Barcelona have been forced to defend club-record signing Luis Suarez after the former Liverpool man put on another disappointing performance against Atletico Madrid in the Coppa del Rey on Wednesday night. Barca’s record £75mm summer signing from Liverpool has looked a shadow of the player who terrorized Premier League defense the last two season and […]
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Deloitte have released their 2014 Football Money League standings and while Real Madrid maintain their hold on first place, Manchester United have leapfrogged Bayern Munich and Barcelona and moved into second place after their revenues rose to £433.2m from £363.2m. United’s rise is down to its rapid commercial growth, and with more deals announced this […]
Victor Valdes is expected to make his Manchester United debut in the less-than-glamorous surroundings of Cambridge United’s Abbey Stadium on Friday night. The former Barcelona keeper, who has won three Champions League titles and a World Cup, is set to don the gloves for United for the first time in their FA Cup fourth-round clash […]
According to Spanish newspaper AS, La Liga champions Atletico Madrid are close to agreeing a sale of a 20% stake in the club to Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin. Atleti president Enrique Cerezo has flown out to Beijing to meet with chief executive Miguel Angel Gil, who is already there working on negotiations with Wang over […]
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho claims he chose not to sign Radamel Falcao or Angel di Maria last summer because their huge salaries would’ve ’caused an explosion’ at Chelsea. In new book The Key to Mendes, Mourinho said he didn’t want either player, cited the effect of their wages on his dressing room ‘I can’t have […]
With less than two weeks left in the January transfer window, there has been a noticeable lack of transfer talk emanating from Old Trafford. It appears that the deafening silence from Manchester United Executive Vice Chairman Ed Woodward is not due to his incompetence this time, but instead is because the payers on Louis van […]
Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre says that club owners Fenway Sports Group are not considering selling the club and the development of Anfield is proof of their long term vision for the club. The Boston based owners are following a similar path with Anfield as the did with the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park. When […]
The Mirror has a story of Manchester United’s possible new kit for the 2014-15 season. But what caught my eye in the article was the size of United’s massive kit del that they sighed with Adidas last summer. The 10-year deal is worth £750 million as is the richest kit manufacturing deal in world football […]
In a statement that will have all the big clubs in Europe reaching for their checkbook, Paul Pogba’s agent Mino Raiola says that the France international could leave Juventus in the not too distant future. Pogba recently signed a new deal with the Serie A champions until June 2019, but his representative has stressed that […]