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After months of debate, the Saudi Public Investment Fund will not be purchasing Newcastle United. The Saudi Public Investment Fund (SPIF), led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has announced that they are pulling out of their attempts to buy the Premier League team. The Saudis are reportedly annoyed that the Premier League spent so…
The transfer window is open, and while some teams have been very quiet, others haven’t. Norwich City have already started recruiting young players to prepare for Championship soccer next season, like Sunderland’s Bali Mumba. Others are preparing to maybe make a splash like Brighton, who signed Liverpool veteran Adam Lallana for free and have funds…
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The schedule for the 2022 Qatar World Cup has been announced. The tournament will start in November of 2022, which means that the qualifiers will be more condensed than usual. The North American qualifiers have announced a new format that starts in October, but the group stages of those qualifiers have not been announced yet….
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It’s quiz time again! The Premier League, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, and La Liga seasons are finished, and with two games remaining the winner of Serie A has been confirmed. How many of these title winners do you know? What did you get? Please make sure to let us know! Image Courtesy of Axel Schwenke /…
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After the restart of the Premier League I wrote an article about the relegation candidates. You can find that here, but while much of what I predicted ultimately came true, some didn’t. Watford sacked Nigel Pearson with two games remaining in a move that made no sense, and still got relegated. Aston Villa managed to…
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Soccer is well and truly back, and World Cup qualifiers will soon be back as well. I’ve already written about the African World Cup qualifiers, which you can find here and here. The Asian World Cup qualifiers are the next to return, so I am going to review these groups over two parts. It’s currently…
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That’s how life is, you make the best of what you can. It means the world to me, to be honest. Everything would be better with fans, I know that. A few months ago I thought it’s impossible to play football. All the other leagues, Paris I’m not sure they got the trophy. Ajax didn’t…
Well, Brentford have blown it. The team were on an eight-game winning streak, and needed only two points to pass West Brom and achieve automatic promotion. Both matches were against relegation candidates, Stoke City and Barnsley. Brentford lost both, ending its bid to advance without doing more. Now, Brentford are in the promotion playoffs and…
In a previous post, I asked you all to vote for who should have won the Ballon d’Or since it will not be awarded this year. In the end it was a race between two people, which is probably what would have happened in the real awards. Here are the rankings: T-3: Ciro Immobile, 33…
I have previously written an article about the five best available free agents (here). That list contains the likes of Chelsea forward Willian and Manchester City forward David Silva, but for many teams, especially those fighting for promotion or those, like Leeds United, who have just earned promotion, younger players are key. In this article,…
