Two months after winning the Champions League final in Moscow it has been anything but a quiet summer at Old Trafford. With the long-running Ronaldo soap-opera plus assistant coach Carlos Queiroz leaving to take over at Portugal Sir Alex Ferguson has seen his pres-season plans thrown into turmoil. With United returning almost everyone from last […]
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Deciding to go with countrymen Kaka and Alexandre Pato versus Elano and Jo, Ronaldinho has signed with A.C. Milan upon completion of a physical. His contract runs through 2011. Barcelona noted that the San Siro outfit will pay $33.4 million for the Brazilian playmaker. Obviously, A.C. Milan felt that the transfer fee was needed to […]
Beleaguered ex-Manchester City striker Georgios Samaras has made a permanent move to SPL side Celtic. The 23-year-old Greek international joined City for £6million in January 2006 yet failed to find his niche with the Premiership club. Also from the Manchester City front, boss Mark Hughes will move his attention toward acquiring several more players to […]
Recap of this weekend’s games in Major League Soccer which saw two MLS shown red cards. Earthquakes 1, Colorado 1 Ryan Johnson’s second-half goal broke a long scoring drought for the last place San Jose Earthquakes, but Conor Casey scored minutes later to lift the Colorado Rapids into a 1-1 tie Saturday. Johnson ended the […]
U.S. national goalkeeper Tim Howard and his Everton teammates head to the Rockies to play the MLS’s Colorado Rapids in a pre-season game on August 3rd. In addition to Tim Howard Everton is lead by midfielders Mikel Arteta and Tim Cahill. Up front Yakubu Ayegbeni had a great season last year with 21 goals and […]
Aston Villa have agreed a fee with Chivas USA for goalkeeper Brad Guzan. Guzan gas been a long term target of Villa who have been searching for a goalkeeper since Scott Carson returned to Liverpool after a season-long loan at the club. Guzan thanked the MLS club and its fans for their support during his […]
Major League Soccer named its all-star team for the game against West Ham on July 24 in Toronto. The MLS team is headlined by its two biggest stars David Beckham and Cuauhtemoc Blanco, will play together for the first time. England star Beckham, of the Los Angeles Galaxy, and Mexican soccer legend Blanco, of the […]
It has been another interesting pre-season at Stamford Bridge, with Chelsea’s seemingly pursuit of almost every big name start in the world making daily headlines. Chelsea came so close to winning the treble last year that you would think that they only need to slightly tweak the existing team. But that is not the Abramovich […]
At least in the F.C. area. The Washington Post has some interesting data that show more people watch D.C. United games on television that watch the Washington Nationals baseball team. From the post: Nielsen Media Research numbers, the Nats are drawing an average rating of 0.39 in the Washington Designated Market Area, which consists of […]