Anytime a young English player does something noteworthy, I always get the same pang of anxiety - there’s always the same fear that, within days, the player will have the comfort of developing in relative anonymity snatched away from him.
Yes, Jesse Lingard scored four times in the Championship on Saturday but no, that does not m [...]
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Getting protective over Manchester United’s Jesse Lingard and his future
Anytime a young English player does something noteworthy, I always get the same pang of anxiety - there’s always the same fear that, within days, the player will have the comfort of developing in relative anonymity snatched away from him.
Yes, Jesse Lingard scored four times in the Championship on Saturday but no, that does not m [...]
Player to watch in 2013/14: Glen Johnson - Liverpool
Liverpool
Outside of Liverpool, Glen Johnson is a whipping-boy - he’s the archetypal full-back who wants to be a winger, and whose offensive attributes outweigh what he’s capable of contributing in his own half.
Some of that is harsh, some of it is fair - but it’s also only right to acknowledge that Johnson was [...]
Player to watch in 2013/14: Stevan Jovetic - Manchester City
By now, anybody who wasn’t previously aware of Stevan Jovetic before he moved to England has YouTube’s his goals and studied his statistics.
Yes, the Montenegro international is a very fine footballer who will doubtless be an asset to Manchester City and the Premier League as a whole, but it’s his adaptability that interests [...]
Player to watch in 2013/14: Christian Benteke - Aston Villa
Aston Villa
For all the ugliness which has been associated with Christian Benteke this Summer, he is going to be an Aston Villa player for the foreseeable future - and that will create a lot of interesting talking points during the season.
It’s an obvious point to make, but this will be the second time around for Benteke, and defe [...]
Player to watch in 2013/14: Laurent Koscielny - Arsenal
Arsenal
Anyone who now claims to have predicted that when Laurent Koscielny first arrived in England, back in 2010, he would turn into one of the finest defenders in the Premier League is probably being revisionist - the Frenchman was a raw as anything when we first saw him.
The most intriguing thing about Koscielny now though, is that [...]
Manchester United, Manchester City, and the ‘new Luka Modric’
The Premier League Owl
Alen Halilovic is quite unlucky, because looking the way he does there was only ever going to be one player who he was compared to. Floppy light brown hair, pointy features, small in stature, technically astute, and Croatian.
He must be the ‘new Luka Modric’. Have fun living-up to that billing.
Anyway, [...]
Promising players: West Ham’s Blair Turgott
The Premier League Owl
England’s 2011 u17 World Cup has quickly produced a couple of really good players who are starting to break into the first-teams of their respective clubs. Raheem Sterling obviously, but also Adam Morgan at Liverpool, Nathan Redmond at Birmingham, Nick Powell at Manchester United, and Jake Forster-Caskey at Brig [...]
Players to watch in 2012/13: Swansea’s Michu
The Premier League Owl
Mid-way through last season, Miguel Perez Cuesta was being linked with a move to Manchester United - score fifteen goals in La Liga from midfield, and that’s the kind of attention that will follow.
With Joe Allen heading to Liverpool, Swansea are now potentially missing a piece in their midfield ahead of th [...]
Players to watch in 2012/13: Tottenham’s Sandro
The Premier League Owl
What a monster.
Sandro may have had his pre-season decimated by Olympic duty, but as and when he returns to his club, expect him to develop into Tottenham’s heartbeat this year.
The Brazilian is criminally under-appreciated outside of White Hart Lane, and that’s maybe because you’ll rarely see him on [...]
Arsenal rumoured to be circling Luciano Narsingh
Maybe Theo Walcott wants to have a quick look at the video below, because it’s a pretty demonstration of how a winger should use his pace. Don’t fancy it, Theo? Ok then…
This rumour has started appearing on a few sites - admittedly that’s probably just because they copy and paste each other’s content &# [...]
