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CSA and the SACA have agreed on a 60% payout deal for South African players and a 50% payment to foreign players following the postponement of the T20 Global League

Firdose Moonda05-Dec-2017Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the South African Cricketers’ Association (SACA) have agreed on a 60% payout deal for South African players and a 50% payment to foreign players following the postponement of the T20 Global League, ESPNcricinfo has learned. The payments will be made in three installments between December 2017 and April 2018.CSA and SACA described the agreement as “amicable,” with acting CSA CEO Thabang Moroe underlining the importance of his organisation maintaining solid relationships with its players. “Our players are key stakeholders in the game and are also CSA’s most valuable assets, which is why we invest heavily in our development programmes to produce our best possible national side,” he said.A payout is particularly important to the players, especially the locally based South African players who were expecting bigger pay-days than ever before, but those dreams were dashed when the tournament was pushed back to 2018. CSA is currently in the process of working on the organisation of next year’s edition but as things stand, the board has yet to secure a broadcaster, which was the major reason the inaugural edition could not take place.The T20 Global League was due to be played in November-December and CSA had anticipated losses of US$ 25million – amounting to half its cash reserves. The financial model was eventually deemed unsustainable and CSA opted to cut its losses, which will still prove substantial.The total player bill, which included signed contracts with 138 players (after six withdrew for injury or unavailability reasons), amounted to US $10.8 million. While CSA has been spared sacrificing the full amount, the agreed figures will still cost the board several million, though the exact amount has been adjusted to accommodate for foreign players. Those who signed on with other leagues, such as the BPL, whose NOCs contained limitations on the amount of time they were able to play in the T20 Global League, and those who did not receive NOCs will all be paid less than 50%.Negotiations have been taking place since late October and the matter was resolved in mediation. “The settlement is both fair and responsible and has been well received by the players,” Tony Irish, SACA CEO, said. Irish had previously noted that though players were disappointed about the money they would lose with the tournament being postponed, they were also mindful of not getting into greater financial distress.Though CSA has cash reserves of over R500 million (approx US$ 37million), the T20 Global League has depleted them severely. CSA has already spent R350 million in stadium upgrades over three years and had designated another R100 million to the organisation and marketing of the GLT20.

West Indies captain Jason Holder has praised Kraigg Brathwaite for showing the qualities “we have been asking for in the dressing room” during his 142 off 318 balls

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Nov-2016West Indies captain Jason Holder has praised Kraigg Brathwaite for showing the qualities “we have been asking for in the dressing room” during his 142 off 318 balls, an innings in which he carried his bat and gave his team a 56-run lead in Sharjah.Holder went on to take three wickets early in Pakistan’s second innings, and they were four down before they wiped out the deficit. He put that performance down to the motivation Brathwaite had given West Indies, and predicted that the opener would go on to play 100 Tests.”He showed great character, great composure, great faith,” Holder said of Brathwaite. “It was very inspirational for me and gave me the energy to go and do what we did in the end.”I have played a lot of cricket with Brathwaite – Under-13, 15, 17 and 19, and now senior cricket. He has scored a lot of runs in junior cricket. He has already played 30-odd Test matches and he has been the mainstay in terms of opening partnerships. I have no doubt in Braithwaite, who has shown the world what he can bring. If he can remain consistent, he will definitely play 100-plus Test matches.”After Brathwaite secured the lead, Holder consolidated the advantage by taking out Sami Aslam, Asad Shafiq and Younis Khan inside the first 20 overs, reducing Pakistan to 41 for 3. They were ahead by only 31 at stumps, with six wickets in hand.”We knew there’s just limited time in the last session, so we wanted to just give it our all,” Holder told . “Fortunately for me, I was able to get some balls to lift off a good length, which took the edge or the gloves. Fortunately, we had some luck in this session. I think we put ourselves in a good position because of this session.”When asked about offspinner Roston Chase bowling 13 of the first 39 overs in Pakistan’s second innings, while Devendra Bishoo bowled only two, Holder said the legspinner had a big job to do on the fourth day.”As the pitch wears out, Bishoo will come into the picture. He has a big job to do for us tomorrow,” Holder said. “The plan is to just keep rotating bowlers.”It was important to be disciplined and get wickets, and not allow them to get away from us with the runs. Roston was outstanding in the first innings. He has done a tremendous job for us since he has come into the team, so we’ve given him that responsibility.”Holder was concerned about the bounce in the pitch, but said that if it did not become variable, a target of around 200 was achievable.”It’s important to keep them under pressure in the first hour. We just have to continue to maintain the intensity. We all have to really toil for the wickets. We are very happy with the situation but we need to start well tomorrow.”

