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Chelsea have submitted a £30m offer for an “extraordinary” midfielder, who is keen on a move to the Premier League this summer, according to a report.

Blues planning to strengthen several positions

The Blues haven’t been shy to splash the cash during the Todd Boehly era, and it appears as though they could be gearing up for another summer of heavy spending, having identified targets in a number of key positions.

A new striker is of particular interest, and talks have now been opened over a deal for Ipswich Town’s Liam Delap, who would ideally arrive at Stamford Bridge prior to the beginning of the Club World Cup in June.

In terms of centre-back targets, AFC Bournemouth’s Dean Huijsen appears to be among the main candidates, with the west Londoners entering discussions for the 19-year-old, while AC Milan’s Theo Hernandez could be brought in at left-back.

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Another position in which Enzo Maresca clearly feels he needs to strengthen is central midfield, despite both Moises Caicedo and Enzo Fernandez putting in some impressive performances this season.

According to a report from Spain, Chelsea have now submitted a €35m (£30m) offer for Real Betis’ Johnny Cardoso, but they are not alone in their pursuit, with Premier League rivals Bournemouth making a bid of the same value.

The Blues have been interested in Cardoso for quite some time, and they have now presented a concrete offer for his services, which could be tempting for the Spanish side.

The midfielder wants to move to the Premier League this summer, which indicates he could be keen on heading to Stamford Bridge, but he may have a number of options on the table, with several foreign teams thought to be keen.

"Extraordinary" Cardoso impressing in Spain

It is little wonder the American is starting to attract attention from across Europe, given that he has been impressing for Betis for quite some time, particularly catching the eye from a defensive point of view.

The 23-year-old ranks extremely highly across some key metrics for midfielders over the past year, when compared to his positional peers.

Statistic

Average per 90

Tackles

2.66 (75th percentile)

Interceptions

2.07 (98th percentile)

Clearances

2.47 (91st percentile)

Aerials won

1.59 (85th percentile)

Not only that, but the Betis star has received very high praise from sporting director Manu Fajardo, who lauded the central midfielder as “extraordinary”, while he has also caught the eye of freelance scout Ben Mattinson.

Cardoso could be an excellent signing for Chelsea, although bringing in a new defensive midfielder shouldn’t be a priority this summer, given that Caicedo and Fernandez have both impressed this season.

India’s on-field performance deserves scrutiny, but they were dictated by the decisions they made off the field

Alagappan Muthu05-Jan-20252:12

Was India’s batting approach justified?

There was a team whose two key batters were not producing the runs that they were used to. They came under fire from the outside. They had a fast bowler go down with injury. They were the ones celebrating with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on Sunday afternoon.At about 4.30pm in Sydney, Scott Boland, with a well-earned drink – it looked like coffee even if he has been the toast of the town – walked over to the SCG square, which was now cordoned off. His wife and their two daughters were with him. They grabbed on to the rope and started jiggling it. Australia were deserving winners in this series against India after victory in Sydney, but it is remarkable how much their problems mirrored India’s after the first Test in Perth and how they now seem so far away.They had a batter averaging 16.85 in his last eight innings make two single-digit scores in his first appearance of the series. Marnus Labuschagne recovered. Rohit Sharma couldn’t. They had a world-beater go through a lean period. Steven Smith recovered. Virat Kohli couldn’t. It helps being part of a winning unit when you are out of form. Pat Cummins spoke about how the loss in Perth didn’t really prompt Australia into any kind of soul searching.Related

