It has been less than twenty four hours passed by Manchester City manager expressed his desire to extend the loan spell of 36-year-old midfielder Frank Lampard looking at the form he has been in this English season and now the same player guided his side to a needed win at Leicester City on Saturday. The game featured the single goal fired by the legendry who as well achieved the feat of scoring 175 Premier league goals in his career. Although, it was a tight finish where both the sides keep fighting for a space until first forty minutes when former Chelsea man got the assist from Samir Nasri and hit the net. With this feat, he became the fourth highest goals scorer in English topflight along with former Arsenal’s Thierry Henry. Only three players are ahead of him: Wayne Rooney with 178 goals, Andrew Cole with 187 goals and Alan Shearer who tops the tally with 260 Premier League goals to his name. Looking at his form in this season, especially after joining the Manchester giant, Blues’ … [Read more...]

In English soccer, whenever a side is ousted either from English premier league or championship league, it is generally believed that manager would take the responsibility and possibly offer his resignation – which does not happen in most of the cases! To make this happen, sometimes, even bosses have to fire the top mentor to satisfy the fans, but it is rarely seen that a manager proudly calls himself the best man for the post despite losing on European front. Liverpool’s 41-year-old Irish manager Brendan Rodgers is one such manager whose side was thrown out of UEFA tourney after they failed to defeat Basel. Even on domestic front, they are in the mid of the leaderboard and if they lose to Manchester United this Sunday, Rodgers would have to rethink about his recent statement where he called himself the best men to lead The Reds. This is the same team that surprised everyone in the last English season and fought until the last day to eventually finish on the second to Manchester City … [Read more...]

Local youths have ever been an important pool to find the best talent around, in fact, almost every big side maintains a training facility where they pick the youth talent, sharpen them, and add them into team if they qualify. But there is one drawback to this popular approach of finding new players as well, i.e., if two sides belong to same county, available talent becomes choosy and often opts for the facility where he gets better facilities, good atmosphere, and all that. For that reason, such competitive city mates often try to present themselves as the bettor atmosphere for aspiring soccer players to grow as a complete player. We have seen how Madrid sides (Atlético and Real) often fight for snatching promising players in their teen ages. If we talk about English soccer, Manchester United and Manchester City are two such giants who have ever been the biggest contenders for the English topflight but how they both manage to be in the leading race is because they mostly hire foreign … [Read more...]

Whenever a player misses few games for any side and if he belongs to a big national team, rumors often start linking him with a different club or side even if he himself nulls those stories. Chelsea’s 24-year-old German forward André Schürrle is one such player who had been missing for quite some game in last few weeks and credit goes to his injuries that did not let him play full ninety minutes, but when he played with full caliber and scored one goal in the last Blues championship league game with Sporting Lisbon, Chelsea fans had to believe that he is not going anywhere. Even player himself denied his connection with any side, in fact, he laughed on the reports that he could move to a Spanish or German side post January. Jose Mourinho, who is known for his addiction towards players of his choice, has also said recently that his 18-million-pound signing is as important for his future plans as anyone else in the team. What he said talking about his German colleague is, “He is in my … [Read more...]

When your team is winning, you are already on cloud nine and it holds specifically true for the manager and other elites sitting on the top position, coz it is them whose jobs are on stake should their team fails on the field. Barcelona, who has always been one of the strongest on European front, won their last game against PSG and easily entered into the last sixteen of the Championship league and manager Luis Enrique is way too happy to see his army of world class players are not letting him down particularly all three South Americans who shared one goal each in the last triumph. Though, it was German club who opened the tally for his side when former Barca striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic found the net on the right time but then it was the turn of Messi, Neymar, and of course, Luis Suarez who ended their joy in no time. With the recent win, Camp Nou side has now won eight matches in a row across all competitions with seventh straight qualifications to the last sixteen of UEFA tourney. … [Read more...]