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As per Football Insider, Tottenham youngster Dane Scarlett has opened talks with the club over a new contract.

The Lowdown: Scarlett’s Spurs career

The 18-year-old has experienced a rapid rise to first-team football with the Lilywhites. The striker graduated from Spurs’ under-18s in the summer of 2021, duly linking up with the under-23 side in Premier League 2.

Furthermore, Scarlett has now made 10 appearances for the first team. Indeed, Conte is also a keen admirer of the young striker – in February, the 52-year-old publicly labelled him “the best prospect from the academy”.

As a result, he has been included in the Lilywhites’ first-team matchday squad 18 times this season, coming off the bench in the 4-0 win over Leeds in late February and the subsequent FA Cup defeat to Middlesbrough.

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The Latest: Scarlett and Spurs in contract talks

According to a fresh report by Football Insider, Tottenham are looking to tie down the 18-year-old to a long-term deal, even though he only signed his first professional contract when he turned 17 in March of last year.

As a result, negotiations have opened between the north London club and Scarlett. As a reward for his rapid development, he is set to receive a huge pay-rise on top of his current £3,400 weekly salary.

The Verdict: Huge prospect

Last year, Mourinho asserted that the Spurs gem “is going to be phenomenal”. This has been backed up by Conte, who claimed that “he is a really important prospect for Tottenham”, adding that Scarlett has “a brilliant future” ahead of him.

With the rave reviews received from multiple managers with glittering CVs, it is easy for Tottenham fans to get excited over this particular long-term prospect. if Scarlett does extend his deal with the club, fans will have every right to be thrilled.

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We could be seeing plenty more of this bright young gem in a Spurs shirt over the coming years, judging by this development and the aforementioned endorsements from two managers who have worked with him.

In other news: One player could soon be set to leave Tottenham permanently

‘We know [retirement is approaching] because we are getting asked about it’ © Getty Images

Adam Gilchrist is not sure if he will be back in Brisbane for the first Test of the next Australian summer. Touring over the past two years has worn him down to the point where he has considered walking away and the load will not become any lighter.Australia face a record-breaking schedule in the next 18 months and there is a chance Gilchrist will step off the international treadmill. “Retirement is getting closer for Matthew Hayden and I,” he said. “We know that because we are getting asked about it.”Gilchrist wondered during the opening game of last year’s Ashes whether it would be his final series, but he will start the first Test against Sri Lanka on Thursday recharged after an off-season break. “Now I’m going to see where it leads,” he said. “The World Cup win was a shot in the arm and for the past two seasons we’ve had three months away from the game during the winter.”In the next three or four years you’re not going to see that break and it’s an important time for my career. I’m not sure whether I’ll be back here next year, but with the way I feel at the moment it’s the intention to try and get right through.”One option Gilchrist, who is 36 on November 14, has considered is to extend his Test career is cutting out one-dayers and focussing on the long form of the game. He has played 90 consecutive Tests and is only 15 dismissals from breaking Ian Healy’s Australian record of 395.Gilchrist might have felt more comfortable retiring last year if the team had not lost Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer and Damien Martyn, but he stayed and will remain an essential member as the team undergoes its transition. He noticed the dramatic change in team personnel during the limited-overs tours of South Africa and India over the past two months.”It really set in and the reality was evident,” he said. “It’s not panic or anything like that, just a realisation that the personalities are different.”Andrew Symonds, who holds a crucial role at No. 6, said it was time to move on from McGrath, Warne and co. “We are going to miss them but, as bad as it sounds, we’re over it,” he said. “We don’t have those blokes any more so when we go to training we’ve got to work out how to bowl sides out and that’s what we’re doing.”

