REAL MADRID SHUTS DE GEA - NAVAS TO MANCHESTER UNITED

With only hours available before the "Transfer Market" shuts at midnight, Spanish Football Club Real Madrid is close to shutting a transfer deal with Manchester United for their Spanish International goalkeeper David De Gea. 

Latest from local media is that a deal has been struck between Clubs with some details still to be tied. The transfer price is speculated to be around 30M€, while current

LA LIGA | SUNDAY ROUND 2 GAMES FINAL RESULTS

Spanish Liga Round 2 continued today with the scheduled Sunday matches. Here are all the final results along with all the goalscorers.




Relative surprise result at Eibar which defeated Athletic Club Bilbao 2 - 0. Excellent effort from the home team which went ahead early when Bilbao defender Laporte fouled Enrich in the goal square. The consequent penalty was transformed by Berjon in the 33rd

LA LIGA | SPANISH FOOTBALL | ROUND 2 SATURDAY MATCH RESULTS

Spanish Football action this weekend with Round 2 of La Liga matches. Here are all the Saturday games final results along with all the goalscorers.




The Round 2 opener was the Friday Night match between Villarreal & RCD Espanyol. The final result & the 3 points went to the home side 3 - 1 with a 2º half comeback with new signing Roberto Soldado starring.

Espanyol got ahead first with an early

SPAIN LIST FOR UPCOMING EURO 2016 QUALIFIERS

Spanish National Football Team Selector & Coach Vicente del Bosque handed in his list of 23 players for the upcoming Euro 2016 Group qualifiers. Spain plays in the Spanish city of Oviedo Slovakia the 5th of September, to then travel to play Macedonia on the 8th of September.

Vital match against Slovakia where Spain is currently second in the Group behind them & needs a victory to take the top

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP TEAMS MATCH-UPS 2015-2016

The Champions League Groups for season 2015-2016 have been drawn with the following results for the five Spanish Football Clubs competing:









Group A: Real Madrid with Paris St Germain, Shakhtar & Malmo,

Group C: Atletico de Madrid with Benfica, Galatasaray & Astana,

Group D: Sevilla FC with Juventus FC, Manchester City FC & Borussia Monchengladbach,

Group E: FC Barcelona with Bayern

FERNANDO LLORENTE TO SEVILLA FC

After weeks of speculation, Spanish & Juventus FC forward Fernando Llorente returns to Spanish Football. Spanish press has announced that Sevilla FC will be the new home of Llorente for the next three seasons after a 10M€ transfer deal (other sources say that his transfer is at zero cost ) with the Italian Club according to Italian media. The terms of payment is delaying the official Club

VALENCIA CF QUALIFIES FOR UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2015 - 2016

Important night & final result for Spanish Football Club Valencia CF which suffered against Monaco to get themselves qualified for the UEFA Champions League season 2015 - 2016. The final result tonight of the 2º leg return match was 2 - 1 for Monaco but Valencia CF qualified & won the tie with a 3 - 4 aggregate.




The only goal for Valencia CF came early in the 4th min when Alvaro Negredo

REAL MADRID TRANSFERS UPDATE

Hi guys, been out this weekend with the family so I have not given a summary post of Round 1 of La Liga. You can however catch up with the widget on the right hand side of the blog: matches, scoreline, scores & ladder positions.

Now back, here is a post on the current Real Madrid signing & transfers situation.

Karim Benzema has posted  today a message on his Social Media accounts to leave it

AT MADRID OFFICIAL SHIRT NUMBERS LIST SEASON 2015-2016

Spanish Liga season starts this weekend & Atletico de Madrid has its full list of shirt-players numbers for season 2015-2016. Barring late signing surprises it reflects the full squad. 

If your an Atletico de Madrid follower & was waiting to confirm the season number of your favourite player, here you have so you can race off & purchase your shirt.




OFFICIAL SHIRT NUMBERS FOR ATLETICO DE

SPANISH FOOTBALL | LA LIGA CALENDAR - FIXTURE SEASON 2015 - 2016

Yesterday two modifications to the Spanish Football Liga calendar - round fixture for 2015 - 2016 were announced. The season gets shorten by a week so that the Spain National Football Team can prepare better for the upcoming Euro 2016 in France, thanks to the fact that a Round has been scheduled in the Christmas period. 

La Liga will have matches scheduled the 30th & 31st of December 2015, an 

FC BARCELONA WINGER PEDRO ABOUT TO SIGN FOR CHELSEA FC

Looks as if  Spanish International & FC Barcelona winger PEDRO Rodriguez has decided to practice his trade in the English Premier League. Straight after Manchester United apparently withdrew their interest, Chelsea FC quickly stepped in & voice theirs. 




