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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Arsenal Trying to Sign Gonzalo Higuain, Ilkay Gundogan & Sven Bender
Is this going to be a special week for Arsenal, moving from transfer rumor kings to actual spenders? It’s unlikely that all the players they’d like will eventually end up with the club, but some think that the arrivals of Gonzalo Higuaiin from Real Madrid and Ilkay Gundogan & Sven Bender from Borussia Dortmund is only just a matter of time.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Chelsea Trying to Sign Xabi Alonso
Sooner or later, it seems, Xabi Alonso will make his return to the Premier League, as Chelsea are now looking like the team closest to signing him for a number of reasons, making it possible he won’t even play his final contract year at Real Madrid.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Barcelona Will Struggle to Sell David Villa
On the surface, it seems quite simple: Barcelona want to sell David Villa, who wants to leave, while teams like Arsenal and Tottenham are waiting to pick him. And yet, a transfer that’s been talked about for six months might not happen because of money.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Manchester City Trying to Sign Stephan El Shaarawy
It seems Manchester City are the first of the top Premier League teams to be handling their summer signings, even without a manager (officially yet), now moving on to attempt and bring over Stephan El Sharaawy from AC Milan.
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Lionel Messi Plays Football With a Boy in a Wheelchair
You don’t always have to score five goals in one match or win a number of league and European titles to win adoration and respect. Lionel Messi visited the house of Valentino Zegarelli in Argentina, and photos of him passing the ball with the kid in the wheelchair while talking to the family is probably better than anything he ever did on the pitch.
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San Antonio Spurs – Tony Parker Getting Luck Isn’t How to Win Championships
The default option is praising the San Antonio Spurs; their head coach Gregg Popovich, along with Tony Parker and Tim Duncan, for their intelligence, and how they’re so much different from the rest of the NBA. But in game 1 of the 2013 NBA finals they didn’t win because they played brilliant basketball, they won because Tony Parker got a little bit lucky.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Needs Erik Spoelstra to Do His Job
The Miami Heat didn’t play a good game of basketball in Game 1 of the NBA finals, but it’s not the right thing to do and pin it all on LeBron James and usual clutch cliches. Erik Spoelstra, not for the first time in this playoffs, struggled making adjustments inside a game and giving the right kind of instructions to his MVP, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade in order to somehow come out with the win.
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Floyd Mayweather Needed Manny Pacquiao, Not Canelo Alvarez
What could have been is no longer a question. Manny Pacquiao might never fight in the United States again, while Floyd Mayweather is headed towards the biggest fight, at least in terms of money, of the last few years, facing Canelo Alvarez which afterwards, if Mayweather wins his 45th career fight, it’s really going to get really boring.
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Lionel Messi Needs to Both Help and Then Beat Neymar
It’s hard to imagine Lionel Messi being any better, doing any more, on the pitch than he already has over the last few seasons. Yet in 2013-2014, he’ll face two very different tests, with both Barcelona and Argentina, and both of them have to do with Neymar, in one way or the other.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Manchester United & Arsenal in a Signing Battle for Cesc Fabregas
The summer of Cesc Fabregas is turning into a very interesting one. While the Spanish midfielder would like to stay with Barcelona, the interest from both Manchester United and Arsenal, while his unclear status with the team, might lead to an expensive return to the Premier League.