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Gregor Kobel: Dortmund’s Golden Gloved Hero
All hail King Kobel. If the royal label seems slightly exaggerative, this is an assurance that it is not. In a Kobel world, it would be treason to think that Gregor Kobel was not currently one of, if not the best goalkeeper in the world. In a Kobel world, it would be an offence…
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Jan-Niklas Beste: Benfica’s New German Wideman
If you were to reduce Jan-Niklas Beste to a particular position on the left hand side of the football pitch, that would be underselling him. Left-wing, left midfielder, left-wing back – the German can do it all. Off of a great season for Bundesliga newcomers Heidenheim alongside fellow stars Tim Kleindienst and loanee Eren…
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Emile Smith Rowe: A New Beginning for One of Hale End’s Finest Products
After a 14-year spell at his boyhood club, highly rated English midfielder, Emile Smith Rowe has made the switch from North to West London to join Fulham in a club record deal that could rise to £34 million with add-ons. Smith Rowe is one of the success stories from Arsenal’s Hale End Academy, making his…
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Rafa Marín: Spain’s Next Top Center Back
One year after winning their first Scudetto in over three decades, Napoli languished and suffered a dismal 10th-place finish. The Partenopei went through three different managers and missed out on European football entirely, a title defense that will go down in infamy. However, club president Aurelio De Laurentiis and the team’s recruitment department has been…
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Bound by Tactics: The Enigma of James Rodríguez’s Unseen Brilliance
It is woven into the fabric of human nature to ask questions, to seek understanding in a world often resistant to simple explanations. The answers we find can be fascinating, absurd, or even verging on madness. In this spirit, a select group of individuals, self-styled as “football tacticians,” have undertaken the formidable task of quantifying…
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Igor Thiago: Brentford’s Ideal Ivan Toney Replacement, or the Premier League’s Next Wesley Moraes?
Heading into the 2023/24 Premier League season, and in the whole year prior to that, one main question has engulfed all the discussion surrounding Brentford Football Club, how will they replace Ivan Toney? Or, more specifically who will they replace him with. With just a couple of weeks left before the start of the…
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Ibrahim Osman: A Gem in Brighton’s Newly Assembled Arsenal
When it comes to the spotting and development of young talents, not many football clubs do it better than Brighton & Hove Albion, the English side seem to have unearthed another gem in Ghanaian youngster, Ibrahim Osman who joined the club this summer for a fee reported to be in the region of £16 million…
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Mikayil Faye: Barcelona’s Next Global Superstar
Mikayil Faye has been linked with moves to Arsenal, Bayern Munich & Manchester United in the last three months despite never making a senior appearance for Barcelona, why? Let’s find out. Senegal has produced some of the most exciting young talent in world football over the past twenty years, from Sadio Mané and Ismaïla…
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Marc Guiu: Analyzing Chelsea’s Incoming Striker
From Renato Veiga to Caleb Wiley, from Cole Palmer to Enzo Fernández, Chelsea have made a habit of snapping up the best young prospects in world football under the Todd Boehly regime. The latest youngster to take his talents to Stamford Bridge is Marc Guiu, who has arrived on a five-year contract from FC Barcelona…
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Jorgen Strand Larsen: The Next Top Norwegian Striker?
Wolves have had a surprising season after Julen Lopetegui left the club after only a few matches because of his resentment with the board. Nonetheless, Gary O’Neil came along and took the club higher up the table, remaining in the top half of the table for some time, though they ended up finishing 14th with…
