May 11, 2017
Why a Manuel Lanzini West Ham shirt is among Lionel Messi’s star-studded collection
There was a mixture of bewilderment and amusement when Lionel Messi revealed his vast football shirt collection.
Brondby fined over fans who threw dead rats at Copenhagen players in dirty derby clash
Brondby fans who threw three dead rats at opposing players during a game have earned their club a 150,000-kroner (£17,000) fine from the Danish football federation.
The Ministry of Youth and Sports has released a list of committee members for Elections into the National Sports Federations.
Each Federation will have a Chairman and two other electoral committee members during the elections.
Andy Murray’s woes continued on Friday as the world number one fell to another straight-sets defeat to Borna Coric at the Madrid Open.
I’ll stay at Manchester United next season if I get more playing time- Rooney
Wayne Rooney insists he wants to stay at Manchester United next season, but only if he can play regularly.
The England captain, 31, has been a bit part player under manager Jose Mourinho this season and is expected to leave the club in the summer.
But he said at a press conference for Thursday night’s Europa League semi-final second leg against Celta Vigo: ‘I’ve been at this club 13 years and I want to play football.’
Asked if he wants to continue at United, Rooney added: ‘Of course. Of course you want to play. You want to play every game.
‘Sometimes that’s football and I’ve had to keep working and try to take my chance.
‘That’s what I’ve done. When called upon I’ll try my best to help the team.
‘I think football changes. You have different challenges in your career. This season I haven’t played as much as I would have liked to.
‘But I’ve tried to help the team on the pitch and off the pitch. I haven’t thrown my toys out of the pram but I’m a football player and I want to play football. The more I play, the better, and the more I feel I can help the team.’
Recently the United captain has been linked with a move away from old Trafford as it seems age is catching up with him.
Ibrahimovic will play for a long time after this surgery- Knee specialist Dr Freddie Fu
Dr Freddie Fu, the Surgeon at the University of Pittsburgh’s Medical Center who was called upon to repair the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments damage to Zlatan’s knee has given his latest patient a glowing report has expressed complete confidence that the United striker would return to the game and will keep playing for a long time until he decides to call it quit.
I can’t discuss too many details, I don’t want to get in trouble with Manchester United,’ said Fu in the South China Morning Post.
‘But I can tell you he’s in superb shape in all things. Healthy morphology, the quality of the bone and muscle, everything is as good as you can possibly see’
‘He’s one of the top athletes I’ve ever touched, he is in superb shape.’
There had been fears that Ibrahimovic would be forced into retirement, given the nature of the injury and the fact that he is already 35 but Dr. Fu has said the player nor his agent has nothing to fear regarding the knee. Fu agreed with agent Mino Raiola that his knee ligaments are so strong that the doctor wants to look at them again when his career does finally end.
‘Sure, in the future absolutely, when he’s retired,’ said Fu.
‘But he can still play for many years, he’s so healthy, so strong, biologically, bone morphology, everything, is absolutely very healthy.’
Fu, who says he has operated on 20,000 knees in his career, posed with the Swedish striker after the surgery, with Ibrahimovic presenting his surgeon with a signed Manchester United shirt.
The message read: ‘To Freddie Fu! Keep doing your great work and magic! With love and success! Thank you for everything!’.
When two Elephants clash…like Cristiano Ronaldo and Fernando Torres did on Champions League night, insults filled the air like trees uprooted and devastation was left in its wake.
According to a book published in Germany; The Dirty Business of Football earlier this week it revealed evidence meaning Raiola was paid £22.8m from the transfer fee alone as well as a further £16.39m in fees from Manchester United and £2.2m from Pogba.
The evidence presented appears to be supported by a statement Juventus made to the Italian stock exchange last August.
The statement confirmed that a significant chunk of the money was not being paid to the club. It said: ‘An agreement has been finalised with Manchester United for a consideration of €105m. The economic effect is positive for about €72.6m, net of solidarity subsidy and auxiliary expenses.’
Sportsmail revealed on Tuesday how Raiola negotiated an astonishing deal with Juventus when he took a then 19-year-old Pogba from United to Turin in August 2012. Because signing Pogba had cost Juventus only £1.5m, in the event of a future move they agreed to pay Raiola 50 per cent of everything over a figure of around £40m.
When asked specifically if it was paid by Juventus, he said: ‘No, not in the way that you’re saying it. I have to see how I can phrase this in a way that Juventus cannot tackle me through the law, let’s say. Hmm. How can I say it? (Long pause) Yes: in this deal Juventus was not the only owner of the player’s rights.’
He was then asked if that was not therefore a breach of third party ownership rules, given that it was banned. ‘Not then,’ said Raiola in reference to the fact that he struck the deal with Juventus in 2012. ‘Only afterwards.’
He admitted that before 2015, when the new ruling was introduced by FIFA, he did have stakes in some players. ‘Not often, but sometimes,’ he said.