After winning MLS Cup, earning a place in the Champions League and become the MLS equivalent of a SuperClub, the LA Galaxy had questions to answer at the end of 2011.
The possible departures of David Beckham, Juninho and the confirmed loss of Donovan Ricketts raised questions. Add to that the threat of extend loans from Landon Donovan and Robbie Keane, the Galaxy had quiet cause for concern.

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UEFA Power Rankings 7 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Below are my weekly power rankings for the top (8) clubs teams in UEFA. These rankings are a combination of their play in domestic and UEFA competitions.

The rankings haven't changed from the last (late January) as the top three remain the same.

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By FRANCO PANIZO

U.S. prospect Alfredo Morales has not seen the field for Hertha Berlin since October, but that will not stop him from making his first-ever start in the Bundesliga this coming weekend.

Morales is slated to start at right back in place of the suspended Christian Lell when Hertha faces Hannover 96, according to head coach Michael Skibbe.

All January 2012 English Premier League Transfers - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

You'll find the latest Premier League Transfers (January 2012) listed here. Archives for older transfer seasons are at the end of this page. For the latest transfer rumours and confirmed transfers for other leagues, see our football transfer lists page.

Que triste! It isn't a good week for fans of the US Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league. The board announced it would be "suspending play" this year due to complex legal issues involving a former club owner. This matters because some of the world's best female players ply their trade there including Abby Wambach, Marta, Alex Morgan and Hope Solo.

By Chris Wright

After completing his £4.2 million, three-year move to the French capital earlier in the week, former Chelsea centre-half Alex was officially unveiled by Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes yesterday.

Question is, what's he so worried about? I've got a sneaking suspicion that Leonardo's other hand may be straying 'south of the border' behind that there jersey.

Generation 2022: Al-Kass Under-17 International Cup Scouting Report is a post from: Just Football

Always on the lookout for new talent here at Just Football, we sent our man in Qatar to check out the inaugural Al-Kass International Under-17 tournament. A warm welcome to Raphael Nawari, who reports on a competition full of promising youngsters:

In a small secluded part of the world, the new stars of tomorrow are taking part in a newly formed tournament, which in years to come will be considered as one of the better known youth tournaments, rivalling the Milk Cup and others where the likes of Wayne Rooney, Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi have graced us with their precocious talents.

It's funny how the English media mock the quality of Major League Soccer, but guess where Premier League teams turned to this month to help their sides? Yep, MLS.

First we had the Galaxy's Landon Donovan going back to Everton on loan and then the NYRB's Thierry Henry returned to Arsenal, where he promptly scored the winner in their FA Cup tie against Leeds.

By FRANCO PANIZO

Mexico seemed ready to settle for a draw with Venezuela, but two late goals coming in a span of a minute lifted El Tri to a 3-1 victory over the South Americans.

Fielding a squad largely comprised of players competing for a spot on the Olympic qualifying team, the Mexicans won on Wednesday night courtesy of goals from Rafael Marquez Lugo and Oribe Peralta in the 88th and 89th minutes, respectively.

Shooting practice with Danny Morphine Ep.22 Spurs Spurned by Off The Post on Mixcloud What. A. Week. As if all the drama at Eastlands and United's training game at Arsenal wasn't enough, it's the Off The Post Podcast's 50th show! We can only assume the powers that be at Premier League HQ anticipated such a [.

Queens Park Rangers apparently can't afford Alex. Paris Saint-Germain, meanwhile, certainly can. I guess that solves that then, in my skewed mind at least.

A reunion?

The protracted transfer of Alex away from Chelsea drags on.

News today arrives in two parts.

Carlos Tevez will not be transferring to Paris Saint Germain. The French club from the capital Paris are now owned by a Qatari investment fund and have money aplenty. It was widely expected that they would be able to put together a financial package that would have been sufficient to entice the Argentine striker to come and join their mission to make PSG one of the leading players in European football.

The Los Angeles Galaxy will hold a press conference on Thursday after announcing that David Beckham has signed a two-year contract. Out of contract at the end of the 2011 season, Beckham was strongly linked with a move to Paris Saint-Germain in France's Ligue 1. "This was an important decision for me," Beckham said in a press statement.

In a game filled with attacking superstars, it was a pair of gritty defenders that decided the latest edition of El Clasico.

Carles Puyol and Eric Abidal turned around a 1-0 halftime deficit as Barcelona defeated eternal rivals Real Madrid, 2-1, at the Estadio Bernabeu in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey Wednesday.

David Beckham is staying put in LA. (Getty Images)

He's staying put.

The Los Angeles Galaxy announced today that they have reached an agreement with David Beckham on a new two-year deal.

Beckham turned down offers from French club Paris-Saint Germain, now backed by wealthy Qatari owners who dangled a reported 18-month, $17.

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.

I read a comment made by Carlo Ancelotti yesterday about possible transfer targets and when Fernando Torres' name came up I immediately thought bollocks!. I thought straight away that the press would make his comments out to be something that they aren't and when I woke up this morning I was proved right.

It's Monday, which means it's time for your Premiership Party! Maybe you'd be hopping a little higher on the streets today if you were a Swansea futbolita (pass the bread kindly now, love) but what's football if there are no upsets involved?

Still no players have arrived in the transfer window so far in January. Alan Pardew nicely positioned in the market place Newcastle are supposed to have gone back in for Paris-Saint Germain striker Mevlut Erding, but since that news broke earlier in the week, there has been nothing new on that front.

