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Glasgow Rangers extended their winless run to six matches in all competitions after they held their Glasgow rivals to a 1-1 draw at Ibrox in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday.

Barry Ferguson has failed to lead the team to a win since the dramatic 4-3 victory over Dundee away from home at the end of March, and has not done his chances of landing the job on a permanent basis many favours.

The Light Blues decided to move on from Philippe Clement earlier this year and will have to source a long-term replacement for him this summer, with a familiar name leading the list of candidates.

The latest on the Rangers managerial chase

Football Insider recently reported that former Rangers head coach Steven Gerrard is the leading candidate to secure the job on a full-time basis ahead of next season.

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The outlet claimed that the English manager is the favourite for the role, ahead of Marco Rose, and that he is at the top of the club’s shortlist of options.

The 44-year-old boss usually deployed a 4-3-3 system during his first spell at Ibrox, which yielded an incredible, unbeaten, league title success in the 2020/21 campaign, and that could mean that the Gers need to recruit in a certain way to suit that system this summer.

It could also mean that there are some players currently in the Rangers squad who could move on from Glasgow because they do not fit what Gerrard would want in that position, and Danilo is a player who could fall into that category.

Why Danilo may not suit Gerrard

The Brazilian forward, who joined from Feyenoord in the summer of 2023, may not be ideally suited to Gerrard’s set-up because he has not shown himself to be suited to playing as a lone centre-forward.

Danilo has been used as a second-striker, or attacking midfielder, or as a centre-forward as part of a front two, either alongside Cyriel Dessers or Hamza Igamane, rather than being relied upon to play on his own.

That may be because the 5 foot 9 forward lacks the physicality to play as a sole number nine. He has lost 63% of his ground duels and 75% of his aerial battles in the Premiership so far this season, which shows that opposition defenders find it too easy to get the better of him.

The 26-year-old dud is reportedly on a wage of £26k-per-week, which is more than Mohammed Diomande (£12k-per-week), who provided the assist for Dessers on Sunday, and Nicolas Raskin (£19k-per-week), despite the duo being regular starters in midfield with 55 league starts between them this season.

Meanwhile, Danilo, who was described as being “sloppy” on the ball by pundit Steven Thompson, has started seven league matches this term and has struggled with multiple injuries during his two seasons at Ibrox so far.

Knee injury

September 2024 – November 2024

65

12

Knee injury

December 2023 – May 2024

171

32

Broken cheekbone

September 2023 – October 2023

43

9

As you can see in the table above, the former Feyenoord marksman has missed 53 games through injury for Rangers since his move to the club in 2023, which shows that he is not reliable in terms of his availability.

Therefore, Rangers should ruthlessly cash in on Danilo in the summer transfer window because he does not have the physicality to suit playing on his own up front in a Gerrard system and does not have the availability to make him a worthwhile squad member, particularly with a wage that is higher than club Player of the Year Raskin and Diomande’s.

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Zaib, Scrimshaw scuttle Notts before visiting captain leads charge to small target

