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  • ‘It’s so depressing’: Manchester United fans open up on club’s malaise

    Liverpool host a disjointed side bereft of form but United supporters are keen to get behind Ruben Amorim

    Manchester United’s recent trips to Liverpool have been gruesome occasions for their supporters. It has been nine years since United last won away at their fiercest rivals and they have failed to score in their past five visits to Anfield, losing 4-0 and 7-0 in that time.

    United fans could be forgiven for plunging to new levels of pessimism for this latest mission to Merseyside, given current circumstances. While Liverpool are streaking clear at the Premier League summit via a seamless transition under Arne Slot, United are staring down the barrel of a fifth successive defeat and a seventh in 12 games under Ruben Amorim.

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  • Arne Slot retains focus on all fronts for visit of fragile Manchester United

    Visitors will offer openings to a Liverpool juggling a four-pronged pursuit of glory with speculation about their stars

    At this stage last season Liverpool had lost once and were top of the Premier League. They scored 12 goals in their first three league games of 2024 to prove their credentials as title challengers before faltering in April and finishing third. They again have an impressive platform but January will test the fortitude of Arne Slot’s side, with eight games in four competitions while the rumour mill churns in the background.

    A dysfunctional Manchester United arrive on Sunday, 23 points behind Liverpool, desperately hoping that against arguably Europe’s best side they can find a way to halt their run of atrocious performances. Anfield is buoyant after a superb start under Slot but beating a great rival, even one in the doldrums, would take the mood even higher.

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  • Arteta rages at Brighton penalty award: ‘I’ve never seen a decision like this’
    • João Pedro won and scored spot-kick in Arsenal draw
    • ‘When you look, you can see contact there [with the ball]’

    Mikel Arteta hit out at Anthony Taylor for awarding the penalty that pegged back Arsenal at Brighton but admitted his side lacked enough “freshness” to hold on for victory. Ethan Nwaneri’s second Premier League goal had given the visitors the lead in the first half but the Arsenal manager was left raging when William Saliba was penalised by Taylor for catching João Pedro in the face as he attempted to head the ball away.

    “I have never seen a decision like this in my career. I asked the boys if they have and nobody has seen it before,” said Arteta. “When you look at the incident, the distance, the player, João touching the ball, then Saliba touching the ball, you can see contact there. I checked [with the officials]. After three seconds they said they had already checked. It seems quick.”

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  • Tuchel’s notebook: what England’s head coach may have learned at Tottenham

    Newcastle duo catch the eye in first Premier League game Thomas Tuchel has attended since contract officially started

    It didn’t take long for the Thomas Tuchel effect to be felt. By the time six minutes had been played at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium under the – seemingly quite grumpy – eye of the new England head coach, two English players had scored with excellent finishes, Dominic Solanke with a plunging header and Anthony Gordon with a calm angled shot. If there were concerns about Gordon’s positioning for Solanke’s goal, they could be excused in the context of a generally excellent defensive performance from Newcastle.

    Nine of the starters were England-qualified, even with James Maddison on the bench. Of most interest to Tuchel, perhaps, would have been a Newcastle pairing with which he is already familiar. It was Tuchel who gave Lewis Hall his full Chelsea debut, starting him on the left of a back three in a 5-1 FA Cup win over Chesterfield in 2022. Later that year, around a month before Tuchel was sacked, Chelsea had a £40m bid for Gordon rejected by Everton. Newcastle’s left flank is the left side Chelsea could have had and the left side England might favour in the future.

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  • Postecoglou ‘angriest I have ever been’ after handball decision costs Spurs
    • ‘With logical thought processes we win that game’
    • Newcastle’s Howe says officials followed protocols

    Ange Postecoglou described himself as “really, really angry”, the “angriest I think I have ever been in my career” that his players were “denied the right rewards for a fantastic performance” after Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat to Newcastle.

    Although he repeatedly refused to specify he was talking about the refereeing and the decision not to rule out Newcastle’s equaliser for handball, there was little doubt what he was referring to. “I think it’s clear,” he said.

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  • Manchester City spank West Ham with Erling Haaland back on song at home

    After Pep Guardiola’s latest mea culpa – “I blame me, not the players,” he said on Friday – Manchester City returned a heady second consecutive win for the first time since late October, and a third successive outing without defeat.

    Under the manager’s own logic he takes credit for a victory decorated by a scintillating Savinho performance, featuring two assists and the forcing of Vladimir Coufal’s own goal, and crowned by Erling Haaland’s second. The Brazilian received the ball in midfield and fed the Norwegian, whose slaloming run was as elegant as the chip over an onrushing Alphonse Areola.

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  • Mateta earns Crystal Palace late draw as Chelsea’s changes fail to improve form

    Chelsea are yet to move on from the title challenge that never was. Carelessness is weighing them down at both ends of the pitch and, as Enzo Maresca left after this draw with a spirited Crystal Palace, he could take little solace in seeing further proof that he was right to insist his team are not ready to compete for major honours.

    For Maresca, the worry must be that this is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. The theory that a young group have eased off after hearing their head coach repeatedly play down their chances of challenging is gaining momentum. Is belief lacking? This is still an inexperienced team and the big takeaway from Chelsea’s latest slip is that they still lack ruthlessness.

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  • Barkley and Bailey lift Aston Villa to extend Leicester’s Christmas nightmare

    Villa Park was quiet, underwhelmed, frustrations boiling over in freezing weather, as Leicester repeatedly broke down the flow of Aston Villa attacks. Ross Barkley’s opener had been cancelled out by a ­counterattack strike that was all part of Ruud van Nistelrooy’s plan. An improved, dogged Leicester, better organised, more disciplined, as they sought to make up for their ruinous Christmas, ended up ruing another very ­preventable goal.

