The Athletic UK Staff Welcome to a special Black Friday edition of the Transfer DealSheet. Our team of dedicated writers, including David Ornstein, will take you inside the market to explain the deals being worked on for 2025 — across both the winter and summer windows. This includes the players who could arrive and the […]
Laurie Whitwell, Adam Crafton and more Members of Manchester United’s hierarchy doubtless got a sense of deja vu during the executive committee meeting held at INEOS’ London headquarters on October 8. Because it was there, once again, that serious thought was given to sacking Erik ten Hag. It had been a near-identical situation in May, […]
Simon Hughes It was 2019, and the morning after a 3-0 Champions League semi-final first-leg defeat to Lionel Messi’s Barcelona, dazed Liverpool supporters are quietly making their way home through the city’s El Prat airport. At the gate, some of them notice one of the club’s greatest goalscorers sitting alone, his chin nuzzled into his […]
Oliver Kay This is football heritage. A four-word sentence that became a meme after Jose Mourinho said it seven times in a single press conference. This was the opposite of “I prefer not to speak”. It was March 2018 and Manchester United had been beaten at Old Trafford by Sevilla in the Champions League’s first […]