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Chelsea have a Player of the Season candidate everyone seems to be overlooking
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Chelsea have a Player of the Season candidate everyone seems to be overlooking

The Chelsea project is starting to come to fruition after many summers of questionable investments and major spending, as key players are starting to emerge as legitimate top talents in the Premier League to start the 2024/25 season under Enzo Maresca. Moises Caicedo and Nicolas Jackson are beginning to show their quality, while Levi Colwill has become a strong anchoring point for the defense. Meanwhile, Cole Palmer and Christopher Nkunku are world-class attackers with Pedro Neto and Jadon Sancho already showing signs of their brilliance at Stamford Bridge. But perhaps the biggest development at Chelsea is actually occurring outside Chelsea and at one of the partner clubs under the management of Todd Boehly and the ownership group BlueCo. Ligue 1 side Strasbourg have produced top ...
The blockbuster attacking transfer Aston Villa are glad they didn’t make
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The blockbuster attacking transfer Aston Villa are glad they didn’t make

Aston Villa are off to a great start in the 2024/25 Premier League season, as their 3-1 win over Wolves this past weekend was their third straight victory in league competition, with backup striker Jhon Duran adding his fourth goal in five appearances off the bench. Between Duran and attacking midfielder Morgan Rogers, Aston Villa have two of the biggest breakout stars in the Premier League thus far and look like a great bet to finish in the top four again. Last season, Aston Villa already had one of the top breakout superstars in the Premier League, as Ollie Watkins was a double-digit goal-scorer and assist provider as a legitimate Premier League Player of the Season candidate. So now that Duran is finishing off chances like he's the second coming of Ronaldo Nazario, Aston Villa ...
One Arsenal player has been even better than Bukayo Saka this season
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One Arsenal player has been even better than Bukayo Saka this season

Arsenal star right winger Bukayo Saka is arguably the best player in the Premier League and one of the best forwards in the world, showing an all-around ability to make an impact as a left-footed right winger that is so rare to find, especially in a 23-year-old. Saka added to his legacy in the Premier League with an assist for Gabriel Magalhaes from a corner in the Gunners' 2-2 draw against reigning champions Manchester City, meaning he now has 22 goal contributions in his career against "Big Six" clubs. It also means Saka has five assists and a goal in five Premier League starts in the 2024/25 season thus far, building on his 2023/24 season in which he was one of the top contenders for the Player of the Season award. Yet as excellent as Saka continues to be for Arsenal, the best ...
Transfer Rumors: Chelsea giving worst performer one last chance to save himself
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Transfer Rumors: Chelsea giving worst performer one last chance to save himself

After ripping West Ham apart 3-0 with striker Nicolas Jackson contributing to all three goals, Chelsea will turn their attention to lowly Barrow in the League Cup on Tuesday before another major Premier League tilt next weekend against Brighton. The League Cup fixtures give young players a chance to shine, but they also provide an important venue for struggling players on the periphery of the squad to make an impression. According to Give Me Sport, Chelsea are planning on giving floundering left winger Mykhaylo Mudryk a shot to show the Blues why they shouldn't just give up on him and sell him this winter. Chelsea were already considering transferring the 88 million pound flop from Shakhtar Donetsk in the 2023 winter market this past summer, but with Enzo Maresca coming in to mana...
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Arsenal Transfer News: 3 top clubs want to sign Takehiro Tomiyasu

Arsenal right back Takehiro Tomiyasu has found it difficult to make an impact for the Gunners due to a combination of injury and the fact that the other fullbacks have been so excellent. Ben White has made the right back position his home, while Riccardo Calafiori has joined the club as a left back option alongside Oleksandr Zinchenko, who previously had Jakub Kiwior to contend with. Tomiyasu is a quality right back who can even start as an inverted left back or center back, but the 25-year-old hasn't been able to start more than the 10 games he started last season for Arsenal. As Arsenal await Tomiyasu's return from a knee injury to make his first appearance of the 2024/25 season, they are fielding transfer offers for the former Bologna, like Calafiori, star. According to Calc...
Tottenham’s biggest star is becoming surprisingly underappreciated
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Tottenham’s biggest star is becoming surprisingly underappreciated

