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Leicester City manager Amandine Miquel eager to develop club’s youth
Amandine Miquel is used to developing young talent and she is eager to do the same with Leicester City.
The Frenchwoman was appointed the club’s manager in July after seven seasons with Reims in her native France.
A 1-1 draw with Bristol City in the Women’s League Cup on Wednesday gave her an opportunity to test the club’s brightest young talent and it is clear she is pleased with what she saw.
Among them was 19-year-old winger Shana Chossenotte, who got on the scoresheet, as well as highly rated England youth international Ruby Mace, 21.
“Four or five from the academy could definitely start for the first team,” said Miquel, when asked on Friday about the squad depth she has available at Leicester.
On the same day, four of the club’s youngsters were called up to England’s Under-17 Women’s World Cup squad, with the tournament taking place this month.
Miquel will be without goalkeeper Rebekah Dowsett, defenders Nelly Las and Simone Sherwood, as well as forward Denny Draper.
But while Miquel is sad to lose them for a month, she is excited to see the talent pool being created within the club’s academy.
“It’s very good. I’m happy to share with England and wish that they go as far as they can in that competition,” added Miquel.
“For me, [developing young players is] the most important thing. I was a bit surprised when I saw the age of my team here, but I saw that I still have the youngest squad out of the 12 [WSL] clubs.
“I think that bigger teams, or ones higher up the table, tend to forget that they need to play. If you want to have a very good player at 18 or 19, she has to start playing at this level at 16. She should be around the team much more.
“We have four or five that can be in this group. When there are opportunities like this [in the League Cup], we will use them.”
Paul Pogba’s four-year ban for a doping offence has been reduced to 18 months after winning his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
Sources close to the 31-year-old Juventus midfielder told BBC Sport he can resume training in January 2025 and will be eligible to play again from March.
France international Pogba was suspended by Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal (Nado) in February after a drugs test found elevated levels of testosterone – a hormone that increases endurance – in his system.
Cas director general Matthieu Reeb confirmed to Reuters the ban had been reduced to 18 months from 11 September, 2023.
Former Manchester United midfielder Pogba took his case to Cas and gave evidence in person at a hearing earlier this summer.
He previously said he would “never knowingly or deliberately” dope and believed the verdict was “incorrect”.
Had the original ban stood, 2018 World Cup winner Pogba would have been unable to play until 2027, when he will be 34.
Robertson initially ruled out Celtic’s second goal in their 6-0 win at McDiarmid Park after an offside flag, but the panel agreed that VAR was right to intervene while noting that it was “a very tight decision and would have been difficult for the assistant referee” to see.
The panel made the same observation when concluding that VAR was correct to intervene after Rangers’ winning goal at home to Hibs, scored by midfielder Tom Lawrence, was initially ruled out for offside.
VAR later intervened to advise referee Nick Walsh that Hibs should have been awarded a penalty when John Souttar blocked striker Mykola Kuharevich’s shot from within the six-yard box with his arm.
In deciding that VAR was right to intervene, the panel also noted that Walsh was correct not to show a red card to Rangers’ centre-half because he was not denying an obvious goal due to the position of goalkeeper Jack Butland, who would go on to save Kuharevich’s spot kick.
Dundee United midfielder Craig Sibbald’s 79th-minute long-range strike, which pulled his side to within a goal of Kilmarnock at Ruby Park, was initially ruled out by referee Craig Napier for a foul in the build-up.
However, the SFA panel agreed that VAR had been correct to intervene and award the goal, with United adding a late equaliser as the game finished 3-3.
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Erik ten Hag: Decision over Manchester United manager ‘not my call’, says Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Ten Hag has won two trophies in two years at Old Trafford, but an impressive 2-1 victory against Manchester City in May’s FA Cup final proved vital to the Dutchman keeping his job.
Ten Hag ended the club’s six-year wait for silverware with victory against Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final in his first season at the club, also achieving a third-place finish in the Premier League.
But his second season proved far more difficult as United, having been knocked out in the group stage of the Champions League, finished eighth in the league before ending on a high against City at Wembley.
The initial deal Ten Hag signed when he was appointed in 2022 was due to expire at the end of the current season, in 2025.
Following a review of the team’s performance across the 2023-24 season, which included speaking to potential replacements for Ten Hag, the club – led by Ratcliffe – decided to trigger an extension to keep the manager at Old Trafford until 2026.
But just 10 games into the campaign, with United 13th in the Premier League table and winless in Europe, speculation over his future is mounting – with a trip to high-flying Villa to come before October’s international break.
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Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca says he does not “think we can compete” with Manchester City and Arsenal this season because “we are not ready”.
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“I really don’t think that because we are not ready. The reason is that City has worked with the same manager for nine years and Arsenal for five years. If you want to compete for big things you need that time.
“After Arsenal beat PSG they asked Luis Enrique and he said the same thing that Arsenal have had the same manager for five years and them only a year and a half.
“Imagine us, only three months… so it’s a huge difference. So I am really convinced we cannot compete with those clubs.”
Chelsea are home to Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Sunday (14:00 BST).
They have spent £1.5bn across the last five transfer windows, albeit with significant player sales, and currently only have Carney Chukwuemeka (ill) and Reece James (hamstring) on the sidelines.
Maresca wants time and patience in his first year of management at Stamford Bridge, with the Blues entering the third year of their ownership under Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital.
He added: “The target is to improve and slowly, slowly to get closer to those clubs but at the moment we are not ready for that,” he added.
“There is no timeframe because you can continue to improve and add solutions to things always.”
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