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Manchester United – Just About Money, Like Everyone Else
Gone are the days in which Manchester United fans mocked at clubs like Chelsea, Manchester City and others for spending recklessly in order to win titles. With every signing and passing transfer window, it’s clear to see that there was never something truly special or transcendent about the club with more championships than anyone else in the Premier League. They simply had a manager who made them different.
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AS Monaco – Falcao Doesn’t Like Getting Substituted
With the distance between Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain growing, not winning against Nantes wasn’t an option for Claudio Ranieri. So he took out Radamel Falcao after only 63 minutes. He did get himself a 1-0 win with a goal from Mounir Obbadi, but also some drama with the team’s most important player.
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2012-2013 Top Scorers in Europe’s Top Leagues
Like in every season, the tracking of top scorers around Europe’s best football leagues is all about seeing if anyone can get close to the incredible scoring numbers Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo produce year after year. Alas, no one was good enough to top the usual top two.
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FC Porto – Champions Forever While Selling Everyone
The amazing success of Porto in the Portuguese league continues, winning nine league titles in the last 11 seasons, keeping their dominance in Portugal despite their habit of selling their best players (at incredible prices) after (usually) only a season or two of making the most of their arrivals, with James Rodriguez and Joao Moutinho leaving to Monaco being the latest expensive examples.
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AS Monaco – A New Empire or A Passing Gimmick?
It’s impossible to tell at the moment what the future holds for Monaco, the Ligue 2 champions who might not be able to play in the top flight in France next season, despite their very impressive early haul of Radamel Falcao, James Rodriguez, Joao Moutinho and Ricardo Carvalho thanks to the funding of Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Chelsea & Jose Mourinho Shopping List
It’s going to get very expensive if Jose Mourinho gets all the players he has on his shopping list as a ‘welcome back’ gift from Roman Abramovich for his return to Chelsea. Radamel Falcao, Hulk, Andre Schurrle top the list that also includes Eliaquim Mangala, Isco and Marouane Fellaini.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Atletico Madrid Will Replace Falcao With Luis Suarez
Clubs like Atletico Madrid aren’t usually in the business of making expensive signings from the Premier League, but with the realization that Radamel Falcao isn’t going to stay with the team much longer, planning on what to do from the revenue of selling him might lead them to try and splash the cash on Luis Suarez, who might be on shakier ground than most people realize at Liverpool.
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Chelsea FC – Fernando Torres Blaming the Wrong People
It hasn’t been easy for Fernando Torres since becoming a Chelsea player. Names circulating about him, as the team seems to be on a constant lookout for someone who’ll replace their very expensive failure. The Spaniard isn’t giving up, but he’s clearly not too pleased with himself or with what the club is doing in order to help him score in the rate he used to for his previous teams, which seems like something that happened in a different era, to a different player.
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PSG Will Sign Wayne Rooney if Manchester United Sign Falcao
You can’t have all the good strikers in the world on one team, it simply doesn’t work, although the overload at Manchester United certainly helped them win, probably, the Premier League title with ease. But if Falcao does arrive this summer from Atletico Madrid, it’ll surely mean someone, most likely Wayne Rooney, will have to make room for the new player, and Paris Saint-Germain would be more than happy to sign him.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Manchester United Interested in Radamel Falcao
It’s usually other clubs we see in connection with a potential transfer involving Colombian striker Radamel Falcao of Atletico Madrid, but according to media outlets in Spain, Manchester United have been working behind the scenes to secure the signing of the player despite not usually being mentioned in the race for his services.