Manchester United and Real Madrid sit atop of the global shirt sale charts with 1.4 million shirts sold per season on average over the past five years. United and Madrid are two of the three teams that have managed to surpass the one million mark between 2007-08 and 2011-12, with Spanish titans Barcelona completing the […]
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World class “water carriers” – The importance of holding midfielders
Back in the 1990′s, flamboyant France and Manchester United star Eric Cantona derisively labelled Didier Deschamps, the captain of the 1998 World Cup winning French team, a ‘water carrier’. The current Les Bleus coach, who used to play as a central defensive midfielder, did not for sure have the skill and panache of a Zinedine […]
Talented Teenagers in the EPL & The NextGen Series
Now that the World Cup qualifiers are finally behind us, we can look forward to a welcome return to club football over the upcoming weekend. If that isn’t exciting enough, we at TKTG thought it would be a good time to get the mouths watering over the talented youngsters that are putting pressure on their […]
Financial Fair Play (FFP)
How exactly will Financial Fair Play affect clubs? What exactly is Financial Fair Play? (FPP). TKTG has two articles which explains how FPP will work and how it affects your club. The Swiss Ramble is an excellent source for all things financial in the football world. He looks in detail at FPP and clubs […]
Transfer Window: Deadline Day!
The final and decisive day of the summer transfer window is finally upon us and you can be sure that there will be a lot of action in the form of wild rumours, hectic negotiations and eleventh-hour deals. As your one-stop-source to all things football, TKTG has brought you the best links so that you […]
The Bosman Legacy
Until 1995, players were completely at the mercy of their clubs and shuddered at the thought that their employer might no longer see any use for them when their contracts were up but would refuse to sell them to a competitor, as happened to Bosman. Clubs could jerk even their best players around as they […]
A point of principle for Arsene Wenger NOT to sell van Persie to Manchester United
” There are more than three weeks left in the transfer window and there’s only one club left in the hunt for Robin van Persie. Well, two actually. That’s because everyone appears to have disregarded Arsenal in this and just assumed that van Persie would be sold to the highest bidder. Manchester United are the […]
Milan will always be huge
” Since 2000, in many ways, AC Milan has been the trendsetter at the top of Italian club soccer. In the past decade, the San Siro club’s transfer policy has influenced the way other clubs in the country operates. When Milan decides to import Brazilians to lead the team, other Italian clubs scour all of […]
The forgotten man Aquilani
Recruited by Rafa Benitez in the summer of 2009, as a 20 million pound replacement for Xabi Alonso, Soccernet.com’s Adam Digby discusses where things went wrong for Alberto Aquilani.
Where to for RVP?
Robin van Persie doesn’t fancy City, is going off Juve, costs too much for United and has no way back at Arsenal… So what next? Robin van Persie is in danger of running out of options – and if Arsenal can complete a deal for Santi Cazorla, he may end up feeling rather like a […]
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