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Tony Pulis is a manager that can often polarise opinion, but one thing that is admirable about Stoke’s manager is his move to slowly transfer his team’s style of play so that they’re able to compete with the higher echelons of the league.

Stoke have reached a critical juncture in their …

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Aston Villa seem set on making themselves this season’s early favourites to be the Jekyll and Hyde team of the season.  With a degree of uncertainty hanging over many player’s future’s at the club and with Chairman Randy Lerner  looking to tighten the purse strings, whether it be Kevin McDonald …

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The departures of Alberto Aquilani and Robinho this summer show that high-profile, gifted footballers cannot always flourish in the Premier League. Fans, journalists and managers are divided over the time it takes for a player to adapt to the rigours of the English game. Yet the PL is still an …

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In the first few weeks of the Premier League fans often become embroiled in the excitement it brings, the breathless updates begin again and fans often amuse themselves with preposterous talk of a European finish for their club. The thrills and spills of English football are of course what make …

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So the clock struck 6, and with the closing of the transfer window there was closure on Manuel Almunia’s immediate future at Arsenal. Not because he has redeemed himself with heroic displays that would make Peter Schmeichel quiver, but because his team failed in their attempts to secure the services …

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As revolutions go, the metamorphosis of Liverpool under Roy Hodgson has been more measured and considered, than rapid and sudden.

You would expect nothing less from veteran coach Hodgson, who has built a respected reputation around the globe for his deft hand in the transfer market, supreme wisdom and diplomatic approach …

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Football transfers occasionally have the capacity to surprise pundits and fans alike. In the Premier League this summer the transfer of Bebe to Manchester United was especially odd. Sir Alex Ferguson is believed to have signed the £7 million forward from the obscurity of the Portuguese third division without having …

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Jack Wilshere will not be playing in the upcoming European Championship qualifiers against Bulgaria and Switzerland this week. Instead, Wilshere has returned to the under-21s, much to the apparent anger of fans across the land.

A number of factors have contributed to this sudden urge to promote a relatively young and …

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Birmingham boss Alex McLeish must have felt like a jilted man as deadline day approached having being on the verge of a deal for Wigan’s French star Charles N’Zogbia, only to see it break down at the last minute – but the deals he completed with only hours of the …

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This transfer window has been a relatively low-key affair for Chelsea with chairman Roman Abramovich reigning in the extravagant spending that characterised his early reign at the club. Carlo Ancelotti has brought in only a handful of players this transfer window while letting some of our more experienced campaigners leave …

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