news and gossip (tid bits really)
Chatter from the sidelines
- Arsenal and Liverpool target Stephan El Shaarawy set to LEAVE Serie A, claims agent ayup
- Paul Pogba all over again? Juventus eye move for Man Utd striker can lighting strike twice?
- Reina: 'Doors open for Napoli' wants to play at Napoli but wants to win titles with Bayern. To play or to ride a bench, that is the question
- Raheem Sterling insists he is not a 'money-grabbing 20-year-old' despite turning down Liverpool contract worth £100,000-a-week LFC has shat the bed with this one. Sterling did an interview with the beeb sans permission, saying that he would have signed a contract earlier in the season if he'd been offered (the club was coming off a high off last year), but with Suarez and Gerrard leaving the club, he says the club has been weakened, he wants trophies, and to be honest, Rodgers isn't the guy to get us there. I reckon Sterling would have been unimpressed with the team's form earlier in the season, how long it took for LFC to solidfy (wondering if there's truth to the rumours that Rodgers had lost the dressing room, but Gerrard was the one who righted the ship). The embarrassment of the Liverpool's campaigns in Europe (CL and Europa), the fact that Rodgers even blamed the grass when things weren't going his way, and Rodgers isn't an up and coming coach who players really know in terms of wanting to work with, like Simeone even up to eighteen months ago (Simeone has established himself now) doesn't help matters. LFC has always been a selling club, in that we've gotten good talents, and are a bigger base to showcase them than say, Real Sociedad or Southampton but with Sterling now leaving, it's a blow. Expected, but a blow. Oh well, like a fart in the wind, this too shall pass.
Pictures
I didn't remember that Mephis Depay was Dutch until the other day. Embarrassing.
Graziano Pelle got a goal in... god knows how long for the Azzuri.
Porto sold another player to Real Madrid. They've made a lot of money out of scouting and selling players. Teach LFC your ways!
Neymar during the Brazil vs Chile friendly. I heard the match was an ugly one
A cover you'd see on a YA romance novel
Videos
Someone drew Fernando Torres' life and he was so tickled and pleased by it, he linked it to his twitter
Raheem Sterling's extended interview with the beeb. 27 minutes long
OP: done. I can't see myself being around for Easter weekend (first sunny weekend in yonks, I'm out!) Any cheers, jeers and pushback you know the drill- leave in comments!