FOOTBALL DIGEST

HUDDERSFIELD have signed Montpellier forward Steve Mounie, 22... STOKE’S Jon Walters, 33, is close to joining Burnley in a deal which could be worth £3million... BRIGHTON are closing on a loan deal for Chelsea striker Izzy Brown, 20... LIONEL MESSI has agreed a new four-year deal at Barcelona... ALEX NEIL is the new manager of Preston. STRIKER Alexandre Lacazette completed his £46million record transfer to Arsenal from Lyon amid comparisons to goal legend Ian Wright. ‘He is a bit like Ian Wright really,’ former Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier told talkSPORT about the 26-year-old France international. ‘You don’t seem to see him and then suddenly he moves. He is very good near the box.’ FORMER Southampton coach Bob Higgins has been charged with 65 counts of indecent assault following an investigation by Hampshire Police into alleged historical child sex abuse involving 23 teenage boys during the 1980s and 1990s. Higgins, 64, will appear before Southampton Magistrates on July 20.

LACAZETTE’S THE ‘NEW WRIGHT’