Stories By Harry De Cosemo
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Moyes, despite his successes, still divides opinion at West Ham
It is a tale as old as time. Football fans, frustrated with aspects of the way their club is working or performing despite a good league position, call for change, only to be lambasted as ungrateful by the media and others looking in from the outside.
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Cooper’s legacy and what’s next for Forest
If you walk through Leeds city centre, you’ll see lasting evidence of Marcelo Bielsa’s impact on the club. There is a street named after him and a mural in his honour. His relationship with the supporters, having made the area his home for three and a half years, was immortalised.
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Pochettino, does he deserve more criticism?
In the least surprising twist of the season so far, Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino finds himself under pressure at Stamford Bridge. There are two main reasons why; because his team currently reside in the bottom half of the Premier League, used to be in charge of Tottenham Hotspur.
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Robert Lewandowski struggling to find the form of last season
Finding an identity in the post-Lionel Messi era was always going to be difficult for Barcelona. It would be unjust and untrue to say the Argentine became bigger than the club, but he was certainly the glue that kept everything together as the crippling financial reality began to take hold.
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Lewis Miley has a bright future at Newcastle
Most 17-year-olds spend their weekends having fun with their friends and weekdays stressing over exams. Newcastle United’s Lewis Miley has spent the last week dominating top European midfielders and showing his quality to the world.
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Lukaku may be back to his best after a complicated career so far
Romelu Lukaku has angered a lot of people in recent years. To others, he’s become a bit of a joke. At 30, the Belgian striker is not suffering the sort of decline many others have at a similar point in their careers, but he is also facing questions about his overall legacy and whether he has fulfilled his potential.
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Jackson showing signs of becoming a key player for Chelsea
The spotlight was always going to be on Chelsea’s attack this season. Successful strikers over the last 20 years, since Roman Abramovich arrived to elevate the club into one of the biggest and best in Europe, have been hard to come by.
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Dortmund prove a point with victories over Newcastle
Before Newcastle United came to town on Tuesday, the local press were scathing of the ‘crisis’ developing at Borussia Dortmund. A 4-0 home defeat to Bayern Munich in Der Klassiker on Saturday was never going to go down well, and the pressure was heavy going into a Champions League tie that could prove crucial for the direction of Group F as a whole.
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Szoboszlai’s impact a big part of Liverpool’s reboot
Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool reached a crossroads in the summer. Expectations around the Reds have skyrocketed since the German arrived in October 2015, and for the first time last season, everybody fell short.
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What’s next for Real Madrid and Ancelotti when they part ways?
Carlo Ancelotti has never discussed his future, but it feels as though the Real Madrid boss’ next move may now be an open secret. Brazil are looking for a new permanent manager and there are heavy whispers that Ancelotti will be that man once his commitments to the Spanish giants are finished at the end of the current season.
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Watching Sancho’s career trajectory has been sad and frustrating
The midst of an international break is perhaps when the sad reality of Jadon Sancho’s career stasis is most profound. During his four-year spell will Borussia Dortmund, Sancho looked every bit a player capable of leading one of England’s most exciting generations of players in many a year.
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