Juventus have been crowned Serie A champions for the fifth consecutive season after Radja Nainggolan scored late on to give Roma a 1-0 win against Napoli. Only four times have a team won five Italian titles in a row, with the Bianconeri becoming the only team to accomplish this twice. No team has ever won […]
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It was a weekend of meltdowns in Serie A as Napoli’s title charge appears to have ended, Inter’s champions league dreams faded away and tensions are rising at AC Milan. Juventus appears on track to record another Scudetto after the Napoli’s star striker Gonzalo Higuain totally lost the plot against Udinese at the weekend. Higuain […]
I wrote a month ago that Antonio Conte would be the next Chelsea manager and today the Blues confirmed that the Italian would take over as manager after Italy’s Euro 2016 campaign. Conte has been Italy manager since 2014, following Cesare Prandelli’s resignation after Italy crashed out the World Cup in Brazil alongside England in […]
There are lots of TV shows based upon the premise of flipping a house. Buying something below market value and immediately sell (or flip) it to another buyer for a profit. That is what Real Madrid is poised to do this summer, but instead of a house, they are looking to flip striker Alvaro Morata […]
The financial state of Italian clubs was laid bare to the world this week and it extremely worrying for any fan of Serie A. Collectively, clubs in Serie A lost a combined €365 million last season, up from the €220m combined losses they had incurred just 12 months prior. Only seven of the 19 clubs […]
On Wednesday, the CIES Football Observatory published its bi-annual list of the 100 players with the highest transfer values in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The list is calculated on an econometric model by the CIES Football Observatory research team from the analysis of over 1,500 paid transfers since 2010. The criteria used includes […]
Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas has endured a miserable season, but reports in the Italian press claim two Serie A sides are ready to offer him an escape route from Stamford Bridge. According to sports publication Corriere dello Sport, Juventus and Inter Milan are ready to battle it out in a bid to lure the former […]
Uefa has announced that the 32 clubs that competed in the Champions League last season shared almost €988m in payments from UEFA, an increase of €36m from the 2013/14 season. Usually the winner takes home the lions share of the money but that was not the case last season as runners-up Juventus were the big […]
The Spanish paper El Mundo Deportivo claims to be have gotten its hands on the 57 names that make up the shortlist for the this year’s Ballon d’Or. That legendary Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was not one of the five goalkeepers on the list has sparked outrage in Italy, with the Juventus keeper admitting his disappointment. […]