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Player Focus: Quintero - Serie A's Loss is Porto's Gain

by James Horncastle at martes, ago. 6 2013 11:27
Player Focus: Quintero - Serie A's Loss is Porto's Gain When Porto sold James Rodriguez to Monaco for €45m in May, fans of the Dragões needn’t have worried. Knowing the club’s general manager, Antero Henrique, they were presumably confident that his network of some 250 scouts around the world would have identified a replacement.Af...
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Player Focus: Lack of Interest in Ben Yedder is Baffling

by Martin Laurence at lunes, ago. 5 2013 17:00
Player Focus: Lack of Interest in Ben Yedder is Baffling Franck Tabanou may have left, with talismanic captain Etienne Capoue expected to follow, but if Toulouse can keep hold of young forward Wissam Ben Yedder, who was a revelation in his breakthrough campaign with le Tefece, then they will still hold out hope for a productive season.The renewal of full-...
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Player Focus: Premier League Interest in Héctor Moreno is Little Surprise

by Ben McAleer at lunes, ago. 5 2013 15:45
Player Focus: Premier League Interest in Héctor Moreno is Little Surprise As the likes of Gareth Bale, Cesc Fàbregas and Luis Suárez dominate every gaping inch of the gossip columns this summer, the second and even third tier level of signings is often cruelly overlooked by the groundbreaking news that ‘a man has turned up to work’. While such st...
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Player Focus: Jurgen Klinsmann's Centre-Back Dilemma

by Graham Ruthven at viernes, ago. 2 2013 16:57
Player Focus: Jurgen Klinsmann's Centre-Back Dilemma Major League Soccer skeptics took a hit last week when Jurgen Klinsmann’s USA team lifted the Gold Cup for the fifth time in Chicago.Those who still doubt the strength and quality of North America’s top flight will be pointed to the USA’s 2013 Gold Cup winning squad, with 13 of the...
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Player Focus: Does An Impassioned Individual Decrease The Likelihood Of Team Success?

by Ben McAleer at viernes, ago. 2 2013 16:00
Player Focus: Does An Impassioned Individual Decrease The Likelihood Of Team Success? Football is a passionate sport. Wayne Rooney exhibited this in his foul mouthed tirade down the camera in 2011 during Manchester United’s 4-2 win over West Ham, with the striker netting a hat-trick. A two-match ban quickly followed and as Rooney hastily explained: “I didn’t realise...
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Player Focus: Powerful Papadopoulos Worth the Risk for Liverpool

by Martin Laurence at jueves, ago. 1 2013 17:44
Player Focus: Powerful Papadopoulos Worth the Risk for Liverpool With the Suarez transfer saga still ongoing, and getting more tedious by the day for all parties involved (and those who aren't), it seems Brendan Rodgers is still keen to strengthen his squad regardless of the future of Liverpool's prized asset.One area that the Ulsterman feels that he can add too ...
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Player Focus: How Franck Tabanou Can Improve Saint-Étienne

by Ben McAleer at miércoles, jul. 31 2013 15:00
Player Focus: How Franck Tabanou Can Improve Saint-Étienne Back in May,WhoScored.com had the pleasure of interviewing striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The then Saint-Étienne player spoke highly of Champions League runners’ up Borussia Dortmund, saying: “I have seen a lot of Borussia Dortmund’s matches, and I love their style of pl...
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Player Focus: Why Salomon Kalou Has His Premier League Admirers

by Ben McAleer at martes, jul. 30 2013 16:15
Player Focus: Why Salomon Kalou Has His Premier League Admirers When Chelsea secured the services of Salomon Kalou in 2006, José Mourinho at the time was delighted. He’d brought in a player who was prepared to work hard and showed an eagerness to improve in a new league. Regardless of his ethic, ‘Salou’, as Mourinho nicknamed him, never ...
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Player Focus: Is Playing Off The Last Defender A Useful Means Of Attack?

by Ben McAleer at martes, jul. 30 2013 10:15
Player Focus: Is Playing Off The Last Defender A Useful Means Of Attack? “That lad must’ve been born offside,” is one of the more memorable quips from former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. The veteran Scot was referring to Italian striker Filippo Inzaghi, the 39-year-old famed during his playing career for playing off the last defender as ...
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Player Focus: Why PSG Must Strive To Keep Hold Of Marco Verratti

by Ben McAleer at sábado, jul. 27 2013 12:00
Player Focus: Why PSG Must Strive To Keep Hold Of Marco Verratti When you’re dubbed the new Andrea Pirlo, it would be of little shock to see a player crumble under the pressure. Not Marco Verratti, however. The young Italian was a pivotal member of the Pescara side that secured promotion to Serie A in 2012 as Serie B champions. Under the tutelage of then he...
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