    Just as Barkley’s strike had followed Jannik Vestergaard’s misdirected header, for the winner Jordan Ayew was robbed by Ian Maatsen. Leon Bailey was supplied his first goal of the season.

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  • David Brooks stunner sinks Everton to set club record for Bournemouth

    Bournemouth are continuing to blaze a trail, even in the depths of midwinter. A club record eighth consecutive Premier League match unbeaten also added three more points to their unprecedented tally to this point and all delivered by David Brooks, the cultured forward who retains the heartfelt affection of the Bournemouth support and scored a banger after coming on as substitute.

    Nearly three years after receiving the all clear following treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Brooks remains a bit-part player for the Cherries, but one still trusted by Andoni Iraola to deliver. The Welshman duly did so in the 77th minute, crashing home a cross at the back post to decide a contest of few clear opportunities.

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  • Mbeumo at the double as five-star Brentford thrash sorry Southampton

    Ivan Juric apologised to Southampton supporters after his rock-bottom side allowed Brentford to secure a first away league win of the season in emphatic fashion. Added-time goals from Keane Lewis-Potter and Yoane Wissa completed the hammering and Juric said: “An extremely bad day, a really bad game. There was such a difference between the two teams and I’m disappointed with everything; the team, myself, everybody.”

    Kevin Schade gave Brentford a sixth-minute lead and Bryan Mbeumo’s second-half double – one a penalty – secured the points well before the late goals.

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  • Championship roundup: leaders Leeds drop points in six-goal thriller at Hull
    • Abu Kamara stars as Hull hold Leeds to 3-3 draw
    • Coventry left reeling by two late Norwich goals

    Abu Kamara ended a difficult week with two goals as struggling Hull claimed a breathless 3-3 draw at home to Leeds, the league leaders.

    Kamara apologised on Friday for posting “wrongly timed” emojis on former club Portsmouth’s Instagram account after Hull’s defeat to Middlesbrough on New Year’s Day. But redemption was as satisfying as it was dramatic as he bookended the scoring with a lovely early lob over a stranded Illan Meslier before scoring a precise shot after 89 minutes.

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  • Ruben Amorim shapes up as Manchester United’s fall guy but rot runs deeper | Jonathan Wilson

    Unbending coach takes his side to Liverpool on Sunday, with attempts to kick club on undermined by a decade of misrule

    The thought had always been that it couldn’t happen now. It’s just not possible in modern football that a super-club could be relegated. Manchester United may have gone down in 1974 but it’s not going to happen in 2025. Even when Ruben Amorim said that United were in a relegation battle after Monday’s 2-0 defeat by Newcastle, he was making the point to shock.

    And it’s not going to happen now. United will not be relegated. They probably only need 15 points from the second half of the season to be safe and the financial structure of modern football means there are at least three sides worse than them. Yet it’s significant that Amorim could mention relegation without it sounding entirely absurd, revealing that it feels worth doing the calculation, working out what sort of tally might be necessary for United to survive. What has happened at United since Sir Alex Ferguson left feels like thought experiment made flesh: what would it take for the most successful side in English history to go down?

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  • Parker cheers Burnley ‘bragging rights’ as Flemming header sinks Blackburn

    Winning derbies is not about the quality of performance, it is about the result and Burnley fans will not be complaining after Zian Flemming earned them the points against their bitter rivals in a tight but underwhelming encounter. The significance of the victory was indicated at full-time as the players led raucous celebrations after boosting their promotion ambitions.

    The dire nature of the first hour was forgotten, in the away end at least, when Flemming dived to head home Bashir Humphreys’s cross in front of 4,000 Burnley supporters. It was the first opening of note and the Dutchman should be commended for still being alert after having next to no involvement up to that point.

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  • Lionesses approach Euro 2025 defence with more questions than answers

    Wiegman’s England tread a very different road this year, with squad berths and even the side’s system up for debate

    How do you prepare to scale Everest three years after reaching the summit? You are a different person, your guide may have changed, your equipment may be different, and the route may be weathered, more hazardous and overcrowded. This time, luck may not be on your side.

    There is no single answer as to why Sarina Wiegman’s England triumphed at Wembley in 2022. No easily replicable blueprint for ­success. There were so many variables that could have changed the course of the Euros victory, but everything came together, a perfectly balanced melting pot. Now, all those variables have changed: ­personnel, opposition, preparation.

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  • João Pedro’s penalty for Brighton hurts Arsenal after Saliba heads into trouble

    If Arsenal are serious about winning the title this season then Mikel Arteta may want to rethink his plans for the January transfer market. This was another two points dropped in the race to keep up with pacesetters Liverpool as a contentious penalty from João Pedro cancelled out Ethan Nwaneri’s second Premier League goal. But it could have been even worse had Fabian Hürzeler’s side taken their chances.

    Despite extending their unbeaten run in all competitions to 12 matches, Arsenal have become too reliant on their prowess from set pieces and were hanging on at the end in the face of concerted Brighton pressure. Arteta – who was livid with referee Anthony Taylor for awarding the penalty when William Saliba clashed heads with João Pedro as he attempted to clear the ball away – has so far insisted he is happy with squad at his disposal yet he surely needs reinforcements in attack given the extended absence of talisman Bukayo Saka and other obstacles that are rapidly presenting themselves.

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  • Men’s transfer window January 2025: all deals from Europe’s top five leagues

    All the latest Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A deals and a club-by-club guide

    After financial fair play concerns limited spending last January, this could be a busier window for Europe’s biggest clubs. In the Premier League, Liverpool are flying high but are yet to secure new contracts for Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk or Trent Alexander-Arnold – with all three now able to speak to other clubs about pre-contract agreements.

