TITUS MAXWELL

  Football business nowadays has been improvised and clubs nurture their own talents which at the end would be beneficial to the club. How could academy graduates be of benefit to the parent club? 1. Academy players are cheap unlike buying already made player. 2. When they are sold to other football clubs, they generate income to the club. Most football academy graduates have the club genes and mastered the systems of the club. Let's say like Barcelona, they had the best squad in 2010s because they had the La Masia cream. De Toekomst (Ajax Academy) Thanks to Johann Cruyf for initiating one of the best football academies in the world. Cruyf loved nurturing talents and the Ajax academy has been supplying the best talents to several teams in the world. Bergkamp, suarez, Seneijder, Van Basten among others passed through this famous academy. Let me stick just to the recent generation that reached the Champions League semi-finals. Hakim Ziyech, De Ligt, Daley Blind among others. Ajax aca

  Attacking midfielder is a versatile position in a football game. Even the likes of Diego Simeone, Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho who are disciples of defensive football, still have an attacking midfielder in their team to launch attacks or counter-attacks. Today, we are going to look at 5 of most dangerous attacking midfielders in the world right now based on their performances and ICC ranks: Luca Modric If you mention Luca Modric, I know the killer outer foot pass that he made to Rodrygo that helped Real Madrid to advance to the Champions League semi-finals. Luca's passes are very hard to intercept and his command in the midfield has earned him a place in ICC top midfielders in the world. Bernardo Silva The Portuguese international is quite exceptional. His dribbling abilities will always leave you with 'aaahs' and 'oohs' for he can pass where there seem to be no way.  Also, Bernardo Silva's scoring ability and his bossing in the midfield has earned him a pl

In football, there are two sorts of players. Big match players and the player who punishes average teams. Titus Maxwell has analyzed these players and today, we will know when are the eight players who shine when they face big clubs in all competitions since the start of 2017/18 season. Kevin De Bruyne-15 goals The Belgian machine with great vision and commander of the field has scored a total of 15 goals versus top Premier League clubs. Most of his goals came versus Chelsea and Manchester United. Marcus Rashford-16 goals The Queen-awarded Manchester United star is one of those big game players but currently he doesn't have that spark he showed in the last 2-3 seasons ago. His goals mostly came versus Chelsea. Raheem Sterling and Son Heung-Min-17 goals Another Manchester City star who has a slot in this list is the Jamaican-English suoerstar, Raheem Sterling who netted a total of 17 goals against big clubs. It is understood that Sterling had problems when it came to score about Li

  Arsenal won a promising 4-2 over their town bitter rivals, Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. It is just their second win at the Stamford Bridge in three years time. Eddie Nketiah opened the scoring chart just after 13 minutes giving the visitors an early lead. Timo Werner continued with his sparkling form as he equalized for the Blues. The German foward has scored 3 goals in two Premier League matches recently. Emille Smith Rowe unleashed a stunning effort after he got an assist from Martin Ordegaard before Chelsea's captain, Ceasar Azpilicueta equalized. Nketiah once again Nketiah's name was on the cleansheet on the 57th minute before Bukayo Saka converted from the penalty spot. Here are two things you didn't know about Eddie Nketiah: A former Chelsea Player Eddie Nketia is a former Chelsea player having being featured at the Cobhan academy which is the Chelsea's football academy. He joined Chelsea in his childhood days. When he was nine years old, Nketiah got a transfer t