Financial Fair Play? What is that? That appears to be the attitude of Paris Saint-Germain director of football Leonardo who says that his club will buy big again this summer.
PSG is closing in on its first Ligue 1 title in 19 years and after an impressive Champions League run, further spending is expected this summer from the club's Qatari owners ahead of another assault on the Champions League next season.
Over the weekend, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp insisted that Spurs will spend big in the summer
in a bid to take the club to the next level and hopefully cement a regular place in the Champions
League slots at the very least.
"Everything is in place for the club to keep progressing now, we've got a new training ground
coming, but when it comes down to it, you can have all the facilities in the world, but you have to
keep investing in players," Redknapp said.
Inter Milan star Wesley Sneijder has said he will not be pressured into making a decision over his future.
Sneijder is expected to leave Inter during the winter transfer window, after being embroiled in a contract dispute with a Italian side since September.
Galatasaray have had a bid accepted for Sneijder (rumored to be €7.
"We're going to be even richer! Even beyonder our wildest dreams!"
AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has confirmed that the club have agreed to sell Zlatan
Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva in a job-lot to Paris Saint-Germain for a combined €65 million
(£51.
"We're going to be even richer! Even beyonder our wildest dreams!"
AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has confirmed that the club have agreed to sell Zlatan
Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva in a job-lot to Paris Saint-Germain for a combined €65 million
(£51.
Gazzetta dello Sport Go Inter, but Genoa fan in serious condition before Coppa match a 38-year-old
(drunk?) fell to the ground hitting his head after scuffle with police officer. He is at the
Policlinico in serious condition. Mercato news: Moratti has thoughts of M'Villa, Lucas or Romulo
Pato, out for a month, Maxi Lopez steps up Juve – Guarin in 48 hours or there is Caceres as the
alternative.
Gazzetta dello Sport Inter Shout Nerazzurri beat Milan with a Milito goal are back in the scudetto
race Moratti: "Ranieri is a wise guy. Now we'll see about Tevez..." Juve are top on their own
Udinese stop as Genoa celebrate Lazio re-start Fiorentina down Tuttosport Juve Benefit Draw with
Cagliari but the Inter win sends them to the top alone.
Galatasaray has given Inter Milan midfielder Wesley Sneijder a deadline of 24 hours to decide if he wants to accept or reject the club's transfer offer.
"Sneijder will give us a response inside 24 hours, but in 99 percent of these cases the transfer negotiations are already done," Galatasaray director Bulent Tulun told Turkish radio station Radyospor, as quoted in the Gazzetta dello Sport.
Liverpool has made a bid for want away Inter playmaker Wesley Sneijder, Gazzetta dello Sport have claimed. The Milan-based paper has reported that the Premier League club has made a bid in the region of €10m for the Dutch international. The 28-year-old has been embroiled in a bitter contract dispute with the Nerazzurri after he refused to sign a new deal with reduced wages.
Former Argentina international Matias Almeyda has written an autobiography which is currently being serialised in Gazzetta dello Sport, in which the midfielder who is currently head coach at River Plate makes some fairly scandalous claims about the state of the inner machinations of Italian football,including intravenous doping, pandemic match-fixing and mafia intimidation.
Carlo Ancelotti was interviewed by La Gazzetta dello Sport while he attended the Elite Football
Club Coaches Forum at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland and, like every other time the man
with the world's most powerful eyebrow speaks, it turned out quite entertaining. And wonderfully
odd.
Chelsea boss Roberto di Matteo was spotted at the
Udinese-Juventus game yesterday in a match Sebastien Giovinco the
shortest player at Euro 2012 (that needed to be said!)- scored a brace. The Turin side went on to
win 4-1, sending them to the top of the Serie A table, despite the fact that Antonio
Conte's ten-month ban has forced him to sit out all their upcoming games.
That is correct. La Gazzetta dello Sport is reporting that the deal is virtually done. Antonio
Cassano will leave for Inter along with a €7 million check written for Massimo Moratti, Giampaolo
Pazzini will come the other way. Yes, it is a terrible deal. Yet, Cassano wanted to leave. That is
right. The player Milan [.
Fiorentina is in the midst of a none-too-small upheaval, ousting their head of personnel and
bringing in Vincenzo Montella as coach, with rumors of Stevan Jovetic's departure ever lingering.
