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June 17, 2025
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Salah is King

Some Salah records His contract with Liverpool will end this summer and PSG who are lurking nearby are offering...
English Premier League, Ligue 1, Soccer Business, Soccer Hall of Fame, Soccer Teams - Club

Is it over for Ten Hag?

At this point, Manchester United is beginning to look like the Boeing of the Premier League. When your owners...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Coaches & Coaching, Soccer Teams - Club

The lure of lucre

Miami may have got Messi but the Saudi League has much more moolah and many big names have followed...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

La Liga changes its name

La Liga has changed its name and logo ahead of the 2023/24 season.What was previously La Liga Santander (...
Soccer Business, Soccer Teams - Club

The Glazers put Man Utd up for sale

Jim Ratcliffe is amongst the front runners to buy out Man Utd Cristiano Ronaldo leaves. The Glazers put the...
Cristiano Ronaldo, English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Teams - Club

No football, no worries. Andrea Pirlo promotes Qatari tourism

Ever wonder what happened to Andrea Pirlo? “No football, no worries.” That’s the Qatari tourism branding Andrea Pirlo is...
Soccer Advertising, Soccer Business, Soccer Culture, Soccer Players, World Cup 2022

China’s football future in the red

Fernando Martins and Renato Augusto are two Brazilian stars who are on a growing list of players whose dreams...
Soccer Business, Soccer Teams - Club

Arsenal are first EPL Club to join the UN Climate Action Program

Arsenal are the first in the Premier League to join the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework. It means...
Soccer Business, Soccer Teams - Club

The Neymar Soap Opera

The soap opera regarding his much hyped transfer to PSG began in 2017. Details of those dramatic goings on...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

The effect of Trump’s trade war on the humble football boot

The humble football boot,despite its servile status,can cost a pretty packet when it happens to be made by Nike,Adidas...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players

Get Well, Sir Alex

It’s Fergie time, for real. As the former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson recovers from emergency surgery, we wish him a...
Soccer Business, Soccer Coaches & Coaching, Soccer Culture, Soccer Hall of Fame, Soccer Teams - Club

Everton rage as Moussa Sissoko dumps them last minute for Spurs

The Toffees were in pole position to sign Moussa Sissoko from Newcastle after dramatically upping their bid to $40m....
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Coaches & Coaching, Soccer Teams - Club

TV bonanza fuels EPL’s 2016 summer transfer spend past $1.5bn

Nothing captures the barbarians at the gate nature of capitalism as resoundingly as the English Premier League. You can...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Culture, Soccer Teams - Club

Jack Wilshere is moving to Bournemouth, Sissoko Everton bound?

Farewell to London! Sky Sports shows Jack Wilshere arriving at Bournemouth ahead of a medical. Crystal Palace, AS Roma,...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Coaches & Coaching, Soccer Teams - Club

Nasri departs for Sevilla, Gnabry to Bremen, and David Luiz returns to Chelsea!

He’s back! The transfer crescendo is 7 hours from abating. Which clubs will do last minute deals? Jack Wilshere...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Transfer news: Joe Hart to Torino, Jack Wilshere to Crystal Palace?

Transfer season winds down tomorrow and there has been plenty of activity ahead of the deadline. Joe Hart who...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Players

A closer look at Lucas Perez: Arsenal’s newest striker

He even looks Vardy-ish. At 27 years of age, Lucas Perez Martinez is no spring chicken. Nor is he...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Coaches & Coaching, Soccer Players

Arsenal finally sign Shkodran Mustafi to bolster defence as Lucas Perez joins attack

Shkodran Mustafi’s Arsenal entrance is a welcome sight. Fully a month after Per Mertesacker’s injury with Gabriel’s following a...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Coaches & Coaching, Soccer Players

Joao Havelange: FIFA dictator and World Cup globalist passes away

FIFA as an illiberal and corrupt kleptocracy? That is the legacy of Joao Havelange who ruled FIFA from 1974...
FIFA Corruption, Soccer Business, Soccer Politics, World Cup History

The many hairstyles of Paul Pogba

Paul Pogba has made the headlines with a record breaking £100million transfer from Juventus to Manchester United. The previous...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Fifa gets its first ever female secretary general

Fifa has appointed UN official Fatma Samoura to be its first ever female secretary general. She will replace Jerome...
FIFA Corruption, Soccer Business, Soccer Culture

Leo Messi bests Cristiano Ronaldo in financial valuation

Leo Messi and Barcelona are enduring a torrid time, with the club slumping to a fourth successive defeat which...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players

US Women’s lawsuit: Existing equal pay clauses not being enforced

A fitting analogy for the camps debating men and women soccer pay parity would be Wall St traders vs...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - National, Women's Soccer

Neymar to PSG on a record breaking fee?

