The career of Louis van Gaal has taken a whole new shape after his successful in English premier league and fans don’t even want to remember the days when Red Devils was facing tough resistance from every team in the English top flight. This is the same Old Trafford side that got a new life under the guidance of Dutch mentor who is famous for his unorthodox but effective policies while leading any side and here in England too he applied many out of the box changes that initially looked strange but when they start yielding results, no one argued their worth. While ManU is on third place in the English premier league, they are equally likely to win the FA Cup as well; in fact, Gaal went one step ahead and asked United fans to bet over their team for this FA title. He said this after an impressive 3-0 win over Cambridge United today. With the latest triumph they are in the fifth round of the league and according to many critics they are surely one of the likely contenders for the title. … [Read more...]

The money raining English premier league again proved why this is the fastest money rolling soccer tourney is the world. The English research and business advisory firm Deloitte issued the details of money every league side spent in just concluded winter transfer window. According to their findings, league sides collectively spent 950 million pounds making them one of the fastest growing group of clubs. February 2 was the busiest day for sides willing to hire or fire players and it witnessed some 80 million pounds changing hands in last twenty hours of the transfer deadline. The top four sides, like always, spent more than other sides; however, Manchester United is an exception as they did not copy their summer run when they were the highest spending English side. Chelsea, Arsenal, and Manchester City mutually shared more than fifty percent of the total English spending over players. Notably, current figure is much shorter than EPL’s 2011 record when English clubs threw a mammoth 1175 … [Read more...]

There have ever been good and bad relations in soccer including the ones where a player fails to go to his dream zone just for the refusal on the last moment by the side who had until been aspiring him. This is something that happened with former Benfica midfielder Lazar Marković who had once been aspiring for league side Chelsea. Everything was good until Blues were as well interested in him, but then something changed in the mind of manager Jose Mourinho and he turned down the opportunity to bring his aiming player at much smaller price tag. After facing the ignorance from aspiring side, 20-year-old Serbian international decided to move to another league side Liverpool. Now when both these sides will up against each other in first leg of the Capital One Cup semifinal on Tuesday night, Markovic will counter his favorite players on the field probably for the first time. Reds fans expect him to show best of his class and answer Portuguese manager what he missed last summer. Had Mourinho … [Read more...]

Louis Van Gaal is known for his all-round support to each member of his team and that is why whenever any of his players makes any mistake during a game, he stands by him no matter what the rest of the world is saying about him and Radamel Falcao is already close to him. Last Manchester United game with Queen's Park Rangers was the one where everyone saw unexpected mistakes being done by the United’s forwards that missed them at least four goals but since Reds Devils won the game eventually, no one raised the eyebrow. Had United lost the game everybody would have lambasted the manager and Falcao for his persisting fumbles at Etihad Stadium. Notably, 28-year-old Columbian forward missed four chances to score a goal despite having a round support of other players. Thankfully, Marouane Fellaini and James Wilson did not copy him and netted one goal each to earn full three points out of the game. Categorically talking about Falcao and his visible mistakes, Dutchman said, “It's not important … [Read more...]