    Behind them, Arsenal are weighing up whether to boost their attacking options, and Manchester City could recruit a new midfielder with Rodri’s absence derailing their title hopes. Further down the table, Manchester United may need to clear players out before Ruben Amorim can make signings, but Ange Postecoglou is planning to bolster his underachieving Tottenham squad.

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  • Women’s transfer window January 2025: all deals from Europe’s top five leagues

    Every deal in the WSL, Liga F, Frauen-Bundesliga, Première Ligue and Serie A Femminile as well as a club-by-club guide

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  • Barcelona uncertainty goes on as latest request to register Dani Olmo is rejected
    • La Liga and RFEF reject Olmo and Víctor registrations
    • Barcelona likely to take case to Spain’s sports council

    Barcelona have failed in their latest attempt to register the Spain international Dani Olmo for the second half of the season, but are likely to take their case to Spain’s sports council as they continue to challenge the decision.

    On Saturday, La Liga and the Spanish football federation (RFEF) jointly rejected the registrations of Olmo and his teammate Pau Víctor, but the wording of their ruling may open the door for the Catalan club to challenge the rule that prevents them from including the two players in their squad.

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  • Jude Bellingham seals comeback win for 10-man Real Madrid over Valencia

    Late strikes from Luka Modric and Jude Bellingham earned 10-man Real Madrid a 2-1 comeback win at relegation-threatened Valencia on Friday as the visitors moved top of La Liga.

    Real had to fight back after Hugo Duro put Valencia ahead in the 27th minute by tapping into an open goal after Thibaut Courtois had blocked Javi Guerra’s first close-range effort.

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  • Arne Slot trusts Liverpool fans not to turn on Trent Alexander-Arnold
    • Coach confident Madrid interest will not be distraction
    • Liverpool reject £15m Crystal Palace bid for Ben Doak

    Arne Slot believes Real Madrid’s pursuit of Trent Alexander-Arnold will not diminish the Liverpool crowd’s support for the homegrown defender, or prove a distraction, against Manchester United on Sunday.

    Real formalised their interest in Alexander-Arnold this week when making an approach to sign the 26-year-old in the January window. Liverpool rejected the enquiry and made it clear they have no interest in selling the right-back this month, despite the prospect of losing him on a free transfer when his contract expires at the end of the season. Real’s first official move plus the impasse over a new Liverpool contract increases doubt over Alexander-Arnold’s Anfield future. But Slot is confident the bond between Liverpool fans and the player will not be undermined.

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  • Wayne Rooney the manager can’t escape his man-cave or his luminous teenage past | Barney Ronay

    His managerial ability remains unproven, but the old-school energy Rooney represents ensures he is still fondly regarded

    Re-centre your de-centred centre. Thirty-seven new year wellbeing tips on how to simplify your wellbeing tips. I lost seven inches of neck fat without visiting a gym, changing my diet or having any neck fat to begin with.

    The problem with this kind of new year newspaper stuff, the endless weekend articles about how to make yourself feel better, is that it is usually quite complicated. There is a need to understand things, balance your energies, interact with a baffling digital world.

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  • Systems evangelist Amorim meets Slot’s simpler pragmatism at Anfield | Barney Ronay

    Manchester United’s new manager is increasingly looking like an odd hire, especially compared to the successful succession at their arch rivals

    Perhaps the most striking aspect of Ruben Amorim’s time at Manchester United is the physical effect of the job, the altered optics. Amorim turned up at Old Trafford looking like a handsome pirate: the jawline, the seigneurial smile, the elite Euro-cardigan styling, the sense that here is someone who smells at all times of high-spec automobile upholstery.

    Seven weeks in he has the air of a doomed royal hostage, shuttled joylessly from corridor to touchline by unseen handlers. The smile has fractured, the shoulders have drooped. Most recently United’s head coach has developed a habit of dropping down on to his haunches mid-match and staring deep into the Old Trafford turf, as though searching for a) a contact lens; and b) the remaining fragments of his own shredded and tender soul.

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  • One-man battering ram Liam Delap looks a must-keep player for Ipswich

    If striker can help his side towards safety, his value is higher than any offer that may emerge in this transfer window

    By Ben McAleer for WhoScored

    Theirs was a victory more than 20 years in the making. Ipswich rounded off 2024 on a high as they eat Chelsea 2-0 to claim their first Premier League win at Portman Road since 2002. The victory on Monday night was also their first against the Blues since August 1993 as Ipswich closed the gap to a safe position to just one point before Sunday’s trip to Fulham.

    Many expected Ipswich to make a good stab of beating the drop under Kieran McKenna but to ultimately succumb to relegation, such is the gulf between the Championship and the Premier League. However, Ipswich head into 2025 with renewed optimism.

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  • Deal breaker: how time ran out for Barcelona and left Dani Olmo in limbo

    Barça are seasoned in the art of rejigging finances to get transfers done but they have been denied over Olmo and Pau Víctor – for now

    Rarely can a trademark have fitted so well, even if it wasn’t exactly the way Dani Olmo intended it. Not long ago the Barcelona midfielder lodged his own brand with the EU; it includes the goalscoring celebration, borrowed from the Milwaukee Bucks basketball player Damian Lillard, in which he stands pointing at his wrist, asking what time it is.

    Over the past few days, the image has been everywhere and everyone has been asking the same question, staring at their watches, waiting as the seconds tick by. The answer of course is: Olmo Time. Or it was supposed to be.

