Ryan Giggs is 42 and this summer, for the first time since he was 16, he did not spend it involved in pre-season preparations. He spent 24 years playing for Manchester United and a further two as an assistant to Louis van Gaal but is unattached in football and a free agent in his Fourties. Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola were 37 when they first took to management. Antonio Conte and Mauricio Pochettino were 36, Arsene Wenger was 34 and Jurgen Klopp was 33. ...read
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KIERAN GILL - THE NUMBERS GAME: You may not have noticed Idrissa Gueye last season but Steve Walsh, the former Leicester City head of recruitment and now Everton director of football, did. Gueye was at Aston Villa as they embarked on an embarrassing scrap for survival and all the attention went to the other defensive midfielder who won the title. N’Golo Kante was the Premier League’s top tackler and interceptor for Leicester last term, while Gueye was No 2 in both categories. Now, though, that's changed. ...read
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THE NUMBERS GAME - KIERAN GILL: You train all week, you try to impress, and for what? To spend your Saturday afternoon at home, nowhere near the football. That is the sorry story of Memphis Depay’s season so far under Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho, whose squad selection for the Feyenoord fixture on Thursday was telling. Wayne Rooney, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Jesse Lingard were left in Manchester and rested for the Europa League tie but still Depay did not start. Instead he got 27 minutes to impress. ...read
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