{"id":22412,"date":"2025-09-19T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22412"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:15:25","slug":"champions-league-reaction-premier-league-news-and-more-football-live-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22412","title":{"rendered":"Champions League reaction, Premier League news and more: football \u2013 live | Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arsenal have announced this morning<\/strong> a significant boardroom reshuffle, with vice-chairman Tim Lewis surprisingly departing. Here\u2019s PA Media:<\/p>\n

<\/span>Arsenal\u2019s departing vice-chair, Tim Lewis, with Mikel Arteta and sporting director Edu in September 2024.<\/span> Photograph: Stuart MacFarlane\/Arsenal FC\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Arsenal have announced the surprise departure of vice-chairman Tim Lewis following a major reshuffle of the club\u2019s board.<\/p>\n

Lewis, 62, has advised Arsenal\u2019s owners Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE) since 2007 and was the vice-chair for the past two-and-a-half years. Lewis joined the club\u2019s board in 2020. He played a key role alongside manager Mikel Arteta and sporting director Andrea Berta in the club\u2019s \u00a3250million summer spending spree and was regarded as a significant figure within the north London club.<\/p>\n

Managing director Richard Garlick takes up the role of chief executive officer, while KSE representatives\u2019 Kelly Blaha, Otto Maly, and film producer and director Ben Winston – son of professor Robert Winston – join the club\u2019s board as non-executive directors.<\/p>\n

Arsenal co-chair Josh Kroenke said: \u201cWe would like to thank Tim for his continued dedication and commitment to Arsenal in a period of transformational change for the club. He has played a pivotal role and ensured we are in a great position to continue to deliver our strategy in our ambition to win major trophies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn keeping with our desire to always move forward, we will strengthen our board with some exciting additions who will bring vast experience to the club across a wide range of professions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe group know and love Arsenal, and will bring a different skillset and expertise while injecting fresh thinking and energy to support us all to achieve our ambitions. We are delighted to promote Rich to CEO after an incredibly successful period as managing director of Arsenal. Rich has made an enormous impact on all fronts as we continue to strive to win major trophies, be financially sustainable and put our supporters at the heart of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brighton\u2019s Fabian Hurzeler has held his Friday press conference<\/strong>, looking ahead to tomorrow\u2019s home game against Spurs. More news from him in due course but his injury updates included confirmation that Jack Hinshelwood has injured an ankle ligament and will be out \u201cfor a long time\u201d, while Maxim De Cuyper is slated for a late fitness test.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately we had two injuries in the game against Bournemouth. Jack will be out for a long time. He has a ligament injury in his ankle, it happened in a very unlucky way, but that\u2019s football. For Maxim it\u2019s not so bad, so he might be available. It\u2019s not a big injury so hopefully he will be back soon. Mats Wieffer is back and available.<\/p>\n

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The Premier League managerial press conferences have already started<\/strong> \u2013 more news from them in due course \u2013 but meanwhile here\u2019s some reaction from last night\u2019s Champions League games, with Andy Brassell watching Marcus Rashford remind England, and specifically Newcastle, of his ability at St James\u2019 Park:<\/p>\n

<\/span>Barcelona\u2019s Marcus Rashford celebrates after scoring his second goal at Newcastle.<\/span> Photograph: Jose Breton\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

It was the day that Uefa confirmed, as kick-off approached in Barcelona\u2019s Champions League season, that La Liga\u2019s champions would begin their home campaign in the competition against Paris Saint-Germain next month where they ended the last one, at the Estadi Ol\u00edmpic Llu\u00eds Companys. With their supporters getting ready to renew their journey up the slopes of Montjuic that few of them care for, their climb to potential glory mirrors the hopes of one of their new arrivals.<\/p>\n

And how he has arrived. Flags do not get planted at the summit much more emphatically than this, and Marcus Rashford could not have picked his moment better to announce himself with Barcelona.<\/p>\n

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Miguel Dantas has written this morning<\/strong> about Jos\u00e9 Mourinho\u2019s return to Portugal after more than two decades.<\/p>\n

Less than three weeks after being dismissed by Fenerbahce, Jos\u00e9 Mourinho is back in the dugout. The \u201cSpecial One\u201d has taken over at Benfica, marking his return to his home country more than two decades after his move from Porto to Chelsea. In an unusual twist he has signed a contract to June 2027 with a break clause next summer related to October\u2019s club presidential election. Will this be a fresh start for Mourinho, or another step down in his career?<\/p>\n

H\u00e9lder Postiga, a former Tottenham forward and one of Mourinho\u2019s key players at Porto, regards the appointment as a win for an entire nation. Postiga, who scored five goals in Porto\u2019s triumphant 2003-04 Uefa Cup campaign, believes the coach\u2019s return will elevate Portuguese football. \u201cIt will be great for the game here,\u201d he says. \u201cMourinho is more than a man \u2013 he\u2019s a global brand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hello world!<\/h2>\n

As the sun sets on a busy week of European football,<\/strong> with three full nights of Champions League action throwing two different English clubs into continental competition on each of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, a hectic weekend dawns.<\/p>\n

Tonight Middlesbrough, the current Championship leaders, play fifth-placed West Bromwich Albion, who could overtake them with a healthy win. Tomorrow the Premier League action starts with a lunchtimely Merseyside derby at Anfield and continues with a couple of meaty-looking encounters between sides currently struggling, with bottom club Wolves hosting Leeds, and a Burnley side unlucky to have only three points welcoming a Nottingham Forest team seemingly approaching full wheels-off mode. And while it\u2019s way too early to pay much attention to any of the league tables and the WSL most of all, their season being just two games old, Sunday\u2019s game between Manchester United and Arsenal, two of the teams with 100% records so far and last year\u2019s second- and third-place finishers, is a guaranteed cracker.<\/p>\n

So, I hear you ask, is there anything to look out for in the Premier League this weekend?<\/p>\n

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