Author: Joe Soriano

Joe Soriano covers West Ham for Green Street Hammers and writes about Real Madrid for The Real Champs. He has extensive experience covering world football since 2014. Joe is an editor for The Trivela Effect, where he covers the biggest clubs in European football. He has watched professional sports regularly since 2002 and can be found playing the same sports he covers with his friends.
Arsenal learn Newcastle’s latest Alexander Isak transfer asking price
4Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Arsenal learn Newcastle’s latest Alexander Isak transfer asking price

Arsenal decided not to sign a top striker in the summer 2024 transfer window, though the best options, like Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko, weren't really available. Aside from Raheem Sterling, Arsenal didn't make any significant attacking signings, and now that Kai Havertz is injured to further mount the issues up top, the Gunners are left floundering in the attack and well behind Liverpool in the Premier League title race this season. Gyokeres and Sesko will continue to be priority transfer targets for Arsenal, but the North London giants will need to beef up their list of prospective hires with more ambitious names. Alexander Isak has been the best striker in the Premier League this season The most ambitious of them is Alexander Isak, with the Newcastle striker establishing ...
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Manchester United have a world-class Andre Onana upgrade in mind
3Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Manchester United have a world-class Andre Onana upgrade in mind

Manchester United remain in shambles this season despite making a bevy of summer transfers last year, bringing in a new ownership group in INEOS, and even a new manager in the middle of the season in former Sporting CP phenom Ruben Amorim. It's all made no difference with Man United stuck in the bottom half of the Premier League and now even out of the FA Cup - the competition they won to spare themselves last season - after falling to Fulham on penalties. There is still so much more work to be done for Manchester United and Amorim, and, as is usual, they are being linked to some very ambitious moves on the summer 2025 transfer market; the kinds of move they may need to make in order to go from zero to hero in an increasingly competitive Premier League. Mike Maignan is one of the wo...
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Liverpool want to sign young €55M rated Chelsea defender
3Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Liverpool want to sign young €55M rated Chelsea defender

Liverpool have been the most dominant team in English football this season and are well on their way to securing the Premier League title again, and there's also a strong case to be made that they are just as favored in the Champions League this season, having demolished defending champs Real Madrid in the league phase. But even as Liverpool are running the table and have both the best overall player in the world this season, Mohamed Salah, and the best defender, Virgil van Dijk, the Reds are always looking to refine their squad in order to stay on top. According to a report from Rousing the Kop, Liverpool are interested in signing Chelsea center back Levi Colwill, who is rated as a 55 million euro player by outlet Transfermarkt. Levi Colwill is one of the Premier League's best youn...
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3 Manchester City stars who are clearly finished at the top level
3Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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3 Manchester City stars who are clearly finished at the top level

Although Manchester City have picked things up domestically after a busy January transfer window with clean sheet wins over Newcastle and Tottenham - and an FA Cup victory over pesky underdogs Plymouth - their recent resounding defeats to Real Madrid and Liverpool are a sobering reminder that the squad still needs an overall in order to return to the very summit it reached in 2023 as treble winners. There are some big names in the Manchester City squad who were once among the world's best but are now struggling to prove that they can still be key players for a team that aims to win the Premier League and Champions League. Here are three of them. Kevin De Bruyne It is sad to see how Kevin De Bruyne has fallen in 2024/25, as injuries have accelerated an inevitable decline that may not e...
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West Ham interested in signing €25M rated breakout striker
3Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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West Ham interested in signing €25M rated breakout striker

West Ham tried to overhaul their attacking lineup this past summer transfer window and give Julen Lopetegui two lines of front line quality to draw upon, but Carlos Soler and Crysencio Summerville haven't been starters this season while Niclas Fullkrug has struggled to even get on the pitch for the Hammers. This winter, West Ham were desperate to get in a true No. 9 with Fullkrug flopping and brought in promising youngster Evan Ferguson, but he's still finding his feet and unlikely to be at the club for more than the months of his current loan deal. So it will likely be back to the striker well again this summer transfer window for the Hammers, and West Ham are already being linked to a promising player abroad. Santiago Castro would be a better signing than Niclas Fullkrug Accordin...
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Chelsea begin €100M negotiations for world-class forward
2Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Chelsea begin €100M negotiations for world-class forward

