Manchester United seems to be most talked about side this season with a new headline in the leading sports dailies every other day. Sometimes, media guys cover its manager Gaal while most of the time, it is about the confident statements by any former United great who shows his immense confidence in the newly crafted side to give their best in the current league season. But this time, we are talking about something that is almost impossible to think by anyone; yes, we are talking about a recent statement by none other than former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon who said that former priciest player Cristiano Ronaldo could move back to Manchester United. Prima facie, it looks nothing but an aftermath of Ronaldo’s recent media bytes where he showed his disparity over club’s decision to release some players just to balance their financial statements in tune with the FFPs, but if we look at the recent stories headlined in the leading sports dailies, 29-year-old Portuguese is not happy … [Read more...]

If we look at some of infamous incidents of racial abuses during a game, John Terry scores high for his verbal abuse towards Rio Ferdinand during a premiere league game back in November 2011, in fact, the incident led to countless debates over how we can eradicate the racism from the game but still this devil persists where it has always been. There is no one on the top who serious worries about the drastic situation third world players pass through whenever they are in England or Europe, yet neither FIFA nor UEFA has until took any concrete step to stop this menace. Rio Ferdinand, the 35-year-old QPR defender, has now talked about the 2011 incident with more details and expressed why he hates Terry so much. He highlighted the incident prominently in his autobiography and explained the surroundings when former Blues captain had to bark over him. Though, premier league disciplinary committee banned the Chelsea defender for four matches, but he never apologized for his inhuman act … [Read more...]

Young players all over the world look more dedicated and focused for their career and it holds true whether you are playing for a Spanish side or in English premier league, and for that reason, most of the sides usually hire players in their teen ages to explore their hidden talents to be used in a long term. We have seen this is something that happened to Neymar and now another player who is getting famous these days for his consistent form is Liverpool’s 19-year-old Englishman Raheem Sterling who proved his worth on both national and club levels. He not only impressed everyone playing for the Reds but also made an emphatic entry in Euro qualifier against Switzerland. Usually, this kind of players have one idol whom they follow the most and in this case manager Brendan Rodgers has taken the role of mentoring the young midfielder and apparently asked him to ‘live, sleep and eat’ football if he wants to enlarge his professional career. This is also a fact that players of this age often … [Read more...]

When you are associated with a top knocking club, criticisms always leveled against you that you have lost charm for your national side and this belief gets a strong nod from rest of the world if your performance playing for club and for national team differs significantly. Anyways, domestic leagues across the world are infamous for not releasing key players for national duties and even if they do under any kind of pressure they start imposing severe conditions regarding how to use their priciest assets during national games especially friendlies. We have seen this happened with Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo who plays for Real Madrid and when national team called him for the world cup, Real manager personally requested Portuguese soccer team manager not to use him in unnecessary ‘matches.’ But now, we are not talking about Ronaldo or Real Madrid but their arch rival Barcelona and its highly acclaimed player Lionel Messi who has recently been censured by a large section of … [Read more...]

Though, last transfer window could manage to pile the record of league clubs who again ruled the transfer market with a massive outlay of hundreds of million pounds, but one player who got the attention not for anything but the timings Manchester United snatched him in. Yes, we are talking about 28-year-old Columbian star Radamel Falcao who made a shift to the Old Trafford after two hours of official transfer deadline hence everyone start thinking what Gaal saw in him that they specially requested the league officials to allow them make this deal happen. Falcao joined the 2012-13 league champions on loan for one season with an option to make him permanent if club desires. Similarly, Monaco forward is also thrilled to play for his dream team but little worried as well for the expectations everyone carries over him especially after the headlines his transfer could make in the sports world. Falcao recently said he wants to make this deal end forever hence would do everything to prove he … [Read more...]