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Telegram channel @david_ornstein: 18.9K subscribers, 7K views per post, score 48

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18.9K
Subscribers: 7K
Median views over 30 days: 37.0%
Views / subscribers over 30 days: 100
Posts over 30 days

Data as of October 1, 2026

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English football through the eyes of an Athletic insider: transfer news, injury updates and managerial decisions delivered as short, reporter-style dispatches without filler. As of 17 September: followers stand at 18.9K, above the category median. ER sits at 42.6%, well above the category median of 12.9%, while the post count over 30 days (99) is on par with the category median. Recent coverage includes Joao Pedro's injury and his replacement by Martinelli in Brazil's squad, Jurgen Klopp naming two separate Germany squads ahead of Nations League fixtures, and Chelsea's takeover completion as Clearlake Capital assumed full control with Todd Boehly stepping down as chairman. Other posts cover Adam Wharton's contract situation at Crystal Palace and Enzo Maresca's comments on a refereeing error in a match against Manchester United.

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What it is made of
Engagement	19.8 of 30
Growth quality	9.8 of 20
Reactions and forwards	3.9 of 15
Consistency	3.6 of 12
Trust	3.6 of 8
Reviews	not enough datano reviews yet

Score 48 — from 5 of 6 signals: the rest are not measured yet. Methodology

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Carlos Queiroz stepped down from his role as head coach of Ghana on July 5 following the nation’s World Cup exit — but he was reappointed in early September. However, the Portuguese coach has parted ways with the national team — again.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has announced that he has decided to leave Portugal’s national team camp following a “crisis” meeting.
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The UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he would be “really concerned” to lose Manchester City’s Emirati owners from the Premier League. “They’ve been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester and obviously the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is.”
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Raphinha picked up another physical problem with Brazil this week. The Barcelona forward has now been injured during each of his past three Brazil call-ups, following hamstring problems at the World Cup as well as the March friendlies leading up to that tournament. Sources close to Raphinha told The Athletic they do not believe the injury is serious.
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Tottenham defender Jan Paul van Hecke has returned to the Premier League club following a foot injury suffered on international duty.
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🗣"We've never had a case like this. Nobody knows where this is going to go." Despite being found guilty of almost all charges, Manchester City remain confident of proving their innocence. @David_Ornstein , @JamesHorncastle and @kvlmason analyse the situation on the latest episode of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝗖 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁
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Manchester City reported £949.4m arriving from sponsors over nine years. The real number was £119.2m. Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG), the club’s owner, forked out the remaining £830.7m in what the commission described as a “disguised funding scheme”. City are alleged to have overstated their revenue by £854.5m over nine years. We knew it was going to be bad. But this bad? No, it is on a different scale to anything the Premier League has seen before.
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The Premier League confirmed on Tuesday that, as revealed by The Athletic on Friday, Manchester City had been found guilty of almost all charges — including the most serious breaches of the league’s financial regulations — between 2009 and 2018. On the latest episode of The Athletic FC Podcast, @David_Ornstein explains how he broke the story — and discusses the situation with @JamesHorncastle and @kvlmason. Watch now on YouTube
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Manchester City have been found guilty of “sham payments” and artificially inflating their revenue by more than £900million in a damning verdict reached by an independent regulatory commission investigating more than 100 charges levied by the Premier League.
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La Liga president Javier Tebas described the overturning of Folarin Balogun’s World Cup red card, which followed U.S. president Donald Trump making a call to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, as “the most serious incident in the history of football.”