Archive for the ‘La Liga’ Category

Are Real Madrid Going To Win La Liga Without Beating Barcelona?

After Barcelona’s 5th league draw this season, Real Madrid are now 5 points clear at the top of La Liga and show no signs of dropping points any time soon. Could this be the season that Jose Mourinho wins the league and does so without beating Barcelona? (more…)

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Messi Collects Third Ballon D’or

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, quite clearly the best player in the world, last night picked up his 3rd Ballon d’Or award, pipping team mate Xavi Hernandez and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo to the prize. Messi is only the fourth player in history to collect the award 3 times and finds himself among good company in Johan Cruyff, Marco Van Basten...

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Van Der Vaart Deal Confirmed

Van Der Vaart Deal Confirmed

The Premier League have today confirmed that Tottenham successfully signed Dutch International midfielder Rafael van der Vaart from Real Madrid before the close of the transfer window. The player cost Spurs in the region of £8m on a four year deal. The statement on Spurs’ website read “We are delighted to announce that we have reached agreement...

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Transfer Deadline Day Deals

Deadline day is great, except for all those deals you hear that you really couldn’t care less about – like Martyn Waghorn joining Leicester. We’ll have none of that on Football-Banter.com. Here’s our roundup of the day’s biggest deals. Robinho has signed for AC Milan for around £18m. Stoke have brought in Eidur Gudjohnsen and Jermaine...

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La Liga Round Up – 30 August 2010

Barcelona continued where they left off last season with a 3-0 win over Racing Santander – David Villa on the scoresheet (how many times are we going to say that this season?). Real Madrid failed to get off to a winning start, they were held to a 0-0 draw at Mallorca. Other matches saw Real Sociedad beat Villareal 1-0 and Espanyol beat Getafe 3-0. Deportivo...

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Mourinho Off To A Winning Start

Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid won their opening pre-season friendly against CF America last night 3-2 with goals from new boy Sergio Canales, Gonzalo Higuain and an 82nd minute trademark free-kick from Cristiano Ronaldo to win the game. (more…)

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Biggest Signing Of The Summer

Biggest Signing Of The Summer

With Manchester City throwing money around like it’s going out of fashion, Barcelona seemingly conjouring money out of thin air and Chelsea yet to strike but being linked with every man and his dog it’s time to look at who will be the biggest signing of the summer. Barcelona’s new front man David Villa has cost the most money so far and is...

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Transfer Rumours – 16 July 2010

Here we go with this week’s round up… Cesc Fabregas may be staying at Arsenal after all despite being pictured wearing a Barcelona shirt this week. The Catalan club are having some financial troubles and finding possible suitors for Zlatan Ibrahimovic to fund the transfer of Fabregas is looking less likely every day. Roy Hodgson has moved to stop...

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Greedy Barcelona Fail To Pay Player Wages

Greedy Barcelona Fail To Pay Player Wages

No content with being all their recent success Barcelona have recently been on another spending spree literally breaking the bank at the same time. The recent acquisition of Valencia’s David Villa cost them a whopping £34.2m, not bad for a team already considered the best in the world. The Catalan giants are also courting the services of Cesc Fabregas...

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