Inter Milan kicked off the new Serie A season with a defeat and there was frustration elsewhere for European champions FC Barcelona, but the goals continue to flow for Mario Gomez and Wayne Rooney as the duo helped respective sides Bayern Munich and Manchester United record big wins. Italy Inter were hoping to make the […]
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Jose Mourinho has turned down an offer from Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala that reportedly would have paid him the the biggest salary in the history of football. Spanish newspaper Marca claims Mourinho turned down an astonishing £22 million-a-year AFTER tax to take the helm at the Black Sea club. The Russian club are bankrolled by […]
I wrote earlier that former Real Madrid director general Jorge Valdano believes that Barcelona and Real Madrid will abandon La Liga for a European league if their dominance of La Liga continues. The dominance of Barca and Real derives in part from their control of revenue from TV rights, which gives them a far bigger […]
For the first time in quite a while, neither Real Madrid nor Barcelona placed among the five biggest spenders of the summer according to Transfermarkt. Madrid shelled out just 55 million euros, and a large chunk of that was reserved for Fabio Coentrao. Nuri Sahin, Jose Callejon and Raphael Varane arrived for modest fees, while […]
Real Madrid centre-back Ricardo Carvalho faces an international suspension of between one and three months, including Champions League matches, after walking out of the Portuguese national team’s training camp on Wednesday. After learning that he was not in the side to play Cyprus on Friday, Carvalho left the Portugal camp and immediately announced he had […]
There were goals aplenty for some of Europe’s leading clubs this weekend as both halves of Manchester celebrated big wins, Real Madrid kicked off the Liga season with a 6-0 win and PSV Eindhoven racked up half a dozen strikes of their own. Premier League Manchester United were rampant as they handed a depleted Arsenal […]
Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has accused Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho of “wrecking Spanish football” following the European champions’ stormy Spanish Super Cup win. “Mourinho is wrecking Spanish football,” Pique said. “People are looking for culprits but they are in Madrid. Someone needs to get the video, analyse it and say who is to blame. […]
Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho is already in midseason from and has he picked up where he left off last season by calling Barcelona “a small team” after losing in last night’s Supercopa second leg at the Nou Camp. For 88 minutes last night’s match was a fantastic footballing spectacle between arguably the best two […]
Barcelona have won the Spanish Super Cup for the tenth time after a brilliant Lionel Messi scored two goals in a 3-2 home win against Real Madrid, earning the European champions a 5-4 aggregate victory. The game was marred by two red cards to Real Madrid players as the bad blood between the two sides […]