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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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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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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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I know you must have come across the name Mino Raiola many times this summer and you might be asking yourself who this person is. It seems like every transfer dealing with some of Europe’s biggest clubs involve this man. To be honest, i am just as curious as you are to know who he is. That’s why i decided to dig up a little background information on this super agent.
Mino Raiola is an Italian born naturalised Dutch. Raiola migrated to Haarlem Netherlands with his Parents soon after his birth. It was while in holland that he developed his passion for football joining local club Haarlem.
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter recently stated that he believes World Cup referees should be full time officials if they want to serve in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Blatter apologized several times this summer for blown calls by the tournaments refs and in recent months the president has expressed his interest in changing the format for officials in future World Cups as an effort to reduce the number of blown calls in the tournament.
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No, this isn’t the entry list for the Cannes Film festival short production section or an assessment of the Juventus squad. It’s just the scenario facing Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea. Respectively, Arsenal are a defender short, Manchester Untied a central midfielder and Chelsea a striker. Whichever squad suffers serious injuries, or loss of form, first will be the one, obviously, to suffer. That all three of the club’s seen as, collectively, the group from which the winner of the Premiership will emerge should have such glaring weaknesses in their squad is an indication of the collective thrift consuming the English Premiership. Nevertheless, the weaknesses are true.
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A look at the winners and losers in week three of the English Premier League.
Winners
Wigan Athletic
It had been a terrible start to the season for Roberto Martinez. Two hammerings and a trip to White Hart Lane, scene of last years 9-1 thrashing. Not many Latics fans would have approached Saturday’s game with confidence, but Wigan put on their best away performance in years and thoroughly deserved their 1-0 victory.
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