Category: European Football
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Manchester United: A Tough Road Back
Manchester United’s last nine days were like the week from hell. Not only have their dreams of Champions League football ended after a 3-2 defeat away to Wolfsburg but they dropped more points at the weekend after a 2-1 defeat to Bournemouth in the chase for the title. The millions lost by going out of…
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Barcelona Begins To Look Like The Real Deal Again
For 90 minutes at the weekend, all of us went back in time a couple of years, to a period when one football team so eclipsed all others that they were being considered not just the best side on the planet at that moment but one of…
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Not So Special Anymore?
So is this how it ends? With a whimper? With a team languishing mid-table, out of the title race by November? Does the career of one of the most interesting, and successful, managers in the history of the game really come crashing down like this? Jose Mourinho has been at the top of the global…
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Chaos At Leeds Shows No Sign Of Ending
Being from Scotland, and being a Celtic supporter, I have followed the story of British football’s most dysfunctional club, the one at Ibrox, keenly. Some of what has happened there is without parallel anywhere in the game, except perhaps for the rash of arrests and indictments at FIFA, but only someone who knows nothing about…
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Ligue 1 Review: Montpellier 2-3 Monaco
It’s been a dismal start to the season for Montpellier, who now sit bottom of Ligue 1 with just a single point taken from their opening six games. The result in this game didn’t make things any better …. Monaco’s start, while not exactly meeting expectations, has been better. They sat in 12th on 8…
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Watching Paint Dry – The Most Boring Matches In History
Everyone who watches football remembers at least one game they wish they could erase from memory, one match which was so bad that it made you want to give up watching the sport completely. These are some of those games … games which redefined the word “boring” and put a time and date on it…
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Xherdan Shaqiri set for Stoke in £12m deal
View image | gettyimages.com Xherdan Shaqiri looks set to join Stoke as Inter Milan agree £12million fee for the tricky winger. The Swiss International has been linked with several premier league clubs, including Everton, who have been making inquiries with Milan about a potential move to Merseyside over the past few days. Stoke, however, have…
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Wenger receives call from Lyon offering £21m striker
View image | gettyimages.com Lyon forward Alexandre Lacazette has been offered to Arsenal for £21m, according to reports in France. Confusion is raining at French football club Lyon after it was reported that striker Lacazette was offered to Arsenal late on Monday evening. Club president Jean-Michel Aulas has been strong his desire to keep hold of…
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AC Milan make moves to sign former Man United targets
View image | gettyimages.com AC Milan are interested in signing former Manchester United targets Mats Hummels or Diego Godin this summer, according to Corriere dello Sport. Man United’s play for Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos is seemingly allowing other European clubs to make a move for both Hummels and Godin. Both centre backs have been linked…
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Man United buoyed as Real Madrid bid for Ramos replacement
View image | gettyimages.com Real Madrid are lining up a move for Valencia defender Shkodran Mustafi as they consider potential replacements for Sergio Ramos. The World Cup winning centre-back has been a pinnacle figure at the Santiago Bernabeu in recent seasons, playing well under boss Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti. Benitez’s arrival at Madrid has…