However, they could be rendering all that a series of non-stories by shepherding in a frightening
new experiment; one which could give a glimpse into a football wasteland:
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Coach Montella has decided to implement a new code of
conduct to keep his players in check.
Coming off a disappointing 13th-place finish in Serie A last season and revamping the squad, new
Fiorentina manager is putting some structure into the lives of his players. And that means an end
to thigh tanning.
From Football Italia:
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Coach Montella has decided to implement a new code of
conduct to keep his players in check.
An Italian footballer accused of match-fixing has chained himself to the headquarters of the
Italian FA to protest against his three-year ban from the game. Former Siena defender Emanuele
Pesoli, now with Hellas Verona, took the drastic measure after an FA disciplinary committee handed
the ban to him on Friday.
Speculation is increasing in Italy that Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to invest in AC
Milan via the partially state-owned utility company Gazprom.
Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian Prime Minister, told the club's own TV station
he was willing to speak to potential investors, marking a distinct change in outlook from his
previous stance.
Genoa have emerged as contenders to sign Liverpool target Juan Manuel Vargas, according to Italian
newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.
Vargas, 28, has been made available for transfer by his club Fiorentina, and Liverpool boss Brendan
Rodgers has been tipped to make an offer for the Peru international, who can play in defence and
midfield.
Liverpool have received a boost in their pursuit of Juan Manuel Vargas after Fiorentina put the
Peru international up for sale.
Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport reports that Fiorentina have decided to part ways with
the 28-year-old, who is currently training on his own in Florence while his team-mates are away at
a pre-season camp in Moena.
AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani says the club will not make any further signings this
summer, despite being linked to Liverpool's Andy Carroll.
Pier Silvio Berlusconi, son of club owner Silvio Berlusconi, had acknowledged that he would love to
bring the 23-year-old to the San Siro - having seen him at Euro 2012.
"La Gazzetta dello Sport", realizó una caricatura del futbolista Mario Balotelli, que
enojo terriblemente al futbolista italiano, según dichos de su representante Mino Raiola.
En un comunicado oficial, el diario italiano salió a disculparse por la desafortunada viñeta:
"Decimos honestamente que no es la mejor viñeta de nuestro gran dibujante.
There were major fears of racism in Ukraine and Poland ahead of Euro 2012, but it turns out some
of the most egregious offenses have come from within the visiting players' own countries. Police in
England are investigating the racial abuse of Ashley Cole and Ashley Young on Twitter after the
pair failed to score in England's penalty shootout against Italy and around the same time, Italy's
best-selling sports paper, La Gazzetta dello Sport, decided to publish a cartoon depicting Mario
Balotelli as giant gorilla King Kong.
Maurizio Galdi, who follows football corruption for sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport, said
up to 12 Serie A sides, representing more than half the division's 20 teams, could be implicated.
"About 75 matches since 2009 are now being investigated and at the end of all this we could see
around 50 players sent for criminal trial," said Roberto Pelucchi, who also writes for the
paper
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AC Milan are set to send the midfielder back to England this summer after declining to make the
move permanent, forcing Dalglish's side to find him a new club.
Aquilani is on loan at San Siro from Liverpool and once he completes 25
League games this season, AC Milan will be forced to sign him outright for €6m.
Vicente Del Bosque will attempt to supply evidence for those opposed to coaches going through a
second World Cup cycle that success can indeed be achieved under those circumstances.
The Spanish national team manager reportedly signed a contract extension that will have him in
charge of La Furia Roja through the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
27.03.2012 - Con goles de Rashid Essa (´26 y ´74), Mariano Donda (´33
penal) y Juan Manuel Olivera (´67), Al Wasl venció (4-1) a Emirates (H.Matroushi ´74) en
el Zabeel Stadium por la 16º fecha de la Liga de Emiratos Árabes y se establece en el 5º puesto
(24 puntos) a 15 unidades del puntero Al Ain (39).
Brazilian play maker, Ronaldinho has been included in coach Mano Menezes preliminary squad for
the London Olympics games as one of the three senior players who could be given the chance to lead
Brazil to their maiden Olympic honour.
Other players also considered were Barcelona's Dani Alves, Chelsea's David Luiz, FC Porto's
Hulk, AC Milan's Thiago Silva and Inter Milan's Julio Cesar.
