Real Madrid, especially Ronaldo, is back in form as he answered to all his critics and proved he is still the most dangerous player out there. He scored both the goals against Sevilla in UEFA Super Cup to amazingly end their preseason tourney with a bang. The memorable moment of the match was its man of the match ceremony when Ronaldo’s former mentor at Manchester United Sir Alex Ferguson honored him man of the match award at Cardiff City Stadium in front of thirty thousand odd fans shouting, whistling, and chanting every single moment. Former priciest player scored in both the halves and Real kept its grip tight over full ninety minutes. Alex seemed to be highly impressed with his former teammate and said Ronaldo made it easy for him to decide who is the best player of the game. After the match, Ronaldo acknowledged everyone for helping him in recovering from his prolonged injury and welcomed new entrants to his team of world class players, especially Toni Kroos and James Rodriguez … [Read more...]

Upcoming Spanish season would be the first time world’s priciest player Gareth Bale is going to impart in La Liga right from the beginning. In other words, it would be a perfect platform for the former Southampton midfielder to prove that world record fee paid by Real Madrid justifies his skills truly. Indeed, upcoming domestic leagues across the world would be different from last few coz of the world cup where many players shined like the stars and every eye would be centered over them and players from high ranked sides like Germany, Coast Rica, Argentina, and Columbia would be on radar coz of their show in Brazil. It puts additional pressure over last year’s superstar to perform even better to justify mounting salary he is getting. To show the eagerness, Bale has exaggeratedly said, he wants Real win six major events this season which indeed is nothing but a regular statement being made by every highly priced player or official before the beginning of a season – remember what Moyes … [Read more...]

Manchester United and its newly appointed manager Van Gaal both have been in the news ever since Dutchman agreed to join the league club facing lots of troubles - from players form to low confidence. Like any other team or club, he was also instructed not to sign his own countrymen for some time which he objected when arrived to England and now he is granted permission to bring his favorite players from around the world if he needs them. However, he is also advised not to buy players for the sake of buying perhaps only target those who can fit into his dream team. This is noteworthy that former Netherlands boss’s first preseason tour of America has been successful and lined up United among the favorites to lift English topflight again, but it would be interested to see how this highly demotivated team of world class players perform in first few months of 2014-15 league season. Though, Gaal has no scarcity of funds yet he is known to be an intelligent pro who assumes the … [Read more...]

Moving in line to his earlier promises, Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini is not stopping signing new players to add more options into every segment of the field. Accordingly, he signed Porto defender 23-year-old Eliaquim Mangala at somewhere around 32 million pounds which is understandably way too exaggerated considering his form and skills. Tenure of the current deal as reported by some media houses is five years with a special clause that obliges the club to pay more if Mangala performs well in upcoming English premier league. Notwithstanding what is being said about the new City entrant, Pellegrini believes he has all the potentials to become one of the finest defenders across Europe hence his side made no mistake in hiring him for the betterment of Man City. Though, the deal is paper down now, but it had been in process since January, in fact, most the things had already been finalized except the salary which is lastly agreed after a long discussion between top officials … [Read more...]

With the change in managerial post Manchester United looks rejuvenated and everyone is now optimistic that their all-time favorite side would recover from dreadful 2013-14 EPL season. Dutch manager Louis van Gaal who took over from David Moyes is not only confident but also assured they would bring back the league title at Old Trafford this season. Former legendry United goalie Peter Schmeichel also thinks United, under the experienced guidelines of Dutch international, would perform brilliantly in the upcoming English season. Had anyone else said it, everyone took it just another confident statement by a United fan, but Schmeichel is not an ordinary name; he has been the most successful man in front of the goal post for United with participation in five league titles, three FA cups, and one Championship silverware along with being the world’s best goalie for two straight years back in 1992 and 93. The retired goalkeeper talked about United under a changed leadership in his recent … [Read more...]