Stories By Harry De Cosemo
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Newcastle United should learn lessons from the past after takeover
We didn’t need the Saudi Arabian-backed takeover of Newcastle United to tell us English football is obsessed with money. But now it is clear than ever just how little it cares about anything else. Over the 18 months since the prospective deal for Amanda Staveley’s consortium — 80% financed by the Saudi Public Investment Fund — to buy Newcastle United was agreed, debates rumbled on and it was delayed to the point many people thought it would never happen.
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Federico Chiesa leading resurgence of Italian football
How have Italy turned into an international superpower again all of a sudden? It was in November 2017 when Italian football reached its nadir, as Sweden celebrated with unbridled joy and disbelief at Milan’s San Siro.
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Selective memories prompting talk of Tottenham rehiring Pochettino
The memory is a funny thing and, after a while, becomes selective. Mauricio Pochettino left Tottenham Hotspur in late 2019, and nobody stood in his way. It was a sad end but a necessary end. He turned them into title contenders and, a few months before departing, led them to the Champions League final.
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Phil Jones shows that football still has a long way to go on mental health
Phil Jones was the man Blackburn Rovers believed could replace John Terry as an England stalwart. Upon signing him for Manchester United in the summer of 2011, Sir Alex Ferguson, who would go on to state he coached just four world class players in 27 years at Old Trafford, said he could be the greatest player in the club’s history.
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James Rodriguez could have been so much more at Everton
James Rodriguez and Everton always had an air of summer romance about it. His arrival was the best way to encapsulate the buzz and clamour surrounding Carlo Ancelotti’s version of the Toffees. A big star with an even bigger social media following and image, particularly in his home nation of Colombia, but with the need himself to kickstart his career.
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Future is bright for Dortmund star Jude Bellingham
There is a reason Jude Bellingham wears the number 22 and always has done. It sums up his style, and why he is perhaps the brightest of a line of young England stars. “He said he wanted to be a No 10.
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Sean Dyche hasn’t outgrown Burnley just yet
There is a gruff, hard exterior to Sean Dyche which makes him easy to stereotype. If you watched Burnley and witnessed James Tarkowski letting Richarlison ‘know he was there’ at Goodison Park on Monday night, it’s hard to stop that initial assumption becoming accepted as fact.
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Steve Bruce outburst shows how out of touch he truly is
Steve Bruce glared ominously, sighed with exasperation and launched a tirade against the local press. Newcastle United had just been beaten 4-1 by Manchester United in a match nobody realised they’d be playing in.
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Steve Bruce continues to waste Miguel Almiron
When Miguel Almiron arrived at Newcastle United in January 2019, it felt like a seminal moment in more ways than one. Rafael Benitez’s long, political stand off with owner Mike Ashley was coming to a head and there were a number of deep disagreements between the pair over how Newcastle should operate, with Benitez joining the fans in publicly, albeit subtly, questioning Ashley’s ambition.
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Amid Kane saga, Spurs fans should be grateful for Son
Harry Kane’s attempts to leave Spurs were incredibly shortsighted and shed new light on his character. Whichever way it can be spun, it was far from exemplary behaviour for the captain of the national team and an apparent beacon of professionalism.
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Brighton continue Premier League progress under Graham Potter
Brighton were among the most talked about and polarising clubs in the Premier League last season. There is a school of thought, particularly among a certain generation in the football industry, that clubs of a certain size should be happy with simply existing in the Premier League.
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