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Creativity in a team's play is highly underrated. Football has gone past the pass and shoot age, or playing long balls and hoping your strikers get them, with creativity, football has been evolved to a whole new level with tactical plays giving it more sauce. Martin Ødegaard loan move to Arsenal awaits official confirmation. Photo Credit: Twitter   Yes, certain managers and teams have been able to build a different styles of plays over the ages, But it is kind of difficult to create goals without your midfield. Especially the Central attacking midfield players. About seven years ago, a certain Norwegian, 16 year old kid was able to burst into scene when he represented his country Norway in an international match. He is fantastic , no doubt, so much that European heavyweights vie for his signature. In the end, it was Real Madrid who won the battle. Odeegaard, 22, is a talented left-footed playmaker and because of his age and the nature of his parent club, Real Madrid, he has been su...

Liverpool, under Jurgen Klopp have never made it past the fifth round of the Emirates FA Cup, and have been eliminated in the fourth round this year by Manchester United. Liverpool's poor form pounced on by Manchester United to eliminate The Reds from the FA Cup. Photo Credit: Twitter/ Liverpool FC Liverpool's poor form continued on Sunday evening when they were bundled out of the Emirates FA Cup by Manchester United at Old Trafford. The Red have never made it past the round five in six tries, bowing out to West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wonderers and West Bromwich Albion in Klopp's first three seasons in the fourth rounds. It was Wolves again in the 2018-19 season, beating Liverpool 2-1 in the third round. It was a 2-0 loss to Chelsea last season that ended their FA Cup run, it was the first and only time they made it to the fifth round under Jurgen Klopp. This season, Manchester United are on hand to capitalize on their recent poor performance to book a place in the fifth...

Chelsea Football Club are set to appoint Thomas Tuchel as the club's new manager after the sacking of Frank Lampard, earlier today in the aftermath of the recent poor performances. Chelsea are close to announcing Thomas Tuchel as the new manager. Photo Credit: Twitter Thomas Tuchel will arrive in London just few weeks after being dismissed by PSG - Paris Saint German after the club could no longer endure their slow start to the league season under the German. Tuchel, 47, has oversaw 451 games, winning 255 and losing 106 while managing Borrusia Dortmund and Mainz in the BundesLiga, and PSG- Paris Saint German, recently in the French top-flight. The German has won seven trophies as a manager, with six coming in his time in France with PSG, while his other title was the DFB-Pokal won with Borussia Dortmund in the 2016-17 season. He took PSG to their first UEFA Champions League final last season, but was unfortunate to be on the losing end in Lisbon to Bayern Munich. Tuchel is one of t...

It is always going to be a bigger responsibility taking over as the manager at an elite football club. Being a legend of this club makes the fans love to want to give one of their own a chance. A lot of teams have tried this, and works well for some well known teams. Underfired Chelsea manager Frank Lampard. Photo Credit: Twitter/ Goal Being a novice in this field, was never a subject of discussion among Chelsea faithfuls, when the club appointed her legend Frank Lampard as the manager at the end of 2018-19 season, when Maurizio Sarri was dismissed from his post. Every club with her own tradition, and for Chelsea, success is expected of a new manager from the off, as evidence with past managers of this football club, but owing to the situation last term, as the club were serving transfer ban, Frank Lampard was hailed for his fourth place finish in the league, as the season ended without a silverware, after losing two finals. The Englishman has been exposed this season after an eventful...

Back when Los Blancos splashed out so much in the mid of the 2000's, barcelona still dominated them locally. Yes, Real have always been known for spending big but has it really worked out in recent years ? Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane. Photo Credit: Twitter Ever since Zenedine Zidane's wonder goal won them the Champions League against Bayer Leverkusen in 2002, Real Madrid had to wait 12 years later before they could get an European silverware after being knocked out seasons after seasons by teams that never even spent half of what they did, and even see their Spanish counterpart, Barcelona win the trophy three times and consecutive league titles, whilst the later relied mostly on her academy players, then. In comparison, Los Merengues had to shatter their transfer record twice yet, had no success in the Champions League. Maybe the time money does it all is gone. The art of football will never come with money. For Barcelona, Leo Messi, Andres Iniesta, Xavi Hernandes and...

Spanish giants, Real Madrid are arguably the best European Club, owing to their achievement in the past and the present. Los Blancos have won the more European Champions League titles than any other team, while accumulating a good number of local ones too. Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane. Photo Credit: Twitter/ Footy Mercato They were one of the best sides that dominated in the 20th century. Their domination was thanks to their Galactico policy, as they signed players with exceptional talents to make up a squad of players. Recently, the evolvement of football has halted their domination as football clubs have integrated in their style of play and most of the teams now work and depend on team plays and recognized football DNA, which makes it difficult for teams depending on a certain player's brilliance. Since winning the league in the 2007-08 season, Real Madrid added three more in twelve seasons. This happened due to the tiki taka approach employed by FC Barcelona, who won eight...

When it comes to the German duo, almost every individual turns into a football analyst because the belief of people, when Chelsea splashed the cash last summer was that both will hit the ground running, owning to their stellar performances in the concluded season. Timo Werner and Kai Havertz have endured a slow start to life at Chelsea and have put Frank Lampard under pressure. Photo Credit: Twitter/ Talk Sports That would not be too much to ask anyways as Chelsea under Frank Lampard last season were fair enough despite their inability to add players, still manage to make the top four finish and were unlucky to be the beaten finalist in The Emirates FA Cup at Wembley. After addressing what could be seen as their weakness in the summer, and even added extra legs, Chelsea have found themselves in a situation which they may not have foreseen, when they played the last of their seventeen games unbeaten at normal time across all competitions this season which took place between September 23...