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Yesterday, we launched the February 2024 Total Football Analysis Magazine – jam-packed full of 17 in-depth articles and 8 data viz shorts. All-access members, you can go and download it for free as part of your subscription package!

This season’s Premier League has title-chasing narratives galore – Alexandra Hunt has gone deep into the numbers to try and find the signal in the noise.

In the Netherlands, Vitesse are traditionally a safe mid-table team. This season however, it’s a relegation fight – Brandon Liss explains some of the on-field issues.

Luis Kircher takes a look at three eye-catching January deals in Bundesliga.

Anantaajith Raghuraman heads to Portugal to explain CD Nacional’s attacking explosion.

And Marcel Seifeddine is in Belgium, breaking down Anderlecht’s set-pieces under Brian Rimmer who are, in fact, better than Real Madrid (he says).

From the archives, Fintan O’Reilly suggests;

After an impressive start to the season for Granada, Bryan Zaragoza is on his way to FC Bayern! Learn a bit about why the Bavarian giants wanted him.

Also on his way to Germany is PSG’s Hugo Ekitike, set to join Eintracht Frankfurt. His PSG move was not a success but will this transfer be more positive for his career and development? Read all about his breakthrough season at Reims in 2021/22 when he demonstrated what he’s capable of.

While Barcelona were reportedly keen and confident, Lucas Bergvall has opted to join Tottenham Hotspur instead — read about the top Swedish talent in this scout report featuring the now-18 y/o midfielder and other young Allsvenskan rising stars.

Patrick Vieira’s Strasbourg take on PSG in Ligue 1 tonight. After Les Parisiens dropped points to third-place Brest last week, can 10th-place Strasbourg, unbeaten in six league games, take points in this one? Abakar Sylla’s been a key figure for the Alsace club in recent weeks, we previewed his move to France from Club Brugge in a summer piece.

And that’s it for today – we’ll be back tomorrow with the best bits of the week!

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