While some players coming from leagues, even within Europe, take a season or two to adapt to the English Premier League, the plucky Mexican Javier Hernandez seems to have been born for it. In the 2010-2011 season, his first, he scored a stunning 20 goals in all competitions for Manchester United.
Even as Turkey hosts a colourful and highly competitive FIFA Under 20 World Cup, there are dark clouds hanging menacingly over Turkish football.
With Juve combing Europe in search of a reliable goal scorer, it’s worth noting how the Old Lady has consistently looked to France to fulfil its goal-scoring needs.
I think it’s fair to say that a spell at Real Madrid has done a number of careers in. This is in no way an indictment on the club, although it also is, in a way.
If it’s not like watching a graceful ballet, it’s like reading a deft peom. Watching Neymar glide past opponents, making sturdy pros look like fumbling bad guys in a slapstick scene, is art in motion.
With the incredible displays he put in for Udinese this past season, I’m surprised how little interest Colombian forward Luis Muriel seems to have generated in the press
The England Under-21 side that supposedly went to the Europe U-21 Championship in Israel may well have been on a tour of the Holy Land
It seems to the casual observer that the Dutch have a conveyer belt of young forwards. While teams all over Europe are drooling over Luuk De Jong and Adam Maher, there are other attackers in their under-21 team that have caught the eye.