​ Spurs 1 place behind Rangers in table  ©IMAGO After Tottenham’s latest capitulation against Chelsea on Sunday, there wasn’t even enough fans left in the stadium to hear audible widespread booing as the full-time whistle sounded. But there is becoming a clear feeling of frustration around the naivety of Ange Postecoglou’s Spurs team. Across 2024, only Wolves (20),…

​ 496 players updated  ©TM/IMAGO Transfermarkt has updated the market values of 496 Liga MX players, and Georgios Giakoumakis remains the most valuable player at the very top. But while the former Atlanta United star remains unchanged with a market value of €9m, another former MLS star, Brandon Vazquez, saw his market value drop as part of…

​ 434 players updated  ©TM/IMAGO This December, Transfermarkt has updated the market values of 434 players in the Belgian Jupiler Pro League. Two Club Brugge stars now share the mantle of the league’s most valuable player. 20-year-old South American defender Joel Ordoñez doubles in value from €9 million to €18m, whilst Greek winger Christos Tzolis rises from €12m…

​Chelsea supporters will be keeping an eye on their side’s game while at work in the UK ahead of a bizarre early kick-off in the Conference League 

​ 3-2 victory over RB Leipzig  ©Imago/Content stadium If Aston Villa had any trepidation about sitting at the top table of European football after returning to Europe’s top tournament for the first time since 1982, it certainly wasn’t on show on Tuesday night. At a loud Red Bull Arena in Saxony, the Premier League giants went blow-for-blow…

​ Talents Calendar  ©TM/IMAGO Uzbekistan were one of the big surprises at last year’s U17 World Cup. The team survived the group phase and eliminated England (2-1), then only lost narrowly to eventual runners-up France (0-1). Among the standout players was center-back Azizbek Tulkinbekov, who started every game at the tournament. Then, after the World Cup,…

​ Chris Wood becomes Forest no.1  ©TM/IMAGO Whilst Mohamed Salah and Erling Haaland currently lead the Premier League goalscoring charts with 13 goals apiece, one of the revelations of the season has been Nottingham Forest’s Chris Wood. The New Zealand international has 10 goals in the English top-flight this term, and with his goal at Old Trafford on Saturday became…

​ Talents Calendar  ©TM/IMAGO Dominant was always the adjective to describe Mattia Liberali—and it is also likely to describe him in the future. La Dominante, on the other hand, is the club where the young talent played until 2015 before he joined Milan Futuro, the newly founded reserve side of AC Milan.  Liberali, who grew…

​ Without Puig  ©TM/IMAGO The wait is over for the Los Angeles Galaxy. After a ten-year wait, Major League Soccer’s most historical club has finally added MLS Cup number six to the trophy cabinet. The LA Galaxy beat Eastern Conference champions New York Red Bulls 2-1 thanks to goals by Joseph Paintsil (10’) and Dejan Joveljic (13’) in…

​ 11 points lowest ever final total  ©TM/IMAGO A familiar theme occurred at St Mary’s on Wednesday night. Not only were 10-man Southampton taken apart and beaten 5-1 by Chelsea, but they were the architects of their own downfall yet again, giving the ball away time and time again in their own defensive third. The frustration…