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Newcastle have agreed to pay up to £34m for a midfielder who has started just 12 senior games. This piece explains why a club still rebuilding after selling Sandro Tonali is choosing to gamble on potential…
Every article The Sports Guru has published about Johan Manzambi: 5 Football articles between 19 June 2026 and 23 July 2026, newest first. For wider coverage, see all Football analysis.
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Eighty-eight years is a long time to carry anything, let alone a knockout record. This covers Switzerland's 2-0 win over Algeria in the World Cup round of 32 at BC Place in Vancouver: Breel Embolo's early…
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Every World Cup hands its stage to a few players who were children at the last one. This tournament, with a record number of debutants, has more of them than most. This piece runs through the young players who…
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Canada needed only a point to top Group B and stay in Vancouver. They got neither. This covers Switzerland's 2-1 win at BC Place, the two-goal second-half spell that did the damage, Promise David's instant…
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A contest that looked like it might end in stalemate was ripped apart inside the final quarter by a 20-year-old nobody saw coming. This piece examines how Johan Manzambi turned a stodgy World Cup group game on…