How much will it cost Paris’s oil and natural gas rich club to lure Neymar from Barcelona? According to...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Skills, Soccer Teams - Club

Zaha Hadid designer of Qatar’s controversial World Cup stadium passes away

Angina over a vagina. The centerpiece of the 2022 World Cup is the Al Wakrah Stadium which looks like...
Soccer Business, Soccer Culture, World Cup 2022

Soccerblog supports pay parity for the US Women’s soccer team

We fully support the wage discrimination lawsuit filed by US Women soccer players Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Hope Solo,...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - National, Women's Soccer, Women's World Cup

Eden Hazard misses 10,000 cups

Eden Hazard has failed to hit the target this season.Not a single goal to his credit. He slipped from...
Soccer Advertising, Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Skills, Soccer Teams - Club

Soccerblog supports pay parity for the US Women’s soccer team

We fully support the wage discrimination suit filed by Megan Rapinoe, Hope Solo, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, and Becky...
Soccer Business, Soccer Teams - National, Women's Soccer, Women's World Cup

David De Gea’s Man Utd U turn shows a club a magnet for mercenaries

Sitting on the sidelines has its payoff! David De Gea has re-signed for Man Utd on a long term...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Don Garber’s statements talk more to parity than MLS competitiveness vis a vis Premier League

Don Garber’s recent allusion to the MLS is more competitive than the Premier League is based on the misapprehension...
English Premier League, MLS, Soccer Business, Soccer Culture, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Alex Song returns to the Hammers on loan and possible permanence

Alex Song, who’s been consigned to the dustbin of memories at Barca makes his return to the Boleyn Ground...
English Premier League, La Liga, Soccer Business, Soccer Players

David De Gea’s botched transfer: Now begins the blame game

Now begins the blame game: Real Madrid is rounding on the Manchester club and just issued a statement. After...
English Premier League, La Liga, Soccer Business, Soccer Players

Surreal: De Gea’s move is off as Real Madrid fails to meet transfer deadline

It’s all about time and clocks and deadlines. Marca is reporting the paperwork to register David De Gea at...
English Premier League, La Liga, Soccer Business, Soccer Players

The saga is over: David De Gea headed to Real Madrid

“I need a saga, what’s the saga? It’s songs for the deaf, you can’t even hear it.” QoTSA. So,...
English Premier League, Soccer Business

A closer look: Anthony Martial, 19 year old project on his way to Man Utd

When in doubt, spend, spend your way out of trouble. If it’s Man Utd and reports are to be...
English Premier League, Soccer Business

How is Man City ducking FFP while buying such expensive players?

With the impending arrival of Kevin De Bruyne, likely to cost them $91m making him the second most expensive...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Kevin De Bruyne is going to Man City

As Soccerblog had reported a week ago, the tea leaves were all there. Kevin De Bruyne is set to...
Bundesliga, English Premier League, Soccer Business

Mario Balotelli is back to AC Milan on a loan move

No, that’s not the Dow Jones or the FTSE 100. It’s the declining worth of Mario Balotelli (courtesy Transfermarkt)....
English Premier League, Serie A, Soccer Business, Soccer Players

2014 Forbes MLS valuation: Seattle Sounders are top club

Forbes 2014 valuation of the MLS illustrates the encouraging growth of the league with clubs averaging $157m in worth...
MLS, Soccer Business

Now for the big one: Kevin De Bruyne close to Man City move for $80m

Looks like this deal is going to go through days after that Wolfsburg pledge of allegiance taken by a...
Bundesliga, English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Players

Pedro set for Stamford Bridge move as Old Trafford stalls

Fast moving action as the transfer deadline gets closer. Pedro is set to be a Chelsea man as Man...
English Premier League, La Liga, Soccer Business, Soccer Teams - Club

Nicolas Otamendi reportedly to Man City is a done deal

I can see Blue Moon. The Valencia central defender is on his way to the Etihad for $50m and...
English Premier League, La Liga, Soccer Business, Soccer Players

Pedro nears move to Man Utd

Old Trafford is that a way? Ed Woodward is in Barca finalizing personal terms with Pedro. The Manchester club...
English Premier League, La Liga, Soccer Business, Soccer Players

Ebay launches new Cristiano Ronaldo bespoke headphones and speakers

Want headphones curated by CR7 made by Monster under his ROC LLL line and available on Ebay for pre-orders....
Soccer Business, Soccer Players

Cristiano Ronaldo in disguise and a fat suit entertains Madrid

Pretty cool. CR7 turns busker sporting a shaggy wig, beard, fat suit accompanied by a dog. He sets down...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players

It’s official: Sergio Ramos will be at Madrid till 2020

A new contract signed by Sergio Ramos will keep him at Real Madrid till July 2020. Not only that,...
La Liga, Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Arturo Vidal is officially a $39 million Bayern Munich signing

It’s official. Chile’s motoring box to box bad boy is a FC Hollywood signing for a sum of $39m...
Bundesliga, Soccer Business, Soccer Players

Man Utd transfer: Pedro could be arriving at Old Trafford

According to Marca.com, the Red Devils are offering $28m and with add-ons could rise to approx $35m for Pedro,...
English Premier League, La Liga, Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

L’Equipe reports Angel Di Maria is on his way to PSG

Angel Di Maria has been conspicuous with his absence from the Man Utd squad now touring the USA. Well,...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Players

Arturo Vidal close to a $44million transfer to Bayern Munich

The combative, box to box, heavily tattooed midfielder seen recently at the Copa America leading Chile to their maiden...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Skills, Soccer Teams - Club, Soccer Teams - National

Iker Casillas banished from Real Madrid to Porto

When is a transfer not a transfer? When the club’s CEO is Florentino Perez, who runs Real Madrid. The...
La Liga, Soccer Business, Soccer Culture, Soccer History, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club

Manchester City bails out Liverpool with mind numbing $76 million for Raheem Sterling

Greece should have just approached Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan for a debt write off and a bail...
English Premier League, Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Skills, Soccer Teams - Club

Barcelona set to get stronger..

Barcelona’s lethal trident of Messi,Suarez and and Neymar is going to get even more lethal with the addition of...
Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Skills, Soccer Teams - Club

Manchester United offers David De Gea and $35 million for Sergio Ramos

The transfer market is hotting up. This could be the season’s blockbuster deal if what AS.com reports is true....
Soccer Business, Soccer Players, Soccer Teams - Club
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