Current news is that Pedro is now in London shutting a deal with Chelsea FC & undergoing the obligatory medical exam. News sources speculated

ATHLETIC CLUB BILBAO WINS SPANISH SUPER CUP 2015

Spanish Football Club Athletic Club Bilbao won the Spanish SuperCup after drawing 1 - 1 with FC Barcelona tonight, while finishing the home & away tie with a 5 - 1 aggregate result. The last main title Bilbao won was way back in 1984 & tonight the Club & the Basque Region city are celebrating.




FC Barcelona attempted from the beginning to turn things around looking for early goals & thus try

SERGIO RAMOS RENEWS WITH REAL MADRID UNTIL 2020

All the huff & puff between Real Madrid & defender Sergio Ramos formally ended this afternoon when the Spanish Football Club rolled out the red carpet to officially announce to media the contract renovation of Ramos.

Captain Sergio Ramos renews with Real Madrid until 2020 with a season salary of between 9 - 10M€ (some say 9M€ & anothers 10M€). The Real Madrid Captain played his cards in a long &

REAL MADRID TO SIGN KOVACIC ?

Apparently Spanish Football Club Real Madrid & Inter Milan have been negotiating in secret. So much so, had it not been for Italian Sports paper "Gazzetta dello Sport" we here in Spain would not have known about 21 year old Mateo Kovacic.




Real Madrid wishes to reinforce its midfield after Coach Benitez expressed internally his lack of confidence with currently players Illaramendi & Lucas. The

FC BARCELONA TEAM PHOTO SEASON 2015-2016

Will this be the main starting 11 line-up for FC Barcelona in season 2015 - 2016? Below is the recent FC Barcelona team photo:

Stegen, Mascherano, Ratikic, Busquets, Pique, Messi, Alves, Neymar, Iniesta, Suarez & Alba.




The only doubt still hanging is in the goalkeeping area. Will Coach Luis Enrique chose Stegen or Claudio Bravo? One for La Liga? Perhaps the other will play Spanish Cup &

VILLARREAL TO SIGN ROBERTO SOLDADO - BAKAMBU

Barring "strange events" Tottenham Hotspurs & Spanish forward Roberto Soldado will be new player for Spanish Club Villarreal. Tottenham striker Erik Lamela let the cat out of the bag when he said goodbye to team-mate Soldado via Twitter, which he latter had to eliminate. However, the truth is that Roberto Soldado is currently in Spain, Villarreal, to tie up loose ends & pass the obligatory

UEFA BEST PLAYER OF THE YEAR CANDIDATES - FULL LIST

UEFA has announced its list of three candidates who are down to be awarded the "UEFA Best Player of the Year season 2014-2015". The three are Messi (FC Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) & Luis Suarez (FC Barcelona).  As you can see Spanish Football is well represented in the Top 3 & rest of list (see below).

UEFA will announce the winner the 27th of August in Monaco, a ceremony where 

FC BARCELONA UEFA SUPER CUP 2015 CHAMPIONS

Fantastic UEFA SuperCup Final with FC Barcelona winning 5 - 4 Sevilla FC in extra time. The hero of the night was Pedro, who did not start as expected but came on later to score the winner in the 115 th min. 

Pedro is speculated that he has his future elsewhere, at Manchester United which could pay his 30M€ contract release clause in coming days. It is said that Pedro is debating internally

UEFA EUROPEAN SUPERCUP | PRE-MATCH REVIEW - POSSIBLE STARTING 11 LINE-UPS

The 2015 - 2016 European Football season officially kicks off tonight at Tbilisi (Georgia) with the UEFA European SuperCup Final between Spanish Football Clubs FC Barcelona (Champions League winner) & Sevilla FC (Europa League winner).

Both teams have important players out - or under a cloud - coming into this match. For Barça Neymar was left home when diagnosed with a virus that will keep him

FC BARCELONA SHIRT NUMBERS SEASON 2015-2016

Thinking about buying the new FC Barcelona shirt but not too sure which number your favourite player will wear this new 2015 - 2016 season? Well the wait has ended after FC Barcelona has published the official list of shirt numbers for season 2015-2016.




Brazilian Dani Alves takes the vacant Nº 6 after Xavi Hernandez decided to retire & leave for Qatar. There maybe some new numbers popping up

SERGIO RAMOS | TOP OVERRATED FOOTBALL PLAYER

English paper "Daily Telegraph" has elaborated a list of the "Top 20 Over-rated Football Players" in World Soccer. In this list sitting at Nº 9 is Real Madrid & Spanish International defender Sergio Ramos. Not surprised to see Ramos as the Spaniard has rubbed up the wrong way British & especially Manchester United fans after "using" the latter as leverage to renew his contract with Real Madrid.