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A patient, unbeaten 97 form Haris Sohail carried Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) to 287 for 6 against Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), on the first day of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy division one final in Karachi

ESPNcricinfo staff20-Dec-2011
ScorecardA patient, unbeaten 97 form Haris Sohail carried Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) to 287 for 6 against Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), on the first day of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy division one final in Karachi.PIA chose to field and enjoyed success straightaway, with ZTBL opener Imran Nazir falling for a duck. Yasir Hameed, batting at No. 3, put on a half-century stand with the other opener, Sharjeel Khan, and continued to steer the innings even after the partnership was broken. He was eventually dismissed for a fluent 80 – that included 15 fours and a six – and with none of the other top order batmen making sizeable contributions, ZTBL slipped to 141 for 4.However, Sohail compiled a dogged innings to ensure the team didn’t collapse. His 97 came from 236 balls, and he went to stumps three short of what would be his sixth first-class ton.New-ball bowler Anwar Ali was the most effective for PIA on day one, claiming 2 for 50.

Hampshire’s Chris Wood smashed a quickfire half-century to help his side avoid any lingering risk of defeat against Worcestershire in the County Championship

26-Aug-2011
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Hampshire’s Chris Wood smashed a quickfire half-century to help his side avoid any lingering risk of defeat against Worcestershire in the County Championship.Division One’s bottom two sides finally got under way after a long rain delay, with Hampshire just 59 runs to the good at 84 for six and staring down the barrel of a defeat. But Wood took an extraordinary approach to batting out time, hammering an unbeaten 56 from just 42 balls in an unbroken stand of 79 with Dimitri Mascarenhas (25 not out) before captains Dominic Cork and Daryl Mitchell shook hands on a draw.Worcestershire’s seven points lift them six clear of the relegation zone, where they are replaced by Yorkshire, but the Tykes will have been relieved as the weather and Wood’s onslaught prevented them making any further progress.

A round-up of the action from the sixth day of play at the Regional Super50 2011-12

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Oct-2011Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) secured a four-wicket victory against Leeward Islands according to the D/L method in a rain-shortened match in Georgetown. The victory was set up by CCC’s left-arm spinner, Kavesh Kantasingh, who took the new ball and claimed a career best 6 for 26. His spell helped dismiss Leeward Islands for 174 in 49 overs. Jahmar Hamilton top scored with 45. Rain during CCC’s innings reduced their target to 148 in 34 overs and they achieved it with five balls to spare. CCC were reduced to 56 for 4 at one stage but Floyd Reifer scored an unbeaten 52 and Kyle Mayers made 31 to secure the victory. Legspinner Anthony Martin claimed 3 for 26 for Leeward Islands. Both teams failed to qualify for the semi-finals.Offspinner Sunil Narine took 5 for 37 to lead Trinidad & Tobago to a 36-run victory against Jamaica in another rain-hit contest at the Providence Stadium. The result secured T&T a place in the semi-finals of the Regional Super50. T&T were able to bat all their 50 overs but managed to score only 196, with Dwayne Bravo top scoring with 55. They were 154 for 4 at one stage before losing six wickets for 42 runs. Jamaica’s left-arm spinner Nikita Miller took 3 for 32. Jamaica’s innings was reduced to 40 overs and the D/L target was set at 191. Chris Gayle made 31 but he was one of Narine’s five top-order victims as the innings slumped to 46 for 5. Tamar Lambert was unbeaten on 48 and Andre Russell made 31 but they were the only batsmen, along with Gayle, to reach double figures. Jamaica could make only 154 for 9 in 40 overs.

Thanks to an audacious run chase, Worcestershire not only secured their first top flight win since August 2007, but sentenced the champions, Nottinghamshire, to their third successive Championship defeat

