with a Test still
there to be drawn. There is certainly
room for Roy in Test cricket, but he
has to adapt much better.
so, there’s much for England to
ponder before next week’s second
Test and we haven’t even mentioned
Moeen Ali and Joe Denly. It’s already
looking a long way back for them.AT LEAST THERE ARE
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL...
EXACTLY, it’s not all doom and
gloom — Jofra Archer was in prolificform for sussex seconds yesterday
and will surely be back at the scene
of his greatest triumph and that
World Cup final super over next week
in Anderson’s place.
Then England have to be decisive
and accept Denly is not a Test
player and Moeen needs
a break.
Bring in left-arm
seamer sam Curran
and spinner Jack
Leach, with three
changes just about
acceptable and
not looking a sign
of panic.
There are four Tests
left and England have a habit of
bouncing back after a big setback.
All to play for!RICHARD GIBSON
at Blackstone Academy GroundTHE ASHESPotent:
Archer
appeals
for lbw
yesterday
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