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Skipper David Willey smashed seven sixes and seven fours in a 34-ball 79 as Northamptonshire Steelbacks made it two Vitality Blast wins from two with a crushing eight-wicket win over Notts Outlaws.After bowling Outlaws out for 154, Steelbacks knocked off their target with a commanding 40 balls to spare, South African opener Matthew Breetzke hitting the winning boundary in a 30-ball unbeaten 51. Northamptonshire had never won at Trent Bridge in seven previous visits in the shortest format.Outlaws had appeared set for a substantial score after building on a 63-run powerplay to be 104 for 1 after 10 overs, new skipper Joe Clarke and Outlaws debutant Jack Haynes having shared a 95-run partnership from 58 balls.But Clarke fell for 48 and Haynes for 51 and the home side lost their last nine wickets for 50 in 9.2 overs.Left-arm spinner Saif Zaib – only an occasional bowler in this format – took a T20 career-best 3 for 12 in three overs, with 6ft 7ins pace bowler George Scrimshaw claiming three for 16 from 14 balls.Asked to bat first, Outlaws lost Alex Hales in the second over, caught behind after making room to cut Raphy Weatherall, but raced to 63 for 1 in the opening six nonetheless, Clarke hammering two sixes and Haynes another amid a rush of boundaries.The second-wicket pair had added 95 by the end of the 10th over before they were stopped in their tracks by left-arm spinner Saif Zaib – the seventh bowler used by David Willey – as Clarke was caught by off-side sweeper Ricardo Vasconcelos for 48 off 30 balls.A brilliant piece of fielding by Willey from mid-off then ran out Will Young and when Tom Moores holed out to long-on for 9 Outlaws had stumbled from 104 for 1 to 117 for 4 in three overs, with the scoring rate being dragged back for good measure by the slower bowlers.The Northamptonshire fightback continued with Zaib striking twice in his second over as Haynes was caught at wide long-on and Matt Montgomery was bowled sweeping.Willey re-entered the attack to bowl Calvin Harrison off an inside edge before the unravelling continued thanks to two in two by George Scrimshaw as Lyndon James was out via a steepling catch and Dillon Pennington leg before. Scrimshaw wrapped things up by having Olly Stone caught behind as Outlaws failed even to bat out the full 20 overs.The early wicket of Vasconcelos, caught at slip as a scoop went badly wrong, lifted home spirits momentarily but they had fallen flat by the end of the powerplay, with Steelbacks ahead at 68 for 1 after the sixth over saw Willey hammer his one-time Northamptonshire team-mate Stone for 4-4-6-4-4-1, before going 6-2-4 off legspinner Harrison’s first three deliveries to complete a 21-ball fifty.Willey’s explosive innings continued with four more huge sixes off the first four balls of Harrison’s second over. The left-hander clearly had it in mind to go for a full set but his luck ran out next ball, which he mistimed just enough for it to drop into the hands of James at long-off.Nonetheless, with opener Breetzke, who faced only 20 balls in the opening 10 overs, at last getting a look-in to clear the rope off Stone, Steelbacks reached the halfway point needing just 35 more for victory.As it was, it took them only another 20 balls to get the job done, Breetzke and Ravi Bopara picking up two more maximums each before the former lofted Montgomery’s offspin through long-off for the winning boundary, completing his maiden Outlaws half-century in the process.

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da brwin： O Corinthians terá que pedir solicitação à Conmebol para ter o técnico interino Danilo Andrade à frente da equipe contra o Independiente del Valle, do Equador, nesta terça-feira (2), pela Libertadores. Isso porque ele não tem a licença PRO da CBF, mínimo exigido para que profissionais comandem alguma equipe na competição continental.

O Timão deve encaminhar esse pedido de autorização à entidade máxima do futebol sul-americano ainda nesta segunda-feira (1º) e mesmo se liberado, terá que pagar uma multa para a instituição (não há informação em relação ao valor). Danilo, por enquanto, tem a licença B. Entre a credencial atual dele e a necessária para trabalhar em torneios da Conmebol, ele precisaria primeiramente fazer o curso para tirar a licença A da CBF.

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Caso receba uma negativa, Fernando Lázaro é quem vai dirigir o Timão neste meio de semana. Lázaro era o técnico efetivo do Corinthians até o último dia 19 de abril, quando foi remanejado do cargo justamente após uma derrota na Liberta, contra o Argentinos Juniors. Ele não foi demitido, mas passou a ser auxiliar da comissão permanente do clube alvinegro.

Lázaro também não tem a licença PRO, mas pôde dirigir o Corinthians nas duas primeiras rodadas da Libertadores porque se matriculou no curso no início deste ano. Então, a Conmebol abriu uma exceção para o profissional alegando ‘boa fé’ e que ele tiraria a certificação até o fim desta temporada.

Enquanto isso, a diretoria corintiana está em busca de novo treinador. Tite e Mano Menezes recusaram as ofertas do clube, que chegou a iniciar uma negociação com Róger Machado, mas recuou, por conta da repercussão negativa. Há uma frente no clube que deseja a contratação de Vanderlei Luxemburgo, mas o nome possui a desconfiança do presidente Duílio Monteiro Alves.