George Dobell at New Road01-Jun-2011
ScorecardThe last time Worcestershire won a Division One match at New Road, Steve Rhodes was keeping wicket for them, Facebook had just been founded and Tony Blair was just back from a visit to see his new friend Colonel Gaddafi in Libya. It was May 2004.But, thanks to an audacious run chase, Worcestershire not only secured their first top flight win since August 2007, but sentenced the champions, Nottinghamshire, to their third successive Championship defeat. It’s Worcestershire’s first Division One win in 27 games and their second in 44.They deserved it, too. Even though they lost every one of their first six games, they had often earned winning platforms, before losing crucial sessions. The results of their games against Somerset, Warwickshire, Yorkshire and Notts could all so easily have gone the other way.There was appropriateness about the architects of this victory, too. Matt Pardoe, Moeen Ali and Alexei Kervezee – young men who should go on to win many more games for this club – all contributed with impressive innings, while Vikram Solanki, a man who has known the best of times and the worst of times during his two decades with the club, produced a scintillating half-century of the very highest quality. And they did it all without Adrian Shankar.Perhaps, in retrospect, their target was a little generous. Certainly Steve Rhodes, Worcestershire’s director of cricket, admitted he was “a little surprised” when Notts declared and set a target of 254 to win in 50 overs. But, in the context of the match and on a pitch that remained seamer-friendly, it was demanding.And, when Worcestershire lost James Cameron, beaten by an inswinger, before a run had been scored, defeat looked almost inevitable.Instead, however, Solanki and Pardoe added 117 for the second wicket in 28.2 overs. Solanki, the only survivor from the Worcestershire success here in 2004, timed the ball superbly and utilised the short boundary towards the Ladies Pavilion by hitting four sixes and eight fours. It was his highest score since relinquishing the captaincy at the backend of last year.Pardoe played some lovely strokes, too. Solid initially, Pardoe helped his side establish a solid platform, before accelerating nicely, demonstrating a wider range of strokes than he’s shown previously and running hard between the wickets. As Rhodes put it: “You can’t help but be impressed by him.”Though Worcestershire suffered a mid-innings wobble when Gareth Andrew – stumped – and Vikram Solanki – reverse sweeping – fell in the same over, Moeen and Kervezee demonstrated their emerging class with a stand of 69 in 7.5 overs. The hosts were always ahead of the chase and, after bringing down the requirement to 110 from 16 and then 53 from 10, they eventually secured victory with 25 balls to spare.”This tastes nice,” Rhodes said afterwards. “We’ve played some good cricket this season, but we haven’t got the results. We’ve a young side and it does knock the confidence a bit when they lose games, so they really deserved this today.”This defeat does not quite end Notts’ hopes of retaining the Championship, but the warning bells are ringing loudly. Their top-order batting remains fragile, their bowling attacks looks thin and their fielding is, at times, remarkably poor. Riki Wessels looks a good addition and Alex Hales will return to action at the end of this week, but there were times on this last afternoon, when Chris Read must have wondered who he could throw the ball to in an attempt to stem the tide. They’re down to seventh in the table and, on the evidence of the last few weeks, will be more concerned with matters at the bottom rather than the top of the table.Read deserved better. Earlier in the day he produced a very fine hundred to take Notts to a seemingly impregnable position. Runs flowed more quickly than Worcestershire would have liked, with Read completing his first century for 12-months with a lovely straight drive for six off Jack Shantry.The innings also finished in a blaze of sixes. Three times in four balls, the blameless Alan Richardson was carved over the boundary. He deserved better. His bowling – and the keeping of the excellent Ben Scott – played just as big a part in this victory as the batsmen on the final day.The win takes Worcestershire off the foot of the table. Bearing in mind the respective budgets of the two clubs, it’s a mini-miracle that they have leap-frogged Hampshire. Yorkshire aren’t a million-miles away, either. Relegation isn’t quite the certainty that some have suggested.Meanwhile Mark Wagh announced his decision to retire with immediate effect. The 34-year-old, who was planning to call it a day in August, has brought the date forward after suffering a horrendous run of form. His Championship record this season – he’s averaged just 16.25 – is grim for one so richly talented. Watching him of late – whether with the bat, or in the field – has been painful. He leaves to pursue a career in Law. Good luck to him.Wagh once said he’d consider his career unfulfilled if he never played for England. Well, he never did. But any career than includes 31 first-class centuries and two Championship-winners’ medals can’t be all bad. What’s more, he has provided pleasure. Of all the batsmen I’ve seen, no-one has timed the ball more sweetly than Wagh. Not even Gower or Azharuddin. Wagh was, perhaps, the most graceful batsman of his generation. Not the best – he didn’t always have the grim determination that sometimes separates the best from the rest – but quite possibly the most enjoyable. The historian Robert Brooke once referred to the Wagh as “the most joyous batsman” he’d seen in his 70 years. I couldn’t agree more.Besides, had injury not intervened, he might well have played for England. After recording a magical triple-century at Lord’s in 2001, he scored heavily for the England Academy and started 2002 an ace away from a call-up. Alas, it was not to be. Damaging his knee ligaments in a game of football, he missed several months of cricket and never quite came as close again.Perhaps fewer people realised just how good he was than might have been the case. But he helped Warwickshire win a Championship title in 2004 and Nottinghamshire win one in 2010. Both clubs will remember him with fondness. It seems somehow fitting that he should slip out of the game, applauding other players off the pitch, at this most tranquil and beautiful of grounds.

