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[ltr]Capello who's getting €8m per year in Russia, is offered €20m per year by [ltr]#PSG[/ltr].[/ltr]

Wow, if true 

Shit still going on

Police launch raids on Italian clubs

ID SAY ITS WIDESPREAD TBH

Brighton have appointed former Barcelona midfielder Oscar Garcia as their new head
coach, replacing the sacked Gus Poyet.

Paul McGrath is well on it this morning on twitter

I love aston villa and im pissed soz :-)

Irish bankers take the piss out of irish families hope ur still haopy pricks fuck u :-)

Seems he was arrested sat night in Offaly for being drunk and disorderly

Said his acc was hacked earlier but he's at it again, sad really

According to a local paper


Ted Terry, the father of Chelsea footballer John Terry, has been charged with carrying out a racist attack on a man after a scuffle in the street.

Good man Ted,

Was a phrase we say sometimes

FC Anzhi Makhachkala have accepted resignation and terminated Guus Hiddink's employment. Meulensteen takes over.

Former Birmingham City forward Christian Benitez dies, aged 27


http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/christian-benitez-dies-aged-27-2101874

Very sad RIP

ESPN UK ‏@ESPNUK 2m
ESPN America and ESPN Classic will cease broadcasting from midnight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23703265

Robbie Savage reveals footballers' tricks to engineer a transfer

Sounds familiar

 

 

Hahahahaha brilliant

Can't see your picture Barnes

So it begins..

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has told Paul Lambert to stop moaning so much after the Scot claimed Aston Villa had been "done" by referee Kevin Friend following their a controversial 2-1 defeat at Stamford Bridge.

The Aston Villa manager was furious Friend did not send off Branislav Ivanovic for an elbow on Christian Benteke, two minutes before the defender scored the winner, and also that he waved away a stoppage-time penalty appeal for handball by John Terry.

Insisting Friend had no excuse for not taking firm action in both cases, Lambert said: "We've been done by two big decisions that were wrong."
Hailing his players as "outstanding", he added: "Decisions like that, I don't think you can miss them, I really don't. They're big game changers. My team never deserved that."

Friend showed Ivanovic a yellow card for his 71st-minute clash with Benteke and Lambert said: "It's an elbow. I know it's a physical game and all that, but I think it's an elbow."

The Villa manager reflected even more bitterly on Terry swatting the ball away in the penalty area.

"Apparent penalty?" he said when asked about the incident. "Apparently it was a handball.

"It's a handball, it's there for everybody to see. Gabriel Agbonlahor has won the header. John Terry, you raise your hand in penalty box, it's a penalty."

Lambert's opposite number Mourinho predictably disagreed, insisting that Villa had committed a foul in the build-up to the handball.

He said: "Free-kick against Aston Villa - if somebody pushes an opponent, especially in the box, in dangerous areas, it's a free kick against."

The Chelsea manager also had a different take on the Ivanovic-Benteke incident.

"This is English football," he said. "For some reason, the world loves it more than any other league.

"One thing is a real aggression. Another thing is duels that land in a certain way and I think the referee did very well and, from minute one to minute 95, there was a real fight. A football fight between Benteke and Ivanovic, and fouls, fouls on one side, fouls on the other side and I think that is football."

The flashpoints provoked angry touchline exchanges between the managers and Mourinho suggested afterwards that Lambert had overreacted, though he said he would have done so himself when he was younger.

"Paul Lambert has a certain type of personality and behaviour on bench," he said. "He reminds me of myself 10 years ago when I was complaining every decision. I wanted to coach my team and at same time have whistle in my lips.

"With experience, he will change - now he complains over every decision. He is a young manager, very intelligent, he does very, very well in that he adapts to quality of his players. I like him, no problem."

Lambert took Mourinho's comments as anything but patronising, saying: "I remind him of him? He's a brilliant football manager, make no mistake about that, he's done it in every country he's been in. It's probably a nice compliment then if he thinks that.

"I'm pretty sure Jose doesn't stand there like a shrinking violet. If in six years, I'm like him, I'd be pretty happy."

Mourinho admitted he may have erred in not making more than the two changes to the team who beat Hull City just three days earlier.

"Maybe my decision to not make many changes was not the best," he said. "Maybe it would have been better to play more fresh players from beginning.

"I felt my players were not very, very sharp, which is understandable. The team fought very, very hard.

"Sometimes you win from fantastic football, sometimes you have to play on other things, and those other things gave us the game."

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/29/gordon-taylor-support-pfa-gambling?CMP=twt_gu

Gordon Taulor has been a naughty boy, has ran up £100,000 in gambling debts


This from a man who said

Taylor said then: "The feeling in football, bearing in mind what has happened with other sports, is that we do need a zero tolerance.

"It's going to be difficult because, as we all know, there is a culture of betting in football.

"Footballers like a gamble, we know that, but the use of inside information and betting of any kind has become a very sensitive issue. We feel it's time that the players' union backed a zero tolerance stance against betting."

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/235175.html

Ian Holloway will not be in the dugout for the next two Premier League games after Crystal Palace declined to appeal his touchline ban.
Holloway will have to pay an £18,000 fine as well as sit out Palace's trip to Manchester United on September 14 and the following week's visit of Swansea City to Selhurst Park as punishment for the improper conduct charge brought against him by the Football Association.

  Was only a matter of time

What he do and when

It's in the link lazy ass  

Sorry thought link was what you posted

£10 MILLION PAY OFF FOR INFLUENTIAL BALE AGENTS

Gareth Bale joined a small elite of mega-rich sportsmen when he completed his world-record £86million transfer to Real Madrid earlier this month.

But a sizeable portion of the 24-year-old’s monstrous £300,000-a-week wages will go to the management firm who made the deal happen.

The Sweeper has learned that the Stellar Group earned £10m from the move as part of the contract the company signed with Real Madrid back in May to facilitate the transfer.

It is understood that the two parties negotiated a ‘duality agreement’, a typical contract in marquee transfers, with the buying club paying roughly half of the agents’ costs and the player himself the remaining 50 per cent out through his signing-on fee and salary.

Having signed a six-year contract worth £93m over the entirety of the agreement, Bale will have to hand over around five per cent to Stellar Group, who have offices in Britain, Africa and South America and represent 500 sportsmen and women from across the globe.

The principal negotiators in the deal were Stellar chairman Jonathan Barnett and David Manasseh, who has been Bale’s agent since he was 16.

Another Stellar employee who is almost a permanent fixture at Bale’s side is his minder and fixer Joshua Barnett, son of Jonathan, who has also moved to Madrid on a permanent basis, where he will live close to the player, his girlfriend Emma and daughter Alba Violet.

The timing of the deal, which Barnett senior, 63, claimed “was the most rewarding one I have had the pleasure of negotiating” is particularly welcome for Stellar, who are known to spare no expenses when it comes to doing business, with a private jet on stand-by for their blue-chip clients