Close Australia 7 for 372 (Symonds 154*, Warne 4*) lead England 159 by 213 runs
Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details

Andrew Symonds celebrates his maiden Test hundred with Matthew Hayden, who also scored a century© Getty Images

In the space of two sessions on the second day at Melbourne, the most closely fought contest of the summer was transformed into the stage for the biggest rout yet, as Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds flogged the final vestiges of resistance out of England’s demoralised bowlers. After coming together with their side in all sorts of trouble at 5 for 84, Hayden and Symonds compiled a gargantuan partnership of 279, the sixth-highest sixth-wicket stand in Test history, and second only at the MCG to Bradman and Fingleton’s immortal alliance of 346 in 1936-37.It was an uncompromising onslaught, conducted by two burly Queenslanders whose best performances have more than just a hint of the bully about them. Each man was made to struggle early on – Hayden survived on his wits (and the whims of umpire Rudi Koertzen) during a dogged examination from Matthew Hoggard last night, while Symonds, facing his acid test as a Test No. 6, needed 21 balls to get off the mark before lunch today. But once their eyes were in and their pink-handled blades began to swing, England found they had no place to turn whatsoever.Hayden was eventually caught behind off Sajid Mahmood for 153 after seven hours of merciless accumulation. It was his highest score against England since his brutal 197 at Brisbane in 2002-03, when he was in his absolute pomp as a batsman, and it was his fifth century in six appearances at the MCG, an amphitheatre of a ground that appeals to his gladiatorial instincts. Symonds, meanwhile, registered an emotional maiden Test hundred that he completed with a monstrous swipe for six off Paul Collingwood and a gleeful leap into his partner’s arms. His relief was tangible after 11 Tests in which he had failed to convince either himself or his detractors that he has what it takes at this level.By the close, however, Symonds was still ruling the roost on 154 not out – a total that was more than twice as many as his previous highest in Tests, 72, on this same ground last year against South Africa, when Hayden was once again his partner-in-crime. The anxiety he had betrayed in his early loose swishes against Hoggard and Andrew Flintoff was replaced by a loose-gaited swagger that he himself had recognised as the missing link in his bid to transform his domineering one-day form into the Test arena. Fourteen cudgelled fours and a six later, he had achieved his single most cherished ambition.

A rare failure for Michael Hussey was part of an eventful morning session© Getty Images

The fact that it was achieved in such uncompromising circumstances was even more of an accolade than any of the runs he accumulated. By the time Adam Gilchrist had fallen for 1 late in the day, caught swishing at Mahmood (from round the wicket inevitably), Symonds and Hayden’s stand of 279 was worth more than the match’s other 16 wickets (245) had managed between them.Three of those wickets had fallen in a lively and, for England, uplifting morning session. After resuming on 2 for 48, Australia went to lunch teetering at 5 for 111. Quick wickets had been their requirement in the early overcast conditions, and it was the captain, Flintoff, who obliged in the seventh over of the morning. Ricky Ponting, who had been tied down by some tight and attacking bowling, attempted a wild and uncharacteristic pull to a delivery miles outside off stump, and sent a top-edge spiralling to Alastair Cook at wide mid-on.Ponting was gone for 7, only his second failure in seven innings this series, and when Michael Hussey – whose lowest score of the series had been his unbeaten 61 in the run-chase at Adelaide – was bowled through the gate by a Hoggard inswinger for 6, England were right back in contention. Steve Harmison then struck with his second ball as Michael Clarke grazed a leaping off-stump delivery to the keeper, but that was as far as England’s momentum would take them.England’s efforts remained unstinting, but their luck was seriously lacking, with Monty Panesar especially unfortunate to be denied when Symonds, on 52, was struck on the back pad plumb in front of middle. Umpire Koertzen, who has been in a non-giving mood since shaving off his Father Christmas beard, was not convinced. In the same over, Panesar was deposited by Hayden into the Southern Stand for a straight six, as Australia’s biggest hitters began their bloodletting.

