Manchester City and Paris St-Germain “are cheating and should be sanctioned”, according to La Liga following financial conduct allegations. German news magazine Der Spiegel says City and PSG overvalued sponsorship deals to help meet Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules. And it says that in 2014 the clubs negotiated with Fifa president Gianni Infantino, who [...]
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According to recently acquired emails from Football Leaks, 16 of Europe’s biggest clubs, including Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United and Bayern Munich have been negotiating to form a Super League. This idea had been floated in the open before, but according to the trans-national investigation resulting from hacked emails obtained by Der Spiegel, there [...]
La Liga are launching a campaign hoping to show that American fans are behind its plan to host a regular-season game in the United States. The league and its US partners on Thursday began asking fans to sign an online petition to show their support for the planned Barcelona-Girona game near Miami in January. ‘In [...]
Everybody wondered who would own the Clasico with no Lionel Messi and no Cristiano Ronaldo. Luis Suarez bought it lock stock and barrel, scoring a hat-trick in a 5-1 thumping to move Barcelona seven points clear of Real Madrid who will now surely sack Julen Lopetegui. His treble made it nine goals in 11 Clasicos [...]
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has rejected proposals from La Liga to play the January 26 league match between Girona and Barcelona in Miami. FIFA Council met on Friday morning where Infantino outlined his displeasure at the idea. ‘I’m strongly opposed to this and I deny any permit to play the Girona against Barca game in [...]
Another interesting week in the Champions League where Juventus and Dortmund showed that they are a class above the rest and where European royalty like Real Madrid and Manchester United showed they are a long way from being contenders. Here is a recap of this weeks’s Champions League matchday 3 games: Group A Borussia Dortmund [...]
Lionel Messi produced a Wembley masterpiece to condemn Tottenham to their second successive Champions League defeat as they were beaten by Barcelona at Wembley. Messi was the magnificent orchestrator behind a superb attacking display from the Catalans that eventually proved too much for spirited Spurs, who also lost their opening Group B game to Inter [...]
Lionel Messi has admitted Barcelona have defensive problems just days before they face Tottenham at Wembley. ‘We know we have to be stronger defensively,’ he said after Barcelona failed to win for the third match running. ‘Last season we were difficult to score against and now teams score against us from the slightest chance. ‘We [...]
The plans to stage a La Liga match in the United States has been plunged into doubt following a meeting between the Spanish FA and FIFA. The Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales, FIFA head Gianni Infantino and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez have all voiced their disapproval of the move – which has caused [...]
FIFPro, the worldwide players’ union, and FIFA have announced the 55 names in contention for the FIFA FIFPro World11 2018. The FIFA FIFPro World11 is decided by the players, for the players and involves votes from almost 25,000 professional footballers from 65 different countries. During voting, they each select one goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders [...]
