While Manchester United embarked on the second most expensive summer spending spree in football history, financial fair play (FFP) forced other top clubs to sell accruing to the Soccerex Transfer Review by Prime Time Sport. United spent €196 million on Angel Di Maria, Luke Shaw, Ander Herrera, Marcos Rojo, Daley Blind and Radamel Falcao. Only […]
Liverpool
Super Mario is returning to the Premier League as Liverpool have signed AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli for £16m. Balotelli announced the move this morning in Milan telling reporters before training: “This will be my last day at Milanello.” The £16m transfer fee means that Milan will take a £3m loss on a player who scored 30 […]
Luis who? A lot of the talk this summer has been how Liverpool can replace the 30+ goals that Luis Suarez scored last season. What has been lost in the conversation is that the other half of the SaS partnership, Daniel Sturridge is still a Liverpool player. On Sunday Sturridge shouldered the responsibility as Liverpool’s […]
Uefa has announced its three contenders for its UEFA’s Best Player in Europe Award and they are Bayern Munich and Germany World Cup winning goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Holland and Bayern winger Arjen Robben and Real Madrid and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo. The winner will be announced on 28 August in Monaco, where the draw for […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport have upheld Luis Suarez’s four-month ban for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini during this summer’s World Cup. Suarez’s lawyers argued that Fifa’s decision to suspend him from all “football-related activity” for biting Chiellini was excessive. While the Cas did not reduce Suarez’s ban, they have ruled that the Uruguay striker […]
Liverpool have agreed a £12m fee with Sevilla for left-back Alberto Moreno. The 22-year-old Spain international was withdrawn from Tuesday’s Uefa Super Cup match against Real Madrid and is expected on Merseyside for a medical later in the week. Moreno will become Liverpool’s eighth signing this summer,joining Southampton trio Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana and Dejan […]
Pepe Reina will officially become a Bayern Munich player on Friday after passing his medical at the club. The German champions signed Reina from Liverpool for a paltry £2 million after spending a year on loan at Napoli last season. That Liverpool were willing to accept only £2 million for Reina shows how badly that […]
After selling the best Uruguayan striker on the planet this summer, Liverpool are poised to sign Luis Suarez’s national team strike partner Edinson Cavani, a player who is not in the same league as the former Liverpool star. PSG, as they are prone to do, massively overpaid for Cavani last summer as they paid £53 […]
Just over a month ago, BeIn Sports broke the story that former Atletico Madrid and current Monaco star Radamel Falcao was heading back to Madrid to join the European Champions. Falcao, who I consider to be the best center forward in the world, seemed like a natural fit for Madrid. While defenses were scared of […]