O departamento de futebol do Corinthians quer um pouco mais de tempo para buscar uma opção que tenha uma aprovação maior. Antes descartada, a opção por técnicos estrangeiros hoje é uma realidade. Nos últimos dias alguns nomes internacionais foram consultados, mas considerados caros pela diretoria alvinegra.

The second ODI between West Indies and India went quickly from being a contest to the familiar sight of the team from the Caribbean imploding

Aishwarya Kumar in Port of Spain12-Aug-2019One minute, the stadium was abuzz with chatter. West Indies were very much in the game – their death bowling had limited India to under 300 and with Nicholas Pooran and Roston Chase in the middle, they looked like they had it under control.Then wickets fell like a pack of cards. Pooran. Chase. Carlos Brathwaite. Kemar Roach.The crowd started to clear. It was an all too familiar feeling. It was an all too familiar sight. West Indies are almost always close, but somehow, almost always short.”They say in the islands that the West Indies know how to lose,” Gerald Ramkissoon, former chief curator and current maintenance head at Queen’s Park Oval said. “Same old, same old West Indies,” was the take of Ian Ramsey, part of the pitch staff at Queens Park Oval.The team has been struggling for a while – they last won a bilateral ODI series in 2014, against Bangladesh. But experts and fans had renewed hope before the World Cup, particularly given a drawn series against England leading up to the event. The general perception was that the squad had the tools – with their deep and exciting batting line-up and the in-form pace attack – needed to succeed. Now, it was all about execution.That’s exactly where they failed, close to winning several matches but not going over the line. They were 15 runs short in their run chase against Australia, a heart-breaking five against New Zealand, and 23 against Sri Lanka. Those three results going their way could have meant a semi-final spot for the team.”Again, we were in front today and then we found a way to give away our wickets, so it’s just a matter of us now learning from our mistakes and trying to dig deeper,” West Indies coach Floyd Reifer said after the defeat to India in the second ODI, which put them 1-0 behind in the three-match series with one game to go.Captain Jason Holder has been saying that their main batting focus is taking time with the new ball, understanding the conditions, and then scoring runs at a steady pace. But that approach runs contrary to how many West Indies batsmen usually play – the slam-bang T20 style. And that’s the style that has resulted in the batsmen, particularly the middle order, making careless shot choices.Ramkissoon reminisced about the time when West Indies had someone like Shivnarine Chanderpaul, whom bowlers would spend hours trying to dislodge.”T20, especially CPL, Big Bash and IPL changed everything,” Ramkissoon said. “Don’t get me wrong, the current team, Pooran, (Evin) Lewis and (Shimron) Hetmyer, they have the ability and the game to take West Indies far, but it’s about how you approach cricket, how you play the game.”Both Ramkissoon and Ramsey feel that the relative lack of experience in the line-up is crucial. “(Kieron) Pollard should have been in this series. He played in the IPL, he knows how most of the Indian players work, he was in good form – he would have helped players on the field, bowled and batted, we call him the triple threat in Trinidad,” Ramkissoon said.With Gayle’s looming retirement, there is also the gaping hole that is West Indies’ opening spot. Evin Lewis seems more or less set at the top, but without a solid partner, West Indies will struggle to build the foundation that Holder is keen on.These are just some among a number of issues West Indies need to address sooner rather than later. After all, among the fans, the cricket public, and even the local press, there is continuing hope for the glory days of the 1970s and 1980s to return one day. If it is within reach, as some feel, the players need to do what they can to grab it.

