Kiyan Sobhani

UEFA Champions League Manchester United might welcome a midweek break from poor league form - just as these teams all did...

Martin Odegaard's Arsenal move highlights a worrying trend with Real Madrid's youngsters

La Liga This January, some of La Liga's hottest talent is up for grabs. With Manchester City, Tottenham and Manchester United among the suitors, we look through the likely deals on offer

Barcelona Despite being top of La Liga, Barcelona are in the midst of their worst start to a season in 25 years. Should Ernesto Valverde be getting more out of his major summer signing? Kiyan Sobhani takes a closer look.

Real Madrid The pressure is on all parties to find the Welshman a new club after the weekend’s slanging match – but how did we get here? Kiyan Sobhani explains

Transfer news ​Every transfer window sees a few moves absolutely no one saw coming. Kiyan Sobhani gets out his crystal ball and makes a few big calls about who’s going where this time around

Real Madrid Nowhere in La Liga, knocked out in the last 16 of the Champions League – it’s been a dreadful season for Los Blancos. But there may be light ahead…

UEFA Champions League The quarter-finals are here! And serving up some humdingers, too. Kiyan Sobhani sorts out the saps and serious contenders

UEFA Champions League It's back! So allow Kiyan Sobhani to size up the competition and provide our guide to a thrilling first knockout round...

Transfer news Which smart cookies have done the best business on the continent so far? And who's left themselves short? Kiyan Sobhani rates the work of the elite clubs

FIFA World Cup Prediction time! We can always just delete this post-tournament, right? 

Zinedine Zidane's side boast a formidable array of talent, but flaws in Real's system show the route Liverpool can take to a famous victory, writes Kiyan Sobhani

Gareth Bale He may be the second-best goalscorer at the Bernabeu, but the Welshman's standing in Madrid is far from what it used to be. Kiyan Sobhani explores why 

Jürgen Klopp Liverpool's stunning 3-0 first-leg win over Manchester City means the German has bested Pep seven times in their 13 meetings – and now twice this season. Kiyan Sobhani evaluates why the Bearded One has such a hold on the world's most revered boss...

UEFA Champions League Ooo, it's getting tasty now. As two Premier League clubs prepare for battle against one another in the final eight, Kiyan Sobhani ponders the questions we'd like answering over the next fortnight

Barcelona Barça suffered a humbling summer – yet now sit five points clear in La Liga and beat Juventus to top spot in their Champions League group. Kiyan Sobhani explains how they’ve done it

Barcelona The Catalans are used to getting most things their own way – but this has been a period where almost everything that could have gone wrong has. Almost...

Premier League Kiyan Sobhani turns Mystic Meg to make some gutsy forecasts ahead of the new campaign

James Rodríguez From new galacticos to the Ancelotti impact, Kiyan Sobhani examines five questions posed by James Rodriquez's loan move from Real to Bayern

N'Golo Kante Watching the almost-freakish Frenchman now, it's scarcely believable that he didn't play his first top-flight match until 2014. Just three seasons later the pint-sized force of nature is edging closer towards winning back-to-back Premier League titles – but how on earth did the quiet lad from a Parisian suburb get here? 

Atlético Madrid Kiyan Sobhani turns Mystic Meg to speculate about what might happen in the world of football next year

Real Madrid Los Blancos might be riding high in La Liga – but they won’t have their Welsh wizard for Saturday’s Clasico. Kiyan Sobhani assesses Zinedine Zidane’s options for the big ‘un...

Real Madrid Kiyan Sobhani explains why a lack of transfer market activity at the Santiago Bernabeu wouldn't exactly be a negative thing

Real Madrid As it stands, Los Blancos won’t be able to register new players for the next two transfer windows – but that’s not bad news for everybody, writes Kiyan Sobhani

La Liga There's been intrigue aplenty over in Spain since the start of the 2016/17 campaign a fortnight ago. Kiyan Sobhani picks out some of the key talking points