MANNONE IMPRESSED BY NEW TEAMMATE
Minnesota United began the MLS season with a 3-2 victory away at Vancouver which was a thrilling victory. Both teams came out on attack and Vito Mannone had to be on his best to thwart some of Vancouver attacks.

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Minnesota United began the MLS season with a 3-2 victory away at Vancouver which was a thrilling victory. Both teams came out on attack and Vito Mannone had to be on his best to thwart some of Vancouver attacks.

Administrator Paul Clement has affirmed Vito Mannone is back in conflict for a beginning spot during the current week’s Championship diversions. Mannone has lost the previous four matches because of preparation ground damage, leaving summer select Sam Walker as the administrator’s favored decision in the objective. At that movement, Royals have grabbed in shape with two successes over Preston North End and a draw most as of late at Brentford on Saturday. That amusement was the primary in the weeks of reading, along with QPR visiting Madejski Stadium on the night of Tuesday (8 pm commencement) before an excursion to the Hawthorns to go up against the club of West Brom on the next Saturday.

Owners of Aston Villa are in talks to rename it as Villa Park in 2019. The commercial aspect of opportunities is in “constant negotiation” as said by a source. This and sale of naming rights of the historical ground has been debatable amongst the members of AVFC. It is being argued that this is wrong as per the FFP regulations.
Argentina international Gonzalo Higuain has revealed that new Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri was indeed interested in signing him but he felt more wanted with AC Milan. The striker had been the subject of a transfer tussle between the duo but ultimately, the Rossoneri won the race for his signature after agreeing upon his initial loan move from Juventus.

Vito Mannone has been the number one champion as far as the last season is concerned. However, there are chances that he may be challenged by Walker as well as Anssi Jaakkola. In addition, Luke Southwood, Lewis Ward and George Legg are the youngsters who are yet to make the appearances, but will join Jokull Andresson to head out on loan. John O’Shea is also trying to fill in the game as a goalkeeper. As far as the performances of Vito Mannone in the last season is concerned, he did a spectacular job and was the best replacement for Ali Al-Habsi, but the high standards of Omani did make a repetition of his excellence. He did show his best performances in the matches last season with a 3-1 win prior to the late penalty against Leeds United and QPR which indeed saves the championship status of Reading.

Former Arsenal goalkeeper Vito Mannone has been praised by the Reading supporters for his performance in the game against Queens Park Rangers. Indeed the goalkeeper managed to save a last-minute penalty that allowed his team to win their first game under new manager Paul Clement.

Yann Kermorgant scored his first goal of the season to open the scorelines in the 68th minute for the visitors. The first half was quite a cagey affair between both sides as Reading wanted the away bonus while Barnsley wanted all three points. Reading had the first chance through Chris Gunter. Kermorgant sent the Walsh Read more about BARNSLEY PLAY 1-1 DRAW AT HOME[…]
Brentford remain without a win in the English Championship so far as they play a 1-1 draw with Reading on Saturday.

The Bees have been decent but they have not been able to turn performance into victory so far. Following Clarke’s opener in the 16th minute after exchanging passes with Neal Maupay, the team kept up the pressure. However Reading keeper Vito Mannone was excellent, stopping their efforts.
Reading kept on holding their end, and they found rhythm in the second half. Kelly was creating chances in the wings while sub Roy Beerens shook Daniel Bentley. Kelly’s penalty equaled the scoreline but they could not claim match points. […]
For a transfer fee of £2 million, Vito Mannone has completed his move from Sunderland over to Reading as his relationship with the English Premier League club reached it’s end.

For example, during the season of 2013-14, Vito Mannone was named as Sunderland Supporters’ Player of the Year as well as the official Player of the Year for the club but in the following season, he was limited to only making 10 appearances.
One of the reasons of why the amount of appearances from Vito Mannone dropped so suddenly from 1 season to another is due to the signings that were completed as new players were brought in order to compete and the manager on occasions gave the other shot-stopper, the upper hand and more chances in the pitch.
Pantilimon and Jordan Pickford were a few of the goal-keepers that Vito Mannone had to compete against and attempt to get into the starting lineup of the coach who was at the helm during that specific point in time. […]
Premier League side Everton FC are reportedly in advanced talks with Sunderland over getting goalie Jordan Pickford this summer.

Pickford is on international duty with the England Under 21 side in Poland where the team is looking at replicating the success of the Under 20 side. Sunderland are negotiating finer details like add ons, clauses and fee payment structuring for the 23-year old player.
The transfer fee is expected in the range of £18.5 million while £11.5 million would be in additional payments. If the deal goes through, Pickford could be the most expensive keeper in the history of Britain. His debut for the BlackCats was in January last year but he has quickly grown through the ranks. […]