Dominic King has been full of praise for Alex Iwobi’s performance as Everton won 1-0 at home to Chelsea in the Premier League this afternoon.

The Lowdown: Big win for Everton

It was a big win for the hosts at Goodison Park as they climbed to within two points of both Leeds United and Burnley in the table, courtesy of a goal from Richarlison in the early second half exchanges.

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The Toffees still have a game in hand on their two relegation rivals as well, so their destiny is still in their hands.

The Latest: Iwobi hailed by King

Taking to Twitter, Daily Mail journalist King was especially pleased with Iwobi’s performance, claiming that the 25-year-old may have gone ‘under the radar’ given some huge saves that Jordan Pickford made in the second half.

King gushed: “It may go under the radar but the shift Alex Iwobi has put in needs highlighting. He’s a player Frank Lampard loves because of his attitude and determination to play wherever for the team. He hasn’t put a foot out of place, superb.”

The Verdict: Huge shift from Iwobi

Like the rest of the team, Iwobi put in a huge shift for Everton to ensure that they took all three points on Merseyside today.

The former Arsenal ace won four of his duels in total and also recorded one successful dribble, three clearances, one interception, two tackles, one key pass and three accurate long balls (SofaScore).

He had 47 touches of the ball in total, more than any of his team-mates, showing his bravery to get his team out of tight situations in what would have been much appreciated by Lampard and the supporters, as King pointed out.

In other news, find out what ‘very strange’ incident from today’s match left Adam Jones stunned

Mohammad Ashraful shone with both ball and bat to lead his Bangladesh A side to a six-wicket victory against South Africa A at Buffalo Park in East London, in the first of five unofficial ODIs

ESPNcricinfo staff19-Apr-2011
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsMohammad Ashraful took three wickets and scored 118 not out in an all-round performance•Getty ImagesMohammad Ashraful shone with both ball and bat to lead his Bangladesh A side to a six-wicket victory against South Africa A at Buffalo Park in East London, in the first of five unofficial ODIs. Only 10 days ago South Africa had been battering Bangladesh in a four-day match, and in their home conditions were firm favourites to dominate the 50-over matches as well. However, the experienced Ashraful, who has alone played more one-day internationals than the entire South Africa A side combined, took 3 for 27 with his part-time spin to restrict South Africa to 226, and then scored an unbeaten century to help his side chase the target in 43.3 overs.Ashraful put South Africa in to bat, and after his frontline bowlers couldn’t get an early wicket, it fell to him to come on in the 10th over and dismiss his opposing captain Jacques Rudolph. Ashraful struck twice more in a seven-over spell, leaving South Africa reeling at 52 for 3. Things got worse for the hosts as Farhaan Behardien was bowled by left-arm spinner Elias Sunny, Vaughn van Jaarsveld was run out, and Heino Kuhn was caught trying to drive 19-year-old offspinner Nasir Hossain. At 73 for 6, South Africa looked like they would struggle to get 150.There was a recovery though; Dean Elgar, fresh from his 169 not out in the rain-affected second four-day game between the two sides, put together a 121-run partnership with allrounder Vernon Philander. The two batted until the 49th over, when Elgar fell for 76. Philander then hit three consecutive sixes off Farhad Reza in the same over, and South Africa took another 11 runs off the 50th to finish with a fighting total of 226 for 8. Philander finished 79 not out.The target started looking steep for Bangladesh when they found themselves 40 for 3 in the 12th over. Ashraful, coming in at No 5, was watchful early on, taking 28 balls before striking his first boundary. He had reached 21 off 44 before he suddenly exploded with Bangladesh at 84 for 3 in the 23rd over. Ashraful hit the next six balls he faced for boundaries, and Bangladesh seized control of the chase. Ashraful continued to attack in bursts, with Junaid Siddique rotating the strike at the other end.The two put together 149 before Siddique fell for 60, but by then the game was Bangladesh’s to lose. Ashraful reached his century soon after Siddique’s dismissal, and then ended the game with two consecutive boundaries in the 44th over, finishing 118 not out off 99 balls. It was a significant performance from a man who was once considered the future of Bangladesh cricket, but has now found himself relegated to the A team.

