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Tyler Adams: The American Midfielder Headed For Elland Road
After selling Kalvin Phillips to Manchester City at the start of the month, Leeds United were in desperate need of a central midfielder and found their match in United States international Tyler Adams. The 23-year-old joined the West Yorkshire club in a £20 million transfer from RB Leipzig, reuniting with his first senior coach and…
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Oleksandr Zinchenko: What the Ukrainian Jack-Of-All-Trades Can Provide Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal
Mikel Arteta was dealt a huge blow when Arsenal missed out on not one but two primary transfer targets Raphinha and Lisandro Martinez. Arsenal have since been continuing their transfer business at a more deliberate pace, in contrast to the initial rush of activity to bring Fabio Vieira and Gabriel Jesus to the club. …
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Erling Haaland and Darwin Nunez: The Two Young Sharpshooters Headed for the Premier League
Football is a weird old sport. For all its innovations, it seems like the sport cannot escape from its tried and tested methods. According to the Twitterverse and pundits, it seems like every year there is the “death” of something within football. From total football, tiki-taka and number 10s, it seems like something always…
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Eddie Howe: The Man Who Has Awoken One of England’s Sleeping Giants
After one of the most long-winded takeovers in Premier League history, Amanda Staveley and the PIF of Saudi Arabia completed their takeover of one of England’s sleeping giants, Newcastle United. The city was elated, St James’ Park was to become the city’s largest party scene for the next 24 hours and swiftly the rumour…
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Luis Campos and PSG: An Uneasy Combination With Tremendous Potential
In an effort to reduce wasteful spending and ensure long-term stability both on and off the pitch, many football clubs have embraced the sporting director model. Rather than a head coach and owner enjoying primary control over scouting, recruitment, and player development, specialized personnel and departments are now devoted to focusing on such tasks. …
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La Revolució: Under the Skin of Diego Martínez’s Biggest Challenge at Espanyol
The marvellous minority. It is the moniker that has embodied Espanyol for most of its existence. More recently, it’s the term the club took to using for their marketing campaigns, and it’s in the very stone of their identity. The phrase itself acknowledges the ‘other’; the all-consuming presence of a despised rival. Four Copa…
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Can Forest Green Deal With the Step up in Quality in League One?
The magic carpet ride through the football pyramid continues for Forest Green Rovers who, after winning League Two last season on a dramatic final day, will ply their trade in the third tier, the highest division the club has ever been in, in their history. The Gloucestershire outfit, who pride themselves on their modern…
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Ben Davies: Rangers’ New Recruit in Defense
One year and a half after leaving boyhood club Preston North End for Liverpool, Ben Davies has joined Europa League finalists Rangers for £4 million and will play in European competition for the first time in his career at Ibrox, where he’ll attempt to fill a Calvin Bassey-sized hole in defense. Born in Barrow-in-Furness,…
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How Digital Media Is Replicating the “Underdog Effect” Found in Football
Let’s face it, supporting a team that expects to lose before every match isn’t exactly a popular thing to do. There has to be a whole background and context that explains this unusual behavior, and even more so if the team competes against the favorites, the usual suspects, the real deal. There’s a kind…
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Crystal Palace and Patrick Vieira – Overachievers with a Big Future
In what has been a truly great Premier League season, one of final day ecstasy for Manchester City but agony for Liverpool and Burnley, you would be forgiven for overlooking the overachievement of clubs not fighting at the pinnacle of the table or even for continental qualification. But in the case of Crystal Palace, it…
