ANGEL DI MARIA & RADAMEL FALCAO SHATTERED REAL MADRID DREAMS

The names Radamel Falcao & Angel Di Maria have sounded heavily all summer within the Spanish Football Sports media & particularly linked with Real Madrid. The first for his "obsessive desire" to play at Real Madrid & the latter for his wish to leave said Club. Connected fates, Real Madrid for both & the some representative Jorge Mendes who will play his part.

The end result, Falcao saw his dream

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REAL MADRID | 80M€ FOR JAMES RODRIGUEZ TOO MUCH ?

Is 80,000,000 € too much for a Football Player? Depends, Cristiano Ronaldo cost 96M€ & now everyone is in accorde that he was relatively "cheap". But what about Colombian International JAMES RODRIGUEZ? Real Madrid has paid Monaco close to 80M€ to have the 23 year old Football player whos only jump to fame so far has been his 6 goals in the last World Cup in Brazil. Too much?




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LIONEL MESSI HIGHEST INCOME GENERATOR IN WORLD FOOTBALL

French Sports magazine "France Football" has published the list of the "Best Income Generating Football Players", with FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi taking the Top spot with 41M€ ahead of Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo with 39,5M€. The difference is "peanuts" compared with third placed FC Barcelona player Neymar with 29M€, however this will be on the rise as many expect the Brazilian to

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REAL MADRID PLAYERS | MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL WHO´S THE FAIREST OFF THEM ALL.

Ex-Real Madrid Coach, now at Chelsea FC, Jose Mourinho commented to Esquire magazine that:

"Lots of times at Real Madrid, the players would be queuing in front of the mirror before the game while the referee waited for them in the tunnel".This was initially interpreted as a "dig in" towards some of his ex-players were the relationship between both ended tense in his last months at the Club. 

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FUNNY GUY NEYMAR | QUOTE OF THE WEEK

The arrival of Brazilian Neymar to Spain & concretely to FC Barcelona has had its collateral damage, in this case unprecedented for Barça. The fall & disappearance of a Barça President, Sandro Rosell,  & the formal accusation by the Spanish Anti-corruption Agency through Judge Ruz of possible tax evasion by Barça which the Club will have to appear in Court to prove its innocence. 

The storm

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FC BARCELONA REACHES 100 MILLION SOCIAL FANS

Spanish Football Club FC Barcelona has become the first Sporting Institution in World Sports to have reached 100.000.000 social media fans. The Club has thanked all its World followers via Twitter with the below image.A prize for the excellent work that the FC Barcelona Marketing department is doing to expand the Barça brand around the World. Just to remind, FC Barcelona is not just a Football

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FC BARCELONA PRESIDENT ROSELL RESIGNS - LEAVES THE PRESIDENCY

A few days back a post was uploaded here with the title "NEYMAR TRANSFER COMMISSIONS TIME BOMB | FC BARCELONA PAID 95M€ NOT 57M€ ?". Here was alerted the first signs of possible existing irregularities in the signing of Neymar by FC Barcelona this summer. There are indications of possible undefined commissions with an important difference between the said cost of 57,1M€ & the unofficial cost of

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LIONEL MESSI IS THE MOST VALUABLE FOOTBALL PLAYER IN WORLD SOCCER FOR 2013

A great way to get media coverage is to release studies that call the attention of everyone, especially news hungry media. Brazilian Sports Consultancy firm, "Pluri Consultoria", has released their report focusing on the "Most valuable Football - Soccer Player in the World" for 2013. The figures are debatable as the term "value" has been questioned & redefined by philosophers & economist for 000s

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FIFA - FRANCE FOOTBALL GOLDEN BALL 2013 | IS CRISTIANO RONALDO ALREADY THE WINNER ?

Tomorrow night we will have a new ( or renewed ) "King of World Football". FIFA-France Football will announce the winner of the "2013 FIFA Golden Ball Award" in Zurich in front of a "creme de la creme" audience from three candidates: Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich), Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona) & Cristiano Ronaldo ( Real Madrid ).Whoever of these three "Titans of Football" is proclaimed the winner,

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SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM PRESENTS NEW UNIFORM | MARKETING | FINANCE | POLITICS

The Spanish Football Federation presented today to a packed media audience the "new" uniform that the Spanish Football National Team will wear in the upcoming FIFA World Cup to be held in Brazil 2014. It´s an all red uniform which has been "sold" as a good luck omen for the current double European ( 2008/2012) & World Champions (2010) as Spain will attempt to make Football History if they manage

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FIFA POWER POLITICS | BLATTER vs CRISTIANO RONALDO | THE REAL STORY

The storm caused by FIFA President Blatter & his comments in reference to the question of who he preferred, Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, has been magnified & blown out beyond what simple outside Football observers would have expected. In fact no one knew in Spain that Blatter had spoke at the Oxford University forum until yesterday night. The comments took place on Friday & came to light 3 days

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MICROSOFT TO SPONSOR THE "NEW" REAL MADRID "SANTIAGO BERNABEU STADIUM" ?

This post is more for the Real Madrid followers outside of Spain. As you may already know the Spanish Football Club wants to modernize & put its current stadium well into the 21st Century. Like other Clubs around Europe ( Bayern Munich & Arsenal comes to mind ) Real Madrid wishes to expand their home ground & make their "Legendary Santiago Bernabeu Stadium" the crown jewel of the city of Madrid &

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REAL MADRID | MOST VALUABLE SPORTING CLUB IN THE WORLD

While the 91M€ signing by Spanish Football Club Real Madrid of Gareth Bale is still causing comment & opinion around the Sporting World, American prestige Financial magazine "Forbes" has released its "Top Valuable Sporting Clubs in the World"

Here is an extract from the Forbes article:


"Real Madrid is now worth $3.4 billion, according to my math, $100 million more than we valued  the Spanish

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