Barcelona First Time tops Real Madrid as World’s Richest Soccer Club

Spanish soccer giant FC Barcelona generated a record revenue of $959.3 million between 2018 and 2019, making it the sport’s biggest cash-generating club for the first time ever, according to a new report published on Tuesday by Deloitte’s Football Money League 2020 ranked the world’s wealthiest soccer clubs based on their revenue in the 2018/2019 football season.

Barcelona overtook their rival Real Madrid to take the lead, with the latter raking in revenues of $864 million. At more than $95 million, the revenue gap between the top two clubs was the highest in the 23-year history of Deloitte’s Football Money League.While FC Barcelona’s revenue increased from $823 million the previous year, Real Madrid’s fell from $896 million.

The boost in FC Barcelona’s earnings also marked the first time any club had crossed the $900 million threshold, according to Deloitte.Manchester United, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain rounded out the top five. According to the report, the five richest clubs collectively generated more revenue than the 11 clubs ranked in 10th to 20th place.

Researchers found that the 20 wealthiest clubs made a total revenue of $10.6 billion throughout the season — the highest combined revenue on record.Broadcast remained the largest revenue stream, generating 44% of the top 20′s total revenue for the season, while 40% was made from commercial deals and 16% from matchdays. However, Deloitte pointed out that the clubs at the top of the ranking were far less reliant on broadcasting revenues than smaller teams.

C.K. Akonnor Appointed as Black Stars Coach

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has appoint former Hearts and Kotoko coach, Charles Kwablan Akonnor as the new manager for the senior national team, the Black Stars after the departure of coach kwesi Appiah.

The football association announce the news to the public on 14th January when Ghanaians started to mount pressure on them for the announcement of the new head coach. The Ghana Football Association led by President Kurt E.S. Okraku, decided to dissolve the various technical teams of the country’s national side.

The new administration sack all the national team coaches as a way of ensuring good performance in all the various national teams. This led to the lost of job by coach kwesi Appiah when his contract ended in December, 2019. C.K. Akonnor has sign a two years contract with GFA and they expecting him to take the team to the promise land.

The 45 year- old was appointed by this same administration as a substantive coach to Kwesi Appiah, he help the team in their two victories in the 2021 Cup of Nation qualification matches against South Africa and Soa Tome and Principle last year. He again won the NC Special competition with Kotoko and also qualify them to the group stage of the CAF Confederation Cup last year. He will work with coach David Duncan as his assistant for the next two years as a Black Stars coach.

Mourinho Replace Pochettino

Finally! Finally!! Finally!!! Finally!!!! The special one,the man of controversies is back in the game again. After several month of staying away from the game,the happy one, José Mourinho has been appointed by the last year UEFA Champions League second place team Tottenham Hotspur.

Th Former Chelsea, Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Man Utd manager, who got sack by the red devils in December 2018 work with Sky Sports as a TV Panelist for several month when he became unemployed in the coaching job. Mourinho has keen on his return to the Premier League in all the interviews he has done.

The Premier League side make announcement of the Portuguese man on Tuesday evening.The recent performance of Tottenham has been poor in both the local league and the Champions League. Their performance in the league has send them to the 14th position on the league log.

He said this after his appointment: “I am excited to be joining a club with such a great heritage and such passionate supporters. “The quality in both the squad and the academy excites me. Working with these players is what has attracted me.” His first task as the manager of team will be up against West Ham United on Saturday in the EPL.

Spain Legend Announce Retirement

For a long race in football, the journey seems to be ending for one of the Spanish Legend, David Villa. Villa has made an official announcement about his retirement date after 19 years of playing football.

The former Barcelona and Valencia striker said to the press,  “After 19 years as a professional, I have decided to retire from playing football at the end of this season.“Thank you to all the teams, coaches and teammates that have allowed me to enjoy this dreamed career.“Thank you to my family, that has always been there to support me.”

The 37 year old man is currently playing in the Japanese League with his team Vessel Kobe. He added, ” am looking forward to win the league with the Vessel Kobe this season before i retired. Vessel Kobe is currently on the 10th position in the league. Villa post this same information on his Twitter page after the press conference.

Villa has achieved all the important trophies in his football career. He won the European cup with Spain in 2008, the UEFA champions league with Barcelona in 2011 and the FIFA world cup in 2010 with the Spanish national team. He is also the Spanish top scorer with 59 goals.

