This is how you get sacked as manager of Fiorentina, attack your own player! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIDvXXl5Bh4 According to (unconfirmed) reports in Florence, Ljajic told Delio Rossi (who has a disabled child): "You're more disabled than your son" Source - https://twitter.com/#!/...

It was generally accepted that Podolski was ready for a new challenge, German Journo Raphael Honigstein reported this months ago (if your on twitter I would recommend following him) and if you don't already suscribe to the Football Weekly podcast from the Guardian (best football podcast out there)

Guardiola to step down as Barca boss at the end of the season......now I wonder what will happen should Di Matteo not win the FA Cup, CL or get 4th spot... Taking a year off, but I suppose signing up to a £10m a season/4 year deal & being sacked (all that compensation) after 6 months because th...

All I know was the latest cut off for new season tickets for the reduced prices was Friday 13th at 5:00pm as I checked before getting mine a few days earlier

Look at the other side, with City beating Brum and Doncaster winning then Pompey will be relegated! How does this (particularly the latter result) help us? It doesn't, but it's a nice situation to happen. We have 2 games at home next against teams who have zero to play for who will be thinking abou...

Look at the other side, with City beating Brum and Doncaster winning then Pompey will be relegated!

It was injuries that ultimately finished Vicente at Valencia, he was out of action for around 2 years and in that time Silva and Mata came in. By the time he got somewhat fit he broke down again then when it seemed he was clear of his injuries he was out of contract and Valencia really didn't want t...

I would feel much better if we moved his wages to Vietnamese Dong or Algerian Dinar When I first mentioned the wage I did not put a currency, the 2nd is due to the source being a US website. The last I know for sure was the figure paid in GBP. It's not like I've seen a source quoting this £8.4m fro...

soggy biscuit US$?????

Only source I could find, still even converted to GBP is still more then the amount you had listed without a source.

I know for a fact he was on £11m at Inter and there is a very slim chance he would have taken a pay cut to join Real Madrid.

but that would make him the highest paid manager on the planet, insane. Mourinho is on between 13-15m a year No he is not. The figures were 'revealed' no so long ago on managers wages Mourhino is on £8.4m, Guardiola & Hiddink both on £6.3m, Mancini is on £5m and Ancelotti is on £4.9m Mark Hughe...

cmonurz but that would make him the highest paid manager on the planet, insane.

Mourinho is on between 13-15m a year

so Blanc wouldn't be

Messi is this generations grear but Maradona for 86 and what he did at Napoli (it would be like Everton winning a modern day league title) still edges it for me

FiNeRaIn Someone on the bolton forum said that Barcelona are having a minutes silence for him, fair play if true.

Mins silence before Sevilla Barca was for ex-Barca winger Estanislau Basora, former team-mate of Kubala & Cesar in 50s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estanislao_Basora

Italy would never have won the world cup if grosso hadn't dived against australia, or materazzi against france in the final for instance. :shock: Really? How about the Aussie that dived to get Materazzi sent off in that same game? Or the fact that Zidane head butted him in the chest in the final. D...

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Ups and Downs They'll give it to mourinho.

Please god.

England wouldn't pay his salary requirements (15m a year) and would he really want the hassle? The reason he wants out of Madrid is due to politics beside the scenes, why move to a job that would be exactly the same?

SouthDownsRoyal good thx for taking our money and winning nothing 10

You mean like everyone since Sir Alf, how many years of mourning has it now been? 46?

Gr8 record for the best country in the world

TBM But anyway, what if a club refuses to let their player leave? (can they legally do this?)

It's in the FIFA rulebook that clubs can't withhold players, I can't find the punishment at the moment but I can't imagine it's a slap on the wrist

If the Old Firm is being brought up as a hostile derby then we can add the superclassico (River vs Boca) or the Rome derby which can match them for hostility and general non gracious behaviour

They did the same with Bojan to Roma (was it Roma?) it's like a half-loan deal that if he turns out to be average Barcelona don't have to have him back, and if he's sensational they have the option to get him back. It's good business from their point of view. Actually after 2 years Barcelona have t...

As the journalists said on Sunday Supplement, if Terry was such a great captain why is it his Euro's was spent at home as England didn't qualify and he was relieved of the duties before the last World Cup.