Former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon has revealed the reason why Zinedine Zidane decided to leave the club. Many were surprised when Zidane announced his departure back in May, five days after winning his third consecutive Champions League title. Star man Cristiano Ronaldo would also go on to leave the club weeks later and the […]
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Almost 30,000 empty seats at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday night told the story of the season so far. The league table after the 2-0 defeat by Real Sociedad also made miserable reading for Real Madrid supporters. They are out of the Champions League places and 10 points behind leaders Barcelona. Santiago Solari has lost […]
Real Madrid suffered their biggest ever home defeat in Europe as they were thrashed by CSKA Moscow in the Champions League. Real Madrid lost 3-0 to CSKA Moscow, losing to the Russians for the second time in the group stages. With the defeat, it is the biggest defeat that Madrid has ever experienced at home […]
Luka Modric saw off competition from France’s World Cup stars as the Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder won the Ballon d’Or on Monday to end a 10-year stranglehold on the award by Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Modric was announced as the winner of the prestigious prize in Paris ahead of Ronaldo and French World […]
Mauricio Pochettino has dismissed speculation he was offered £15 million a year to leave Tottenham and take charge of Real Madrid. Pochettino has long been touted as a future Madrid manager and speculation over his Spurs future has been rife since last month’s sacking of Julen Lopetegui. Reports suggested Madrid offered Pochettino a blockbuster deal […]
Manchester City and Paris St-Germain “are cheating and should be sanctioned”, according to La Liga following financial conduct allegations. German news magazine Der Spiegel says City and PSG overvalued sponsorship deals to help meet Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules. And it says that in 2014 the clubs negotiated with Fifa president Gianni Infantino, who […]
Leonardo Jardim is under consideration by Real Madrid to be their next permanent first team coach. Jardim won the 2016-17 Ligue 1 title with Monaco and also guided them to that season’s Champions League semifinals, but was relieved of his duties last month after a poor start to the 2018-19 campaign. Madrid are still looking […]
According to recently acquired emails from Football Leaks, 16 of Europe’s biggest clubs, including Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United and Bayern Munich have been negotiating to form a Super League. This idea had been floated in the open before, but according to the trans-national investigation resulting from hacked emails obtained by Der Spiegel, there […]
Real Madrid have sacked Julen Lopetegui as manager after just four and a half months in charge at the Bernabeu. Madrid blew up Spain’s World Cup dreams to hire the the Spaniard to succeeded Zinedine Zidane in June but the crushing 5-1 loss to Barcelona in El Clasico on Sunday was their fifth loss in […]