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Bundesliga side Schalke 04 have offered England left-back Danny Rose an escape from Tottenham Hotspur with a season-long loan offer.
Rose has been on the market all summer after falling out of favour at Tottenham ever since he attempted to force a move to Chelsea or Manchester United last August.
Spurs have been trying to find a buyer for Rose, and have been forced to drop their price all the way down from the £55m to £60m they wanted last summer to half of that.
Show all 52 1 /52Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED Premier League kits 2018/19 Who has the best kit in the 2018/19 Premier League? We take an incredibly serious look and provide some incredibly serious answers.
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Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 50. Liverpool away Absolutely hideous. Possibly the most disturbing thing revealed on the internet since the time Ian Botham accidentally flashed his member to all 433k of his Twitter followers.
New Balance
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 49. Tottenham home Tottenham have been so busy not buying any players this summer they completely forgot to tell Nike they wear all white in Europe. Which will make that grim gradient look even worse. Vom.
Tottenham Hotspur FC
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 48. Brighton home You, an idiot: Oh, this looks a perfectly reasonable home kit. Great job Nike.
Nike
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 47. Tottenham away This is EXACTLY the same as the new Barcelona training shirt which, incidentally, is a full £27 cheaper on the Nike website. That’s an awful lot of money for the small outline of a cock.
Nike
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 46. Arsenal away The shirt isn't bad. The shorts look like the kind of pyjamas your visually-impaired granny might pick out for you at the Edinburgh Woollen Mill for Christmas. Bore off, Nanna!
Puma
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 45. Liverpool third Just look at poor Sadio Mané plotting his course to the nearest branch of Next so that he can get himself out of this muck pronto. The red is too bright, the stripe on the sleeves is too phat and the less said about those weird grey blotches the better.
New Balance
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 44. Huddersfield third ‘Oh great, a fluorescent third shirt!’ said nobody, ever. A colour that every club gets foisted with every four years or so, for no discernible reason whatsoever.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 43. Arsenal home Back on your feet, Héctor Bellerín. There’s nothing to celebrate here with this bizarrely boxy effort. Into the sea, get into.
Puma
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 42. Manchester United home Gradients just never look good do they? Also considering Adidas flog these for £120 a pop this looks strangely cheap: switch the Chevrolet sponsor for a FOX AND HOUND stamp in peeling lettering and it could quite easily double up as an old Prostar Sunday League kit.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 41. Chelsea home Eden Hazard, Willian and Thibaut Courtois all took one look at this stripy s***fest and decided they’d be far better off playing their football elsewhere. Yuck.
Nike
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 40. Southampton third Hang on a moment — it’s just the home shirt with two sets of red stripes instead of one! Nice try, Under Armour. Nice try.
Under Armour
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 39. Bournemouth third Ugly collar. Even uglier sponsor. Even uglier set of shadow stripes. It’s a firm no from us, Clive.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 38. Arsenal third Infinitesimally better than that Bournemouth effort, but still a massive disappointment. Looks much better with that big ol’ collar buttoned up, mind.
Puma
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 37. Everton away Whoah! If the lads from Miami Voice put their pistols down for five minutes and decided to form a football team, this is probably what their kit would look like. That’s not a good thing. Also ANGRY BIRDS.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 36. Manchester City home The year is 4564. The human race has spread out far beyond the confines of Planet Earth, colonising distant stars and stellar systems. Aliens walk harmoniously among us. Breathtaking advancements in medicine mean sickness is a thing of the past. And at their swish Oregon headquarters in the United States of America, Nike design Yet. Another. Borderline. Identical. Manchester. City. Kit.
Nike
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 35. Bournemouth home Okay. Yeah, okay. No really it’s okay. Completely okay. Yeah it’s okay. Just okay. Okay.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 34. Huddersfield away Hang on one moment, that looks familiar… Beats it’s Bournemouth rival on account of its cleaner collar and that lovely tranquil backdrop.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 33. Southampton home Practical, inoffensive, more than a little bit boring — the Ed Sheeran of 2018/19 Premier League football kits.
Under Armour
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 32. Newcastle United third Very similar to the Arsenal away kit, sans the PE teacher collar and with a different coloured set of stripes on the sleeves. It’s alright, if rather ruined by that eyesore sponsor.
Puma
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 31. Southampton away Genuinely struggling to muster up the enthusiasm to write a sentence on this strict 5/10 effort, so here’s the first 100 words of The Da Vinci Code instead:
Under Armour
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 30. Burnley home No you haven’t imagined it, Burnley’s home strip — for some inexplicable reason — really does feature the Batman logo hidden away under the sponsor on the front of the shirt. We don’t know why. But we like it.
Puma
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 29. Brighton away It’s green. It has a nice collar. The sponsor isn’t annoying. Good, fine, yup. Now be on your way, Brighton away.
