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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Chelsea Trying to Sign Dória
While their manager has spoken more than once about not wanting to add anymore players except for one specific name, Chelsea have launched a bid to try and sign 18-year old Brazilian centre back Dória from Botafogo.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Barcelona Might Try to Sign Santiago Vergini
The arrival of a new head coach from another usually entails the addition of a player or two from his previous club. In the case of Barcelona and their new link with Newell’s Old Boys, it might be Argentine centre back Santiago Vergini.
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Real Madrid – Karim Benzema Shouldn’t Be the Number One Striker
In the end, Gonzalo Higuain will be sold, and the deal will probably be done by the end of the weekend, this time for real. This leaves Real Madrid with only one senior striker in Karim Benzema, while Alvaro Morata and Jese Rodriguez wait for their opportunity to show the club does have a talented youth movement, without forgetting about the goals of Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Chelsea FC – Frank Lampard Isn’t Important Anymore
One of the few sports in which statistics might actually lie about the quality of performance from a team and player is soccer, and to think Frank Lampard performed well last season for Chelsea because of the number of goals he scored would be a misleading fact.
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Barcelona, Bayern Munich & Possession That Doesn’t Mean Anything
The players Bayern Munich were missing – Bastian Schweinsteiger, who didn’t start, but did come on in the second half. The players Barcelona were missing? Xavi, Iniesta, Neymar, Fabergas, Pedro, Dani Alves, Busquets, Pique, Puyol, Victor Valdes, and that’s not it, not to mention their new head coach nowhere to be seen. Their streak of winning possession in matches, lasting more than five years is over, but it doesn’t really mean anything.
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Arsenal, Liverpool & Luis Suarez – Can Look But Can’t Touch
Inch by inch, Arsenal are getting closer to what they want, but they still have quite a way to go. Their £40 million bid does make Liverpool obligated to consider their offer, which means allowing Luis Suarez to hold talks with Arsenal, but it doesn’t mean that the Reds have to sell the Uruguayan striker.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Manchester United Might Sell Javier Hernandez to Valencia
While the focus at Manchester United seems to be on other players, Chicharito himself is also someone who hasn’t been exactly completely happy with his place in the club, which might lead to a bid from Valencia for the player, in need of a new striker pretty soon according to most accounts.
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Clement Grenier Scores the Best No-Look Goal in History
There have been goals in the past of players having their back to the goal, but nothing quite like what Clement Grenier of Lyon did against Real Madrid, scoring with a one-touch shot off a cross, obviously making it the best goal we’ve seen this preseason, and probably the best we’ll see in any competition all season.
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Real Madrid – Iker Casillas Is Hoping He Hasn’t Been Forgotten
The Confederations Cup provided an opportunity to see that Iker Casillas is still a leading goalkeeper, and that the events of last season at Real Madrid were all part of some very weird development that couldn’t of happened anywhere else, and yet there’s no doubt that his status as the unmovable keeper of the club has changed for the worse.
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FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Becoming the Power Figure of the Club
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a soccer club is for one of its players to become greater than the team itself, which is something that’s at a risk of happening for Barcelona with Lionel Messi.