Man Utd are signing a man to fill the doughnut; Ugarte is not a red Rodri
Manuel Ugarte is a sensible signing for a sensible price by Manchester United; comparisons with Rodri are an absolute nonsense.
Articles By Sarah Winterburn
Wolves have five in worst Premier League XI of the weekend
Wolves did not seem that bad v Arsenal and yet the statistics would suggest that they were easily the worst team of the weekend.
Premier League pre-season friendly results: Liverpool beat Arsenal AND Man Utd
Pre-season is done. The real quiz begins on Friday. Here’s every single misleading and irrelevant result from all 20 Premier League club’s preparation.
If Liverpool lure the Xabi Alonso regen they are title contenders
Had Liverpool managed to lure Xabi Alonso to Anfield this summer, Martin Zubimendi might already be a Red. Under Arne Slot, it will be a genuine coup.
The 11 most profitable transfers in history as Chelsea pair make the cut
Here are the 11 players bought and sold for the biggest profit. Includes only players for whom a fee was paid before being sold on. No freebies…
Man Utd pair among seven unwanted Premier League starters who bombed in pre-season
Injuries and transfer inactivity have left Jadon Sancho and Casemiro among some likely Premier League starters who most fans would like to see on the bench or worse.
Man Utd full-back Harry Amass and seven more pre-season kids making a push
They’re all 21 or under, they’re all on the fringes of their clubs and they have all impressed in pre-season; Harry Amass is joined by Ethan Nwaneri and co…
Arsenal (and the rest of us) need Gyokeres to be their new Sol Campbell
Not since the great Arsenal side of 2001/02 has any side finished second more than once and then recovered to win the title.
PSR deals dominate list of five transfers with £80m of unaccounted value
Chelsea, Newcastle, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest all had PSR problems and lo and behold, they dominate the list of transfer overpays.
Every Premier League club’s best free transfer signing EVER
We start with the very best Premier League free transfer and take in some belters before landing on a man then sold for £40m.
Enzo Fernandez and Wesley Fofana bring out football’s inhibited racists
If you pause for a second to wonder whose ‘side’ you are on in the Enzo Fernandez and Wesley Fofana story then you are a reprehensible human being and most ...
Gareth Southgate’s boys: The 10 England players who racked up most minutes
England’s Euro 2024 defeat to Spain was Gareth Southgate’s last game as England manager. Who are his favourite 10 players from the last eight years?
Newcastle five dominate most valuable Premier League XI outside Big Six
It would cost you close to £400m to buy Newcastle’s handful of very valuable players, with Aston Villa also prevalent in this XI.
Trent at wing-back: England have tried it 10 times already; it last worked in 2018
England’s potential switch to a 3-5-2 or 3-4-2-1 formation has once again got people excited about Trent Alexander-Arnold as a wing-back. Even though it usually goes badly.
Every Premier League manager’s contract and when it expires
We take a look at where every Premier League manager stands with their deal, with Enzo Maresca now bizarrely having the joint-longest contract at the least stable club.
Turkey put England, France and arrogant Ronaldo to shame in Euros classic
The tie of the last 16? Without a shadow of a doubt. The tie of the tournament? Yes, yes, yes. Turkey’s win over Austria had everything.
England knackered? Top 10 over-used players topped by Arsenal machine
England do look a bit tired. And it’s little wonder as two of their number have clocked over 5000 minutes this season and there are many not far behind.
Kobbie Mainoo leads the England Clamour rankings; will Gareth Southgate listen?
England were mildly better against Slovenia than against Denmark, though much of the positivity came from the bench. So where’s the clamour?
England Clamour Rankings: Anthony Gordon still top but Watkins emerges after Kane ‘barely moved’
That was properly dreadful from England against Denmark. Gareth Southgate has made no changes to his starting line-up yet and the Clamour is getting bigger.
‘Lost on the pitch’, ‘one good ball’, ‘didn’t work’ – 10 pundit takes on Trent Alexander-Arnold
Trent Alexander-Arnold’s performance in midfield for England v Serbia has attracted a boat-load of critics, including these ex-footballers…
Jude Bellingham’s England (just) beat Serbia: 16 Conclusions on an unnecessarily nervy opener
England won but they were sloppy in a second half when control went out of the window. Thankfully, England have Jude Bellingham and he is mint.
Ten Hag backed like Brendan but is Man Utd’s Jurgen Klopp coming in October?
For any Manchester United manager to survive a drop from third to eighth seems preposterous. The closest precedent is Brendan Rodgers.
Man Utd ‘biding their time’ with Ten Hag because Southgate not available?
It seems ludicrous but Manchester United may have decided to stick with Erik ten Hag as Manchester United manager because they cannot yet appoint Gareth Southgate.
Maddison leaves England camp as Liverpool pair also dropped
James Maddison has predictably missed out on a place in England’s Euro 2024 squad after a poor performance against Bosnia on Monday.
Eddie Nketiah is longest-serving Arsenal player as every club’s stalwarts revealed
This list shows the extent of the re-furb job at Arsenal while Man Utd’s top three now includes Marcus Rashford. We feel old.
Five England Euro 2024 players in our Premier League team of the season by statistics
The Premier League season is over and this is the team of the season according to the statistics.
Official Player of the Year awards as Bruno Fernandes and Phil Foden crowned
We will bring you every official Player of the Season award winner as they are announced, with Man Utd’s taking place in secret.
How Premier League teams qualified for Champions League and Europa competitions for 24/25
It will be four places in the Champions League again, but how many Europa League spots are there? And who goes into the Conference League?
The F365 pre-season predictions revisited: How wrong we were about Man Utd…
It’s that time again when we look at our pre-season predictions, decide nine months is such a very long time in football and wonder where it all went wrong.
Man Utd ‘reluctance’ to pass to Hojlund laid bare in stats but he beats Haaland
Are Manchester United players reluctant to pass the ball to Rasmus Hojlund? The stats would seem to back up the theory.