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“Thought we had a bad week, but thought our game plans, methods, [and] selection, all that was pretty much where we wanted it to be,” he said. “But maybe our execution was a little bit off. I think you can very easily panic in those situations, [and] change a lot. I think it’s more important to realise we’re still number one in the world. We’re a very good team. Stay strong.”India’s on-field performance deserves scrutiny, but they were dictated by the decisions they made off the field. They came to Australia with their souls wrenched out of place. Their first ever whitewash at home in a series of three or more Tests – against New Zealand – had raised doubts about their batters’ ability to cope with conditions where run-scoring is difficult.It forced them to look at their bowlers differently. They went into the first two Tests against Australia with only two specialist quicks. The other two – Nitish Kumar Reddy and Harshit Rana – were picked for the runs they could provide down the order.The irony is that when those runs actually came – in the first innings in Melbourne – India were unable to make the most of it. The cushion they have afforded non-performing batters on this tour directly affected their chances of victory, and might also have put their biggest asset on ice for a while. Jasprit Bumrah’s back injury is still being assessed by the medical staff. India coach Gautam Gambhir was not willing to let the seniors off the hook for how it all turned out.All eight of Virat Kohli’s dismissals were to balls outside the off stump•Getty Images”Not a lot of people are playing for the first time in Australia. There are quite a lot of others [who are]; probably two of them in the top eight,” he said after India’s loss in Sydney. “[Other than] Nitish and Yashasvi [Jaiswal], all the other guys have had the experience of Australia. So I’m not going to say that it is only because some of the young guys [that we lost], but I think there are a lot of experienced players as well.”It may also be useful to remember that four of the five Tests were played in conditions that Smith said required luck, and that it is a win as a top-order player if you can face 50 balls. He doesn’t have the 10,000th run yet, but he’s a decent enough authority to speak about these things.”A bit [of the batters’ struggle] could be because of the wickets,” Gambhir admitted. “Then, again, it’s not only the case in Australia. We’ve had the same issues at home as well. So I think everything boils down to the temperament. Everything boils down to how much you want to sometimes play those tough moments.”How much you want to grind in Test cricket. Because Test cricket is all about playing the session. Sometimes see off the spell as well. And that is why it’s the beauty of sport. So I feel that that is one issue where we need to probably look after. That how can we convert those 20s, 30s or 40s into big 100s. Not only 100s, but big 100s, and set the game up for our bowlers. Because your bowling department will always be under pressure if you can’t put those first-innings runs on the board.”Jasprit Bumrah was shouldering a very heavy workload, and in the end, it resulted in an injury•Getty ImagesThere is one other bit that no losing team will ever admit. The opposition was better equipped. Boland’s success is testament to what happens when specialists are trusted to do their jobs; how it has a knock-on effect. Australia didn’t need a lot of runs from their out-of-form batters because their in-form bowlers were knocking India out over and over again.”Yeah, it’s been tough,” Gambhir said reflecting on his time as coach, a time which includes six losses in ten Tests. “Absolutely, no doubt about it. It’s been really tough. And obviously, these weren’t the results what we were expecting in the last eight test matches.”But that is what sport is all about. All I can expect from that dressing room is to keep fighting. And all we all can do – not only as players, but as a support staff – [is] to be honest, and keep fighting and keep doing the right things what is good for Indian cricket. As simple as it can get. But more importantly, it’s a result-orientated sport. And we all play for results. And it hasn’t gone our way. As simple as it can be.”India contributed heavily to this Border-Gavaskar Trophy series being incredibly entertaining, sometimes to the point of going overboard. They played it all with their hackles raised. Right from the send-off to Travis Head in Adelaide, they have felt like they have been behind enemy lines, some portion of their effort siphoned away towards things like a hostile crowd, or a 19-year-old wind-up artist. It has added to the theatre, but could it also have been a sign that they lost a little bit of their composure? Jaiswal had the audacity to block Mitchell Starc and tell him “You’re coming on too slow.” Starc said nothing. He just took him out in the next few innings.India could have seized this series on the fourth day in Melbourne when they had Australia at 91 for 6•AFP/Getty ImagesGambhir said it wasn’t like India didn’t have their moments, and he’s right. Rohit accepted his poor form and withdrew himself from selection. That was good. Rohit, in a previous, desperate search for form, bumped their best-performing batter, KL Rahul, off a position he seemed to have earned after initially letting him have it. That was less good. Bumrah was close to becoming the highest wicket-taker in a series in Australia. That was good. He was getting up there because he was shouldering a very heavy workload, and in the end, it resulted in an injury. That was less good.Reddy scored one of the most memorable MCG hundreds. That was good. He bowled only 44 of India’s 620.2 overs in the series. That was less good. Kohli spent hours and hours in the nets trying to work out a viable way of dealing with balls outside the off stump. That was good. All eight of his dismissals were to balls outside the off stump. That was less good.India could have seized this series on a riveting fourth day in Melbourne when they had Australia at 91 for 6. That was good. They let them off the hook, allowing two 50-run partnerships for the last four wickets. That was less good.Everything good they did kept being overshadowed by something less good. So in the end, it is almost tempting to wonder: did the team that played the best cricket win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, or did the one that made the most mistakes lose?

