It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

By required field - 04 Jun 2015 08:47 - 4460 of 4461
Sorry but I can't understand a thing you're saying KidA.....

Gerrard's court case.

Cheers,
KidA

Documents 'show Fifa bribe payments'

Having spent the morning discussing and analysing last night's european football with some friends who reckon themselves to be serious footie fans, I think one wannabe in particular has really hit the nail on the head:

BT steps up pay-TV battle with European football offer

Gotta be careful about jokes about FIFA.....one of their bigwigs has just been fired, making one !.....

Gausie you doing one about rugby too ? :-)

Off to watch Wales smash Belgium this evening. Sell out crowd and hats off to the Welsh FA who have priced all tickets for home matches at £20 wherever your sat.

Kompany's banned and Fellani is injured so we just need to kick the crap out of Hazard in the first few minutes and we're in with a shout.

Seen us fall at the last hurdle numerous times since the mid seventies but this time we look nailed on even if we lose tonight.

See you all in France next year :-)

Well done Wales !.......impressive result !.....

The fans won that for them , awesome atmosphere best I've ever witnessed in Cardiff in my entire life including promotion night.

And hats off to the Belgian fans who created a party atmosphere in the city before the match and stood and applauded the Welsh team and supporters at the end of the match.

Rumour has it that when the next rankings are announced we are up to 11th , ahead of England and in pot 1 for the 2018 WC draw !

We are starting to run out of games to cock it up , maybe we'll actually qualify this time.

And for anyone on here (and there are plenty) who has ever called me a sheep shagger then when we took the lead and rocked the stadium with ..

"We know what we are
We know what we are
Sheep shagging ba*tards
We know what we are"

... you can see how hurtful your comments are :-)

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Well done the Women !....semi-finals !.....I reckon the final is a big possibility !.....

I think it's all down to their Welsh coach :-)

I agree he has been a resounding success, long may it continue. It's amazing he got the job in the first place as from what I've read he didn't meet much of the criteria required.
2517

A bit like the recent host countries of the World cup then!

England women so close to reaching the final in what was a fairly even game, although the Japanese women probably had more of the possession. Laura Bassett very unlucky to score a wicked own goal at the death.
2517

Japan got lucky imo, England had over 22 attempts on goal, hit the woodwork twice, wee bit more composure in the final third, would have won comfortably. Cruel end!

The FA

What a pleasure to watch, no spitting (that I saw), no rolling around on the pitch as if they had been hit by a Challenger tank, and no arguing with the ref.
2517

Sterling joins Manchester City for record fee

Roberto Martinez attacks Jose Mourinho over Chelsea's John Stones bid
Chelsea manager plans new move to sign defender as Everton boss hits out at London club's tactics


By Jeremy Wilson, Deputy Football Correspondent, Singapore1:11AM BST 18 Jul 2015 Comments32 Comments
Roberto Martinez has accused Jose Mourinho of operating beneath Everton’s standards after the Chelsea manager spoke publicly of his desire to buy John Stones.
Chelsea have already had a £20 million bid turned down by Everton for Stones, a 21-year-old England international who started for Martinez in Saturday’s 3-1 defeat against Arsenal in the final of the Barclays Asia Trophy.
Mourinho suggested on Saturday he would make a new bid despite Martinez having insisted that the player was not for sale.
Mourinho, who is in Montreal on Chelsea’s training camp, said: “At the moment they say: ‘We don’t accept this bid’. They don’t say: ‘We don’t accept bids; any bids’. While they say, ‘We don’t accept this bid’ until Sept 1, we can improve the bid: £1 more, £10 more, we can improve the bid.
“If one day Roberto Martinez or the chairman says: ‘He’s not for sale; we don’t accept any bid’, game over. So during this process, it’s clear, we don’t deny we made a bid for Stones. It means we are trying to buy.
“We made a bid, we can make it — it’s an open market until Sept 1. We didn’t make an offer on Sept 2 or in March or two days before we play against Everton. We are making the bid in the period we have to make it, which is the open market.”
Chelsea’s approach has echoes of their attempt to buy Wayne Rooney from Manchester United in 2013 and has clearly angered Martínez, who may feel that Mourinho is making a deliberate attempt to destabilise his player.
“I think one think is clear we pride ourselves in playing a certain way, educating our young players in a manner in which they will always attract attention from elsewhere, and that is a footballing compliment,” said Martinez.
“The other side is that another football club is making such a statement in the press so openly. I don't think that is the way we would do it at Everton. We wouldn't speak about a player that is at another club and there is no issue from our point of view. John Stones is an Everton player full stop.
“We are not a selling club in that respect. There is nothing to speak to John about. I always speak with the players but there is nothing to comment about. We are not a club who need to be worried about what other clubs put through the press.”



Despite Everton’s insistence that Stones is not for sale, Chelsea remain determined to make Stones the most expensive English defender in history. The current record is the £30 million that Manchester United paid Leeds United for Rio Ferdinand in 2002.
Stones, though, still has four years remaining on his contract and Everton will be well aware that there is likely to be competing interest from the two Manchester clubs. They are also adamant that it is in Stones’s best interests to stay and play regularly for Everton rather than face the prospect of being understudy at Chelsea to John Terry and Gary Cahill.
Everton are not under any financial pressure to sell and Martinez has made it clear that he would oppose the loss of such a key young player at any price.
“We are working to fulfil our potential,” said Martinez. “The last few years we have been very brave giving young players opportunities to develop and we will carry on doing that.” Martinez does not believe that the Stones situation impacted on his players in Singapore on Saturday but they were defensively suspect and ultimately well beaten by Arsenal.
Theo Walcott, Santi Cazorla and Mesut Ozil all scored as Arsenal surged into a 3-0 lead, only for Ross Barkley to score a late consolation to deny Petr Cech a clean sheet on his first outing as an Arsenal player.


Stones, Barklay, Coleman, Baines, McCarthy. Roberto you can complain as much as you like. Until the Everton board come out publicly and state any of the players above are not for sale in this transfer window so you can all foxtrot oscar. Open market.

The best comment from this article imo :-



The sooner the `top 4 clubs` are made to join a Euro super league the better . Let all the `sugar daddy` subsidised teams outbid each other for success .