The Portuguese league has become a popular place for the top teams around Europe to scout and snap up talent. There is a real focus on this league and especially the Premier League are taking full advantage of this market. In today’s piece, we will be looking at a player from Braga who is off…

£50 million for a 23-year-old defender with only one season of top-flight football seemed like a lot of money at the time. Marcelo Bielsa was keen to sign him after Ben White played every minute in their promotion-winning campaign together at Leeds a few seasons back and was unsuccessful with a £25 million bid. A…

In a philharmonic orchestra, there tends to be a lot of emphasis placed on the importance of the conductor. And whilst this is a well-placed assumption, each great orchestra tends to have an established chain of command that makes it run smoothly.    In addition to being a great conductor, the role of the principal…

For the first time in a while, storm clouds are circling above the London Stadium. West Ham sit 15th in the table, and whilst the Hammers will cite their difficult fixture list – they have already played Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, and an in-form Brighton & Hove Albion – there are reasons to be…

Profile   Age: 21 Position: Left wing Height: 5’9 Weight: 134lbs Preferred foot: Right   In Ukraine, two clubs stand above the rest — namely Shakhtar Donetsk & Dynamo Kyiv, with the two powerhouses sharing 29 domestic titles between them. For a young Mykhaylo Mudryk, it is with the prior that the exciting winger is…

We are still very early into the 2022/23 football season, but we’ve already witnessed the emergence of a talented young centre-back playing at the highest level. Southampton’s Armel Bella-Kotchap has caught many an eye with his displays this season and, at just 20 years old, many are speculating where he could end up after a…

Brighton have never been a team to revel in the chaos of the Premier League’s hectic tempo. Stoic, controlled, demure. Even when knocking on death’s door they rarely divulge into the dark arts. They read a moral compass from the South Coast, with the wily German technician Pascal Gross leading their path onto safer shores.…

Over recent years during Nottingham Forest’s numerous low points, a strange pattern has emerged whereby Ryan Yates becomes the scapegoat for all Forest’s woes and is unceremoniously scorned by a small but loud section of fans.    Granted, the recent consecutive losses this season have been a grave disappointment for a fanbase that, under Steve…

Every country has its approach to the game of football; the Dutch enthralled us with the total football system, a tactical system where an outfield player can take over the role of any outfield player in the team. It was a system credited to Ajax, the Netherlands national team implored this system in the 1970s…