Despite starting slow, India’s No. 6 pounced on his opportunities and attacked spin better than any of his team-mates

Vishal Dikshit04-Jan-20230:59

Hooda: While batting as a No. 6, I had to do the finisher’s job

When Deepak Hooda came out to bat in the opening T20I against Sri Lanka on Tuesday, India had been strangled by spin, reduced to 77 for 4 in the 11th over. The pitch wasn’t a standard Wankhede surface, where batters could freely play their shots and rely on boundaries.Maheesh Theekshana was bowling flat, short of length and not giving any width. One such delivery trapped debutant Shubman Gill lbw on the back foot for 7. Sanju Samson went after Dhananjaya de Silva’s offbreaks in the seventh over to up the scoring rate, but he miscued one to short third for 5. When Wanindu Hasaranga came on with Ishan Kishan attacking, he sent down one googly after another and had the batter caught at deep midwicket off a slog sweep.Related

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After 11 overs, Sri Lanka’s spinners had bowled five for just 22 runs, and bagged three of the four wickets. India were on a precarious 78 for 4 and ESPNcricinfo’s forecaster predicted a total of around 152, which would be below par on a ground with short boundaries, especially with dew expected later and Arshdeep Singh slidelined with illness.Hooda was beaten on the first ball he faced, another wrong’un from Hasaranga, before he patiently took singles off his next eight balls, six of which were bowled by spinners. With five overs to go, India were only 101, now with Hardik Pandya also back in the dugout. The forecaster predicted 142.Theekshana returned to finish his last over and bowled a rare loose, short ball. Hooda had faced nine deliveries by then without a single boundary, but he was ready. The nature of T20 cricket is such that even if your team is on the back foot, you must seize the moment if you spot an opportunity. Hooda didn’t have time to go deep in his crease, but he transferred his weight enough on the back foot and pulled a mighty six.Deepak Hooda and Axar Patel helped India accelerate at the death•BCCINext ball, perhaps to compensate for the short one, Theekshana pitched too full and Hooda was ready again. This time, he leaned into the ball and blasted it for another six in the same direction. India’s run rate shot up from 6.73 to 7.37 and they were on course for 157 now, according to ESPNcricinfo’s predictor.”That was his [Theekshana’s] last over and there was a loose ball also, and in T20, you have to keep your intent high all the time to hit the ball if it’s in your area,” Hooda said after the game. “So Axar and I thought that was the perfect time to target the bowlers. And that’s what we executed.”That over marked a clear shift in momentum, and Hooda swung it further India’s way by going after the bowlers who had contained his team-mates.Hasaranga conceded only four singles off the first five balls in his final over, but he erred with his last delivery. And Hooda was waiting. The short ball, at 95.4kmph, was much quicker than Theekshana’s, yet Hooda found the time to rock back, open up his body towards leg, and pivot for such a powerful pull that he ended up facing deep midwicket at the end of his follow through.

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The pull was Hooda’s most productive shot in the first T20I, fetching him 13 runs off just three balls. There was also a huge gulf between him and the other India batters when it came to facing spin: Hooda scored 26 off 13 balls (with three sixes) while his team-mates scored 31 off 41 balls (one four). His unbeaten 41 off 23 balls and partnership of 68 off 35 with Axar Patel lifted India to a 162.Hooda knows what’s expected of him at No. 6 and how to go about his job.”It was very clear that we had to build partnerships after we lost early wickets,” Hooda said. “You have to be ready for such situations when you’re batting in the lower order, at No. 6. There can be a collapse any time and it was not a collapse today as such, we were in a good position early on. But yes, that’s the role of a No. 6 or 7.”That’s what the game demands: that you play according to the wicket and post a decent total. That’s what I was thinking while batting as a No. 6 that I had to do the finisher’s job.”