The well-drilled New Zealanders exposed familiar flaws in Australia’s young batsmen on their way to a dominant opening performance, trouncing the Prime Minister’s XI by 102 runs at Manuka Oval, despite the absence of their resting captain Brendon McCullum

The Report by Daniel Brettig at Manuka Oval23-Oct-2015
ScorecardTom Latham struck 12 fours and 2 sixes in his knock of 131•Getty Images

New pink ball, same old problems. The well-drilled New Zealanders exposed familiar flaws in Australia’s young batsmen on their way to a dominant opening performance, trouncing the Prime Minister’s XI by 102 runs at Manuka Oval, despite the absence of their resting captain Brendon McCullum.The national selector Rod Marsh had described this as “one of the strongest Prime Minister’s XI sides we have selected in recent years”, but the inclusion of probable Test players such as Peter Siddle, Usman Khawaja, Joe Burns, Cameron Bancroft and Adam Voges allowed the tourists to strike an early psychological blow in conditions similar to those expected for the inaugural day-night, pink-ball Test at Adelaide Oval next month.Marshalled by stand-in captain Tim Southee, the New Zealanders did so in fine style, running up a healthy 8 for 307, thanks largely to an opening stand of 196 between Martin Guptill and Tom Latham. While Guptill fell short of his century, Latham carried on to 131, shrugging off the loss of both Hamish Rutherford and Ross Taylor for ducks.Southee and the highly impressive Trent Boult then made the pink ball speak in a language still foreign to the local batsmen, slicing the top off the PM’s XI innings with full, swinging deliveries they will hope to replicate during the Tests. Khawaja, Bancroft and Burns were all hoping to press their claims this night, but none could find a way to survive as the invitational team slid quickly to 3 for 13, and more or less out of contention.Of the international batsmen present, only Voges could make any headway, and his neat 55, following 81 for Western Australia in his last Matador Cup start, shows evidence he has pulled himself out of an early-season dry spell that reaped just 50 runs in five innings. The Australian Capital Territory product Ryan Carters then played with invention and intelligence, though never in with a realistic chance of hauling in the target.On an overcast Canberra afternoon, Siddle and Jason Behrendorff found only the merest fraction of early movement, allowing Guptill and Latham to get quickly into stride. The visibility of the pink ball did not appear to be a major issue for batsmen, fielders or spectators, and the PM’s XI captain Michael Hussey appeared to have little answer to the long stride of Guptill and the power of Latham.Guptill’s exit opened up one end, and both Rutherford and Taylor would have been miffed to be out without scoring to the functional spin-bowling of David Hussey and Ashton Agar. Jimmy Neesham and Mitchell Santner contributed cameos to support Latham, and a healthy tally was posted.Khawaja had admitted the PM’s XI did not get much in the way of preparation for this game, by dint of the fact they assembled on the Thursday night for a Friday game. Even so, his brief stay was not convincing, missing a swinging full toss by Southee to be nearly lbw before driving optimistically at Boult and edging into the slips.Bancroft’s Test credentials have been endorsed by plenty of sound judges, but if he is to be a success he will have to stretch further forward than he did to Southee, who found late away-swing to turn the young West Australian around and flick the outside of off stump – a fine ball that could have been better played. Burns looked momentarily better, but he was tempted into a drive at Boult and dragged onto the stumps.From this position, the PM’s XI could hope only to minimise the margin, and Voges, and then Carters, showed good presence of mind. They were helped by the fact that the ball did not deign to move much once it had lost most of its shine, as Southee rotated his bowling resources.In addition to their attractive batting and precise bowling, the New Zealanders also excelled notably in the field. Santner clutched a wonderfully athletic catch low to the ground to dismiss Agar, before Doug Bracewell threw down the stumps to account for Siddle.At the start of the day, the two teams had been greeted by Australia’s new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull amid considerable fanfare. But Turnbull was gone not only from Manuka but also Canberra by the evening, moving on to other engagements. By contrast, the Australian selectors may find themselves without that kind of mobility should New Zealand continue to play as well as they did here – batting talent is not so easy to fly in.

