Liverpool’s signing of Florian Wirtz is bound to have a knock-on effect on several of the team’s midfielders. Acquired from Bayer Leverkusen for a fee that could reach £116m, the 22-year-old is ...

There are several terms for the player in the deepest midfield role. The defensive midfielder. The holding midfielder. The sitting midfielder. The anchorman. They all convey roughly the same kind of ...

A dissection of an extremely multifaceted position group.

The possible arrival of the Spaniard addresses a clear need for Atlético. In recent matches, coach Jorge Sampaoli has used ...

These days, the best defensive midfielders in the world tend to be specialists who stay deeper in the engine room. But this was never the case 30 years ago: midfielders tended to chip in to do a ...

Every great team in history has almost always been built around a world-class central defensive midfielder. Think Roy Keane at Manchester United, Claude Makélélé at Chelsea, Sergio Busquets at ...