Rafa Benitez says that the reason’s for Inter’s poor start to the season was because of injuries to key players and a lack of support from Inter’s bosses and not because of him. In an interview with with Spanish daily Marca, Benitez complained about the lack of new signings to reinforce Inter’s injury-ravaged squad, and […]
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The European Club Association, representing 197 clubs across Europe, is meeting today and tomorrow and ECA is being very vocal in its opposition to some of the thigs that UEFA and FIFA are doing. Top of the list is the scheduling of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar with the ECA opposed to playing the […]
It was a record breaking weekend in Spain as Barcelona set a new unbeaten record in Liga winning streak. Over in Italy the Serie A title race got closer as both Inter and Napoli closed the gap on leaders AC Milan. Spain Barcelona set another fabulous benchmark on Saturday as their 3-0 home win against […]
The details behind Chelsea’s £68.6m loss for last season are starting to come out an they don’t make pretty reading. Chelsea’s annual wage bill soared last season to £172.5million, which is almost £40million more the next highest payers Manchester City paid. In 2009, Chelsea spent £165.6million on wages but that sum included pay-offs worth £12.6million […]
Barcelona midfielder Javier Mascherano has hit out at Liverpool for the way they handled his and Fernando Torres’s exits – even though he left the club of his own choice. Following Torres’s £50 million transfer to Chelsea, Mascherano has been quoted as saying that Torres is better off at Stamford Bridge: “I was not surprised […]
In a bit of a surprise Gary Neville has announced his retirement from football with immediate effect. The surprise is that it is with immediate effect and not at the end of the year. Neville played 602 times for United as well as winning 85 England caps. In his United career Neville won every trophy […]
Bayern Munich will play Holland in a friendly next year to compensate the German champions for losing Arjen Robben to an injury aggravated during the World Cup in South Africa. The game will be played at Bayern’s Allianz Arena on May 22, 2012 The Dutch football association (KNVB) and Bayern had been embroiled in a […]
Manchester United beat Aston Villa 3-1 to stay five points clear of Arsenal, who won 2-1 against Everton, at the top of the Premier League. Wayne Rooney had scored just one league goal from open play prior to his first-minute strike against Villa. The England striker controlled Edwin van der Sar’s clearance with delightful ease […]
While some of the Premier League clubs went crazy in the January transfer window, for the most part most clubs across Europe did very little business in January. Whether it was because of the current economic conditions across Europe, or because of the new UEFA Fair Play rules, most European clubs went for small purchases […]