Crystal Palace Sign Arsenal Striker Marouane Chamakh On One Year Deal: Nightly Soccer Report

Crystal Palace have signed Arsenal striker Marouane Chamakh on a one-year deal.

While Chamakh has been the butt of jokes for a couple of years since joining Arsenal in 2010, this will be a wonderful opportunity at Crystal Palace to prove the doubters wrong in a team where he should have a regular starting spot if his performances are positive.

When the Moroccan international joined the Gunners, he looked bright in the early matches, but quickly lost his confidence and was never the same player again for Arsenal. With a new lease of life at Selhurst Park, this is exactly the type of club and opportunity where he can flourish.

Here are tonight’s world soccer news headlines:

Premier League

• Marouane Chamakh leaves Arsenal for Crystal Palace — BBC Sport
• Crystal Palace to move to end Darren Bent’s Aston Villa misery with ambitious loan bid — The Telegraph
• West Ham poised to sign Stewart Downing from Liverpool for £6m — The Telegraph
• NBC Sports’ upcoming coverage of the English Premier League — Sports Illustrated
• Ian Wright: “I get more stick from Arsenal fans than Spurs fans” — Radio Times
• John O’Shea hails Paolo Di Canio’s punishing ‘revolution’ at Sunderland — The Guardian
• Man Utd, offering $146 million and Javier Hernández for Gareth Bale — Soccerly
• Gary Neville: ‘British football needs to get back to a quota system’ — The Guardian
• Eto’o: “I would like to have the chance to play under Mourinho again” — Marca
• Norwich weigh up bid for Fiorentina striker Mounir El Hamdaoui — The Mail
• Lee Cattermole and Phil Bardsley injured in Sunderland victory — Shields Gazette
• Mousa Dembele has minor ankle injury; Jan Vertonghen out for Belgium as well — Cartilage Free Captain
• Nani says he wants to stay and fight for his place at Manchester United — The Guardian
• Norwich striker Gary Hooper cleared of serious injury — The Mail
• Rio Ferdinand calls for radical reform and a new identity for England — The Guardian
• News Corp. inks 3-year deal for EPL digital soccer rights in Asia — Sports Business Daily
• Manchester United’s Nemanja Vidic confident of injury-free season — The Guardian
• Rooney could feature for Man United at Swansea as Gary Neville claims striker will stay — Telegraph
• Stoke transfer news: Hannover want double City’s offer for Mame Diouf — Metro
• Liverpool target Granada’s Guilherme Siqueira — Sky Sports
• Wenger says it is important to bring in new players before the transfer window shuts — Independent
• Newcastle pull back from deal for Bafetimbi Gomis — Sky Sports
• BT Sport breaks through 1 million customer mark — The Guardian
• Arsenal in battle with Napoli for Luiz Gustavo — Evening Standard

International soccer

• Gareth Bale ruled out of Wales friendly with Ireland due to foot injury — The Guardian
• Klinsmann name squad for friendly against 13th-ranked Bosnia-Herzegovina — US Soccer
• Beetroot boy Rickie Lambert puts salad days behind him with England call — The Guardian
• Jamie Carragher: ‘Ban academy imports for sake of our national team’ — The Independent
• Could Arsenal’s teenage phenom play for U.S.? — Washington Post
• FA and Premier League hold crunch talks over 2022 Qatar World Cup fiasco — The Mail
• Europe’s leagues flex muscle and issue warning over Winter 2022 proposal — Inside World Football
• Rene Meulensteen joins Gareth Southgate in the race to succeed Stuart Pearce for England U21s — The Mail
• Scotland must capitalise on England’s psychological frailty against ‘lesser nations’, says Charlie Adam — Telegraph
• England need a 10-year plan to halt decline, says Rio Ferdinand — The Mail

UEFA Champions League

• Metalist fans rally in support of their club ahead of UEFA decision on participation in UCL — Interfax

Football League

• A third of Championship and League One clubs may go on sale this season — The Guardian
• Wayne Hennessey has joined Yeovil Town on a month-long loan — The Mail

Eredivisie

• Ajax captain Siem de Jong suffers collapsed lung — ESPN FC

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