Football Academy
Written by Art de Roché, Jacob Tanswell and more
Art de Roché, Jacob Tanswell and more It may feel like one season is only just behind us, but already clubs will be looking ahead to 2025-26 as they return for pre-season testing and training, then begin playing warm-up friendlies. Some Premier League clubs will have a host of new signings to bed in, the […]
Written by Laurie Whitwell
Laurie Whitwell Ayden Heaven and his mum, Lisa, are sitting around a table in the dining room of Shrigley Hall, a spa hotel in Cheshire, and giving themselves a moment to reflect on his sharp rise at Manchester United. They think back to his Premier League debut, which came against Arsenal on March 9, little […]
Written by The Athletic UK Staff
The Athletic UK Staff Welcome to the sixth edition of The Athletic’s Transfer DealSheet for the summer 2025 transfer window. Our team of dedicated writers, including David Ornstein, will take you inside the market to explain the deals being worked on. The mini-window ahead of the Club World Cup has come and gone, but the […]
Written by Mark Critchley, Laurie Whitwell and more
Mark Critchley, Laurie Whitwell and more This week marks 20 years since the Glazer family acquired a controlling stake in Manchester United, going on to complete one of the most controversial takeovers in football history. To mark such a significant moment, The Athletic will be running a series of articles and podcasts about the takeover […]
Written by Laurie Whitwell
Laurie Whitwell Leading Manchester United’s academy is no ordinary backroom role. The club’s heritage of developing young talent is unparalleled in English football, so whoever is tasked with running it has expectations which far outweigh those at other clubs. “It’s not a football club, it’s an institution,” says Nicky Butt, who was United’s head of […]
Written by Oliver Kay
Oliver Kay Gianni Infantino has no doubt about it. This Club World Cup, the FIFA president says, represents a “new era of club football”, a “big bang” in the history of the world’s biggest sport. He has been talking in those terms for a while, banging the drum for the expanded Club World Cup with […]
Written by Chris Weatherspoon
Chris Weatherspoon Last year, Chelsea entered into a hefty deal with two days of their 2023-24 accounting period remaining. For £200million ($274m), Chelsea FC Holdings, the company which houses the club’s operations, sold Chelsea Football Club Women Limited (CFCW) to Blueco 22 Midco Limited, a fellow subsidiary of Blueco 22 Limited, the club’s parent company. […]
Written by David Ornstein and more
David Ornstein and more Welcome to the fifth edition of The Athletic’s Transfer DealSheet for the summer 2025 transfer window. Our team of dedicated writers, including David Ornstein, will take you inside the market to explain the deals being worked on. The mini-window ahead of the Club World Cup closed last month, but the regular […]
Written by Michael Cox
Michael Cox The two most fabled decades in English popular culture are, almost without question, the 1960s and the 1990s. Those periods represented peaks for the nation’s two major obsessions: music and football. The 1960s provided the world with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and England winning the World Cup. The 1990s offered Britpop, […]
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 […]
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