Nottinghamshire won their opening two matches without being particularly impressive and pulled it off again here in an engaging contest that could easily have gone the way of Worcestershire

Jon Culley at Trent Bridge28-Apr-2011
ScorecardFootball managers like to believe that the mark of champions is the ability to play badly and yet still win. Over the course of a 90-minute football match that might be possible but a four-day cricket match, with so many more opportunities for one side to gain a clear upper hand, is another matter. Yet Nottinghamshire appear to have the knack.They won their opening two matches without being particularly impressive and pulled it off again here in an engaging contest that could easily have gone the way of Worcestershire, long odds-on to be relegated before the season began and, by contrast to the champions, stuck the worrying habit of losing matches they might have won.In the opinion of their coach, Nottinghamshire dropped too many catches and made too many errors at the crease to feel comfortable with themselves, even though they lead the Division One table with an ostensibly unblemished record. But their failings are at least familiar ones, the consequence of which is that there seems always to be one or two among the senior players who can draw upon their experience and deliver at the critical moment.More often that not, it is Chris Read or Paul Franks who comes up with the answer and this time they both played crucial roles, Franks in particular in the first innings, when his 82 enabled Notts to grab a 67-run lead that was always going to be valuable on an uncertain surface.And when the match threatened to slip away from them in the final innings, with a 262-run winning target still 54 runs away from them with only four wickets in hand, the two delivered in tandem, gambling that an attacking approach would deflate a Worcestershire side of brittle self-belief. Franks hit 26 off 36 balls, Read 35 off 44, finishing the job with a towering six over the head of the inexperienced off-spinner, Moeen Ali.Worcestershire deserved some consolation, yet it was a fittingly emphatic way in which to end a contest that had kept the crowd here fully engaged when some might have been tempted, for obvious reasons of national interest, to stay away. It had unfolded with ebb and flow from the start and did so again on the last day as Notts appeared to have the initiative but then found themselves facing a more testing last-innings run chase than they would have liked.Their openers went cheaply, which was really no surprise, but Alex Hales, one of a rich crop of young players making their mark around the circuit, then looked to be making the task relatively simple, threatening to compile an innings to match the quality that Alexei Kervezee had revealed in Worcestershire’s cause.Yet there was another twist. Hales, a 22-year-old right-hander with a good eye and an assertive style, looked as sure, despite the vagaries of the surface, to complete a century as he can have felt in any innings in his career so far. But his attempt to hit medium-pacer Gareth Andrew over the on-side field for his 14th boundary instead flew off a leading edge to cover. Twice out in the 80s in Nottinghamshire’s unlikely win over Yorkshire at Headingley last week, he had suffered the same fate this time.Cursing his error as much as his luck, Hales threw his head back in frustration, not least because he had left his side with yet another sticky spot to overcome. Samit Patel, caught behind after an inside edge had looped to the wicketkeeper via pad or body, and Adam Voges, leg before to Wright, had gone too in the moments before as Worcestershire, willing battlers, had worked their way back into contention. When Steven Mullaney, having begun with a couple of classy cover drives, lost his off stump, Notts suddenly found themselves six down and some way short of their target.But Worcestershire, for whom Alan Richardson and Damien Wright bowled well but their supporting cast less so, could not push their advantage. The pitch by now was as likely to send the ball shooting through at ankle height as to threaten a batsman’s fingers but Read and Franks know such conditions well and had their measure again. Moeen Ali, at mid-wicket, held a fine catch to give Richardson his ninth wicket in the match as Franks fell, but by then the job was as good as done.It was tough on Worcestershire, for whom the impressive Alexei Kervezee might have stretched the home side more had he not been caught at gully from a ball that struck him painfully on the top hand. He had added only five to his overnight score and Gareth Andrew, his partners in a 135-run stand for the sixth wicket, went shortly afterwards, caught behind off Franks. Yet a breezy 33 from Wright gave the home side more to think about.Kervezee was their big consolation. “I thought he was superb,” the Worcestershire director of cricket, Steve Rhodes, said. “What impressed me most was the way the penny seems to be dropping about playing the ball on its merits. Sometimes he is a runaway train in the way he plays and gets out but in this innings he blocked the good balls and put the bad ball away for four and he did it in a way that was quite unfazed by some difficult conditions and some good bowling.”

