According to Foot Mercato Nottingham Forest are set to join Leicester City in a bidding war to sign Lyon’s Houssem Aouar. According to reports, the newly-promoted Premier League side are keen on the midfielder but could face competition from two other interested parties which include Leicester City and La Liga side Real Betis. Lyon are not willing to let Aouar go, but could consider a departure if they receive a bid for around €15m.

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Leicester City, who are yet to bring in any recruits this summer, have made Aouar a priority to strengthen their midfield and to also soften the blow of the potential departure of England’s James Maddison – who is being pursued by fellow Premier League side Newcastle United. 

Last month Lyon accepted an offer from Real Betis which included midfielder William Carvalho in the deal – however Les Gones were unwilling to give in to the player’s high salary demands.

Aouar, though, was holding off accepting the offer as he believed he should be moving to a better club, according to sources contacted by Get French Football News.

In any case, the French international has confirmed his desire to leave to the Lyon upper management. With just one year left on his contract, the club know they will need to sell him this summer to get a transfer fee.

Following Paris Saint-Germain’s 5-0 victory over Clermont in what was Christophe Galtier’s first match in Ligue 1 as the Parisian boss, the manager spoke to Canal+ following the game on Kylian Mbappé’s absence, caused by a minor injury and kept out of the team as a precaution. Galtier confirmed the French international will be back next weekend for PSG’s home game against Montpellier. 

“We wanted to preserve him, if it was a Champions League match, he might have played but he will be with us next weekend! We are in the continuity of what we’ve been doing since the start of pre-season in Japan or the Champions Trophy. The team is better set up than at the start, which is normal. We have a lot of talent but what I remember is the collective desire to want to win the ball back early with intensity. The team played very well, they want to play with each other, they make efforts. Pablo is making effort, Messi and Neymar are equally doing so in response.”

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AlphaTauri has created a new ‘head of commercial’ position within the team’s management, as the squad strives to shore up its finances with the operation’s continued existence believed to in question.

Rumours have been circulating that the parent Red Bull energy drinks company sees AlphaTauri as being too expensive for the relatively little it achieves on the track and is exploring various cost-cutting options.

Team boss Franz Tost last week denied rumours in the German media that Red Bull is exploring options to sell AlphaTauri in the wake of the death of founder Dietrich Mateschitz last year.

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One way of bolstering AlphaTauri’s position would be to improve its financial position through more effective marketing, which will be the focus for Lars Stegelmann whose appointment was announced this week.

Stegelmann was previously chief commercial officer of the Motorsport Network, and later managed the sales team at ITR, the DTM Series organiser until 2022.

He also worked on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the European football association UEFA, and the original sales and marketing concept, development and implementation of the all-electric ABB FIA Formula E championship.

“Interest in Formula 1 has developed extremely well,” Tost explained. “With the support of Lars, we also want to develop our commercial activities,

“He has an exciting mix of strategic know-how, international sales experience and a great understanding of the advertising industry.”

For his part, Stegelmann agreed that “Formula 1 is booming and is offering companies excellent activation and communication opportunities, premium hospitality and awareness on a global scale like no other sport series.

“The various stakeholders, especially the advertisers and agencies, have been my clients for many years,” he added. “I look forward to making my contribution to further global development.”

“The positioning of Scuderia AlphaTauri fits perfectly into the current times and offers a first-class platform for companies that want to appear modern, young and dynamic, digital, design and technology-oriented.”

Among the possible cost-cutting options believed to be under discussion is relocating the team from Faenza to the UK to benefit from integrating back office services with the senior Red Bull Racing squad at Milton Keynes.

So far this season, AlphaTauri is one of only two teams (along with McLaren) nopt to score any championship points in the first two round sof the year in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Yuki Tsunoda has twice finished just outside the top ten in P11, while new signing Nyck de Vries has been 14th at the end of both races.

A clearly frustrated Tost said last week that he ‘no longer trusted’ the team’s engineers after the AT04 failed to live up to their predictions of pace and performance.

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It’s not been a good start to the new season for McLaren, or for its rookie driver Oscar Piastri who replaced Daniel Ricciardo behind the wheel over the winter off-season.

The 21-year-old Australian was the first driver to retire from a race in 2023, just 20 minutes into the Bahrain GP. While he did finish the second race in Saudi Arabia, it was well outside the points after sustaining damage on the opening lap.

But it’s not just Piastri who is suffering amid McLaren’s serious slump in form. His experienced team mate Lando Norris has also failed to finish in the points so far this season.

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It’s certainly not the way that the squad wanted to start its 60th anniversary year of operation, but Piastri is determined to remain optimistic and points to a rival teams’ rapid turnaround as inspiration.

“We’re obviously not where we want to be at the moment and we’ve been very open about that,” Piastri said in Jeddah.

“At this point, getting laps under my belt is still the most important thing. In the end, there was good experience gained,” he said, lamenting the damage done to his front wing on the first lap of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

“Qualifying was obviously a really good day for myself and the team – just a shame about lap one,” he told Australian sports website Speedcafe.

