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Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
The “art of defending” is something pundits like to claim has been lost in recent years.
Whilst some “street-wise” elements may have left the game, along with changes in how games are managed by referees, defending now is arguably far more intricate than ever before.
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Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Nayef Aguerd is a 29-year-old centre-back playing for Real Sociedad on loan from West Ham United.
With his loan period coming to an end this summer, Aguerd has been linked with many teams wanting to secure his services.
One of the most interested teams who are pushing to get a deal with the Irons are the Italian side, Juventus.
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Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Joan García’s arrival at Barcelona has reignited interest in the club’s long-running goalkeeping dilemma.
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Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
After being linked for a long time, Arsenal will finally confirm the signing of Real Sociedad midfielder Martín Zubimendi.
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Friday Jun 20, 2025
Friday Jun 20, 2025
If you had asked 100 German football fans in 2018 if they knew SV Elversberg, the majority would have had no clue about the small club from the Saarland, a region close to the French border in Germany.
In October 2018, the club made two huge decisions that would shape its future.
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Friday Jun 20, 2025
Friday Jun 20, 2025
The Xabi Alonso era at Real Madrid did not get off to the best of starts, but there were some promising signs in their opening match of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup against Al-Hilal.
Of course, we have to sit back and remember this is a Club World Cup, and the players, for lack of a better term, looked exhausted playing in the extreme humidity of Miami in June.
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Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
AC Milan are said to be in advanced talks with Granit Xhaka of Bayer Leverkusen.
The 32-year-old midfielder looks likely to play in Serie A for the first time, knowing that AS Roma showed interest in 2021, but Arsenal rejected the offer.
Xhaka is an experienced midfielder who has already had a very rich and adventurous football career.
He started his senior career at FC Basel from 2010 to 2012 and then moved to Bundesliga side Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he stayed until 2016.
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Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
After finishing his playing career a year and a half ago, former Deportivo La Coruña, Atlético Madrid, and Chelsea defender Filipe Luís began a new journey in coaching with the youth teams of Flamengo, his final club.
Luís quickly made an impression on the sidelines with Mengão.
The 39-year-old went on to replace former Brazil boss Tite last September, less than a year after he retired with Flamengo.
After playing 11 games of their 2025 Brazilian Série A campaign, Flamengo sit top of the league table on 24 points.
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Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tottenham Hotspur have announced the appointment of Thomas Frank as their new Head Coach, with a contract running until 2028.
Keith Andrews, who worked with Thomas Frank as Brentford‘s set-piece coach, is a leading candidate to replace Thomas Frank as head coach.
He has helped Brentford achieve a good set-piece performance in the previous season in both attacking and defending aspects.
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Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Thiago Almada floats across the pitch like any playmaker raised in the Rioplatense school.
He manages tight spaces, has lightning‑quick changes of pace, uses pauses as synonymous with rhythm, and delivers sharp passes (with a broad range of them).
However, despite floating and possessing the traits of a classic Argentine No. 10, his movements and runs are outside (or actually a fusion of all) those of No. 10s like Juan Román Riquelme, Pablo Aimar, Javier Pastore or the Lionel Messi of Qatar 2022.
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