Hanuma Vihari had an eventful IPL debut. He dismissed Chris Gayle, held the Sunrisers Hyderabad chase together and was in the middle as the match was tied

Nagraj Gollapudi08-Apr-2013The plan Sunrisers Hyderabad team-mates Hanuma Vihari and Ashish Reddy discussed before Vinay Kumar started the final over of their match against Royal Challengers Bangalore was to play every ball and not panic. Sunrisers needed seven to register their second win in as many matches. “If we did not waste a single ball then seven runs were possible in the final over. But Ashish got out on the first ball,” Vihari said a day after Sunrisers won a thriller in the Super Over.When Dale Steyn walked in, the message was clear. “We discussed hitting bat on ball and running hard between the wickets and looking to take the match to the last ball,” Vihari said. He watched Steyn take two runs from the second delivery of the over and then play and miss the third. “I decided I’d finish the match if and when I get the strike,” Vihari said. He finally took strike with the Sunrisers needing four runs off the final two balls, which was reduced to two off the final delivery after he dug out a “good yorker” to get a double.For the final ball, Vihari stood deep in the crease. As soon as Vinay delivered the ball, Steyn charged blindly forward. But Vinay second-guessed his opponent with a smart slower delivery. “I expected a yorker, but he bowled a slower ball. I tried to hit it hard for two runs but could not connect.” Vihari ran a bye and could not believe it was a tie.It was a bittersweet moment for Vihari and Sunrisers. Having restricted Royal Challengers to a modest 130, the hosts faltered frequently in the chase. And when the Lankan pair of Kumar Sangakkara and Thisara Perera departed in quick succession, the onus was on Vihari. Despite his age – 19 – Vihari decided to play the guiding hand to his partner Reddy, an aggressive player. Their 23-run partnership for the seventh wicket snatched the momentum in Sunrisers’ favour. “A player like Ashish can strike at any given point. So I was telling him to pick the right ball and if it was not in his range to focus on taking singles and keep the dot balls count low,” Vihari says.It’s this sensible streak that prompted the team management to promote Vihari to No. 3. Sangakkara, Sunrisers’ captain, had decided to drop himself to No. 5 to counter the middle overs from the Muralis – Muttiah Muralitharan and Murali Kartik. “When early wickets fell, Tom [Moody] told me I would bat at No. 4. My plan was to take it as close as possible to the target,” Vihari said.Despite his batting prowess, Vihari’s most telling impact had come with the ball – in fact his very first ball of the match. Sangakkara had already told him that he would be bowling with the new ball against Chris Gayle since the Jamaican had got out a few times in the past to off spinners. Being the only off-break bowler in the team on Sunday, Vihari executed the plan nicely: pitching on the off he got a little bounce that surprised Gayle, who went for the cut and was caught behind.  “I have kept the picture of the Gayle wicket,” Vihari says of his best souvenir.A wristy player, Vihari is a good striker of the ball and plays shots on both sides of the wicket. His best innings to date has been against Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy this season when he scored a career-best 191 runs in a drawn match.John Manoj, Vihari’s coach at St. John’s Cricket Academy in Hyderabad, noticed that the youngster could hit the ball “very hard” when he picked him as a nine-year-old. Manoj’s best student has been VVS Laxman, who is the mentor at Sunrisers now. Manoj had helped Vihari join the St. Andrew School in Bowenpally in Secunderabad and observed a keen student in Vihari. “I observed him playing confidently against the ball on the rise against fast bowlers from a tender age,” Manoj said. Last year Laxman was impressed by Vihari’s strokeplay on wet practice pitches and enquired more about the youngster.At the beginning of the IPL, Laxman told Vihari to “express himself and play his natural game” without getting distracted at all about playing such a big tournament. The significance of those words has not been lost on Vihari.Vihari dedicated his Man-of-the-Match award to his mother, who was at the ground with his sister, and his late father, who’d died in 2005. At the time, the 11-year-old Vihari was playing in a school tournament. His mother asked him to play cricket since his father always wanted him to play cricket. “It was two days after his death but my mother asked me to go ahead and I decided to respect her word,” Vihari says.

