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Champions League Preview: Real and Barca the teams to beat
It seems that in almost every aspect of the game, two clubs dominate the footballing world. They are Spanish super heavyweights Real Madrid and Barcelona. Any team boasting multiple stars is said to echo Real’s Galactico era, while teams – from League Two to the K-League – are said to be a mini-Barcelona. Even the…
FC Barcelona: Fabregas’s Exit out of Arsenal and Why Club Contracts Are Broken
Like a love affair, Arsene Wenger had stated in a pre-season interview posted by The Guardian that he would fight until the last second to keep midfielder Cesc Fabregas by his side. Why do managers continue to reject monetary offers and wage war against a courting club when their player is dejected? The ex-Gunner isn’t…
Mourinho out of time in Madrid?
Jose Mourinho has many gifts. For organisation, for having team buy into a philosophy, for quick quips and irritation. It’s perhaps fitting that a master of hyperbole has been pilloried by the more rampant sensationalists in the British media concerning his antics during and after the Spanish Supercup. As the four Clasicos in seventeen days…
Scoring Stats – The true value of Ronaldo and Messi
Everyone knows Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are way ahead of the curve. Here we look at just how far they’re in front of everyone else.
Why Argentina Will Get Nowhere Trying To Copy Barcelona
So to get the most obvious fact out of the way first, Argentina should beat Bolivia. They should hammer them off the pitch. Messi should be dancing around the bloodstain pitch at full time with the still beating heart of Arias, the Bolivian goalkeeper, in his hand. Only metaphorically though. But they didn’t. In fact…
Can Thiago Alcantara force way into Barca reckoning after committing long-term future?
Thiago Alcantara has signed a two-year contract extension at Barcelona – subsequently warding off any potential suitors. After impressing in Spain’s European Under-21 Championship triumph, speculation had arose that interest from Italy and England had surfaced. However, the Blaugrana have moved swiftly to quash any such talk with the extension of his contract to 2015…
Why Arsenal should keep Fabregas for one more year
Today’s stories of ‘Arsenal likely to sell Fabregas to Barcelona’ are founded on this cute little exchange between Dan Roan (BBC) and his Arsenal source: When asked about Barcelona’s transfer offer for Cesc Fabregas, the senior Arsenal official said: “The offer was made formally in writing to our chief executive (Ivan Gazidis), and we said…
Why Barcelona Beat Manchester United in This Year’s Champion’s League Final
FC Barcelona and Manchester United FC went to battle at Wembley for the 2010/2011 Champions League on 28 May, the Spanish giants running the English champions ragged in a 3-1 victory. It’s now not so hard to believe just how comprehensive their victory was, but before the game, bookies and pundits were arguing that this…
Manchester United enter the race to sign Alexis Sanchez
It seemed a foregone conclusion this time last week that Alexis Sanchez would be ending his fairytale stay at Udinese to seek pastures new in Catalonia with European Champions Barcelona. However, reports emanating today from various British outlets claim that Manchester United have entered the fray to sign the multi-talented Chilean international Although there were…
Scoring Stats – European Goal Trends
When we first examined the most important marksmen in the Big Four leagues, we looked at which players in Europe were the most crucial to their teams. This was done according to Scoring Stats, a measure of a player’s combined Goals and Assists, measured as a percentage of their team’s total league goals for the…
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