Imagine an all-star team of footballers featuring the top names in the sport. Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Cesc Fabregas, Fernando Torres, Thierry Henry, Robinho and David Villa. Now imagine all of these players on the same team, Manchester City.
Before yesterday, that notion sounded ridiculous, but now that the Abu Dhabi United Group is in charge of […]
Tags: Abu Dhabi United Group · Cesc Fabregas · Cristiano Ronaldo · David Villa · Fernando Torres · Kaka · Manchester City · Manchester United · Premier League · Robinho · Thierry Henry · real madrid
Marca, the daily Spanish sports newspaper, is reporting that Real Madrid has accepted a £32.5 million bid for Robinho. The audacious bid by new Man City owners Abu Dhabi United Group was made at the last minute, and now we await whether Chelsea is willing to match or exceed the bid with less than 90 […]
Tags: Abu Dhabi United Group · David Villa · Dimitar Berbatov · Manchester City · Mario Gomez · Robinho · real madrid
I got up this morning expecting another tense, dull day to be spattered with the occasional factual transfer as the transfer window creaked shut getting excited about nothing much in particular. A day spent scouring the BBC and Sky Sports transfer vidi-printers and tutting at bored 14 year old’s just texting and e-mailing rubbish to […]
Tags: ADUG · DIC · David Villa · Dimitar Berbatov · Luka Modric · Manchester City · Manchester United · Robinho · Roman Pavlyuchenko · Vedran Corluka
Manchester City has placed bids to capture the signings of David Villa and Mario Gomez before the August transfer window deadline ends in less than six hours at midnight UK time.
“We have bids in for three players,” said Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim, head of the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG). “There is Berbatov, but there […]
Tags: Abu Dhabi United Group · David Villa · Dimitar Berbatov · Manchester City · Mario Gomez
And so the last of the quarter finals is upon us and of course this is the one with most needle involved. To say that there is a little bit of animosity between these two sides would be an understatement and it is 88 years since Spain beat Italy in a competitive fixture, way back in the […]
Tags: David Villa · Fernando Torres · Italy · Luca Toni · Spain · euro 2008
Raul will not take part in this summer’s European Championships after being told of his exclusion from the 23-man Spain squad chosen by coach Luis Aragones.
That means the responsibility of scoring goals will fall on the shoulders of Liverpool’s Fernando Torres, Valencia’s David Villa and Real Zaragoza’s Sergio Garcia, all of whom have the talent […]
Tags: David Villa · Fernando Torres · Luis Aragones · Raul · Sergio Garcia · Spain · euro 2008
