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Two loans and only eight starts. What has gone wrong for Facundo Buonanotte this season?
You may think that reaching an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley would be an occasion to treasure, especially when you are set to line up against one of your former clubs. But for Facundo Buonanotte, Leeds United’s match against Chelsea is likely to prove another occasion for frustration.Brighton & Hove Albion’s 21-year-old playmaker, who has two caps for Argentina, spent the first half of the season on loan at Chelsea, and is currently on loan at Leeds. Both spells have proved unsuccessful and h...
We need to talk about Amad, a Manchester United winger out of form
The last time Amad scored for Manchester United was the opening goal in a 4-4 draw with Bournemouth on December 15.A day later, he left for the Africa Cup of Nations with Ivory Coast. By the time he returned, a lot had changed at Old Trafford. Ruben Amorim was gone. In his place was Michael Carrick — and with him, a shift from a 3-4-2-1 formation to a more traditional 4-2-3-1.Advertisement
Packers still thrilled with Micah Parsons as their 2026 first-round pick
GREEN BAY, Wis. — For the first time in his nine years as Green Bay Packers general manager, Brian Gutekunst didn’t make a pick in the first round of the NFL Draft.Doing so was never a realistic possibility on Thursday night.“Jon-Eric took care of all that,” Gutekunst said, referring to new Miami Dolphins GM and former longtime Packers executive Jon-Eric Sullivan, who made two trades on Thursday night. “He was trading all over the place, which was really cool to see … to get up into the first ro...
Tottenham's Cathinka Tandberg has bold dreams for women's team regardless of men's plight
Cathinka Tandberg is cheerfully examining the racks of Tottenham Hotspur’s official club shop. The 21-year-old striker admires a sweatshirt and sweatpants, a plush white bathrobe emblazoned with the cockerel crest, making a point to extol its supple texture. As far as club content goes, this is easy money.Advertisement
Ben Broggio, Aston Villa and an unconventional route to a promising loan at Falkirk
How Aston Villa decide on loans for their young players tends to boil down to a combination of the club’s specialised staff finding the right fit and agents bringing options to the table.The players’ representatives will hold talks with potential destination clubs before relaying interest to Villa’s loans department. All parties will then take an overall view and a decision is made.Advertisement
NFL draft 2026: Mendoza goes No 1 as Rams surprise with move for QB Ty Simpson at No 13
Pick-by-pick: all the selections from the first roundTwo quarterbacks go in Thursday’s first roundThe story of the first round of the 2026 NFL draft surrounded a quarterback but it wasn’t No 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza.As expected, the Las Vegas Raiders selected Mendoza with the first pick on Thursday after he led Indiana to the national title last season. But the shock of the night came when the Los Angeles Rams picked another quarterback, Alabama’s Ty Simpson, at No 13. The Rams current st...
Jaden McDaniels, Timberwolves put clamps on Nuggets to take 2-1 series lead: Takeaways
Jaden McDaniels called out nearly every Denver Nuggets defender after Monday night’s Game 2 win in Denver. Now, the Minnesota Timberwolves forward can take aim at their offense, too.The Timberwolves shut down the most efficient offense in the league from the jump Thursday night, holding the Nuggets to 11 first-quarter points en route to a dominating 113-96 Game 3 victory at a raucous Target Center. The win gives Minnesota a 2-1 series lead with Game 4 set for Saturday night in Minneapolis.Advert...
