Madrid bans 17 fans for anti-barca/Messi chants
Yay or Nay? This is what Barca's new home kit would look like.
Barcelona coach, Luis Enrique sets strict rules, players will be fined if they turn up late for matches
The new rules for players state that turning up late on Barcelona match days of Barcelona matches will attract a £300 fine. The amount will double to £600 and £1,200 for the second and third offences respectively. That’s not all! Turning up late for training, meetings or appointments will also attract a £150 fine
Real Madrid rejects Barcelona's bid for Angel di Maria.
FIFA upholds Barcelona's transfer ban, no signing of players till 2016.
Barcelona's Lionel Messi returns to training with a new haircut
Barcelona playmaker, Lionel Messi who returned to training a day ago is wearing a new haircut. Messi has really stepped up. The Argentine forward has joined other footballers who parade an array of bizarre or bold haircuts. Gone are the days when he would leave his hair dull, shapeless and at times dangling across his forehead.
The father of one has shaved the sides of his head and left the top intact. Can’t wait to read footie fans’ reactions to his new look when the season kicks off this month.
‘I would have been disappointed to see Luis Suarez go to Arsenal’- Steven Gerrard.
Steven Gerrard just made more enemies in Arsenal fans. The Liverpool captain reportedly told embattled Uruguayan striker, Luis Suarez that he was pleased with his decision to join Barcelona adding that an Arsenal move wouldn’t have been too good.
“His dream from the first day he came was to play for Real Madrid or Barcelona. Last summer when he was out in the cold and training on his own that’s the conversation I had with him. I said: ‘Don’t go to Arsenal. I would have been really sad and disappointed to see Luis go to Arsenal. With all due respect to them, I said to him that he was too good for Arsenal. I said if you score 30 goals for us and win the PFA player of the year, the press player of the year – I knew he was going to win them – I told him Real or Barcelona will come for you.”
He continued, “I’m disappointed to see him leave now but I am happy for him that’s he has got what he wants and deserves. Since day one he has been phenomenal in training every day and in the games. I think he got the wrong advice last year from people around him, from people saying he needed to play in the Champions League and it did not matter who it was for.
“I have experience of the Spanish clubs myself and I know if you play well they will come back and come back. I knew they’d be back for him as well. I just thought for his own sake, to get respect off the Liverpool fans, he had to give us at least one year. A lot of people might still think he should have given us one more, but my big dream was to play for Liverpool, and the foreign players’ big dream is to play for Real Madrid or Barcelona, that’s a fact.” He concluded.
Photo: Luis Suarez's barca jersey spotted in sports shop
Top 10 highest paid World Cup players+ their endorsement deals
And just in almost every football list. Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo lead the pack.
Below are top 10 highest paid World Cup stars and their endorsement deals.
(1) Lionel Messi – £292,000 (After Tax)- Endorsement deals- EA Sports, Adidas, Turkish Arilines, Gillette, Pepsi
(2) Ronaldo – £288,000 (after Tax)-Endorsement deals- Konami, Nike, Coca Cola, Castrol, herbalife, KFC, Armani, Emirates
(3) Wayne Rooney – £300,000 – Endorsement deals- Harper Collins, Nike, EA Sports, Coca-Cola
(4) Robin Van Persie – £250,000- Endorsement deals- Adidas, BT Sport, Pepsi
(5) Thiago Silva – £250,000 – Endorsement deal- Nike
(6) Yaya Toure – £240,000 – Endorsement deals – Puma, Ford
(7) Sergio Aguero – £230,000 – Endorsement deals- Puma, Pepsi
(8) Neymar – £230,000 – Endorsement deals – Nike, Volkswagon, Coca Cola
(9) Luis Suarez – £220,000 – Endorsement deal – Adidas
(10) David Silva – £200,000 – Endorsement deal – Nike