AS Monaco continued their impressive start to their season, while champions Paris Saint-Germain’s early season struggles continued as they were held to a draw for the second consecutive week. It’s only been two weeks, but Monaco have lived up to their heavyweight billing. Last weekend they beat Bordeaux 2-0 and this weekend they beat Montpellier […]
Roberto Soldado marked his Tottenham Hotspur league debut with the only goal of the game at promoted Crystal Palace today while Jose Mourinho made a winning return as Chelsea manager with a 2-0 win at home to promoted Hull City. With everyone’s attention focused on when Gareth Bale will join Real Madrid in a world-record […]
Juan Agudelo showed the class and touch that has made Stoke City sign him with a improvised finish to help the New England Revolution beat the Chicago Fire 1-0 before 14,630 fans at Gillette Stadium. Chris Tierney’s long ball split the Chicago defense and Agudelo ran thrown and chipped the ball over Sean Johnson in the Chicago […]
Here are some of the comments from Arsene Wenger after today’s shocking performance against Aston Villa. From reading his comments, is Wenger in denial about the crisis at Arsenal? Wenger: “Gibbs has a deep cut, Sagna, Rosicky has a problem. Ramsey has a problem with a kick on his ankle.” #AFCvAVFC — Arsenal.com (@Arsenal) August […]
The new Premier League kicked off today, and as expected there were surprises. Arsenal lost at home to Aston Villa, Fulham won at Sunderland and Man United won 4-1 at Swansea. Well maybe that last one was not a big surprise, but the way that the experts have been writing off United’s chances to repeat […]
Luis Suarez rejoined Liverpool first-team training today after apologising to the club for his behaviour over the summer. Neither the Reds nor the striker’s representatives have made any comment on the issue, but it is understood that Suarez said sorry to his team-mates after arriving back on Merseyside from Japan, where he had been on […]
Is Major League Soccer finally starting to reward American players. Days after the Seattle Sounders made US national team star Clint Dempsey the highest paid player in MLS, the LA Galaxy made Dempsey’s US teammate Omar Gonzalez the clubs third designated player. No financial details of the long-term deal were released by the league. Gonzalez […]
Jose Mourinho has warned possible suitors, including Barcelona, that Chelsea will not sell David Luiz for “any price”. Luiz has been linked with a move to Spain as new Barcelona manager Gerardo Martino assesses ways to improve his defensive options. But speaking to BT Sport, Mourinho played down the chances of the Brazil international defender […]