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  • The characters in the crowd who bring life to non-league football

    You might not know their names but you’ll miss those familiar faces on the terraces once they’re gone

    By Harry Pearson for When Saturday Comes

    Scoreline Man sat a couple of rows down from me at a non-league ground I visit half a dozen times a year. He had a face as crumpled and weather-beaten as an aged conker and always wore the same dove grey, Velcro-fasten, wide-fit loafers. In my mind I called him Cosy Shoe Man. On arrival and departure we nodded to one another, or raised our eyebrows and tilted back our heads in rueful acknowledgement of a scrappy 0-0, or an unfortunate defeat.

    The only time we spoke came after one of those, an egregious 0-3 in which the home side struck the woodwork so often in the second period it was practically a drum roll. “Unlucky,” I said. Cosy Shoe Man pulled a face. “One of those results that in no way reflects the scoreline,” he replied in a low nasal tone. After that I thought of him as Scoreline Man. For a dozen years Scoreline Man was a small fixture in my life. Then one matchday he wasn’t there. He wasn’t there the next time I went either, nor the next and soon his absence had ceased to be noteworthy, a broad loafer print slowly faded.

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  • Football coaches could soon be calling on AI to scout the next superstar

    Technologists claim managers could wish for specific player attributes and AI would suggest perfect youth prospect

    Football coaches desperate to boost their team’s performance could soon find an answer in an artificial intelligence system aimed at conjuring the next superstar.

    A kind of sporting Aladdin’s lamp is within reach, technologists claim, which could allow managers to simply wish for a new player with the aggression of Erling Haaland or the poise of Jude Bellingham and for an AI to suggest the perfect prospect.

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  • The 100 best male footballers in the world 2024

    Rodri has beaten Vinícius Júnior and Erling Haaland to top our ranking of the most talented players in the world this calendar year

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  • Rodri stands tall on top of the world after year of glory and pain

    The Manchester City midfielder becomes the sixth player to top our ranking of the world’s best 100 male footballers

    One of the worst things about seeing Rodri in agony on the pitch against Arsenal in September – and the subsequent news that he had ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament – was that in the buildup to the injury he had criticised the workload being put on players. It was as if he knew something bad was about to happen.

    In April, after an epic 3-3 draw at Real Madrid the Manchester City and Spain midfielder said: “I do need a rest.” He added: “Let’s see how we speak, how we live the situation. Sometimes it is what it is. I need to adjust. It [rest] is something we are planning, yes.”

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  • The 100 best female footballers in the world 2024

    Aitana Bonmatí finishes top of our rankings for a second consecutive year, with Caroline Graham Hansen second and Sophia Smith third

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  • Aitana Bonmatí on top of the world again but England close gap on Spain

    The Spanish midfielder wins for a second consecutive year on a fast-moving list that sees 15 players appearing for the first time

    Aitana Bonmatí emulates her Barcelona and Spain teammate Alexia Putellas and takes back-to-back wins in the Guardian’s 100 best female footballers in the world list.

    The double Ballon d’Or winner received votes from all 99 of this year’s judges, finishing 667 points clear of her club teammate Caroline Graham Hansen, the Norwegian climbing to her highest ranking after a superb individual year for both club and country.

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  • Arteta sings virtues of ‘versatility’ as Arsenal overcome sickness bug to win – video

    Mikel Arteta praised his players’ ­fortitude after a patched-up Arsenal side overcame a sickness bug in the squad to defeat Brentford 3-1 and keep up the pressure on Liverpool. Arteta gave Ethan Nwaneri his first league start more than two years after he became the youngest player in Premier League history at the same ground. The 17-year-old played a part of Arsenal’s second and third goals and Arteta said he deserved his opportunity.

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  • 'Every coach is in danger': Amorim thriving on pressure after latest Manchester United loss – video

    Ruben Amorim knows his job will be at risk if Manchester United's results do not improve but said he enjoys the pressure. 'The manager of Manchester United can never, no matter what, be comfortable, and I know the business that I’m in,' Amorim said after a third consecutive defeat and fifth in seven games. 'You can say I am here one month and I’ve had four training [sessions], but we are not winning. That is the reality and I’m quite comfortable with that.'

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  • 'I was happy the sixth one went in': Slot warns against complacency despite Liverpool win – video

    Arne Slot urged his players to keep their foot on the accelerator after Liverpool extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to four points with a wild 6-3 victory against Tottenham. Although the manager felt his team produced their best attacking performance in an away game under him, he was not happy with a drop in intensity at 5-1 that gave Spurs brief hope of a comeback. The score was pulled back to 5-3 and Liverpool, who ended up capitalising on Chelsea’s draw with Everton earlier in the day, were reminded that they must maintain their focus if they are to win the league.

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  • Amorim says Manchester United players and fans are suffering after Bournemouth defeat – video

    Ruben Amorim said Manchester United's players and fans were 'suffering' after a damaging 3-0 Premier League loss to Bournemouth at Old Trafford. Dean Huijsen exposed United's frailties from set pieces with a first-half header before Justin Kluivert and Antoine Semenyo added goals after the break to secure three points for the visitors

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  • Pep Guardiola defends Haaland after latest Manchester City defeat – video

    Pep Guardiola has defended Manchester City striker Erling Haaland after his team fell to their ninth defeat in 12 matches. CIty have now lost six of their past eight Premier League games following a 2-1 loss to Aston Villa. After the game, in which he failed to find the back of the net, Haaland told TNT Sports that he hadn't been scoring his chances and that he needed to do better.

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  • Own goals and bicycle kicks: the best and worst football moments of 2024 – video

    In 2024 the world of football was filled with incredible skill as well as some unique moments. From stunning strikes to own goals and animals on the pitch, here are some of the most entertaining moments the sport had to offer.

