Samuel Eto’o has been voted African player of the year for a record fourth time. Eto’o finished ahead of Ghana forward Asamoah Gyan and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba in votes cast by the coaches of African’s 53 national teams. Eto’o, who also won the award in 2003, 2004 and 2005, helped Inter Milan win an […]
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Inter Milan boss Rafa Benitez’ had some really interesting comments after watching his team win the Club World Cup. Rafa’s first comments were these when asked about the upcoming transfer window: “I spoke with the president at the beginning of the season and we will talk again, but today is a day of celebrations. I […]
That is the question that is being asked on our Barcelona fan site as there have been various reports this week that Manchester City are poised to make a monster bid for Andres Iniesta next month. Iniesta is expected to be recognized as the best player in the world when the FIFA Ballon d’Or is handed […]
The Carlos Tevez transfer situation took another fascinating turn tonight as Tevez fired back angrily after City had rejected his transfer request. Yesterday Tevez shocked City by turning in this transfer request and this morning City fired back, rejecting the request and putting all the blame at City’s agent Kia Joorabchian. So this evening, Tevez […]
Another poor performance by Inter as they lost 3-1 away to Lazio. How long will the Inter board allow these kind of performances to go on? It would seem that Rafa has another must-win game this week against Bremen. Against Lazio, Inter started the game ok, and had the first chance in the 13th minute when […]
FIFA has announced it 10 goal shortlist for the Puskas Award as the best goal of 2010. The criteria chosen in picking the 10 candidates were: aesthetics; the importance of the match; the absence of luck or an opposition mistake as a factor making the goal possible; fair play; and the date, with only goals […]
Liverpool are furious that Steven Gerrard will be out of action for three to four weeks after injuring his hamstring against France last night. The cause of the anger on Merseyside is that Liverpool felt that they had an agreement with England boss Fabio Capello that Gerrard would not play more than an hour. Gerrard […]
It was is simply an amazing turnaround, Wayne Rooney this morning signed a new 5-year contract with Manchester United that will make him the highest paid player in United history. It is a remarkable turnaround for a player who earlier in the week was saying that Man Utd was not ambitious enough for him. Sir […]
The Wayne Rooney saga took another twist today when Rooney released a statement about why he want to leave the most successful English team of the last six years. Rooney’s statement read: “I met with David Gill last week and he did not give me any of the assurances I was seeking about the future […]