It looks like Barcelona are going to admit they made a very expensive mistake last summer when they signed Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Inter Milan. Barca paid £40m for the striker plus Samuel Eto’o. That is a lot of money for a player who failed to impress in his first season at the Nou Camp. So […]

Arsenal have rejected a formal £33m bid from Barcelona for Cesc Fabregas and told Barca that Fabregas is not for sale (at least not at that price). Arsenal are sticking to their guns and telling Barcelona that it will take Cristiano Ronaldo type money for Fabregas. Arsenal statement: “Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas is under contract […]

Jose Mourinho was introduced at the Bernabeu as the new coach of Real Madrid after signing a four-year deal with the Spanish side Mourinho becomes the ninth coach at Real Madrid in the last six years. In introducing Mourinho, Real sporting director Jorge Valdano said: “It’s an honour to have with us one of the […]

Inter Milan President Massimo Moratti and Real Madrid President Florentino Perez met in Milan on Friday and agreed on the compensation that Real will pay Inter for Jose Mourinho. Mourinho’s contract had a 16million euros release clause in it, but it appears that Real will only have to pay Inter 8million euros for the best […]

Talk about an anti-climatic press conference this evening in Madrid. Real president Florentino Perez told a news conference that Madrid has sacked Manuel Pellegrini and would be replacing him with Jose Mourinho. Note the would be part of that sentence. Mourinho is still officially the manager of Inter Milan. “I am ready to admit to […]

Veteran striker Brett Ormerod hit the £90million goal to fire Blackpool to the most lucrative, and unlikeliest, of promotions to the Barclays Premier League as they beat Cardiff 3-2 in the Coca-Cola Championship play-off final. Blackpool has not played in England’s top division since 1971, but they twice came back from being a goal down […]