Olympique Lyonnais signed the thirty-year-old Angolan defender Clinton Mata from Club Brugge for €5 million in the summer of 2023. It was a first move abroad for the right-back, who had been born and raised in Belgium and had spent the entirety of his career thus far playing in the Belgian league system. Mata will […]
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Mama Baldé – Player Profile
Mama Samba Baldé was born in Bissau, the capital of the former Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, but he moved to Portugal aged six and played his junior football in the youth teams of Sintrense, from the historic town of Sintra, not far from Lisbon. He was picked up by Sporting Clube in […]
Lyon 0-0 Le Havre
Lyon were held to a disappointing goalless draw by a spirited Le Havre team at the Groupama Stadium on Sunday evening. It was their first match since the dismissal of manager Laurent Blanc during the international break, but the change in the dugout had no immediate effect. Lyon were still lacking in creativity and cohesion. […]
United suffer again at the hands of Brighton
Manchester United produced yet another poor performance against a buoyant Brighton and Hove Albion side, who had no trouble in collecting another three points from their latest visit to Old Trafford. Former United striker Danny Welbeck broke the deadlock in the 20th minute when he timed his run into the box perfectly to latch on […]
Athletic Club 3-0 Cádiz
Ernesto Valverde’s Athletic picked up their third win of the season to move up to a provisional third place in the table with a crushing 3-0 victory over Cádiz in front of 42,881 fans at the San Mamés. The home side had much the better of the first half and rattled the crossbar twice before […]
Manchester United U18 2-1 Nottingham Forest U18
Manchester United maintained their one hundred per cent start to the Under 18 Premier League season with a comeback win against Nottingham Forest at Carrington. They had to do it the hard way, having gone down to ten men in the 42nd minute after two yellow cards in quick succession saw Ashton Missin sent for […]
Bilbao Athletic rout Barbastro to kickstart season
Bilbao Athletic, the ‘B’ team of Athletic Club, thrashed Barbastro 4-0 at Lezama to pick up their first win of the season in Group II of the Segunda Federación, the fourth tier of the Spanish football pyramid. A pair of first half strikes from Iker Varela, either side of a fine direct free-kick from Urko […]
Losing start for Athletic Club Femenino
Athletic Club Femenino succumbed to a defeat in their opening Liga F match of the 2023-24 season. They were well beaten by Atlético de Madrid in the Spanish capital. The Basques managed to contain their opponents until half time, but their defence was finally breached by Sheila Guijarro with a header from a corner in […]
Summer ’23 transfer window verdict
The 2023 summer transfer window was a busy one for Manchester United manager Erik Ten Hag and his recruitment team, but it brought mixed results with the club being unable to shift some unwanted players and failing to strengthen the squad in a few crucial positions. One of the main priorities was to sign a […]
Fabio Grosso to be new Lyon manager
Lyon’s former left-back Fabio Grosso is to take over from Laurent Blanc as the new manager of the club following Blanc’s sacking earlier this week. The defender, who won the World Cup with Italy in 2006, played for Lyon for two seasons between 2007 and 2009 before signing for Juventus. He wound down his playing […]