One £50m move for a striker and the pressure is going to on, that’s a given. It’s the fee Chelsea paid Liverpool for Fernando Torres a little under two years ago and it’s fair to say the deal hasn’t worked out as well as many had hoped.
Many of us waste hours of our life on games such as Football Manager, thinking that we can do a better job than the current man at the helm of our local club (and a lot of the time we can).
Bill Shankly once said, “This city has two great teams, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves” and for the last decade Liverpool would seem to have had the majority of success over their bitter local rivals.
It is a sign that football has changed so much over the years that so few players are emerging from non-league football and making it ‘big’ anymore.
When it comes down to it, what happened regarding the John Terry “racism scandal” was not acceptable or should it have been tolerated, in arguably the “greatest league” in this modern age of football, this league has built its great name and reputation on being a non racist league which doesn’t tolerate any discrimination or racism.
Three Ballon d’Ors, and 177 goals in just 221 games for Barcelona, yet many people say that he can’t play without the talent of Xavi and Iniesta behind him.
FIFA 13 is now out and the perfect excuse to sell your old computer games, stock up on snacks and fully diverse yourself into Manager Mode on the game.
Manchester United have been busy in the transfer window this summer but so far, in the past two games against Everton and Fulham, there has been one new stand out man and he goes by the name of Shinji Kagawa.