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Written by The Athletic UK Staff
The Athletic UK Staff The transfer window closed earlier this week. The passing of the deadline brought to an end an extended summer in which Premier League clubs spent £3.11billion ($4.2bn) to improve their squads. There were strikes, big moves and, fundamentally, hundreds of millions of pounds splashed by clubs across the English top flight. […]
Written by Anantaajith Raghuraman
Anantaajith Raghuraman Welcome to the 11th edition of The Alternative Premier League Table, where each Thursday, Anantaajith Raghuraman analyses the entire division through a specific lens. After looking at goal contributions from new faces for each club last week, this edition’s focus is on expected goals against (xGA). As usual, the article that follows is […]
Written by The Athletic UK Staff
The Athletic UK Staff After Chelsea’s win over Spurs at the weekend, Robert Sanchez called his team-mate Moises Caicedo “the best player on the planet in his position”. That comment began a discussion about whether it is Caicedo or Arsenal’s Declan Rice who is the Premier League’s foremost midfielder at present, with a poll of […]
Written by Thom Harris
Thom Harris The coin toss: performative pre-match bureaucracy, or a chance to land an early psychological blow? For most football fans, the 60 seconds leading up to kick-off is a vague time of excitement and contemplation only interrupted by two things; the referee’s whistle or the dreaded, for the match-goer, sight of the goalkeeper picking […]
Written by The Athletic UK Staff
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 […]
Written by The Athletic Staff
The Athletic Staff But as the breakdown shows, both Manchester United and Newcastle United have had the worst luck with injuries this season. This probably explains why both have struggled for form, sitting sixth and seventh in the Premier League table respectively. There is a caveat to this, though, with Manchester United and Newcastle among the […]
Written by The Athletic UK Staff
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 […]
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