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Swansea’s admission that they may be powerless to stop Wilfried Bony leaving the club this summer has come a week after Daniel Sturridge was forced to cut short his participation in Liverpool’s preseason tour of the US due to injury. Happy coincidence?

It’s no secret that Liverpool are in the market for another forward. Loic Remy was thought to be the perfect addition to the club: low-cost but with plenty of experience. But that deal fell through following complications with the player’s medical, and the club will now need to look to alternate targets.

But Liverpool aren’t the only club interested in the services of the Ivorian striker, with Tottenham sounding out their interest this summer, and Arsenal also said to be looking at the 25-year-old.

Of the three, Liverpool make the most sense. For starters, Arsenal have no great need for another forward; not that an additional attacker wouldn’t be welcomed at the Emirates, but simply that there are other areas in need of address first. And with Tottenham looking set to hang on to Roberto Soldado after his hugely disappointing first season in English football, as well as Emmanuel Adebayor, Liverpool stand out as the obvious suitors.

Brendan Rodgers also has the added bonus of tempting Bony to Anfield with the prospect of Champions League football this season, something which isn’t set to be in the calendar at White Hart Lane.

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Having performed as well as he did during his debut season in the Premier League – 16 goals in the league and 25 in total – Bony will want to test himself at the highest level of club football, with Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins citing interest from Champions League clubs.

It’s also hard to see where Bony would get regular game time at Spurs, provided they were looking to hold firm on their current options. Either Soldado makes way and the club have a near-£30 million striker sitting on the bench for prolonged spells, or Bony accepts an alternating role in the Tottenham attack, which he’s unlikely to do with other options available to him.

At Liverpool, Bony will certainly give Rodgers something different in attack. The club acquired the height and power of Rickie Lambert earlier in the window, but the 32-year-old can only really be thought of as a backup option and a reliever during congested spells in the campaign. Bony, on the other hand, at 25 is younger, quicker and will provide even more power to the team’s attack. There is more than enough pace on hand in Liverpool’s squad, and bringing in Bony will offer a positive balance.

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Swansea were initially unwilling to move on the Ivorian’s £19 million release clause, but are now said to be open to negotiating. With Liverpool close to landing Remy for a knockdown £8 million, the opportunity to negotiate with the Welsh club will prove to be something of a breakthrough. In addition, the player’s familiarity with the Premier League should ensure he hits the ground running.

Bony doesn’t have the star power as names like Luis Suarez and Marco Reus, but the club shouldn’t misconstrue his relatively minor status with a lack of quality. The club are also in need of adding further reinforcements to the defence, and while Swansea will push to get as much as they can for Bony, a transfer fee of around £12-15 million will prove to be a good piece of business for Liverpool.

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When Martin O’Neill was appointed Sunderland manager in the December of last year, the obvious remit was to try and steer the Black Cats away from the looming dangers that came with their precarious position in the Premier League.

Steve Bruce’s side may not have seemed like genuine relegation candidates, but they were certainly showing relegation form – two wins all season left them two points off the bottom three with only a few weeks left till Christmas. Yet almost as soon as O’Neill was ushered in, there was a palpable sense of relief.

The Ulsterman is a grafter, a manager in the mould of the old school with a résumé that demands respect. And almost predictably, O’Neill didn’t disappoint, either. His appointment paid almost instant dividends, with Sunderland winning four of his first six games, as the ex-Villa manager galvanized and rejuvenated a hugely under-performing side.

A 13th place finish eventually beckoned for the season and after successfully salvaging Sunderland’s fortunes in his half-season in charge, the focus shifted to the future and beyond. After successfully fulfilling the first part of the job, O’Neill’s task had evolved.

This was a man who had taken Aston Villa from a woeful 16th place Premier League finish in the wake of David O’Leary’s reign, to an eventual three consecutive sixth-placed finishes. Hopes were high and optimism was cautiously in bloom. Circumstances differed of course, but why couldn’t he try and repeat the trick at the Stadium of Light?

