This is Pedro Marques, by Stuart James & Jack Lang:

🔴 Analyst at #MCFC before a multi-club role for CFG
🔴 Helped #LFC prepare for #UCL final by setting Benfica B up like Spurs
🔴 Will be central figure for FSG as director of football development

“For me, my job is always to try to get that space and time'

A goal and an assist from Ademola Lookman last night to help send Atalanta to the #UEL final!

I chatted with him recently for The Athletic | Football, talking about his game.

Read here:
theathletic.com/5399949/2024/0…

“The manager thought it was best to get Arsenal results — and he was 100% correct, when you look at it.”

Kieran Tierney, who has spent this season on loan at Real Sociedad, comes across as a terrific lad in this excellent interview with Jordan Campbell:

theathletic.com/5435445/2024/0…

'When he left Bayern Munich, everyone was like, ‘He’s done. That’s it’.”

But at 35, Mats Hummels still rules supreme in the Champions League.

Stuart James breaks down how Borussia Dortmund’s ‘born leader’ shackled Kylian Mbappe and dominated PSG on and off the ball.

“I wasn’t ready to deal with being in the middle of a culture war.”

It’s seven years since Ian Cathro lost his job at Hearts.

Nuno described him as a genius. But Cathro, aged 30, was mocked before he started in Scotland.

Now he’s ready to manage again:
theathletic.com/5474608/2024/0…

Ian Cathro's appointment as Hearts head coach aged 30 did not go down well.

'This culture war made its way into Scottish football and I became this thing they needed to defeat.'

They succeeded.

Seven years and one book later, he tells his story to Stuart James

“I wasn’t ready to deal with being in the middle of a culture war.”

It’s seven years since Ian Cathro lost his job at Hearts.

Nuno described him as a genius. But Cathro, aged 30, was mocked before he started in Scotland.

Now he’s ready to manage again:
theathletic.com/5474608/2024/0…

Thanks to our wonderful volunteers for sorting 4,830 items of kit in just 3 hours.
Kit is now heading to projects in #Kenya #Gambia #Zimbabwe #Ukraine and #Colombia
A great team effort by a great team
St Albans City Youth

'I know it’s been done before but it’ll never be done like we’ve done it again.'

In two seasons, Kieran McKenna has taken Ipswich Town from League One to the Premier League in one of the most unlikely rises in years.

This is how they did it.

📝 Nancy Froston

So Sheff U are the first team to concede 100 PL goals since Swindon, when John Moncur wrote on the flip chart in the d/room before the last game: “Elvis to come back from the dead: 80-1, Shergar found alive: 50-1, us to concede 100, odds-on favourite” 😂
theathletic.com/1689888/2020/0…

Incredible achievement for Ipswich Town. Back-to-back promotions - & a lot of people (me included) viewed the top three as a closed shop in the Championship this year. To finish with 96 points, second only to Leicester, is amazing.

Kieran McKenna 👏

Pleased for Nick Ames too!

Another man-of-the-match performance from Declan Rice. Another assist - and what a delightful one too - and a goal as well. That’s 15 direct goal involvements in the PL this season. What a signing he has been for Arsenal.

This is his game in his words…

theathletic.com/5439408/2024/0…

A pleasure to chat to Jeremie Frimpong for this The Athletic | Football interview.

We talked about adjusting to Bundesliga life, and making changes and refinements to his game.

He’s a player hurrying to football’s summit.

theathletic.com/5438554/2024/0…

EXCL: Declan Rice interview - My game in my words

🔥 Igniting Arsenal fans
👊 “He got crunched”
❌ Diagonals out
🔗 “Short relationships” in
🔁 Playing “same side”
🎱 Occupy zones
⬆️ Arteta’s pitch “height”
🤫 6 PL goals & 7 assists

Via The Athletic | Football: theathletic.com/5439408/2024/0…

🔴 The importance of ‘good height’ & same side overloads
🔴 His 'on one knee' tackling technique & cutting down diagonals
🔴 Does he contribute more as a No 6 or No 8?
🔴 How big tackles ‘set the Emirates crowd on fire’

Declan Rice analyses his game with Stuart James

🚨 EXCL: Arsenal offer Jorginho new contract & midfielder expected to sign it. Existing terms run until June with option for another year, but fresh deal rewards 32yo’s importance to #AFC
➕ Edu & Ayto make Saudi Arabia trip (no players / deals discussed) theathletic.com/5460662/2024/0…

EXCL: Declan Rice interview - My game in my words

🔥 Igniting Arsenal fans
👊 “He got crunched”
❌ Diagonals out
🔗 “Short relationships” in
🔁 Playing “same side”
🎱 Occupy zones
⬆️ Arteta’s pitch “height”
🤫 6 PL goals & 7 assists

Via The Athletic | Football: theathletic.com/5439408/2024/0…

This team ❤️

▪️ Clubs learning from each other
▪️ Rival players bonding over meals
▪️ Over 1000 graduates, according to UEFA

European youth coaches explain the benefits - both off & on the pitch - of competing in the UEFA Youth League.

✍️ Liam Tharme Jack Lang Stuart James Charlie Eccleshare

🤦🏼‍♂️