After Chelsea has refused to extend John Terry contract at the end of the season, West Ham seems to be interested to sign him to the club in the summer Brentwood Gazzette report. West Ham will move into the Olympic Stadium in the summer and want the veteran because of his experience in Europe's premier club competitions. [...]
Brazillian Authorities Freezes $50m Of Neymar Assets
Brazillian authorities freezes $50m of Neymar assets for evading tax payment between 2011 and 2013. The assets frozen are his jet, three companies, yacht and his bank accounts. Prosecutors accuse Neymar of setting up companies as fronts in order to pay a lower rate of tax. A Sao Paulo federal court rejected an appeal from Neymar, who denied any wrongdoing, last week over the [...]
Obafemi Martins Joins Chinese Shanghai Shenhua FC
Obafemi Martins has moved from Seattle Sounders to join Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua football club. According to BBC report the transfer deal worth several million dollar. Martins was linked with a move back to the Premier League in the January window, but British agent Tony Harris along with the player's attorney Soroosh Abdi brokered the deal taking the Super Eagle to [...]
EX-Bulgaria Defender Trifon Ivanov Dies At Age 50
The former Bulgaria Defender Trifon Ivanov dies at the age of 50. He died as a result of a heart attack, the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) confirmed the news on Saturday. "Trifon Ivanov will remain in the history of Bulgarian football as one of the best defenders we all mourn the loss of a true friend." He played for CSKA Sofia and Rapid Vienna football club and played [...]
Chelsea Ready To Sign PSG Player Blaise Matuidi
Chelsea searches for a new midfielder after the departure of Ramires to a Chinese football club Jiangsu Suning. According to L’Equipe the Blues are interested to sign Blaise Matuidi, a French international footballer and PSG central midfielder. Chelsea believe Matuidi would be a wonderful addition for the club as he is highly experienced and his playing style would be [...]
Onazi Writes Open Letter To Nigerians Reminding Them Of The 2013 AFCON Victory
Super Eagles deputy captain and the Lazio midfielder Ogeny Onazi, writes an open to Nigerians reminding them of the victory of the team three years ago. He also encouraged them to look towards a better future as the team prepares to improve in their performance. Read his write up below... Today makes it three years since we won the final of the 2013 AFCON at the FNB [...]
Sunday Oliseh Apologizes To Nigerians For Insulting Them
Nigeria coach Sunday Oliseh apologizes to Nigerians after his outburst on his YouTube channel on Sunday. He tendered an apology to the Nigeria Football Federation and fans for causing a scene. Tijani Babangida, a member of his backroom staff told Goal that the former national team captain has expressed regret at his action. “He just sent a letter of apology apologizing to [...]
Andy Murray And Wife Welcome A Baby Girl
Andy Murray wife kim, has given birth to a baby girl on Sunday night 7th of February 2016. This is the first child of the Tennis superstar and his wife. They were married in Murray's home town of Dunblane on April 11, 2015 and announced the pregnancy in the summer. The British No 1 after losing the Australian Open last month to Djokovic had this to say about his wife, “And [...]
Liverpool Boss Set To Return After Appendix Surgery
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp set to make a surprise return to Melwood on Monday morning after undergoing appendix surgery. The Reds boss, who was taken ill on Friday evening after training, was forced to miss the 2-2 home Premier League draw with Sunderland. It was expected the German would spend time away from the club to recover from his operation, with training on [...]
Ramires Scores On His Debut In Chinese Club, Jiangsu Suning
Former Chelsea player Ramires Santos, scores in China on his debut for Jiangsu Suning. The Brazilian midfielder left Chelsea for the Chinese Super League side at the end of the January transfer window for a £25 million fee. And while his former team-mates were toiling away at Vicarage Road, the 28-year-old was opening his account for his new employers in stunning fashion. [...]