“After that, the race was reasonable. Doing 49 laps on the hards is just some good learning for us on the tyres and stuff like that,” he said. “Definitely some positives, just the results don’t really show it on Sunday at the moment, unfortunately.

“[But] we’ve got a good development programme in place to try and get ourselves back to where we should be, which is chasing the top three or four teams,” he continued, referring to Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes and Aston Martin.

“Obviously to get on the same level as those top three or four teams is difficult,” he acknowledged.

“But I think we can probably take inspiration from what Aston Martin has been able to do over the winter and try and energise ourselves with it is possible to make that jump with a lot of hard work.”

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The sudden rise of Aston has been the talk of the paddock over the first two race weekends of 2023.

Last year the squad finished in a lowly seventh place with just 55 points (compared to Red Bull’s runaway 759 points at the end of the 22-race season.

Although the team wrapped up the season with a double points finish in the final race at Abu Dhabi, Lance Stroll and Sebastian Vettel were only P8 and P10.

But right from the start of pre-season testing, Fernando Alonso has been leading the charge against the frontrunners and succeeded in joining Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez on the podium in both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Piastri believes that if Aston can pull off such a remarkable ‘overnight’ turnaround, then so can McLaren.

“Yeah, I think obviously we want to try and get back,” he said, pinning his hopes on an upcoming upgrade package scheduled for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix at the end of April.

“We’ll see what these new developments in Baku bring for us, but obviously it’s going to be a step in what is a multi-step plan for us this year.”

Before that, Piastri is set to star in what will be his first home Grand Prix at Melbourne’s Albert Park Circuit.

“Obviously, it’s my first home race as a driver, which will be an amazing experience, regardless of how it goes. So yeah, can’t wait.”

Of course, even better would be his to come away from next weekend’s race with his first world championship points in the bag. But let’s not get carried away about the team’s prospects quite so soon.

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L’Équipe report today that Mauro Icardi is absent from the Paris Saint-Germain squad to start the Ligue 1 season off against Clermont tonight so as to allow him to settle a private matter.

The Argentine, who is among the 11 players who were placed on the club’s transfer list at the start of the summer, remains at the club but was ostensibly not set aside by Christophe Galtier for tactical reasons.

The former Inter man had been in the squad for the pre-season tour of Japan, but was an unused substitute in the 4-0 win over Nantes in Tel-Aviv that saw the team lift the Trophée des Champions.

Icardi had missed several days of training last season amid a much-publicised separation with his wife and agent Wanda Nara, which would even see him miss out on a Champions League fixture against Leipzig.

The press in Argentina have indicated in the last few days that Nara has once again asked for a divorce, which the player himself has denied on social media. It remains unclear whether his absence from tonight’s game is linked.

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Sky Sports report this afternoon that West Ham have made an offer for Paris Saint-Germain defender Thilo Kehrer, as they look to reinforce their defensive options in the midst of an injury crisis.

Foot Mercato had indicated earlier this week that Kehrer, along with Abdou Diallo, were two of the names on a shortlist the Hammers have drawn up, with both having been placed on Paris Saint-Germain’s transfer list at the start of the summer. West Ham are looking to bring in a defender in the wake of former Rennes man Nayef Aguerd’s injury, while Issa Diop is set to leave for Fulham.

There is no indication as to PSG’s response thus far, as Kehrer sees his contract expire at the end of the season and has attracted interest from Sevilla as well, as he also looks to improve his playing time ahead of the World Cup.

Kehrer was said to have drawn the attention of the Premier League club thanks to his positional versatility. Overall, the former Schalke man will have blown hot and cold over his four years at the club since his lucrative transfer from Germany, having made 128 appearances and won three Ligue 1 titles as well as 2 Coupes de France.

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Foot Mercato report that Nice have seen their opening offer for Villarreal striker Boulaye Dia turned down, having turned to the Senegal international after missing out on the signing of Benjamin Šeško from Salzburg.

Les Aiglons had made a loan offer for the former Reims man, who is keen on a return to French football. A follow-up bid could be set to arrive, while Marseille and Nantes were also reportedly interested.

Dia is keen to increase his playing time this season with a view to playing a part in Senegal’s World Cup campaign this winter, having only made 17 starts for the Yellow Submarine in his first season there.

Overall, he scored seven goals and registered six assists across his 35 games in all competitions, with the team also making a deep European run to the Champions League semi-finals, where they were eventually knocked out to Liverpool.

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During his three-year spell in the Champagne side’s first team, Dia scored 24 goals in 78 Ligue 1 appearances, including fourteen strikes in his final season with the club.

According to L’Équipe, Kylian Mbappé returned to PSG training today after just missing out on PSG’s 5-0 away win at Clermont on the opening weekend of Ligue 1 due to an adductor injury – Christophe Galtier has already confirmed that the French international will be featuring in PSG’s home game against Montpellier on Saturday night. 