Stats highlights from India’s memorable 2-1 series win in Australia

S Rajesh. With inputs from Shiva Jayaraman21-Jan-2021The experience gap
Going into the fourth Test, India’s playing XI had 13 Test wickets in all (two of which belonged to Rohit Sharma), compared to 1033 for Australia’s bowling attack. That stat encapsulated the gap in experience between the two teams in the series decider.ESPNcricinfo LtdOver the entire series, the average experience for an India player was 31.6 Tests, while that for an Australia player was 42. The difference of 10.4 is the second-highest in any series of three or more Tests in Australia which was won by the visiting team. The only instance of a more inexperienced team, relative to the Australian team, winning in that country was in the 1911-12 Ashes, when the difference in the average Test cap was 11.5.Debutants make their mark
The fact that India beat Australia despite losing so many of their first-choice players is largely because their replacements did so well. The five players who debuted in this series contributed 20.4% of India’s runs (off the bat) and 36.9% of their bowler wickets. Shubman Gill scored 259 out of the 371 runs scored by India’s debutants, while Mohammed Siraj picked up 13 of their 24 wickets. And these numbers exclude the vital contributions of Shardul Thakur, who, playing his second Test, scored 69 and took seven wickets.ESPNcricinfo LtdIn India’s Test history, there have only been five instances when players who debuted in an overseas series of three or more Tests collectively contributed 20% of the team’s runs and wickets. Two of those were in the 1940s, while the others were in England in 1996 (when six players debuted, including Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Venkatesh Prasad), and in the West Indies in 2011, when Virat Kohli, Abhinav Mukund and Praveen Kumar made their debuts.Batting long
India’s second innings in Adelaide lasted just 21.2 overs, but in the remaining six innings (excluding the Melbourne knock when they needed 70 to win) they faced more than 90 overs every time.In the last 40 years, there has been only once instance of an overseas team batting 90-plus overs more than six times in a series in Australia – West Indies in 1988-89; that was also the last time Australia lost a Test at the Gabba before the defeat against India. West Indies won the 1988-89 series 3-1.ESPNcricinfo LtdNo fourth-innings blues for India
In each of the last two Tests, Australia went into the fourth innings of the game as favourites. Each time, they were thwarted by the skill, resilience and determination of India’s batsmen, who batted 131 overs in Sydney for a draw, and 97 in Brisbane to seal the win. Essentially, the difference between a 3-1 scoreline in favour of Australia and the result which eventually transpired were these fourth-innings performances.India’s fourth-innings average in the series was 52.35, which is the fourth-highest in the last innings by an away team in Australia (with a cut-off of 900 balls faced and at least two fourth-innings efforts). Among the 34 series that make the cut-off, the last time a team did better was in 2008-09, when South Africa averaged 57.93 in the fourth innings, thanks to the record run-chase of 414 for 4 in Perth, which was followed by another successful chase of 183 for 1 in Melbourne.ESPNcricinfo LtdIn the last 40 years, there have only been four instances of an overseas team playing 90-plus overs twice in the fourth innings in an Australian series, which includes the 2008-09 series mentioned above. In fact, all four instances have happened in the last 15 years, suggesting that fourth-innings batting in Australia is perhaps not as difficult as it used to be in the 1980s and 1990s.For India, this was the third instance of batting 540 balls or more (90 six-ball overs) twice in the fourth innings of an overseas series. The two previous occasions were also in Australia, in 1967-68, and then again 10 years later; both were during the era of eight-ball overs. Unlike in this series, though, all of those batting efforts came in losing causes.ESPNcricinfo LtdIn both their fourth innings, in Sydney and Brisbane, Cheteshwar Pujara did the job of stalling Australia’s early quest for wickets, facing 205 deliveries in Sydney and 211 in Brisbane. His total tally of 420 deliveries in the fourth innings has been bettered only three times in an away series in the last 40 years; one of those was by Murali Vijay on the 2014-15 tour to Australia.When the toss didn’t matter
As if the unavailability of so many players wasn’t bad enough, India also lost the toss in each of the last three Tests. That didn’t stop them from winning two of those matches, though, making it only the fifth time in the last 40 years that a visiting team has won multiple Tests in Australia after losing the toss.The only occasion during this period when Australia lost three Tests despite winning the toss was in 1988-89 – yes, that series again – when West Indies won in Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne.ESPNcricinfo LtdFor India, this was the fourth instance of winning multiple Tests in an away series despite losing the toss. They had earlier achieved this against West Indies (2019), Bangladesh (2009-10), and New Zealand (1967-68).In fact, the three results in this series all went in favour of the team which lost the toss, which continues a recent trend: since the start of 2020, teams losing the toss have a 15-8 win-loss record in 27 matches.Slim pickings for Lyon, Starc
Nathan Lyon’s 100th Test didn’t go as he would have liked, and neither did the entire series. Needing 10 wickets to reach the 400 mark, he finished with nine at an average of 55.11. Only once has he averaged worse in a home series: 57.66, against South Africa in 2016-17. On that occasion South Africa’s spinners averaged 58.1, but here Lyon was comprehensively outbowled by India’s spinners, who took 23 wickets at 27. The difference of 28.1 between the two averages is the highest by far in any home series that Lyon has played.There are only two other instances when Lyon had a worse average than the opposition spinners in a home series: against Sri Lanka in 2012-13, and against India in 2018-19. On both occasions, the difference was fewer than five runs per wicket. (Click here and scroll down the page for a full list of Lyon versus opposition spinners in home series, updated till before his 100th Test.)ESPNcricinfo LtdAs if Lyon’s sub-par form wasn’t bad enough, Mitchell Starc was also off-colour through much of the series. His opening over to Mayank Agarwal in Melbourne contrasted sharply with his wayward bowling through most of the Gabba Test. Starc finished with a series average of 40.72, which made it two Australian bowlers bowling 100-plus overs at averages of more than 40. The last three such instances for Australia have all been against India. Starc and Lyon are in good company, though, for the two bowlers who met with the same fate in the 2001-02 home series against New Zealand were Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne.ESPNcricinfo LtdThe head-to-head battles that mattered
Two batsmen scored 100-plus runs against a bowler in the series, and both instances were against Lyon, who conceded 496 runs, the most by a bowler in this series. Both Pujara and Rishabh Pant had success against him, and those were the battles which probably swung the series in India’s favour.ESPNcricinfo LtdPat Cummins, the top wicket-taker and the Player of the Series, was outstanding throughout the series, but the one anomaly was his performance against left-handers: he bowled 171 deliveries to them and conceded 91 runs without taking a wicket; Pant scored 56 off 84 balls against him. Cummins averaged 15.38 against the right-handers, taking 21 wickets in 808 balls.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Bryan Woo found out last weekend that he had made the American League All-Star team for the first time in his three years in the big leagues. Moments after getting that news, he called his parents to let them know and their reaction was too good.

