Since making his senior Hoffenheim debut in 2015, Nadiem Amiri‘s rapidly gone about making a name for himself as one of the hottest prospects in Europe, leading to rumours of a move to Tottenham Hotspur. However, his journey so far isn’t as straightforward as his extraordinary talent might suggest it should have been. Born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, it wasn’t always obvious that t...

The 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship kicks off this Friday. The tournament will see some of the brightest prospects from across the continent face each other in a bid to impress in a summer without any major senior international competitions. England will face the hosts Poland, as well as Slovakia and Sweden, in Group A, while Spain and Portugal have been drawn with Serbia and Macedonia in...

Football can be a cruel game for teams in the middle pack. The shelf life of managers and the players at these clubs always tend to be short. Players are dropped and managers are sacked if a team underperforms while bigger clubs poach the same individuals if they overperform. They are, at times, victims of their own success. It’s happened in the Premier League with clubs like Aston Villa in...