Everybody is expecting a summer of change at Real Madrid following last week’s elimination from the Champions League and the prospect of a season without a trophy. Club president Florentino Perez and chief executive Jose Angel Sanchez have some huge calls to make and if history is anything to go by, they’ll be making most
Blog – Marcotti’s Musings
Winning has two ancillary effects. On the one hand, it gives you sporting capital. Folks point to your record and are more likely to overlook a stumble or a bad decision. That, in turn, means you can be that little bit more daring and experimental, which is a good thing. On the other hand it
Lose two Clasicos at home in the space of four days and yeah, the sky will be falling. Especially when the defeats come against a Barcelona side that, despite being on course for a Treble, simply don’t look on a par with those of yesteryear. They’re on pace to win La Liga with 87 points,
It feels weird to start not with a game itself but with an attempted substitution that never came to pass, but this was the big talking point of the European weekend and there’s no escaping it. I’m talking, of course, about the end of extra time in the Carabao Cup final between Chelsea and Manchester
FIFA have banned Chelsea for a period of two transfer windows following violations of the Article 19 and Article 18b of the Regulation on the Transfers and Status of Players (RTSP). Here’s a Q&A to make sense of it… Q: Let’s see: so Chelsea won’t be able to sign anybody new until the 2020-21 season?
ESPN FC’s Craig Burley believes Manchester City showed another facet of their game by coming from behind in a gritty contest against Schalke. Following Atletico Madrid’s opener, ESPN FC’s Craig Burley and Alejandro Moreno saw a Juventus side that appeared ‘flustered and rattled.’ As European nights go, this one was not bad for the neutral.
On Monday, Juventus officially confirmed the signing of Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey as a free agent from July 1, 2019. Ramsey issued his own, understandably emotional, statement via Twitter. (Arsenal were somewhat less effusive.) Everybody knew it was coming but what most did not expect was the number reported by the BBC on Monday evening. They
Last week Arsenal boss Unai Emery came out and said something surprising “We cannot sign players where we have to make a payment… we can only make loan signings.” That’s not what you expect to hear from a club that is six points away from fourth place and is in danger of finishing outside the
I’m not sure that Roy Hodgson reinvented the wheel in leading Crystal Palace past Manchester City Saturday. Rather, the defeat reminds us that there’s a fairly basic blueprint you can use when facing Pep Guardiola and if things break your way and you execute well, you can be successful. Stay tight, deep and dense at
Juventus have won seven straight Serie A titles and appear well-placed for an eighth but on Friday, they welcome rivals Inter Milan to town for what promises to be an intense battle. Inter are back on the right track after years of mid-table difficulties and are currently third. The Derby d’Italia is one of Italy’s
I get it. Lions don’t compare themselves with humans: it says so in his Twitter bio. But lions still need to be fed and paid for and, crucially, they take up space. The prospect of Zlatan Ibrahimovic returning to Milan has been hailed as both “romantic” and “outside-the-box” thinking. It would obviously be the former,
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