The 25-year-old right-hander is 8–4 on the season with a 2.77 ERA. He's a big reason why the Mariners are in second place in the AL West and will be fighting for a possible playoff berth in the second half of the season.

The team recorded Woo's conversation with his parents, which started with him talking to his dad about the family plans for the upcoming All-Star break. He the shared that they need to head to Atlanta, where this year's game will be played.

“Oh my god, Bryan! Holy s—!," his mom yelled upon hearing the news.

This whole video is great:

Safe to say next week is going to be a special one for the Woo family.

Francisco Lindor made a heroic return in the ninth inning of the New York Mets vs. Colorado Rockies game on Friday night.

Lindor has been nursing a broken pinky toe and was out of the starting lineup on Thursday and Friday. However, as the Mets and Rockies entered the ninth inning tied at two runs each, Lindor stepped in to pinch-hit for Tyrone Taylor.

The Mets had two outs and two runners on base when Lindor entered the game. And, of course, he delivered during crunch time. Lindor hit a double, allowing Pete Alonso and Juan Soto to run home. Lindor saw two pitches in the entire game and finished with two RBI, all while playing on a broken toe. What can't he do?

Hopefully, this means Lindor will return to the lineup sooner rather than later. We'll see if he's listed as a starter for the Mets' second game vs. the Rockies on Saturday night.

تحدث أولي هونيس، الرئيس الفخري لنادي بايرن ميونخ الألماني، حول تجديد عقد هاري كين واستمراره مع الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الألماني، كما تطرق للحديث عن ليفربول.