Chelsea have been the biggest spenders in world football since Todd Boehly took the club over, and after embarrassing stumbles to begin his tenure, the American owner has the Blues back in the top four in the Premier League and with a real long-term outlook on taking the title from the grasp of the Liverpool and Manchester City battle. Although Liverpool clearly have the leg-up in the 2024/25 season, Chelsea may only be a couple of high-impact summer 2025 transfer away from usurping the Reds - and the Citizens - as the kings of the English top flight. This past summer, Chelsea added a couple of more ambitious winger signings to their existing attacking nucleus of Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson, who made strides this season, in Pedro Neto of Wolves, Joao Felix of Barcelona and Atleti...
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The X-Factor Barcelona need in order to win LaLiga
2Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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The X-Factor Barcelona need in order to win LaLiga

Barcelona must like their chances of winning LaLiga this season a lot more after watching Real Betis completely dominate a Real Madrid side bereft of the midfield trio of Dani Ceballos, Fede Valverde, and Jude Bellingham while Barca themselves thoroughly dispatched Real Sociedad 4-0; the same side Madrid only beat 1-0 at midweek in the Copa del Rey. Although Barcelona have been frustratingly inconsistent in periods this season, there is no question that the Blaugrana field the most exciting attack in world football with attacking trio Raphinha, Robert Lewandowski, and Lamine Yamal already breaking goal-scoring records this season. But the trio really could - and should - be a quartet, as Dani Olmo reminded world football fans on Sunday afternoon with a brace of assists against Real S...
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Liverpool learn transfer fee for ideal Andrew Robertson replacement
2Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Liverpool learn transfer fee for ideal Andrew Robertson replacement

Liverpool began to realize pretty quickly during the 2024/25 Premier League and Champions League seasons that the time has come to move on from left back Andrew Robertson. Once arguably the world's best left back, the former Premier League and Champions League winner has suffered a rapid decline, which was evident at the end of last season and even during the European Championships this summer with Scotland. But after the likes of Bukayo Saka thoroughly roasted him, Robertson has reached a point of no return, and to save the fond memories of his peak at Anfield, it is high time the Reds make a change at left back, seeing as how nobody currently in the squad has proven capable of stepping in. Milos Kerkez would replace Andrew Robertson Since rumors of parting ways with Robertson fir...
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The only Manchester United player left to believe in
2Mar By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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The only Manchester United player left to believe in

Manchester United truly and undeniably stink. The Red Devils turned in yet another putrid performance this weekend, falling on penalties in the FA Cup to Fulham, sealing their elimination in a tournament they somehow won last season amidst a sea of rotten displays domestically. Now, Manchester United don't even have the FA Cup to hang their hats on, as they remain inexplicably in the bottom half of the Premier League table despite a new ownership, an offseason filled with high-profile signings across all levels of the squad, and even a new manager appointed at midseason. With injuries continuing to derail the team's young talents, the result against Fulham was a reminder that there is only one player on this team capable of consistently delivering at the Manchester United level - a l...
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3 reasons why Arsenal want to sign Matheus Cunha in January 2025 transfer window
21Jan By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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3 reasons why Arsenal want to sign Matheus Cunha in January 2025 transfer window

After a 3-1 loss to Chelsea in the Premier League, Wolves superstar Matheus Cunha fueled transfer speculation and caused quite a stir among supporters when he headed straight down to the tunnel at the final whistle. Throughout the match, Cunha looked lethargic and disinterested, in stark contrast to his usual performances this season, which have been of the highest caliber and rank him among the Premier League Player of the Season candidates. Cunha wasn't the only poor performer against Chelsea, but as the team's best player and captain, much more is expected from the Brazilian international than what he showed on Monday night. His manager, Vitor Pereira, had some very harsh words for his star man after the game that were captured by BBC Sport journalist Nizaar Kinsella, He’s a ca...
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