Last week, Chelsea’s new manager Jose Mourinho joined the Blue and started the rebuilding process right away as he did during his last tenure with the EPL club. He has a long list of players he wanted to include in his squad to strengthen his team across all departments, including attack, defense, and midfield, and one of his interesting contenders for midfield area is Porto’s Eliaquim Mangala - the 22-year-old sensational central defender from Primeira Liga. Until recently, he was a junior player but after a great success in the last domestic season, he got promoted from France’s Under-21 team to senior French national soccer team for their tour to South America. Another key factor that can affect his asking price by his club is whether he would make his senior debut for France or not, coz at the moment, Porto is reportedly asking a price of £30 million for the defender but if he becomes a senior player for France’s national team, his club would surely hike his price tag also. In any … [Read more...]
Jose Mourinho has not joined Chelsea as told by Premier League
When a news is revealed by a reliable source, it is often understood that it would cent percent be accurate, but sometimes, in many cases, river flows in the opposite direction. Indeed, there have been many cases in the past when a fabled news source published a story and after knowing the mistake, they immediately put it offline. This time, it happens with Jose Mourinho who recently discharged from Real Madrid after defeating Osasuna by 4-2. Actually, Premier League issued a story last Sunday that Mourinho had joined his old club Chelsea where he had served in the past from 2004 to 2008. The rumors were in the air for quite some time about his link ups with The Blue, but no official information has ever been disclosed either by Jose Mourinho or Chelsea, and when this news of their deal flashed on by the Premier League on its website, everyone stunned to see how come all this happened all of a sudden within few days of his departure from La Liga club? The ‘wrong’ story was immediately … [Read more...]
Jose Mourinho to part his ways from Real Madrid
Nothing could be worst for a coach than leaving his club with bitter memories. European cup is almost reached to its final stoppage and Real Madrid journey has been halted at the semifinal stage – early than expected. This is the point where both Madrid and Mourinho seem to be parting their ways despite the fact that Mourinho did take them to the third successive semifinal of the European league. Now, when Madrid is out of the league, speculations have started that he will be axed after this season or probably he would return to England after facing some humiliating comments over their performance in the league. The 50 year old ‘The Special One’ would love to join a club ‘where people love me to be’. Ex Chelsea manager has not hinted any particular team he would love to join, but indications are that he would be back to his old club Chelsea after Madrid ended their Champion League campaign when lost to Borussia Dortmund with 4-3 margin in aggregate. Probably, he would remain at his … [Read more...]
Lippi refuses to replace Real Madrid coach Mourinho
Soccer fraternity is one of the most exaggerated marketplaces where relationships start building with just one comment. Like, Zinedine Zidane’s recent comment or rather recommendation about Marcello Lippi as being a perfect replacement to handle Real Medrid’s Jose Mourinho’s portfolio became the source of series of speculations and aggressively highlighted in the media that Lippi will soon be shifted to Santiago Bernabéu substituting Whites current head coach. But, now, Lippi has come forward and rubbishes all the media speculations about him signing up with Madrid. He also said that he is very happy with his current assignment at Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande. Lippi has a two and a half year deal with Chinese club and until then he is in no mood to search for a better place in the world. The 64 year old has already served various clubs in the past, like Juventus, Inter Milan and Napoli. Actually, Madrid president’s biased statement towards Lippi heated up the rumors which are now … [Read more...]
Jose Mourinho to stay with Real Madrid until his contract expires
One of the best soccer coaches Jose Mourinho has cleared all the reports and openly said that he would continue serving Real till his existing contract doesn’t expire, i.e., till 2016. Recently there were some rumors that highly acclaimed Portuguese coach may soon be found associated with other clubs who have recently been approaching him, but Mourinho is quite happy with his run with Real Madrid, so there is no reality in surrounding stories about his departure. He said, “I don't think about other clubs, especially as I have a four-year contract with Real, I signed it and when I signed it, I signed it because I wanted to be at Real Madrid at this period of my career. I am not thinking about another club.” A few days ago, he gave an interview to CNN where he told about his desire to return to England once his contract with Real expires, he also expressed his deep grief over his social network life where he and his family members often get abused from peoples, and that’s why he … [Read more...]
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