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Analyzing Leicester’s Summer 2022 Transfer Window Priorities
Last season felt like the inevitable consequence of Leicester City’s failure to take advantage of one of the most open top-four races in recent memory. After winning just one of their final five games, Leicester missed out on Champions League football for the second successive year in 2021. So, when young defender Wesley Fofana…
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Leeds’ Summer So Far and Their Left Back Conundrum
Leeds United kicked off their summer transfer business by recruiting RB Salzburg duo Brenden Aaronson and Rasmus Kristensen, with the creative American midfielder and marauding Danish full-back linking up again with former boss Jesse Marsch. Final day survival, and the riches that retaining their Premier League status follow, has seen the club already look…
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Manchester United’s Hunt for a Long-Term Answer to the Left Back Position
With Manchester United, fans are never sure whether the club will effectively replace a position or not. Gabriel Heinze, Patrice Evra, Dennis Irwin and even Phil Neville, have set the standard of what it means to play left back for the club. Man Utd have struggled to get the best out of their left backs…
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After Returning to the Premier League, How Can Scott Parker’s Cherries Beat the Drop?
Seven out of the last 12 teams promoted to the Premier League have been relegated at the first time of asking over the past four seasons. One of those sides was Scott Parker’s Fulham who were promoted to the top flight via the play-offs, but despite a late survival charge, were immediately sent back to…
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Analyzing Aston Villa’s Productive Start to the Summer 2022 Transfer Window
It was an underwhelming end to the 2021/22 season for Aston Villa. Despite investing heavily across the last two windows, neither Dean Smith nor Steven Gerrard were able to consistently get the best out of one of the most talented squads in the Premier League. Better coached sides like Brentford, Brighton and Crystal Palace…
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Analyzing Manchester United’s Biggest Priorities in the Summer 2022 Transfer Window
In a footballing world where money talks, Manchester United have never been the club to shy away from large value signings, even if it does not work out. Since Sir Alex Ferguson retired from the dugout, the club have spent more than £871m on 20 players alone, not including lower value purchases such as…
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Looking Back on Milan’s Blockbuster Summer 2017 Shopping Spree
As Paolo Maldini lifted the Champions League trophy in 2007, jubilation filled the black and red half of Athens’ Olympic Stadium, as the streets of Milan partied to celebrate their club’s seventh European Cup and their second in just four years. The Rossoneri were at the pinnacle of football, but as they came to realise;…
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Grading Every Premier League Team’s January Transfer Window
Every Premier League team managed to do some sort of move with the expectation to aid them be it now or for the future. While the start of the month and most of it was very quiet the end was actually mental and one move after the other lined up each more fun and…
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BTL’s Winter Transfer Window Recap
It’s easy to miss transfers outside of the Premier League. For every Coutinho to Aston Villa, there’s a David Neres to Shakhtar. Here’s a round-up of the key transfers from everywhere in Europe, in & outside of Europe’s big 5 leagues, across all of January. Let this be your cheat sheet to see who went…
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Four ‘Under-The-Radar’ January Transfers That Could Prove Incredibly Successful
As always during the January transfer window, much of the media focus throughout has been shone on the biggest clubs and players across Europe. From the long drawn-out battle for Serie A wonderkid Dušan Vlahović, a player who now looks set to join Juventus, to Newcastle’s seemingly failed pursuit of defender Diego Carlos, the…
