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Premier League Power Rankings: The top 5 GKs to start the 2025/26 season
6Sep By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Premier League Power Rankings: The top 5 GKs to start the 2025/26 season

A month of Premier League action has come and gone, so now it is time to take stock of the 2025/26 season through the first three matches and hand out some honors to players who are starting the season very brightly. Goalkeepers are easy to overlook, but the Premier League is chock full of top shot-stoppers right now, including quite a few new faces in new places. With three Matchdays in the books, let's rank the top five goalkeepers to start the season, basing it solely on their performances in the current campaign. 5. James Trafford, Manchester City James Trafford won't be starting in goal for Manchester City for long after the addition of Champions League winner Gianluigi Donnarumma from PSG, as the Italian international is regarded as one of the top three players in the world in h...
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Premier League Power Rankings: The 5 best players to start the 2025/26 season
4Sep By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Premier League Power Rankings: The 5 best players to start the 2025/26 season

The first month of the 2025/26 Premier League season is in the books, and although there's been only 3 matches played by every team as we sit in the September international break, that's enough time to give a nod to the players who have started the season on a hot streak. Whether it's long-time stars of the Premier League, new transfers making an immediate impact, or underrated players just waiting to get their due, there's been no shortage of standout performances to start the campaign. In fact, it was awfully tough leaving out players like Cody Gakpo, Trevoh Chalobah, Jurrien Timber, Antoine Semenyo, Mohammed Kudus, and more footballers who have started the 2025/26 Premier League season on a torrid pace. But here are the top five. 5. Liverpool CB Virgil van Dijk In case anyone ha...
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Premier League Power Rankings: The 10 best strikers for the 2025/26 season
4Sep By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Premier League Power Rankings: The 10 best strikers for the 2025/26 season

Now that the summer 2025 transfer window has come to a close, every Premier League club knows who their starting striker is, and there has been a huge influx of talent into the league's top teams at the striker position. That isn't surprising, and it is a response to virtually all the top teams in England having a major need up top, with fans lamenting the comparative lack of striker quality in the Premier League - and world football as a whole - since the 2000s. How do the new faces stack up against the established starters in the Premier League? Who gets snubbed? Which newcomers still have a point to prove before they can be ranked highly? Here are the top 10 strikers in the Premier League for the 2025/26 season as we come out of a very busy summer transfer market. 10. Liam Del...
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Premier League Power Rankings: Predicting the Top 5 after Transfer Deadline Day 2025
1Sep By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Premier League Power Rankings: Predicting the Top 5 after Transfer Deadline Day 2025

The 2025 summer transfer window is now officially done and dusted, and there weren't all that many major deals made on deadline day in the Premier League - and two of them were already expected. After signing Alexander Isak from Newcastle the day before deadline day, Liverpool sealed their other expected dream signing, bagging superstar center back Marc Guehi from FA Cup winners Crystal Palace to become not just the Premier League title favorites but also Champions League title favorites. Meanwhile, Chelsea sealed the transfer of Nicolas Jackson to Bayern Munich after recalling Marc Guiu from his loan at Sunderland to replace him, while London rivals Tottenham added depth at the striker position with the loan acquisition of PSG's Randal Kolo Muani. And finally, Manchester City wra...
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Champions League Power Rankings: The 10 best managers for the 2025/26 season
30Aug By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Champions League Power Rankings: The 10 best managers for the 2025/26 season

The 2025/26 Champions League draw for the league phase is set, with the matches to begin next month in mid-September, and it's anyone's guess as to how this year's tournament will ultimately play out. Obviously, the players are the one who play the game, but the spotlight has become increasingly focused on the manager, and there's no one style that makes someone successful in the Champions League. Carlo Ancelotti won two of the last four Champions League titles on chaos, Pep Guardiola won one on structure while embracing the virtues of a free-scoring No. 9 in Erling Haaland, and Luis Enrique finally brought the big one to Paris by embracing a more team-oriented playing style without Kylian Mbappe. It's not easy ranking managers at baseline, but ranking them from different leagues ...
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Champions League Power Rankings: The top 12 strikers before the 2025/26 season
30Aug By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Champions League Power Rankings: The top 12 strikers before the 2025/26 season

