All David Alaba posts on WhoScored.com Articles RSS

Messi, Alaba, Wijnaldum: Star-studded potential free agents ahead of transfer window

by
Messi, Alaba, Wijnaldum: Star-studded potential free agents ahead of transfer window 2020 draws to a close in the coming days, and not a moment too soon! With 2021 right around the corner, it presents players whose contracts expire next summer to negotiate pre-contracts with teams across Europe. Serie A trio Hakan Calhanoglu, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Henrikh Mkhitaryan will all ente...

What Manchester City need to do before Monday's transfer deadline?

by
What Manchester City need to do before Monday's transfer deadline? It's safe to say this summer has been a curious one by Manchester City's standards. It started with Leroy Sane leaving, then offered hope of Lionel Messi arriving and has ended with more money spent in defence. Pep Guardiola has already spent well over £100m on new signings this summer but you...

Revealed: Bayern Munich duo among 10 big names available for cut price deals

by
Revealed: Bayern Munich duo among 10 big names available for cut price deals It has emerged in the last few hours Chelsea are in advanced talks with Ajax to sign star man Hakim Ziyech at the end of the season in a deal worth £38m. Ziyech has played a direct hand in 148 goals in 179 league games since August 2014 and appears fantastic value for the reported fee involved...

Football INDEX: Returning Manchester City star worth adding to your portfolio

by
Football INDEX: Returning Manchester City star worth adding to your portfolio Football INDEX is the world’s first football stock market where you can buy and sell shares in footballers with real money. Football INDEX offers fans a chance to bet on the future success of football players compared to the short-lived outcome of betting on football results.Intrigued by what ...

The Expert: Ireland an awkward opponent for underachieving Austria

by
The Expert: Ireland an awkward opponent for underachieving Austria For Marko Arnautovic, there was no downplaying it, nor dismissing increasingly pressing questions about Austria’s poor results. He came right out and admitted it. “We are under a bit of pressure,” the Stoke City forward said, ahead of his country’s crunch qualifier with Irela...

Team Focus: Not at the World Cup XI

by
Team Focus: Not at the World Cup XI Whether a nation failed to navigate their way past the group stage or saw their dreams of international glory dashed through the medium of a playoff, missing out on the opportunity of performing at the World Cup is always a tough pill to swallow. Bar a minor miracle in Montevideo that would see Urug...

Team Focus: A New Era and Identity at Valencia

by
Team Focus: A New Era and Identity at Valencia As has been the story for several summers now, the headlines in Valencia have been dominated by a departure. David Villa, David Silva, Juan Mata, Jordi Alba all left the club and the latest go the way of those four players was Roberto Soldado, to Tottenham.To each loss, Valencia have responded rathe...

Player Focus: WhoScored's Under 21 Team of the Season

by
Player Focus: WhoScored's Under 21 Team of the Season With La Liga coming to an end this weekend, WhoScored.com have taken the chance to calculate the Under 21 Team of the Season based on player ratings, though no players from the Spanish, nor the French league, make the grade. To do so players must have been 21 or under at the start of the season and ...

Dortmund vs Bayern: Where the Champions League Final will be Won and Lost

by
Dortmund vs Bayern: Where the Champions League Final will be Won and Lost Bayern Munich fans mockingly sang football's coming home as they watched their side cruise to a 3-1 victory at the Emirates Stadium in the second round of this season's Champions League. Dortmund fans may well join them this weekend when the two sides meet at the same location (albeit at a rebuilt s...

Player Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Under-21 XI

by
Player Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Under-21 XI It's been a breakthrough season for a number of young stars across Europe's top 5 leagues and WhoScored has compiled a team of the top rated players of the age of 21 and under.To be included in our all star XI players must have started at least 10 league games for their respective sides, and the res...