European Championship Qualifying: Memphis Depay (80′) Netherlands 1-1 Northern Ireland.
De Ligt, De Jong and Depay are the building blocks for a new, elite Dutch team. Next stop: Euro 2020
In 1977, Johan Cruijff’s Dutch team came to Wembley and England fielded five players whose natural position was center-back. Oranje fooled them by playing without a center-forward: Cruijff dropped into midfield and set up both goals in a 0-2 victory. Times change, but England doesn’t, at least not very much. Early in Thursday’s Nations League semifinal, Memphis Depay retreated from center-forward to midfield. He and his teammates found space between the rigid lines of England’s defense and midfield,…
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“I have made mistakes in my life,” says Memphis Depay at the start of his new autobiography, which veers from heartrending to uplifting and back. “I have taken and handed out many punches, and have fallen on my face countless times.”
Now, at age 25, Olympique Lyon’s Dutch forward tells us: “I’m not even halfway through what I want to achieve. It’s quite a list. Playing for Real Madrid. Winning the Champions League. Getting the Golden Ball for world’s best player. Having €100 million in my…
Craig Burley and Ross Dyer work through the latest potential summer transfers, including Memphis Depay making his way to Anfield.
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Craig Burley and Ross Dyer work through the latest potential summer transfers, including Memphis Depay making his way to Anfield.
The Premier League transfer window is open. You can click here to review all the latest transfers and kee…
Craig Burley and Ross Dyer work through the latest potential summer transfers, including Memphis Depay making his way to Anfield.
The Premier League transfer window is open. You can click here to review all the latest transfers and kee…
The opening rounds of Euro 2020 qualifying produced big-time performances from Raheem Sterling, Memphis Depay and more of Europe’s top players.
European Championship Qualifying: Memphis Depay (63′) Netherlands 2-2 Germany
Memphis Depay was quoted as saying he wanted to leave Lyon.
Memphis Depay has urged Lyon fans to get their “facts straight” and claimed quotes that he wanted to join a team “that really wants to play football” had been taken out of context.
Former Manchester United player Depay was quoted by Helden magazine as saying he wanted “to go to a club like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Manchester City, PSG or Bayern Munich” in the summer.
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The magazine also quoted him as saying he wanted “to go to a city that suits me and to a team that really wants to play football.”
But…
‘Don’t play my football in France, but yo Memphis at least I can dance’
Earlier in the week, Memphis Depay treated us all to a rap video in which he celebrated passing five million followers on Instagram.
Filmed on a Parisian rooftop, the Dutchman jigged around in an expensive velvet coat and toked on a large cigar while boasting about various aspects of his lavish lifestyle, as rappers tend to do.
The former Manchester United forward, now at French club Lyon, earned what can be best described as mixed reviews for his performance.
Taking up the baton, Motherwell defender…