Si, una vez mas en Enero la IFFHS nos pone hacer corajes por su inverosímil clasificación, pero de todas formas se las traigo para que no se queden con la duda:

Top 25 mejores clubes de fútbol en el mundo por la IFFHS
(1ero Enero 2011 al 31 de Diciembre 2011)

1. (1.) FC Barcelona España/4 367,0
2.

Maradona may have been right when he questioned Leonardo's role at Paris Saint-Germain on French TV earlier this week. It seems he is now the club's Official Photographer! é uma piada, esses brasileiros! (it's a joke.. these Brazilians!)

The Original Ronaldo 'O Fenômeno' (without ego and all that guapo swag) visited the PSG training ground and facilities yesterday, where he was enthusiastically welcomed and embraced.

Goal: ‘Until my death they are going to talk to me about this' – Why ex-Newcastle star David Ginola will meet former Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier in...

Sores nearly two decades old still remain open for the ex-Paris Saint-Germain winger, and the constant barracking from his former national team boss has simply become too much

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Goal: ‘Until my death they are going to talk to me about this' – Why ex-Newcastle star David Ginola will meet former Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier in...

Sores nearly two decades old still remain open for the ex-Paris Saint-Germain winger, and the constant barracking from his former national team boss has simply become too much

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Goal: ‘Until my death they are going to talk to me about this' – Why ex-Newcastle star David Ginola will meet former Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier in...

Sores nearly two decades old still remain open for the ex-Paris Saint-Germain winger, and the constant barracking from his former national team boss has simply become too much

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Goal: ‘Until my death they are going to talk to me about this' – Why ex-Newcastle star David Ginola will meet former Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier in...

Sores nearly two decades old still remain open for the ex-Paris Saint-Germain winger, and the constant barracking from his former national team boss has simply become too much

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Goal: ‘Until my death they are going to talk to me about this' – Why ex-Newcastle star David Ginola will meet former Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier in...

Sores nearly two decades old still remain open for the ex-Paris Saint-Germain winger, and the constant barracking from his former national team boss has simply become too much

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Goal: ‘Until my death they are going to talk to me about this' – Why ex-Newcastle star David Ginola will meet former Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier in...

Sores nearly two decades old still remain open for the ex-Paris Saint-Germain winger, and the constant barracking from his former national team boss has simply become too much

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Goal: ‘Until my death they are going to talk to me about this' – Why ex-Newcastle star David Ginola will meet former Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier in...

Sores nearly two decades old still remain open for the ex-Paris Saint-Germain winger, and the constant barracking from his former national team boss has simply become too much

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Everybody's favourite Bullet Without Borders man, Maradona, has questioned Leonardo's role at Paris Saint-Germain, where he is currently the club's sporting director alongside coach Carlo Ancelotti. Maradona painfully complained that he doesn't understand this set-up which clearly translates to : "Why is Leonardo spared from those dreadful cake-cutting ceremonies Al Wasl puts me through?

It may have been called the Dubai Challenge and Massimo Ambrosini may have receive a rather extravagant trophy relative to the significance of the whole affair, but, there is no denying that the match played between Milan and Paris Saint-Germain was played more in the spirit of a friendly. Carlo Ancelotti, who took to the [.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is set to step up his pursuit of a new midfielder during the course of the January transfer window and has set his sights on Sunderland's Stephane Sessegnon, according to reports in The Metro.
Sessegnon has begun o play some of his best football for Sunderland since the arrival of new boss Martin O'Neil at the Stadium of Light.

After a week of unexplainable boat parties, posing awkwardly next to bird statues and unbearable training sessions over New Year's in Dubai, AC Milan finally had enough, screamed 'BASTA!' and took home the Emirates Cup last night.

It's always nice to win something even if it was only 1-0 thanks to Pato's goal.

So we've already seen the appearance of Toronto FC's schedule which has the Portland Timbers playing them, away, on May 12th. This also means that the full MLS schedule should be released very soon. All my surces and tips are telling me that it will be released tomorrow at 2:00PM EST. Regardless of time, if true, it would be a marked improvement over the schedule's release last year which was delayed well into February, if memory serves me right.

I hate fake transfer rumours. What I hate the most is how certain sites just brazenly and unashamedly lie and make up transfer 'stories' with the sole intention of conning people into reading them. Take today's daily transfer lie, for example: Sunderland's Stéphane Sessègnon.According to one London-based 'newspaper' Liverpool 'have joined Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille in the hunt' for

Why LA beats Paris for Beckham and Ablett lacked star quality but was still a man to look up to

For David Beckham, it came down to this: the challenge of trying to win the French league with Paris Saint-Germain did not hold the same allure as fighting for Serie A with AC Milan or La Liga with Real Madrid or the Premier League with Manchester United.

Liverpool is once again being linked with a move for talented young midfielder Ryad Boudebouz who was heavily linked with a switch to Anfield over the summer.
The 21-year-old impressed many with his superb performances for Sochaux last season and was reportedly close to leaving the Ligue 1 side in the summer but in was convinced by the clubs management to stay.

The news out of France on Tuesday morning is that David Beckham will not be signing a lucrative deal with Paris Saint-Germain. PSG are currently in Doha for a training camp, and have yet to confirm reports. The club announced on December 30th that former Chelsea manager Carlos Ancelotti would be replacing Antoine Kombouare as coach.

As they say in Italy... Felice Anno Nuovo! As you may know, AC Milan are now in Dubai for their training camp to escape the harsh winters in Europe and do fun things like run on the beach. Unfortunately, they didn't have time to eat grapes or get properly wasted over the New Year, although Robinho looks suspiciously capable of doing so!