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Kingsley Coman: Bayern’s French Talisman in Attack
Kingsley Coman had been an opinion divider among Bayern fans for the longest time. His career already has an astonishing 11 league titles, a UEFA Champions League title, a UEFA Nations League title and multiple other cups at the age of just 26. However, despite these accolades, Coman was the type of player who…
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Manchester United – Recruitment Shortlisting – Using Statistical Data
Manchester United, the team who previously were the dominating force of English football have slowly declined post the Sir Alex Ferguson era and have of late dropped to the lowest of lows for as long as most of us can even recall. After a humiliating 4-0 loss away at Brentford, I started to look at…
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The Second Galacticos: Real Madrid’s Blockbuster Summer Transfer Window of 2009
During the early-mid 2000s, Real Madrid became synonymous with one word; Galactico. Under Florentino Perez, Madrid operated a policy of signing one superstar every summer, in a bid to conquer European football and create a Harlem Globetrotters-esque squad of the world’s best. Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, David Beckham and Ronaldo all arrived between 2000…
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Xavi Simons’ New Chapter at PSV Eindhoven
Once one of the biggest talents in FC Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy, Xavi Simons joined French giants Paris Saint-Germain in 2019, where he slowly started to break into the first team last season. He ended up playing 9 matches, providing one assist. The highly-rated prodigy was ‘already’ 19 years old whilst still not…
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NPFL: The Nine-Man Recruitment Committee Setup Aimed at Helping to Oversee Rangers International’s Targets for New Signings
The management of Rangers International have set up a nine-man recruitment committee with the task of helping the seven-time Nigeria professional football league (NPFL) champions Rangers International to acquire quality players and challenge for honours in the upcoming 2022/2023 Football season, the Breakingthelines.com, reports. However, the nine-man recruitment committee is being headed by the…
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Witan Sulaeman: The Indonesian Baby-faced Assassin
Having large, sharp eyes, a big smile, and the messy hair you often see on a child, Witan Sulaeman looks like that cute kid you want to mess around with. These features also earned him the nickname “Baby Shark,” coined by Valentino Simanjuntak, an Indonesian commentator, which often got repeated into oblivion every time Bung…
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Jack Harrison: An England Star in the Making?
For Jack Harrison, the winger’s development has been a gradual process rather than a meteoric rise, owed largely to the manner he conducts himself on and off the pitch. When the then-22-year-old joined the Whites on an initial season-long loan in 2018, the former Liverpool and Manchester United academy prospect was looking to make…
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James McAtee – The Manchester City Teenager Ready to Cut His Teeth in the Championship
At just 19 years of age, James McAtee is already living out his wildest dreams. Featuring in several Cup competitions for Manchester City and even making his Premier League debut off the bench against Everton recently, he’s one player that Pep Guardiola will hope can develop into a starter for City in the years to…
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Jill Scott, Thank You
Every so often a player retires from football, and it hits you just how much they have impacted your love and enjoyment of the game. This happened to me very recently… As the final whistle went at Wembley Stadium, the crowd erupted in sheer relief, it was over. England were European Champions! There is…
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Project Rebuild Through the Youth Ranks: Uncovering Chelsea’s New Italian Talent Cesare Casadei
Roman Abramovich is gone. A marquee in the football business industry and an icon in Chelsea’s revolutionary history. A leadership and management era of almost two decades under the Russian oligarch has come to a halt. It is now time for a new dawn, a new management, a modernized philosophy, and ultimately a different…
