Ahead of the Champions League final, the GOAL team put our heads together to rank the best players in Europe this season.
Decent list, all told:
Myself & the GOAL team have put our heads together to rank the top 50 players in this season’s Premier League.
As is usually the case with wisdom of crowds, we got it totally wrong, but you should check it out anyway:
I've had the pleasure of watching Harry Kane's entire career to this point up close, and the journey has been special.
Nobody remembers a player's trophy count after the tally reaches one. Now, Kane is free to build his legacy without caveat.
Long read on a legend:
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Chelsea secure the earliest Women's Super League title triumph. Only twice has the title race not gone down to the final day, when Arsenal won with one game to spare in 2012 & 2019.
Most wins, a first unbeaten 22-game season and most points all records still on the cards.
🔮 Had a go at predicting the end of the Premier League season, revolving around the race for the European places - and just how low Manchester United and Tottenham will finish.
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Not that I'm wishing another crushing tournament disappointment away, but as Thomas Tuchel prepares for his first match as England manager, here's 20 players who could become key figures under his successor:
“When you are playing with your friends on the street, I think she feels something like that when she's playing football. She does the same things when she is training with the best players in the world.”
GOAL's 2025 Women's NXGN winner: Vicky Lopez 🌟
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi, aged 17 years & 8 months, for club and country:
⚽ Goals: 0
🎯 Assists: 0
🇪🇸 Lamine Yamal, aged 17 years & 8 months, for club and country:
⚽ Goals: 23
🎯 Assists: 32
Not sure world football has ever known a more talented teenager...
About three months of work from colleagues around the world condensed into one breakdown of the best teenage footballers on the planet...
Tuesday, 12pm GMT: goal.com is the only place you need to be
GO - and I cannot emphasise this enough - BIRDS!!!!!
Ducky Irving
There are only nine women in head coach roles in the top two tiers of English women’s football.
Earlier this month, I got some insight one of the ways the FA is trying to address the issue, with Steph Houghton, Beth Mead and Vivianne Miedema among those taking part.
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🏆 Every Premier League team's true MVP.
Had fun trying to differentiate between 'most important' and 'best'. What do you think?
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Ahead of ‘Der Klassiker’ later today, @seandzwalsh.bsky.social wrote about how Bayern went from being thrashed by Barcelona to keeping seven successive clean sheets while finding a new role for Harry Kane.
AKA how Vincent Kompany learned the meaning of pragmatism:
Max Dowman won’t be making his Arsenal debut quite yet, but at just 14, he is already training with the first team while making waves with the U19s.
@seandzwalsh.bsky.social wrote about the teenage phenom this week:
Player ratings from a truly unbelievable 90 minutes at the Etihad Stadium
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- @seandzwalsh.bsky.social on Dele Alli's long road back: tinyurl.com/5n7whkkc
- @richardmartingoal.bsky.social on Ruben Amorim's ideal first Man Utd line-up: tinyurl.com/2dfz78sw
- Stephen Darwin on Wayne Rooney's rollercoaster Plymouth tenure: tinyurl.com/mtzzzxkc
ICYMI from the GOAL features team this week:
- Mark Doyle on 2025's threat of a player strike: tinyurl.com/2rm26kjd
- James Westwood on Harry Kane's England future: tinyurl.com/ms3wh9z3
- @ameeruszkai.bsky.social on Chelsea's young guns: tinyurl.com/ycyyd5yh
⚪️ Tottenham's 25 best players of the 21st century, ranked.
I am not available for comment.
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On his 17th birthday, Ayyoub Bouaddi ran rings around Real Madrid. One month later, he was Player of the Match vs Juventus.
Lille believe Bouaddi is their best prospect since Eden Hazard, and top English teams are taking notice.
GOAL's Mark Doyle explains why:
It took Maika Hamano time to make an impact at Chelsea and, as such, some will have doubted whether or not she would. But her performance on Saturday underlined a new approach at the club, one focused on youth. It's paying dividends now and will in the future, too.
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🏴 Winners and losers from England’s Nations League campaign.
As I said on Twitter, not getting involved in Kane discourse. I’m not falling for that one again. www.goal.com/en-gb/lists/...
Evan Ferguson starts for Ireland vs England at Wembley after a year to forget for the Brighton youngster that has seen him score just three goals in 384 days.
GOAL's resident Irishman, Mark Doyle, took a look into what's gone wrong for one of the Premier League's brightest prospects:
The Arsenal full-back leading Serie A's assist charts
The Chelsea midfielder scoring every other game in Ligue 1
The Liverpool winger tearing up the Championship
GOAL's James Westwood has run through the best-performing Premier League loanees so far this season:
Manchester United & Liverpool are both looking to the future at left-back, and both have been impressed by Argentine teenager Julio Soler.
The 19-year-old shone at the Olympics & has already earned a first full international call-up.
GOAL's James Westwood profiled Soler for our NXGN series:
Vinicius Jr is one of, if not the best footballer on the planet right now.
So why has he only managed to score five goals in 35 appearances for Brazil? GOAL's Tom Hindle has attempted to explain why
