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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 Laurie Whitwell
Laurie Whitwell November 11 marks a year since Ruben Amorim touched down in England and headed to Carrington for his first day as Manchester United head coach. It has been a tumultuous 12 months since, with several lows, some highs, and a recent glimmer of hope, but then again the atmosphere at the club he […]
Written by Jacob Whitehead
Jacob Whitehead “Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football,” wrote Eduardo Galeano, at the age of 55. “And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.” But the […]
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 Oliver Kay
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 […]
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 Philip Buckingham
Philip Buckingham Manchester United and Chelsea share a problem they cannot hope to run away from. Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge might be able to narrate storied chapters of the Premier League’s history, but neither can project a compelling future. At least not in their current states. The famous homes of Manchester United and Chelsea […]
Written by Oliver Kay and Thom Harris
Oliver Kay and Thom Harris Mason Mount likes to challenge himself. Heading to the Netherlands as an 18-year-old, joining Vitesse Arnhem on loan, he set himself a target of 10 goals. He beat it, scoring 14. It was the same on loan at Derby County the following season. He was warned the Championship would be […]
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 […]
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