2002/03: Sporting Lisbon - 31 apps, 5 goalsHonours: Portuguese Super CupRonaldo bags two goals in his Primera Liga debut against Moreirense in October, aged 17. The following month, he meets Arsene Wenger at the Arsenal training ground, but a move doesn’t materialise.2003/04: Manchester United - 40 apps, 6 goalsHonours: FA CupAfter impressing Sir Alex Ferguson in a pre-season friendly, frosted-tipped Ronaldo signs for Manchester United for £12.24 million, a record for a teenager in English football. Ferguson calls him “one of the most exciting players he’s ever seen.” He also wins his first, and only FA Cup, starting in the final.2004/05: Manchester United - 50 apps, 9 goalsHonours: NoneUnited sign another coveted teenager, Euro 2004 star Wayne Rooney, who beats...
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Kepa Arrizabalaga’s season has reached its lowest point. He was left out of the Chelsea side which drew 2-2 with Leicester last weekend and, with Frank Lampard’s players now heading into their winter break, that was presumably a decision taken with the goalkeeper’s reaction in mind.Lampard wants Kepa to stew over this. That’s clear in the timing. Over 14 days, he's presumably calculated that the player will have time to sulk and pout, then to reflect and, finally – hopefully – to come up with a productive response.He’ll need to, because without significant improvement he won’t have a Chelsea future beyond the end of this season. Kepa isn’t one of those goalkeepers who routinely makes terrible mistakes. That’s not the...
Tuesday March 9,2004 – the day that the cult of Jose Mourinho was born. The day that Porto’s firebrand manager emerged from the brick dugout at Old Trafford to sprint down the touchline and celebrate his team’s late equaliser and eliminate Manchester United. The day his legend began.Porto went on to win the Champions League that year, leading to his startling self-proclamation as a ‘Special One’ and vindication of such hubris with victory at Inter in 2010. But where does Mourinho sit now? A decade on from his last triumph in the tournament, Jose is still desperately seeking win No.3 – but are his best days gone? We spoke with those who truly know him, to find out the reality.Elsewhere,...
This weekend, two of Italian football's heavyweights meet again in the San Siro for the Derby della Madonnina - or the Milan derby, to us monolingual troglodytes at FourFourTwo.Every since the early 20th century, Inter and AC Milan have jostled for supremacy. Originally one club, they split over a dispute of whether international players should represent the club - hence why some members ofAssociazione Calcio Milan split off to form Internazionale.But despite the tensions over the years, a numberof players have represented both Milan and Inter - quite unusual for local rivals who are both so successful.This is a pretty difficult quiz, we won't lie to you - but there are still loadsof names that you'll be certain to know.As...