Virat Kohli’s 183 off 148 balls led India to their highest-ever ODI run-chase, as they went past Pakistan’s 329 in Mirpur

The Report by Abhishek Purohit18-Mar-2012
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsSachin Tendulkar made an aggressive 52 to give India a brisk start•AFP

Their bowling might struggle to defend 289 against Bangladesh. Their batting might not be resilient enough to dominate in all conditions. But in the subcontinent, India are the masters of the chase. And after having knocked off 321 in 36.4 overs in Hobart barely three weeks ago, they completed their highest successful ODI chase, in Mirpur, against Pakistan, who are not exactly a weak bowling side. And leading the mammoth effort was that man Virat Kohli who scored a career-best 183. Forget the obscenities, forget the extreme emotions; with 11 hundreds, including three in his last four innings, Kohli is one of the most complete ODI batsmen in the world now.When a boundary is needed, Kohli is the man. When the singles are needed, Kohli is the man. When a gap is to be found, Kohli is the man. He kept doing all of that for 148 deliveries against Pakistan. By the time he was done, he had hit 23 boundaries and made 183. India had lost Gautam Gambhir off the second ball of the innings. They lost just one more wicket in the next 272. Kohli’s dominance was so complete, it left contrasting support performances from Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma in the shade. It certainly meant Mohammad Hafeez and Nasir Jamshed’s centuries were in vain, as was their 224-run opening stand, Pakistan’s highest against India, and their second-highest ever.Not losing by a bonus point put Pakistan in the final of the Asia Cup; it kept India and Bangladesh dependent on the result of the last league game between the hosts and Sri Lanka, who have been knocked out. A win for Bangladesh will see them go through, as they lead the head-to-head against India in the tournament; any other result will see India qualify.It was Kohli who almost single-handedly kept India in the tournament with a performance so supreme it led Misbah-ul-Haq to call it one of the best ODI innings he had seen. Chasing 330 is tough. Chasing 330 against Pakistan should be as tough as it gets for an India batsman. Kohli could not bother about things such as pressure, even when Pakistan struck gold in the first over when Mohammad Hafeez trapped Gambhir in front.Pakistan were playing five bowlers but India worked around the threat of Saeed Ajmal and Umar Gul initially by targeting the others. Tendulkar and Kohli outdid each other in strokemaking. Their second-wicket partnership was worth 133 in just 19.1 overs. While Gul and Ajmal were given the respect they deserved, the shorter lengths of Wahab Riaz and Aizaz Cheema were taken for runs, as was the quicker pace of Shahid Afridi.The 100th century finally done with, Tendulkar was totally unrestrained and went along at a faster clip than Kohli. India found momentum in the third over, Cheema’s first, which went for 12. Kohli began with a violent pull while Tendulkar’s back-foot punch past cover was vintage. Pakistan had just started to suffer for bowling the wrong lengths. Cheema continued to bowl short of a good length, and Tendulkar brought out another vintage shot – a sly guide over the wicketkeeper that flew away for six.Tendulkar and Kohli dealt with the spinners in their own ways when they needed the boundaries. Tendulkar carted Hafeez over midwicket with a slog sweep; Kohli whipped Afridi through the same region.Riaz’s three-over spell put Pakistan under even more pressure. Not only did he bowl short, he kept on targeting Kohli’s pads and the batsman helped himself to several fours on the on side. He ultimately disappeared for 50 in four overs. Hafeez, the lone part-timer used, went for only 42 in nine.Tendulkar, meanwhile, misread an Ajmal doosra after reaching his half-century and ended up edging it to slip, but Kohli was looking nearly unstoppable. What he needed was a sidekick and Rohit rose to the occasion. He took his time before showing his range against spin with a series of cuts, pulls and lofted drives over extra cover. Kohli and Rohit went one better than Kohli and Tendulkar had, as the third wicket realised 172 in 26.2 overs.Mohammad Hafeez and Nasir Jamshed’s 224-run opening stand had put India under pressure•AFP

