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  • Transfer Rumors 2012 – Manchester United After Alvaro Vadillo, the New Cristiano Ronaldo

    It’s never enough to buy just one or two wonder kids, and Manchester United aren’t shy of packing their youth stables with talented players. Next on the shortlist? Alvaro Vadillo, the 18 year old Spanish winger who plays for Real Betis, already labeled as the new Cristiano Ronaldo, who made a move to Old Trafford at around the same age nine years ago.

  • Real Madrid – New Champions League Kit Looks Like an Old Liverpool One

    It looks like Adidas haven’t been really working hard on giving Real Madrid a new and original look for their new alternate Champions League kit. In fact, especially with Xabi Alonso modelling the new outfit, it looks like something Liverpool, another Adidas club and Alonso’s former team, wore a few years back.

  • Transfer Rumors 2012 – Ganso Leaving Santos to Sao Paulo

    One of the longest transfer sagas in Brazilian football is about to come to an end, with Sao Paulo offering $23.8 million for 45% of the economic rights to Ganso, belonging to Santos, while sporting agency DIS hold the rest of the 55% and will negotiate separately with the club.

  • Liverpool FC – Aftermath of the Hillsborough Report

    For now, shock at how the rabbit hole goes. I mean, people knew there was some sort of cover up, but not at this magnitude. A cover up by the police and the emergency forces, simply sacrificing 96 Liverpool fans in name and memory, which is made worse by the fact that the report suggests 41 people might have been saved if not for the insane level of wrongdoing.

  • Financial Fair Play – What About Chelsea, Manchester City & PSG

    In the list of clubs published by UEFA, we didn’t see the names of any of the continent’s big spenders, specifically not PSG, Chelsea and Manchester City, who stand out among the rest of Europe’s big clubs because of their inability (at the moment) to generate sufficient funds without the help of their owners dipping into their own pockets.

  • FC Barcelona – Dealing With the Andres Iniesta Injury

    The next couple of weeks have Barcelona travelling to Getafe (this weekend), playing Spartak Moscow in the Champions League and at home against Granada. There have been tougher schedules, so the Andres Iniesta could have come at worse times, but the man who’ll fill his place, Cesc Fabregas, is the one some are worried about.

  • Real Madrid – Cristiano Ronaldo About Winning, Not Contracts

    One year it’s about winning and not scoring, this season it’s about achievements and not contracts. Cristiano Ronaldo returns to Real Madrid after the international break, putting the unhappy remarks and sadness behind him, focused on the matches against Sevilla and Manchester City, while addressing the fans, calming them down.

  • Highest Paid Players & Best Paying Teams in Serie A

    Italian football is going through a slimming down period, including the giants of the league. Juventus, the champions, were the only club to significantly increase their wage bill, which is led by Gianluigi Buffon who makes over €6 million a season, ranked for highest in the Serie A along with Daniele De Rossi of Roma and Wesley Sneijder of Inter.

  • England Football – Roy Hodgson Thinks Everything is OK

    So Roy Hodgson was pleased with what he saw from England in their first home match of the world cup qualifying campaign, needing an 87th minute penalty from Frank Lampard to save a point against a very well organized Ukraine side, dropping the first two points in the group with a 1-1 draw.

  • Transfer Rumors 2012 – Didier Drogba Joining Arsenal?

    Was what Didier Drogba wanted too much to ask? Making just a little bit of extra cash while playing without the pressures of the Champions League and the Premier League on his shoulders? As things go south for him and other in China, the option of returning to the Premier League becomes clearer and clearer, with Arsenal stepping up as the main contenders for his services.