REAL MADRID - SERGIO RAMOS FIX DEAL UNTIL 2020

News coming out of Spanish Sports paper "Marca" advances that Real Madrid & Sergio Ramos have ironed out their differences & look like sealing an agreement that renews the defenders contract until 2020.

Was there any doubt? I posted here weeks back that the supposedly Manchester United offer would be used as leverage power in the negotiations. Ramos wanted 10M€ per season while Real Madrid only

RUSSIA 2018 | SPAIN IN GROUP G WITH ITALY | FIFA WORLD CUP

FIFA celebrated this evening the Group match-ups for the upcoming Russia 2018 World Cup. Spain has been matched with Italy, Albania, Isreal, Macedonia & Liechtenstein in Group G.






Full Group match-up in the European section: 



Group A- Luxemburg, Belarus,
Bulgaria, Sweden, France,
Holland

Group B- Andorra, Latonia, Feroe Is, Hungary, Switzerland,
Portugal

Group C- San Marino, Azerbaijan,

REAL MADRID PLAYERS SHIRT NUMBERS 2015-2016

Spanish Football Club Real Madrid published yesterday the shirt numbers for their players for the new & upcoming 2015 - 2016 season. Handy information if your a fan & are thinking in purchasing a Club shirt so you can now choose correctly your favourite player number. 

However, bear in mind that some players could exit before the end of the transfer period while new players could arrive.

FELIPE LUIS CLOSE TO RETURNING TO AT MADRID

News in this afternoon from Spanish Sports media indicate that Spanish Football Club Atletico de Madrid has come to an initial agreement with English Premier League Club Chelsea FC to sign-buy Brazilian International left-back Felipe Luis. 

The player returns to At Madrid after a short stint at Chelsea FC were he did not fully fit in with the plans of Coach Mournho. Meanwhile Atletico Coach

REAL MADRID MOST VALUABLE CLUB IN WORLD SPORTS 2015

The prestigious Financial Magazine "Forbes" has published today their list of "The World’s Top 10 Most Valuable Sports Teams of 2015". For third year straight Spanish Football Club Real Madrid tops the list with a value of US$ 3.26 Billion. Another Spanish Football Club FC Barcelona sits in fourth position with a value of US$ 3.16 Billion. Big Bucks!






Forbes 2015 Top 10 list:
2015 Rank Team

ATLETICO MADRID SHUTS JACKSON MARTINEZ DEAL WITH PORTO

It´s official, Spanish Football Club Atletico de Madrid has paid the 36,75M€ contract release clause to Porto to do with the services of Colombian International striker Jackson Martinez. The deal was shut 2 weeks ago but negotiations continued between Clubs because Porto wanted to include in the operation young Atletico Madrid midfielder Oliver. Finally the Spanish Club decided not to deal with

UEFA BEST PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2014-2015 LIST CANDIDATES

UEFA has handed in its list of candidates of "Best Players" season 2014-2015. No Spanish Nationals but four Spanish Liga based players in Lionel Messi, C. Ronaldo , Neymar & Luis Suarez. The jury will announce the winner on the 28th of August in Monaco along with the Champions League Groups draw.

Hot favourite is currently Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona.




UEFA Best Player candidates season 2014

SPANISH LIGA SEASON 2015 - 2016 CALENDAR

The match-ups of LA LIGA games from Round 1 to 38 for season 2015 - 2016 have been revealed today after the draw was celebrated at Liga HQ. You can see the full calendar of Liga games & Round with this link (Liga Season 2015 - 2016).




Spanish Liga starts off like this:

Round 1 - 22 & 23rd of August 2015
Sporting Gijon-Real Madrid, 
Athletic Club-FC Barcelona, 
Rayo-Valencia, 
Malaga-Sevilla,

REAL MADRID | IKER CASILLAS LEAVES FOR PORTO

News just coming in  announce that Real Madrid Goalkeeper & Captain Iker Casillas is on his way to Portuguese Club Porto after the player & his current club shut the deal. A bitter end after 25 years of service with 16 in the A-squad. The negotiation battle was hard with economic issues at the forefront & with end to end accusations from both sides that blemished the end of the career from Iker

ATLETICO DE MADRID SIGNS FERREIRA CARRASCO FROM AC MONACO

Spanish press announce that Atletico de Madrid & Monaco have come to an agreement to transfer 21 year old Belgium midfielder Ferreira Carrasco to the Spanish Football Club. The speculated transfer price coming out from France is around 20M€, while the player signs for the next 5 seasons. It is expected that both Clubs will officially announce the operation soon.




Ferreira has been chosen over

SPANISH FOOTBALL | NEW SIGNINGS 2015

Today a couple of important new signing presentations to media by Real Madrid & Atletico de Madrid. Both Clubs begin the new season with exits & arrivals; below are pictures of new players, plus players presented in the last days by other Spanish Football Liga Clubs. 




Real Madrid presented officially Brazilian International right-back Danilo from Porto to media at the "Santiago Bernabeu

FC BARCELONA ANNOUNCE ARDA TURAN SIGNING

While FC Barcelona awaits the result of their upcoming Presidential Club elections the "Intern Management Team" has announced the signing of Turkish International & Atletico de Madrid midfielder Arda Turan. The player signs for the next 5 seasons & costs Barça 34M€ plus 7M€ in variables in accordance with agreed objectives reached by club & player.




However there are a couple of catches:

Arda

FC BARCELONA TEAM 2015-2016 ?

Barring possible new signings (eg Pogba, plus others), FC Barcelona wants to have the following squad for the new season 2015-2016. The diagram comes from Spanish Sports paper "Mundo Deportivo".




The still unknown is Turk Arda Turan. Sports media announced the signing days back but apparently it is not a done deal as yet. Some speculate it will be closed soon while others comment the English

REAL MADRID TO TARGET FERNANDO LLORENTE ?

More interesting Spanish Football rumour & speculation doing the rounds. Spanish TV has announced tonight in its news section that Real Madrid new Coach Rafael Benitez has solicited Spanish International & Juventus FC forward Fernando Llorente. Apparently its a top priority for Benitez who wishes a tall & agile forward to compliment with Benzema upfront & give the team extra playing options.

FC BARCELONA SHUTS ARDA TURAN TRANSFER DEAL

The news has hit all the Spanish Sports media this afternoon, FC Barcelona & Atletico de Madrid have come to an agreement to transfer Turkish International midfielder Arda Turan to Barça. The midfielder had expressed his desire to leave Atletico & mentioned that he was negotiating with various Clubs. But this afternoon Barça & Atletico Directives shut the deal.




The transfer price is 35M€ plus