No matter how big have been in your career when it comes to sell something about you, you need some secret insides about your long lasting journey and it proved with many notables who recently wrote something unknown in their books just to sensationalize their product. We are talking about former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp who is ready with his new book “A Man Walks On To a Pitch.” Among other things, he specifically talked about few players who he was very close to bring at White Hart Lane but eventually missed including likes of Luis Suarez and Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira. According to his disclosure, he said to have finalized the talks with both of them and suddenly none of them agreed to switch and decided to remain where they were; he suspected money influence played an important role otherwise Spurs would have been enjoying the services of two greatest players of contemporary soccer. The 67-year-old, who is now in-charge of Queens Park Rangers, considers letdown … [Read more...]

While Liverpool is finding it hard to survive both in English premier league as well Championship league, yet manager Roy Hodgson is not willing to risk his star assets even if they are injured for the time being. The Irish manager extended the contract of 25-year-old former Chelsea forward Daniel Sturridge who joined the Anfield side back in 2013 at 12 million pounds. He showed his strength right in the first season for Liverpool and fired 21 league goals ranking himself in line with former Reds starlet Suarez, but after departure of Uruguayan, he was carrying the head responsibilities in Rodgers’ army, hence club bosses decided to offer him some kind of reward by extending his contract. Reportedly, he has signed a new five years contract that would tie him with the Reds until 2019. The revised salary he entitles now is £150,000 a week which perfectly suits his class he exhibited in the last season. Actuary, this deal is not the result of overnight exercise; perhaps, it is the outcome … [Read more...]

Brendan Rodgers seems to be looking for a safe place to avoid firing media questions about Liverpool’s dismissible show this season, in fact, his decision to relieve Suarez and brought Balotelli at the helm is proving wrong. The major worry for the Northern Irish manager is not the dearth of talent but their availability since most of the key players are out for respective injuries and after ousted of Daniel Sturridge who has been in good form until now, Reds could only gather seven points off their first six league games. The same situation is on European front where they are playing after a long time and Rodgers seems to be under lots of pressure to prove his summer decisions correct. He clearly refused to provide any quick heal for the problem Anfield side is passing through right now, or he may not be having any overnight magic for his team or their injuries yet he is in no mood to give up and says it is just the beginning hence no one should predict finals of the season. … [Read more...]

The battle among clubs and respective national selectors for players authority has been running for a long time, in fact, there have been many cases when clubs show their sincere disparity to release their in-form players for international duties while there have as well been cases where national teams call those players back in the team who have been advised to take rest by their clubs. Chelsea striker Diego Costa is one such player who was recently asked by the manager to take rest to fully recover from his long running hamstring problem but Spanish national coach selected him for the Euro 2016 qualifier which is a surprising move from La Roja. Apart from him, Vicente del Bosque also called Barcelona centre-back Gerard Pique, Valencia forward Rodrigo, and Bayern Munich left-back Juan Bernat for the Oct 19 and Oct 12 games in Slovakia, though missing Fernando Torres and Juan Mata is also noticeable. If we look at the performance of Costa in this season, he has scored eight goals in … [Read more...]

Although, Soccer has ever been a mind game apart from being the sport where players use their shaking legs to deceive opponents, but off late, every team and its boss use every kind of trick to bring their star asset in the limelight even if such player has not been in a great form off late. We are talking about Spanish side Barcelona and its peak striker Lionel Messi. Actually, Barca is up to face PSG in the Championship League and when these two heavyweights are going to share the common field, how can media hunks miss the opportunity to dig out the infamous controversies around them. But to everyone’s surprise, Barca’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu answered all the questions before they could grow as controversy about Messi’s recent linkup with the French giant. Answering the skeptical media journalists, he refused to accept they have ever had Messi’s sale in the agenda, perhaps, he said even the wages controversy was media made as there was no dispute about salary to the most … [Read more...]