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farmer's confederation

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia's record of two league titles and a European Cup this season matches Aston Villa between 1910 and 1982

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Welcome to the first edition of The Transfer DealSheet for the 2025 summer window. This is our weekly guide to the transfer market. ■ David Ornstein's One To Watch ■ Arsenal exploring Leroy Sane option ■ Manchester City exploring Rayan Cherki deal

Ciao to the Giro d’Italia, a swaying, roiling, simmering classic. To be remembered for the birth of El Torito and absolution in the Finestre. Some final takeaways with Duncan Alexander, Chris Waugh, & Tim Spiers: nytimes.com/athletic/63974…

Support a Premier League club? Heard a lot about PSR but still a bit perplexed? Fear not - I've looked at *every* 2025-26 Premier League club and how they're sitting from a PSR perspective as their 2024-25 accounting period ends near The Athletic | Football 👇 nytimes.com/athletic/63845…

Rayan Cherki might well have been ambling into a game of five-a-side as he was brought on as a substitute at the MHP Arena in Stuttgart on Thursday night; looking around, directing a few assuring nods to his team-mates, drifting into a vague area of the pitch that looked about

don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened

Tottenham won the Europa League on May 21. Four days later they finished 17th in the Premier League. Today they sacked Ange Postecoglou. It’s been a historically bad domestic season — but they ended a 17-year trophy drought. When Postecoglou’s team were truly on it, they were

'Crunched the numbers' is doing an incredible amount of heavy lifting here. A remarkable decision to put these two sentences next to one another

Postecoglou at Spurs was essentially the opposite of the manager he was framed as. He did two great “short-term” jobs: a new manager bounce, and then a back-to-basics spell to win a trophy. The long-term philosophy stuff? Less solid. nytimes.com/athletic/64028…

Welcome to the Club World Cup edition of The Radar. We’ve profiled 50 players at the tournament, with all 32 teams represented. We’ve separated them into four tiers: ▪️ Legend ▪️ World class ▪️ Key player ▪️ Next generation There are players born in the eighties, the nineties

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100 years today since the transformative offside rule change of 1925. An article on how it shaped football, and the player who cracked the code both before and after 1925, with Michael Walker nytimes.com/athletic/64154…

How can Liverpool afford Florian Wirtz? My latest for The Athletic | Football nytimes.com/athletic/64242…

It has been two weeks since the Finestre, and Richard Carapaz is able to look back at his Giro analytically. Spoke to him about what really happened on Stage 20, his plans for the Tour de France, and the impact of this winter’s training in Ecuador. nytimes.com/athletic/64219…

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Mykhailo Mudryk is the latest high-profile player to face a lengthy ban for a positive drug test. He’s maintained his innocence, like plenty of others. But it raises the question: does football have a doping problem? ✍🏻⬇️ nytimes.com/athletic/62481…

Who has really played the most games in the history of football? Is it still Peter Shilton or has Brazilian goalkeeper Fábio now surpassed him? My look at the facts and numbers concerning the epic careers of both men: nytimes.com/athletic/64348…