Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is such a joker. The other day, he said Liverpool didn't want a place in the Europa League via the UEFA Fair Play league. Now it seems he said he was just joking, and that he would welcome Liverpool playing in the Europa League next season by any means necessary.
Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini is not a fan of the Uefa's Financial Fair Play Rules or the Premier League recent rules to curb spending. Mancini thinks that team owners should be able to spend whatever they want, whenever they want.
"If I am a rich man I want to spend all my money for my team; it's my job.
1. It's well known that Manchester City have money to throw around, but coppers aimed at Rio Ferdinand's eye is taking things a bit too far. Bound to fall foul of the Financial Fair Play regulations. 2. Fernando Torres is scoring goals and smiling. That makes at least one person at Stamford Bridge who's delighted [.
The 20 Premier League chairmen are meeting on Thursday with financial controls and their implementation top of the agenda. The league's shareholders are getting together for one of their regular meetings and club finances are set to dominate proceedings. UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules are on the horizon with European football's governing body wanting clubs to balance their books starting 2013-2014, and a number of Premier League teams want to introduce similar guidelines.
Arsene Wenger is one of the most fervent supporters of the new Financial Fair Play rules that are supposed to stop Clubs such as Man City, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain from gaining an unfair advantage over clubs that do not have billionaire sugar daddies. Wenger and Arsenal do stand to benefit from these rules as the Gunners are one of the best run clubs in the world, financially.
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ESPN - PL chiefs consider imposing Financial Fair Play
Premier League chairmen and chief executives are to hold talks over the financial future of the
division at the quarterly shareholders' meeting on Thursday.
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ESPN - PL chiefs consider imposing Financial Fair Play
Premier League chairmen and chief executives are to hold talks over the financial future of the
division at the quarterly shareholders' meeting on Thursday.
Wigan Athletic owner Dave Whelan claims that Manchester United is behind calls for Financial Fair
Play rules to be introduced to the Premier League. It's an obvious move by United to lessen the
power of their noisy neighbor as well ...
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A new report from Deloitte puts the figure for total spending in the Premier League since the
introduction of the transfer window (10 years ago) at a whopping £4.4 billion.
It'll come as little surprise that Chelsea come out on top as the top division's biggest
spenders, with the Blues spunking £673 million (of mainly Roman Abramovich's money) over the last
decade.
Fiorentina released a blistering statement tonight blaming "the arrogance" of Juventus and
Fulham for ruining the deal that they thought they had for Manchester United striker Dimitar
Berbatov.
The Manchester United striker had agreed terms with the Viola and flown out for a medical today,
but never turned up, instead flying to Munich.
Manchester City told to stump up for Martinez and Garcia - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
Roberto Mancini was vocal in the need for Manchester City to strengthen their squad in the
aftermath of his side's 2-2 draw with Liverpool on Sunday, but the Premier League champions will
not get any of their targets for cheap.
Roberto Mancini confirms Manchester City's intentions to buy - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
After Manchester City came back from behind twice to draw 2-2 with Liverpool on Sunday, Roberto
Mancini has confirmed that the club must buy new players before the end of the transfer window to
retain their Premier League title.
With less than 48 hours to go, Rob Freeman interrupts the Premier League Previews to bring the
first of three previews of the football league. In a break from tradition, the previews are mainly
predictionless, considering that most clubs won't finalise their squads until the transfer window
closes at the end of August.
Brendan Rodgers says he would have no issues with Liverpool qualifying for Europe via the Fair Play league next season. The Merseyside outfit is second behind Arsenal in the Premier League's disciplinary standings but the Gunners are expected to finish in the European places, meaning Liverpool would receive England's potential Fair Play spot.
German striker Miroslav Klose will no doubt get a Fair Play Award for his goodwill gesture last-night, however his team-mates and Lazio fans may not take to kindly to his goodwill gesture.
Having admitted to the hand-ball and the goal subsequently being disallowed, Lazio were thrashed 3-0 incidently at the former home of the Hand of God himself Maradona.
It seems that Michel Platini's statements of a few days ago are having an impact on the various
leagues in Europe, and the UEFA President has warned clubs, especially the top clubs who are
currently the most successful, that they need to balance their books or they will not be allowed
to compete in Europe.
It seems that Michel Platini's statements of a few days ago are having an impact on the various
leagues in Europe, and the UEFA President has warned clubs, especially the top clubs who are
currently the most successful, that they need to balance their books or they will not be allowed
to compete in Europe.
Los Xolos terminaron como el equipo mas anti-fair play de la temporada, asi como los Tigres fueron el equipo mas limpio del torneo, esta es la tabla completa.
Se llevo a cabo el Clásico 96 en la cancha del Tecnológico todo pintaba para que los de enfrente fueran por los 3 puntos y poner un pie en la Liguilla. Tigres como todos sabemos venia de una dolorosa derrota en Pachuca que los dejó prácticamente eliminados, como una vÃctima perfecta para ser escalón de los albiazules.
Le ganó la partida a Ferreti y VucetichSe entregó el Balón de Oro 2012 a lo mejor de lo mejor
del futbol mexicano dentro del Clausura 2012.
Este dÃa la Federación Mexicana de Futbol llevó a cabo la entrega del Balón de Oro 2012 a lo
mejor del futbol mexicano. Destaca lo obtenido por Santos Laguna, actual monarca de la liga.
Chelsea managed to just about beat Arsenal this weekend, but the front four of Torres, Mata, Hazard and Oscar cost around 125million, an amount which would send most teams bankrupt in double-quick time.
