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Argues for sports field primarily offering many, many goals (10)

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I believe the answer is:

recommends

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'argues' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'sports field primarily offering many many goals' is the wordplay.
'sports field' becomes 'rec' (short for recreation ground).
'primarily' indicates taking the first letters.
'goals' becomes 'ends' ('end' can be a synonym of 'goal').
The initial letters of 'offering many many' is 'omm'.
'rec'+'omm'+'ends'='RECOMMENDS'

'for' is the link.

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(Another definition for recommends that I've seen is " Proposes".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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