Tag: ligue 1

A Kylian Mbappe vs Usain Bolt 100m race? Fun, but football isn’t played in straight lines

Footballers are pretty fast. Perhaps with 2024 being an Olympic year, there is even more temptation to compare them to actual sprinters.This summer’s...

PSG’s Nasser Al-Khelaifi told Barcelona’s Joan Laporta to give up on ‘stupid’ Super League

Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi asked his Barcelona counterpart Joan Laporta to give up on the “stupid” Super League, ahead of this month’s...

PSG 2 Barcelona 3: The tactical to-and-fro, a glimpse of Barca’s future and Mbappe quelled

It turns out the thrills and spills of this week’s Champions League quarter-final first legs were not reserved for the Bernabeu or Emirates...

Chelsea, Strasbourg, BlueCo and a multi-club model yet to convince a sceptical fanbase

A young team struggling in mid-table despite significant investment. Fans regularly making their displeasure known. Constant negative scrutiny over the direction the club...

Luis Enrique provides Paris Saint-Germain with calm in the eye of a storm

Luis Enrique was well aware that becoming Paris Saint-Germain head coach was going to pose unique challenges. He was given a baptism of...

Napoli president refuses to rule out Victor Osimhen exit, release clause is ‘a very big amount of money’

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis says he cannot prevent Victor Osimhen leaving the club this summer, as he also admitted the striker has...