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5 transfers Champions League clubs need to make in summer 2025

22Mar

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Transfer News

5 transfers Champions League clubs need to make in summer 2025

Winning the Champions League is one thing, but staying on top and being a legitimate title contender year in and year out is another thing entirely and requires making the right signings at the right times. Here are five signings that the traditional heavyweights - and new contenders - in the Champions League need to make in the summer 2025 transfer window in order to improve their chances of making the leap or building a true dynasty. Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid Listen, Real Madrid needed to sign another right back five years ago, and while Dani Carvajal proved a lot of Madrid fans wrong by showing he has plenty left in the tank last season, he will be coming off an ACL tear in 2025/26 at the age of 33 at a physically demanding position. Real Madrid need a new right back...

Arsenal vs. Chelsea Player Ratings: Gabriel Martinelli and Mikel Merino lead the way

16Mar

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Player Ratings

Arsenal vs. Chelsea Player Ratings: Gabriel Martinelli and Mikel Merino lead the way

Here are the player ratings from a sloppy London derby devoid of creativity with very few examples of individual quality between both Arsenal and Chelsea. Arsenal emerged the winners 1-0 behind a brilliant header from a corner by makeshift No. 9 Mikel Merino. Arsenal Player Ratings GK David Raya, 5.0 Didn't deserve his clean sheet, as he nearly made one of the blunders of the season by dropping the ball blatantly from a rather tame Marc Cucurella volley. Thankfully for him and Arsenal, the ball barely skidded by the post. LB Myles Lewis-Skelly, 6.0 He wasn't ever tested by Pedro Neto, Jadon Sancho, and Wesley Fofana on that right side of the Chelsea flank. CB Gabriel Magalhaes, 6.5 Also very much untested by the Chelsea attack, but when he was called upon to clean up danger, he did ...

Rating four potential Alexander Isak transfer destinations in summer 2025

15Mar

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Rating four potential Alexander Isak transfer destinations in summer 2025

Newcastle star striker Alexander Isak has now become a bona fide superstar in the Premier League this season, and with 19 goals and 5 assists for the Magpies, there are even some who believe that the Swedish international has overtaken Erling Haaland as the best No. 9 in the English top flight. Isak will command a gargantuan fee well above 100 million pounds in the summer 2025 transfer window, if he even moves at all. But if there's ever a chance of the Champions League-aspiring Newcastle Magpies to sell Isak this year, here are four teams that will be involved in the sweepstakes. Each team is rated on the overall fit, likelihood of a transfer, and what they can offer Isak. Liverpool Liverpool have been the best team in the Premier League this season, bar none, owning a 15-point le...

Arsenal vs. Chelsea: 5 stars who will decide Sunday’s heated rivalry battle

15Mar

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Analysis

Arsenal vs. Chelsea: 5 stars who will decide Sunday’s heated rivalry battle

Arsenal are through to the Champions League quarterfinals but will have a big point to prove at the Emirates on Sunday afternoon against London rivals Chelsea after failing to take care of Manchester United, dropping two points to the Red Devils last weekend. So here are three players on Arsenal and two on Chelsea who will be pivotal to telling the story of this weekend's biggest Premier League matchup between second and fourth. Arsenal DM Thomas Partey Thomas Partey will be going up against an exceptional midfield anchoring duo and an even better leading playmaker in Cole Palmer this weekend, so he will need to be as close to flawless as possible for the Gunners. Likely leaving the club at the end of the season, Partey is still a valuable player in the Arsenal starting XI, and he ...

Arsenal prioritizing a better winger than Leroy Sane in summer 2025 window

14Mar

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Arsenal prioritizing a better winger than Leroy Sane in summer 2025 window

Arsenal are in the market for attacking help in the summer 2025 transfer window after paying the price of not signing a top striker in summer 2024, which has been complete annihilation at the hands of Liverpool in the 2024/25 Premier League table. The Gunners will almost assuredly be after a striker in the upcoming summer market, and there is a gamut of strong, emerging options up top such as Benjamin Sesko, Hugo Ekitike, Viktor Gyokeres, Alexander Isak, and potentially more. But Arsenal don't just need a new striker to spice up the attack. The North London giants should also be looking for more wingers. A right winger to back Bukayo Saka up would be nice, but someone to compete heavily with Gabriel Martinelli on the left side should be nearly as big of a priority as a striker. Th...

