Soccer has now become more than mare a sport; nowadays, it is a complete money making industry with interests from clubs, owners, and third parties who used to invest in players’ value and this third party investment has long been criticized by many notables including UEFA president Michel Platini, coz according to many game professionals, it detaches players from the game and makes them just a piece of money. UEFA, among others, has long been opposing FIFA’s policy to let it go about third parties investment in players which sometime enables clubs sell their key players without any sporting reason. But now, a commendable change has been proposed by the FIFA Executive Committee who has voted to completely ban this alien investment from the game. Notably, these kinds of stakeholders are already banned in England but in some parts of the world including but not limited to America, Spain, and Portugal it is still one of biggest money making opportunity for business houses who regularly … [Read more...]

Today, governing bodies have become more stringent towards financial irregularities being done by soccer clubs and both FIFA and UEFA are showing their dire concerns for the playing and non-playing staff especially those who are not being paid for a long period of time. Recently, FFPs were in the headlines for European watchdog’s strict warning to every empaneled side to either reduce their expenses or stop buying players without having money into their accounts and now UEFA has again tightened its arm for recurring expenditures including salaries and other routine expenses. Interestedly, there are top notch sides who have not even met the breakeven point into their financial statements which include league giant Liverpool – surprising! Moreover, five of the UEFA cubs’ prize money has been seized for failing to pay the important overdue payments to other clubs, employees, and tax authorities for the season 2014-15. The infamous list includes: FC Astra Ploiești, Budućnost Podgorica, FK … [Read more...]

Growing age has ever been a big problem for players even if they have had a star status in their golden years. Today, the competition is very tough even for the youngsters and that is why most of the sides often part their ways from growing players, but for former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard, 36 years of age is just the beginning. He not only played an important role in City’s emphatic 7-0 win over Sheffield on Wednesday but also ensured Manuel Pellegrini is not going to rest him for next few games. Notably, central midfielder was brought into the Manchester on one season loan from New York City FC by manager Pellegrini to backup other players like Yaya Toure, Fernandinho, and Fernando, but he later expressed his desires to be a permanent teammate for the League defenders and then Chilean manager reportedly asked to perform regularly if he wants to be an integral City mate. Talking about his age and what he now means for the Citizens, 61-year-old said in a press conference, “For … [Read more...]

The earth shattering form of Real Madrid continues even at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu when they again ruled the field with a denominating victory over Elche in Tuesday La Liga game. Ronaldo and his army of world’s priciest players seems to be ruling not only the field but players moral as well, and Portuguese captain is not willing to take the glory with his name only as he recently congratulated each team member for their thrashing triumphs in recent days. Notably, Vikings skipper has been one of the most successful in the history until now with seven goals in last four days alone and if we scan all his played games for the season, he has until fired some 12 goals across all competitions they played. The Tuesday game was not an exception and former Manchester United forward scored another four-goal haul to surge his tally. It is normally expected from a captain that he should share his success with his team and this is what former priciest player of the world seems to be doing as he … [Read more...]

Maybe Mario Balotelli has always been famous for the controversial remarks thrown by other players over him, but this is probably be the first time he himself changed the role and mocked Manchester United’s shocking defeat to newly promoted league side Leicester City. The loss was not the ordinary one perhaps one of the devastating setbacks for the new manager coz once they were leading the tally by 3-1 and eventually lost the game by 5-3 which puts a dot over Gaal’s exaggerated claims about his newly formed team. Liverpool as well lost the game to West Ham by 3-1 on Saturday; but former Milan forward enjoyed watching United loss more rather Reds show. He apparently teased the Red Devils gameplay on his Twitter account and lambasted Dutch manager’s overspending in the last summer to strengthen the side, but results are coming completely opposite to what everyone had thought to be. Balotelli tweeted last night “Man Utd...LOL” which made countless fans furious over him and racial abuses … [Read more...]