William Sinsky brings you 10 players that could enjoy breakthrough campaigns in the Premier League this season. It’s back. The richest, most watched, and (debatably) most...
Ryan Quinn writes a detailed tactical analysis about the Premier League game that finished Manchester United 4-0 West Ham Following the signings of Victor Lindelof, Romelu Lukaku, and...
Miles Olusina writes a detailed tactical analysis about the UEFA Super Cup game that finished Real Madrid 2-1 Manchester United Twelve-time European champions Real Madrid came up...
Kaushik Goswami has a look at why Nemanja Matic could be Manchester United’s most important signing. Having already lured Romelu Lukaku and Victor Lindelof to Old...
Mateus Carvalho provides a comprehensive scout report on Joel Pereira, Manchester United’s agile goalkeeper. At the end of the last season, José Mourinho boldly stated: “We [Man United]...
Oliver McManus writes about David Moyes’ career, what might await the popular Scottish manager next. With the resignation of David Moyes came an onslaught of criticism...
Duncan Kwok writes a detailed scout report about Angles Gomes, the Manchester United youngster. Manchester United have over the years produced exquisite talent, the likes of...
Cheuk Hei Ho writes a detailed tactical analysis about the Europa League final that finished Ajax 0-2 Manchester United By beating Ajax to win the Europa League, Jose Mourinho...
Kaustubh Pandey writes a detailed tactical analysis on the UEFA Europa League Round of 16 first leg that finished Rostov 1-1 Manchester United. Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United...
A very interesting interactive squad visualisation published by Roast allows us to dwell on some very insightful trends about the top 6 in the Premier League and...
Raghunandhanan Narasimhan writes a detailed tactical analysis of the Premier League match that ended Everton 1-1 Manchester United. Everton hosted Manchester United at Goodison Park as...
Liam Newman has a look at Jose Mourinho’s struggles and why he thinks two up top is the way to go at Old Trafford. After just...
Raghunandhanan Narasimhan provides a comprehensive tactical analysis about the Premier League game that ended Manchester United 1-1 Arsenal. Premier League’s greatest rivals went up against each other...
Harry McDonnell writes to justify the massive transfer fees paid for Paul Pogba and John Stones by Manchester United and Manchester City this past summer. Over...
Siyang Xu writes a detailed tactical analysis about the Premier League match that ended Chelsea 4-0 Manchester United. Mourinho and his Manchester United side came to...
Siyang Xu writes a detailed tactical analysis about the Premier League match that ended Liverpool 0-0 Manchester United. In one of the most anticipated Monday Night...
Cabral Opiyo draws an interesting analogy between Jesse Lingard and Tom Hank’s famous character, Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump was a movie based around the life of...
Football News 24/7 Judging the calibre of a young player is often a tricky task. Perceived potential has an important bearing in any consideration and is...
Daniel Lee takes a look at the importance of Daley Blind, Manchester United’s silent catalyst. Watching Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford and Zlatan Ibrahimović roam around the...
Kuria Mbugua makes his OOTB debut with an analysis of the midfield problems that Jose Mourinho is facing at Manchester United right now. As Marouane Fellaini...
Pep Guardiola and Manchester City stole the show this past weekend with a scintillating performance in the first half. Daniel Wong tells us what happened. On...
Miles Olusina writes a detailed tactical analysis of the Manchester derby that ended Manchester United 1-2 Manchester City. The biggest game of the 2016/17 Premier League season so far saw...
Brian Hradek writes an in depth Scout Report about the most coveted youngster at Manchester United right now, Marcus Rashford. Lately it seems as if Manchester...
A regular feature on our website is the Talent Radar Team of the Week with the best young players compiled into an XI from across Europe’s...
Football News 24/7 James Sutherland takes on an agressive stroll down memory lane, as he revisits one of the darker episodes of the rivalry between Manchester...
Football News 24/7 Rahul Warrier brings you the next edition of this series and talks about the best U-19 players to watch out for in the Premier League this season....
Sauharda Karki writes about Mourinho’s tactics in midfield and how they will differ from those of van Gaal. Another season, another manager, and yet another tactical...
Mosope Ominiyi writes about the performances put in by Paul Pogba at Euro 2016, and how they compared with the expectations placed on his shoulders. Not...
Football News 24/7 We kick off a brand new series on Outside of the Boot, with a special tribute to feisty fixture in the North West...
When we look at successful people, we often imagine a long road of hard work. Grit and determination may be one way to get there, but...
Zehan Arif makes his OOTB debut with this tribute to one of his heroes, Nemanja Vidic. On the 29th of January, Nemanja Vidić officially announced his...
