This marks the first trophy of Portugal manager Roberto Martinez’s international career, after failing to win anything with Belgium’s so-called golden generation. The 2013 FA Cup with Wigan was his last piece of silverware – so could the Nations League save his job? Balague said: “The rumour [that he will be sacked] has come from...
“Marseille has always been the port of exiles… Here, anyone who arrives one day at the port is inevitably at home,” Izzo also wrote about Marseille. After an eighth-placed finish last season, the club kicked off a radical overhaul – welcoming an eclectic collection of misfits and experienced players attracted by De Zerbi’s new project....
Continuity has been key to Brighton’s successful transition to Hurzeler’s methods, whose own ideas of football aren’t that different from his predecessor, as he revealed earlier in the season. “He brought this current energy to the players,” said Hurzeler, when talking about De Zerbi. “So I don’t have to make a complete turnaround of the...