We get the second set of four Round of 16 ties in the Champions League this week and they pose some tricky away tests for Manchester United, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Borussia Dortmund. Match of the week Zenit St Petersburg-Borussia Dortmund, Tuesday, Petrovski Stadium Dortmund have yet to find the form that took them to […]
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Barcelona have settled with the Spanish tax authorities and will pay the inland revenue £11.2m (13.5m euros) after being charged with tax fraud over the signing of Neymar. Despite making the payment Barca still claim they are innocent of tax evasion and insist that they had not committed any offence. “The aim is to cover […]
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has agreed a new five-and-a-half-year contract worth up to £300,000 a week, keeping him at Old Trafford until June 2019. With 18 months left on his previous deal, some of Europe’s top clubs began to take an interest in the England striker, but on Friday night he committed his future […]
Luis Suarez has no doubt he can achieve his dream of playing Champions League football with Liverpool next season, but the olds on favorite to win Player of the Year in the Premier League does not sound convinced that Brendan Rodgers side can win the title. Suarez like most of us watched the Champions League […]
Really interesting quotes from former Real Madrid coach and sporting director Jorge Valdano who has told El Larguero that Gareth Bale looks “downcast” in recent games due to fitness issues, the expectations generated by his world-record transfer fee and competition from Madrid starlet Jese Rodriguez. Bale has been a peripheral presence in Madrid’s latest matches, […]
It is never a good sign when the tax authorities get involved in a business transaction, and that is the case in Spain where Spain’s tax authorities was launching a case claiming a ‘fraud’ of 9.1 million euros in the complicated 86.2 million euro transfer of Neymar to the club last summer. **Updated** Barcelona have […]
If ever teams needed reminding how important it is to win their group in the Champions League consider that all four away teams, and group winners, win this week. Last night it was PSG and Barcelona, and tonight it was Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid that picked up the vital away goals and wins. Arsenal […]
A Lionel Messi penalty and a late Dani Alves strike gave Barcelona a comfortable 2-0 win over Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium while Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice to leave Paris Saint-Germain on course for the quarter-finals after their 4-0 win at ten-man Bayer Leverkusen. After a goalless first half in Manchester the match and […]
While the English media are enjoying the battle of words between Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho, the Italian press are enjoying a similar exchange between Antonio Conte and Fabio Capello. The handbags in Italy started when Capello, a former Juventus manager, made a comment last week that the quality in Serie A was poor and as […]