Stories By Harry De Cosemo
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Oviedo Back From the Brink: One Last Miracle from Santi Cazorla
Santi Cazorla is twice a European champion and an FA Cup winner. He is one of Spain’s golden generation, a marvel of a footballer who helped break down barriers. His small, diminutive frame was his springboard to success when the sport, particularly in England where he thrived at Arsenal, was convinced physical prowess was a minimum requirement.
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Spurs Make the Switch to Frank
Whether Ange Postecoglou deserved to be sacked by Spurs or not, Daniel Levy mustn’t have expected such backlash. The media were always likely to be critical because his Europa League victory flipped the narrative on the strangest of seasons in an instant.
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Jadon Sancho is at a career crossroad.
Jadon Sancho was once a trailblazer. In 2017, it was extremely rare to see England players of any age make moves abroad, let alone those looking to take their first steps at senior level. When he signed for Borussia Dortmund from Manchester City as a teenager, he was barely known outside of Etihad campus.
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Unexpected Champions League Finalists
Perhaps this wasn’t the Champions League final most people would have predicted in August, but it is hard to think of two more deserving teams meeting in Munich on Saturday than Paris Saint-Germain and Inter.
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Florian Wirtz could be the perfect player for Man City’s rebuild
Florian Wirtz is the best possible replacement for Kevin De Bruyne at Manchester City this summer. The Germany and Bayer Leverkusen playmaker is both among the best in the world right now, but possesses such potential to achieve so much more than he already has.
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Four years after imploding, Barcelona are back
There is an argument to be made that Barcelona’s Champions League semi-final against Inter is one of the greatest ties in football history. It had everything: goals, drama and the sort of pace many have realised can’t be taken for granted in the modern age.
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Parallel Projects: Amorim and Potter Under Scrutiny
When Ruben Amorim welcomes Graham Potter’s West Ham United to Old Trafford on Sunday, there will be nothing riding on the match. Two of the Premier League’s biggest under-performers will be licking their wounds and fulfilling a fixture neither will really want to play.
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Are Leeds right to consider sacking Farke?
Leeds United are back in the Premier League next season. Whatever anybody thinks of them, it is hard to deny the English top flight is a better, more interesting place with them in it. Few clubs have embodied the words ‘soap opera’ like Leeds, and that has both been to their betterment and detriment over the years.
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Ancelotti a tough act to follow at Real Madrid
For the past year, Carlo Ancelotti’s future at Real Madrid has been an open secret. The Italian has been expected to depart the Santiago Bernabeu this summer, and Bayer Leverkusen’s Xabi Alonso is the man in the frame to replace him.
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Ekitike could prove value to those clubs on the hunt for a striker
This summer, strikers are going to be in high demand. All the top clubs are chasing them; but the trouble is, there aren’t enough to go round. These days, strikers are like gold dust, more so than ever, and the it will be an extremely interesting market, seeing who will go where and for how much.
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De Bruyne: £60m Reject to City’s Greatest Signing
When Kevin de Bruyne signed for Manchester City in the summer of 2015 for £55m, a clip went viral summing up the disrespect he faced at the time. On Sky Sports, presenter Jeff Stelling and pundits Paul Merson, Charlie Nicolas, Phil Thompson and Matt Le Tissier were discussing the fact City had agreed the deal.
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