Leeds United had reached heady heights heading into the 2024/25 campaign, with our Euro Cup success leading us into the Champions League and a +£300 million transfer budget at our disposal. We began the Summer by selling off a few players that weren't quite cutting it. This saw midfielder Alessandro Cortinovis move to Derby for... Continue Reading →
Marching On Together: Part 7 – A Mixed Bag
Moving into the 2021/22 campaign Leeds United had established themselves as a Premier League club following a seventh-placed finish the previous campaign. We continued with a focus on signing exciting youngsters, signing several youngsters from Brazil and immediately loaning them out - so I won't focus on them for now. However, one player that will... Continue Reading →
Marching On Together: Part 5 – Goals Galore
We went into the 2020/21 campaign having sealed Leeds United's place in the Premier League and enjoying a rise in financial clout as a result. That allowed us to spend a bit more money to strengthen in the summer. Our main signing was Argentinian winger Rodrigo De Paul, who came in for £9.75 million from... Continue Reading →
Atalanta Avventura: Part 25 – Ciao Corti
Moving into the second decade of life at Atalanta there wasn't much left to achieve - other than becoming the greatest manager of all time of course!
Atalanta Avventura: Part 22 – An Enforced Tactical Rethink
Having won a fourth straight Scudetto in 2027 a major tactical switch was upon Atalanta in the summer, largely enforced due to yet more major departures.
Atalanta Avventura | Part 20: International Adventures
There was an exciting new beginning for the club as we moved into the brand new Ivan Ruggeri Stadium, named after Atalanta's longest-serving Chairman from 1994 to 2008, to kick off the 2026/27 campaign.
Atalanta Avventura | Part 19: Meet the Famous Sextuplets
Having just wrapped up a famous and very likely unprecedented sextuple of the European Super Cup, Italian Super Cup, World Club Cup, Serie A, Italian Cup and Champions Cup in 2025/26, I thought it would be interesting to introduce the main stars of this fantastic squad.
Atalanta Avventura: Part 16 – Champions of Europe!
We began the defence of Atalanta's first-ever Serie A title strongly, heading into 2025 in a fine vein of form with seven straight victories.
Atalanta Avventura: Part 14 – Championes Championes
The old adage of "you can't win anything with kids" has been well and truly proved wrong by a youthful Atalanta side consisting of just one player aged more than 23. The virtually unthinkable when this game began in 2018 has come to fruition at the end of the sixth campaign, with Atalanta wrapping up... Continue Reading →
Atalanta Avventura | Part 12: Champions League Push
The mid-way point of the 2022/23 season saw in a World Cup in December, as France defended their crown in Qatar. Heading back to domestic issues, the young Atalanta boys were struggling compared to previous seasons, down in 7th place in Serie A. Another major outgoing came the next month, as club captain Dan-Axel Zagadou... Continue Reading →
