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Ruud Van Nistelrooy is finally happy to settle down in his dream team, Real Madrid, after he fell out of grace from Alex Ferguson over Christian Ronaldo and his antics. As posted previously, no matter what Alex Ferguson says, Ruud is going to be dealt out of Manchester United, and true enough it did not take too long to kick him out of the English club.

He is a very happy man to play in what he calls as the greatest team in the world; he adds that he is somehow nervous on his move to a team like Real. What? If I may ask, what is he nervous of? Sitting on the bench?

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez made a good decision in acquiring Jermaine Pennant from Arsenal despite his reckless driving, alcoholic behavior and attitude problems.

Was it Risky to sign Jermaine?

Who cares? At £6.7million, the winger they acquired ranks number 1 in Premiership with 497 crosses last season, a feat bigger than what was paid for him. They got a superb right-midfield player sans his attitude, for almost £6.0million less than what was asked for by Sevilla for Daniel Alves.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy is politically used to increase his value before Alex Ferguson milks and acceptable amount of money out of his transfer.

His feud with Christian Ronaldo, the increase in playing time for Louis Saha and his exclusion from Roy Keane’s retirement celebration game does not seem to favor Ruud; enough to believe Alex Ferguson’s public announcement which says he ain’t going anywhere and shall be in an United shirts when the season starts.

Barcelona definitely becomes a more formidable team, both in short and long-term form, with the signing of Lilian Thuram and Gianluca Zambrotta from Juventus than Real’s Cannavaro and Emerson arrival.

Do you really think the verdict handed out by the Italian Federal Appeal Commission on Friday evening reflects the true scandalous activities happening in Football?

The match-fixing-scandal saw Juventus relegated to Serie B plus a 30-point starting deficit next season and stripping off their league titles they won in the last two seasons, Fiorentina and Lazio relegated with 13 point deficit, and AC Milan with a 30 point deficit though luckily remains in Serie A but was given a 44 point deduction from last season.

What a surprise? When I opened Alexa I saw on the right hand side of movers and shakers I Hate Ronaldo which ranked second with 3,800% increase.

A few days ago Christian was bent on leaving Manchester, but it seem he have softened his stance a bit—saying, There is still nothing concrete, If it is a question of staying then it will be fine, if I leave it will also be fine. It is still a question that has to be decided and is an issue that has to be discussed in the next few days.

Contrary to his prior unprofessional attitude he seems to show some respect and love to Manchester United. Why? He figured out that Manchester is not going to let him go and he better get his acts together if he’s going to have a fruitful stay with the organization.

Lando Donovan badly beaten in World Cup 2006 will suffer the same fate in 2010 if US does not realize the need to get their players out the door and compete with the best players in the world.

MLS is no training ground for any team who wants to make an impact in the World Cup, and their performance in Germany hurts any chances they have to attract the best players around the world to play in their league.

This guy has generated so much disruption for the last two weeks second only to Zidane’s patriotism.

His horizontal dribbling exhibition during the world cup, drama between him and fellow teammate Wayne Rooney, plus losing out on Lukas who a lot of people saw as a joke was enough to put him in the spotlight of football’s craziness; he thought otherwise.

A model wannabe, Ronaldo declared he does not want to play at Manchester United and instead wants a transfer to Spain either to Real Madrid or Barcelona. He argues that Manchester United did not defend him during the World Cup? Defend him against whom? Wayne Rooney? That is a joke, he gave that wink after people saw him charging at the referee which seemed like he demanded for Wayne’s red card that helped them beat England. This guy must be dreaming, what reaction would you expect from a team that showed neutrality despite their supposed loyalty to England?

Michael Owen will be out for operation and medical treatment until March of next year because of an injury suffered during their game against Sweden which required two operations instead of going under the knife once as told by his surgeon—Richard Steadman. The slight lateral cartilage damage shall be principally operated on in September another minor one to be determined depending on the success of the first knife.