Stories By Harry De Cosemo
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Could Kylian Mbappe win the Ballon d’Or this year?
When Kylian Mbappe became the youngest World Cup final goalscorer since Pele at Russia 2018, it felt inconceivable he would make it to the age of 27 without winning a Ballon d’Or. Yet, eight years on, the France star is still waiting for the award.
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Transfer Deadline Day chaos exposes the dangers of leaving it late
Transfer Deadline Day is the purest example of what modern football has become. Not only does it perfectly encapsulate the issue of a growing financial disparity within the game, but also the drifting of how central the sport itself is to consumption.
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Can Aston Villa keep pushing forward despite losing key players?
These should be heady days for Aston Villa and their fans. After winning the Europa League and qualifying for the Champions League, theoretically they are in a position of strength from which to build and launch an assault on the Premier League elite, but they can’t.
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Can the promoted teams be competitive in the Premier League this season?
Last season, Sunderland broke the mould. A very concerning pattern had begun to develop at the bottom of the Premier League; in successive seasons, all six promoted teams went straight back to the Championship in a manner that threatened to undermine the competitive balance at the top of English football.
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Premier League set for an unpredictable season
While the best players in the world dream of playing for Real Madrid or Barcelona more often than not, the Premier League has always been regarded as the place the best managers of the modern era work.
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Tottenham’s Transformational Summer Transfer Window
Tottenham Hotspur’s transfer window has been transformational already. When Roberto De Zerbi arrived late last season, there was a sense he was walking into an impossible job, but he turned it around and things are looking up, with work still to do.
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Eddie Howe’s Bittersweet Tyneside Legacy
Every manager who walked into Newcastle United since 1969 did so with the aim of ending the club’s trophy drought. Only Eddie Howe, who left his post on Thursday, can say he succeeded. While it has been a turbulent time over the past year and fan sentiment towards Howe had begun to shift, making the news of his departure perhaps less surprising than it seemed, he cemented his legendary status long before that.
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Why Bruno’s Future Could Define Newcastle’s Project
After finishing 12th in the Premier League last season, Newcastle United were always going to face difficulty this summer. The club’s decision to stick with manager Eddie Howe has, at best, split the fanbase.
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Positive reflections on the World Cup
It was a tough World Cup to endure in some ways, but in others, a critical reminder of what matters in football and can never be taken away. Far from the first edition of FIFA’s showpiece event to be shrouded in controversy – in fact, that happens so often it feels like a prerequisite – 2026 had its own fair share of uplifting stories too.
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Bellingham proves he could be England’s greatest
Jude Bellingham barely had time to timidly take his place in the England dressing room. He has never been a slow burner anywhere he has been. His arrival usually results in the sort of impact reserved for players a decade his senior.
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French dominance in this World Cup is not possible without Olise.
This has been the World Cup of the superstars. Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane, Lionel Messi, Erling Haaland and, belatedly, Cristiano Ronaldo have all shown why they are the main men for their nations and head up the race for the Golden Boot.
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