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  • Mikel Oyarzabal: ‘Not going to the World Cup made me win the Euros’

    Euro 2024 champion reflects on sealing Spain’s triumph and how a team without big names were stronger together

    After breakfast on the morning of the Euro 2024 final, a small group of players stayed in the dining room on the first floor of Spain’s hotel on Marlene-Dietrich-Platz and talked. They had sat together most days over the five weeks spent at their Der Öschberghof HQ outside Donaueschingen and all round Germany, from Gelsenkirchen to Düsseldorf, Cologne to Stuttgart and Munich, a bunch of friends chatting about everything and nothing, but 14 July wasn’t most days. Back in Berlin where it had all begun, this was the last. It was also the best day of Mikel Oyarzabal’s life and theirs, too. And somehow they knew.

    “There was some feeling inside,” Oyarzabal recalls five months on, strolling across the pitch at Zubieta, Real Sociedad’s training ground, and into the warmth of a small office. “Álvaro Morata says I’m going to score. Álex Remiro too. And that morning the five of us from la Real were sitting at the table: Remi, [Mikel] Merino, Zubi [Martín Zubimendi], Robin [Le Normand] and me. We would always hang about after eating and chat. I’d been saying it for a while and I said it then: one of us was going to be important, we would have our moment.”

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  • Atalanta show their mettle at Lazio to keep in-form Inter off Serie A summit
    • Marco Brescianini scores in 88th minute to earn 1-1 draw
    • Martínez ends drought in Inter’s 3-0 win at Cagliari

    Atalanta’s 11-match winning streak in Serie A ended with a 1-1 draw at Lazio, but Marco Brescianini’s 88th-minute equaliser kept them top of the table.

    Fourth-placed Lazio dominated the first half in Rome and were rewarded in the 27th minute when Nicolò Rovella played a high through ball to Fisayo Dele-Bashiru, who cut inside the box and sent a bouncing volley into the net to break. But Gian Piero Gasperini’s relentless side kept pushing and earned a draw in a thrilling finish to the game.

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  • Barcelona hope to finally register Dani Olmo after agreeing VIP seating deal
    • Sale of boxes at Camp Nou likely to secure player’s future
    • Barça had to find way to comply with FFP by 31 December

    FC Barcelona have reportedly closed a last-minute €100m (£82.9m) deal to sell VIP boxes at the newly renovated Camp Nou to Middle Eastern investors. The club are hopeful the sale will allow them to meet financial fair play rules and finally extend Dani Olmo’s registration.

    With the deadline for registration just three days away and Barcelona facing the prospect of Olmo leaving as a free agent just six months after joining on a €55m (£45.6m) transfer, the club president Joan Laporta exercised a sale option on Saturday which the club believe will see the first payment made before 31 December.

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  • River Plate women’s players released from prison after arrest for alleged racism
    • Four players were detained after game in São Paulo
    • Match was called off after apparent monkey gesture

    A Brazilian judge has ordered the release from prison of four players from River Plate’s women’s football team, all of whom were arrested over an alleged racial slur during a match against Grêmio.

    Judge Fernando Oliveira Camargo decided to free the Argentinian club’s quartet of Candela Díaz, Camila Duarte, Juana Cángaro and Milagros Díaz, on condition they remain in Brazil and show up at court in São Paulo every month until the case is concluded.

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  • Sporting sack Ruben Amorim’s replacement after just eight games
    • João Pereira sacked on Boxing Day after poor run
    • Rui Borges takes over at Portuguese champions

    Sporting have appointed Rui Borges as head coach, after the Portuguese champions sacked João Pereira on Boxing Day. The new head coach has signed a contract until June 2026, with an option to extend a further year.

    Pereira, who took over after Ruben Amorim’s departure to Manchester United in November, was in charge for eight matches, of which Sporting won just three, enduring successive Champions League defeats and falling to second in the Primeira Liga behind their rivals Benfica.

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  • Atlético's Hitman bursts from Spider’s shadow to end 18-year wait at Barça | Sid Lowe

    Diego Simeone summons Alexander Sørloth from the bench to finish off anyone daring to hold up his title charge

    The first time Diego Simeone met Alexander Sørloth, he told him he had come up with a name for him. “He calls me Hitman, I hope to live up to that,” the Norwegian said, and so when the boss needed a really big job doing this weekend, there he was: 6ft 4in and 15 stone of ice cool striding past the bodies lying at his feet. He had sat in the shadows silently watching, biding his time, working out where the opportunity would arise and he could appear and then, at just the right moment, he did. He had known and now it was done, plan executed to perfection. Sørloth shotgun. “Cold,” Simeone called him.

    There were 23 seconds left on Saturday night when Sørloth scored the goal that beat Barcelona 2-1 at Montjuïc and it had to be him: a single shot, the aim as true as the timing, sending Atlético Madrid to the top of the table, a little bit of history made and title credentials confirmed. It is 13 years since Simeone became coach and he has transformed the club, leaving the Camp Nou in 2014 with a league title that may still be the greatest feat the competition has ever seen, and taking another title seven years later. But he had never actually won a La Liga game against Barcelona there and Atlético had not done so since February 2006, back when Fernando Torres was a player not a plasterer. Sørloth on the other hand had: in 2022-23 he had come with Real Sociedad and scored the second in a 2-1 win, in 2023-24 he had scored in the 99th minute to take Villarreal to victory, and now this. Three years, three clubs, three wins. “I told him: you had to come for us to win here,” Jan Oblak said.