From what we’ve seen so far, progress however, certainly seems to be a mixed bag. Miracles don’t happen overnight, the evolution of a squad takes time and there is a hell of a lot of football still to be played this season. But if Sunderland are going to look to aim to achieve anything near resembling Europa League qualification in the near future, as O’Neill has carefully touted as a potential aim, they’re going to have to show an awful lot more than what we’ve seen so far.

The wild west nature of the Premier League’s mid table, makes it notoriously difficult to make any form of educated estimate of a side’s potential league placing come May – especially not after only nine games in.

Should O’Neill’s side win their game in hand, they will be only three points behind sixth placed Arsenal. Yet equally, they currently sit only three points ahead of 17th placed Aston Villa, who they play host to this Saturday. Finding a run of form at the right time is going to be crucial for the Black Cats. Equally, they can take solace in that they’ve picked up points without playing to the best of their capabilities.

But it’s finding out quite how well this side are capable of playing, which is where the fortunes to their season may lie. Because at the moment, it’s hard to establish quite where the extra level of performance they’ll need to make genuine strides up the table is.

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Martin O’Neill has looked to finally solve their abjectly poor output up front in the signing of Steven Fletcher. Unfortunately for O’Neill though, the rest of his side have stopped scoring. Fletcher has of course remarkably scored five of the Black Cats’ six Premier League goals. Newcastle United’s Demba Ba can proudly lay claim to being Sunderland’s second highest league goalscorer, with his own-goal in the recent Tyne-Wear derby.

It’s probably not too early to state that despite only being at the club for a matter of months, the men from Wearside have already come a little reliant on Fletcher. Because past the Scot’s performances, it’s hard to see where the goals may come from.

As Martin O’Neill stated after the miserable 1-0 defeat to Middlesbrough in the League Cup this week, that things simply aren’t clicking for his side at the moment:

“If the ball is not rolling for or we are finding it a bit difficult.

“Well, that is just football, you roll your sleeves up and go again.

“We have very talented players in the club and for one reason or another it just has not been happening for them.”

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O’Neill has to find a way to try to nurture a little more creativity into this Sunderland side, particularly in centre midfield, if he wants to push the club forward. The way he’s got the side set-up at the moment is fine in some respects – they look solid enough, with plenty of industry and they’re working hard if nothing else. They shouldn’t find themselves in any form of relegation trouble, put it that way.

Although they’re hardly going to float up the table playing that way either and the Ulsterman must be more proactive in trying to find that spark and, as he says, ‘make things happen’. The likes of Stephane Sessegnon and James McClean have looked like a shadow of the players they were last season but O’Neill can’t wait forever before they fire on all cylinders. Why not shake things up and try something different?

Louis Saha may be in his twilight years, but he showed enough during his very short time at Spurs to suggest he still has something to offer. How much less creative could Sunderland be, by dropping the ineffective Sessegnon for Saha or Fraizer Campbell, going with a traditional two up front? Jack Colback hasn’t done much wrong in centre midfield, but he’s not done much right, either. Why not give the more creative David Vaughan a run in the side?

At the very least, O’Neill should be looking to cultivate a bit of creativity in front of the home crowd. The Premier League is an unforgiving beast and given the consequences a badly taken risk can produce, it’s no wonder managers prefer to play it safe. But unless Martin O’Neill takes the brakes off Sunderland soon, it might not be long before his team’s sideways movement turns backwards.

What would you do to move things forward at Sunderland? Let me know on Twitter: follow @samuel_antrobus and tell me how you’d shake things up at Wearside.

According to Football FanCast sources, Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Mousa Dembele is on the verge of signing for Chinese Super League outfit Beijing Guoan.

The Belgium international only has a year remaining on his contract with the north London outfit, and rather than see out the final 12 months Football FanCast sources believe the player is set to choose a move to Asia, having wanted the transfer since last summer.

Personal terms have been all but agreed and it now just a transfer fee that needs to be sorted between the two parties before a deal goes through, as manager Mauricio Pochettino, who has been urged to sign a £22.5m 2018 World Cup attacker after his opening display in Russia, begins a summer overhaul of his squad.

So, how would selling the Belgian truly impact Spurs? Football FanCast take a look at the potential consequences of the major summer deal for Tottenham…

He could lead an exodus of the old guard

If Dembele does leave Tottenham this summer he could lead an exodus of some of the old guard, with Toby Alderweireld, Moussa Sissoko and Victor Wanyama all potentially following him through the exit door for the right price if reports in The Mirror are to be believed.

