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Manchester City, Premier League both claim victories after APT ruling delivered

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Manchester City, Premier League both claim victories after APT ruling delivered

Manchester City and the Premier League are both claiming victories after a ruling regarding the league’s Associated Party Transaction (APT) regulations was published. The ruling states that the Premier League’s APT rules and amendments, which were introduced in December 2021 and February of this year respectively, are “unlawful” and in breach of UK competition law […]

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Is this the end for football’s entire transfer system or not? (Or something else entirely?)

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Is this the end for football’s entire transfer system or not? (Or something else entirely?)

Something happened in Luxembourg on Friday that will either bring an end to football’s transfer system as we know it, make the stars even richer, jeopardise player development and ruin hundreds of clubs across Europe, or it will make FIFA rewrite a couple of sentences in its rulebook. As Sliding Doors moments go, that’s a

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Rodri is a symptom of a sport at breaking point – and we’re all to blame

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Rodri is a symptom of a sport at breaking point – and we’re all to blame

It had to be Rodri, didn’t it? The man who, before this season, according to football data website Transfermarkt, had missed just five games through injury for Manchester City since joining the club in 2019, is out — and possibly for the rest of the season. Why did it have to be Rodri who suffered

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Breaking down every single Man City vs Arsenal dark arts moment

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Breaking down every single Man City vs Arsenal dark arts moment

It was a meeting of the Premier League’s two best teams, a battle of tactical masters, a clash of technical brilliance and pure drama. Manchester City versus Arsenal just five games into the season lived up to its billing in many of the conventional ways and served up a memorable ending. Yet it also proved

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Manchester City vs Arsenal: Handling Haaland, set-piece threat – and does Arteta need the three points?

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Manchester City vs Arsenal: Handling Haaland, set-piece threat – and does Arteta need the three points?

Heading into this Premier League weekend, Manchester City were top of the table and Arsenal were in second place. It all feels extremely familiar. In 2022-23, Arsenal lost home and away to City, and finished five points behind them. Last season, Arsenal beat City in London but drew with them in Manchester and ended up

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Mikel Arteta’s time at Man City and the training drill that transformed Raheem Sterling

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Mikel Arteta’s time at Man City and the training drill that transformed Raheem Sterling

It is the training drill that helped transform Raheem Sterling from a zippy winger who narrowly reached double figures each season into a back-post assassin who was among the most lethal goalscoring wingers in Europe. The change happened in the 2017-18 season, Pep Guardiola’s second in charge of Manchester City, the club Sterling returns to

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How do Premier League teams kick off games in 2024-25?

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How do Premier League teams kick off games in 2024-25?

Plenty of attention has been paid to the new ‘Dynamic Kick-off’ regulations in American football’s NFL in the early days of its 2024 season but even in the fluid realm of the Premier League, how a team begins play is an increasingly-rehearsed process. And despite the ongoing evolution in intricate tactics, even the greatest of

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Erling Haaland is aiming for three hat-tricks in a row – but how rare a feat is it?

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Erling Haaland is aiming for three hat-tricks in a row – but how rare a feat is it?

On Saturday against Brentford, Erling Haaland will attempt to do something nobody has managed since 1946. The Manchester City striker has scored hat-tricks in his previous two Premier League games and if he can get another at the Etihad Stadium against Thomas Frank’s side this weekend, he will join a very exclusive list of players.

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Three games in is too early to trust the Premier League table… or is it?

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Three games in is too early to trust the Premier League table… or is it?

Nothing heralds the beginning of autumn more than people stating that it is “too early to look at the league table”. Listen to some and you might be convinced there was once a glorious era when those interested in football didn’t even glance at the standings until eight, 10, maybe even 12 games in. The

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