Having once been a bedrock of a defensive unit that won many titles, Samuel Umtiti has endured a real fall from grace. The France international has rarely been a regular at club or international [...]

Football is a game where star players are quickly replaced by the next young thing. Peaks last for a few years, and it means that players are quickly discarded and replaced by someone more [...]

When FC Barcelona dropped into the UEFA Europa League, the silver lining was they would be outright favourites. At the time, the Catalans looked highly unlikely to make the UEFA Champions League [...]

Ask anyone who watches European football, and they will tell you that Spanish football is among the most technically gifted leagues. Even those fighting relegation tend to have talented players [...]

It will be an end of an era in the summer of 2022 for Real Madrid. Los Blancos are preparing for a change in the squad in a major way, with key arrivals such as Kylian Mbappe expected to arrive [...]

Arriving at Tottenham Hotspur, it was clear that Antonio Conte was doing the club a favour as opposed to the other way around. Wait a short period, and the Italian could easily have landed [...]

If you listen to the people at the very top of the football pyramid, the sport is in trouble. Despite the major clubs in the sport being worth billions, there is always a desire for more. More [...]

Look across the Italian football spectrum, and you would do well to find a player more controversial than Raja Nainggolan. The box to box midfielder made his name with Cagliari, turning the [...]

As one of the best signings of the Marcelo Bielsa era, former Rennes winger Raphinha is the definition of a good deal. The flighty Brazilian has quickly made a big impression in his year-plus at [...]

Having moved from being a potential superpower to a genuine giant of the club game, Paris Saint-Germain have enjoyed incredible power as a club for the last decade. The investment put into the [...]