The Independent newspaper are reporting that Monaco are ready to make a world record €100m (£85m) bid for Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo has just two years left on his contract at Madrid and has made it known that is not happy at the Santiago Bernabeu. Monaco are owned by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, and […]
Premier League
Really surprising comments from Gunners chief executive Ivan Gazidis on Thursday that Arsenal have the financial capability to compete with the biggest clubs in the world on wages. Gazidis was asked directly by the press about Wayne, and whether Arsenal could afford to buy a £20m-plus star on wages of over £200,000-a-week. “Of course we […]
AS Roma Sporting director Franco Baldini has left the club by mutual consent, the Serie A side has announced. A statement from Roma, citing the club’s American president James Pallotta, said: “We thank Franco Baldini for his service to AS Roma over the past two seasons. He played an important role in the launch of […]
Everton have announced that former Wigan boss Roberto Martinez has replaced David Moyes as manager of the Toffees. Everton chairman Bill Kenwright paid Wigan £1.5 million to release Martinez from the final year of his contract and he thinks it is money well spent: “When David Moyes came to see me 11 years ago we […]
With the transfer window ready to swing into motions, some of the most impactful buys don’t cost tens of millions of pounds. WhoScored.com put together an interesting list of the best Premier League free agents based on their performances last season. Interestingly, the club with the most players on the list is Fulham with four. […]
As the summer transfer window opens, whoscored.com put together a team of the worst Premier League signings from last summer. Not surprisingly, relegated QPR and Reading are well represented with five players combined. One name that jumps out is Stoke City’s Charlie Adam. What has happened to him? When he was playing under Ian Holloway […]
One of former Man City manager Roberto Mancini’s criticism’s of the club last season, was that City was not active enough in the early part of the summer, and as a result they missed out on De Rossi, van Persie and Hazard. Well when City name Manuel Pellegrini as their new boss in the next week, […]
Any hopes that Chelsea fans had of Cristiano Ronaldo following the Special One ended with Mourinho’s interview this week on the Spanish sports programme Punto Pelota. During a wide ranging interview, Mourinho said he only has one complaint about Ronaldo, that he is unable to accept criticism from a tactical point of view. “Perhaps Cristiano […]