Ryan Baldi

1 week ago | sportinglife.com | Ryan Baldi

In the hours after Manchester United’s Europa League final defeat to Tottenham last week, Ruben Amorim’s position came under question. The Portuguese coach, hired to replace Erik Ten Hag in the Old Trafford dugout just last November, has overseen 16 defeats in 41 games and presided over United’s worst league finish in 50 years. They now face no European football next term for only the second time since 1990. “I am not going to talk about the future,” Amorim said after the Spurs loss in Bilbao.

2 weeks ago | sportinglife.com | Ryan Baldi

Florian Wirtz occupies a rare position within the landscape of European football. The 21-year-old is a clear future star, the subject of interest from Liverpool, Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid and valued at in excess of €100 million. Yet despite his tender years and sky-high potential, he is an established star in his homeland and, thanks to his lead role in Bayer Leverkusen’s unbeaten Bundesliga triumph in the 2023-24 season, he has already etched his name in history.

2 weeks ago | dazn.com | Ryan Baldi

Aaron Rodgers emerged in the midst of a celebrated generation of NFL quarterbacks and in the shadow of an all-time great. Yet the Golden State kid with the gilded arm bided his time before proving himself to be the measure of his peers and his predecessor to establish his own legacy of greatness. From the anguish of a draft-night slide to the euphoria of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy and earning four league MVPs, Rodgers’ career began with a fall but has been characterised by a meteoric rise.

2 weeks ago | football365.com | Ryan Baldi

Although they are due to meet in the final of the Europa League this week, there isn’t another football club on the continent who’d look to either Manchester United or Tottenham as an idealised vision for a successful – even functional – football team. The pair currently sit 16th and 17th respectively in the Premier League table. Neither side has won in their last five league fixtures. Over their most recent 20 Premier League games combined, they have mustered just two victories.

3 weeks ago | dazn.com | Ryan Baldi

The news that Trent Alexander-Arnold will leave Liverpool when his contract expires at the end of the season came as a surprise to no one when the England star confirmed his impending Anfield exit via social media on May 5. Although the 26-year-old’s farewell post gave no indication of which club he will join when he departs his boyhood side, it is football’s biggest open secret that he has agreed terms on a switch to Real Madrid ahead of next season.