Manchester City Stars Suffer Racial Abuse During Pre-season In Croatia

With the first-team off in America in their pre-season tour, Manchester City’s U-21 side were looking to continue in their winning ways in their pre-season training camp in Croatia, when racism reared its ugly head yet again. The incident happened during the U-21 side’s match against Croatian side HNK Rijeka in Novigrad, Croatia on Tuesday. The home side were leading 1-0, but the match was called off after 44 minutes after the visitors France U-19 international midfielder Seko Fofana was allegedly racially abused by an opponent.

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Manchester City Look To Wrap Up Mangala Signing - Why Manuel Pellegrini Must Go About His Transfer Business Carefully

Manchester City are believed to be in advanced talks to sign Eliaquim Mangala from Porto. The fee is in the region of £32million, according to BBC Sport.

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THREE Centre-Backs Who Could Replace David Luiz For Chelsea

Chelsea are a team who have been left with a sour taste in their mouth after the 2013/14 season ended trophyless for them, despite the return of 'The Special One'. Jose Mourinho is now more determined than ever to win a trophy and he is eyeing the big one: the Premier League title. So far the Portuguese manager has made some big steps in his pursuit of Premier League glory next season, as he has bought Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas. These are two great signings who will vastly improve Chelsea's attack. However, the club have also sold David Luiz, weakening their defence.

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Colombia International Reveals He Supports The Gunners - Why Arsenal Should Take The Striker's Plea More Seriously

Everywhere you turn there is a fresh rumour about a striker that Arsenal will sign this summer and it is becoming a bit of a pain to see so many linked and then turned away. Mario Balotelli was a constant feature in the press all over Europe, with many reports suggesting that the Italian was going to join the Gunners. Those particular rumours, however have died down.

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Why Manchester United Striker Will Excel Away From Old Trafford

This morning’s Daily Star reports that Javier Hernandez has been told he is free to leave Old Trafford this summer, after only making four league starts this season.

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Arsenal: Offload Vermaelen And Look To Sign France International

It is being reported in the Metro that David Moyes is keen on taking Arsenal's defender Thomas Vermaelen as a replacement for Nemanja Vidic who is leaving in the Summer.

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Striker On The Verge Of Chelsea Move - Player Report

When Chelsea fell to a 1-0 loss at FC Basel the other night it only strengthened in my mind that they need a new frontman. Samuel Eto'o looked hopeless when he was on the pitch, and then when he went off injured Fernando Torres was even worse, though he had just come back from injury. It's been a common theme this season, the strikers have been awful in everything they've done, so it cheered me up when I saw the Metro were reporting that my beloved Blues are on the verge of signing Jackson Martinez from Porto.

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Mourinho's return has not been overstated

With the recent retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho now has an unrivalled aura of respectability over any manager in the game today.

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Everything Chelsea fans need to know about Eliaquim Mangala - Scouting Report (Video)

There aren’t many countries that can rival the French in terms

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Spurs not signing Colombian forward

 

Incredibly the agent of Porto Striker Jackson Martinez has denied claims that there has been any contact from Tottenham in relation to the player.

This would validate hitherto unsubstantiated reports that

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Tottenham ready to raid Porto

For Porto it might just be time to start battening down the hatches and going into hibernation, given that they have already lost two of their key players and the transfer window has only just creaked open.

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Benfica's season crumbles (Video)

Portuguese side Benfica were enjoying a sensational season until a few weeks ago. Top of the league with an impressive record of 28 matches without defeat, they were also in the Europa League final to be contested against Chelsea. There was also the matter of the Portuguese Cup final in the balance and a potential treble had fans dreaming. However, the season was to end in disaster after it all went horribly wrong!

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Portugal provides much needed title drama

 It is fair to say this has not been a vintage year for title races across Europe's top leagues; with the premier division's in England, Germany, Spain and Italy all being as good as over long before this season was even in its closing stages whilst in France PSG have been on the brink of the title for much of the last month or so.

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Is Porto’s money making model the best route to follow?

There are several ways to run a football club, from Ajax’s youth policy to PSG’s short term policy of wanting instant success through buying talent from across the world. Perhaps the best example we have seen over the last decade is that of FC Porto.

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Classics from the archive: Paulo Futre (Video)

Atletico Madrid are enjoying one of their best seasons in recent memory and their Number 10, a certain Radamel Falcao, is a big reason.

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