Speaking after the Clermont game, Galtier confirmed the reasoning for Mbappé’s absence: “He had a little injury scare, we didn’t want to take any risks. Obviously, if we had been in a difficult match or a Champions League match, Kylian might have played. We preferred to delay his return.”

Paris Saint-Germain have been preparing without Mbappé during pre-season, as the player also missed the Trophée des Champions tie against Nantes. Pablo Sarabia has been deputising for the Frenchman, and has shown positive performances with a high work rate that Christophe Galtier has been recently praising – although it won’t take long for Mbappé to return to the Parisian side. 

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Wallabies head coach Dave Rennie admits the benefit of their injury crisis in 2022 is having elevated competition for places when all the players do return.

Rennie named his first squad of the year last week that saw the inclusion of several stars who are still recovering from injuries, including Samu Kerevi, Quade Cooper, Angus Bell and Taniela Tupou.

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The injury crisis saw Rennie use a large number of Wallabies throughout last year, something the coach now sees as an advantage after having struggled through the difficult period.

“It’s the advantage of a lot of injuries, I guess, we’ve used a lot of players last year, and there’s more competition for places now, which is really good,” Rennie told Rugby Pass.

“We’ve got a couple of guys who would normally be in Japan recovering from long-term injuries so it’s nice to have Quade and Samu in here.

“It’s a massive year, it’s exciting. We’re going to light a fire over the next couple of days and work hard that we head up north in the best possible condition to play our best footy over the last four years.”

Despite the squad being filled with class and talent, there were two notable absentees in veteran James O’Connor and code-hopping Suliasi Vunivalu.

O’Connor struggled with both injuries and form at Test level during 2022 and is looking to use this year’s Super Rugby Pacific to play himself back into the squad – something Rennie has encouraged all his fringe players to do.

“I had a good chat to ‘Rabs’ (O’Connor) prior to us announcing the team,” he added.

“He’s come back from injury, back training fully and actually in really good nick running quicker than we’ve seen over the past couple of years.

“He looks sharper, so his focus is playing good Super Rugby and putting pressure on us to select him in the camp in April. That’s the message we’ve given to a number of fringe players.”

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Vunivalu, on the other hand, struggled throughout the year with a string of hamstring injuries but looked really threatening when he did play, earning himself a Test debut against England.

The Wallabies want to see consistent speed running without injuries. However, the former rugby league man has work to do after the impressive rise of Mark Nawaqanitawase in the Autumn Nations Series.

“Suli has got really clear messages,” Rennie said.

“We need to see him run fast. We need to see him open up and repeat of speed efforts. We know his ability aerially is excellent.

“He needs to put in good performances at Super level. He had a couple of runs with Australia A and needs to build on it.

“What we saw from Mark Nawaqanitawase is a man who’s equally good (as Vunivalu) aerially, but is good all over the park. His speed and repeat speed was excellent as was his post-tackle work and his defensive work.

“He grabbed his opportunity and played the best three games of his life at test level. The challenge for him is to make sure that he comes in and wants to be better. That’s the message he’ll get over the next couple of days.”

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Stormers head coach John Dobson says his side had a bad day at the office against an in-form Glasgow Warriors side in the United Rugby Championship (URC) on Sunday.

The defending URC champions fell to a 24-17 defeat at the hands of the Scottish outfit, and while Dobson credited Glasgow for their performance, he felt that his side was poor in a few areas of the game.

‘A very bad day at the office’

Glasgow had the slightest edge on the Stormers in possession and territory, and the stark difference in the stats was the number of missed tackles for the Stormers (39), more than double the tally of the hosts (18).

After the match, Dobson said that his side was too focused on the defensive breakdown, which presented opportunities for Glasgow on attack.

“We were poor in areas we didn’t want to be in. We probably over-committed to the defensive breakdowns. I thought we gave them a couple too many yards on defence when they carried off 10 and 9,” Dobson told reporters.

“It was just a very bad day at the office against a team that’s really on a roll.”

Failure to slow Glasgow down

The Stormers boss said Glasgow executed well on attack but added that his side needed to be more effective in slowing down their possession.

“They went deep to get around us. They executed really well against our line speed.

“They carried well, and we were very poor at making double tackles and slowing the ball down. Their ball was too fast.

“We have to give them credit, they knew we were going to come with our line speed and they got ’round us,” Dobson added.

Another concern for Dobson was his side’s inability to exit out of their half, while he was reluctant to blame the nearly 40-hour trip to Glasgow for the performance.

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“I’m not going to blame the travel. Maybe with more training time we could have [been better] with our exits,” he added.

“We were really poor in exiting our own half.

“You saw at the end of the game there where we had a four-man lineout on our line five yards out… four minutes to play… all we had to do was exit, and we got turned over.”

The Stormers head to England this week, where they will front up against Premiership club London Irish in the Champions Cup, while Glasgow are off to France to tackle Perpignan in the Challenge Cup.