Kolkata Knight Riders edged out Champions League debutants Auckland Aces, successfully defending 121 in the sides’ first qualifier

The Report by Sidharth Monga19-Sep-2011
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were outManvinder Bisla was Kolkata’s top-scorer with 45•AFPKolkata Knight Riders edged out Champions League debutants Auckland Aces, successfully defending 121 in the sides’ first qualifier. Kolkata ran away with 72 for 0 in the first nine overs before the tenacious Auckland side pulled the game back, conceding just 49 runs in the remaining 11. Lou Vincent then scored 30 of his 40 runs in boundaries, even threatening a huge net run-rate advantage, but his run-out was followed by two wickets in three balls from Yusuf Pathan. The squeeze by Kolkata’s slower bowlers, who went for 66 in their 14 overs, left Auckland 22 to get off the last two. Andre Adams hit Jacques Kallis for a straight six to get 11 off the 19th, but Brett Lee’s yorkers proved too good for him and Kyle Mills.The game was full of turnarounds. The first one came after Manvinder Bisla and Kallis got Kolkata’s campaign off to a smashing start. The inside-out shot over extra cover was a favourite for both, and Bisla was especially harsh on Chris Martin who bowled Test lengths to begin with. Bisla found them easy to pull and drive on the up. The left-arm seamer Michael Bates brought some control with his angle and extra bounce, and in his second over he produced a leading edge from Bisla.Left-arm spinner Ronnie Hira and Martin then choked the runs a bit, and Kolkata started playing imprudent shots. Kallis would later say they had over-aimed. Yusuf was the first to show frustration, slogging all around a straight Adams delivery. Kallis fell next when he followed a spell of nine balls for seven runs with a heave straight to deep square leg. Two balls later, Manoj Tiwary slogged too, and the stumps lay splayed again. A couple of run-outs followed, and Kolkata never managed a final charge. Bates finished with figures of 4-0-13-1.The run-out virus carried forward into the chase as Martin Guptill ran himself out without even facing a delivery. The decisive one, though, was yet to come. Before that, Vincent drove, cut and pulled with aplomb to take Auckland to 48 in six, bringing the asking-rate down to 5.28. Rajat Bhatia, now famous in Indian domestic Twenty20 competitions for his slow, rolling legcutters, and Yusuf bowled the next three overs for 12 runs. The last ball of those three featured impatience from Vincent, who charged off after hitting straight to cover, and couldn’t make it back from eight yards.Yusuf then bowled two full deliveries on the pads that hardly turned, but Jimmy Adams and Rob Quiney somehow managed two leading edges, and Yusuf had two caught-and-bowled dismissals in the space of three balls. Another left-hand batsman, Colin Munro, scratched around for 19 off 29 before leaving Auckland an improbable task in the last two.The pitch was slow, the bowlers were steady, but neither of them or the combination thereof was unplayable. Somehow, though, faced with accurate bowling and alert fielding, Auckland allowed themselves to be pushed into a corner until the required-rate reached 11 for the last two. Kallis then bowled his first over, removing Munro first ball and watching the second sail over the straight boundary. Mills and Adams ran hard, but Lee produced a good last over to give Kolkata a crucial win on a day when they didn’t play exceptional cricket.

The faction-ridden Kochi franchise has asked the BCCI for more time to sort out its ownership disputes in a letter to the board president.

