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Hot Prospect Scout: Five Top Young Defensive Midfielders

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Hot Prospect Scout: Five Top Young Defensive Midfielders The latest in our series of scout reports on a number of top young players across Europe sees us switch our attentions to defensive midfielders, all of whom may not be big names now but should enhance their reputations next season. As ever, all players chosen will begin next season under the age of ...

Player Focus: Could Spurs Replace Modric?

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Player Focus: Could Spurs Replace Modric? Having failed to report for training last week, Luka Modric's future at Tottenham hangs in the balance, with prospective suitors such as Real Madrid unwilling to stump up Spurs' valuation in advance of £35m for the playmaker. Either way he certainly hasn't endeared himself to new manager Andre...

Hot Prospect Scout: Five Top Young Centre-Backs

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Hot Prospect Scout: Five Top Young Centre-Backs With less than a month to go before the season kicks off, carrying on from our focus on a number of top young full-backs across Europe, we look at a handful of centre-backs who will be looking to continue their impressive development in the 2012/13 campaign. The following five players have been chos...

WhoScored Scout: Cazorla, Azpilicueta & Michu

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WhoScored Scout: Cazorla, Azpilicueta & Michu We continue our series of scouting reports on a number of Europe's touted transfer targets by looking at a Spanish trio attracting interest in the Premier League. Here we will focus on a playmaker tipped with a move to London, a potential answer to Chelsea's right-back issue and a goalscoring midfie...

Hot Prospect Scout: Five Top Young Full-Backs

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Hot Prospect Scout: Five Top Young Full-Backs As the new season approaches here we take a look at some of the young full-backs to impress across Europe last season that may well feature even more heavily next time around. The following five all featured at least 10 times last season and, based on our ratings, emerge as some as the hottest prosp...

Player Focus: Europe's Set Piece Specialists

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Player Focus: Europe's Set Piece Specialists The art of the free kick has become one so practised in the modern game that the poses of the likes of David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo as they line up a shot are now instantly recognisable. Ronaldo’s routine puff of his chest and is more iconic than Jonny Wilkinson’s stance before a ...

WhoScored Youth Scout: Trybull, Akpa Akpro, Niang

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WhoScored Youth Scout: Trybull, Akpa Akpro, Niang As with every summer in the world of football, players from all over are now being linked with moves to pastures new, while rumours have fans in fits and giggles over their team’s alleged discovery of football’s next big thing. The hype surrounding young prospects is often heightened (an...

WhoScored Scout: Ramirez, Jovetic & Silvestre

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WhoScored Scout: Ramirez, Jovetic & Silvestre In a new series of mini scout reports WhoScored will be taking a closer look at transfer targets from across Europe's top 5 leagues to try and give fans a greater understanding of what sort of players are being linked with your club. We will also occasionally include profiles of players who have rec...

Team Focus: Can Arsenal's Strikeforce Click?

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Team Focus: Can Arsenal's Strikeforce Click? With Robin van Persie releasing a statement on his website regarding his future late on Tuesday, many of Arsenal’s fans’ worst nightmares about their star man were realised. It was confirmed that he would not renew his contract and would stay no more than one more season at the club. Bef...

Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs

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Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs Having assessed the tournaments' leading attacking threats in yesterday's Sharp Shooters blog, today we are looking at the best centre-backs at Euro 2012, based on WhoScored ratings. Here we will analyse our top 7 across a variety of defensive categories to ascertain just why their ratings were so i...