Time for the #TFAArchives!

Each day, Fintan O’Reilly dips into the TFA archives of 10,000+ articles and pulls out a few that are relevant based on current events.

After beating Osasuna 1-0 away last night, Valencia now sit seventh in LaLiga, significantly better than their 16th-place finish last term. We analysed how current manager Rubén Baraja stopped the club from free fall last term back in August, how far can they progress under him?

Kim Hellberg’s new side Hammarby became the first team to defeat Elfsborg in the 2024 Allsvenskan season yesterday. Read all about his impressive tenure with Varnamo, with whom he was nominated for the Allsvenskan Manager of the Year award last season, in our 2023 tactical analysis.

“I believe he is a great option to replace Klopp” — Ex-Sporting CP midfielder João Palhinha has spoken glowingly about ex-boss Rúben Amorim amid Liverpool links. Read all about the highly-rated coach in our TFA 21 tactical analysis.

Julian Nagelsmann is being heavily linked with an FC Bayern return — would this be a good move for coach and club? In 2022, we analysed how he was tactically reinventing the Bavarian side for a new season; how would you expect him to do so again if he were to return?

And that is it for this today – we will be back in the morning with the latest analysis.

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