Carlo Ancelotti, the head coach of the Chelsea team has confirmed that their team has accepted the deal to sign the 17 year old Inter Zapresic goalkeeper, Matej Delac. The bright newcomer would continue to play for his Croatian club until 2011. However, Chelsea has taken the responsibility to pay his wages from now on till he becomes a part of their team.
Emmanuel Adebayor of Manchester City has been charged for improper conduct by the Football association for running the length of the pitch as he celebrated after scoring in front of the Arsenal fans. The striker faces a three match suspension for violent conduct in the match which Manchester City won 4-2. Adebayor stamped on Robin van Persie who happens to be his former teammate and the Duthchman had to get a treatment for the cut to his face. Adebayor did apologize for his actions later on.
Continue reading Man City ready to contest against Adebayor’s charge
The first weekend of the Premier League lived up to its reputation of producing some great games and the Big Four produced some intrigue and kept the speculations alive. The most startling outcome of the weekend was a 6-1 thrashing received by Everton at the hands of Arsenal at Goodison park. The Arsenal team played beautifully and at no point seemed to be troubled by the Everton side that had finished at fifth position in the last season of the Premier League. Although Arsenal is known to face problems later in the season, they could not have hoped for a better start.
David Moyes, manager of the Everton team looked really out of sorts at Turf Moor on Sunday. Speculations are that it was due to the consecutive defeats that Everton has suffered in the beginning of the Premier League matches. The manger has the onus to rebuild his team after Everton accepted the Manchester City’s offer for Lescott. After Wayne Rooney’s sale to Man U, the Lscott deal is being considered as the most lucrative deal for Everton making Lescott the costliest British defender.
Manchester City has spent a whopping amount of money in signing star players like Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor and Roque Santa. The funding has been done by their owners based in Abu Dhabi. David Taylor who is the general secretary of UEFA is of the opinion that it would be very dangerous for the Premier League clubs to match the Manchester City financially. But, he also feels that Real Madrid and Eastland club are close to matching City financially. However, the positions can change very quickly, suggested Taylor giving the example of Leeds United who play in League One now had to do away with Premier League in 2004 due to financial constraints. There have been similar stories from some major clubs as well very recently.
Continue reading Manchester City finances threaten the Premier league clubs
Carlos Tevez became the fourth signing of Manchester city in the summer 2009 transfer window after the completion of the transfer of the former Man U striker last Tuesday. The Argentina striker had a two year stint with Sir Alex Ferguson’s side prior to joining their local rivals. Carlos Tevez has played forward for Corinthians West Ham and Boca Juniors. The deal is worth £25.5 which the Manchester City has reportedly paid to the advisors of Tevez who own his economic rights.
At the press conference on Tuesday where the Manchester city manger Mark Hughes was also present, Tevez admitted that he was very happy to join Manchester City as the club has the ambition to be one of the biggest clubs in the world. Tevez also expressed his excitement about working with the City manger mark Hughes and hoped to build a good relationship with him.
Continue reading Carlos Tevez Transferred to Local Rivals Manchester City
The proficiency of Manchester United, the most dominating domestic team, has been exposed during final of Champions League. With the team winning the Premier League successively for the third time, they equaled the record of 18 league titles with Liverpool. While Chelsea bagged the third position, Arsenal maintained the 4th position. Still being one of the best teams in the region, Manchester United has proved itself again by winning third successive league title.
The Football Writers’ Association’s Footballer of the Year Award had eight footballers in the voting list. The team’s competency can be judged from the multiple nominations. Out of these 8 sportsmen, unbelievably six are from Manchester United team. The six lucky players responsible for making the team reach heights are Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Michael Carrick, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic and Wayne Rooney. Though Steven Gerrard from Liverpool bagged the first prize, thanks to split voting.
Well I’m back after about a week’s hiatus however I have a lot more updates as today is an exciting day. The English Premier League four horses are all in Champion’s League action tonight. Despite all that, let us move on.
Today’s Story: A highlight for today is not anything real big but big enough. Before signing with Chelsea, Deco waved off very lucrative bids from the MLS and Saudi Arabia. It seems that the MLS is getting more and more serious about bringing in talent to the States. This is good news. He mentions that many teams offered him the money too. Which means that more than one team is getting into the future of American soccer. I also respect Deco’s decision to play for love of the game and not money.
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