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Barcelona have signed Turkey midfielder Arda Turan from Atletico Madrid for an initial fee of £24m. The Spanish champions said the deal for the 28-year-old could reach £29m with potential add-ons. Turan will not be able to play for the club until January as Barca are unable to register new …
Read More »Champions League Qualifier in less than 2 minutes
If you didn’t see B36 Torshavn of the Faroe Islands take on T.N.S. of Wales last night in the Champions League First Qualifying Round last night…I mean let’s be honest unless you lived in Torshavn why would you, then here is all you need to know.
Read More »Off season, what off season?
Just 24 days after Barcelona completed the treble with a 3-1 win over Juventus in the Champions League Final, European club Football started again last night with three Champions League Qualifying Round matches taking place and another one taking place tonight. Below are the results from yesterday’s matches. Team 1 …
Read More »Manchester City needing some of that Home Grown
Manchester City have a problem, a home grown problem. After the departures of Frank Lampard, James Milner, Micah Richards and Dedryck Boyata they have a serious shortage of the required “home grown” players needed in both the Premier League and the Champions League. For next season’s Premier League campaign they …
Read More »3000 Views and Counting…
As it’s a slow news day in the Football off season, it’s time for a shameless self congratulatory blog entry. I’ve been running the blog for the last two months now and can announce that I’ve broken 3000 page views, now by all means not a huge landmark or anything …
Read More »Could there only be 3 Champions League spots for England in 2016/17?
2014-15 was a disastrous campaign for English clubs in European competition. No Premier League side reached the quarterfinals of either the Champions League or the Europa League, which had a serious impact on England’s coefficient score. By this measure, England endured their worst European campaign in a decade. UEFA’s coefficient …
Read More »Sour grapes at Sky TV and price rises at BT
Managing director Barney Francis suggests BT have overspent wildly by revealing not a single European game has appeared in Sky’s top 40 matches The managing director of Sky Sports has sought to spoil BT Sport’s big Champions League launch by revealing ratings for the competition had plummeted since 2010. Barney …
Read More »Actually Thomas make that 2 trophies
UEFA have forced Barcelona defender Thomas Vermaelen to return his Champions League winners medal, due to a lack of appearances in the competition. According to UEFA rules, a player can only recieve a Champions League medal if he has appeared in the competition during the season. Thomas Vermaelen’s injury stricken …
Read More »Champions League Top Seeds Announced
Uefa have announced their top seeds for the 2015/16 Champions League Group Stages they are as follows: Barcelona Chelsea Bayern Munich Juventus Benfica Paris St Germain Zenit St Petersburg PSV Eindhoven Uefa have decided that only champions of the top 8 countries in terms of coefficients will be the top …
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