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#mufc has reached agreement with Sporting Lisbon to sign defender Marcos Rojo, subject to a medical and personal terms.
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A further announcement will be made when the process is complete. #mufc
Sporting has confirmed in an announcement that the fee is €20m (~ £16m). United pay half of that immediately and the other half in two installments in December and next July.
Sporting has also confirmed the season-long loan of Nani.
a left footed LCB is so important in a back 3, Neville pointed it out really well on MNF
The English Premier League, the world’s most prominent soccer circuit, will institute new rules for treating and managing concussions suffered during its games during the upcoming 2014-2015 season, the Football Association announced Tuesday.
The new rules will require players to leave the field upon suffering a head injury and will leave decisions about whether they can return to play in the hands of doctors rather than managers, according to Fox Sports. The reforms also include new rules that will put a third doctor on the field to assist in monitoring injuries both by watching the pitch and reviewing television replays. Premier League players will undergo baseline testing before each season, and the league will hire a doctor to research on concussions in soccer.
in case anyone wonders why Mackay WON'T be the new Palace manager ... shocking and disgusting if true (it's the Daily Fail, so who knows ... but they couldn't make up stuff like that without getting sued for everything they have, I guess).
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Malky Mackay and Iain Moody have been reported to the FA and accused of being racist, sexist and homophobic in a shocking series of text messages dating back to their time together at Cardiff City.
Mackay, the former Cardiff manager, and Moody, the club’s former head of recruitment and now Crystal Palace’s director of football, appeared to be on the verge of being reunited at Selhurst Park on Wednesday, with Mackay thought to be replacing Tony Pulis. But it is understood Mackay dropped out of the running after Palace learned of the evidence that has been passed to Wembley officials.
After months of investigation, Sportsmail can reveal the details of two letters sent to the FA outlining explicit and offensive texts. These messages came to light after a dawn raid on Moody’s south London home in March this year, as part of Cardiff’s £750,000 investigation into eight controversial transfers.
They engaged London law firm Mishcon de Reya, whose investigators obtained a search order from the High Court to enter Moody’s house in Balham, seizing work computers and phones and taking electronic imagery of evidence. They were investigating alleged wrongdoing related to one of these transfers. Around 70,000 text messages and 100,000 emails were allegedly recovered, including the text and email exchanges that form the basis of letters sent to the FA by Mishcon de Reya, on behalf of Cardiff.
Under FA rules, Cardiff are required to report any matters which may constitute ‘aggravated misconduct’. The letters to the FA make reference to the following alleged offensive communications between Moody, Mackay and others:
In July 2012, Cardiff signed South Korean international Kim Bo-kyung, but when Moody informed Mackay on July 12 that ‘five of the b******s including the player’ were arriving for talks, the reply from Mackay’s phone was: ‘Fkn chinkys.’ A further message says: ‘Fk it. There’s enough dogs in Cardiff for us all to go around.’
In reference to the prominent football agent, Phil Smith, a text states: ‘Go on, fat Phil. Nothing like a Jew that sees money slipping through his fingers’. The Israeli club, Maccabi Tel Aviv, are also referred to simply as ‘the Jews’.
A football official at another club is referred to as ‘a gay snake’ and ‘the homo’ and someone who is ‘not to be trusted’, while a French player is someone ‘who struck me as an independently minded young homo’.
An exchange with a young player who has a female agent makes reference to a sex act and states: ‘I hope she’s looking after your needs,’ the player is then told. ‘I bet you’d love a bounce on her falsies.’
On August 16, 2012, a list of players proposed by a French agent is forwarded, stating to Mackay that ‘he needs to rename his agency the All Blacks’. A separate text in reference to a list of French players states: ‘Not many white faces amongst that lot but worth considering.’
In a separate exchange a picture entitled ‘Black Monopoly’ is sent, with every square a ‘Go To Jail’ square. Of one African player, it is stated: ‘Doesn’t look like a good cv. And he’s Nigerian.’
Ya that's terrible stuff. It's shocking to me that there are people in positions of authority in the western world still with those kinds of attitudes on race, seems like you would need to live in a bubble not to have enough interactions with people of other races to wrench your head out of your ass with how multicultural our societies are.
At least Palace found out before they hired him... Tan got his revenge too - you wonder how much of this goes on in sport with nobody knowing about it where the ex employer isn't out for blood enough to release their text records.
Palace are pretty much screwed now. Sherwood knows he's second choice and wanted to clear out their coaching staff before coming on anyway.
There has been quite a lot more coming out about Pulis too, stating that he asked for a new contract with higher wages and that he had a 25 million pound transfer fund but threw a hissy fit when his targets weren't landed by Moody and Parish who were the negiotiators, that was the final straw and he walked. Somebody will hire him when they get desperate but he looks like a real greaseball in all of this, really screwed them over. At least it resulted in them outing Moody though.
James Pearce and Ben Smith (probably LFC's two most respected reporters) have said LFC have agreed a 16m fee with AC Milan for Balotelli. Pretty crazy stuff if it's actually true. Might as well replace one nutter with another I guess.
Suarez for all his faults appeared to be a decent team member whilst Balotelli is egocentric.
Once Gerrard, misses a penalty, watch out!
Confirmed by the beeb. Very high risk, high reward.
Certainly a huge risk. He's the type of talent that can win you trophies, but if it goes wrong then he's the type of player who can cause enough problems to negatively impact the entire club.
At the very least it should be fun to watch unfold.
Manchester United are set to sign Real Madrid winger Angel di Maria in a deal worth over £48 million, Sky Sports Spanish football expert Guillem Balague can exclusively reveal.
At long last there is significant movement in the seemingly never ending, ‘Will he stay or will he go’ saga of Angel di Maria. It now looks certain that he will leave Real Madrid and become a Manchester United player. The final meetings will take place at the beginning of next week.
United will pay more than 60m Euros for the player.