Nike
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 28. Cardiff away It’s not going to get any Cardiff fans doing cartwheels around their club shop, but equally it’s hardly likely to get any soiling their underwear in anger, either.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 27. Cardiff home See past image. But blue.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 26. Fulham home And it is at this point that we take our first tentative steps into the realm of 'nice kits'. Does everything you would want from a Fulham kit. Will look smashing with a beard, pair of deck shoes and whatever else nice middle class people enjoy wearing.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 25. Everton third Oooooooo. Nice. Kind of looks like a Tesco carrier bag on after half a gram. And that’s no bad thing. Also ANGRY BIRDS.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 24. Bournemouth away Okay, so the white shadow stipe gives us nightmarish flashbacks to P.E. (no, Mr Johnson, not another lap around the field, OH GOD NO PLEASE) but the pop of colour on the sleeves is lovely and the shorts are a really nice, rich blue. Woof.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 23. Watford away Green Brighton kit + home and away Cardiff kits = slightly nicer Watford kit. Quick maths.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 22. Wolves away Why hello there, Wolves away. Don’t you look serious with your subtle stripes, no nonsense trim and sensible looking sponsor. Please come in. Make yourself at home. Help yourself to a whisky.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 21. Fulham away More Adidas sexiness. Really nice colour. Classy bit of gold. Will look smashing under the floodlights.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 20. Leicester away Right, so the last few Adidas kits have been borderline identical, but it is a really smart design. And this colour combo is right up there: industrial Netherlands chic.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 19. West Ham away This shouldn’t really work … and yet it does. It’s the yellow piping which really elevates this from mediocre to mmmmmmm.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 18. Wolves home This literally could not be anymore Wolverhampton Wanderers, could it? Strong.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 17. Newcastle United home Newcastle have had some absolutely shocking home kits in recent years, when you consider the design is about as simple as they come. And so this ranks nice and high on account of not being absolutely awful.
Puma
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED NEW ENTRY! Burnley away Okay we'll come clean: we completely missed this off the list the first time round and it took Twitter user Simon Gibson to remind us this existed. Completely our bad, this is actually a very nice kit. Everybody loves a bit of moody black honeycomb.
Burnley
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 16. West Ham third Good old Umbro. They’ve given West Ham a pleasingly simplistic white third kit so the likes of Mark Noble and Jack Wilshere can at least close their eyes and pretend they’re playing for England.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 15. Huddersfield home Be honest, you stopped reading these captions after the fourth picture, didn’t you?
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 14. Burnley third Sexy af. If the Storm Troopers from Star Wars were given every Wednesday evening off to have a kick about at the Death Star Power League, this is what their kit would look like.
Puma
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 13. West Ham home Vintage. Although by the looks of it Aaron Cresswell has had a rough summer.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 12. Tottenham third Pleasingly different. Just a shame it’s only going to be worn by Spurs twice, both times away from home in the Champions League. In case you’re wondering: a 3-1 loss to Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes and 2-1 win over Hoffenheim, to secure third place in their group.
FootyHeadlines
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 11. Crystal Palace away Naughty. So very naughty. A sash really does make everything better. Loses some street cred for the sponsor. Other than that: yum.
Puma
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 10. Manchester City away Yesssssss. Takes a much loved — if bloody horrible — away kit from yesteryear and revitalises it with some smooth lines and pinstripes.
Nike
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 9. Leicester home Oh my. Cleaner than Kim Woodburn’s conservatory. A kit worthy of Prince Slabhead and chums.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 8. Everton home Gloriously retro, smashing collar. Pity poor old Wayne, for never getting to wear this. Also ANGRY BIRDS.
Umbro
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 7. Manchester United third My, my, my. Impeccably moody, with a sponsor that enhances the overall look of the kit without detracting from it. Lovely stuff and almost makes up for that monstrosity of a home shirt.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 6. Liverpool home Liverpool had the best home kit of last season and return with another strong effort this time around. A sumptuous deep red. A nice retro collar. And some permissible white piping. Noice.
New Balance
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 5. Newcastle United away Two words: Hubba hubba. A classic design executed to perfection, with a simple design accommodating that bold colour palette. Georgie phwoarrrr.
Puma
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 4. Crystal Palace home Would. You. Just. Look. At. The. Way. Those. Stripes. Fade. Out. At. The. Bottom. Amazing. A gradient done right: take note, Nike and Adidas.
Puma
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 3. Watford home This could prove controversial and it’s certainly a departure from the norm, but black and yellow stripes will simply never not be cool. Sorry. Cuff me. If that’s wrong I don’t want to be right. Etc.
Adidas
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 2. Chelsea away Would you look at that. Nike proving once and for all that, when push comes to shove, a simple kit will always beat a chaotic one. And what an incredible shade of yellow — so bright sunglasses will have to be made mandatory in the Shed End.
Nike
Premier League kits 2018-19 RATED and SLATED 1. Manchester United away And here’s what you’ve all been waiting for, ladies and gentlemen — the best kit of the 2018/19 Premier League season. Just, just look at it. It’s bold. It’s daring. It’s pink. Now somebody please take the shirt I have just ripped from my own back, I need this on my torso immediately.
Manchester United
The club has been seeking to raise funds to spend on new players because of the financial constraints imposed by the new stadium.
Even at a fee between £25m and £30m Spurs could not find a buyer for Rose, who still has three years left on his Tottenham contract.
Everton considered a move for him but then went for Lucas Digne from Barcelona instead.
That is why a foreign move for Rose has become the most likely solution to his issue with Tottenham. There was long standing interest in him from Paris Saint Germain and Inter Milan from last year but this month Schalke have moved to the front of the queue.
Schalke can offer Champions League group stage football and also feature Rose’s former Spurs team-mate Nabil Bentaleb. No deal has been agreed yet but because it is a loan to a foreign club, it does not need to happen by 5pm this afternoon and could happen later on this month.
If Rose went then Kyle Walker-Peters would be promoted to Spurs’ back-up left back.
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