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The outgoing manager deserves another WSL title but her replacement will inherit a lot of quality young playersMany will look at Emma Hayes’s 12 years as Chelsea manager and think her lasting legacy is six – potentially seven – Women’s Super League titles, five FA Cups and two League Cups but for me her impact has been felt far beyond west London. By...
Some players need a season to acclimatise to Pep Guardiola’s style and the Premier League’s intensity. Not Gvardiol By Ben McAleer for WhoScoredFootball fans and pundits often use transfer fees as a stick with which to beat players. The higher the fee, the harder they hit. Take Darwin Núñez for example. When Liverpool paid a fee of up to £85m for the...
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Considering he’s spent the best part of a decade carrying Tottenham Hotspur and, more recently, Bayern Munich, it’s small wonder Harry Kane’s back finally gave out in the closing stages of the German side’s Big Cup semi-final defeat at the hands of Real Madrid. With just minutes of the 90 remaining...
Late Champions League semi-final comeback was merely the latest escape act for the Spanish giants led by Carlo AncelottiAt some moment, somewhere amid the mayhem, that symbol of the ridiculousness of Real Madrid returned. The players who had just made another European Cup final had sprinted from one goal to the other, throwing themselves to the floor...
Mikel Arteta thrilled with ‘unique’ player’s short-term contractMidfielder, 32, had been linked to a return to ItalyArsenal have announced that Jorginho has signed a short-term contract extension, with the Italy midfielder believed to have turned down the opportunity to return to Serie A.The 32-year-old has played an important role this season as Arsenal...
Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund booked their spots in the final at Wembley thanks to a pair of unlikely match winnersTwo second legs that both reached a dramatic crescendo, one with late goals, the other with late misses, set up a Wembley final between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund.Goalkeeper: Andriy Lunin, Real Madrid Continue reading...