Kohli was in the zone. He went without a boundary for 32 balls, but still scored 25. In this period, he got to his century, which came with the now-famous emphatic celebration. In this period, Rohit kept getting the boundaries. The asking-rate still crossed eight an over after the 40th over. Kohli went after Gul in the 41st in a flurry of whip, swat, loft and clip. Sixteen runs later, the rate was below seven-and-a-half. He wasn’t done yet. Riaz was greeted with a whip off a yorker, a flick and a drive in the 42nd. Thirteen runs later, the rate was below seven.Though Kohli and Rohit could not hit the winning runs, the game as a contest between India’s batsmen and Pakistan’s bowlers had ended during their partnership.Hafeez and Jamshed had ensured the pressure would be squarely on India going into the chase, with a 224-run opening partnership. After having failed to defend 289 against Bangladesh, India were once again let down by the inability of their bowlers to either strike or contain.India had the opportunity to make first use of the Mirpur pitch, which has been harsher for bowlers in the evening, but Hafeez and Jamshed stroked boundaries at will, against a listless unit, on their way to centuries. Younis Khan, usually not one to worry attacks at the death, smashed 52 off 34 deliveries to lift Pakistan to their second-highest total against India.India’s lack of penetration was evident when MS Dhoni threw the ball to Tendulkar in the 24th over, after having already tried seven bowlers. Five of them had already gone at more than run-a-ball by then, and none, barring Ashok Dinda, had come close to troubling the Pakistan openers.Pakistan had taken control long before that, though, with Hafeez and Jamshed, a burly left-hander in the Graeme Smith mould, playing with assurance and eschewing any desperation.The previous best opening stand for Pakistan against India was 144 between Aamer Sohail and Saeed Anwar in 1996; Hafeez and Jamshed had already rustled up 150 at the halfway mark. Both soon got to their centuries, Jamshed’s being his maiden one in ODIs.The batting Powerplay consumed both batsmen, as they searched for more runs, but Younis and Umar Akmal ensured that Pakistan came nowhere near enduring the kind of middle-order collapse they had had against Bangladesh.Younis has been criticised for being slow in this format, but today he was at ease as the innings neared its close. Orthodox punches and lofts raced for boundaries through the off side. To Pakistan’s misfortune, Kohli would hit them harder in the evening, and for longer.Edited by Dustin Silgardo

The PCB held the first meeting of its general gody in over a decade, on Friday, at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore

ESPNcricinfo staff12-Feb-2011The PCB held the first meeting of its general body in over a decade, on Friday. The meeting was held at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore as per clause 17 of the PCB Constitution.The board said it was the first time the PCB general body had met since 1998, but one was held in the administration of Tauqir Zia in early 2000. A total of 73 members, made up of 18 full members, 53 associate members and two honorary members – former board chairmen Khalid Mehmood and Zia – attended the meeting.The meeting discussed the PCB’s annual report, as well as the audited accounts and budget estimates, and recommended to the governing board various measures to improve the standard of the game. Ijaz Butt, the board chairman, also talked about the need to continue developing the women’s game in Pakistan, given the achievements of the Pakistan women’s team recently. Representatives of blind and deaf cricket were also involved in the meeting.The general body is a larger, more representative body of stakeholders from around the country designed to ensure development and representation in areas such as interior Sindh and Baluchistan, where the game is not as developed as in other provinces and regions. It is supposed to meet once or twice a year and acts as the board’s parliament, where the governing board is the senate.

Ryan Sidebottom is set to fly home from the England tour of Bangladesh, after failing to recover from a thigh injury