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  • Schick and Wirtz run wild to show only Leverkusen can live with Bayern | Andy Brassell

    Celebrations were dampened by tragedy in Germany but two 5-1 wins left two teams in the Bundesliga title race

    The celebrations were not what they might have been. Bayern Munich had planned a Christmas display after the Friday night game with RB Leipzig, the full stop to their calendar year, which was swiftly cancelled after news filtered through of the awful attacks in Magdeburg, as the club’s CEO, Jan-Christian Dreesen, explained on the pitch at full time. While the mood was understandably dampened, Bayern had said what they wanted to on the field, just as Bayer Leverkusen did later on Saturday. In case you were in any doubt, there are just two to watch in the title race in the second half of the Bundesliga campaign. The team of 2024, and the team that is determined to make 2025 theirs.

    A 5-1 statement by the leaders answered in kind less than 24 hours later by the champions. Leverkusen needed their equally resounding win over Freiburg to keep pace with Bayern after their demolition of RB Leipzig. They also needed it to cut away the rest of the pack, to clarify the title race to come. Never mind the four points by which Leverkusen trail Bayern. It is the five that separate the second-placed Werkself from Eintracht Frankfurt in third, after the latter’s surprise home defeat to Mainz (last week’s conquerors of Bayern), which mean that the table has been adjusted to more reflect reality going into the Winterpause.

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  • Alexander Sørloth stuns Barcelona with last-gasp winner for Atlético Madrid

    They were 95 minutes into the battle that been built as the clash that would decide the title, the final seconds slipping away, when a man who looks for all the world like a norse warrior delivered the decisive blow. Atlético Madrid had suffered, they had resisted and, in truth, they had probably longed for that final whistle to go, and then suddenly Alexander Sørloth thumped in another late winner. In doing so he sent Atlético Madrid top the table at Christmas and their coach, staff and subs sprinting on to the pitch.

    Barcelona’s fans, meanwhile, turned and headed straight for the exit, unable to believe what had just happened. What had happened was this: on a night when they had hit the bar and had more than enough chances to win it, including deep into added time, in which Jan Oblak, the goalkeeper had been the best player on the pitch, with Pedri, they had somehow been beaten. It is the third time in a row that they have lost here in La Liga and the first time they have ever fallen at the hands of a Diego Simeone-led Atlético team and it hurt.

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  • Beyond 2034: can the Saudi Arabia soccer dream truly be sustainable? | Aaron Timms

    The Saudi Pro League could very well be too big and important to Mohammed bin Salman’s plans for his country to fail. But how long can the poorly attended party last?

    Last week’s confirmation that Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup was met with a strangely muted reaction throughout the footballing world – and at the Fifa Congress itself, which took the form of an extended Zoom call. Mostly this was because the announcement itself was a foregone conclusion; with no other countries bidding to host the 2034 tournament, and the vote in favor of the 2030 hosts effectively dependent on simultaneous approval of the Saudis’ 2034 bid, there was little of the fanfare that usually accompanies Fifa’s biggest proclamations, and none of the shock that accompanied the revelation of past World Cup bid winners like Qatar. The debate about the Saudis’ suitability as a World Cup host was lost well before last week’s Fifa Congress; the country’s appalling human rights record and odious history of internal oppression are no secret to Fifa, but football’s peak body brushed all that aside and went ahead with last week’s formalities regardless.

    If the spectacle of Fifa member states raising their hands to applaud over Zoom in support of the Saudis’ 2034 bid felt like a strange way to seal the petro-monarchy’s footballing coronation, however, it’s perhaps because a vague sense has started to come into focus that all is not well with the Saudi sporting project. This is not to suggest that the Saudis will not succeed in holding the 2034 World Cup; the tournament is the showpiece event in crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s long-term initiative to wean the Saudi economy off oil and turn his country into a hub of the global leisure economy, so no expense will be spared in ensuring it is a success.

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  • Age of tactical ideologues is over as Spain dominates new era of pragmatism | Jonathan Wilson

    Coaches such as Arteta, Iraola and Emery play variations of the Guardiola model – flexibility and adaptability are in vogue

    Spain are the European champions. Real Madrid won the Champions League. Rodri won the Ballon d’Or and has only come to seem more important since suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Spanish managers won the Premier League, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 last season. No fewer than five Premier League clubs are managed by Spaniards.

    It has been another year of Spanish domination but the manager who more than anybody has been the architect of what is now considered the Spanish style is facing the biggest crisis of his career.

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  • Why did it come to this with Salah, Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold contracts at Liverpool?

    Stars’ expiring deals are an unnecessary sideshow Arne Slot can feel aggrieved at having to navigate

    Arne Slot dealt with the latest round of questions concerning Liverpool contract extensions, or lack of them, in his usual relaxed, affable manner at West Ham on Sunday. No distractions from the pursuit of the Premier League title, was the gist of his message, along with no firm updates on the Anfield futures of Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander‑Arnold and Virgil van Dijk. It was always thus. Privately, however, Slot could be forgiven for feeling irritated and asking pertinent questions of his own about how Liverpool allowed this unnecessary sideshow to develop.

    No distractions? Liverpool maintained their almost flawless title challenge with a 5-0 away win and both Slot and Salah were, inevitably, asked for contract updates after the game. Alexander-Arnold appeared to reference the talk over a possible move to Real Madrid with his goal celebration during it. Slot is correct in his assertion that internally and out on the pitch, where it matters most, the uncertainty has not distracted Liverpool from their primary objective. Given the outstanding form of the three players in question, it could be argued the prospect of being out of contract at the end of this season has had a galvanising effect. But that is not to make a positive out of a saga that has too often detracted from Slot’s outstanding debut season.

