barcelona analysis Archives: 07/2019

Inter appointed Antonio Conte as their new manager after sacking Luciano Spaletti at the end of last season. The former Juventus and Chelsea manager has…

In their return to Serie A last season Parma fulfilled their first objective, which was to survive relegation. They even managed to achieve more at…

After a fifth-place finish last season, Gennaro Gattuso has resigned, and AC Milan changed the management, finding in Paolo Maldini and Zvonimir Boban two great…

After a poor season in 2018/19 which saw Roma finish sixth in Serie A, optimism has carefully returned to the capital at the dawn of…

Sassuolo loaned Jeremy Toljan from Dortmund with an option to buy. The Italian side made a good reinforcement and took a player who can play…

After three impressive seasons, Sampdoria lost their highly-regarded coach Marco Giampaolo to Milan this summer. They also lost the hugely talented centre-back Joachim Andersen to…

Earlier analysis had tipped Nicolo Barella as the best young Italian player born in 1997 between 2012 and 2013, and his move to one of Italy’s elite…

Napoli completed the transfer of Kostas Manolas, paying £33 million to Roma and Carlo Ancelotti finally took the player he wanted to strengthen the team’s…

Italian football has been synonymous with pragmatic, cynical, defensive tactics since, at the very least, the catenaccio of Helenio Herrera’s Inter in the 1960s. Defensive…

It was clear going into the 2018/19 season that Juventus were one of the favourites to be crowned European champions by many. Fresh off the…