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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...

Team Focus: Can Ligue 1 Competitors Keep Up with PSG?

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Team Focus: Can Ligue 1 Competitors Keep Up with PSG? With July not even over yet Paris Saint Germain have already splashed out over €100m this summer on a number of signings which may well change the face of French football next season. In securing the signatures of former Milan duo Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic many are tipping the Parisia...

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...

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...

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...

Euro 2012 Focus: Final Stats Leaderboards

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Euro 2012 Focus: Final Stats Leaderboards So Spain are the European Champions, again, deservedly winning over against a much improved Italy side in the final to retain their title and assert their dominance at international level. Del Bosque's side scored the most goals (12), conceded the fewest (1) and averaged the highest possession per g...

Euro 2012 Focus: The Final - Spain vs Italy

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Euro 2012 Focus: The Final - Spain vs Italy So, it's decided. Spain will face Italy in the final Euro 2012 after many believed that Germany were shoe-ins to progress past the Azzurri. Much of the credit should go to Cesare Prandelli for the Italian's surprise appearance in Sunday's showdown, with the former Fiorentina boss taking a team who h...

Euro 2012 Focus: Ten Top Flops

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Euro 2012 Focus: Ten Top Flops While we at WhoScored love to praise those who have wowed us statistically, we don't like to overlook those who have under-performed either, and here we will highlight our 10 top flops of Euro 2012 thus far.The likes of Wayne Rooney miss out as we focus on players to have started at least 3 games in...