Neymar And Father Charged Over Tax Evasion And Forgery Of Documents In Brazil
Neymar and his father, Barcelona President Josep Maria Bartomeu and his predecessor Sandro Rosell has been charged over tax evasion and forgery of documents in Brazil. Government prosecutors want the Barcelona player to be investigated over four charges of fraud. They claimed Neymar and his father Neymar da Silva Santos, set up companies as fronts in oder to pay lower rate. [...]
John Terry To End 17 Year Stint With Chelsea
John Terry will be leaving Chelsea at the end of the season after his contract with the club was not renewed. The former England skipper says he will not represent another English club but hopes to continue his playing career.The Chelsea captain confirmed this after yesterday match with MK Dons, he said ‘It’s a big season for me and I want to push on – not just in this [...]
Emenike Joins West Ham On Loan
Nigerian striker Emmanuel Emenike, has joined West Ham FC on loan until the end of the season with the option of a permanent deal. The player revealed he is delighted to be given the opportunity to finally work with Slaven Bilic. The club have paid a fee of £730,000 to sign the striker and could cost West Ham £8.1 million from Fenerbahce if the deal is made permanent. ‘I [...]
Djokovic Beats Murray To Win Sixth Australian Open
The world No 1 successfully defended his crown in his fifth consecutive Grand Slam final after pipping British No 1 Andy Murray to the title. The Serb wins the Australian Open champion for the sixth time, equaling Roy Emerson’s record and Djokovic also draws level with tennis greats Bjorn Borg and Rod Laver on 11 Grand Slam titles. He has now beaten Murray in 11 matches [...]
Angelique Kerber Beats Serena Williams To Win Her first Grand Slam
Angelique Kerber of Germany wins her first ever Grand Slam in the 2016 Australian Open , denying the world No 1 her seventh crown in Melbourne and the chance to pull level with Steffi Graf on 22 grand slam victories. She beat Serena Williams in Women's Australian Open with 6-4 3-6 6-4. According to the UK Guardian Kerber, seeded seventh, won 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in two hours and [...]
Arsenal Set To Make £61 Million Bid For Alvaro Morata
Arsene Wenger making moves to sign Juventus striker Alvaro Morata, according to Daily Mirror, Arsenal is set to make £61 million bid for the Juventus striker and are considering selling right-back Mathieu Debuchy to Aston Villa. Arsenal recent games have wasn't impressive, and the 0-0 draw at Stoke and 1-0 defeat at Chelsea represent the first time the Gunners have gone [...]
Chelsea Player Ramires Santos Moves To Chinese Football Club
Ramires Santos yesterday joined Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning in a permanent transfer. Chinese club Jiangsu Suning offered Chelsea Fc £25million, to sign the player this is £7million more than what Chelsea paid to signed Ramires Santos in 2010. Chelsea Fc confirmed this on their site that the 28-year-old departs Stamford Bridge after five-and-a-half years as a [...]
Chelsea Steward Sacked For Calling Cesc Fabregas ‘Snake’
Chelsea steward has been sacked for calling former Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas a 'snake'. The video of the incident surfaced online on Friday. In the video, the steward shouted You're a snake, 'you're Arsenal, after the steward then asked him 'What happened to you?' The video of the incident has gone viral on social network sites. The incident occurred earlier this season [...]
Arsene Wenger Warn His Defenders Against Diego Costa
Arsene Wenger mind is not at rest following Sunday clash between Arsenal and Chelsea. He has warned his defenders in advance to hold down Diego Costa when they confront him at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday. Arsene Wenger seek to break the four years barrier of Arsenal not securing a first league win over Chelsea in more than four years. Diego Costa, has scored five goals in [...]
Javier Mascherano Sentenced To Jail For Tax Fraud
Barcelona player Javier Mascherano has been sentenced to one-year in prison on Thursday for not paying €1.5m in taxes for 2011 and 2012 in Spain. He was also fined €800,000 (£611,000) and will not receive any tax benefits for a year . Mascherano is not expected to serve any time in jail, the prison sentence is expected to be replaced by another fine or dismissed [...]
