Burly Premier League centre-forwards dominate the headlines as the sails of the Rumour Mill creak into action in their efforts to generate another summer Monday’s worth of transfer chit-chat. With Christian Benteke in Liverpool to submit to the formalities of coughing for the doctor and finalising his £32m transfer to Liverpool, his former Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood is ready to replace the Belgian with Emmanuel Adebayor, whose stagnant career was electro-shocked back into something approaching its best when Sherwood applied the defib paddles during his time in charge of Spurs for the second half of the 2013-14 season. Phrases such as “wage demands” and “stumbling block”...
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