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League Focus: How the Super Lig's Big Summer Signings are Settling In

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Nov 27 2015 17:00
League Focus: How the Super Lig's Big Summer Signings are Settling In The relaxation of the foreign player ruling over the summer resulted in an influx of non-Turkish players to the Super Lig this summer. The most high profile names came in the form of forwards with the likes of former Manchester United duo Luis Nani and Robin van Persie joining Fenerbahçe. Luk...
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Player Focus: Can Costa Become Mourinho's New Drogba?

by Miguel Delaney at Thursday, May 15 2014 12:49
Player Focus: Can Costa Become Mourinho's New Drogba? By now, none of it is a secret.Chelsea did not win the English title because they did not have enough goals in them. Jose Mourinho has expressly admitted he wants to sign a high-profile striker this summer. That striker is now highly likely to be Atlético Madrid’s Diego Costa, given the...
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Team Focus: The Premier League Newcomers XI

by Ben McAleer at Tuesday, May 13 2014 14:30
Team Focus: The Premier League Newcomers XI Each summer, a raft of new players arrive in the Premier League, be they big money signings or youth-team products. Some go on to succeed in England’s top tier, others fail to cut the grade and are quickly forgotten.With that, we here at WhoScored.com have formulated a team of the season of pl...
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Team Focus: Mourinho's Criticism of Chelsea Strikers Warranted

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Apr 14 2014 16:36
Team Focus: Mourinho's Criticism of Chelsea Strikers Warranted Jose Mourinho’s frustration with his centre-forward options weren’t hard to discern even before the Champions League tie away to Paris Saint Germain, when he fielded Andre Schurrle as a false nine and then made his loaded post-match comments about “real forwards”. Unless he r...
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Player Focus: WhoScored Team of the Week Analysed

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Jan 22 2014 11:34
Player Focus: WhoScored Team of the Week Analysed Past the midway point in the season and Europe's leagues are taking shape. There are in each division favourites breaking free at the top, intriguing battles emerging for the Champions League places and relegation battles primed for the final strait. Here, we take an in-depth look at the European te...
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Match Report: More Misery for Moyes as Eto'o Puts United to the Sword

by Alistair Tweedale at Monday, Jan 20 2014 09:45
Match Report: More Misery for Moyes as Eto'o Puts United to the Sword Chants of David Moyes, we want you to stay rang out at Stamford Bridge on Sunday afternoon, but while the visiting fans might have voiced unrelenting support for their team, it was the Chelsea fans that sang the under-pressure Manchester United manager's name the more vociferously. Opposing fans are...
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Match Report: Samuel Eto'o Proves He's Deserving Of Being Chelsea's Starting Striker

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Oct 21 2013 09:00
Match Report: Samuel Eto'o Proves He's Deserving Of Being Chelsea's Starting Striker “It's up to me to prove he was wrong,” were the words of Romelu Lukaku following Everton's defeat to Manchester City before the international break. Chelsea fans were somewhat bemused as to why the powerful Belgian was loaned out for the season following an impressive Premier League camp...
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Team Focus: Chelsea Wobble Not Yet Reason to Worry

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Sep 16 2013 12:36
Team Focus: Chelsea Wobble Not Yet Reason to Worry Defeats happen. It’s the nature of football, far more of which than we often like to imagine is rooted in luck. In Chris Anderson and David Sally’s book The Numbers Game, they estimate that the result of any individual game is based roughly 50% in luck: talent tends to win out over the c...
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Player Focus: Top 10 Summer Transfers

by Tancredi Palmeri at Friday, Sep 6 2013 17:17
Player Focus: Top 10 Summer Transfers In the end, the Premier League did it. It retained its reputation as the most attractive league to join, stealing the show with numerous marque signings in the transfer window just passed. However, La Liga’s acquisitions were almost as impressive, and – for a change – it wasn&rsquo...
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Team Focus: Chelsea's Striker Search Starts But Doesn't End With Rooney

by Miguel Delaney at Wednesday, Aug 21 2013 14:40
Team Focus: Chelsea's Striker Search Starts But Doesn't End With Rooney Jose Mourinho, typically, wasn’t backwards about his forwards. When the returned Chelsea manager was asked on Tuesday whether he had a “plan B” if he fails in his public pursuit of Wayne Rooney, his reply was instantaneous.“And C.”Of course, the reason is also that Mour...
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