Daniel Sturridge Future With Liverpool Is Uncertain
Liverpool Manager Jürgen Klopp is not happy over Daniel Sturridge struggle to make himself available. The player has not played since December 6, 2015, it has been from one injury to another. It seem his coach is running out of patience with him. According to Brentwood Gazette reports, West Ham is indicating interest to sign Daniel Sturridge as they prepare an £18million [...]
John Terry Express Confidence That He Can Still Play For Chelsea
Chelsea captain John Terry has expressed his confidence that he can still play very well for the club for two-three more years . His current deal with Chelsea will end this summer and wants a new contract with the club. Some people thinks is getting old and his legs are gone. But the 35 year-old player says he is still physically fit to play 'I’m still hungry. I want to win [...]
Chelsea To Sign Corinthians Striker Alexandre Pato Soon
Chelsea is interested to continue on a deal to sign Corinthians striker Alexandre Pato. Liverpool and Tottenham are also interested to sign the former AC Milan player, the deal might cost Chelsea £11m. The Blues are serious about the deal especially now that Diego Costa suffered an injury during 3-3 draw with Everton, though he did not suffer a fracture but Guus Hiddink [...]
Luiz Suarez: My Team Mates Laughs At My Inability To Score
Barcelona player Luiz Suarez has told reporters that his Barcelona team mates have been making fun of him for his inability to score so far in 2016. According to Goal.com Luiz Suarez says he had been the butt of Barcelona's dressing-room jokes for his failure to score in 2016 prior to Sunday's 6-0 thrashing of Athletic Bilbao. The Uruguay international took his tally to [...]
Guus Hiddick Appointed As The New Chelsea Football Club Manager
The owner of the football club Mr. Abramovich, has appionted Guus Hiddick to be the next coach for Chelsea football club. This happaned due to the under performance of Jose Mourinho, which led to his sack. On the verge of living the club Jose Mourinho said he was pleased to have retured to the club (Chelsea), winning him eight titles for the club, He later thanked his fans for [...]
Cristiano Ronaldo Becomes Real Madrid’s All Times Highest Scorer
It is Real Madrid vs Levante in the 8th game of the 2015/2016 season taking place in Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, at exactly 30 minutes of play, Cristiano Ronaldo picked a pass from Toni Kroos, cut in and latched a short into the back of the net to become the Real Madrid all times highest goal scorer in all competition in the history of Real Madrid FC. With this goal [...]
Cristiano Ronaldo Vs Albert Fantrau: True Story Or Hoax?
There is a popular story that have been going round on the internet for a while now. It is about a certain Albert Fantrau who the story claimed was responsible for Cristiano Ronaldo getting selected by one of his early teams and ultimately becoming the legend he is today. The story claimed that Albert scarified his own career to pave way for Ronaldo? Here it goes! “I have to [...]
A Single Tweet From Cristiano Ronaldo Is Worth $250,000
With more than one hundred million followers on Facebook, close to forty million followers on Twitter, and another thirty million on Instagram, Cristiano Ronaldo is probably the most followed person in the world on social media. You and I already know this fact but, what you may not really know is that a single tweet from Cristiano Ronaldo is worth a whooping $300,000, making [...]
How Obafemi Martins Transformed From Street Soccer To Inter Milan Overnight
By Jim Itoro - Anybody can become anything in life. I grew up some years back to see myself and family in a rented apartment built by Mr Martins in Lagos, the father of Obafemi Martins. He had about 7 children and Akinwunmi was the last male and attended Coker secondary school, I could vividly recall interacting and playing football with him in the compound,not once or [...]
How To Start A Football Club From Amateur And Grow To Professional
It's time to learn how to start a football club of your own for good reasons. Whether they call it football or soccer, the sport is the most popular of all sports in existence today. Considering the amount of money players are signed, how much the managers make, how much income that is being generated through advertisements and sales of branded materials by the football clubs, [...]
