Earlier this week, Celtic approached the Scottish Professional Football League to question whether the correct process was followed over the postponement of their league game at Aberdeen. The Premiership fixture was called off at 16:20 GMT on Wednesday – fewer than four hours before kick-off. On the latest postponement against Motherwell, Aberdeen said: “A match […]
Leicester spent just over £100m to sign six players across the 2021-22 and 2022-23 campaigns. It was not just the transfer fees which were to cause issues, it was the salaries and the contracts. The club’s wage bill ballooned to £206m. “Everybody assumed that they would a top-eight club,” Football finance expert Kieran Maguire told […]
Despite retaining Mateta, who is Palace’s top scorer with eight league goals this season, the Eagles paid a club record fee to sign striker Jorgen Strand Larsen from Wolves. Palace were also on the verge of bringing in Everton winger Dwight McNeil until the deal fell through late on deadline day. Glasner said he had […]
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain aims to “get as fit as possible as quickly as possible” as he prepares to join Celtic, according to manager Martin O’Neill. The 32-year-old former Arsenal and Liverpool midfielder has agreed to join the Scottish champions for the remainder of the season, with O’Neill saying he will have a medical on Saturday. Oxlade-Chamberlain […]
Former Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher says the death of Diogo Jota means performances and results at his old club are not quite as important this season. Portuguese winger Jota died in a car crash last summer at the age of 28. Jota scored 65 goals in 182 appearances for the Reds, helping them win the […]
Based on fourth-round evidence, top-flight Falkirk should be aware of banana skins when they go to Stenhousemuir – live on the BBC – in the weekend’s final tie on Sunday (19:30 GMT). Gary Naysmith’s side, currently challenging at the top of the third tier, dismantled Championship Greenock Morton by four goals at Ochilview in the […]
There are few other British bosses of any age in the Premier League at present – just six permanent bosses in total (far fewer than the number of ‘home’ managers in every other major league in Europe) – as well as Michael Carrick who is at Manchester United until the end of the season. One […]
Bristol Rovers defender Tom Lockyer is an ambassador for the British Heart Foundation, having collapsed twice on the pitch while playing for Luton Town in separate matches in 2023. Lockyer collapsed on the pitch during the Championship play-off final against Coventry and then suffered a cardiac arrest seven months later in a Premier League fixture […]
The Arsenal triple up feels obvious and owning at least two of their defensive assets is essential right now. The Gunners host Sunderland and then have a double gameweek of Brentford and Wolves next week. Very few, if any, of their attackers will get 270 minutes over the three games and those that own the […]
Granted, West Brom seem to be a major talking point every few days at the moment. But until things improve, the talk will not stop. And it got even worse for the Baggies on Tuesday night as Blackburn’s 1-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday meant Albion dropped into the Championship’s bottom three for the first time […]