The reason for the absolute silence is that in most cases when an allegation is made by a parent against a club what tends to happen is that the club then tells the parent that if they do make the ...

In short, having taken over world football by running the World Cup, Qatar has now achieved its second aim of running European football, by running PSG and being able to outbid anyone for any player ...

Out of the three of us, Arsenal were the only team to get a higher Xg than PSG, out performing them by 4.53 to 2.9. That is quite significant. Villa’s negative 2.79 to 3.64 isn’t too bad, but ...

To see how this works we then looked back after the last three seasons. In these tables we have the usual end-of-season table, followed by the column showing where these clubs were after seven games, ...

But there is a second point: we have most of these players in my list already on the boos. And that is a benefit because many newly transferred players take a while to settle in, (one might recall ...

Thierry Henry remains of course one of my all-time favourite players (the other, equally of course, was Dennis Bergkamp). And after a spell in international management it seems he is now back working ...

On one occasion he took this further specifying that he wanted three goal-keeprs and 22 players he could choose from to play in front of one of them. Later he revised this upwards to 23 or 24 ...

Of course, what we also have to remember is that Manchester City are now themselves running legal cases against the Premier League (of which of course they are members) and have threatened to keep ...

Now from Arsenal’s point of view that doesn’t look too bad given that the club has come second three years running following three finishes of 8th, 8th and 5th, but we might wonder about Chelsea who ...

So the list spells it out. The players who must be sold or even given away if they can’t be sold include, Tomiyasu. Nuno Tavares, Partey, Jorginho, Sambi Lokonga, Marquinhos, Nelson, Gabriel Jesus, ...