There isn't a single position on the football pitch that receives as much attention as the striker position, It is the marquee position, because there's a school of thought that every great team needs a great player who can finish off the goals. Although Real Madrid have won a Champions League title in recent years without a true No. 9 and Manchester City have won the Premier League without one, those are exceptions to the rule. Because Real Madrid have also dropped Champions League titles without a true top goal-scorer, while Manchester City only became Champions League winners after they added Erling Haaland, a record-breaking striker. Ahead of the 2025/26 Champions League season, which will officially begin next month with the league phase, let's do an intial power ranking of t...
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Premier League Power Rankings: Every Big 6 defense from worst to first in 2025/26
29Aug By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Premier League Power Rankings: Every Big 6 defense from worst to first in 2025/26

I'm not sure how much the American football saying "defense wins championships" holds true in world football, but it seems pretty appropriate when you look at the difference between teams that were and were not successful in the title races last season. For example, Napoli won Serie A against the odds over one of the best striker tandems in European football in Inter Milan with only Romelu Lukaku as a true standout forward. And they did so because they were so organized defensively and structurally under Antonio Conte. In the Premier League, Manchester City fell out of the Premier League title race entirely because their defense was no longer a stalwart engine, as they clearly suffered from Rodri's torn ACL. Liverpool and Arsenal, meanwhile, had the best defenses in the league. So...
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Premier League Power Rankings: The 10 best U21 players for the 2025/26 season
27Aug By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Premier League Power Rankings: The 10 best U21 players for the 2025/26 season

Even though it's been just two games, the 2025/26 Premier League campaign is already giving us the impression that this is going to be a season written by the young stars of the league. And I'm not just talking about players who are indeed young but are already established Premier League superstars like Erling Haaland, Bukayo Saka, Cole Palmer, Martin Odegaard, and now Florian Wirtz. No, I'm talking about players who haven't even turned 21 years old yet or are just teenagers, already scoring decisive goals and shining for some of the Premier League's biggest clubs. So with the 2025/26 Premier League campaign now fully under way, let's preview the youngsters who could have a big say on the final table, ranking the top 10 U21 players in English football right now. 10. Arsenal LB My...
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Champions League Power Rankings: The 5 most likely first-time winners
24Aug By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Champions League Power Rankings: The 5 most likely first-time winners

The usual suspects are the favorites to win the 2025/26 Champions League, with reigning champions PSG joining the holy trinity of Bayern Munich, Barcelona, and Real Madrid, as well as last year's Premier League winners Liverpool, as the top five favorites to conquer European football this season. However, what's just as interesting is talking about which teams could break through and win their first Champions League title in history. And not all of those teams are underdogs, as sides like Atletico Madrid that have been regulars or Premier League title contenders Arsenal are also among the list of teams still seeking their first taste of the very summit of European football. Perhaps the 2025/26 Champions League season will be the one that gets one of these historic clubs off the schne...
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Champions League Predictions: Biggest threat to win title from each top 5 league in 2025/26
23Aug By Joe SorianoNo Comments
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Champions League Predictions: Biggest threat to win title from each top 5 league in 2025/26

The 2025/26 Champions League season is still in its play-off stages for another week, but on Aug. 28, those matches will end and the league phase will be finalized, setting in motion the start of the second campaign in this new format. PSG finally conquered European football last season in their first one without superstar Kylian Mbappe - or Neymar for that matter - following a more team-oriented approach under Luis Enrique. They will no doubt be the favorites again this season, but as in any year, the field is wide open with so many great contenders around European football. Before the 2025/26 Champions League campaign truly gets underway in mid-September with the first league phase matches, let's start with some predictions. Some leagues are more clear-cut than others - looking ...
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