Of the sideshows of the Real Madrid v AC Milan match at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night, was the ongoing transfer talks between the two clubs over the future of Kaka. By all accounts there was a face to face meeting between the directors of both clubs in New York on Wednesday. After those meetings, […]
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Athletic Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente has turned down a new contract offer from the club, a decision that stunned the club. Llorente wants Athletic to double his wages and has rejected a three-year extension after they refused to meet his demands. The striker’s current deal expires next summer and is said to be asking for […]
I am amazed that Barcelona officials are still keeping up the appearances that they are not really that interested in Brazilian superstar Neymay. Just this week Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova insisted that he has never spoken about trying to sign the Santos striker. “I’ve never spoken about signing Neymar,” he was quoted as saying by […]
Jose Mourinho has conceded he was wrong to poke Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova in the eye last season. The incident happened during a touchline altercation in the Spanish Supercopa last season. Vilanova was then-assistant coach to Pep Guardiola and the confrontation happened in a tie which Los Merengues went on to lose 5-4 on aggregate. […]
The transfer market is almost at a standstill across Europe, but nowhere is the economic crisis being felt more than in Spain where big money transfers were a common occurrence. Not this summer where the biggest transfer has been the €14m that Barcelona paid for Jordi Alba, one the revelations of Euro 2012. Clubs now […]
The exodus from Malaga has begun as Venezuelan striker Jose Salomon Rondon has gone to Russia’s Rubin Kazan, while Spain international Santi Cazorla has joined England’s Arsenal. Rondon, who became the club’s highest scorer after arriving two seasons ago from Las Palmas, has signed a four-year contract, Rubin announced on their website. Malaga also confirmed the […]
While in Los Angeles, the Real Madrid superstar sat down with ESPN’s Frank Leboeuf to talk about ‘that’ penalty shootout against Spain at Euro 2012 as well as his candidacy for this year’s Ballon D’Or. Here are some of the excerpts from that interview: So just what happened in the penalty shootout? “People are going […]
Last season Jose Mourinho put all his energy into winning the Spanish ‘Supercopa’, feeing that it was important that the players get accustomed to winning. Now after winning the title last season, Mourinho is not willing t settle for anything less than repeating as champions. The Super Cup throws up an interesting match-up between Real […]