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Richard Kone has agreed to join Queens Park Rangers from Wycombe Wanderers in a deal worth at least £2.75m.

The two clubs are currently finalising add-ons, but the principles of an agreement have been struck in a coup for QPR to land the talented forward.

The 22-year-old also had interest from Leicester City, Preston North End and Toulouse, but has instead opted to join QPR, who have successfully sold their ambitious project amid a summer of hugely productive business at Loftus Road.

However, Uefa ordered the Eagles to play the Conference League, Europe’s third-tier competition, after breaching the tournament’s multi-club ownership rules, which do not allow teams under the same owner to compete in the same competition.

The brothers died on 3 July in a car accident in Zamora, Spain, after a suspected tyre blowout. The tragedy occurred only 11 days after Jota, a 28-year-old father of three, had married his long-term partner Rute Cardoso.

“He understands Rome wasn’t built in a day. We haven’t said to him that we want to win the Premier League this year,” Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy said on The Overlap with Gary Neville last week.

He’d be wise to take on his own advice.

The arrival of Benjamin Sesko may well leave Rasmus Hojlund surplus to requirements at Manchester United.

Fabrizio Romano believes AC Milan are in talks over the Dane, even though the striker may wish to remain at Old Trafford.

Pep Guardiola’s words can be delivered with exaggeration, sarcasm or, at times, a combination of the two, so his rhetoric can lend itself to different explanations.

But as he assessed his worst season in management, he declared: “I’m delighted to have failed.” If it was failure in the context of 12 league titles in his previous 15 seasons in the dugouts, different types of trebles, three Champions Leagues and an assortment of records, those are the standards Guardiola has set.

Having let Bryan Mbeumo go, and with Yoane Wissa also linked with an exit, Brentford need a new forward.

A bid to Bournemouth for Dango Ouattara may be on the way with the two Premier League clubs in talks, Sky Sports believe.

The £100m man is set to become David Moyes’ sixth summer signing as he leaves the Etihad Stadium in search of first-team football.

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