European champions Barcelona joined Real Madrid and Manchester United in earning over €500 million last season, financial consultants Deloitte revealed in their latest Football Money League published on Thursday. Madrid topped the table for the 11th year running with earnings of €577 million over the course of the season, driven largely by a €22.7 million […]
In a decision that will send shivers down the back of his teammates Neymar and Lionel Messi, Barcelona star Javier Mascherano has been sentenced to a year in prison and fined €815,000 for two tax offenses. Mascherano was given four-month and eight-month sentences for the two offences which took place in 2011 and 2012. However, […]
Stunning headlines in Real Madrid’s unofficial mouthpiece Marca today that Gareth Bale’s representatives have been in talks with the Spanish giants to take the initial steps in the process to renew the Welshman’s contract. Since arriving in Madrid from Spurs, Bale has been linked with a return to the Premier League, with Chelsea and Manchester […]
According to media reports Liverpool have made a £24.5m offer for Shakhtar Donetsk forward Alex Teixeira. The prolific 26-year-old Brazilian had been targeted by Chelsea with Shakhtar willing to sell, but it looks like Liverpool have jumped ahead of their Premier League rivals. Teixeira has scored 22 goals in 15 league games this season, as […]
Today the Lega Serie A showed that it still lives in the stone age when it gave Napoli Coach Maurizio Sarri a slapon the wrist with its two match suspension for two future Coppa Italia matches and fined him €20,000 for making homophobic remarks at Inter Milan manager Roberto Mancini earlier this week. The Lega […]
Fireworks in the Coppa Italia on Tuesday night where Inter Milan boss Roberto Mancini accused Napoli manager Maurizio Sarri of racist and homophobic slurs following the quarter-final clash between the two sides in Naples. Mancini was sent to the stands in the closing stages of Inter’s 2-0 victory, which saw them book their place in […]
According to reports out of England and Spain, Real Madrid have quoted Manchester United a price £60m for 24-year-old Colombian star James Rodriguez – or Hamez to those of a Spanish persuasion. At first glance this is a deal that United should not need to think twice about accepting. Rodriguez was the star of the […]
Fascinating comments by former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers over the weekend on the Reds failed transfer policy, admitting for the first time that he never had the last word on transfers. Liverpool have wasted over £100m over the last two summer on bad buys, and Rodgers firmly laid the blame for that at the foot […]
The news that Spanish clubs Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have been hit with the same transfer ban that Barcelona served in 2015 leads to the question. Is this a Spanish problem or are other teams throughout Europe engaging in the same practice in the way they bring in kids from around the world to […]