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Man City, Chelsea or Man Utd. Who Will Panic First?
A 2-5 defeat at home, shipping three goals to relegation certainties WBA and with just one win from their opening three matches despite splurging £200m+ on new recruits or requiring a beyond-the-last-minute penalty kick to sneak victory having been battered … Continue reading
Transfer Market Winners….so far
Who will be the most inspired signing in the coming English Premier League season? Chelsea have spent big on German duo Timo Werner and Kai Havertz, but could veteran Thiago Silva provide much-needed defensive solidity? Champions Liverpool have been relatively … Continue reading
Manchester United: A Need to Sell as well as Buy….
It’s fair to say that having spent almost £200M over the last twelve months recruiting Harry Maguire – the World’s most expensive defender – Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Bruno Fernandes, most people outside of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s immediate family would have … Continue reading
Pulisic Capture may prove Hazard-ous for Chelsea….
Chelsea’s capture of USA starlet Christian Pulisic from Borussia Dortmund is surely the clearest indication yet of the Blues’ resignation to the impending departure of talisman Eden Hazard at the end of the season. Real Madrid have spent the last … Continue reading
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Lets Wait Before Hailing Solskjaer the New Messiah….
The British media have never been ones to willingly dismiss an opportunity to wax lyrical over all things Manchester United, but even by their standards the communal orgy of hyperbole surrounding Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s impact at Old Trafford has swollen … Continue reading
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Tagged city, england, epl, football, man utd, manchester, mourinho, pogba, premier league, soccer, solskjaer, united
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Solskjaer’s Mission Impossible – What exactly are his objectives? And how…?
A largely uneventful week at Old Trafford culminates with an intriguing English Premier League encounter with Cardiff City. In many ways Man Utd will be keen to direct focus back towards the pitch, but for the newly-appointed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer … Continue reading
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Tagged champions league, ecl, england, epl, europe, football, man utd, manchester, mourinho, premier league, soccer, solskjaer, united
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Mourinho – Where Next For Man Utd?
So it was with a collective sigh of despondency that the upper-echelons of the English Premier League greeted the inevitable news of Jose Mourinho’s demise at Manchester Utd. Such was the chaotic shambles enveloping the Old Trafford club under the … Continue reading
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FIFA World Cup 2018 Countdown….
Smothered beneath a murky cloud of political election propaganda, espionage, counter-claims, diplomatic tit-for-tat and chemical nerve agent plots worthy of a James Bond novel, it is difficult to believe that in a mere 83 days the iron curtain will rise … Continue reading
Mo Salah – Lala LaLa La….The Greatest African Player?
Rumours abound that the appalling spitting incident involving TV pundit Jamie Carragher was actually a delayed reaction to the bold assertion from his fellow Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard that Mohammad Salah was the greatest African player to grace the English … Continue reading
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