World Soccer – August 2019

Zidane’s treatment of Gareth Bale is a mystery It has been reported that Real Madrid blocked a move to China for Welsh internati ...

The promotion of Aston Villa, who have been busily buying for the Premier League, makes one wonder how well that talented midfie ...

Steve Menary reports For the worst league in Europe, San Marino’s Campionato reached a thrilling conclusion last season. Trailin ...

club having either won the Campionato or finished runners-up since it first began in 1985. But that is also partly due to a conv ...

overcome a lousy start to last season and win a place in the knockout by finishing top of the second tier, before their surprise ...

midfielder behind Michel Platini in Juve’s legendary 1980s side and he rebuffed numerous approaches to play for Italy as this wo ...

Phil Gordon reports Sometimes it’s good to dip a toe into other people’s football passion. On the night of Sunday June 23, the B ...

greatest beneficiary of Mallorca’s promotion as the club owed €17m in deferred tax payments, consumed by mismanagement off the p ...

(^) RHIAN BREWSTER (Liverpool) The teenage striker has spent more than a year sidelined while recovering from a serious injury b ...

E nglish football’s top six (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and the Manchester clubs, City and United) have domi ...

needed time as the club operates under a global transfer ban and prepares for life after Eden Hazard. Lampard has already indica ...

trade in the lower leagues, with Walsall and Brentford, earning a reputation for attacking football on a limited budget. Brighto ...

United side in the round of 16. PSG coach Thomas Tuchel became almost a comedy figure towards the end of the season, regularly b ...

(^) METZ Led Ligue 2 for most of last season and finished as champions. They’ve lost no key players and have added some talented ...

defender Youssouf Kone have both left for Lyon, however, and star striker Nicolas Pepe is on his way too. There have been arriva ...

disgrace to Marseille.” A report in April revealed Marseille had an operating loss of £70m for the previous season, which means ...

Dortmund turn up the heat (^) TYLER ADAMS (RB Leipzig) The 20-year-old defensive midfielder is already a USA international and c ...

A re the stars aligned for a Bundesliga power shift? Could Bayern Munich be in for a rude awakening after their run of seven str ...

certainly do not. The experts at Kicker currently rate Hummels the best central defender in Germany and Dortmund general-manager ...

company. But money is needed for more than just strengthening the squad. In the background there is a stadium saga. In order to ...