Page 4 - Monthly Archives: July 2013
- July 02, 2013
It is fair to say that Aston Villa have had a very hard time during the 2012-13 season, a young inexperienced team had to battle with the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and many more. One man keeping their heads above water was the mighty Christian Benteke. The 22 Year old Belgian international moved to Villa from Genk in August 2012. Villa boss Paul Lambert offered the Belgian club £7 million for the striker. Many of the Villa fans thought that this would be another wasted signature but they were wrong. By the end of the 2013 season the hit man had scored 23 goals and was the fourth highest goal scorer in the Premier League. Many teams are now looking to sign the
striker but the club have slapped a £25 million price tag on the striker in a bid to keep him. Both the club and supporters are desperate to keep hold of the - July 02, 2013
Inter Milan are an Italian football club that have always played in the top flight of Italian football, they have an impressive list of achievements including eighteen league championships, winning the Coppa Italia seven times, and European success that includes three Champions League titles and three UEFA Cups. In the early 2000s Inter Milan football team were unstoppable winning five successive league championships from 2006-10, however recent years have seen a fall in performance. Since the now Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini left in 2008 Inter have had no less than seven managers including the likes of Jose Mourinho and Rafa Benitez. After finishing a demoralizing ninth in last year's Serie A Stramaccioni has been replaced by Walter Mazzarri for the upcoming 2013/14 season.
Walter Mazzarri is an Italian football manager who started his managerial career in 2001; - July 01, 2013In 2003 Roman Abramovich became the owner of Chelsea football club, he is a Russian billionaire who has since invested millions of pounds into transforming the club and the team into a successful commercial brand. Under Abramovich's ownership there have been many ups and downs for the team, during the last ten years they have had nine managers sacked but despite this, in terms of collecting silverware it has been the most successful period in the clubs history. Prior to Abramovich Chelsea had not won the Premier League, they won the First Division, the then top flight of football, in 1955, in recent years they have been crowned champions on three occasions in 2005, 2006 and 2010, this is a staggering turn around for the club. In addition to league success the team can boast of European glory winning the Champions League in 2012, and the Europa League in 2013.
Upon his investment in Chelsea Abramovich had very little knowledge about football, and to his credit he was worked - July 01, 2013
Wayne Rooney has made it quite clear now that he would like to leave Manchester United, so why is everybody trying to stop him?
Well there are a number of reasons that the Red devils would probably like to keep hold of the 27 year old striker. One is his goal scoring record; the Englishman has now scored 141 goals for the club in 277 domestic appearances. Since moving from Everton in 2004 Rooney started to impress football fans from all over the world, many teams were after him and he had played for the senior England team since 2003, he is a world class player.Rooney has always been known to get rather hot-headed during matches and over the past 2012-13 season he has not seemed happy at Manchester United at all. It all went downhill for Wayne since former Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie joined the team at the start of the 12-13 season.
Rooney did start the first match of the season against Everton but was dropped for the second match against Fulham, allowing RVP to make
