Overpaid Players in Italy

Overpaid Players in Italy

Mathieu Flamini (Milan) EUR 4.5 million   Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira (Juventus) 4.0   Christian Chivu (Internazionale) 3.5   Gianluca Zambrotta (Milan) 3.5   Vincenzo Iaquinta  (Juventus) 3.0   Marco Borriello (Roma) 3.0   Sulley Muntari (Internazionale) 2.0   Rodrigo Taddei (Roma) 1.6   Fabio Grosso (Juventus) 1.5   Luciano Zauri (Lazio) 1,2   Marco…

Top Five Transfers

Top Five Transfers this Summer (2011/2012)

Top five Soccer transfers this summer in Italy, England and Spain. Premier League 1) Sergio Aguero, 23, striker – from Atletico Madrid to Man City You get what you pay for. Manchester City paid a lot of money for Kun Aguero, but then they got a totally finished world class forward, a striker who can…

The new messi

The New Messi

“The New Messi” goes to Barcelona Football’s new prodigy, the nine-year Japanese described as  the “new Messi”  now Takefusa Kubo walks in the Argentina’s footsteps. The Ten year old left yesterday for Japan to move to Spain and play for Barcelona. – I want to reach the top of the club, he says. Barcelona does…

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End Of An Era

What a weekend… Spurs v City 1-5. United v Arsenal 8-2. For City this was this was a power demonstration. For Arsenal and Manchester United it was the end of an era. Arsenal is no longer playing at the same level as Manchester United. City’s offense seems  to be Spanish influenced. Diagonal serial, three little…

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Why We Loose

Sometimes you come over numbers that just says it all. Disregard that the team is in general weak and the lack of quality strikers and defenders. Sometimes statistics is the way to go. Arsenal Szczesny 16 PL-games from the start — Sagna 128 matches Vermaelen 39 matches Miquel 0 matches Jenkinson 0 matches — Frimpong…

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Same Old Arsenal

We have witnessed it for several seasons now, the tendency to focus on circumstances beyond their control and simply “feel sorry for themselves.” Earlier in this blog, I wrote the following will be a critical success factor for Arsenal’s  season: We may find it frustrating, but the mental strength remains the big question mark for…

Premier League's Top 9 Players to Watch

Premier League’s Top 9 Players to Watch During 2011/12

This list deals with players during the coming season that will be especially interesting to watch. It is not the same as the best players or even key players. But there are players who will have some sort of major importance during the season. The list, like all the lists are of course entirely subjective…