Arsene Wenger has always been at the forefront of promoting UEFA's call for Financial Fair Play and it seems that his Chelsea counterpart Roberto Di Matteo is in full agreement that the rules are neccessary to stop so many clubs going out of business.
This week on the du Nord Futbol Show podcast we tried (not very hard) to discuss UEFA's Financial Fair Play policy, but stopped ourselves knowing that there are people out there who can actually explain this like a pro.
So we turned to our Friend In Football Dave Laidig to give us a better understanding of how FFP works.
Well, turns out Michel is offering some accountability for his Financial Fair Play platform: no parting gifts. Clubs which have fallen afoul of the rules have not been allowed their prize money from last year; a tally which comes to 23 clubs. That's not quite a small number. And it includes Europa League winners Atletico [.
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho supports UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules, and he has warned the new breed of cash-rich clubs that difficult times lie ahead. Mourinho believes that it is Real Madrid's heritage, and that of other European giants, that will protect them club from any negative repercussions when the new regulations are applied.
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho supports UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules, and he  has warned
the new breed of cash-rich clubs that difficult times lie ahead.
Mourinho believes that it is Real Madrid's heritage, and that of other European giants, that
will protect them club from any negative repercussions when the new regulations are applied.
Does anyone remember Alex Song being a particularly disruptive, ill tempered, undisciplined
sort? Was he a wantaway? No, not really. These stories of him showing up late for practise and
mouthing off in the locker room could be a switch and bait from the real reasons. They were quite
well timed.
El fútbol mundial esta plagado de cosas nefastas, burlas, racismo, violencia y trampas; más en la Serie A italiana en la cual hay equipos que han estado involucrados con la mafia italiana apuestas y noticias de ese tipo. Por eso es sorprendente que en la misma liga italiana de repente aparezca el fair play, aunque vino de un alemán, un joven disciplinado que demostró que se puede jugar de manera correcta y no hay necesidad de echar mentiras.
Hulk has now left Porto to join Zenit St Petersburg. Before completing his transfer, he decided his
parting gift to the club could be a final goal and winding up every non-Porto fan in Portugal. With
Porto trailing 1-0 in Hulk's final match, a drop-ball restart after an injury which usually
protocol dictates should [.
Wenger defends financial fair play Yesterday a meeting was held, where all the 20 Premier League
clubs where various methods of implementing the upcoming financial fair play were suggested.
Although no final decision has been taken, most of the clubs are in favour of these rules. Arsene
Wenger, who is known to be a long [.
It would appear that Monsieur Platini's pet project is starting to have an effect. Financial
Fair Play, as it is known, seems to be causing some of our bigger clubs to start moving towards a
more sustainable business model.
We are all too well aware of the financial constraints under which Arsene Wenger has had to
operate for the last several seasons, in order to balance the books and to reduce the club's level
of debt.
Looks like Real are ready to ship Nuri Sahin over on a year loan move but are balking at
Arsenal's insistence that the contract include the possibility of buying him out on a permanent
deal at the end of the stay.
Real is playing it safe in case Sahin finds form and some of the other midfielders that he
slipped down the pecking order either leave, get injured, or don't play to par.
"We do not want to sell our players - so all the players who have contracts will stay here
unless we decide otherwise. We want to keep our best players. We have answered that in nearly 80%
of our press conferences and at some stage it has to stop, because the past has shown that this
question is useless.
It seemed to all and sundry that Dimitar Berbatov was on the cusp of joining Fiorentina
yesterday afternoon, with a three-year contract waiting for him on the boardroom table at the
Artemio Franchi as he flew in from Manchester.
However, it would appear that Berba had a sudden change of heart after touching down in Italy
somewhere, 'disappearing' from the airport despite Fiorentina having paid for his flight with
rumours abound that his agent had begun talks with both Juventus and Fulham while they were in
transit.
Berbatov's stubbornness could cost him a move - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
With the summer arrivals of Robin van Persie and Shinji Kagawa at Manchester United, the already
out-of-favour Dimitar Berbatov's time at Old Trafford is up. The Bulgarian frontman was forced to
watch-on from the sidelines for the majority of last term, and Sir Alex Ferguson is willing to sell
the attacker given the strength in depth at his disposal in attack.
What seemed like a done deal that would send Dimitar Berbatov from Manchester United's bench to
striker-desperate Fiorentina descended into farce on Wednesday. The result was Berbatov being
linked to Juventus and Fulham, and Fiorentina issuing an amazing press release condemning all
parties involved.
The ink is barely dry on Van Persie's contract, but that hasn't stopped Manchester Utd rooting
around to see what other players could bolster the squad. And so we have news of not another
signing, but another two signings. In the interest of column-inch fair play, the players in
question are not Lionel Messi and Ronaldo.
El futbolista Jozy Altidore juega en el AZ Alkmaar de la liga holandesa de fútbol, el viernes pasado decidió rendir tributó a las 26 vÃctimas de Newtown Connecticut.
El futbolista que forma parte de la selección de los Estados Unidos, escribió en sus zapatos de fútbol los 20 nombres de los niños y 6 maestros que fueron asesinados en la masacre de Newtown, Connecticut.
FC Nordsjaelland lost 2-5 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk, but the most talked about thing about the match was a goal Adriano scored at the score 1-0 for the Danes, when he picked up a ball that was supposed to be returned to the Danes after fair-play situation. Of course it is totally against the ideals of fair-play what Adriano did.
This is vintage Sylvie, Kickettes. Big hair, radioactive tan, leopard dress, bling. It just feels
right, doesn't it? Mrs. VDV attended the Global Gift Gala in Marbella, Spain Saturday night. Google
tells us that GGG is an international fundraising scheme that supports charities involving
children, women, and families.
