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 ...

The job of the pundit is primarily to tell us what will happen in the future. Many pundits just make things up, although they usually claim that what they write is based on “inside information” (which ...

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 ...

According to the Guardian PSG was “Bought for €70m (£59m) in 2011” and is now “valued between €3.5bn and €4.2bn.” So there we are, in one sentence, that is why people buy football clubs: to make them ...

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 ...

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As I am sure you are aware, the 130 or so cases brought against Manchester City FC are still outstanding. Dates have been whispered for when a conclusion might come, and they have all gone by without ...

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 ...