5 Tips on How to Buy the Best Player in the World
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Here is a short guide to help you buy the best and most expensive player in the world. I know some of the steps here will be a little hard to achieve for smaller clubs but hey, let's keep it on the funny side.
1. Be a big football club. I'm sure Manchester City or that club from Uzbekistan that wanted Eto'o and also have Rivaldo would have paid even more to have C. Ronaldo but the fame and the history also help. Maybe the player is a fan of your club, that would also greatly help.
2. Have Florentino Perez in your board. He made the most expensive transfer in the world back in the beginning of the decade, buying Figo and Zidane, and now he has done the same with Kaka and Ronaldo. I really can't think of another player he could spend more on at this time.
3. You should have major plans for the future. And Real Madrid really has, building a new Galacticos team, playing the best football around and winning everything there is to win, but most importantly the UEFA Champions League.
4. Pay the release clause for Ronaldo. I guess this is the first step and the sum is not really that big if you consider how many shirt you will sell with his name. Only £170.
5. Buy him from a club at which he lost his interest. I guess Madrid is more appealing to the Portuguese player than Manchester. Maybe he wants a new challenge, or just more sun.
Posted by The Big Football 1:28 PM 0 comments
Labels: Champions League, Primera Division
Michael Owen transfers to Manchester United
Monday, July 6, 2009
A win win situation for Sir Alex Ferguson and maybe the last train for Michael Owen.
Here are some of the reactions from the football blog world after the transfer, mostly positive by the Man Utd blogs and angry by the Liverpool fans.
Photo evidence Michael Owen is infact Judas nice title.
The transfer in The Guardian
Desperation or a good move?
Owen will outscore Tevez at United completely
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Perez Did It
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Well it seems that Kaka joined Real Madrid in the first day of the transfer window and this is probably the first big transfer that I have seen that has gone through smoothly in years.
No big rumors, no promise to the fans that he will never leave AC Milan, just a very smooth transfer made by Florentino Perez who seems very keen to do what he has promised and he really has a great start.
27 years old and worth just under 70 euros here is the official presentation made by Real earlier today at Santiago Bernabeu.
Also on the official Real Madrid website you can already pre-order the new Kaka number 8 shirt. I'm sure there are many fans out there who want it and I'm also one of them, because I expect Real to again play the best football in the world next year as it did in the years of Zidane and his colleagues.
Posted by The Big Football 10:06 AM 0 comments
FC Barcelona against Manchester United in the Final
Thursday, May 7, 2009
I must first say that I am more of a tactical football fan than anythings else. The type of play Chelsea showed in the two legs against Barcelona, under Hiddink, was something I enjoyed. Knowing how to stop maybe the most spectacular team in the world is something that requires much planning and talent from the manager, and he managed to do it.
What made the difference in this game? Who knows, maybe the talent, maybe the referee, maybe luck. The most important reason is that Chelsea did not score when Barcelona had only 10 players and pushed forward, that is the difference between Manchester United, that had a killer counter-attack against Arsenal, and Chelsea. One in the final and one out from the semis.
We have now seen for sure that Barcelona are not the invincible armada everyone thought they were, with only one shoot on target in 90 minutes they must really fix what is wrong before the final and Pep Guardiola's lack of experience at top level might be decisive in a final against Sir Alex Ferguson, a living legend in modern football.
Oh yeah, I almost forgat, Man Utd also have Cristiano Ronaldo...
Posted by The Big Football 3:23 AM 2 comments
A Great Goal from Thierry Henry
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Just one of my favorite players in action, he makes football look so easy.
Posted by The Big Football 5:01 AM 2 comments
Speedlinking number 1
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Just to fire you up for tonight's most interesting game here are the highlights from the first leg, Manchester United - FC Porto. Let us see how this turns out.
And some other news:
- Find out about what will surely be a great transfer this summer on The Soccer Blog. It is argentinian midfielder Lucas Biglia.
- An interesting analysis of what drives us to play and watch football on The Run of Play. The Mystic Ball
- Remember Steve McLaren? Sure you do.
- Andrei Arshavin talking about his life, from Dirty Tackle.
- Marouanne Fellaini haircut? Studs up by Chris Toy.
Posted by The Big Football 5:03 AM 2 comments
5 Reasons predicting the Uefa Champions League Winner is still impossible
Thursday, April 9, 2009
After some impressive displays from Barcelona and Chelsea this week predicting the Winner of the UEFA Champions League is not getting any easier.
Here are the results I am commenting on:
Villarreal - Arsenal 1-1
Manchester United - FC Porto 2-2
FC Barcelona - Bayern Munich 4-0
FC Liverpool - Chelsea 1-3
1. Manchester United seemed to have the easiest job so far as they have a good road through to the final, but it wasn't nearly as easy as it seemed as they only managed a 2-2 at home against FC Porto.
After the draw of the quarter finals everyone saw Manchester already in the final, going past Porto and the winner from Villarreal and Arsenal should have been just a walk in the park for the Champions of Europe.
2. The best play was offered by Barcelona and Chelsea but they will meet in the semifinal.
It is clear that Barcelona played the best football in this week fixtures from the UEFA Chapions League when they crushed Bayern Munich 4-0 (and that at half time), the trick is they will have to play the team that showed no mercy in front of the goal and that was Chelsea. Liverpool was really expected to do a good performance, because they always manage that in Europe, but it seems that this year is not for them.
3. One of the small teams might win it, and the best example here is FC Porto, the club no one expected would be able to win in 2004, and now they had a great game against Manchaster in an away game, Villarreal is also a team that no one is watching and talking about and that is always an advantage
4. Playing very well in one round does not guarantee anything, ant that is what Liverpool have showed us after beating Real Madrid in such an impressive way last round, also Bayern scored 12 goals against Sporting Lisbon but that did not help them against Barcelona.
5. And the most important argument: it's Football, the ball is round and anyone can win.
Posted by The Big Football 10:48 AM 8 comments