While Dembele, Alderweireld and Wanyama have been key players for them in the past, it seems as though Pochettino is ready to start looking to the future in his bid to lead the north London outfit to glory and trophies, and the move into their new stadium could begin a new era in more ways than one.

Tottenham sign Ndombele

If Dembele does go, it seems certain that Pochettino will bring in a top replacement for him, and he has been heavily linked with a move for Lyon’s Tanguy Ndombele.

The 21-year-old is set to join the Ligue 1 club permanently this summer following a season-long loan spell from French rivals Amiens, but they may struggled to hold on to him following some brilliant all-round midfield displays last term.

L’Equipe report that Lyon could be tempted by a €60m (£53m) offer for the France U21 international, and it might be a price the north London club pays if they bring in good money for the players they are open to selling.

Harry Winks wants out

Following a frustrating 2017/18 campaign because of injury issues and struggling to get into the starting XI ahead of the likes of Dembele and Eric Dier, the 22-year-old would have been hopeful of his chances of getting more minutes on the pitch this season if indeed the Belgian and some of his midfield teammates go.

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However, the links to Ndombele, who would almost certainly be a starter, and Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish suggest that his situation could be unchanged, and it could lead to him becoming frustrated and leaving in search of regular first-team football – whether only on loan or on a permanent basis.

So, Tottenham fans, is Pochettino making the right decision by selling Mousa Dembele? Let us know by voting below…

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When a team performs so well as a collective, it’s always difficult to single out an individual for praise. But that’s the task we gave to Tottenham fans earlier today following a 1-0 win over Arsenal in the North London Derby, which could and probably should have ended up being decided by a far greater scoreline.

But it appears Spurs supporters have decided on a verdict for the Man of the Match award – and it didn’t go to goalscorer Harry Kane, who had to settle for second place.

Rather, Tottenham fans who took part in our poll gave midfielder Mousa Dembele the highest average rating for his performance vs Arsenal, an incredibly impressive 8.8 out of ten.

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It’s hard to argue with that conclusion. After all, Saturday’s North London Derby was very much won and lost in midfield; while Dembele and Eric Dier controlled the middle of the park, Arsenal’s lightweight trio of Jack Wilshere, Granit Xhaka and Mohamed Elneny struggled to keep up – and when the latter was subbed off for a more attacking player, Dembele really came to the fore.

Paul Scholes wasn’t too far off with his assessment of Jack Wilshere, the assessment that led the Arsenal midfielder to track down the Manchester United great and attempt to clear the air.

Jack Wilshere hasn’t kicked on from his first full season in the red of Arsenal. He hasn’t kicked on or left a mark on the game, the kind that tells us this is a youngster who’s set for a lofty career at club and international level.

How far can we go with the excuse of injuries? Sure, it derails plans and hampers the development of young players. It can mentally scar players for longer than their time on the sidelines. Wilshere has moved on from that period of uncertainty, when no one at Arsenal appeared brave enough to set a marker for the midfielder’s return. But on the pitch, when fit, he still leaves a lot to be desired.

You’d have expected a player of his undoubted talent to assert himself with much more regularity in the Premier League. As it stands, there is no feverish demand for Wilshere to inserted into Arsenal’s starting XI, quite plainly because we don’t know what we’re going to get from him.

Even his inclusion in England’s World Cup squad brought sporadic criticism: has he actually earned a place in the 23-man squad this summer?

Off the pitch, Wilshere speaks with a maturity that no doubt stems from the responsibility afforded to Arsenal players by Arsene Wenger, particularly the younger group who have seen most of their career at the Emirates, but also through the responsibility of being a parent. It’s a far cry from Wilshere’s youthful, disjointed interview in the early stages of his career in the Arsenal first team.

But he must apply himself to becoming a better player on the pitch and understanding for himself where his best position lies. Wenger sees him as No.10, yet Wilshere has played in the centre of midfield alongside either Mathieu Flamini or Mikel Arteta this past season as well as next to Steven Gerrard for England. His tenacity and skill on the ball indicates that perhaps he is best suited to a position deeper in midfield, yet on the evidence of games such as the losses away to Manchester City and Liverpool, you do question whether he has the know-how for that kind of role.