Her rumoured former fling once supposedly spoke of his super sized sexual adventures, so it was
only a matter of slow-news time until Raffaella Fico (Mario Balotelli's current girlfriend) spoke
out about her own partner preferences.
La Gazzetta dello Sport originally reports:
"Apart from Balotelli, I've only been with Cristiano Ronaldo.
Arriva +3, il settimanale del fantacalcista della Gazzetta dello Sport Dal 3 Marzo, in edicola ogni
settimana con la Gazzetta dello Sport, in concomitanza del primo anticipo di serie A (Sabato o
Venerdì eccezionalmente), arriva "+3", il settimanale dedicato a tutti giocatori di fantacalcio.
"+3" si propone di diventare un punto di riferimento per schierare al meglio la propria squadra e
puntare
Sport Italia by Simon Martin Published by I. B. Tauris August 2011, £22.50, ISBN: 9781845118204
If anyone had any doubt about sport's ability to warp society, Simon Martin's sumptuous Sport
Italia will leave them without arguments. A nation, remember, only since 1861; Italy has survived
its first one and a half centuries by following the path described in Benedict Anderson's
influential book, Imagined Communities – and sport has played an integral part in that.
It seem's their are alot of footie agents looking to jump on the PSG gravy-train now that the
club have more money than even Manchester City.
Former Chelsea manager Ancelotti told La Gazzetta dello Sport:
"I have received hundreds of phone calls from agents offering me players ever since I signed
with PSG.
Fascinating comments in the Mirror from former Chelsea boss, and new Paris Saint-Germain boss
Carlo Ancelotti about Fernando Torres.
PSG is owned by the Qatar Investment Authority and have money to spend. They are in the market
for a center forward and Ancelotti says that he has been offered many of Europe's top strikers
including Torres:
"I have received hundreds of phone calls from agents offering me players ever since I signed
with PSG.
Filthy stinking rich and proud of it, Paris St Germain are now loaded enough to bid for any
player on the planet, courtesy of the Qatar Investment Authority. And, according to new boss Carlo
Ancelotti, the agents of some of the Premier League's most high-profile strikers have been beating
down his door, looking to secure their clients a lucrative contract in the French capital.
Paris St. Germain's new manager Carlo Ancelotti claims that prolific Napoli Striker Edinson Cavani
is available for a move during the January transfer window. Cavani plays alongside Luis Suarez in
the Uruguay national team, and it appears that Napoli are willing to let him go despite handing him
a new 5-year contract last summer.
" Liberté, égalité, fraternité" or in this case more greenbacks for Zlatan
Gazzetta Dello Sport is reporting that the deal is in the bag and the Swede is expected to
arrive in Paris for a medical tomorrow after days of wrangling over personal terms. Ibrahimovic is
expected to earn €12m euros annually over a three year contract.
This is in such incredibly poor taste. Although the Gazzetta Dello Sport cartoonist explains
this as a clumsy attempt at humour, it reveals on a subconscious level how conflicted Italians are
towards Mario Balotelli. Besides how does a cartoon referencing a beleaguered King Kong sitting
atop the Empire State Building subsequently falling to his death make any connection to the Italian
domination of the English?
As each day passes, it seems more likely that the Mario Balotelli experiment at Manchester City will be coming to an end.
A.C. Milan is interested in making a bid for the the 23-year-old Italian, though according to a report from Italian publication Gazzetta Dello Sport, Manchester City are holding out for a £31 million transfer fee.
If you ever wondered why Serie A clubs are such big fans of Uefa's Financial Fair Play Rules, consider that over the last 17 years the patrons ofItaly‘s biggest clubs have ‘invested"€2.5 billion in Italian football, according to Gazzetta dello Sport.
Serie A's owners have to view FFP as a way to stop themselves from the reckless spending that has driven Italian football for almost two decades.
James Grossi writes from Toronto for The Shin Guardian
Bare quotes are always dangerous without context.
In what amounted to a vain attempt at researching the actual source of the attributed quotes,
only to discover that the Gazzetta Dello Sport website has a pay-wall – though it must be
admitted that comprehension would have been a problem anyways – the problem of what to make of
snippets from a player or manager who has been asked for their view on MLS has reared its head
again.