Short cuts

Play of the day
Andrew Symonds’ launch of the Paul Collingwood delivery into the members’ area at mid-on to bring up his first Test century. He had waited 96 runs for his opening six – it will always be memorable.Ball of the day
Steve Harmison’s second effort of the innings to remove Michael Clarke. It angled in and moved away enough to collect Clarke’s edge, but it was his only success of the day.Good day
The National Breast Cancer Foundation is benefiting from every run Matthew Hayden makes during the series and each boundary Andrew Symonds pounds during this Test. During the first innings they have earned $3060 through Hayden and $1600 from Symonds.Bad day
Gray-Nicolls, the bat sponsor of Hayden and Symonds, which is paying out the money.Appeal of the day
Monty Panesar jumped, skipped, hopped and pleaded with Rudi Koertzen to win an lbw decision off Matthew Hayden on 131, but the umpire didn’t budge. Koertzen was right this time, but should have raised his finger when Symonds was sweeping on 52.Numbers of the day
Day one of the Test earned a new record for Channel 9 in Australia with 1.68 million people watching England being dismissed for 159. The crowd for day two at the ground was 75,770, about 20,000 short of capacity, and the disappointing turnout in the members’ area has allowed the Melbourne Cricket Club to relax its entrance regulations.

The rowdy crowd at Auckland give Brad Hogg a hard time © Getty Images

Police have warned spectators against unruly behaviour during the final match of the Chappell-Hadlee Series between New Zealand and Australia in Christchurch on Saturday.”We want the game to be the event, not the crowd,” Peter Cooper, a senior sergeant, told NZPA. “We’re not trying to stop the fun, but please have some respect for the rest of the crowd who are there to see the game.”He asked the fans who consume alcohol to treat the game with respect after the Australians had beer cans and other objects thrown at them during the first ODI at Eden Park in Auckland. Police also arrested 15 people and ejected 46 from the stadium during the second game at Wellington.

Brendon McCullum’s knee will not hinder his preparations for the one-dayers and Tests against Sri Lanka© Getty Images

Brendon McCullum, New Zealand’s wicketkeeper-batsman, is fit for theirforthcoming one-day and Test series against Sri Lanka.McCullum, 23, was hit on the knee twice in a row by Jason Gillespie in the second Test against Australia last month. Although precautionary tests revealed a minor fracture, Warren Frost, NZ’s medical co ordinator, said that X-rays showed that it had healed. “He did suffer some pain in Australia but it is showing signs of good progress,” Frost said. “It is more of an inconvenience than anything.”The first one-day international against Sri Lanka is on Boxing Day, and the one-day series is followed by two Tests.

KwaZulu-Natal defeated high-riding Easterns and consolidated their position at the top of Pool A with a third consecutive victory, putting together a polished team effort to win by an innings and 102 runs. Hundreds from Doug Watson and Dale Benkenstein, along with 98 from Lance Klusener, ensured that Easterns were always on the back foot. A career-best 6 for 43 from the young offspinner Imran Khan, voted Man of the Match, made life even more difficult for the Easterns batsmen, who were bowled out in their follow-on innings shortly before lunch on the final day.In Paarl, Griqualand West made light work of Boland, winning by 100 runs. Benjamin Hector scored a hundred, Wendell Bossenger made 93, and a quick 70 from Shahid Afridi helped Griqualand to 475. Deon Kruis then took 10 for 119, his medium pace proving too good for Boland. Rashaad Magiet (91) and Con de Lange (89) did, however, offer some resistance.Allan Donald showed that he is still a bowler to be respected when he helped Free State to a ten-wicket win against Eastern Province. His 5 for 95 in the first innings was overshadowed by an excellent 145 from Carl Bradfield, the Eastern Province captain. But after a second-innings collapse by Eastern Province, Morne van Wyk (106*) and Jonathan Beukes (88*) knocked off the 198 runs needed for victory.At Newlands Western Province outplayed North West from day one with Neil Johnson and Andrew Puttick both scoring hundreds to guide them to 480 for 5 declared.Meanwhile, Border produced the surprise of the round by defeating Northerns by six wickets. Steven Pope, Border’s hero, scored an unbeaten 146 in their successful run-chase. For Northerns there was a light at the end of the tunnel though, with Alfonso Thomas putting together a good allround performance in scoring a fifty and taking 7 for 63.SuperSport Series Pool AKwaZulu-Natal beat Easterns by an innings and 102 runs. KwaZulu-Natal 495 for 6 dec (Watson 147, Benkenstein 112, Klusener 98, Kent 73); Easterns 215 (Toyana 72, Khan 6-43) and 178 (van den Berg 57, Koenig 53, McLean 4-41).Griqualand West beat Boland by 110 runs. Griqualand West 475 (Hector 114, Bossenger 93*, Shahid Afridi 70, Mashimbyi 61, Smith 50, Groeneveld5-112) and 131 for 5 dec; Boland 205 (Magiet 91, Kruis 5-46) and 291 (de Lange 89, Kruis 5-73).Free State beat Eastern Province by 10 wickets.Eastern Province 331 (Bradfield 145, Donald 5-95) and 103; Free State 237 (Venter 61, Louw 4-45) and 198 for 0 (van Wyk 106*, Beukes 88*).SuperSport Series Pool BWestern Province beat North West by 10 wickets. Western Province 480 for 5 dec (Johnson 135, Puttick 101, Duminy 80*, Bassage 69, Prince 50) and 16 for 0; North West 266 (Bula 60*) and 229 (Bailey 82, Henderson 4-61).Border beat Northerns by 6 wickets. Northerns 197 (van Jaarsveld 63, Henderson 5-73) and 317 (Rudolph 64, Thomas 52); Border 230 (Strydom 53, Thomas 7/63) and 286 for 4 (Pope 146*).Pool A and B Log Tables.