Southampton manager Tonda Eckert interview: 'You go to Wembley to compete, not for the occasion'
Sometimes, how a coach speaks offers a small window into their approach to football. It is certainly true of Southampton’s head coach, Tonda Eckert. The Athletic meets the 33-year-old German hours before Southampton’s league fixture against Bristol City on Tuesday night. Their manager, Roy Hodgson, is 45 years Eckert’s senior.Advertisement
Chelsea's next manager: Analysing Iraola, Silva, Glasner, Fabregas and more
Who will be next to step on board the Chelsea managerial carousel?It is a precarious ride: Liam Rosenior lasted just 107 days before his dismissal on Wednesday, and since Jose Mourinho was sacked after his first Chelsea spell in 2007, no head coach has survived more than three full years at Stamford Bridge.Advertisement
Broncos' quiet opening night of NFL Draft a reminder of stakes in 2026
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — It has been the offseason of delayed gratification for the Broncos.A week of free-agency flurry came and went without any external players signing in Denver. Then, the Broncos struck one of the biggest moves of the NFL offseason by acquiring star wide receiver Jaylen Waddle from the Dolphins, adding a premier target for quarterback Bo Nix.Afterward, coach Sean Payton had a message for the “What took so long?” portion of the fan base.Advertisement
Premier League predictions: Arsenal vs Newcastle, Man Utd vs Brentford and the rest of matchday 34
Welcome to week 34 of The Athletic’s Premier League predictions challenge, where we have now entered squeaky-bum time.Are you aware of that expression? Thanks to Sir Alex Ferguson — and with a little help from a small group of journalists, which included my now colleague Daniel Taylor and me — it has been listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, meaning “a particularly tense period of time, especially leading up to the climax of a competition or event”.Advertisement
London Marathon: Hundreds of over-70s are running. This is what motivates them
It is one of the toughest feats in sport, a 26.2-mile hit on the body and mind — a distance completed by only the few. Even for athletes in their prime, running a marathon is an arduous test of endurance.On Sunday, over 50,000 people will run through London’s famous streets for a marathon that is often described as the world’s biggest annual one-day fundraising event. A high-caliber elite field will compete for prize money and prestige, but a little further behind will be fun runners of all abil...
Premier League relegation fight: Two down, one to go – can Spurs escape the bottom three?
Welcome back to The Athletic’s relegation battle tracker, where our data and tactics writers examine the key trends behind the fight for Premier League survival.With some teams playing two games in the past week, there has been plenty of change. Two of the three relegation places have been confirmed, as other sides have clambered further towards safety.Advertisement
English football's 'new deal' - What the Premier League and EFL want, and why the clock is ticking
Habituation to noise is the process by which the brain learns to ignore persistent sounds, such as the hum of a fridge or a whirring fan. It is a huge relief to sufferers of tinnitus and it helps the rest of us fall asleep in noisy hotel rooms.But there are downsides. We might learn to nod off to the sounds of the city but it does not make that sleep particularly restorative, and we would not want to become so used to something annoying that we simply feel helpless to do anything about it.Advert...
The Liverpool Champions League winner whose new club are 105 games unbeaten
A wide smile spreads across Luis Garcia’s face.“We are almost there — almost,” Garcia tells The Athletic.He is discussing the 105-game unbeaten run in the Malaysian Super League, dating back to April 2021, achieved by his club Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT).The 47-year-old former Barcelona, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid midfielder has been JDT’s chief executive officer for just over a year. According to football data site RSSSF, they are three matches away from equalling the longest stretch without de...
Massive tornados rip through Oklahoma, destroying homes and leaving entire towns on edge
The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado formed over the town of Braman in Kay County, Oklahoma near the Kansas border at around 7.30pm on Thursday.
The Prospects: Dean Benamar, Crystal Palace
Every young footballer dreams of scoring the decisive penalty in a shootout to lift a trophy, and Crystal Palace’s Dean Benamar achieved that feat this week when he scored the winner from the spot for his side in the under-18 Premier League Cup final against Manchester United.A few days earlier, Palace’s hopes of reaching the FA Youth Cup final were ended by the same opponents at Old Trafford.Advertisement
Premier League January transfer window: Analysing the winners and losers
As we reach a crucial juncture of the season, the £400million ($540m) that Premier League clubs spent in the January transfer window is having a cascading effect throughout the table.Some bought opportunistically, addressing needs exposed by a shift in style or an injury crisis. Others, after freeing up finances and clearing surplus, invested to give their manager the profiles needed. A few acted out of desperation.The Athletic analyses the winners and losers from the January window.Advertisemen...
In Sonny Styles, Commanders get 'everything you want' in a football player
ASHBURN, Va. — He told his family early Thursday that he was going to be a Washington Commander by day’s end and few really believed it would happen. His phone lit up around 8:40 p.m. with a “spam” warning, and it wasn’t until his agent assured him it wasn’t a risk that former Ohio State linebacker Sonny Styles received the news he long hoped to hear.Advertisement
NFL Draft roundtable: Titans surprise with Carnell Tate, Bucs stop Rueben Bain's slide
The first round of the 2026 NFL Draft went chalk for exactly two picks.Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza was earmarked for the Raiders since Las Vegas clinched the No. 1 pick, and the New York Jets’ selection of Texas Tech pass rusher David Bailey made sense, but the Arizona Cardinals bucked convention with the selection of running back Jeremiyah Love third, making the former Notre Dame star the highest-drafted player at the position since Saquon Barkley went second in 2018.Advertisement