Andrew Miller in Chittagong04-Mar-2010Ryan Sidebottom is set to fly home from the England tour of Bangladesh, after failing to recover from a thigh injury, and he could yet be joined on the plane by Stuart Broad and Graham Onions, both of whom are being sent for MRI scans on their lower back, as the England camp was hit by a wave of injuries ahead of the third ODI in Chittagong.Sidebottom produced an off-colour performance in the first ODI in Dhaka, before being replaced by the spinner James Tredwell for the second, having aggravated a thigh injury he sustained after landing on the boundary rope during the opening Twenty20 in Dubai last month. He will be replaced in the Test squad by the Yorkshire paceman, Tim Bresnan, who took the new ball in Sidebottom’s absence on Tuesday.For Sidebottom this is the latest in a long line of injuries which have hampered him since his peak in early 2008 when he was England’s leading bowler. He was first struck down with an Achilles problem later that summer against South Africa before picking up a side strain in India. He then played against West Indies, in Barbados, when he was clearly unfit before recovering to be selected for the World Twenty20 last year. On England’s recent tour in South Africa he also picked up a side strain while with the performance squad, but was recalled for the final Test in Johannesburg.Arguably, though, it is Broad’s condition that is causing the management the greatest concern, given how integral he has become to England’s teams in all three forms of the game. He could barely walk when he arrived in the team hotel after a delayed flight from Dhaka on Wednesday evening, and England’s coach Andy Flower, confirmed he had injured the facet joint in his lower back.”There has been a lot happening at the moment, Flower said. “Sidebottom has pulled a side muscle and will be going home on Saturday after the one-dayers have finished. He won’t be fit for the Test matches so he has to go home.”We also have concerns over Broad and Onions. Broad injured something in his back in the last ODI and Onions is also struggling with something in his back. Both of them are having MRI scans tomorrow and we will know more about their results tomorrow afternoon.”Although neither Broad nor Onions has yet been ruled out of the forthcoming Test series, which gets underway on March 12, England have already taken precautions by calling the Middlesex and Lions seamer, Steven Finn, into the squad for the remainder of the tour. England were already without their leading quick, James Anderson, who was rested from this tour due to his ongoing knee problem.”I am delighted to be given such a fantastic opportunity,” Finn said. “To be called up to the full England side is a real honour for me, and I am really excited to be joining up with squad over in Bangladesh.”Whether I get to play any matches over there remains to be seen, however the opportunity alone to train with the squad and impress in front of the coaching team is a fantastic enough experience for me. Whilst I am coming in as cover for the bowling unit, I intend to work as hard as I can and enjoy the experience of being around the England squad and coaching staff.”Finn caught the eye of Flower during the same net session where Ajmal Shahzad was spotted when the performance squad trained with the full team in Pretoria before Christmas. Shahzad made his debut in the second Twenty20 against Pakistan, in Dubai, taking two wickets in his first over and will contest the vacant slot for the final ODI on Friday with Liam Plunkett.

Brighton are taking inspiration from Jude Bellingham and the Golden Boy vote by making out that Kaoru Mitoma is a "massive Taylor Swift fan".

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• Bellingham has that backing in Golden Boy poll

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  The Japan international is up for the Premier League player and goal of the month awards for August. Voting for those prestigious prizes is now open, with the Seagulls doing their best to sway popular opinion in favour of their highly-rated forward.

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  Real Madrid and England star Bellingham has shown what is possible when having an army of Swiftie supporters on side, with the 20-year-old midfielder surging to the top of the 2023 Golden Boy vote after securing the backing of the pop star's supporters.

• WHAT THEY SAID

  Brighton are aiming to win over those fanatical followers in the latest Premier League polls, posting on social media: “Did you know… @Kaoru_Mitoma is a massive @TaylorSwift13 fan? In totally unrelated news, he's also nominated for #PL Player of the Month and #PL Goal of the Month. Vote here!”

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  Mitoma enjoyed a breakout campaign with Brighton last season, as he netted 10 goals across all competitions, and is in the running for monthly gongs in 2023-24 after recording a stunning strike against Wolves and also registering three assists through four appearances.

Monaco are rightly regarded as one of the best clubs in the world at developing players, as the quality of their outgoings since 2000 underlines

Monaco boast one of the most productive talent factories in football.

The likes of Kylian Mbappe, Benoit Badiashile, Laywin Kurzawa have come out of the Ligue 1 club's famed youth academy.

However, they have also gained a well-deserved reputation for spotting potential superstars and resurrecting the careers of top talents who have fallen on hard times.

The likes of James Rodriguez, Youri Tielemans, Bernardo Silva, Fabinho, Thomas Lemar secured big-money moves after honing or showcasing their skills at the Stade Louis II.

Indeed, Aurelien Tchouameni, who joined Real Madrid for €80 million (£85m/$107m) this summer, is just the latest player to leave Monaco for a massive fee…

Monaco biggest transfer sales by season

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  10Tiemoue Bakayoko | €40m | Chelsea | 2017

  Bakayoko joined Monaco in 2014 as a 19-year-old and went on to spend three seasons with the club.

  Though the French midfielder did not have a smooth start to life at Monaco, he would become a regular in the 2016-17 season as he played an integral role in Monaco's Ligue 1 title-winning campaign.