Defiant innings from young Victorians Jon Moss and Michael Klinger were not enough to stop Western Australia gaining a slight advantage at stumps on day one of their Pura Cup match.The Bushrangers crawled to 6-226 on a WACA pitch showing large green patches with the run rate barely keeping above two an over all day.Moss, 26, remained unbeaten on 60 with Victorian captain Paul Reiffel yet to score after the Bushrangers struggled to gain any real momentum throughout the day.It appeared from the outset that Reiffel’s decision to bat was a poor one after Victoria slipped to 3-60 just before lunch with Jason Arnberger (2), Matthew Mott (15) and Matthew Elliott (30) all back in the pavilion.Debutant quick Michael Clark (2-41) shone for the home team in the opening session with the former AFL player picking up openers Arnberger and Elliott.Kade Harvey (2-53) was the other wicket taker in the first session removing Mott for 15.But Brad Hodge and 21-year-old Klinger appeared to be turning the visitors’ innings around before spin bowler Brad Hogg trapped Hodge in front for 32.Klinger and Moss then put on a 64-run partnership before Klinger’s 189-minute knock came to an end on 58 midway through the final session.His 181-ball innings finished when he was caught flashing a cover drive to Michael Hussey for Harvey’s second wicket to leave the Vics at 5-169.Darren Berry was the last man out for the day, after surviving a confident caught behind appeal off the bowling of Clark. He was out for 20.Simon Katich took the neat catch in slips off the bowling of quick Matthew Nicholson (1-51).Moss, who’s looking to make his first century in the four-day game tomorrow said it was hard work out in the middle.”It was enjoyable to get away on that wicket, it wasn’t too bad, but they were bowling well so we had to just work a bit harder,” Moss said.”I would definitely love to go on with it (and reach a hundred) but I have to get myself in again tomorrow.”I just hope we can make as many as we can.”

Punjab handed down a humiliating innings and 343-run defeat toHimachal Pradesh in their North Zone under-14 tournament match at theDhruv Pandove Stadium in Patiala on Tuesday.Set to get 405 to avoid an innings defeat, Himachal Pradesh were shotout for just 62 runs in their second innings. None of the batsmenreached double figures with the exception of Aditya (27). All the sixPunjab bowlers shared the spoils with Jund (3 for 10) being the pickof the lot.Earlier, on the first day, opting to bat, Himachal Pradesh werebundled for a paltry 24. Four of the batsmen failed to open theiraccount. Harmanjit, with figures of 3 for 5, was the pick of thebowlers. In reply, Punjab declared their first innings at 429 runs forseven. Openers A Vinayak (29) and Karan Goel (50) gave Punjab a goodstart by putting on 81 runs in 18.3 overs. Then with the score reading125 for 4, M Bhatia (87) and U Kaul (95) added 163 runs for the fifthwicket in 45.4 overs. A seventh wicket partnership of 132 runs off 29overs between A Jund (50) and P Sharda (79) ensured Punjab a big lead.Punjab got eight points.

