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Player Focus: June 25th - Premier League Transfer Rumour Roundup

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Player Focus: June 25th - Premier League Transfer Rumour Roundup Yevhen KonoplyankaAfter being linked with a host of Europe’s big hitters in recent years, a move for Yevhen Konoplyanka never materialised, with the winger remaining at Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. A transfer to Liverpool 18 months ago failed to go through after club president Ihor Kolomoyski refuse...

Match Focus: Fenerbahce vs Besiktas - Make or Break for Bilic and Kartal

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Match Focus: Fenerbahce vs Besiktas - Make or Break for Bilic and Kartal The 2014/15 season was supposed to be the battle for the fourth star. Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, both 19-time Süper Lig champions were built up as the title contenders expected to lock horns in a gigantean race to be the first to get to 20… then along came Beşiktaş.The Black Eagl...

Team Focus: Will Bilic's Besiktas Quartet Fire Them Past Liverpool & to the Title?

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Team Focus: Will Bilic's Besiktas Quartet Fire Them Past Liverpool & to the Title? Besiktas have good players, a good front four with Demba Ba at the top of it, Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers was quoted as saying ahead of the Europa League Round of 32 clash against the Black Eagles.Slaven Bilic’s side are involved in a tight three-horse race at the top of the table, with ...

Team Focus: Slaven Bilic and the Besiktas Revolution

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Team Focus: Slaven Bilic and the Besiktas Revolution “Nobody else wanted to run this club, we were on the verge of collapse,” Fikret Orman stated after his election as Beşiktaş president in 2012. Beşiktaş were in a real mess. The club was in debt to the tune of $325 million, facing 142 lawsuits and suspension from UEFA competitions for bei...

Match Focus: Can Slaven Bilic Pull Off Another Upset in England?

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Match Focus: Can Slaven Bilic Pull Off Another Upset in England? The number 13 lived up to its unlucky reputation as Arsenal failed to extend their run of 12 consecutive UEFA Champions League play-off victories. Had Demba Ba converted his chances, it could have resulted in Arsene Wenger leaving Istanbul with a mild case of triskaidekaphobia but lady luck didn&rsq...

Player Focus: Can Costa Become Mourinho's New Drogba?

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Player Focus: Can Costa Become Mourinho's New Drogba? By now, none of it is a secret.Chelsea did not win the English title because they did not have enough goals in them. Jose Mourinho has expressly admitted he wants to sign a high-profile striker this summer. That striker is now highly likely to be Atlético Madrid’s Diego Costa, given the...

Team Focus: Mourinho's Criticism of Chelsea Strikers Warranted

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Team Focus: Mourinho's Criticism of Chelsea Strikers Warranted Jose Mourinho’s frustration with his centre-forward options weren’t hard to discern even before the Champions League tie away to Paris Saint Germain, when he fielded Andre Schurrle as a false nine and then made his loaded post-match comments about “real forwards”. Unless he r...

Team Focus: The Worrying Lack of Progress at Chelsea

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Team Focus: The Worrying Lack of Progress at Chelsea Rafa Benitez has been fighting an uphill battle at Stamford Bridge ever since his appointment as interim manager back in November, his affiliation with Liverpool simply too much for many fans to overcome. Results echoed these problems, with away performances and results significantly better than in ...

Fantasy Football Tipster: Gameweek 25

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Fantasy Football Tipster: Gameweek 25 So the transfer window has slammed shut in the Premier League, but the advantage of you managing a fantasy football team rather than the real deal is the wheeling and dealing needn't stop here.We're back with our regular tipster XI ahead of gameweek 25 and though many will be pinning their hopes on ...

Player Focus: Premier League's Most Crucial Front Men

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Player Focus: Premier League's Most Crucial Front Men It is fair to say that some strikers are so central to their side's success in front of goal that their absence would have a disastrous impact on the team.The individual that perhaps epitomises that theory the most is Luis Suarez, though this weekend Liverpool faced another man whose importance to a...