Sometimes you have to wonder why successful businessmen can continue to make the same mistake over and over when they run a football team. Despite winning the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup, Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez has fired Carlo Ancelotti less than 12 months ago he delivered the long awaited ‘LA […]
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Interesting little piece in the Spanish newspaper Marca on Thursday that Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has met with club president Florentino Pérez to find out what the club’s intentions are for next season. Mentioned in the newspaper that since Ronaldo arrived at the Bernebeu in 2008 he has scored 223 goals, an average of […]
Despite qualifying for the Champions League this was a very up and down season for Manchester United. It started with the question over whether Louis van Gaal had actually improved the side from David Moyes’ time, and what those changes were, before all the fuss over long balls and then finally the obsession with possession […]
For all Jose Mourinho’s argument that Chelsea’s absences from January to May were going to affect Cesc Fabregas’ output, it’s still hard to escape the fact his season conformed to the general trend of a career: there was a distinctive drop-off. It’s not even about the assists, which fell from 13 in 18 games to […]
The only problem with all the optimism at the Emirates right now is that, really, we’ve been here before. All the talk about being the best team in a given year is reminiscent of what happened in 2013. There is that perpetual sense of the club self-correcting itself: never suffering the true kind of crisis […]
Football’s most controversial transfer saga turned nasty on Thursday when England star Raheem Sterling’s agent launched an extraordinary attack on Liverpool and the club’s former players. In an interview in the London Evening Standard, Sterling’s agent Aidy Ward said that his client would not sign a new contract even if Liverpool offered ‘£700, £800 or £900,000 […]
The Manchester United v Liverpool rivalry is so strong that no player has moved between the two clubs since Phil Chisnall joined Liverpool from United in 1964. But United boss Louis van Gaal is determined to rewrite history as United on Wednesday launched a sensational bid to lure Raheem Sterling away from Liverpool. United have […]
Once again Arsenal huffed and puffed against a lesser opponent at home but could not find past Sunderland goalkeeper Costel Pantilimon, as Dick Advocaat’s side got the point they needed to ensure that they will be playing Premier League football next season. Despite Arsenal having plenty of chances to put the match beyond Dick Advocaat’s […]