With football effectively part sport, part entertainment industry and part business, the money that goes into the sport is quite astonishing. The predominant chunk of that money...
Manchester United ended their winless run by recording a 2-1 victory over Swansea after Louis van Gaal adopted a series of changes. Swansea, under caretaker manager...
Miles Olusina writes a detailed tactical analysis about the goalless draw that Manchester United and Chelsea played out last week. Neither Manchester United nor Chelsea came...
When it comes to the playing staff, signings are a great way to improve the squad, both in terms of quality and depth, and indeed, are...
Judah Davies tactically analyses the Manchester Derby that saw the two sides cancel each other out, in a clash at the top of the table. Manchester...
Matteo Darmian has had a steady start to life in Manchester. What has stood out about the Italian is that his defensive attributes are more prominent...
All great Manchester United sides have been built on the bedrock of highly-tipped youth players. The Busby Babes and the Class of 92 are examples of...
Arnab Ray breaks down each of the three goals in the high profile Premier League game which finished Arsenal 3-0 Manchester United. Arsenal vs Manchester...
Ahead of the match up between Arsenal and Manchester United this weekend, Talent Radar takes a look at a combined XI of the best young players in...
To be beloved by a fan base is one thing, to be worshiped is another. Such was, and indeed still is Bastian Schweinsteiger’s stock in Bavaria. The German...
This Premier League season’s biggest transfers of the summer have been Raheem Sterling’s protracted move from Liverpool to Manchester City and Petr Cech leaving Chelsea after...
In a game with several plot lines— Memphis’ return to PSV, Luke Shaw’s injury, Martial getting his first start after a great debut, Wayne Rooney’s injury...
There is a ripple of excitement around the world ahead of the start of this season’s Champions League proper. The competition may be among Europe’s elite...
Manchester United beat Liverpool 3-1 at Old Trafford with all the goals coming in the second half following an uninspired opening 45 minutes where both teams...
With this massive rivalry revisited this weekend, Talent Radar takes a look at a combined XI of the best young players in the two sides’ current...
Manchester United and Liverpool were both in the market for a right-back in the recent transfer window. The 2 English giants got their men with Liverpool...
Who doesn’t love an underdog story. Have one in football’s grandest club competition would elevate its status even more. Alankrith Shankar ponders if an underdog could...
Last season Garry Monk’s Swansea City team got some great results against the ‘bigger’ teams in the Premier League, including a historic double over United. They...
The following is the fourth part of a mini-series in which Jake Askham takes a look at the common formations prevalent in football today. This piece...
An extract taken from A Season in the Red by Jamie Jackson, chronicles the eventful end to Louis van Gaal’s first transfer window as Manchester United...
The first game of the Premier League season matched up Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United against Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham Hotspur. Many supporters looked at this clash...
Vatsal Dani analyses the much anticipated debut of Manchester United’s star signing, Memphis Depay. The Premier League kicked off this Saturday amidst much fanfare as struggling...
The 2013-14 season was one to forget for Manchester United with David Moyes not lasting the season at the helm. There was no place in Louis...
If few would’ve envisioned Robin van Persie joining Manchester United in 2012, then even fewer would’ve thought he’d last just a year at the club under...
Javier Hernandez’s Manchester United career hasn’t exactly panned out the way he would have envisioned when he first came to England. Having donned the role of...
Wayne Rooney has had plenty of successful goalscoring seasons with Manchester United, with credit owed to his suppliers just as much. The past couple of seasons...
Liam Bekker has a look back at the career of prolific hitman, Ruud van Nistelrooy tracing his career right from his formative years at Nooit Gedacht and...
There were question marks over Juan Mata’s future at Manchester United in the first half of the season but a switch to 4-3-3 saw the Spaniard...
It is rare to see fans of a successful club dislike the owners on a large scale but that’s the exact situation at Manchester United. Plenty...
Manchester United’s spending spree last summer turned quite a few heads. Out of their acquisitions, a certain Angel Di Maria stood out as he came to...
Many had thought that Chris Smalling’s days at Manchester United were numbered after a few blunders at the start of this season but the 25 year-old...
For three clubs hailing from contrasting societies and footballing cultures, they have striking similarities. For one, each of them has a history immense enough to make...
It’s over 50 years since a boy from Northern Ireland set out on his journey to become a Manchester United legend. Now, Paddy McNair is no...
One of the key men in Manchester United’s resurgence of late is Ashley Young. Since moving to Manchester, the former Aston Villa winger has had a...
