Chelsea have completed the signing of Ecuadorian midfielder Moisés Caicedo on an eight-year contract with the club option for a further year, paying a fee of £100 million plus £15 million in add-ons (€134m), making him the most expensive footballer of all time after Neymar (€222m) and Kylian Mbappé (€180m). But just what makes Caicedo…

It was a chastening first 90 minutes of top-flight football for Luton Town at the weekend. A string of defensive blunders saw them resoundingly beaten by Brighton at the Amex Stadium and hammered home the fact that for all the talk of fairy-tale escapes, this is a squad severely lacking in Premier League experience. Solly…

Age: 22 Nationality: Ukraine Position/s: Goalkeeper Height: 6ft 6 ½ in Current club: Benfica Number: 1   Alongside Orkun Kokcu, Angel Di Maria, Arthur Cabral and David Jurasek, yet another player who has made the move to Portuguese champions Benfica this summer is 22-year-old Ukrainian goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin, joining for €10 million + €1 million…

Club: Stade Reims Nationality: Japanese Position: Left Winger Secondary Position: Center Forward Preferred Foot: Right Height: 5’9 ft/1,80 m Age: 23   After last summer’s arrival of Junya Ito from Genk for €10 million, the latest Japanese forward to make the move to Stade de Reims is Keito Nakamura, joining from Austrian club LASK Linz…

After steering them from second-bottom in the league to a sixth-place finish and a run to the Europa League semifinals, Bayer Leverkusen have delivered an exciting transfer window that has seen veteran players like Jonas Hofmann, Alex Grimaldo and Granit Xhaka head to the BayArena in addition to promising young talents like Arthur and Matej…

Chelsea rarely do business quietly, as evidenced by their drawn-out pursuit of Moises Caicedo and eventual Premier League-record transfer, but when reports emerged that the Blues had agreed a £23.5 million deal with Rennes for 19-year-old midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu, journalists were left scrambling for information on the Frenchman. No puff piece, no smear campaign, no…

Born in Accra, Ghana, Bernard Tekpetey began his footballing journey playing in the streets with his friends and working his way up the ranks at the Ghanaian second-tier side Unistar Soccer Academy, before leaving his homeland at 18 years old and joining Schalke. He made his debut on November 24, 2016, winning a penalty that…

Brighton & Hove Albion recently secured the signature of Brazilian defender Igor from Fiorentina for a reported fee of €17 million plus €3 million in add-ons. Following the Seagulls’ unsuccessful pursuit of Levi Colwill on a permanent deal from Chelsea, they found an alternative left-footed centre-back in the form of the Bom Sucesso-born defender.  …

This is the intriguing world of football, where players are no longer solely products of natural talent and dedication but are instead manufactured within the confines of a cutting-edge laboratory. However, amidst this groundbreaking advancement, an unforeseen event has taken place, shrouded in mystery and speculation. One exceptional player has managed to escape from the…

Since the summer transfer window of 2017, Tottenham have signed just two centre-backs on permanent deals. The North London side have now made that three centre-backs with the signing of Wolfsburg and Netherlands defender Micky van de Ven for £34 million. They have reportedly adopted a new data-driven approach to recruitment this summer, so let’s…