Chief football writer for The Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers (formerly @SamWallaceIndy)
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20 yrs since the Glazer takeover in May. So much since then, but this is about the weirdness & conflict of that 2004/05 period. The secretive family who came from nowhere to control #MUFC. And what the club was like before. Speaking to those who were there
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First address of Old Trafford to Fashanu fury: Listen to the lost Ferguson tapes
"Managers at United have always been whipping boys for the press. If they’ve nothing to write about, a story about United will sell papers"
The extracts from Fergie: the Lost Tapes, start with the first man Sir Alex Ferguson fired – and an unexpected April Fools’ Day message ⤵️
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Premier League academy player poaching is at an all-time high - and the clubs made it that way. Departures like that of JJ Gabriel are the natural consequence of a new era
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Revealed: Eghbali’s Chelsea plan – and it begins with Stamford Bridge
🔵The Stamford Bridge question
🔵Cobham investment
🔵Appointing new chairman
🔵Managing Alonso
With Todd Boehly’s departure handing Clearlake complete governance control of Chelsea for the first time, @SamWallaceTel outlines the tasks at hand for the new regime ⬇️
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Exclusive: 15-year-old wonderkid JJ Gabriel tells Manchester United he wants to leave and asks for his registration to be cancelled #mufc
- Plus, a big read on how it ever got to this for a club famed for developing the country's best young talent
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Farewell Todd Boehly: one of football’s weirdest (minority stake) big club ownership tales. After the 2022 summer window the power was elsewhere
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Interview with Diogo Dalot on him reaching 250 games for #MUFC. The unique experience of life at a club where the stakes are so high, and scrutiny unrelenting
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The new Premier League and UEFA spending controls that mean clubs have to sell, sell, sell. The biggest PL clubs wanted them and now everyone is feeling the impact
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EXCL Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup inquest with staff last week. Extensive report to FA after Sept-Oct Nations League games. Full story with @mcgrathmike
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Arsenal end the window with the strongest defence in the league and probably the most complete midfield. But their attack has got worse. Three forwards out, one in. This was not the grand ambition. Piece on the window/finances/challenges/Rogers/KSE & more
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'The first man to be transferred twice for fees in excess of £100m, Enzo Fernández might be assumed to be one of the greatest footballers ever.
'Instead, he is something different: a player riding the wave of the weird new dynamic of the modern transfer market.'
@SamWallaceTel looks at why Enzo Fernández is not fit to rival the great Premier League transfers ⤵️
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Meet Mario Gallavotti, Gianni Infantino’s fixer who was in on the World Cup selloff plan, had control of the FIFA committee that delayed Bologun’s suspension, & helped him develop a commercial relationship with the Saudis.
via @AliWalker24 @GregSorgi
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The 2016 FIFA ethics investigation that cleared Infantino a few months into his presidency. Full details of the private jet flights, HR issues, an ‘insulting’ salary proposal and his Papal audience
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For Man Utd, it is a long story but at its heart very simple. They are in a form of austerity, attempting to recover from all those years of profligacy.
By signing three low-risk Premier League-proven players, United have settled for some stability and this is what it looks like, @SamWallaceTel writes 👇
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Robson, Ince, Keane... Baleba?
Man Utd sign Cameroon midfielder for £70m from Brighton – and hope he can end 20-year wait for game-changing midfielder
Read the full comment from @SamWallaceTel 👇
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Arsenal’s summer of distractions: Vinicius Junior, Morgan Rogers and now a switch to defensive cover. Yet they still need a big sale. Mikel Arteta on the transfer window and the backroom staff changes
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EXCLUSIVE: I sat down with Michael Johnson in Santa Monica for his first interview on the collapse of his Grand Slam Track dream. “I’m going, ‘Are you stupid? Why did you do this?’”
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Watch in full here: piped.video/watch?v=E6HOhx…
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RT @Tom_Morgs: EXCLUSIVE: Uefa paid off an alleged mistress of Gianni Infantino while he was its general secretary. With @Tim_Roehn @claire…
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“For Infantino, his re-election next year as Fifa president was a formality… Then within the space of a few days, he blundered so spectacularly that he gave his enemies a roadmap to unseat him”
@SamWallaceTel explains how Gianni Infantino’s controversial World Cup plan has put his seemingly unassailable position in peril ⬇️
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Story by my colleague @SamWallaceTel: Jose Mourinho would oppose Arsenal signing Vinicius Junior this summer.
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EXCL Chelsea now favourites to do deal for Kerim Alajbegović, 18yo Bosnia World Cup goalscorer currently back at Bayer Leverkusen. Full story:
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