Football
Three weeks left, and the window is the whole story
The transfer market now runs longer than the pre-season it was designed to serve. Squads are built in the last fortnight.
Sport
Performance, injury, recovery and the transfer market.
Football
The post-tournament hangover clubs finally planned for
A congested summer used to cost a season. Sports science departments spent four years making sure it costs six weeks.
Football
Goalkeeper contracts are the new free-agent market
The position that clubs used to fill last is now the one they plan first, because expiry dates cluster.
Performance
Load management arrives in club football
The NBA argument, with different accents. Nobody has solved what to tell the fan who bought a ticket.
Performance
Recovery science moved from the elite to the amateur
Everything an amateur now does on a Sunday was a professional protocol ten years ago, minus the supervision.