Ikechukwu Uche Joins Mexican Club Tigres UANL In A Three-Year Deal
Nigerian striker Ikechukwu Uche has announced an agreement to play for Mexican club Tigres UANL in a three-year deal. Uche, 31, announced via his official Twitter account that he had reached an agreement to play with the Liga MX side. Tigres are three-time champions of the Mexican top division and are looking to strengthen their attack as they hope to challenge for the league [...]
Serbia Wins U-20 World Cup, Defeats Brazil in Extra Time
Nemanja Maksimovic scored an 118th-minute goal on the counterattack to give Serbia a 2-1 victory over Brazil in extra time in the Under-20 World Cup final at North Harbour Stadium on Saturday. The game had been locked at 1-1 after 90 minutes, with Stanisa Mandic giving Serbia hope of their first title as an independent nation with 20 minutes remaining but Andreas Pereira [...]
Arturo Vidal, Arrested On Suspicion Of Drink Driving
Juventus Midfielder Arturo Vidal, has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving after smashing his Ferrari in a late night car crash. The Chilean midfielder was travelling home from a casino on a highway south of Santiago when he lost control of his vehicle causing extensive damage to the front and causing the airbags to deploy. Vidal, currently back in his home country [...]
Aliko Dangote, Reiterate His Desire To Buy Arsenal FC
Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, has reiterated his desire to buy Arsenal. The Nigerian billionaire failed in a bid to acquire a stake in the club in 2010 but is now worth nearly eight times as much, at £11.5bn. Stan Kroenke is the Gunners' majority shareholder with 66.64 percent of the club's parent company Arsenal Holdings plc, wile Russian-Uzbek Alisher Usmanov owns [...]
Swiss AG Discovers 53 Money-Laundering Cases In FIFA Probe
BERN, Switzerland — Switzerland's Attorney-General says banks have noted 53 possible money-laundering incidents in his investigation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests. Michael Lauber says the "suspicious bank relations" were reported within the framework of anti-money laundering regulations. He says he "does not exclude" interviewing FIFA President Sepp Blatter [...]
Juventus Book Champions League Final In Berlin With Barcelona
Alvaro Morata returned to haunt Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu as his goal sent the Champions League holders out of the tournament and put Juventus in the final. Juventus went into Wednesday's second leg of their semi-final at the Santiago Bernabeu holding a 2-1 advantage, but they were on the back foot throughout the first half in Madrid. Cristiano Ronaldo scored from [...]
Emmanuel Adebayor’s Brother Stole $50,000 Cartier Necklace And Sold It $1,000
The Tottenham Hotspur player, Emmanuel Adebayor made the revelation today on his Facebook page as part of his ongoing attack to the members of his family whom he claimed are not worth it. Read the story yourself and tell us what you think. SEA, here is another part of the story I have kept inside since. Today I feel the constant need to let it out. If I share my stories, it is [...]
Does Dangote Have The Cash To Buy Arsenal? – Etcetera Writes
You have sold some shares and you’ve got some money to spend. Now you want the ultimate: Your own football club. Hold on there, are you sure? Football clubs are a nightmare to run. In fact, almost two-thirds of premiership clubs have been in receivership at some point. Remember Portsmouth FC ploughed through four owners some seasons back and landed itself a debt of £60m and [...]
I Will Never Donate My Money To Africa – Floyd Mayweather
World highest paid Athlete Floyd Mayweather Jr, in an interview recorded some time last year declared that he would never donate any of his wealth to Africa. According to ThisAfrica the champion said that he would not donate to Africa because he believes Africa has not done anything for him or for his family. Although his statement might sound callous we would like to applaud [...]
You Are A Liar! Sister Tells Emmanuel Adebayor
Two days after Tottenham Hotspur striker Emmanuel Adebayor posted a detailed rant on social media in which he specifically accused his entire family members of among other issues, extortion, theft and spreading false rumours about him, now one of the 31 year old’s siblings has responded with almost equal venom. Lucia, whom Adebayor claimed in the 477 word post, “keeps telling [...]