For many Atletico Madrid fans, replacing Radamel Falcao this summer was paramount. The Colombian had left the Spanish capital for Monaco with a scoring record of 70 goals in 90 games and the concern was that Atletico would struggle to find somebody to replicate El Tigre’s brilliance, despite the €45 million he was sold for.
Carlo Ancelotti’s arrival at Real Madrid to takeover from Jose Mourinho is appearing to be more than a simple managerial change. Mourinho’s future became untenable at the Bernabeu despite delivering a league title in his second year, threatening mutiny as he clashed repeatedly, and in one instance even alienated, star players. His departure in favour
Perhaps more ominous than the news Carlo Ancelotti, a manager with 2 Champions League titles and 3 domestic league titles spanning 3 separate countries, being appointed as the new manager of Real Madrid, comes the announcement that his first signing will be the £23 million capture of midfielder Isco. The 21 year old was being
Giorgos Karagounis has dropped in lucky to an extent that he will be spending a year in the Premier League at the ripe old age of 35 after being thrown on the scrapheap by Panathinaikos at the end of his contract with the Greek club. After being indispensable to the Greek national team for the
For many years now, Sir Alex Ferguson has been buying promising youth projects and developing them into world class football players. The signing of young Chilean striker Angelo Henriquez therefore should be met with genuine excitement. Henriquez has an impressive scoring record for his previous club Universidad de Chile, scoring 11 goals in 17 appearances
The transfer window has finally shut. No more transfer moves are allowed in England until the first of January. In one of the most disappointing deadline days in recent Liverpool history the club sent Andy Carroll, the club’s record signing, on loan to West Ham United and failed to replace him with any striker. This
In Guatemala there lives a small tribe of thirty-five, ranging from newborns to elders well into their seventies. They work together in harmony, in a wooded area behind the ruins of a huge pyramid erected centuries ago by the Aztecs, or the Incas, or the Mayans, I forgot which. It’s mightily impressive, whoever built it.
It’s taken all summer but Tottenham finally have their striker. Well, one of them if reports are to be believed. The transfer of Emmanuel Adebayor has been one the most drawn out and longest of the summer so far. But one week before the end of the transfer window, he looks likely to be in
Liverpool have officially announced the signing of 24 year old Moroccan winger Oussama Assaidi from Heerenveen. Assaidi completed a medical at the club’s Melwood training ground before signing a long-term deal with Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool, and maybe at the right time, for the start of the Premier League just over the horizon. Liverpool’s first game