Luis Suarez has returned to light training with Uruguay, but media reports suggest that the Liverpol striker will not not risked in Uruguay’s opening World Cup game with Costa Rica on June 14. The Premier League Player of the Year had knee surgery 10 days ago, but was seen back working with physios on Monday […]
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Marca is reporting that last week Real Madrid President Florentino Pérez, club CEO José Ángel Sánchez, Iker Casillas and his agent Carlo Cutropía met over breakfast to determine the future of the club captain. Marca reports the conversation as going like this: Florentino went straight to the point: “Okey, Iker, down to business – what […]
Newspaper reports from the UK say that Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner has slashed the price he is willing to accept for Villa from £200 million to £150 million. Nothing like a 25% haircut to show prospective buyers how desperate you are about selling the club. Hasn’t Lerner watched Million Dollar Listing on Bravo? Everyone […]
It’s summer time so it must be time for our annual Luis Suarez is heading to Spain stories. This summer’s story comes courtesy of Suarez’s lawyer who says that the Premier League Player of the Year would be tempted to a move to the Santiago Bernabéu. Alejandro Balbi told Cadena SER that Suarez has a “predisposition for […]
Another big coup for NYC FC as they have signed Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard to go along with the signing of Atletico Madrid and Spain striker David Villa. The 35-year-old Lampard has been linked with a move to Major League Soccer for several years now, and the move brings to an end a […]
Several UK media outlets are reporting that Southampton and England striker Rickie Lambert is close to agreeing a £4 million move to Liverpool. Lambert is set to travel to the US on Sunday with the England national team and is expected to have a medical at Liverpool on Saturday. Lambert spent time at the Liverpool […]
I happen to think that there is more than a grain of truth to Zlatan Ibrahimovic comments that “jealous” rival European clubs put pressure on UEFA to use financial fair play to hold back Paris Saint-Germain. Ibra helped set a new points total in Ligue 1 last season and they were just a late Demba […]
Chelsea’s on-loan goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has claimed it “would not be healthy” for him to be in the same squad as the club’s first-choice keeper Peter Cech next season. Courtois seems less than convinced that a return to parent club Chelsea would be a step forward in his career saying: “The two of us want […]