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Welcome to today’s edition of Slide Rule Pass, your concise daily digest of the latest transfer news from across European football.

Arsenal Closing In on Viktor GyökeresArsenal are pushing to finalise a deal for Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyökeres, though a small gap in valuation remains.

Welcome to today’s edition of Slide Rule Pass — your concise daily read on the most important transfer stories across Europe.Madueke to Arsenal Nearing Completion

Rashford Poised for Newcastle MoveMarcus Rashford looks set to leave Manchester United, with Newcastle United preparing a deal as they strengthen for a Champions League campaign. Rashford impressed at Villa on loan but with Emery's side missing out on Champions League football next season the financials were always going to be challenging.Zubimendi Lands in London to Complete Arsenal SwitchMartin Zubimendi is finalising a €50 million-plus move to Arsenal from Real Sociedad, expected to slot s...

Leroy Sané to Galatasaray in Advanced TalksVeteran winger Leroy Sané is on the verge of joining Galatasaray.

Inter dragged themselves to the final, and PSG cruised to it. Here's how it all happened.The Angel Of MilanTypically, when I start writing one of these columns, I think of something interesting that stood out to me tactically. Some brilliant use of a player or a system that we were not expecting, to achieve the desired result. This game was not about that at all. At all. Don't get me wrong, there were tactical matchups aplenty. Thuram's hold-up play to help Inter progress the ball by playing ...

The first legs of this season’s Champions League semi-finals could not have been more contrasting. At the Emirates, Paris Saint-Germain eked out a slender 1–0 win over Arsenal thanks to an early Ousmane Dembele strike, while in Spain, Barcelona and Inter Milan served up a six-goal thriller that ended honours even at 3–3.

Football is about achieving a simple objective: winning games (and by extension, trophies). You can further divide that objective into two sub-objectives: scoring goals and not conceding goals. That's how you win games after all, by scoring more goals than you concede. At this point, footballing philosophies and tactics splinter and diverge in a thousand different directions. Some managers prefer to play with the ball, some prefer to play without the ball. Some managers favour a back 3, other...

The second goal Aston Villa scored against Tottenham is a textbook case of actions that don't appear in the statistics when analysing a game. Boubacar Kamara receives the ball on the edge of the Tottenham box, but it's the run of Marco Asensio that drags Yves Bissouma away and opens the space for Kamara to score. It's an intelligent piece of footballing action, but it won't show up on Asensio's stats at the end of the game. That action was a good summary of Asensio's influence on the game: su...

Welcome to today’s edition of Slide Rule Pass, your concise daily digest of the latest football transfer moves across Europe.

Heung-min Son Set to Depart TottenhamTottenham Hotspur's long-serving forward, Heung-min Son, is reportedly on the verge of leaving the club.