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  • Proposals, tears and flying pies: my life behind the bar on football’s concourses | Honor Pullman

    From the Den to Old Trafford, via Craven Cottage and the Emirates, I saw it all during my years pulling pints for fans

    I was 17 when I started working at football grounds for some extra cash on the weekends. As the youngest of three girls, I could easily have followed my older sisters into a Saturday job at a local cafe. Instead, I signed away my life (and social life) to a hospitality agency, in exchange for a tenner an hour, flexible shifts and a variety of unflattering uniforms.

    As a diehard Hull City fan, I was no stranger to the concourse, but I wasn’t prepared for the trials and tribulations of working in them. From Millwall to Manchester, I’ve seen it all – proposals, tears (mainly my own) and flying pies.

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  • Moving the Goalposts | From the Euros to Canada’s new league: women’s football in 2025

    Controversially postponed Wafcon will finally take place and Brazil will hope to retain Copa América title

    New landmarks, historic wins and the USA gaining Olympic redemption – the last 12 months in the women’s game certainly delivered once again. And 2025 promises to be yet another memorable year as Switzerland host the European Championship, the Africa Cup of Nations finally gets under way and the start of a brand new league brings new hope for Canada.

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  • Football transfer rumours: Núñez to Milan? Arsenal eyeing up Williams?

    Today’s rumours have a striking familiarity

    As each hour ticks by following the bongs of Big Ben, Liverpool fans are ruminating. Their soon-to-be-out-of-contract trio, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk (listed here in order of wantaway-ness according to straw polls/pub chats on Merseyside), are allowed to talk to other clubs. But who and how many? Real Madrid are sniffing around the former – although a July deal looks far more likely – while could no news be good news on Salah and Van Dijk?

    The Egyptian and the Dutchman aren’t giving much away but the same can’t be said of Darwin Núñez. The Uruguayan striker is the subject of strong rumours linking him to Milan and it looks as if the silly sausage has only gone and fuelled them via that classic faux pas: liking a post on social media. Yep, Núñez, it appears, has given the thumbs up emoji to an image of him wearing a Milan shirt; not a mock-up but a real one after he swapped jerseys at the end of Liverpool’s win in San Siro earlier this season. Naturally, internet wags have been quick to suggest that he went to like a different post but missed.

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  • The case for Arsenal’s title challenge and an EFL roundup: Football Weekly Extra - podcast

    Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Mark Langdon and Ali Maxwell as Arsenal win at Brentford to cut Liverpool’s lead at the top

    Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.

    On the podcast today: it’s all quite comfortable for Arsenal at the former fortress Gtech in Brentford. Gabriel Jesus gets back among the goals but with Bukayo Saka out, will Arsenal strengthen in January?

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  • Guess the Premier League season from the nationality of the managers – quiz

    The flags signal the nationality of each club’s manager on the final day of the season in the order the teams finished

    In some places you may see two flags together. The first represents where the manager was born, the second is the nation the manager represented in their playing days.

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  • David Squires on … football’s headline-grabbing acts from 2024

    Our cartoonist on the notable people and eye-catching moments as we wave goodbye to another frantic year

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  • The Football Daily Christmas Awards 2024

    Give the one you love something special: a free subscription to Football Daily. The gift that never starts giving

    Welcome to the third Football Daily Christmas Awards. This is the bit where, in our old guise, we would bang on about becoming so jaded that we’d lost count of how many years we’d been churning out this old tat. Hmm … So OK, here we are, refreshed and ready to go! Pour yourself a pint of wine, throw your boots up on the desk, decompress, de-depress, and enjoy!

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  • Which football teams survived after being bottom at Christmas? | The Knowledge

    Plus: the QPR player signed on Christmas Day, footballers doing panto and more in a festive special

    “How many teams have rallied to survive after being bottom of the English top flight at Christmas?” asks George Jones. “And did any of these clubs do it without sacking a manager.”

    “Nigel Pearson’s great-escaping Leicester City team of 2014-15 fit the bill – and then some, since as per George’s follow-up question, he survived the entire season (though not much longer),” writes Jack Hayward, who has gone above and beyond in answering this question. “On Christmas Day 2014, the Foxes were bottom of the Premier League, with only two wins and 10 points. They were still bottom as late as 18 April, when a 2-0 win over Swansea, plus QPR and Burnley dropping points, lifted them into 18th. A few weeks later, they had finished a lofty 14th and laid the foundation for the most extraordinary story in English top-flight history.

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  • Moving the Goalposts | ‘It will be magical’: Gibraltar Women ready to rock in competitive debut

    They only have a pool of 60 players to choose from, but the team are getting set to roll in the Women’s Nations League

    “It’s one of those things that you don’t look back on until it’s gone,” the Gibraltar Women’s manager, Scott Wiseman, tells Moving the Goalposts. “One thing we say to the girls is to just go out there and enjoy every moment because you never know when it is going to be your last. You know when it’s your first … and you’re never going to get this moment again.”

    The date of 21 February 2025 will soon be one etched into the young history of Gibraltar’s national women’s team. When the players step out on to the pitch in Moldova to begin their inaugural Women’s Nations League campaign, they will be playing in their nation’s first ever competitive women’s fixture.

    This is an extract from our free weekly email, Moving the Goalposts. To get the full edition, visit this page and follow the instructions.

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  • The Guardian Footballer of the Year Sofie Junge Pedersen: ‘We wanted to send a message’

    The Inter and Denmark player wins the award for her climate activism and being behind an open letter to Fifa regarding Saudi Arabia’s human rights issues

    The Guardian Footballer of the Year is an award given to a player who has done something remarkable, whether by overcoming adversity, helping others or setting a sporting example by acting with exceptional honesty.

