Ever since Roberto Mancini took over from Mazzarri he has moaned how the structure of the squad was not set up to play his style of football. In particular Mancini has commented repeatedly about the team’s lack of wingers. Well that has all changed with the signings this week of Xherdan Shaqiri and Lukas Podolski. […]
Manchester City and Chelsea have been linked with a blockbuster move for Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi in the summer, but according to one football finance expert, only one club in Europe can afford Messi under Financial Fair Play and that is Manchester United. Note. Real Madrid can also afford Messi, but the four-time World Player […]
New York City FC is becoming an embarrassment to Major League Soccer and themselves. Six months on after announcing to the world that they had signed former Chelsea star to a two-year contact we hear today that Lampard has never signed for NYC FC. That his contract was with City Football Group. Lampard’s current stint […]
The Lionel Messi will he stay or leave saga threatens to destroy the rest of Barcelona’s season will news breaking on a daily basis about is relationship with the club. On the morning that the news broke that Chelsea had spoken to Messi’s father (and agent) about a possible move this summer, former Barcelona assistant […]
According to Catalan radio station RAC 1, Chelsea have been in touch with Lionel Messi’s dad to sound him out about a possible move to London in the summer. The exact words used on the airwaves were that the club owned by Roman Abramovich approached the star’s father, Jorge, “to raise the option of playing […]
FC Barcelona is in total disarray at the moment after the firing of sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta and the resignation of his assistant Carles Puyol earlier this week and reports out of Spain suggest that Luis Suarez’s future at the club is in doubt after his £75 million move from Liverpool in the summer. Suarez […]
Forget the likes of Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard coming to MLS. The European superstar that would drag even the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy to watch a soccer game (ask NE Revs fans what Shaughnessy thinks of soccer) is Cristiano Ronaldo. And he is coming to MLS!! We maybe, someday, potentially. Ronaldo’s agent Jorge Mendes […]
The Derby d’Italia is always a tense affair due to the intense rivalry between Juventus and Inter, but rarely do we see the pressure cause players from the same team square up against each other. That is what happened on Tuesday when Mauro Icardi and fellow strike partner Dani Osvaldo disagreed on Icardi’s decision to […]