Revisiting Gazzetta’s 2015 list of the 50 best Under-20 stars

Spotting a footballer with potential is easy. Spotting a football who will fulfil that potential is much more difficult. In 2015, Gazzetta Dello Sport published a list of the 50 best players in world football aged under 20, and it must be said they did pretty well. Obviously, there were a couple of stinkers, and […]

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Spurs told to sign ‘world-class’ keeper to replace Lloris

Spurs have been urged to replace Hugo Lloris with a ‘world-class’ keeper by pundit Danny Mills. Lloris has received criticism in recent weeks as Spurs have lost four out of their last five league games. The club captain conceded three in the away defeat to Man City last week. FEATURE: Cavani for Martial features in […]

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Student ‘was laughing’ after Cole shot him at Chelsea

The student that Ashley Cole shot with an air rifle in a 2011 Chelsea training ground accident “was laughing” after the incident, according to a report. Reports at the time said Cole was ‘larking about’ with a .22 calibre air rifle when he accidentally shot student Tom Cowan, who was at Chelsea on a placement from Loughborough University […]

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Bruce explains why Fernandes doesn’t compare to Man Utd legend

Steve Bruce rates Bruno Fernandes very highly but the Newcastle head coach believes comparisons with Eric Cantona should be tempered until the Portuguese brings the glory days back to Man Utd. Fernandes has been a galvanising force since his arrival at Old Trafford from Sporting Lisbon a little over a year ago and already has […]

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Gossip: Spurs told to pay €60m for Inter star; Liverpool will ‘try to sell’

Spurs have been told to pay €60m if they want to land one target, while Liverpool will ‘try to sell’ one of their midfielders…   COUGH UP Tottenham will now be required to pay almost double what they offered last summer if they want to land Inter Milan defender Milan Skriniar in the next transfer window, […]

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Jenas claims Klopp could regret ‘rude’ and ‘moody’ Liverpool outbursts

Jermaine Jenas thinks Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has been the “polar opposite” this season to his usual likable self after being “rude” and “moody” to reporters. The Reds boss has appeared spiky on a number of occasions this season with BT Sport reporter Des Kelly getting into a particularly long heated debate earlier in the season. Niv […]

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Man Utd tactics, Mbappe and Haaland, VAR and more mails…

Keep your mails coming to theeditor@football365.com.   Changing tactics? Carrying on from Calum’s comments this morning on United’s change away from counter attacking. I actually think Ole has decided that the team are so good on the counter that he’ll use that method when retaining possession as well. United have had problems breaking down teams that […]

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Where are they now? Rashford’s team-mates from his last Man Utd U21 game

Marcus Rashford burst onto the scene at Manchester United with a debut brace in the Europa League in 2016. The rest, as they say, is history. But just five days before that famous introduction, on February 20, 2016, Rashford was slogging it out with United’s U21 side in 1-0 defeat to Manchester City. So what happened to […]

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A tribute to Jari Litmanen, the ‘Man of Glass’ who just wouldn’t quit

Jari Litmanen was cursed with injuries yet still managed to play football across four decades. As Ajax and Liverpool fans can attest, his long and storied career was far from wasted. Packing your greatest achievements into the early stages of your career isn’t necessarily a bad thing. For Finnish football legend Jari Litmanen, doing so […]

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The 2020-21 European Golden Shoe top 10: Ronaldo, Salah…

In many ways, the 2020-21 season has been a strange one, but a lot of the usual suspects continue to defy their age to remain in the running for the European Golden Shoe award. Every year the Golden Shoe is presented to Europe’s deadliest striker, with players receiving points for each goal they score. Goals […]

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