"Ribéry belongs to Bayern and Bayern do not want to sell...I have to respect that. If they change their minds, it will be a different matter." - Florentino Perez, June 2009 ...which sounds an awful lot like he said Man Utd are a selling club, given they respected Bayern enough to not tap up Ribery, but were only to happy to tap up the Oily Rat.
PSV have held informal talks about club affiliation with Spurs, Bayern and Chelsea. On that subject, whatever happened to the rumours from a couple of years ago that we were entering a similar agreement with Roda JC?
No reason. But transfers happen. I don't see anyone expressing sympathy for AZ and condemning Spurs for signing the Dutch top scorer and "Talent of the Year" winner Vincent Janssen last year. They only got £17M too.
But thats not the point to be fair. Were we tapping Janssen up for at least a year? United wanted Berbatov and tapped him up cos thats how they operated in order to get the players they wanted...but then bitched and whined that we were difficult to deal with...so my question was - why should we just roll over?
They got relegated. Came back up at the first attempt, but they've struggled since. Barely avoided relegation again this season, nicking a play-off by a solitary goal to stay up.
Hargreaves is by far the most infuriating commentator. No real input and puts on a fake accent, then on top of that he sounds like an asthmatic auditioning for a gritty, Batman remake. **** off! Anger over What a goal that was from Mandzukic! Hope Buffon wins it.
Even though the tournament hasn't finished, Mandzukic won't be winning goal of the tournament - as they already awarded it to Ozil for his goal against Ludogorets. That makes sense...
I was rooting for Juve but great final. Modric really is some player isn't he. And fully out of superlatives for CR7
Same old Madrid always cheating. Refs need to get wise to this bollocks, it's a cop-out that they always seem to side with the player rolling around on the floor.
If you breath in Ramos ear too hard he will go down holding it, that said, I would like to see a camera angle that shows the feet.
Of all teams you should know what can happen late on in a final, even when you're getting twatted. No excuses for what Ramos did. Real Madrd were excellent second half but seeing that behaviour again in a final is the headline for me. It's cheating from the player and enabling from the ref who once again rewards it.