Virat Kohli has left South Africa for personal reasons, but is likely to rejoin the Test squad ahead of the Boxing Day Test in Centurion. Kohli didn’t take part in the Indians’ three-day intra-squad match, the only red-ball outing for a number of senior players including captain Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah, ahead of the two-Test series.Ruturaj Gaikwad, meanwhile, has been ruled out of the two-Test series because of a finger injury. Abhimanyu Easwaran, who is currently part of the India A squad that is on a shadow tour of South Africa, has been named* as Gaikwad’s replacement as the reserve opener. Rohit and Yashasvi Jaiswal are likely to continue their partnership at the top of the order, like they did in the Caribbean in July-August, which was India’s most recent Test assignment.Abhimanyu struck an unbeaten 61 on the second day of the practice game in Pretoria before he was retired by the team management. Abhimanyu is expected to feature for India A in the second four-day match against South Africa A, also beginning on December 26, barring any last-minute changes. He will then link up with the national squad ahead of the New Year’s Test in Cape Town.Gaikwad is expected to head back home and to the BCCI’s National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. He picked up the injury on the ring finger of his right hand while fielding during the second ODI against South Africa in Gqeberha. In his absence, India handed a debut to Rajat Patidar for the series-deciding final ODI in Paarl, which India won.India’s Test squad has been in preparation for the past four days in Pretoria under Rahul Dravid’s coaching staff. KL Rahul, India’s stand-in ODI captain, and Mukesh Kumar are expected to link up with the Test squad after a day’s rest following the ODI series. Shreyas Iyer, who was also part of the ODI mix, had been released from the squad after the first ODI to prepare for the Tests.Iyer and Rahul will be returning to Test cricket after a prolonged absence. Both of them last featured for India during the Border-Gavaskar series at home against Australia in February. Rahul, who opened in the series, lost his place after the second Test. He missed the subsequent WTC final and the Caribbean tour because of a hamstring injury. He is likely to take over wicketkeeping duties for the Tests. Iyer, too, hasn’t played a first-class game since March, and has been on a steady diet of ODI cricket following his comeback from back surgery.The upcoming series is India’s second assignment in the new WTC cycle for 2023-25. They won the first Test in the Caribbean and were denied an opportunity to win the second by rain.

Sheffield United are expected to go back in for an “amazing” defender in the summer after missing out on him in January, according to a new report.

Sheffield United on course for Premier League return

With just eight Championship games left to play this season, Sheffield United remain firmly in the race for an immediate return to the Premier League after being relegated from the top flight last year. The Blades are currently second in the table, but trail leaders Leeds United only by goal difference.

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Meanwhile, they lead third-placed Burnley by two points and sixth-placed West Bromwich Albion by a whopping 23 points, meaning a place in the play-offs is all but guaranteed. Manager Chris Wilder, however, would, unsurprisingly, rather avoid having to play at Wembley for a place in the Premier League.

Discussing the battle for automatic promotion earlier this month, Wilder, who is currently in his second spell at Bramall Lane, said: “We’re old enough and experienced enough to know we have to get our heads down and work extremely hard for every result, and I mean every result, because there are no easy games in this division.

“This is the unpredictability of the Championship. We have to concentrate 100% on ourselves, getting the job done and getting as many points as we possibly can. If it’s enough, then fabulous, and if not then we’ll have to address the next situation.”

Blades to return for Dunne

To aid with their quest for automatic promotion, in January, United tried to sign Queens Park Rangers defender and Republic of Ireland international Jimmy Dunne. They ended up pulling out of negotiations, however, due to QPR placing a £3 million price tag on the 27-year-old’s head.

The Blades’ pursuit of Dunne is seemingly not finished, however. Out of contract at the end of the season, according to TBR Football chief football correspondent Graeme Bailey, United are expected to come back in for him, whether they gain promotion or not.

“I am told he was very close to joining Sheffield United in the January transfer window,” Bailey told EFL Analysis. “Talks did take place but things just did not work out. Don’t be surprised if the Blades come back, but I do know a number of their Championship rivals like him a lot. I really think QPR will find it hard to keep him. He has done really well at right-back.”

Dunne, described as “amazing” by QPR manager Marti Cifuentes, has made 37 appearances in the Championship for QPR – playing at both centre-back and right-back. Not only does he rank highly in the league for many defensive actions, including tackles, aerial duels won, interceptions and blocks, he’s also scored an impressive five goals and registered two assists.

Jimmy Dunne Championship Stats 2024/25

Games

37

Goals

5

Assists

2

Duels Won

296

Tackles Won

48

Interceptions

40

Stats via FotMob