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Ranking Early Season Must-Watch Storylines
Episode 380

Ranking Early Season Must-Watch Storylines

A few weeks of the new season have now passed and there are interesting nuggets popping up across each a number of leagues across European football. Here are a few to keep an eye on!

Ranks FC - A Football Podcast · Dougie Critchley, Jack Collins

September 24, 20251h 1m

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Show Notes

Hello Rank Squad! 

We're now a couple of matchdays into the new season and some interesting trends are starting to rear their head in different capacities. Today, we take a look through some of the things to be keeping an eye on this season, the storylines that might prove to be pretty important come the end of this campaign. 

We start in the Premier League with a discussion of the newly promoted sides, their hot starts and what this might mean for the bottom rung of the established order - pondering whether this could be the year where finally the three up are not the three that go back down. 

Then it's off to the continent, discussing Real Madrid's newly found structural awareness under Xabi Alonso; the exciting resurgences of both Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig; sleeping giants finally awakening in Serie A; a potential battle for the ages for the Champions League spots in Ligue 1, where everyone is flawed and fun; and Francesco Farioli's hot start at Porto coming up against the return of Jose Mourinho at Benfica. 

It's Ranks! 

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