Coming into this game, the positions of these two sides on the league table were almost certain, and in theory, it was little more than dead...
At Outside of the Boot, we’re all up for promoting grassroots football and in this article, we present you with the Mediterranean International Cup (MIC), a project...
Manchester gathered its two giants once again at Old Trafford; a journey for the Citizens that was found more strenuous owning more to the weight this match held rather...
Marouane Fellaini was seen as a symbol of everything wrong about the brief David Moyes era at Old Trafford. Thus, with Moyes shown the door, the...
England have never had an appreciative eye for the finer details of the game. With the finer details come the finer players, one such is Michael Carrick....
At the beginning of this month, I had the privilege of attending an event at Grosvenor Casinos in Didsbury alongside other football writers including Andy Mitten,...
The fixture between Liverpool and Manchester United is one that demands global attention. As a spectacle, it is England’s riposte to El Clasico, Derby della Madonnina, De...
With Manchester United and Chevrolet’s sponsorship deal kicking in with full flow this season, there has been quite a lot of campaigning from both parties to...
Arsenal made their way past Manchester United in the FA Cup last week thanks to a goal from the latter’s home grown hero, Danny Welbeck. Rwiddhi...
We’ve heard it time and again from fans and pundits of English football: ‘The Premier League is the best in the world’. What exactly makes it...
There was much uproar after Sam Allardyce’s tongue-in-cheek reaction after his side’s game against Manchester United. Louis van Gaal deemed it worthy a retort and thus...
Manchester United’s formations have been the topic of many a discussion this season. Louis van Gaal’s persistence with a three man defence clearly wasn’t United’s cup...
Much has been spoken about who would be the privileged one to spearhead Manchester United’s attack this season. With Robin van Persie slowly letting time catch...
Despite spending a ton of money over the summer, there are still key areas that Manchester United and Louis van Gaal are yet to address that...
With Louis van Gaal at the helm, the 2nd half of the season was supposed to be when the new and improved Manchester United would show...
Joseph Solomon has a look at the Premier League’s history with a three man defensive system, it’s current implementation and if it can sustainably work in...
Moving on from the Ferguson era was always going to be hard for both players and fans and the 2013-14 campaign under David Moyes showed how...
Coming off a busy and relatively successful World Cup campaign, it was predicted by many that Robin van Persie would feel the effects of the coveted...
There were times where this fixtures involved two of the most in form teams in England, and there were occasions where the gulf in class was...
Marouane Fellaini’s transfer from Everton and the season that followed under David Moyes has been under severe scrutiny by the media and fans alike. After a...
Manchester United’s last four games show van Gaal’s team is beginning to tick at a particularly crucial time. Tom Chambers documents how United have slowly made their...
While European teams focused on technique and tactics, Estudiantes had a different game plan altogether. A period in the late 1960s saw the Argentine club shed...
Arsenal 1-2 Manchester United: The rivalry between the 2 sides is not the same as it was in the mid-noughties when flying food and tunnel skirmishes dominated the...
The critics have been sharpening their knives for a while now and have been increasingly vocal in the past few weeks. The damning accusation of being...
Liam Bekker chronicles the career of one of the greatest pure goal-scorers to ever grace the beautiful game, the legendary, Henrik Larsson. For fifteen years Swedish...
Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea | A lot of the big games in the Premier League are built up with their own little sub plots and storylines,...
Manchester United’s relatively easy start to the season in terms of fixtures led to widespread belief that van Gaal would soon get the best out of...
Manchester United’s summer signing, Ander Herrera, has proved to be an impressive solution to their midfield problems. Tom Chambers writes why the Spaniard has been so...
Manchester United 2-1 Everton | The fixture list has been contrasting for the two teams as they’ve both endured disappointing starts to the campaign. On paper,...
In the days after Danny Welbeck’s move to Arsenal was confirmed, reports began to emerge stating that Welbeck chose to leave after being told he would...
Debates are meant to provide a diversity of opinions, with the perspective of various parties justifying the question posed. Debates on Outside of the Boot serve...
Manchester United’s transfer window splurge has set the tongues wagging. Rival fans and journalists alike were quick to proclaim that it was not in accordance to...
Danny Welbeck is a player that a lot of Manchester United fans wanted to see flourish at Old Trafford. Born in Manchester and an Academy graduate,...
The loss of the experienced duo of Vidic and Ferdinand left Manchester United short in terms of both personnel and experience at the back. Unsurprisingly, United...
The fact that Angel Di Maria was on sale in the recent transfer window was quite apparent. His eventual destination though was not. PSG looked like...