    If the football had not worked out, perhaps Sofie Junge Pedersen could have run away to the circus. When her after-school youth club in Aarhus put on its annual week of performances there was one challenge that struck her in particular: the chance to juggle with fire torches and mock knives. “It was quite serious,” she laughs. “We practised a lot beforehand and I thought it would be fun. I just wanted to be the best.” So it proved and there is no evidence that anyone has beaten the time she set, aged 13, for keeping the two airborne simultaneously.

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  • Which Thomas Tuchel will turn up on his first day as England manager?

    The coach is faced with the difficult task of preserving Gareth Southgate’s legacy of unity while also turning the team into one that can end a 60-year trophy drought

    Volker Kersting, Mainz academy director, sighed. Thomas Tuchel, as of Wednesday England’s new manager, had that look in his eyes. “He just said, ‘Volker’ and I knew what was coming,” Kersting said in Rulebreaker, the Tuchel biography by Daniel Meuren and Tobias Schächter. “I’d been dreading it. He really wanted to go up the mountain and dig up that pin.”

    “The pin” was a grubby, small Mainz badge which during a summer pre-season training trip in Austria for Tuchel’s then Mainz under-19s team had assumed almost sanctified status. Alongside four-hour training sessions – something of a shock for teenagers – Tuchel also displayed the gift for team bonding that he will require for the England job. One day in Austria, Tuchel insisted the whole squad hire mountain bikes and ride to the summit of the Simmering mountain, where they had lunch and admired the beautiful views before the head coach demonstrated his rhetorical powers, using the moment to tell the team that their goal was to win the league, something never achieved previously by Mainz’s youngsters. Tuchel wanted a ceremony to mark the covenant between team and coach so made do with Kersting’s Mainz badge, which was solemnly wrapped in a Snickers wrapper and buried at the mountain top. “When we reach our final, we will return to dig up our treasure!” Tuchel told them.

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  • Reds bedevilled: Manchester United’s miserable 2024, month-by-month

    Erik ten Hag salvaged a sorry season with FA Cup glory but Ruben Amorim has so far overseen even worse results

    8 Jan, Wigan (a), FA Cup, 2-0 win; 14 Jan, Tottenham (h) 2-2 draw; 28 Jan, Newport County (a), FA Cup, 4-2 win

    1 Feb, Wolves (a), 4-3 win; 4 Feb, West Ham (h), 3-0 win; 11 Feb, Aston Villa (a), 2-1 win; 18 Feb, Luton (a) 2-1 win; 24 Feb, Fulham (h), 2-1 defeat; 28 Feb, Nottingham Forest (a), FA Cup, 1-0 win

    3 Mar, Manchester City (a), 3-1 defeat; 9 Mar, Everton (h), 2-0 win; 17 Mar, Liverpool (h) FA Cup, 4-3 win (aet); 30 Mar, Brentford (a), 1-1 draw

    4 Apr, Chelsea (a), 4-3 defeat; 7 Apr, Liverpool (h), 2-2 draw; 13 Apr, Bournemouth (a) 2-2 draw; 21 Apr, Coventry, FA Cup, 3-3 (aet; win 4-2 on pens); 24 Apr, Sheffield United (h) 4-2 win; 27 Apr, Burnley (h), 1-1 draw

    6 May, Crystal Palace (a), 4-0 defeat; 12 May, Arsenal (h), 1-0 defeat; 15 May, Newcastle (h) 3-2 win; 19 May, Brighton (a) 2-0 win; 25 May, Manchester City, FA Cup final, 2-1 win

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  • Goals of the year: long-range stunners, joyful skills and outrageous finishes

    From thunderbolts to delicate dinks, chips and flicks, via team goals and more – enjoy our pick of 2024’s best goals

    Here’s a sublime wallop from just inside his own half by Heracles’ Mario Engels against Ajax on 21 October. Unfortunately his side let their lead slip and lost 4-3.

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  • Next Generation 2024: 60 of the best young talents in world football

    From Franco Mastantuono to Estêvão, we select some of the most talented players born in 2007. Check the progress of our classes of 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 … and look at the editions from further back

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  • Next Generation 2024: 20 of the best talents at Premier League clubs

    We pick the best youngsters at each club born between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008, an age band known as first-year scholars. Check the progress of our classes of 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 … and look at the editions from further back

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  • Next Generation 2023: 60 of the best young talents in world football

    From Warren Zaïre-Emery to Endrick, we select some of the best players born in 2006. Check the progress of our classes of 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018

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  • Gianluca Busio, Gio Reyna and the rest of Next Generation 2019: how have they got on?

    The two Americans were on our list five years ago but their paths show the professional game is rarely straightforward

    Career paths are rarely straightforward, whether in football or any other area of life. Circumstances often change. Injuries and illnesses happen, there are often changes in leadership which have an impact on the individual while personal lives also play a part.

    Career paths are therefore very difficult to predict. Looking down the list of our 2019 Next Generation, which we have now followed for five years, there were no guarantees any of the players would become household names. OK, Alex Holiga, who covers the Balkans for us, was confident that Josko Gvardiol would make it big – which he has – but apart from him, and perhaps Ansu Fati, Eduardo Camavinga and Jérémy Doku, there were no certainties.

    A remarkable year for the youngster. Made his Bundesliga debut on 18 January and has not looked back since. He now has 23 first-team appearances and has established himself as a starter and one of the most talented young players in Europe. “I’m still learning a lot tactically,” he said in August. “There is a very big difference between youth and professional football. Making the right movements and creating space for myself and others is what I still need to learn the most.

    A tumultuous year for the young American who was caught in the crossfire of a feud between his own family and the USMNT coach, Gregg Berhalter, after the World Cup, during which he played a mere 52 minutes of the US’s four games. Injuries have once again hampered him but he is back to full fitness now and a US return seems likely too after talks with Berhalter.

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