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Crystal Palace are heading in the right direction under Oliver Glasner
It’s too late for Crystal Palace to achieve anything meaningful beyond Premier League survival this season, but the signs are that the Eagles are preparing for an extremely positive 2024/25 campaign.
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Chelsea should now follow Arsenal’s example
Midway through last month’s Premier League match away to Brentford, the sentiment against Mauricio Pochettino turned amongst the Chelsea support. En masse, the Blues’ supporters chanted in a way that made clear in no uncertain terms their desire to see the Argentinean leave Stamford Bridge sooner rather than later.
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FA Cup changes favour elite clubs over lower leagues again
Over recent years, football’s divide between the elite and lower leagues has only grown. From the European Super League, to ‘Project Big Picture’, when the top club’s in England attempted to radically alter the power structure in the game during the COVID pandemic, there are far too many examples of the game losing what it was created with in the first place: a fierce community spirit.
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Gvardiol is finally finding his feet as Man City’s next level defender
Nobody expected Josko Gvardiol to find the far corner of the net when he received a pass from Jack Grealish on the edge of the box against Real Madrid last week. Had it not been for a somewhat loose first touch, the Croatian might not have got his strike away, but Gvardiol’s finish was one of the standout moments of a thrilling Champions League quarter-final first leg.
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Is Xavi right to depart the talented new generation at Barcelona?
Barcelona’s Champions League quarter-final win away to Paris Saint-Germain last week offered a microcosm of the Catalans’ season as a whole to date. Their defensive flaws were exposed at times by Kylian Mbappe and co.
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Joelinton signs new contract at Newcastle
Last season, when Newcastle United qualified for the Champions League, Brazilian midfielder Joelinton played 32 league games, missing just six. Hollywood might call his turnaround on Tyneside too idealistic.
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Xabi Alonso has shaped Leverkusen into the perfect modern team.
Xabi Alonso’s decision to stay at Bayer Leverkusen caught many by surprise. The Spaniard had been strongly linked with both Bayern Munich and Liverpool. Widely seen as the best young manager working in European football right now, most expected Alonso to take the next step in his career this summer.
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Bellingham has become a driving force for Real Madrid.
Manchester City thumped Real Madrid in last season’s Champions League semi-finals. Indeed, Pep Guardiola’s team claimed a 5-1 aggregate win over the Spanish giants on their way to being crowned European champions for the first time.
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Rodrigo Muniz has emerged as the newest star at Fulham
When Aleksandar Mitrovic departed Fulham in the summer, manager Marco Silva was far from happy. His talisman, top scorer and most consistent performer, who had lit up Craven Cottage since his arrival from Newcastle in 2018, left rather acrimoniously for Saudi Arabia.
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Mac Allister the perfect midfielder for Liverpool in the post-Klopp era
Liverpool knew they were getting a good player in Alexis Mac Allister, but not this good a player. The midfielder had shone for Brighton and was part of the Argentina team that won the 2022 World Cup.
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