وتعاقد ليفربول الصيف الماضي مع الدولي الألماني فلوريان فيرتز، قادمًا من نادي باير ليفركوزن، في ثاني أغلى صفقة بتاريخ الدوري الإنجليزي والتي قُدرت حوالي 116 مليون يورو.

وخاض فيرتز، 197 مباراة بقميص باير ليفركوزن واستطاع أن يسجل 57 هدفًا كما قدم 65 تمريرة حاسمة بواقع 122 مساهمة تهديفية.

وقال هونيس، في تصريحات عبر صحيفة “بيلد” الألمانية: “ليفربول أنفقوا 500 مليون ويقدمون موسمًا كارثيًا وبرأيي السبب هو أنك لم تعد تملك سوى نجوم خارقين”.

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وأضاف: “كلهم رؤساء دون وجود جنود، أقول دائمًا أن قريبًا في ليفربول سيضطرون للعب بخمس كرات لأن النجوم لا يريدون التنازل عن الكرة، المسكين فلوريان فيرتز لن يحصل على أي كرة هناك لأن صلاح وسوبوسلاي وغيرهم يريدون اللعب بكرتهم الخاصة”.

أما عن تجديد عقد هاري كين فأوضح: ” هو يملك كل عام حتى نهاية يناير شرط جزائي ولكن نحن نفترض أنه سيُكمل عقده حتى 2027 على أي حال”.

وأردف: “وإذا كان الأمر يعود إلينا وقد سمعت أنه أيضًا يرغب بذلك، فسيقوم بتمديد عقده، عائلته تشعر براحة كبيرة لأنه في ميونخ يمكنك التحرك بهدوء تام”.

وأتم: “هاري كين كان في لندن يعمل دائمًا مع حراس شخصيين لحمايته، مثل هذه الحياة لا يحتاجها بالضرورة”.

يُذكر أن برشلونة يضع هاري كين، على رأس أولوياته للتعاقد معه وتدعيم خط هجوم فريق هانز فليك خلال الميركاتو الشتوي المقبل، وستستمر المحاولات حتى انتقالات الصيف إذا لم يجدد كين عقده مع بايرن ميونخ.

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He has been suspended for nine months after admitting to five breaches of professional conduct regulations

Valkerie Baynes06-Aug-2025An unnamed former county cricket coach has been suspended for nine months after admitting charges of sexual misconduct, including sending sexually explicit photos to two junior female colleagues.The independent Cricket Discipline Panel (CDP) issued the sanction after he admitted to five breaches of professional conduct regulations over incidents in 2023 and 2024, which included attempting to kiss one of the victims in a club changing room.The CDP cited “exceptional circumstances regarding the health of that coach and the serious risk of harm” for not naming him when publishing the report of its disciplinary tribunal on Wednesday.He was sacked as a result of his behaviour and hasn’t been employed in cricket since.The CDP issued the coach a nine-month suspension from cricket. Six months of the sanction were backdated to when he was charged and the remainder was suspended for a period of 12 months because he had accepted responsibility, shown remorse and undergone effective remedial education.He worked with a former professional sportswoman to understand the impact of unsolicited explicit messages, as well as completing courses on sexual harassment and professional boundaries, the CDP said.The tribunal heard evidence that the man “engaged in inappropriate and sexualised messaging” with one of the victims. He stopped when she asked him to but, some days later, sent “a further message of a sexualised and inappropriate nature”.The second victim, who was much younger than the man and had to interact with him as part of her work, also received sexually explicit pictures from him, to which she didn’t respond. Later, he asked her to check the changing rooms for rubbish and, whilst there, he “made an inappropriate attempt to kiss” the victim, who pulled away.In its decision, the CDP stated that although he was not in a formal position of trust with regard to either victim, he was considerably older than both of them and there was “a clear imbalance” between his position at the club and theirs.Chris Haward, managing director of the Cricket Regulator, described the misconduct as unacceptable and praised the “openness and courage of those who reported” it.”Removing sexual misconduct from the game is a priority for the Cricket Regulator,” Haward said. “We recognise that it takes a lot of courage for those impacted to come forward.”The CDP said that while the man made limited admissions to allegations initially put to him by the Cricket Regulator, it “was clear to the Disciplinary Tribunal that the Respondent was a different person to the one who was initially interviewed”.The panel heard that the man had undergone counselling over many months.”He hoped that now he was emerging as a better person,” the tribunal report said. “He had a greater understanding of workplace boundaries, the misuse of social media and what amounted to sexual harassment.”

