Waching daily Jul 28 2018

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was determined to sign fecker from Lyon with

the France international coming close to a move last month

the 24 year old who helped France win the World Cup in Russia snapped in a

Liverpool shirt with screen grabs from an unveiling video then leaked onto

social media after the Merseyside Giants had reached an agreement with Lyon

Becker then underwent a medical with Liverpool which flags up long-standing

the injury which could plague him in future Liverpool have since chosen not

to reignite their interest in fecker choosing instead to shell out a huge

pound 66 million on a listen backer who joined from Roma and despite links to

Chelsea they supposedly have no plans to go back in for the forward reports have

claimed Chelsea are keen to sign fecker as a replacement for even hazard who is

on Real Madrid's list of transfer targets Los Blancos want hazard to sign

as a replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo who quit for Juventus Ana pounds 105

million deal earlier this month Chelsea have then consequently emerged as

frontrunners from fecker with interest from Manchester

For more infomation >> Liverpool transfer news : Reds stance on Lyon star Nabil Fekir as deadline looms - Duration: 1:40.

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Clark Booth, award-winning WCVB news, sports reporter dies at 79 - Duration: 2:12.

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Arsenal news: Sokratis promises to bring back old-school defending to the Gunners - Duration: 4:10.

 And that will be music to the ears of Gunners fans who have grown frustrated at their side's flakiness at the back in recent years

 Last season, they shipped 51 goals – 24 more than Premier League champions Manchester City, 12 more than seventh-placed Burnley and four more even than Newcastle, who finished 12th

In all competitions they conceded a whopping 76 times. Sokratis knows that has to change if his new side are to stand any chance of a top-four finish this season

 And the former Borussia Dortmund star, who cost £17.6million, hopes the Spartan spirit he will bring will help them shore things up

 The 30-year-old, who is known as Papa to his team-mates, said: "I am here to show I am first a defender and after that comes everything else

 "Of course you have to know how to play with the ball – in the last five or six years football has changed a lot

A lot of coaches and a lot of teams now look at only how to play, not how to defend

 "But with the new coach we work also on the situations when we don't have the ball and this is very important

On the first day, the coach worked on this. "With him, all the players work on tactics, we look a lot at videos, what was wrong, what we have to do better

"I think and hope this year things at the back will be much better."  Sokratis cut his teeth at AEK Athens before moving to Genoa then AC Milan

 Paolo Maldini was the defender he most looked up to in his early days in Italy, although he had left the San Siro by the time Sokratis arrived

Still, Alessandro Nesta and Thiago Silva were there to teach him well. Sokratis added: "My first step was in Italy and Maldini was a great player

 "I played with Nesta, that was one big school for me. Also with Thiago Silva, great players to learn from – they were defenders who were defenders first

 "I learned a lot and now I am ready to give what I know." Arsenal were reluctant to sign or hand new long-term deals to players over 30 during Arsene Wenger's time at the club but Sokratis insists he is in his prime

 "Thirty is the best age for a defender, so for the next three or four years I would like to give everything for the team," he said

 "With Borussia, with Milan, with Genoa, for 10 years now I have been outside Greece and I have experience

 "I feel very good and I'm working on the pitch and also off the pitch to help all the young guys to be very good with us

" It was at Dortmund that Sokratis played under Jurgen Klopp and with Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

 He added: "Klopp was a very good coach. Out on the pitch his mentality is to win, off it he was very friendly with the players and I'm very happy I had two years with him

 "Auba and Mikki were very important in me joining Arsenal. It is like something more than friends

We were together in Borussia and they are both very good players. They were a good part of my decision to come here

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