Arsenal offer tantalising glimpse of evolution ahead of a Premier League season defined by revolution
Arsenal thrashed Manchester City 3-0 in the Community Shield and look like they’ll have even more weapons in their, well, arsenal this year.
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Man Utd set to mock our predictions if they sign Baleba to complete their midfield
Manchester United seemed seemed set for an underwhelming window but the prospect of signing Carlos Baleba could drastically change the outlook at Old Trafford…
Keys and Gray Unhinged: 10 most ridiculous quotes (‘If Donald Trump…’) from their podcast return
Richard Keys and Andy Gray are back. After 13 years out in the Middle East they are in London…and talking sh*te.
Joao Palhinha offers Man Utd a midfield compromise they shouldn’t have to make
Man Utd are unwilling to compete for the top midfield targets but inaction is not an option. Joao Palhinha would buy them some time…
The hidden cost of a £75m transfer – who moves Bruno Guimaraes’ sofa to London?
Arsenal paid Newcastle £75m to sign Bruno Guimaraes, but the cost doesn’t end there when moving a player and his family between cities.
Everton are rare beacon of stability but is that really enough?
Everton will have a familiar look in a Premier League season where that marks them as an outlier. So how will they go?
Lads it’s still Chelsea, but they SHOULD be title contenders for three reasons
‘Big club appoints real manager and buys players to improve on-field performance’ shouldn’t raise eyebrows, but at Chelsea it’s a change of pace.
Liverpool and Bezos next? Ranking the first signings of major Premier League takeovers
People who have got a lot of money are not always the best judges of how to spend it as these first signings show.
Man Utd and Rashford fooling nobody while keeping up appearances
Marcus Rashford and Manchester United are back together, but it’ll never work. There is almost no precedent for burying a hatchet this big…
Are football’s greenest signings the ones grown at home?
The most sustainable signing might sometimes be the teenager who has been training a few hundred metres from the first-team dressing room all along.
Vini or no Vini, Arsenal are the only constant amid Premier League flux and should p*ss it
A week in which Arsenal make a transformative signing for their midfield also counts as a slightly disappointing one. They’ve come a long way.
James Trafford is the ‘moonshot’ dream Leeds United signing that can finally heal years of scars
Memories of the summer of 2021 are enough to bring Leeds United fans out in a cold sweat. But 2026 looks so much better.
New-look Newcastle now setting sights so low that even success looks like failure
Newcastle 2.0 appears to be a club busily turning a floor into a ceiling, not so much seeking to curb expectations as crush any lingering ambition or even hope altogether.
Liverpool setting Andoni Iraola up for failure with lack of squad depth
It’s been almost 50 days since Liverpool’s last signing. A couple more injuries, and they could be in bother here.
Will Kobbie Mainoo start for Man Utd after belated £83m midfield investment?
Will Kobbie Mainoo force his way into a Manchester United midfield boosted by £83m of summer investment when he finally returns to training?
Man City, Rodri and the £50m question faced in post-Pep world
What’s more valuable to Manchester City: Rodri for one more potentially injury-disrupted season or £50m in the bank?
Elite athletes fear ‘dystopian’ future for ‘almost unrecognisable’ sport by 2050
Do more footballers need to brave the possible backlash of speaking out in favour of climate action, and against systems that reward silence?
What has Infantino done now? How and why FIFA’s plan must be stopped…
If you hadn’t fully comprehended the cynicism and greed behind Gianni Infantino’s cash grab, here is why the FIFA egg must be stopped…
Ranking the seven most-linked midfielders on how likely Man Utd are to sign them
With Man Utd casting their net wide for a defensive midfielder, we’ve ranked the seven most heavily linked on their prospects of moving to Old Trafford…
What was the 2026 World Cup’s legacy? Proving that relentless expansion is unsustainable…
The 2026 World Cup was a logistical and sustainability nightmare with 48 teams and three hosts, which doesn’t bode well for 2030 and onwards.
Leeds United must get over record fee fear to seize rare James Trafford chance
James Trafford chose Leeds over Newcastle for good reasons and now the England keeper has given the Whites a chance they can’t afford to waste…
Garnacho falling highest to Villa as Emery’s latest redemption project
Aston Villa is becoming a refuge for failing ex-Man Utd wingers, but Unai Emery’s latest redemption project looks as doomed to fail as the last…
Arsenal could offer Tonali money and Bruno Guimaraes may still be a bargain…
The market for midfielders is steaming drunk but Bruno Guimaraes could still be a bargain if Arsenal offered Newcastle another Tonali-type fee…
16 Conclusions on the World Cup final: abysmal Argentina, pathetic Fernandez, brilliant Spain, weird HT show
Spain were laughably deserving winners of a ridiculously American World Cup final against an abysmal Argentina and their childish players.
Argentina and Spain serve up worst World Cup final contender but justice prevails for La Roja
Spain are world champions for the second time but only after one of the most uninspiring, yawn-inducing finals in recent memory.
Chelsea’s transfer priority and ideal signing as Xabi Alonso era begins
Experience will be top of the wishlist for Xabi Alonso as he settles into the Stamford Bridge dugout.
World Cup bronze final: ‘The worst game to play’ is a nonsense and should be binned
The penultimate game of the World Cup is always by far its least important and a waste of time for knackered England and flagging France to reach an outcome few ...
Spurs have spent £229.5m but still need to upgrade on Richarlison, surely?
The question for Spurs is not – for really the first time in living memory – ‘who do they need to sign?’ but ‘who do they still need to sign?’
Where Arsenal need to strengthen to win back-to-back Premier League titles
There is one key area Arsenal need to recruit in if their trophy ambitions are to be realised.
The mistake Man Utd could make with Manu Kone as their missing midfield piece
Manchester United still have a missing piece of the puzzle in their midfield rebuild but if they think Manu Kone can fill it, they’re mistaken.
16 Conclusions on England 1-2 Argentina: Tuchel sack, ‘no regrets’ and a Southgate World Cup semi exit
If Thomas Tuchel is to be given one more tournament with this England squad, he must win it or leave. That was a cowardly surrender against Argentina.
Thomas Tuchel f***s it as Argentina smash England’s bus to end World Cup dream
England are out of the 2026 World Cup after Thomas Tuchel went too far, too early with the defensive gameplan that had served him so well.
This is already England’s second-best men’s World Cup ever even if heroic failure awaits
This is already England’s second best men’s World Cup ever. We’re not sure they’re getting enough credit for that fact.