The disappointing truth in Scholes’ critique of Wilshere is that he hasn’t actually developed much from when he was in his teens. Or at least he hasn’t shown much. Think back to that season alongside Cesc Fabregas and Alex Song and then to how much those two players had developed from their teen years to their early twenties. In the case of Fabregas, it’s accurate to say he’s a one-off, a complete freak of footballing brilliance who ran Arsenal’s midfield from the age of 18. But even to compare Wilshere to Song, who had a remarkable turnaround in his career, and you’d struggle to understand why so little has been achieved from a personal point of view.

I have no doubt that Wilshere has the talent to become a modern great for Arsenal, though the comparisons to Liam Brady would be both incongruous and foolish at this point. The smart thing for Wilshere to do is learn from teammate Aaron Ramsey. The Welshman went back to basics, found his comfort zone on the pitch, restored his confidence, and has now become an integral part of this Arsenal team. Their pasts are oddly similar, not just with injuries but in their projection. There were extremely high hopes for both players upon their arrival in the first team.

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Wilshere has come away from his conversation with Scholes with a better understanding of his game. It may have only been snippets of advice, but it taking on advice from ex-players of the calibre of Scholes can be invaluable.

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Andre Santos says it is important that the Gunners share the goalscoring responsibilities ahead of tomorrow’s Champions League fixture against Schalke.

Arsenal have struggled since Robin van Persie, who was the highest scorer for the club last season, left for Manchester United this summer.

However, Santos says that the team cannot rely on just one player to score goals.

Talking to Arsenal Player, the Brazilian said: “It is very important that a team has goals from different players. Sometimes to depend on only one player is very difficult and puts a lot of pressure on him, so it’s important to have the collective responsibility, which we have here at Arsenal.

“It’s important that the team relies on every player to help in every aspect, to mark, to create chances and even to score goals. The Champions League is a tough competition and we have to share those responsibilities, and that’s what we’re doing at Arsenal.”

Santos also feels confident that Arsenal have a chance to win this season’s Champions League title.

“The earlier we qualify in the group stage, the better – and this will boost our confidence for the knockout stages. We are in a very strong position with the good start, but we are not qualified yet.

“We have to play a very strong team in Schalke twice yet, so we have to keep focused. But if we play to our potential, we are confident we can challenge for the trophy this year,” he added.

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No less than 10 different players from Arsenal’s first team have scored across all of the competitions so far this season. Arsenal currently lead Group B in the Champions League.

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According to reliable West Ham United club insider @ExWHUemployee on his latest West Ham Way blog, the east London club are considering making a summer move for Stoke City centre-back Ryan Shawcross following the Potters’ relegation to the Championship.

What’s the word, then?

Well, @ExWHUemployee says that new Irons boss Manuel Pellegrini wants at least one, and possibly two centre-backs this summer, and Shawcross is one target that they have been monitoring.

@ExWHUemployee claims that the Hammers, who must move quickly to sign a 6ft 4in England international if Chelsea complete huge £45m deal, like the 30-year-old because he is British, brave and a leader, and they feel that he could potentially replace James Collins following his official departure at the end of this month when his contract is due to expire.

How did Shawcross do last season?

It was a tough campaign for the 6ft 3in tall centre-back as the Potters struggled down the wrong end of the division, while he also suffered from a few injury knocks.

The 30-year-old made 27 Premier League appearances in total, scoring one goal and providing a further assist, but he often looked a shadow of his former self from a defensive point of view as his team ended the campaign with the joint-worst – with West Ham – top flight defence having conceded 68 goals in their 38 games.

Would he be a good signing for West Ham?

He certainly wouldn’t be.

The Irons already have a similar player at a similar age in Winston Reid who looks to be on the decline, and they surely need someone a little younger with potential to improve.

While he may be a leader, if he lacks the quality then it doesn’t matter and if Pellegrini wants to strengthen a leaky backline this summer, it is difficult to see how the 30-year-old would be a good addition given Stoke’s defensive record last term.

