Some players are the identity of their clubs where they started their career and also end their professional career. Liverpool’s captain Steven Gerrard is one such legendry player who has been at Anfield since 1997. He has since been a top performer for the Reds perhaps he is now 35 year old and still Premier League club wants to extent his stay in the England by another couple of years. Notably, his current contract is due to expire in next twelve months and after a two-year extension, he will be there until 2015, even after then, there is a clause which can enhance his stay further, which means, Liverpool doesn’t actually want to leave his legendary player until he says goodbye to soccer. Gerrard engaged with the club when he was just nine and now it has been approximately twenty-five years he is associated with them, in fact, he is the captain for more than ten years now. These facts make him one of the all-time performers for the Anfield club and if we look into his playing … [Read more...]
Pellegrini shows his positivity for the next season
New Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini came in front of the media for the first time since he replaced Roberto Mancini at The Blues and straight away he let everyone aware about his aggressive playing strategy he has planned to follow in the coming season. According to him, he is now concentrating in strengthening the forward line of 2011 Premier League winners and is confidence that they can repeat their successful run at EPL. He knows that City is the place where only performance does matter hence it would be a necessity for him to perform well and deliver what his former colleague could not do. He met with his army for the first time in the pre-season training session yesterday and discussed some insides about the new lineup. On the other side, former manager Roberto Mancini has recently warned him to face some of biggest challenges in his career to convert City into a European champion. Accordingly, Pellegrini is looking for more strikers to sharpen his forward line though … [Read more...]
National Football Museum attracts record visitors in first year at Manchester
Soccer has always been a legacy for English soccer and that is why when fans got an opportunity to view all its memorable collectibles at one place; they simply jump to it. England’s highly reputed soccer temple called National Football Museum got a record number of visitors in its first year of operations in Manchester. Reportedly, it is just celebrating its first birthday at Urbis building after being switched from Preston last year and this shift was rather a tough choice for Manchester City Council who decided to make this move. Last year, it could witness around 100000 and this year they had put a target of 300000 visitors which has been superseded by the actual numbers quite easily. These jewels were available for display in the same museum since 2001 but at Preston North End's Deepdale ground where it used to gather limited fans from across the world. Looking at the impressive number of visitors; Council's investment worth £2m per year looks a good investment. Actually, the … [Read more...]
Messi and Neymar will make a perfect forward line: Rosell
Amid wide speculations about how the new Barcelona’s forward line would look like or would it bring any advantage for it by signing one of the most promising striker Neymar in the team when it already has a finest army of strikers - especially Messi in the lead. Experts still believe that it would be difficult for both strikers to harmonize their relations playing for the same team particularly looking at their dominating style of gameplay. But sidelining all these rumors, Barcelona president Sandro Rosell thinks otherwise, perhaps he says that upcoming season will show the world how two best players play with a perfect synchronization for a team irrespective of what media or others say. One of the prominent names who think otherwise is former coach Johan Cruyff who recently advised that Barcelona should now get rid of Messi coz having both in the team will create more problems for the whole team. Rosell rejected his outlooks and said, “As some say, we were lucky to sign Neymar before … [Read more...]
Liverpool wants £50m for striker Luis Suarez
Luis Suarez, the twenty six year old Uruguayan striker, has become a hot cake for Liverpool ever since he said that he wants to make a shift. In fact, there are many clubs who seem to be interested in the striker, but as of now only Arsenal has put on an open bid for him. Reportedly, Gunners have offered a price in the range of £30m which is of no interest for the Reds. Actually, EPL club has long been saying Suarez is not available for sale still reports kept coming that Chelsea or even Spanish giant Real Madrid is interested in the Uruguayan. Rumors also in the air that Anfield club only wants to part away with the forward if he himself explicitly makes a formal request, and in that case, Rodgers’ club would like to encash their beauty with a maximum figure – something in the range of £50m which is more than double of what they paid for him to Ajax back in 2011. It would also be interested to see how Liverpool denies Real’s interest who is known for spending exaggerated amounts on … [Read more...]
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