Nigerian defender Joseph Yobo has completed his season-long loan move from English Premier League side Everton to top Turkish side Fenerbahce. The deal, which includes the option to make the transfer permanent when the loan ends next summer, was completed yesterday afternoon ahead of the closure of the Turkish transfer window, after the 29-year-old agreed [...]
All of United’s players from the first-team through to the Academy are eligible to play in the Premier League this season after the Reds submitted squad details for the 2010/11 campaign. Sir Alex Ferguson and his fellow top-flight managers had until 17:00 BST on 1 September to submit a squad of 25 players (plus an [...]
Tottenham new boy Rafael van der Vaart has declared he is ready to show the quality to rubbish reports he is a Real Madrid failure. Spurs pulled off the shock signing of the Netherlands international at the end of the summer transfer window. After falling behind Kaka, Sergio Canales and Mesut Oezil in the Madrid [...]
Amodu asks NFF to apologise over Lagerback Former Super Eagles manager, Shuaibu Amodu, yesterday, urged the Nigeria Football Federation to apologize to Nigerians for hiring his successor, Lars Lagerback. Lagerback took over from Amodu months before the Mundial, and led Nigeria to a first round crash, and has not returned to the country after the [...]
Germany became the first host nation to lift the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup as an early goal from their penalty-box princess, Alexandra Popp, and a late own goal earned them a 2-0 victory over Nigeria’s Flaconets who showed class in defeat. The early minute goal did not affect their positional play and total confidence [...]
Nigeria’s performance at the just ended World Cup has been reflected in the ranking of all the teams that participated at the Mundial by FIFA. In a release by the world football governing body, Nigeria came a distant 27th position out of the 32 teams that participated. Other African teams at the tournament which included [...]
Investigation into allegations of fraud running into billions of naira in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) took a different turn Monday as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided the Glass House in Abuja. Daily Sunsports gathered reliably that the raid which lasted for more than four hours saw the operatives carting [...]
Super Eagles defender Taye Taiwo could be on his way to the English Premier League as London based Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly in the lead to secure his signature. Taiwo was recently linked with a move to Atletico Madrid but the club the Spanish Primera Division outfit have not been able to tender an acceptable [...]
World Cup claims three lives Tragedy struck at the weekend at the parsonage of the Assemblies of God Church, Laguru, Umuosu Ubakala, near Umuahia, Abia State, when the resident pastor, Monday Jacob, was found unconscious in his living room with his wife and two sons dead. Mr. Jacob was said to have packed into the [...]
striker Karim Benzema, according to AS. Manchester United are looking to jettison Dimitar Berbatov and Anderson in order to fund a £24 million bid for Benzema, 22, was a target for Sir Alex Ferguson last summer before he chose a move to the Spanish capital. Despitemissing out on the France World Cup 2010 squad and [...]
Manchester United are determined to go head to head with Manchester City and match any bid for Inter striker Mario Balotelli, according to Sky Sports Italia. Balotelli, 19, is rated as the hottest talent in Italian football despite regularly getting into trouble with ex-head coach Jose Mourinho. His agent, Mino Raiola, recently confirmed the Citizens [...]
As the World Cup comes to the end in South Africa, the Building and Wood workers, International ( BWI) has raised an alarm that FIFA may be raking in about US3.3 billion at the expense of workers. BWI said, “ FIFA has undermined the most elementary principles of the (International Labour Organisation) ILO notion of [...]
Jonathan orders Ngeria out of FIFA ABUJA – The Federal Government, Wednesday, directed the immediate withdrawal of Nigeria from all Federation of International Football (FIFA) related events to enable the country reorganise its football administration. President Good luck Jonathan who approved the decision following the country’s dwindling show in football in the recent past has [...]
Ike Uche and Victor Anichebe are the two high profile casualties of Lars Lagerback’s cull as he named his 23 players for the World Cup on Monday. Joining the duo are Peter Utaka, Onyekachi Apam, Brown Ideye and the two domestic players Bassey Akpan and Terna Suswan. The Swede announced the list to the players [...]
France coach Raymond Domenech has named an experienced 23-man squad for the World Cup finals. There were no surprises in the squad, with the 23 having been known since Lassana Diarra was ruled out of the tournament because of a stomach illness ten days ago. There had been concern over William Gallas’s calf strain but [...]
As Super Eagles Led by Lars Lagerback file out against the Saudi Arabian national squad in its first pre-World Cup warm up match at the Alpen Stadion, Austria, Nigerians are eagerly waiting to see to team that performed very poorly in the recently concluded African Nations Cup in Angola. The match against Saudi Arabia will [...]
According to AS, Real Madrid defensive midfielder Lassana Diarra could return to the Premier League next season as Manchester United have reportedly expressed interest in signing the Frenchman and could pay nearly £20 million for his services. After a very good start to the season, in which he was frequently compared to fellow Frenchman and [...]
Relegation-threatened Aarau host comfortable Grasshoppers, with much riding on it Our attention turns to Switzerland for tonight’s intriguing clash between Grasshoppers and Aarau. Last week we flagged up the Hoppers to win the derby and they duly romped home 4-0 against Zurich to pocket us some easy cash The trek to Aarau isn’t quite so [...]
Reported £1.5 Billion Bid For Manchester United Rejected by Glazers Manchester United Supporters Trust CEO disparages report. A key figure in the movement to wrestle control of Manchester United from the Glazer family has rejected reports of a previous spurned £1.5 billion as “smacking of desperation”. Rumours of a huge bid from the Middle East [...]
