Source: From the Banks of the River Irwell The last few seasons of watching Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona dominate European football also saw a distinct change in the role of players in some positions. Namely Lionel Messi, although not solely Messi and not only players at Barcelona. Cristiano Ronaldo, Theo Walcott, RvP, Thomas Muller, Karim Benzema, Cesc 

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Taken from Vikings Bloggen Before every season of every league teams play a couple of matches to test their match fitness and the teams preparedness for the coming season. Well that’s what they say there for.Preseason friendlies have become one of the most useless things in football. Matches that are scheduled to showcase a world 

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Taken from Transat Sports After having barely been given any time to rest from the Euros, the new, highly anticipated RPL season is upon us. And it’s going to be a season like no other. Following the slightly strange structure of last season, which stretched almost a year and a half in total, this one won’t 

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Is Robert Lewandowski a viable replacement for Robin Van Persie? With the domestic seasons drawing nearer for European sides, transfer rumors have gone into overdrive, with one of the dominating sagas surrounding Arsenal Football Club: specifically about captain Robin van Persie. With the tabloids picking up on the uncertainty of the captain’s uncertain future at the 

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Admittedly last season did not turn out to be their finest - despite their initial dominance domestically and in Europe, Barcelona ended the campaign without winning a respected trophy as well as losing their most successful manager in Pep Guardiola. Their Copa Del Rey win acted as little consolation.But in a generation of world football 

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Taken from Bettor When Harry Redknapp was sacked many pessimists and ‘Arry’s media friends predicted a mass exodus from Tottenham. In reality this hasn’t happened; quite the reverse in-fact. Bale has signed a new contract, Rafael van der Vaart has reiterated his desire to stay despite interest from Germany and Adebayor is supposed to be signing 

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Taken from Football Wallpaper 7 #1: Manchester City: The defending Premier League Champions have had an astonishingly quiet summer compared to the past few seasons. With very little entries and the transfer of Robin Van Persie from Arsenal looking a lot less likely, the Citizens main involvement in the transfer market looks to be in the 

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Taken from Zimbio I’m sure many of you are aware of the Robin van Persie situation by now. I won’t bore you with another blog vilifying him as I’m sure there’s many out there. The situation that’s currently taking place and escalating at Arsenal has affirmed my thoughts: Arsenal are stuck in a vicious circle. 

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