As 2024 attracts to a detailed, The Guardian newspaper has launched its annual rating of the 100 greatest soccer gamers on this planet. This yr’s listing crowns Manchester Metropolis’s Rodri because the primary participant, a major achievement for the Spanish midfielder. The rating, nonetheless, reveals a notable shift within the high positions with Lionel Messi dropping considerably from earlier years. …

Comeback wins have occurred extra usually than ever within the Premier League for the reason that begin of final season, making 2024 a classic 12 months for followers of fightbacks – and a very testing one for Tottenham followers. With 63 video games contributing, the 16.6% of matches to characteristic a victory from behind in 2023/24 represented the best share …

The percentages might have tipped barely in favour of Newcastle forward of their Carabao Cup semi-final conflict in opposition to Arsenal at The Emirates. A Sandro Tonali-inspired Toon breezed previous Thomas Frank’s Brentford in a snug house victory to arrange the conflict with the Gunners, who we’ve got already beat at St. James Park this season. Earlier than Mikel Arteta’s …

December 23 – The European Membership Affiliation, the influential physique representing lots of of golf equipment throughout Europe, have dismissed the newest plans to launch a 96-team breakaway league.  The unique European Tremendous League (ESL), backed by 12 of the continent’s largest golf equipment, evaporated nearly in a single day after it was controversially launched in 2021. Below the proposed revamp …

Barcelona are going via a tough interval, which was additional compounded by a current defeat to Atletico Madrid. The membership have managed to win simply one in every of their final seven league matches and are at the moment going via their worst run in 16 years. Regardless of that, there stays an air of optimism throughout the ranks at …

Pundit Giuseppe Bergomi has instructed that Juventus could signal as much as two defenders through the January switch window, as Thiago Motta reportedly plans to shift Andrea Cambiaso away from defensive obligations. Cambiaso, a proficient participant who has primarily been deployed as a full-back, possesses notable offensive expertise that Motta believes are underutilised when he’s confined to a defensive position. …

December 23 – A industrial court docket in A Coruña has ordered the web site’ Roja Driecta’s s mother or father firm, Puerto 80 Tasks, and its director, Igor Seoane, to pay €31.6 million in damages to Grup MediaPro for illegally pirating soccer broadcasts, together with LaLiga matches from the 2014/15 season.   The court docket discovered Puerto 80 and …

It has been near 4 months since FC Barcelona teenage prodigy Marc Bernal suffered a disheartening ACL damage simply three video games into his breakthrough season with the primary workforce. Simply 17 years previous, Bernal made such an impression on supervisor Hansi Flick in pre-season that he was an anointed starter for the primary three La Liga matches of the …

Premier League followers have been gifted with an early Christmas current on Sunday as Tottenham and Liverpool performed out a nine-goal thriller. The Reds triumphed 6-3 in North London as Ange Postecoglou’s facet as soon as once more threw warning to the wind towards the free-flowing league leaders. Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah each scored twice, with Dominik Szoboszlai and …

With the brand new 12 months on the horizon, FC Barcelona are nonetheless working to kind out the registrations of Spanish duo Dani Olmo and Pau Victor for the second half of the season. The summer season arrivals had been solely registered till December 31 again once they arrived and should be re-registered with an answer but to be discovered. …