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...]

Manchester United think tank is supposed to be brilliant with mind games and that is why they presented new team captain Wayne Rooney as the best man in the world apart from being the finest ball roller. When you are hyping someone so high, it is evident you would also ask him to accept his mistakes before it grows into a controversy. Yes, we are talking about last United’s game with West Ham United that happened to be the second triumph for the Gaal, yet match got the headlines not for this feat but coz Rooney got the Red Card in the game for valid reason. It was 59th minute of the game when Rooney lunged Stewart Downing and referee shown him the severest game penalty, but unlike always, Red Devils skipper decided not to appeal against this decision perhaps he also said in public that it was his mistake hence punishment was correct. This is rarely seen these days where an in-form captain of a shaking side accepts this but many experts are calling it a great move to win fans confidence … [Read more...]

Having a healthy competition is good in every sport that is why we have teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona who enjoy the status of arch rivals for each other. As far players are concerned, this title often goes to Barca’s Messi and Real’s Ronaldo as both of these world renowned strikers follow each other in and outside of the field. If Messi is doing something significant on the field, it is expected that Rolando would answer his rival by showing another power show from his legs and this is something that is being happened in La Liga this season where both Ronaldo and Messi look to be in a great form. While Portuguese has scored some memorable goals in last few games, Messi is also following him with a double. Blaugrana is of course on the top of the leaderboard but Real is also not far behind and like always fans expect both of them to be in the title race until the last week of the season. Coach Luis Enrique not only congratulated his star man for scoring his 400th career goal in … [Read more...]