While the English media continue to be fixated on whether United will make another bid for Everton’s Leighton Baines, reports out of Spain suggest that Real Madrid’s Fabio Coentrao will be back on the market in January. United came very close to signing Coentrao in the summer, but United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward could not […]
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According to reports out of France, mega-rich Paris Saint-Germain are seriously looking into the possibility of a world record move for Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi. According to Le Parisien, the relationship between Messi and Barcelona is not good at the moment and that the forward is unhappy with Javier Faus’ comments about his […]
Lionel Messi has been named World Footballer Of The Year for the last four years as is neither the best player on the planet, or the second best, depending on your viewpoint on Ronaldo. So I would expect that FC Barcelona would be embracing Messi, making him feel wanted and loved. Instead, the club has […]
Barcelona spokesman Toni Freixa complained earlier this week that recent reports in the Spanish media were part of ‘an effort to undermine the reputation of our athletes and our institution”. Well on Wednesday a judge in Spain disagreed with Freixa’s comments and potentially opened up a nightmare situation for Barcelona that could cost the club […]
Neymar struck twice as Barcelona returned to winning ways in the Liga by beating Villarreal 2-1, while Real Madrid lost ground by drawing at Osasuna after trailing 2-0 at one point. Madrid looked set for their third league defeat of the season after two headed goals from Oriol Riera put Osasuna 2-0 ahead inside 39 […]
There were wins for the league leaders in England, France, Germany and Italy this weekend. The title race in Spain tightened as Iker Muniain scored the only goal to give Athletic Bilbao a 1-0 win over Barcelona, to send Gerardo Martino to their first domestic defeat of the season. Bundesliga Bayern Munich continue to play […]