Reply With QuoteI read that if Torres leaves Liverpool then they will go for Forlan. Man Utd will not give any non-sense salary to Balotelli ( sthithi pazhaya pole allallo ) and moreover he may prefer the Italian Manager.Originally Posted by nutz
Diego Maradona's tenure as Argentina coach ends
Diego Maradona's reign as Argentina coach has ended, the Argentine Football Association (AFA) has confirmed.
Maradona admitted he wanted to stay in the job ahead of a meeting with AFA president Julio Grondona on Monday.
But, after Maradona rejected demands to change his backroom team, the AFA voted not to renew his deal and made under-20 coach Sergio Batista caretaker boss.
Argentina crashed out of the 2010 World Cup finals at the quarter-final stage, where they lost 4-0 to Germany.
A statement on the AFA website read: "Mr Julio Grondona made the members of the executive committee aware of the conversation with Mr Diego Maradona, setting out the points which had come out from the meeting.
"The executive committee unanimously resolved not to renew the contract with Mr Diego Maradona as coach of the Argentina national football team."
AFA spokesman Ernesto Cherquis Bialo added: "Maradona's requirements were very far from the FA's possibilities."
Batista played in midfield alongside Maradona in the 1986 World Cup final and managed Argentina to gold at the 2008 Olympics.
He will pick the squad for the country's next game against the Republic of Ireland on 11 August at Dublin's Aviva Stadium - the first international football match at the redeveloped Lansdowne Road site.
Bialo stated that a new full-time appointment could be announced in time for Argentina's next home match, against world champions Spain on 7 September.
Estudiantes coach Alejandro Sabella, who was Daniel Passarella's assistant at the 1998 World Cup, Racing Club boss Miguel Angel Rosso and Batista have already emerged as potential successors to Maradona.
Before the pair's two-hour meeting on Monday, Grondona stated he was hopeful a new four-year deal could be agreed with Maradona.
But while Maradona was keen to continue in the job, he also declared he would refuse to renew his contract, which ended after the defeat to Germany in Cape Town, if the AFA dismissed even one of his staff.
"If they touch a hair of one of my guys, even if it's the masseur or the kitman, I'm going," he told El Show del Futbol on America TV.
Grondona had already signalled his desire for backroom changes after admitting the AFA "had lots of problems" with one of Maradona's assistants, former Argentina defender Oscar Ruggeri.
Grondona's demand, then, for the replacement of a number of assistants - one of whom was believed to be Maradona's close friend Alejandro Mancuso - was, unsurprisingly, snubbed by the football legend.
Although appearing defensively frail at times, Maradona's side topped Group B in South Africa with victories over Nigeria, South Korea and Greece.
They then overcame Mexico 3-1 to reach the quarter-finals.
But the emphatic nature of their exit at the hands of the Germans gave fresh ammunition to the critics of Maradona's tenure, which included a fraught qualification campaign.
Since taking the job in November 2008, Maradona, considered by many as the greatest footballer in history, won eight and lost seven of his 15 games in charge of La Albiceleste
I read that if Torres leaves Liverpool then they will go for Forlan. Man Utd will not give any non-sense salary to Balotelli ( sthithi pazhaya pole allallo ) and moreover he may prefer the Italian Manager.
Nadal slams UEFA over Real Mallorca exclusion:
Tennis World No 1 and Real Mallorca shareholder Rafa Nadal has hit out at governing body UEFA for excluding the financially-troubled La Liga club from European competition this season.
Mallorca finished fifth in the league last campaign and qualified for the Europa League but UEFA ruled last week the Balearic Islands club, who are in administration, had not fulfilled the admission criteria.
UEFA did not publish the reasons behind the decision, which Mallorca have appealed.
"I am like all Mallorca fans," Nadal, who was born on the island, told IB3 TV.
"It's a hell of a blow because playing in Europe fills you with excitement and the players have earned it," the Wimbledon and French Open champion added.
"I don't know the reasons behind the exclusion but if it is for economic reasons there would not be any European competition at all because everyone is in the same situation."
Mallorca said in May they had applied to go into voluntary administration in an effort to sort out their finances.
Like many Spanish clubs, they have been slipping ever further into debt due to surging wage and transfer costs and a recent University of Barcelona study indicated they had debts of around 85 million euros ($110 million).
Nadal became a shareholder in the club this month and his uncle, former soccer professional Miguel Angel Nadal, is assistant to new coach Michael Laudrup.
Mallorca noted on their website (RCD Mallorca Web Oficial - Partidos, Resultados, Jugadores e Informacion. RCDMallorca.es) that La Liga champions Barcelona had admitted earlier on Tuesday to making a loss of almost 80 million euros last season and their gross debt was more than half a billion euros.
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there cud be a flurry of transfers in the next week..
man city also have sum good players to sell like bellamy, SWP, ireland etc..
they may have to sell at cut price due to EPL rule of 25 member squad..
Stephen Ireland is a very good player and an academy product too. Cityude players aayathu kondu UTD nu vaanghaan pattilla. Liverpoolinu pattiya kure players undu athil. I also heard that Adebayor may move to Juventus on loan.
i heard that about adebayor too..
so they dont have to seelplayers ryt..
they can send them on loan to bypass the 25 member squad rule then..
maybe thats what city wud prefer as they dont need money..
giggs ne pinne evidunna vangiye...
You cannot say that Giggs is a man city academy product..giggs ne pinne evidunna vangiye...
is it so?giggs ne pinne evidunna vangiye...
i thought giggs is a utd academy product..
He joined Utd in 1987 and his first team appearance came in 1990-91...
He is not an absolute utd academy product like Scholes.. but he is neither a city product.. he came from Wales..
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