ScorecardMichael Carberry was the one batsman to come to terms with conditions•Getty Images

Four wickets from Yasir Arafat helped Hampshire as good as clinch a NatWest T20 Blast quarter-final place with victory over Somerset.Hampshire looked out of the match after posting a well below par 143 for 7 but excellent death bowling from Arafat and spin duo Will Smith and Danny Briggs eased fears of a rare early exit.Barring a truly remarkable win for Glamorgan over Gloucestershire on Friday, and wins for Essex and Sussex, the south coast side will be in the last eight for the seventh year in a row.After electing to bat, Hampshire set off at breakneck speed, with a sumptuous straight drive four from James Vince to get the ball rolling.Michael Carberry continued the onslaught from the other end, pulling six to the short square leg boundary before ferociously landing one into hot water – as he struck the coffee stand.Opener Carberry continued his thumping with a six over the covers as he peppered the minuscule perimeter – reaching his fourth format fifty of the season off 29 balls.It all seemed to be going swimmingly for the hosts before Jamie Overton wonderfully ran out James Vince off his own bowling to end an opening stand of 80.Adam Wheater was out reverse sweeping to short third-man first ball and then Carberry holed out to long-on for 57.Owais Shah and Smith were both bowled by the impressive Max Waller who ended with figures of 3 for 17 from his four overs.And the Hampshire collapse continued with a calamity run out as Joe Gatting took on a Jim Allenby misfield with Hampshire going from 80 without loss to 112 for 6.Chris Wood gave a temporary respite with a six down the ground but was bowled five balls later by Lewis Gregory.Gareth Berg prodded the last ball over point for four to end on a positive as Hampshire posted 143.After a sprightly start to the chase by the visitors, Arafat found a leading edge from Allenby and Briggs took the catch in the covers. Two balls later captain Vince plucked a catch on the edge of the circle to see off Isle of Wight-born debutant Adam Hose for 20.Hampshire’s nemesis Peter Trego – who has smacked them for 317 in 10 T20 innings – departed cheaply, chipping Smith to Arafat at short fine leg. Tom Cooper made 27 but played on off Smith before Briggs bowled Hildreth.Arafat bowled Gregory with the final ball of the 18th over and Jamie Overton departed for a duck in the next to end the contest.The other Overton brother, Craig, was cleaned up by Arafat – who ended with 4 for 37 – in the final over as Hampshire won by six runs.

Dele Alli and Anwar El Ghazi may not be Everton players next season, if fresh reports are to be believed. 

The lowdown

The Toffees signed Dele from Tottenham on January’s transfer deadline day, while El Ghazi made a loan switch from Aston Villa midway through the month.

Under the terms of the agreement they reached with Spurs, Everton will only have to pay the north Londoners a £10m fee once Dele has made 20 appearances in blue. The fee could rise as high as £40m according to Sky Sports, depending on whether various performance-related add-ons are triggered.

As for El Ghazi, the Toffees negotiated a €10m (£8.4m) purchase option with Villa.

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Sports journalist Pete O’Rourke has told GiveMeSport that Dele could leave Goodison Park in the summer, stating: “It’s a possibility, if Everton have got that clause in his contract, that they could let him go without having to pay Spurs anything. It would, obviously, save Everton some money if that were to happen.”

Meanwhile, Football Insider reported that the Blues aren’t interested in a permanent deal for El Ghazi, who has ‘struggled to make an impression’ on Frank Lampard and his coaching staff since he joined the Merseyside outfit.

The verdict

This news shouldn’t come as too big a surprise regarding either player.

Dele has yet to start a single game since he arrived at Everton and, if anything, he is falling further down the pecking order. Having come on from the bench in seven straight league matches, he has now been an unused substitute in the last two games.

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El Ghazi, who was signed while Rafael Benitez was still in charge at Goodison Park, has barely had a look-in under Lampard. He has played a mere 11 minutes of Premier League football in a blue shirt and may already be considering his next move.

Everton signed five players in January as they looked to turn their season around, but so far it has made little difference – they remain just three points above the relegation zone with 10 matches to play.

In other news, Jonathan Woodgate accuses one Everton star of throwing his toys ‘out the pram’.