• 21-year-old impressed on loan at Blackpool last season
• Swansea admit Angel Rangel could leave this summer

The Blackpool manager, Ian Holloway, admits he is unlikely to be able to bring Seamus Coleman back to the club. The Everton defender impressed during a loan spell at Bloomfield Road at the end of last season, helping Blackpool win promotion to the Premier League. The 21-year-old Irishman has featured regularly in pre-season friendlies for Everton since then and Holloway feels it will be difficult to convince the Everton manager, David Moyes, to part with him again.

“He is playing so well that David Moyes won’t want to let him go,” Holloway told the Blackpool Gazette. “I’ve asked him, I’ve left messages, I’ve spoken to Moyesy’s brother [Kenny, an agent], so I’m trying all I can. However, I think the honest answer is probably no. But I’ve got other targets I’m waiting on as well.”

Blackpool are reported to have had a bid rejected by Leicester for the striker DJ Campbell, another player who enjoyed a successful loan spell with them last term. However, Holloway may yet have more luck in his efforts to sign the Swansea defender Angel Rangel. The 27-year-old was the subject of a failed bid last week, but the Swans’ coach, Alan Curtis, expects him to leave the Welsh side before the end of the transfer window.

“I think the club are trying to persuade Angel and trying to open talks over a new contract,” Curtis told the BBC. “But obviously the lure of playing in the Premier League is something he is probably going to find very difficult to turn down.

“It looks likely that he may well move on, but that might not be for a couple of weeks yet. The [transfer] deadline is not until the end of August and the shame is he’s such a good player for us.”

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• Dan Gosling finalises controversial Newcastle deal
• Midfielder will miss remainder of 2010 with knee injury

Dan Gosling has completed his move to Newcastle United from Everton but will not be able to make his debut for several months because he is recovering from a serious knee injury.

The 20-year-old midfielder, who underwent anterior cruciate ligament surgery in March which was then expected to keep him out until December, signed a four-year contract on Tyneside after arriving on a free transfer which has caused considerable consternation at Goodison Park.

Everton were infuriated by Gosling’s exploitation of a legal loophole which enabled a player who cost them £2m when he joined from Plymouth Argyle in January 2008 to depart for nothing.

Chris Hughton, though, was thrilled to have recruited precisely the type of player Mike Ashley, Newcastle’s owner, is seeking – young, energetic and with real potential for future resale. “We are delighted to have signed Dan,” Newcastle’s manager said. “He’s the right age and profile so he’s an appealing capture for us. He’s young but he has Premier League experience and he’s someone who can continue to develop his game. We see him as a high-energy box-to-box player. He won’t be fazed by anything that’s in front of him.”

Gosling was equally enthusiastic. “It’s a brilliant move for me,” he said. “I can’t wait to get started. I’ve played at St James’ Park and I know all about the amazing atmosphere. It will be a great day when I finally get to run out in front of 50,000 people.”

Things have changed rapidly since early May when Gosling said of Everton: “There’s no other club I’d rather be at.” Indeed Everton feel badly let down by a player whose salary they intended to double despite his almost certainly being sidelined for most of the remainder of 2010.

Gosling had been recruited by David Moyes on a three-year deal with an agreement to extend it on improved terms this summer. Last spring Everton duly offered him a two-year extension which would have lifted his weekly wage from £8,000 to around £16,000 but Goodison Park officials failed to put this revised offer in writing by the mid-May deadline, thereby permitting the midfielder to leave on a free.

His relocation to Newcastle was agreed two weeks ago but was not finalised while Everton debated appealing to the Premier League for compensation after losing him on what they regard as a harsh technicality which enabled Gosling to negotiate a lucrative signing-on fee at St James’ Park. The move has also not gone down well at Plymouth, who would have been entitled to a percentage of any sum Everton made from a future sale.

Gosling, who can play at right-back as well as in midfield, made 22 Premier League appearances for Everton, 13 as a substitute, scoring four goals.

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• Teenager injures liver in freak training-match accident
• Defender lucky to be alive after emergency surgery

Everton’s Shane Duffy is recovering from life-saving surgery after suffering an injury to his liver, the Premier League club has said.

The 18-year-old defender was playing in a practice match for Ireland when he suffered the freak injury. He was treated on the pitch before being taken to Mater hospital in Dublin.

Duffy had emergency surgery to repair a damaged artery, which was causing internal bleeding. The teenager has since been moved from intensive care to a high-dependency ward.

“I would like to thank [the team doctor] Dr Alan Byrne and [team consultant] Prof John O’Byrne for their quick reaction to Shane’s serious injury,” said the Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni.

“As time was critical had they not acted as they did, Shane’s life could have been in more danger than it already was,” he added. “On behalf of the FAI, I would also like to praise Prof Gerry McEntee for conducting the emergency operation and ensuring that Shane was given the best possible attention. Shane is very lucky and we wish him a speedy recovery.”

O’Byrne said he believed the injury would not occur in another 100 years of football, such was its freakish nature.

Duffy, who played for Northern Ireland’s Under-21 side before switching allegiance to Ireland, made his Everton debut against AEK Athens in the Europa League in December.

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