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Every month, our team deliver the biggest names, the finest features and the most respected columnists in football. FourFourTwo is the only magazine that truly reflects football in all its extremes. Spectacular, dramatic, hilarious, opinionated, authoritative, intelligent, quirky - from the grass roots up, if it's in the game, it's in FourFourTwo.

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IVAN RAKITIC • “England were surprised what we could do. All of their players were worth £70m, £100m, £150m – but they had to play against us”

THE MIXER THE BEST OF FOOTBALL • KIT • FASHION • ART DESIGN • TECH

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UPFRONT • Playing off the last defender, it’s the big-man-little-man partnership of football and funnies…

MIKAEL SILVESTRE GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Test yourself with our questions on goalkeepers-turned-strikers, sword-wielding pirates and the Superclasico

MY FOOTBALL • The DMA’s frontman on growing up as a Toffees fan Down Under and being buds with Big Dunc

MEANWHILE IN… • …Germany, teams spent a summer’s weekend dragging each other through the mud

JULES BREACH • The presenter and journalist was in Miami to see Messi Mania live

CHRISTIAN BURGESS • The defender starred in Europe for Union SG last season – and almost won the Belgian league

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HERE TO COMPETE • Almost two years since their controversial takeover, Newcastle are going where no Magpie’s flown for 20 years: the Champions League. Ahead of the curve their new owners plotted, they feel they have a man, a plan and the fans to sustain it – plus a sovereign wealth fund

AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD… • Howe is the ninth permanent English boss to manage in the Champions League group stage or beyond

“WHAT MAKES THE OWNERSHIP CONVERSATION DIFFICULT IS THAT, IRONICALLY FOR NEWCASTLE, NONE OF IT IS BLACK AND WHITE” • The Magpies’ Saudi Arabia investment has divided English football down the middle. Lifelong supporter Adam Clery explains why it’s left the fanbase in a tricky position

MEET THE NEW BOYS • From Manchester United’s Danish bride to Little Pep linking up with Big Pep, a gaggle of eager-to-impress stars have arrived in the Premier League this summer. FFT gets the lowdown…

CHRISTOPHER NKUNKU & DOMINIK SZOBOSZLAI • RB LEIPZIG TO CHELSEA & LIVERPOOL

JOSKO GVARDIOL • RB LEIPZIG TO MANCHESTER CITY

JAMES TRAFFORD • MANCHESTER CITY TO BURNLEY

JURRIEN TIMBER • AJAX TO ARSENAL

MOUSSA DIABY • BAYER LEVERKUSEN TO ASTON VILLA

MICKY VAN DE VEN • WOLFSBURG TO TOTTENHAM

RECRUITMENT, RECRUITMENT, RECRUITMENT • As Brighton begin their first ever European campaign, having unearthed gem after gem in the transfer market, FourFourTwo chats to key figures inside the club to discover their secret – from algorithms to clandestine spreadsheets

YOU CAN BECOME A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL SCOUT • Football Scouting Worldwide continue to provide the platform of opportunity to aspiring scouts via their groundbreaking, endorsed and industry-recognised online CPD-accredited scouting programme

“IT’S BRISTOL ACADEMY VS BARCELONA… AND IT’S LIVE!” • From tooled-up French fans to...