Paris Saint-Germain are exploring a potential move for Barcelona defender Eric Garcia, with Luis Enrique keen on a reunion with his former Spain international. The 24-year-old centre-back has been a standout performer under Hansi Flick this season, and PSG’s growing injury list has accelerated their search for a versatile defensive addition.

PSG weigh up winter move for in-form Barcelona defender

With injuries piling up across their backline, Les Parisiens are assessing defensive reinforcements ahead of the January transfer window, and Eric Garcia has emerged as a leading target. According to , Luis Enrique is pushing to reunite with the defender, whom he coached during his tenure with the Spain national team. The PSG boss is said to admire Garcia’s composure, ball distribution, and tactical intelligence, traits he believes fit perfectly into the club’s high-possession style.

The French champions are reportedly exploring a deal that could see the 24-year-old arrive in January, either through a negotiated fee or a pre-contract agreement for next summer, when he enters the final six months of his Barcelona contract. Enrique’s side were already monitoring versatile defenders before Achraf Hakimi’s ankle injury against Bayern Munich, but the Moroccan’s absence has increased the urgency for a flexible signing capable of operating both centrally and on the right.

Advertisement(C)Getty ImagesGarcia's resurgence under Flick draws attention

After struggling for consistency in previous campaigns, Garcia has enjoyed a revival under Hansi Flick, becoming one of Barca’s most reliable performers this season. 

Initially used as a makeshift midfielder and occasional right-back, he has since reclaimed his preferred centre-back role forming a strong partnership with Pau Cubarsi following Inigo Martinez’s departure. Garcia has already made 15 appearances this season, accumulating over 1,100 minutes of action, more than any other outfield player in the squad. Flick has repeatedly praised his tactical awareness and discipline, viewing him as an example of professionalism for the younger defenders.

That consistency has reignited interest from Europe’s elite, with PSG, AC Milan and Napoli all monitoring his situation. For Enrique, however, the interest is personal, he views the ex-Manchester City man as a system-ready player capable of immediately strengthening PSG’s defensive transitions and build-up play. Garcia made his debut for the Spanish national team under the coach in September 2020 and made 19 appearances under him. The defender has not been back in the squad since Enrique's departure after the 2022 World Cup.

Barcelona reluctant to sell despite PSG interest

While the Spaniard's growing profile has made him an attractive target, the Catalan giants have no intention of sanctioning a sale, particularly to a Champions League rival. Club sources insist that Flick and sporting director Deco both consider him part of the long-term defensive rebuild.

The Blaugrana club are also optimistic about extending Garcia’s contract beyond 2026, with initial terms discussed earlier this year. Talks have slowed since September, but the club remain confident that his resurgence and regular playing time will convince him to commit. 

That said, PSG’s approach could test Barcelona’s resolve. The Parisian club have proven adept at prising away high-profile talent in the past, and with Garcia’s stock rising, they may see a window of opportunity before the renewal is finalised.

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Getty Images SportLuis Enrique’s plan and PSG’s defensive dilemma

The European champions' pursuit of Garcia fits a broader strategy to add tactical balance across the backline. Lucas Hernandez provides depth on the left, but Enrique wants a similarly reliable option on the right to support Marquinhos. The Spaniard’s ability to switch seamlessly between centre-back and full-back positions makes him an ideal candidate especially given PSG’s demanding schedule and defensive vulnerabilities exposed in recent weeks.

However, much will depend on Barcelona’s stance and Garcia’s own willingness to consider a move mid-season. Despite PSG’s growing interest, sources close to the player suggest he remains focused on maintaining his form under Flick.

With Hakimi sidelined and fixture congestion looming, the Ligue 1 giants may yet accelerate their efforts. But for now, Garcia’s name remains firmly on Enrique’s wishlist – a potential reunion that could reshape the French champions’ defensive outlook heading into 2026.