Tim Spiers Ah, the summer transfer window of 2024. What a time we all had. Twenty English football clubs spent just shy of £2billion ($2.6bn) on hundreds of humans who are proficient at kicking, heading or catching a bag of wind. Was it all worth it? Probably not. Did we have fun along the way? […]
The Athletic UK Staff The Premier League squads for the new season are out — a month after the campaign began. While the timing may be tardy, there were some intriguing sub-plots around who did — and did not — make the cut. The full squads can be found on the Premier League website, but […]
The Athletic Staff With the new Premier League season getting underway on Friday, The Athletic has selected a young player to watch from each of the 20 top-flight clubs. Some of them you will have heard of, others not — but you can expect all of them to impress this season and kick on in […]
Jacob Whitehead, David Ornstein and more There was less than two minutes until the scheduled 10.30am start time of the Premier League shareholders’ meeting when Newcastle United co-owner Amanda Staveley rushed into The Churchill Hyatt Regency hotel. This was a gathering which had her club at its heart and her arrival fit that narrative — […]
The Athletic UK Staff As the Premier League gets bigger and bigger, so – it seems – do the stadiums that play host to it. The vast majority of clubs in the top flight have either drawn up plans to expand their grounds to service the overwhelming demand or are poised to open gleaming new […]
The Athletic UK Staff However, Douglas Luiz is Villa’s catalyst in midfield, with five goals and constant dependency and he is the player who binds together Emery’s principles, with and without the ball. He has reached a point where he is among the Premier League’s most complete midfielders. Jacob Tanswell Douglas Luiz is developing into […]