FIFA trashes historic mural
As Dallas prepares to welcome the 2026 FIFA World Cup, one of the city’s most iconic public artworks has...
Category: Soccer Business
Salah is King
Some Salah records His contract with Liverpool will end this summer and PSG who are lurking nearby are offering...
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...
The lure of lucre
Miami may have got Messi but the Saudi League has much more moolah and many big names have followed...
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 (...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Neymar Soap Opera
The soap opera regarding his much hyped transfer to PSG began in 2017. Details of those dramatic goings on...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...