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Bringing the centre-back to the London Stadium would ultimately be a mistake, and would signal a calamitous start to Chilean manager’s reign with the east London outfit.

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Reported Arsenal target Riyad Mahrez was in attendance at the Emirates Stadium as the north London outfit beat Chelsea 2-1 on the night – and by the same scoreline on aggregate – to advance to the EFL Cup final, and Gunners fans are confident that they are signing the 26-year-old.

The Algeria international was in a box with Foxes teammate Islam Slimani according to the latter’s story on his official Instagram account, and the winger was spotted leaving the stadium afterwards according to @ArsenalFanTV.

The Mirror reported on January 19 that Arsene Wenger’s men and Premier League rivals Liverpool are both keen on Mahrez, although his manager Claude Puel believes he is staying this month and has slapped a £100m price tag on his head.

Arsenal supporters were quick to have their say on the latest development via social media, and while one said “welcome to Arsenal”, another said “it’s official”.

Here is just a selection of the Twitter reaction…

Is it really that much of a surprise that we’re unlikely to see Pepe Reina in a Liverpool shirt again? Wasn’t it more or less accepted that he would go to Barcelona and play back up to Marc-Andre ter Stegen after this summer’s impending departures of Victor Valdes and Jose Pinto?

The letter which Reina published is a useful tool in Brendan Rodgers’s argument that he doesn’t want the Spanish goalkeeper back at Anfield. It’s useful because it gives the Liverpool manager an excuse that can be made sense of. Because what it boils down to is that Reina, at Liverpool, is not the player he once was. And with Simon Mignolet performing as well as he has done this season, why would the club feel a need to have another option who offers no guarantees of success when playing?

There’s also the financial aspect of it. Reina, surely, is on big wages, meaning Liverpool have even greater need for wanting to move him on permanently. Even if he has managed to clear his head completely from the struggles of the past during this loan spell at Napoli, Liverpool have clearly moved on by signing a replacement who is showing little sign of being a hindrance to their top four and title-winning aspirations.

For Liverpool, and even if they were to consider Reina a good addition to the squad in the coming seasons, do have to take into account that the player more or less burnt his bridges with the club. His loan move to Italy was portrayed as a permanent goodbye to Anfield, making clear that he saw his future elsewhere, most likely in La Liga.

Rodgers and Liverpool have already turned around the mindset or a disruptive voice in Luis Suarez, who did little to hold back during the summer when he expressed a desire to leave. But Suarez is a far greater asset to have than Reina, not least because the club have already landed on a good enough replacement, Mignolet, who still has years ahead of him to improve.

It’s not the best way to depart the club considering how well liked he was, but Liverpool, much more than Reina, do have enough weight behind them in wanting to part on a permanent basis with the player.

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Everton defender Sylvain Distin believes that the club will benefit from how quickly new strikers Kevin Mirallas and Steven Naismith have settled into life on Merseyside.

The duo have settled quickly into Premier League life and Distin believes it is due to the Blues’ family club feel which makes it easy for new players to settle in.

“I’ve always said it’s really easy to settle down at this club.

“The biggest challenge is the physical part and the fitness side because training is very hard and different from other clubs,” the Frenchman told the Liverpool Echo.

“But when you get that mentality its easy because it is so laid back and not just the players. The ground staff, right to the ladies in the canteen, it’s so easy.

“After a few days it feels like home and I’m not just saying that. I don’t say things if I don’t believe it.

“It’s a family club and it helps to feel comfortable off the pitch.”

The focus of David Moyes’ side now shifts to the first Merseyside derby of the season at the weekend.

Distin insists that there is still plenty more to come from new signing Naismith and believes the Scotsman’s chances are to be increased in the coming weeks.

The 26-year-old produced an exciting 38 minute cameo when he came off the bench at QPR on Sunday and Steven Pienaar’s red card has boosted the former Rangers player’s chances of a starting place.

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Distin has been impressed with what he has seen so far and alongside fellow new boy Kevin Mirallas, believes the two can be make an impact if they are handed Merseyside debuts.

Join us on Sunday for our LIVE Merseyside Derby Day Blog!

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