Swansea midfielder Jonjo Shelvey had a emotional up and down night as Swansea drew 2-2 with his former club Liverpool on Monday. Shelvey took just 87 seconds to open the scoring at the Liberty Stadium with his first goal for Swansea since being sold by Liverpool in pre-season. The 21-year-old didn’t have long to savour […]
Premier League
Cristiano Ronaldo has ended his flirtation with Manchester United and signed a new five year deal with Real Madrid that will pay him a reported €18m a year after tax, plus 50% of his image rights, making him the world’s best-paid player. Ronaldo has scored a remarkable 203 goals in 203 games since joining for […]
Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed that the €100m man Gareth Bale will make his official Real Madrid debut in this weekend’s Liga match away against Villarreal. The former Paris Saint-Germain coach says Bale will play some part of the game but did not disclose whether or not the 24-year-old would start. “Bale will travel to Villarreal […]
Liverpool’s owners Fenway Sports Group say that they are set to finance a new £150m revamp of Anfield and that rebuilding is only being held up by property acquisitions, planning processes and other issues. Although John Henry refused to speculate on the exact date a planning application will be put in, he said Fenway are […]
Shinji Kagawa is asking the same question that many Manchester United fans are asking: Why isn’t he playing? Kagawa has yet to play this season and was not even named on the bench for the defeat to Liverpool as David Moyes publicly said he preferred Nani over Kagawa. And after scoring for Japan against Ghana, […]
Really interesting comments from Gerard Pique that Barcelona become too predictable under Tito Vilanova last season and that new coach Gerardo Martino’s tactical approach gives the team more options. “We’ve had a number of years with homegrown coaches in charge, first Pep and then Tito,” Pique told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “We occasionally tended to […]
Explosive comments by Spain coach Vicente del Bosque that Iker Casillas was dropped by Jose Mourinho last season because he attempted to ease tensions between the Spain internationals that play for Real Madrid and Barcelona. As games between Real and Barcelona intensified in bitterness, there were concerns in Spain that the relationship between Real’s Spain […]
The question of how eal Madrid could afford to spend €100m for Gareth Bake under Uefa’s financial play rules has been answered with the announcement that for the 2012-13 financial year, the Spanish side had record revenues of €520.9 million, profits of €36.9 million and a lowered declared financial debt of €90.6 million. The figures […]