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Real Madrid go crashing out of the Champions League

The Beatles sang that money can’t buy you love, although this also seems to apply to winning the Champions League if Real Madrid are anything to go by. The Spanish giants may have spent nearly £250 million in the transfer market last summer, bringing the likes of Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema to the [...]

Super Agent hired by Real Madrid to get Rooney

Normally any story by The Sun newspaper gets thrown straight in the bin unless it is reasonable or crazy enough to be close to the truth.
They claim that super agent Pini Zahavi has been employed by the Spanish giants to lure Wayne Rooney to the Bernabeau and considering how Real Madrid went about attracting Ronaldo [...]

Player to be flogged for drunken driving

Nigerian star Stephen Worgu may have set an African transfer record when Sudanese giants Al Marreikh signed him from Nigeria’s Enyimba for US $2.6 million, but it won’t help him avoid punishment for drinking alcohol and driving under the influence is Sudan.
 
A court has passed a sentence on Worgu to receive 40 lashes and pay [...]

Arsenal V Tottenham Preview

Once again the two North London giants go face to face in what could be as exciting a game as last season’s 4-4 drama.
 
I’m not necessarily talking about the number of goals to be expected, but rather about the performances of the two, which has significantly improved compared to those of last year.
 
Standings have also [...]

Chelsea offered Van Der Vaart by Real Madrid

Oct 25 (Soccerway) Real Madrid has offered Dutch midfielder Rafael Van Der Vaart to Chelsea.
The 26-year-old is out of favors at Real Madrid and eager to change clubs as he seeks playing time before the World Cup.
The Spanish giants are looking to recover a portion of their vast expenditure over the summer months, and have [...]

Messi did not deserve such a long contract says Cruyff

Former Barcelona legend Johan Cruyff has slammed the length of the new contract that Barcelona awarded to Lionel Messi

Report from ESPN Soccernet
Johan Cruyff believes Barcelona were wrong to extend Lionel Messi’s contract until 2016 and feels they did so because they feared the spending power of Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.
The Catalan giants tied their [...]

Barcelona stick the finger up to Fifa as they continue to pursue Fabregas

Not a month go by without someone connected with Barcelona talking about Cesc Fabregas and how much they would like to see him join the Catalan giants.
Arsenal cannot be happy with this ongoing situation and the lack of any response from Fifa, there are clear rules against this and Barcelona, this time through Xavi, in [...]

Barcelona give “some” insight in to Rijkaard departure.

When Frank Rijkaard and Barcelona parted company it came as a bit of a shock to the footballing world, what was even more confusing was the reason why.
Rijkaard had done tremendously well with Barcelona, he took them to the pinnacle of European football and made Barcelona the most attractive footballing side on the planet.
Therefore his [...]

Liverpool fans facing up to the harsh truth.

Judging by comments on this website, the BBC, Skysports and many other websites that have repeatedly posted that Xabi Alonso will be leaving Liverpool, the news today that Real Madrid and Liverpool have agreed a deal must have come as an awful shock.
The fact that everyone and his uncle knew that Alonso would leave [...]

Bayern Munich V Man Utd Preview

Both sides have been doing great in their preseason games that it’s really hard to see either losing the game, but there’s only one winner tonight, even if it takes a PK shoot out to reach one.
 
Manchester are steady, consistent, and scoring lots of goals (18 goals scored in 5 friendly games). However, they only [...]