  Unsurprisingly, the continent's big guns then came calling and Chelsea snapped him up for €40m.

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• 9Youri Tielemans | €45m | Leicester City | 2019

  Youri Tielemans had made a name for himself in Belgium with Anderlecht before moving to Monaco in the summer of 2017 for a fee of €25m.

  After a slow start to life in Ligue 1, Tielemans clicked into gear and the stylish midfielder made 65 appearances for Monaco in one-and-a-half seasons, scoring six goals in the process, with five of them coming in the 2018-19 season.

  In January 2019, Leicester City signed him for €45m as Monaco made a healthy profit on the Belgian star.

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  8Fabinho | €45m | Liverpool | 2018

  Fabinho made his professional debut at Real Madrid Castilla while he was on loan from Rio Ave, but he made his bones at Monaco.

  He spent his first two seasons at the Stade Louis II on loan (2013-15) before signing permanently for the French club.

  Initially a marauding right-back, Fabinho transitioned into a defensive midfield role and impressed enough to earn himself a move to Liverpool in 2018.

  He would go on to win the Premier League and Champions League win the Reds.

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  7Bernardo Silva | €50m | Manchester City | 2017

  A Benfica youth product, Bernardo Silva truly stepped into the spotlight after signing for Monaco in 2014.

  He initially joined on a season-long loan deal, which was made permanent the following year.

  The versatile attacking midfielder was brilliant for Monaco in the 2016-17 season, registering 11 goals and 12 assists in all competitions and playing a key role in their Ligue 1 triumph.

  His fine form caught the eye of Pep Guardiola, who promptly brought him to Manchester City.

The Reds have made some fantastic purchases down the years, and here GOAL ranks the very best of them…

With success following them at almost every turn, Liverpool have been indebted to the impact of a number of new arrivals over the years.

But which transfers rank as the greatest in the Reds' long and illustrious history?

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Getty ImagesJohn Barnes

One of the most skilful and graceful footballers ever to wear the famous Red shirt, Barnes was already a fine player when arriving from Watford for £900,000, but became a genuine superstar on Merseyside.

A key part of perhaps the most exciting Liverpool team of all-time in 1987-88, he went on to score 108 goals in 407 appearances, converting successfully from a flying left winger into a majestic, controlling central midfield player in the mid-1990s.

He won two league titles, an FA Cup and a League Cup, and was named Footballer of the Year on two occasions.

AdvertisementGetty ImagesSadio Mane

The first big signing of the Jurgen Klopp era, and boy did it pay off.

Mane was not exactly an obvious pick when moving from Southampton for £35 million, but it didn't take long for fans – and Klopp – to fall in love with the Senegalese star.

He scored on his debut at Arsenal, netted the winner at Goodison Park in his first Merseyside derby and ended his maiden campaign at Anfield as the club's Player of the Year.

He switched wings following the arrival of Mohamed Salah, but his performances simply got better. A European, World and Premier League champion, as well as the key man as Senegal won their first ever Africa Cup of Nations in 2022, Mane deserves to go down as one of the all-time greats – for club and for country.

GettyAlan Hansen

A man who played a central role in Liverpool's dominance of the 1970s and 80s, Hansen was a centre-back ahead of his time, a ball-player and a reader of the game, blessed with a magnificent turn of pace.

In the 14 years that followed his £100,000 arrival from Partick Thistle, he won everything there was to win, including eight league titles and three European Cups.

His partnerships with the likes of Phil Thompson and, in particular, Mark Lawrenson, are among the greatest in English football history, and he remains the figure against which all Reds centre-halves are judged. An incredible footballer.

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Getty ImagesVirgil van Dijk

At £75 million, the most expensive signing in Liverpool's history, but also one of the very best.

Van Dijk transformed the Reds following his arrival midway through the 2017-18 season, turning Jurgen Klopp's side from a thrilling-but-brittle outfit into one of the meanest and most complete in Europe.

He won the Champions League in his first full season, picking up the PFA Player of the Year award for good measure, and was a central figure as Liverpool ended their 30-year wait for a league title in 2020.

Was runner-up to Lionel Messi in the 2019 Ballon d'Or, which for a centre-back is some achievement. Reds fans will hope there are many more years to come from the Dutchman.