Arsenal have a staggering transfer budget for summer 2025 window

14Mar

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Arsenal have a staggering transfer budget for summer 2025 window

Arsenal have been criticized for not being aggressive enough in the summer transfer window, and they paid for it dearly this season by falling well and truly out of the Premier League title race after failing to sign a striker in summer 2024. Now, the Gunners are firmly in the market for a top striker in the summer 2025 transfer window, but they have also been linked to two world-class midfielders in Bruno Guimaraes and Martin Zubimendi, who will reportedly be the priorities of the new sporting director. GiveMeSport insider Ben Jacobs corroborates this information and adds in his own report that Arsenal will have a whopping 300 million pounds to spend in the coming transfer window. That's major cash that Arsenal can use to sign both those midfielders - if they want to - and still ...

Arsenal’s new sporting director is prioritizing two world-class midfield transfers

13Mar

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Arsenal’s new sporting director is prioritizing two world-class midfield transfers

Arsenal have hired former Atletico Madrid sporting director Andrea Berta to lead the club in the same role, replacing Edu, who left the Gunners in early November of last year to head up the Nottingham Forest project (among a group of clubs). Berta has the task of turning Arsenal into a Premier League champion again. It's been decades since Arsenal last reached the very summit of the Premier League, and while they came close to winning it all in each of the past two seasons, the Gunners have fallen far behind in the 2024/25 season. With the struggles in front of goal this season, Arsenal clearly need to sign a top striker after balking on addressing the position in the summer 2024 transfer window. But even after signing one of the best midfielders in LaLiga last year in Mikel Merino, ...

The 3 worst contracts Arsenal must get rid of in the summer 2025 transfer window

11Mar

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The 3 worst contracts Arsenal must get rid of in the summer 2025 transfer window

Here are three contracts Arsenal will want to get off their wage bill in the summer 2025 transfer window. All salary details are courtesy of FBRef.com. DM Thomas Partey Thomas Partey will be a free agent at the end of the 2024/25 season, and it's time that Arsenal moved on from the veteran defensive midfielder instead of giving him a raise. The 31-year-old is quietly on the decline, but he was never more than an average starter to begin with. And at 10.4 million pounds, Thomas makes considerably more money than he's worth to the Gunners when his main assets are al traits the club could easily find elsewhere for cheaper. Thomas is a good defender who can complete simple passes, and those kinds of players are a dime in a dozen and usually earn half that amount of money. Arsenal can l...

Three summer 2025 transfers to take Arsenal to the next level

10Mar

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Three summer 2025 transfers to take Arsenal to the next level

Here are three players Arsenal must target in the summer 2025 transfer window if they want to reach the next level. Atalanta ST Mateo Retegui Everyone knows that Arsenal need a new striker in the summer 2025 transfer window, and after balking on signing a new No. 9 last summer, Mikel Arteta and friends are paying dearly for their lack of ambition by falling out of the title race entirely in 2024/25, especially amidst Bukayo Saka's hamstring injury. From Viktor Gyokers and Benjamin Sesko to Hugo Ekitike and Alexander Isak, Arsenal have been linked to everyone under the sun, no pun intended, ahead of the summer market. But one name that should get mentioned more often is the free-scoring Italian international Mateo Retegui, who has been wanted by virtually everyone in Serie A but has...

Arsenal quietly get amazing Bukayo Saka injury news

9Mar

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Injury News

Arsenal quietly get amazing Bukayo Saka injury news

Arsenal suffered another disappointing performance in the Premier League this weekend, drawing bottom-feeders Manchester United 1-1 at Old Trafford in a game in which they dominated possession. But Arsenal were unable to turn that possessional dominance into much meaningful, and, actually, they can consider themselves lucky to have gotten a point, as they owe a lot to David Raya and two especially brilliant saves that kept Arsenal in it. Arsenal continue to have issues with putting away chances or even creating clear-cut attacking opportunities, but, hopefully, a portion of those issues will be mitigated shortly. That's because, prior to kickoff, Arsenal fans received some positive injury news regarding their best player, right winger Bukayo Saka. According to Gunnerblog, Saka is ...