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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.

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.

In a funny and pathetic move, Chelsea declared they are filing a formal complain to FIFA for Real Madrid’s alleged illegal talks for Arjen Robben. What were they thinking?

1. Chelsea has the right to complain or report illegal activities.

2. While they have done the same things before, it doesn’t release them the right to fight for what they feel is just no matter how hyprocrite looking they become.

3. Ramon Calderon was abusive in using these players’ name for his campaign and unofficially publicize Arjen’s strong intentions to transfer to Real.

Right move for Fabio who resigns before he gets trashed to Serie B following an investigation of game-fixing in the last two Italian titles. Smart and quick decision before he sees his value diminish together with hopes of coaching Real Madrid; Ramon Calderon was elected as the President of the club after their sick election was resolved and has promised the fans that he will bring Fabio to Real.

When there is elections, there is chaos; it is a fact not to be contested. Fact turns disaster into a reality, so there goes Real Madrid’s vision and efforts of strengthening their club in time for next season.

Ramon Calderon led the closest rival, Juan Palacios, with 246 more votes on Sunday but his declaration have to wait after some stupid postal votes were not duly accounted for since a judge provisionally suspended them on Friday because it could not guarantee its legitimacy. Fair enough. Candidates may agree or disagree with it, but the point is that these elections went through already where everyone waited to claim victory without minding the repercussions of the suspended ballots.

David Beckham will be out for six weeks following the injury he obtained during the England – Portugal game.

Scans made after the game showed a tear in his right Archilles tendon and ‘lesion’ in his left knee’s ligament. Another scan is scheduled to be made by Real Madrid doctors.