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6 18 TONI KROOS 22 66 60 81 YOU ASK... 6 Clive Tyldesley on Ally, Cloughie and that night in Barcelona UPFRONT 12 The month’s action in pictures 18 Toni Kroos: my greatest games 19 Post-match interview secrets 20 Test yourself with the FFT quiz 22 Robert Plant’s love of Wolves 24 Greenland’s seven-day season 25 Pep’s Barça or Zizou’s Madrid? Our staff debate who was better FEATURES 28 Real Madrid’s new Galacticos Kylian Mbappe and Endrick have joined Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo and Vinicius – will they win it all? 36 Aston Villa’s return to the elite After 1982 glory, they’re back in Europe’s top competition at last 42 The new Champions League All the madness explained, via Swiss chess and French pirates 46 Ratcliffe’s Manchester United FFT heads to the US to find out how a giant intends to rebuild 72
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46 28 FEATURES 54 Worst starts to a season... ever! Torched cars and Alan Carr’s dad 60 An exclusive chat with Cafu A hero relives a glorious career 66 The Saints have marched back Southampton’s stars talk to FFT 72 Lamine Yamal’s game analysed Plus: Liverpool 2004-05 revisited 98 Phillip Cocu picks his Perfect XI THE MIXER 90 Rihanna’s sneaks, Messi’s Beats AROUND THE GROUNDS 78 Michael Skubala: Lincoln boss 79 Edinburgh City’s year of misery 80 Best & Worst: Bristol City 81 Peter Odemwingie takes up golf 82 Yeovil: finally on the rise again A mad decade for the Glovers THE PLAYERS LOUNGE 84 Jan Molby: the Danish Scouser “My Liverpudlian accent helped” 86 Izzy Christiansen’s Lioness life 88 Lee Clark gets invited to Harrods 54 72 88 36 42 JOHN ALDRIDGE

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YOU ASK... 6 Clive Tyldesley on Ally, Cloughie and that night in Barcelona UPFRONT 12 The month’s action in pictures 18 Toni Kroos: my greatest games 19 Post-match interview secrets 20 Test yourself with the FFT quiz 22 Robert Plant’s love of Wolves 24 Greenland’s seven-day season 25 Pep’s Barça or Zizou’s Madrid?

Our staff debate who was better

FEATURES 28 Real Madrid’s new Galacticos

Kylian Mbappe and Endrick have joined Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo and Vinicius – will they win it all? 36 Aston Villa’s return to the elite After 1982 glory, they’re back in

Europe’s top competition at last 42 The new Champions League

All the madness explained, via Swiss chess and French pirates 46 Ratcliffe’s Manchester United FFT heads to the US to find out how a giant intends to rebuild

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