It’s a familiar story. Spanish giants Real Madrid want a player and spend most of the summer months hounding that player’s current club until they agree to sell said player. It has happened quite a few times between Los Blancos and Manchester United. Names like David Beckham, Gabriel Heinze, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Cristano Ronaldo […]

Posted on June 30th, 2015 by scott
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Kris Boyd has joined his first club Kilmarnock FC for his third spell at the Ayrshire club. But as he signed on at Rugby Park he chose to take some time to have a dig at former side Rangers, in particular current ‘Gers’ chairman Dave King. The Scottish striker said: “What I will say is that […]

Posted on June 30th, 2015 by scott
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It’s yet another week during this summer’s transfer window and Manchester United have been linked with yet another right-back. With Everton’s Seamus Coleman now supposedly topping their transfer wish-list after Dani Alves decided to remain at Barcelona and United decided not to follow up on their interest in now Liverpool bound Nathaniel Clyne. Going by […]

Posted on June 29th, 2015 by scott
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In fairness to Liverpool they haven’t sat back this summer after their disappointing end to last season. In the past few weeks they’ve announced the signings of Danny Ings, Adam Bogdan, James Milner and Roberto Firmino (subject to completing a medical). Reports today suggest that the Anfield club have agreed a £12.5m fee with Southampton for […]

Posted on June 26th, 2015 by scott
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It has been widely reported that recently relegated Hull City have agreed to sell striker Nikica Jelavic at a cut price fee of just £3m, as they attempt to lower their wage bill in the English Championship. The Croat has been linked with moves to Italian cracks Napoli and UAE outfit Al Ahli. Some media outlets […]

Posted on June 26th, 2015 by scott
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It’s sometimes easy for observers of Scottish football to forget that Celtic’s James Forrest is still only twenty-three. He seems to have been around forever, making his professional debut five years ago and scoring against Motherwell. Neil Lennon was the manager who handed a teenage Forrest his debut back in 2010, Lennon is now manager […]

Posted on June 25th, 2015 by scott
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On June 2006, nine years ago this month, Japan’s first true footballing son walked away from the game. The twenty-nine year old had just competed in his third World Cup and had managed to play in all of Japan’s group games, lasting the full ninety minutes on each occasion. In the 0-0 draw with Croatia […]

Posted on June 24th, 2015 by scott
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Liverpool are on the verge of completing a £29m move for Hoffenheim forward Roberto Firmino. Only a medical stands in the way of the deal being completed. The move to bring in the Brazilian international will be seen as the first major marquee signing that Liverpool need to make this summer to show their intent […]

Posted on June 24th, 2015 by scott
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We haven’t seen the back of June yet we already know Celtic’s starting point in their journey to reach next season’s lucrative Champions League group stages. The Scottish champions have been paired up with Icelandic champs Stjarnan in the second qualifying round of the Champions League. Those ties will take place in the middle of July. […]

Posted on June 23rd, 2015 by scott
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  The most popular sport in the world, soccer is played by people of almost every age, race, nationality and religion around the globe. Whether it’s a pickup game between 10-year-olds in the middle of Haiti or a Premier League game in Manchester, emotions and effort always run high, and every goal and stop is […]

Posted on June 22nd, 2015 by admin
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