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The transfer window is in full swing, and unsurprisingly the top six teams are commanding the most attention. There has been some attention paid to teams outside the top six, particularly with Leicester City’s signing of Youri Tielemans, although this was largely due to reported interest from bigger clubs like …

Steve Bruce has revealed his pride after being announced as manager of Newcastle United. Bruce resigned from his role at Sheffield Wednesday to move to St James’ Park, with Newcastle confirming the 58-year-old as Rafael Benitez’s successor on Wednesday morning following the Spaniard’s decision to leave the club and join Chinese Super …

Tracking all of the major transfer deals featuring Irish footballers in this summer’s transfer market, from the Premier League and Championship to the League of Ireland and beyond.  Players from the Republic of Ireland do not feature as highly in the top levels of football as regularly as they once …

The Premier League have confirmed that team’s head-to-head records against each other will be a new additional factor in deciding league position. In the past, teams level on points would be split by goal difference, and then goals scored, and in circumstances regarding promotion, relegation and European places, if those …

After a short summer break The Football Faithful podcast is back doing what it does best, chewing the fat about the beautiful. With the summer transfer window in full swing, most fans thoughts are understandably focused on comings and goings at their clubs. However, there are also some players at …

Barcelona finally get Griezmann, Tielemans returns to the Premier League, Arnautovic finally leaves England, and one club smashed its own transfer record. There has been £2.99bn spent in this transfer window thus far and it’s almost certain that the three billion mark will be broken by weekend’s end. Antoine Griezmann …

The 2019/2020 Premier League season will be as eagerly anticipated as any in its illustrious history, with fans of the 20 clubs full of optimism ahead of the new campaign. However, the season will finish with three teams disappointed, relegated from the Premier League millions and into the second tier after a …

I recently completed an experiment with Scottish Premiership teams to see what starting XI each side could play if they only used players that they had developed. I thought it would be interesting to try the same with Premier League teams. The differences were as expected, the Scottish sides were …

Every fan loves to see their clubs make a signing, and for some strange reason, the more they spend, the more we seem to get excited. However, the bigger the fee, the more expectation and pressure is placed upon these big money signings, with some of the biggest transfer fees …

A Liverpool player reunites with Steven Gerrard at Rangers, Real Madrid spend even more money, Mats Hummels returns to Borussia Dortmund and Dani Alves is a free agent after being released by PSG.  Since last week’s column, the transfer spend in the 2019 summer window broke the billion barrier. There …