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Murinho with mind on resignation

on August 24, 2011 None comments

This week, the words regarding the scandal about gesture and reactions from the last game between Real Madrid and Barcelona kept flowing. The one most affected about everything seems to be Jose Murinho, Real’s manager.

Bothered that he was no support by Real in the war with Barcelona, ​​the Portuguese manager wanted to announce his resignation. Its spokesman and the club removed rumor.

Murinho is feeling alone against all in an ugly war waged on all fronts with rivals Barcelona. The storm struck the after the scandal from the final leg of Spanish Super Cup and, especially, after the club’s position in the whole thing got in the Portuguese manager mind the idea of leaving the Spanish club.

“Jose doesn’t feel supported by his bosses and got in mind the idea of leaving. He intends to announce a press conference to make his resignation public.“ is a statement by Eladio Parames, Mourinho’s spokesman.

But Murinho shows once again that he is a real player. Hours after, the same spokesman came in front and denied his first words saying that it weren’t actually Murinho’s words. So, Real still has one of the best coach on it’s bench.

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Kaka, lost on Real’s bench

on August 23, 2011 None comments

Time flies and stars lose their ability to shine. A star of Real Madrid is passing through the darkest period of his career. Nobody wants him on the team, but management refuses to sell it. I am talking here about an exquisite player, another Brazilian product, Kaka.

Kaka played just a third of the minutes played of Real Madrid this summer, and Mourinho has left to understand that he does not need him this season. Spanish media writes about him being “is a reserve for the reserves”, a former Golden Ball player that entered in a black hole of his career, a deep one from he is struggle to get out.

Injuries often kept him away from the field, and now he is no longer an option for the first team. But the Brazilian nightmare doesn’t stop here. Mourinho says he is free to leave, but management refuses to let him go. Real’s president names him as the second most important name from his new mandate and that Kaka is still bringing profit for Real in the marketing domain.

Meanwhile, Milan are trying to persuade the Spanish to let him return back to Italy, where he had the best performance of his career.

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Barcelona’s dream team

on August 23, 2011 None comments

Barcelona presented this year team in the Gamper Trophy in the game against the Italian team Napoli. The Catalans have made a real show and won 5-0 in front of 78,000 spectators, wanting for everyone to see that they are one of the best team in the world.

The party started with the new acquisition of Barcelona, ​​Cesc Fabregas. The midfielder from Arsenal scored, in minute 26, completing a pass coming from Adriano. Keita, Pedro and a double from  Messi (67 and 77) have made the Catalan fans to wait for their next season as favorites to dominate European football.

FC Barcelona: Pinto, Montoya, Fontás, Piqué, Adriano, Keita, Thiago, Iniesta, Kiko Femenía, Cesc, Villa.

Substitutes: Dos Santos, Abidal, Bartra, Sergio Busquets, Xavi, Sergi Roberto, Cuenca, Messi, Pedro

Napoli: De Sanctis, Campagnaro, Cannavaro, Britos, Maggio, Dzemali, Inler, Dossena, Lavezzi, Hamsik, Cavani.

Substitutes: Rosati, Grava, Arónica, Victor Ruíz, Donadel, Lucarelli, Zuñiga, Santana, Mascara.

The match was the last opportunity for Guardiola and Mazzarri to see how the team is working before the start of the new season. And, after this game, we all can say that, it’s working just fine. Let the goals flow!

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Murinho blames Casillias

on August 23, 2011 None comments

On a time when good results stop to appear for Real Madrid, Jose Murinho is haunting for heads. His first victim seems to be Real’s goalkeeper, Iker Casillias. All these started after they lost the Spanish Super Cup against their old time rivals, FC Barcelona.

Mourinho was upset about Casillas lack of action in the Super Cup with Barcelona, especially in the tense moments at the end of the return game.

According to the press in Spain, Mourinho would seen Casillas’s moments of weakness, a thing that frustrated the Portuguese coach.

This wouldn’t be the first time when Casillas got into his coach bad eyes. Last year, Mourinho even wanted to take his captain armband, after some consecutive mistakes done during the championship.

Once again, Murinho shows that he is a coach very hard to satisfy. The only questions remaining are that Murinho is searching for guilty persons for the latest failures? Does he feel that his position is threatened? A club like Real Madrid which invested a lot in transferring new players, wants positive results for their investment and for now, they didn’t got any.

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Anzhi takes all

on August 22, 2011 None comments

Russia is a big country famous for vodka, KGB and other things. But now, they are coming strong from behind in the football domain trough a team that started to buy all the stars from the top teams in Europe.

For the moment, Anzhi’s next target is Dani Alves, the Brazilian defender from Barcelona, for who is willing to pay between 35 and 40 million euros. Russians try to attract Guardiola’s player with a salary of 15 million per year, 5 less than actually they are giving Eto’o.

Suleiman Kerimov, the sponsor of Anzhi, ranks in the top 118 richest people in the world. At Anzhi also plays Roberto Carlos, Yuriy Zhirkov and they recently signed with Inter’s striker, Samuel Eto’o which is the the highest paid player in the world with a salary of 20 million euros per year!

The only inconvenient in Dani Alves case is that he has a contract with Barca until 2015 and has a termination clause of 150 million euros, which decreases with 25 million euros from season to season.

If they will pay so Alves could play for them, they could be an important opponent for a lot of teams. Though, Barcelona is an important team and Alves is a key player in their game so a move it’s almost impossible.

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