Champions League semi-final draw: Manchester City draw Real Madrid while future manager Pep Guardiola faces Atletico Madrid with Bayern Munich April 15, 2016 Manchester City avoided an awkward showdown with future manager Pep Guardiola after drawing Real Madrid in their first ever Champions League semi-final. The competition's only remaining Premier League representative will face off against Cristiano Ronaldo and co in an all-star battle for a place in this year's Champions League final on May 28. Read more: De [...]
Liverpool 4, Borussia Dortmund 3 (Agg: 5-4): Klopp reveals he asked for ‘spirit of Istanbul’ before Reds conjured stunning second-half revival April 15, 2016 Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admitted that he asked his side to evoke memories of past European comebacks before they conjured a stirring second-half revival to dispatch Borussia Dortmund and reach the Europa League semi-finals last night. The Reds looked dead and buried following early goals from Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, while Marco Reus restored [...]
Premier League spending set to continue as clubs enjoy successive profits for first time since 1999 April 15, 2016 Premier League clubs are gearing up for a potentially record-breaking summer of spending after collectively recording consecutive pre-tax profits for the first time this century. Top-flight teams made a pre-tax profit of around £120m and an operating profit of approximately £550m for last season, data published today by Deloitte reveals. Both figures were slightly down on [...]
How much are West Ham paying for the Olympic Stadium? Rent, naming rights, repayment clauses and extra fees explained April 14, 2016 Three years after West Ham clinched a deal to become anchor tenants of the £700m Olympic Stadium the details of their agreement with the London Legacy Development Commission (LLDC) have finally been published. The 207-page contract was revealed in full for the first time yesterday after an information tribunal this week ruled against the LLDC, [...]
Gutierrez wins discrimination case against Newcastle after being dropped for developing cancer April 14, 2016 Former Newcastle United midfielder Jonas Gutierrez won his disability discrimination claim against his old club after an employment tribunal found that the Magpies had dropped the Argentine due to him developing cancer. Gutierrez was suing Newcastle, owned by billionaire Mike Ashley, after alleging that he was frozen out of the first-term picture having been diagnosed with testicular [...]
Will Leicester City win the Premier League? These famous chokes from Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool will give Foxes fans nightmares April 14, 2016 Leicester City need just three wins from their remaining five games in order to win a historic Premier League title. Considering Claudio Ranieri's men have lost just three games so far this season, it seems a sure thing that the trophy will be in new hands come 15 May. But Foxes fans beware: league leaders have blown [...]
The highest paid football managers in the world 2016: Ex-Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho tops earnings list while Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp and Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger both make top 10 April 14, 2016 Jose Mourinho has been named the world's highest paid manager for the seventh year in a row in France Football's annual study of football's richest. With £19m in the bank, the Portuguese manager is this season's highest earning coach despite being sacked by the Blues in December following a disastrous start to the season. Mourinho is still being paid [...]
Full West Ham Olympic Stadium deal revealed: £2.5m annual rent to be halved if Hammers are relegated April 14, 2016 West Ham will pay £2.5m a year to rent the Olympic Stadium, the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) has confirmed. Full details of the deal which will see the Hammers move into the 60,000 capacity arena on a 99-year lease have been published by the LLDC for the first time following a Freedom of Information [...]
The PFA Young Player of the Year award should be redefined to recognise rookies such Arsenal’s Alex Iwobi or Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford April 14, 2016 Scan the nominees for this year's PFA Young Player of the Year award and you would be forgiven for thinking the assembled names represented those who didn't quite make the cut on the actual Player of the Year shortlist. Together Philippe Coutinho, Romelu Lukaku, Dele Alli, Jack Butland, Harry Kane and Ross Barkley have 881 [...]
Highest paid football players 2016: Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi top rich list dominated by Barcelona, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain players April 14, 2016 Football's highest paid players have been revealed by a France Football survey – and the Premier League's failure to attract the cream of the crop is laid bare in their rankings. The annual football rich list, which estimates a player's overall earnings in a season by calculating salary, bonuses and sponsorships, reveals that only Manchester [...]