The ongoing anti-Glazer protests by a vocal minority of Manchester United fans seems to be having an effect as Manchester United have announced that they have failed to reach their target of season ticket sales this summer,
On not reaching their goal, Man United‘s chief executive David Gill tried to spin it like this:
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how players often hate on their former clubs soon after transferring. It is a trend i see with most players. They normally go on and on about how switching clubs is the best thing that ever happened to their careers and that they are ready for a fresh start when in reality, we know its all a load of rubbish!
The bulk of them are in fact bitter to have been shown the door. Former Barcelona striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has become the latest player to criticise his former club claiming their manager runs away from his problems.
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For the first time Premier League teams had to name a 25-man squad for the first half of the EPL season and there was a couple of surprises.
All 20 clubs had to submit a squad of up to 25 players containing no more than 17 players who do not qualify as homegrown. Homegrown players are classed as players who “irrespective of his nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to the Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons or 36 months prior to his 21st birthday”.
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MLS Daily (http://www.mls-daily.com/) keeps a running tab of MLS attendance figures, and through this past weekend’s games MLS attendance is up 7.03% over this time last season. Considering the economy and the attendance issues that MLB (http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2010/8/24/1647739/mlb-attendance-drops-cubs-vs) is having, Don Garber must be ecstatic with the numbers.
Leading the way as expected is the Seattle Sounders with an average home attendance this season of over 36,000 fans. The New York Red Bulls have benefited by moving into their soccer only stadium, as they have seen their home attendance jump almost 40%.
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AC Milan has completed the signing of Brazilian international Robinho from Manchester City. Robinho joins Ibrahimovic and fellow compatriots Pato and Ronaldinho in what is expected to be a killer attack for the Italian giants.
Milan signed Robinho outright for a figure in the region of 15 million Euros. The 26 year old signed a 4 year contract after successfully completing his medical at Milan’s Milanelo training ground.
“AC Milan communciates it has acquired the player Robinho, outright from Manchester City. The Brazilian has signed a contract with the Rossoneri club for four years.”
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Record breaking week for FC Dallas as they set a Major League Soccer record this past week with its 0-0 draw at Columbus. With the draw, Dallas extend its road unbeaten streak to 10 games (3-0-7). The other big news was that Thierry Henry finally scored his first MLS goal as the Red Bulls beat San Jose 2-0.
Here’s a rundown of all of this weekends MLS games:
Columbus Crew 0, FC Dallas 0
In addition to extending its road unbeaten streak, FC Dallas extended its overall unbeaten streak to 12 matches.
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When you think of NBA basketball shoes the first image that comes to mind is a swoosh. When you think of MLS soccer shoes the first image that should come to mind are those three little hash marks.
Major League Soccer and Adidas have partnered up for eight more seasons and the shoe company will remain the league’s official sponsor until 2018. The new deals financial terms has yet to be released, but an inside source reportedly claimed that the total value of the deal is worth well over $200 million dollars. Adidas has yet to confirm this estimation as accurate though.
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All deals that will eventually be confirmed will have been completed by now but that doesn’t mean that they will have been announced as of yet. Clubs are often waiting to receive confirmation of funds or for the relevant associations to ratify that the relevant paperwork has been sent and all the right papers have been signed. As of the moment, there are a few more deals to announce separate from the ones mentioned in the previous update.
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So today is the summer transfer deadline day in Europe, with all transfer paperwork required to be submitted by 18:00 GMT. Transfer ratification might not happen for several hours afterwards so we don’t know all confirmed moves as of yet. However these particular moves have been confirmed so far
Klass Jan Huntelaar has joined Schalke from AC Milan for €13 million. The Dutch international striker has not had the best of times at AC Milan, as was the case previously in Real Madrid too, but now he has a chance to rejuvenate his career with Schalke in the German Bundesliga. He will play alongside Raul in attack, formerly a colleague at Real Madrid.
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Sorry Aston Villa and other European suitors, but Bob Bradley isn’t going anywhere. The American coach that was often rumored to be leaving is coming back for another four year stint with the USA national team after agreeing to an extension yesterday.
Bradley had been linked in recent months with coaching vacancies in the EPL (Fulham & Aston Villa) and the manager even admitted that he was seriously interested in the move across the pond, but after meeting with the USA soccer federation late last week the two sides have come to a new agreement.
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