Recently, Alan Pardew admitted that he will not know everything about his high flyingNewcastle team if they were not running into problems. It is believed that the Magpies headed into Saturday’s Barclays Premier League clash with Wigan struggling unbeaten in 10 games in all the recent competitions.
Pardew insisted that he will analyze who is the backbone for his new look team. He also thinks that Saturday will provide some problems because the crowd will be expecting something.
Recently, Arsenal captain, Robin van Persie was found saying that he doesn’t want to discuss signing a new contract at the club. He also insisted that he can’t look into the future.
The current deal of Van Persie is valid till 2013 and Arsenal is very desperate to avoid a re-run of the situation, as they experienced this summer with Samir Nasri reaching the final in 12 months of his existing contract.
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Just ahead of the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup, rumors have begun to spread that can Real Madrid challenge Barcelona this season? Yes, two Spanish giants, Read Madrid and Barcelona are going to face each other with 2-2 in the first leg of the Super Cup at Bernabeu and it is expected to be an exciting match.
Jose Mourinho, the boss of Real Madrid has decided to play an attacking line-up in Sundays game and it seems that it will be a wise deicision. Jose is going to challenge Barcelona and will have to attack the European Champions. In the recent seasons, Read Madrid was regarded as an inferior team as compared to their Catalan rivals. But, this time, it seems they are concentrating on their strengths and not worrying about Barca’s strengths.
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Rumour is that even though French playmaker Franck Ribery has a contract with the club Bayern Munich, but he is still linked with many major European clubs. The frontrunner among all other clubs is the Real Madrid which is willing to take the player at any cost. Bayern Munich’s president is quite annoyed with the rumours arising one after another and says that there are only two solutions to all these reports. First one being the release of player by the club and second one is that Franck Ribery extends the contract so that there are no chances of transfer. Point to be noted here is that his contract is valid till 2011.
Florentino Perez, president of Real Madrid club, who has been elected shortly, expressed his willingness to sign Ribery again in an interview to L’Equip. “It would be a huge satisfaction to have Ribery with us as soon as next season,” Perez said. However he said that he will first talk to his club before any deal. He wanted to tell them that Ribery is their target and wanted to discuss the possibilities of him being transferred to Real Madrid.
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As of late, nothing big has been cemented into any teams lineup but there have been quite a few rumors going around. Here are just a few:
Both Pele and Gordon Banks passed out their warnings to Cristiano Ronaldo about a premature Man U departure. Both have stated, he needs to honor his end of the contract that has four years left on it. He is now 22, when his contract ends with Man U he will be 26. My personal take on this situation is that he does need to heed the advice of two of the best players in soccer/ football history. At the same time, it is his decision to make. Pele and Banks have a point but at the same time he, Madrid, and Man U have already made this a big deal. Will his teammates accept him although his thoughts lie elsewhere?
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The Euro 2008 Semi-finals begins tomorrow with Germany versus Turkey. The miracles of Turkey seem to be on a roll as they first took out the Czech Republic in the group stage and then Croatia in the quarters. Tune into watch what should be an interesting game to say the least.
Ronaldo Situation: The Cristiano Ronaldo situation has gotten very interesting. It has gone from Man U threatening to take Real Madrid to the FIFA to file a complaint, to them giving Real a one-sided list of players that they were demanding in return, and their final demands of a rather-large sum of money. Here is a list of their demands and other actions.
Very one sided and interesting. Watch the Semi-Finals tomorrow!
Totally unbelievable. A team that dominated its group competition in the group of death falls to Russia. My money was on Holland but it is not so. Igor Akinfeev played a good game only giving up one goal to the offensive happy Dutch who scored 4 goals on both Italy and France. Russia truly pulled off an upset and a miracle on the pitch today, which should be both applauded and mourned for. Applauded that the youngest team in the tournament beat the favorite team for the match. Mourning Dutch fans because they were so sure.
Future: Tomorrow Italy plays Spain to decide who will play Russia. Now this will be the game of the quarters. I liked watching Germany and Portugal but I will enjoy watching Spain and Italy do battle. Maybe it is because two of my favorite teams-Barcelona and AC Milan-are Spanish and Italian teams, respectively.
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