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Chelsea FC – Jose Mourinho Can’t Stop Lying & Manipulating
We get it. A manager has to stand up for his team, his players and his tactics. Jose Mourinho doesn’t actually believe his team was better in the European Super Cup. He doesn’t believe Ramires shouldn’t have been sent off. But he can’t change his way of approaching failure. By blaming it on others, and making himself look like a man that UEFA, through the referees, are out to get.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Shines Amid Tactical Brutality
There’s now doubt Chelsea, with or without Jose Mourinho are a very talented side with Eden Hazard looking like the best of the bench when he’s free to use his creativity and skill, but it’s quite easy to shine when most of the tactical approach of your team is to deliberately hurt opponents at every opportunity and hope to get away with it.
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Bayern Munich – Javi Martinez Shows Pep Guardiola Makes Mistakes
The arrival of Pep Guardiola to Bayern Munich placed him as some sort of genius arriving into a difficult situation, trying to change too much of a perfect thing. Javi Martinez being left out early on might have been his biggest mistake, but a manager like Guardiola realizes at some point that despite all of his ego, there are some things he shouldn’t let his pride decide on.
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Europa League – All 48 Teams in the Group Stage
In the group stage of the Europa League, it seems that for now, before Champions League dropouts join the chase for the trophy, clubs like Lyon, Tottenham, Fiorentina and Lazio seem like the early favorites to win the trophy in the 2013-2014 season.
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European Super Cup – Bayern Munich vs Chelsea Predictions
Fate always seems to bring Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho back together, who stand at the center of the European Super Cup clash between Bayern Munich and Chelsea to determine which of the European Club Cups holder is the better team entering the new seasons.
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Liverpool FC – Trying to Sign Mamadou Sakho, Andriy Yarmolenko & Shay Given
It seems that Liverpool are trying to squeeze in quite a few signings before the end of the transfer window, as they get a little bit closer to the signature of Mamadou Sakho, ponder adding Shay Given as a backup goalkeeper while also making a bid for Andriy Yarmolenko of Dynamo Kyiv.
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Manchester United Transfer Rumors – Trying to Sign Ander Herrera
This might not be the “big” signing Manchester United have been talking about, but it certainly is expensive, and might fill a need the team has at the moment, as they make a move at Ander Herrera of Athletic Bilbao, hoping to finally end all the criticism of their inactivity in the transfer market this summer.
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Real Madrid Transfer Rumors – Kaka is Trying to Leave
In what might be the least surprising turn of events in Real Madrid history, Kaka, one of the club’s biggest flops ever, is asking to leave the club with the end of the transfer window just around the corner.
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Champions League – Group Stage Draw
No group of death per say, but two groups that seem very interesting in terms of their nostalgic value or parity. Group H, with Barcelona, AC Milan, Ajax (stuck in a tough group again) and Celtic, while the group with Arsenal, Dortmund, Marseille and Napoli seems like the most difficult one to predict it’s outcome.
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Champions League – All 32 Teams in the Group Stage
The 2013-2014 Champions League season will soon kick off, with all 32 teams that will play in the group stage set and ready for the draw, as most eyes are turned to the first-tier teams, which include the champions Bayern Munich, but also Barcelona, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Arsenal and Benfica of Portugal.