French football correspondent for @guardian and @WorldSoccerMag, Get Football Editor-in-Chief (@GFFN & Co.) & 9 years @FootballRadar's Senior Ligue 1&2 Analyst.
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Joined November 2013
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New from me on Ligue 1's relegation battle. 10 teams could yet be drawn in, who's best placed to survive? theguardian.com/football/202…
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New from me for @guardian_sport, a look at Ligue 1's surprise European challengers, Stade Brest.
theguardian.com/football/202…
My latest for the @guardian, Bruno Génésio worries for his job after Rennes lose to lowly Lyon in Ligue 1. theguardian.com/football/202…
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🖊️ | For @guardian, a look at Lyon's utter disarray - is relegation possible? theguardian.com/football/202…
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Not sure Chelsea were all that good, as coverage suggests. They cleverly nullified Arsenal build up but didn't create much & only led via a dodgy pen and a fluke. Plus Arsenal were terrible for an hour+. Palmer/Sterling only intermittently had an affect, they set up like a side who know they're playing a superior force and got lucky.
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Funny how PSG finally invested in defense but signed the wrong profiles.
Hernandez, Skriniar & Ugarte are more defensively minded than progressive and (along with Gigi + even Hakimi/Marq) aren't remotely press resistant by CL standards as NUFC exposed.
Start again?... Again?
Newcastle lead not a surprise, they're the perfect team to expose PSG who don't have the technical quality, boldness, experience or plan to break their press, or any decent press tbh.
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Chelsea's last 35 PL games = a relegation season:
P 35
W 6
D 12
L 17
Pts 30
The 0.86 points per game here works out to just 33 points over 38 games. Leicester went down with 34 last year.
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🖊️ | For @guardian, Marseille are a managerless mess and their fans deserve much of the blame. theguardian.com/football/202…
🖊️ | The Lens rise might be over, bringing disastrous consequences.
bit.ly/3PJHiwS
🖊️ | Nice's defeat of PSG offers a simple blueprint for Paris' tough Champions League opponents - could PSG finish bottom of their group? theguardian.com/football/202…
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With Ligue 1 returning tomorrow, check out our super season guide.
Loads of fun to design as always!
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Nicolas Jackson really sticks out on this list.
Ok, it's early & a small sample size but a 9 was Chelsea's key summer signing but they took their biggest risk. No real CV but needs to score 25+ goals for an already wasteful team - so easily could go wrong. The form of the rest here just underlines the underperformance too.
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Interesting experiment potentially but can't see it going well.
Nagelsmann needs time + consistency to translate his specific ideas, he won't get it. The considered methodical style/experience of Deschamps, Löw, even Southgate, goes far in internationals. Not sure he has that.
The DFB have begun talks with Julian Nagelsmann - what could his backroom staff look like and what are the factors stopping the 36-year-old from becoming Germany's new head coach? The details. (Sport1)
bit.ly/44Vl13k
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Huge for TéFéCé, could keep them up after a poor transfer window.
Lens' Stijn Spierings (27) is set to rejoin Toulouse on loan, just a matter of months after leaving the club on a free transfer - the situation. (L'Éq)
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Both the most joyful & most frustrating L1 player of the last decade.
Unique, supremely talented + routinely brilliant but has failed (by some way) to reach his potential. Could (should) be the best midfielder of his generation. Should have looked after himself better too.
Official | Marco Verratti's (30) 11-year stay at PSG has come to an end. The Italian midfielder has signed for Qatari side Al-Arabi.
getfootballnewsfrance.com/20…
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Flick is the first-ever Germany manager to be sacked outright, but that says more about how average his team is (outside midfield) than his abilities as a coach.
Germany have forgotten how to produce players like Miroslav Klose, just as key to winning as all their technicality.
The DFB have begun their search for a new Bundestrainer having dismissed Hansi Flick, but who is the right man to take charge of the team with a home Euros on the horizon. bit.ly/45OzJKM
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