Two months after turning down
a £38m offer from Chinese club, Shanghai SIPG, Nigerian striker, Odion Ighalo has committed his future to Watford FC. The Super Eagles forward signed a 5
year-deal with the English club today. The 27 year-old scored 17 goals in 42 appearances in the
2015/2016 Premier League campaign.
New Argentina coach meets with Messi but Maradona thinks he won't rescind retirement decision.
football world is prevailing on Lionel Messi to rescind his decision to retire
from the Argentina National team, fellow compatriot, Diego Maradona doesn’t see
that happening. The phenomenal striker announced his retirement from international duty in June 2016 after missing a crucial penalty causing his country to lose to Chile in
the Copa America; their third major final defeat in many years.
the country’s head coach met with the football star in Spain to discuss his
future but details on what went down is yet to gain traction.
Federation days after calling time on his international career and Maradona
thinks the governing body has made matters worse.
to Bauza. This is my thinking. Maybe I’m wrong.”
going to Qatar. I’ve never seen such weak leadership. What
happened with Messi exposes what’s been going on for a lifetime. How is
it that the families of the [AFA] leaders are more comfortable than the
players?”
Gernot Rohr confirmed as Super Eagles’ new technical adviser
Fresh expressed satisfaction with the candidate.
“The committee was impressed with Mr.
Rohr’s profile and current activities for the German Football Federation (DFB),
so we invited him to Nigeria for exhaustive deliberations. “He was very
positive, showed great interest in the job and is ready and willing to live in
Nigeria.
He is also willing to work with indigenous Nigerian coaches and with
the committee and believes the Super Eagles can qualify for the 2018 FIFA World
Cup, which is very important to the NFF. He swayed the committee with his
calmness, good knowledge of the African terrain, focus and maturity.” Fresh said
Pelé's visit to Nigeria postponed.
Barcelona Vice-President hits out at UEFA over Messi and Suarez award snub
Vice-President, Jordi Mestre has expressed his disappointment at UEFA for
snubbing two of the club’s key players, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez in the
2016 European Player of the Year award list. The duo who played key roles in
the Blaugrana’s La Liga an Copa del Rey victories last season were placed
fourth and fifth in the poll. Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Antoine
Griezmann emerged the top three nominees.
interview on TV3 described the omission as scandalous: “It doesn’t seem the right
decision to me at all. I don’t know what criteria UEFA applied, with all
respect to the chosen winners, but I disagree [with the choices]. That our
players aren’t there, such as Suarez or Messi, is scandalous. The club are very
disappointed and angry.” He said.
Jose Mourinho proud of Man United's world record transfer fee for Paul Pogba
record transfer fee has raised not a few eyebrows but Jose Mourinho doesn’t
care whose ox is gored. The former Juventus player was reportedly snapped for
around $116 million surpassing the current transfer record of $112.2 million
Real Madrid paid Tottenham for Gareth Bale 3 years ago. The 23 year-old midfielder has flown into
Manchester for his medical and should be unveiled in the coming days.
the record with Gareth Bale or when they broke the record with Cristiano Ronaldo,
I think that was a world record too. When other people break records, I don’t
think it’s a reason to be sad. I think it’s a reason to be proud with the
dimension of the club that can do that and can attract players of this
dimension.
football is crazy, the market has become crazy. What you think this season is
crazy, you realise that three years later it’s not crazy any more. And I think
there are players that cost ten million that are super expensive because there
are players who are four hundred or five hundred thousand or one million. What
is expensive and what is not expensive in football, I don’t know any more. I
just know that he’s a big player that is going for sure to be important for a
big club like Man United. And I’m sure that every Man United fan around the
world will be proud to belong to such a big club.”
Thomas Vermaelen joins Roma
Roma have completed the signing of defender, Thommas Vermaelen on a season-long loan from Barcelona. The injury-plagued Belgian centre back who left Arsenal for Spain in the summer of 2014, made 21 appearances for the Spanish giants and netted once in the process.