Marcus Rashford, Lamine Yamal & the Battle to Become Barcelona’s New Leading Light When Marcus Rashford boarded a flight to Catalunya in the summer of 2025, there was a sense of quiet uncertainty around him. Not hostility—not even skepticism—just a muted, collective shrug from the wider fo...

Giuliano Simeone Opens Up on Diego Simeone & Atletico’s Contract Plan For most young footballers, breaking into a Champions League squad is already a monumental task. For Giuliano Simeone, that climb has come with an extra layer of scrutiny thanks to the surname stitched across the back of his...

De la Fuente Quashes Talk of Rift Between Barcelona Star and Real Madrid Captain In a footballing landscape where every gesture and word between rivals is dissected and amplified, Spain boss Luis de la Fuente has moved quickly to pour cold water on talk of friction between Lamine Yamal and Dani Carv...

The Fairytale That Never Was For years, Barcelona and Lionel Messi were inseparable — two entities that defined each other, two names intertwined in footballing poetry. So when the whispers of a return began to grow in early 2023, fans dared to dream again. The idea of the Argentine GOAT walking b...

Conte’s Absence Highlights Napoli’s Mounting Concerns At Castel Volturno, the hum of training carries on — but the commanding voice of Antonio Conte is missing. After a turbulent few weeks marked by a damaging 2-0 defeat to Bologna and whispers of discontent, Napoli are training without their ...

How a former League One defender became the bridge between Europe and Africa for a new generation of Congolese stars For most footballers, international identity seems straightforward — you play for the country of your birth, the nation that shaped your childhood and your early dreams. But in toda...

‘Longevity Defines Him’: How Long Will Ronaldo Go On? Cristiano Ronaldo will walk out at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on Thursday night chasing yet another milestone—qualification for a record-breaking sixth FIFA World Cup. At 39 years old, the Portuguese icon remains football’s ultimate outlier...

Robertson Row Shows the Problems VAR Can Never Fix By Howard Webb’s own admission, the decision to disallow Virgil van Dijk’s goal against Manchester City wasn’t necessarily wrong—but it wasn’t definitively right either. Instead, it landed in VAR’s most dangerous grey area: subjective in...

Messi Return to Barcelona ‘Unrealistic’ Says Club President Laporta Barcelona president Joan Laporta has shut down speculation surrounding Lionel Messi’s return to the club, calling such a move “unrealistic.” However, Laporta confirmed plans to honor the Argentine legend with a tribute mat...

Break-in at Raheem Sterling’s Home While Family Was Inside Raheem Sterling and his family were victims of a traumatic home burglary in Berkshire on Saturday evening, while they were inside the house. The incident occurred shortly before Chelsea’s Premier League match against Wolves, a fixture fo...