It has been almost a year since the restructuring at the Liverpool Academy. With the appointments of Jose Segura as Academy Technical Manager and Rodolfo Borrell as Academy Under-18 Coach, the club made its intentions clear as both were employed by Barcelona and oversaw the progress of Lionel Messi,…

This summer the Premier League will discuss a proposal to alter transfer fees regulations. The proposal highlights a need for stricter interventions from the governing forces of the league in an attempt to curb the ever-increasing debt accrued by football teams. Instead of the current transfer fee regulations that…

It is the nature of anything competitive to cause one to win and another to lose; one to acquire wealth and the other to be burdened by humiliation. The Premier League boasts Manchester United; a team worth in excess of £1billion yet simultaneously harbouring debts upward of £700million. Portsmouth…

Steven Gerrard is a difficult player to criticise. His quality and consistency on the field for the past seven years has led many, most notably, Zidane to say, ‘is he the best in the world...yes, I think he just might be’. But this season has been as underwhelming for…

Once upon a time Gareth Bale and Theo Walcott were trainees at Southampton. This weekend Bale completed negotiations for a lucrative contract on the back of consecutive scoring appearances against none other than Arsenal and Chelsea. Conversely Walcott’s transient flashes of potential are fading in memory faster…

Following a disappointing season it is now time for Arsenal to look towards August and contemplate how best to improve their current squad of players. There is a glaring requirement between the posts (in case the half dozen recent errors have gone unnoticed) and a nearly done-deal with Bordeaux…

West Ham United assured Premier League football for another season (barring a mathematical miracle from Hull City) in a pulsating weekend clash against Wigan Athletic but the question hovering over Gianfranco Zola’s squad is why have they found themselves in the relegation battle this year? The first port of call…

Real Madrid triumphed 2-0 at the Bernabeu over Valencia on Saturday to come within one point of Barcelona at the top of La Liga. The match further elucidated the gulf between second and third and provided yet more evidence on the team’s dependency on Cristiano Ronaldo. Starting on the right…

‘I want to go to the end of my job here. I built this team, I want to deliver with this team and I feel if I left I would have in some way betrayed my own beliefs. It is as simple as that’- Arsene Wenger A week…