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Aleksandar Mitrović: Fulham’s Serbian Talisman in Attack
Aleksandar Mitrović is the prototypical number 9, an old-fashioned, physically imposing striker who is capable of holding the ball up with his back to goal and getting into goal-scoring areas. The 27-year-old left his native Serbia in 2013, joining Anderlecht for a then club-record fee of €5 million, with Mitrović spending two seasons in Belgium…
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Robert Lewandowski: How the Polish Forward Can Transform Barça’s Fortunes
Barcelona would begin a new season with the addition of Robert Lewandowski headlining their attack in ushering in a full season for Xavi’s system to take shape. The 34-year-old Polish striker arrived with years of experience and achievements, but after switching from Bundesliga to La Liga for the sum of 42.5 million pounds, it is…
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David Da Costa: Lens’ Portuguese Attacking Midfielder
David Pereira Da Costa, a Portuguese attacking midfielder who has come through the ranks at RC Lens is starting to shine in Ligue 1 of late. David started out in the RC Lens academy and started to rise from the youth teams before being moved into the B team in the 19/20 season. At…
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Lucas Paquetá: What Can the Brazilian Playmaker Bring to West Ham?
If not for his bouncebackability, Lucas Paquetá would not be the player he is today: a senior member of the Brazilian national team and the flashiest signing in West Ham’s history. The 25-year-old arrives in East London following a £36.5 million transfer from Olympique Lyonnais, which could rise to just under £50 million if he…
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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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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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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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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…
