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Pseudonews: Paul Scholes quit Oldham after fax machine failed to send Kylian Mbappe bid
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Back of the Net There were some differences in Scholes’s vision and the chairman’s, Back of the Net reports

Football fans appalled at having to feel sympathy for Jack Grealish
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Back of the Net Supporters demand to know why more likeable player not attacked, Back of the Net reveal

Secret to winning games is not managing Cardiff, says Solskjaer
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Back of the Net The Norwegian identifies key difference between unsuccessful 2014 spell and now, Back of the Net reveal

Jurgen Klopp blames gravity for Liverpool's disappointing draw with Everton
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Back of the Net Liverpool manager feels the planet’s gravitational pull made the game a lottery, says Back of the Net

Claudio Ranieri's fate was sealed when he claimed he'd ‘won Premier League title’, Fulham reveal
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Back of the Net The Cottagers feared Ranieri had become delusional, Back of the Net reports

Kepa Arrizabalaga went straight from Wembley to Arnhem, team-mates confirm
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Back of the Net The rebellious goalkeeper didn’t wait around for his inevitable loan move, Back of the Net reports

Winning Carabao Cup will save Sarri’s job for “at least as long as We Are The Champions is playing”
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Back of the Net Victory on Sunday will give Sarri just under three minutes of breathing space, Back of the Net reports

Out-of-sorts Alexis Sanchez gamely battling to put shin pads on correctly
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Back of the Net Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes Chilean will get there in the end, Back of the Net reports

Guardiola spends week picking apart Goliath’s tactics to see where he went wrong
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Back of the Net Being massively better than opposition is not necessarily a bad thing, Back of the Net reveals

Sarri-ball has ‘substantially different rules’ to football, it emerges
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Funny Chelsea boss still planning to win second set, Back of the Net reports

Frustration for Manchester United as Phil Jones subscription auto-renews
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Funny Nobody at Old Trafford got round to cancelling Phil Jones, Back of the Net reports

Puzzled Almiron finds Newcastle induction mostly involves folding clothes, locating shoes
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Back of the Net Newcastle’s record signing may be used in an unfamiliar role, Back of the Net reports

Lazar Markovic's references didn’t actually mention football, Fulham realise
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Back of the Net Claudio Ranieri just presumed his new signing was good at football, Back of the Net can reveal

Impatient Hudson-Odoi keeps asking to play football, Chelsea complain
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Back of the Net The teenage winger clearly has an attitude problem, Back of the Net reports

Pochettino unable to see Janssen at all, worried players report
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Back of the Net Tottenham boss seems to have condition called ‘Janssen blindness’, Back of the Net reports

Sarri enters third hour of relentlessly flicking Morata’s ears
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Back of the Net The Chelsea boss is hoping for a reaction – and Back of the Net has the story

Tottenham ready to bid for the pieces of Giuseppe Rossi, Pochettino confirms
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Back of the Net Argentine itching to get stuck into the fixer-upper striker at home, Back of the Net reports

Nobody at Stoke can remember signing 'Marcel Bielson'
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Back of the Net A new face at training has Potters players perplexed, Back of the Net reports

West Ham certain that Arnautovic will honour contract like absolutely all players do
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Back of the Net The Hammers can’t think of a single time a player has let them down, Back of the Net reports

Fulham players relieved that they can focus on relegation
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Back of the Net The Cottagers can see a silver lining to their FA Cup misery, Back of the Net reveals

Rangers’ Defoe scouting report clearly 20 years old
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Back of the Net The Scottish side see Defoe as a ‘great prospect for the future’, Back of the Net reports

Judge me in 2040, demands Emery
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Back of the Net Gunners boss tells fans to hold fire for 22 years, Back of the Net reveal

Liverpool fans should not be approached, public warned
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Back of the Net Reds could be ‘dangerously smug’, Back of the Net reports
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