Nagraj Gollapudi20-Oct-2010In a last-ditch attempt to save itself, the Kochi franchise has reportedly asked the BCCI for a ten-day extension to resolve the dispute over its ownership pattern. The request was filed by two sets of solicitors representing the rival factions of the Kochi franchise a few hours before the BCCI deadline, within which time the owners were expected to form a joint venture company, lapsed.The members of the Kochi franchise were issued a show cause notice by the BCCI on October 12 ordered them to form a joint venture company to settle their internal ownership differences. The two factions, one headed by the promoters of the franchise Rendezvous Sports and the other by Mehul Shah of Anchor Group, had responded to this notice by sending identical requests this evening.”We have requested a ten-day extension because we are at an advanced stage of resolving the issue,” a Kochi franchise official told ESPNcricinfo.The groups within the five-partner consortium had failed to come to an agreement after a series of meetings held late on Tuesday night, but after talking to their solicitors decided to ask for more time rather than walk away from the discussions. The official explained that the groups would require more time, “to resolve all pending disputes in order to tie up amicably to form a fruitful joint venture into a regular company”.Ratnakar Shetty, the BCCI’s chief administrative officer, said the Kochi franchise had, “held a few meetings in the last two or three days and submitted a letter, which has been sent to the president.” The BCCI’s legal team was looking into the letter, Shetty said, but added that no meeting of the IPL’s governing council had yet been scheduled. “The president will study it, our legal team will study it before taking a decision.”By asking for more time, Kochi have prevented the rest of the IPL franchises from getting any clarity on all the major issues around the fourth IPL season, which until now has been dogged by drama and controversy. At the moment, it is not yet known how many teams will be involved, what format it would follow or how many matches would be played.In responding to the query about the doubts around IPL four, a BCCI official told ESPNcricinfo that despite all the uncertainty, the number of teams in IPL 4 was not in doubt. “All our contracts around the IPL tell us that the minimum teams will be eight, so I don’t think that’s a problem, we just have to get this sorted out and see what happens when the president responds to the letter from Kochi.”An IPL franchise official said that it was unlikely that the BCCI would field fewer teams in IPL4 than in its first three seasons, “Look at the Board’s attitude to Lalit Modi, there is no way they want the first IPL without Modi’s involvement to be smaller than the old IPL which Lalit controlled.”The Kochi franchise has been controversial from its very inception in March. Rendezvous Sports World, a consortium of five companies, became the tenth IPL franchise after a successful bid of US$333.33m, but almost immediately ran into trouble over the composition of its ownership, after the discovery of a few “secret partners” in the consortium. A new agreement was then signed by both the parties but fresh controversy broke when Lalit Modi, the then IPL chairman, made the ownership details public on his Twitter feed.Six months after the auction Kochi has still failed to resolve its various internal disputes, which revolve around the distribution of shares in the consortium. The investors are unhappy with the promoters, who do not want to give up the rights to lead the franchise. Despite several lengthy meetings over the past few days, the two factions remain at loggerheads.

Wolves midfielder Connor Ronan is attracting interest from multiple clubs according to a report from the Scottish Daily Express. 

The lowdown: Loan sensation

With Ruben Neves looking more and more likely to leave the Black Country this summer, it looks like Ronan may not be too far behind.

Signed from Rochdale in 2014, he came through the youth ranks at Molineux before making a senior debut in 2016 against Nottingham Forest.

The 24-year-old has made 13 appearances for the Wanderers’ first-team altogether but has spent a majority of his professional career out on loan with spells at Walsall, Portsmouth, Dunajska Streda, Grasshoppers and Blackpool.

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Having been sent to St Mirren for the duration of the 2021/22 campaign, Ronan is now attracting interest for a permanent move…

The latest: Permanent deal?

As per the Scottish Daily Express, St Mirren, Aberdeen and St Pauli are all keen on landing the Republic of Ireland youth international.

It’s claimed that the German Bundesliga.2 side have ‘registered an interest’ in Ronan ahead of the summer transfer window.

The report does however state that the man described as being ‘valuable’ by ex-teammate George Dobson is ‘keen’ to return to Wolves and break into Bruno Lage’s plans.

The verdict: Cash in

Under contract at Molineux until 2024 having signed a new deal in September 2020, Ronan would be well within his rights to fight for a place in the first team next season.

However, despite a stellar campaign on loan this term containing eight goals and five assists in 29 appearances across all competitions, at 24 and without a single Premier League minute under his belt, a move permanent move would perhaps be the best bet for all parties.

Even with the possible departure of Neves widely speculated, Lage would surely look to replace the Portuguese star in the market as opposed to from within and the 14-cap Under 21 international should seriously consider the reported suitors.

In other news, Wolves are reportedly eyeing up a move for an exciting player. Find out who it is here.