Tottenham bounced back from disappointing defeats to fellow top-four contenders Newcastle and Arsenal by taking down Brentford 3-1 in the Premier League this past weekend. James Maddison took center stage for Spurs, but the attacking midfielder was far from the only offensive player on Tottenham who had a big day against the Bees on Saturday. Left winger Son Heung-min, back in his favored position after the summer signing of Dominic Solanke, didn't score a goal but did register two assists with a whopping seven key passes to match Maddison's seven dribbles completed. Son is Tottenham's undisputed best player after Harry Kane made his 2023 move to Bayern Munich, and after a poor 2022/23 season, he bounced back in 2023/24 as the main man at striker under Ange Postecoglou with 17 goa...
What we all ignored about Nicolas Jackson
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What we all ignored about Nicolas Jackson

Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson turned heads on Saturday with his best game of the season, as he played a role in every single goal the Blues scored in a 3-0 demolition of Europa League hopefuls West Ham. Jackson scored twice and assisted to boost his season totals up to four goals and two assists in the 2024/25 Premier League season, making him the most productive Chelsea player through five fixtures so far. Anyone who watched Jackson in his second half of the season surge in LaLiga with Villarreal before joining Chelsea knows that when the Senegalese striker catches lightening in a bottle, he can be one of the best players in a league. That's how good Jackson looked on Saturday against West Ham, drawing high praise from even his sharpest critics in media punditry, building off t...
The Tottenham star who keeps making the doubters look silly
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The Tottenham star who keeps making the doubters look silly

Tottenham bounced back from a couple of tough losses in the Premier League to Newcastle and Arsenal with a strong showing against Brentford, taking down the Bees 3-1. After finishing fifth last season in their first campaign under manager Ange Postecoglou, Tottenham are hoping to get back to the Champions League in the post-Harry Kane era, and they are hoping one of their new star players can buoy that effort. At the beginning of the 2023/24 season, James Maddison looked like the missing piece for Tottenham and was a legitimate Premier League Player of the Season candidate, writhing his way through defenders and setting up Son Heung-min and Richarlison with beautiful slipped through balls into the box. But an injury derailed his season, like it did so many other Tottenham players,...
Liverpool’s most underrated star does it again
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Liverpool’s most underrated star does it again

Liverpool made it look all too easy on Saturday afternoon at Anfield, as they disposed of a pretty decent Bournemouth side with ease, winning yet another Premier League game under Arne Slot in impressive fashion. At no point were Liverpool tested by the Cherries, as they blanketed their opponents in a 3-0 victory that seems to be the standard of operations for the Reds in the 2024/25 season. There were a number of excellent individual performances in this victory, but one that shouldn't go overlooked was Ibrahima Konate's high-quality display at the center of the Liverpool defense. Konate is one of the best center backs in world football, but he receives a fraction of the credit, possibly because most center backs are underrated but more probably because so much of the praise goes...
A Chelsea transfer flop is quietly getting back to his high standard
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A Chelsea transfer flop is quietly getting back to his high standard

Chelsea have looked like a significantly better team through five matches in the Premier League under new coach Enzo Maresca, who has done an especially great job at cooking up a more incisive and efficient attack. Even Nicolas Jackson has been getting in on the act and proving he has a place in this deep Chelsea attacking rotation, scoring a brace with an assist in the Blues' dominant 3-0 win over West Ham. Chelsea appear to be legitimate Champions League contenders again, with Cole Palmer continuing to shine, Jackson joining him, Noni Madueke playing a key role off the right wing, and new additions like Jadon Sancho chipping in, too. But as much as everyone focuses on the Chelsea attack because of their past struggles, one of the most positive developments has actually been in t...