Sterling Drop from England Squad against Montenegro

The England national team head coach, Gareth Southgate has drop the Man City talisman from his squad against Montenegro. The three Lions will face Montenegro in the European qualifiers today at the Wembley Stadium.

Southgate takes the decision to drop Sterling from today’s game when the player had a clash with his country -man Joe Gomez in their match against Liverpool at Anfield. Due to that, the FA and the coach have decided to drop him for today as a form of punishment for the incident.The match ended 3-1 in favour of Liverpool and it has help them to extend the point difference in the EPL.

The 24 year old has come out to apologise to his mate but the decision of the coach has been taken already. He will join the team again on Sunday when they meet Kosovo in the same qualification. Southgate men can book their ticket in the 2020 European Championship when they beat Montenegro tonight at Wembley

Ramsey Apologises to Ronaldo after Stopping Record-Goal

Aaron Ramsey has send an apology to his team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo for finishing off his record-goal against Lokomotiv Moscow on Wednesday. The Welsh man help his side to took off the lead in Moscow after three minutes of soccer. action.

Remsey’s goal became a topic after the match because, he denied Ronaldo from setting a new Champions League record of SCORING AGAINST THE MOST CLUBS .The Portuguese star fired a beautiful free-kick in the game which was inching itself into the goalpost, when Ramsey finished it with a touch. The incident upset Ronaldo very much in the game but Aaron has come out to apologise to his colleague .

The midfielder said this after their 2-1 away win “I thought the keeper was a lot closer to me and had a chance of diving back and maybe clearing, so my instinct took over to make sure that it went over the line,” he said.”But I apologised to Cristiano!”

”The target of the team at Moscow was to qualified for the knockout stage. “That was our target – to come into the game to win it and to secure qualification tonight,” Ramsey said. “We still have work to do to finish top. We achieved our target of qualifying tonight, so we’re happy that we’ve done that and we look forward to the next matches.”

Reasons for Moving Arsenal’s Europa Game to Wednesday

Unai Emery’s men are back in action this week with the Portuguese side Vitoria Guimaraes as they continue their Europa League campaign at Portugal.

The Europa League games are normally played on Thursdays but, UEFA has change day for the return and encounter between the two side to Wednesday.

The motive behind the decision is to relieve the work overload on the local authorities because, Guimaraes Primeira Liga rivals Braga will host Beskitas in the same competition on Thursday. Another reason is to avoid traffic on both teams because Braga is just 24hours minutes drive from Guimarases.

As result of that, the match has been moved to 3:50pm at Estadio D. Afanso Henriques in Guimarases. The Portuguese side took the lead in the first leg but, Pepe’s brace gave the Gunners win at Emirate. The Gunners are looking forward for a win, so that, their qualification from the group stage can be secured.

Gomes Injury Update

André Gomes has gone through a successful surgery after sustaining an Ankle injury in their match against Tottenham Hotspur at Goodison Park.

The Portuguese man picked up that horrific injury when, he got clashed by Serge Aurier and Son Heung Min. Red card was shown to Son for committing that devastated foul. The striker left the field in tears when he saw Gomes in that severe pains.

Tottenham has appealed against the red card because, they think, the VAR had it wrong. If the appeal didn’t succeed then, Son will miss the Premier League matches against Sheffied United, West Ham and Bournemouth.

Gomes will spend some times recovering in hospital, before returning to USM Finch Farm to continue his rehabilitation under the guidance of the club’s medical staff.

Gatti Advises Messi to Quit Barca for Madrid

The GOAT aguement between Messi and Ronaldo has been raging on still and the Argentine legend Hugo Gatti has step in with his opinion. The Barcelona talisman has been considered by most people has the GREATEST OF ALL TIME (GOAT) in the history of football.

The 75 years man Gatti, has edged his country man Lionel Messi to leave Barcelona to join their arch rivals Real Madrid to prove to the world that he is better than the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo.

Gatti said on El Chiringuito TV “It seems as if I am anti-argentine, but until Messi plays in the big games, he will continue to be a player of home games. ” He has to move to Madrid and prove everything there like Ronaldo did. Otherwise he will be just a one more player.

He added “Cristiano went to the best clubs in the world. Messi plays at home, on his pitch with everything that comes with that. Let him play in the Champions League and the World Cup, otherwise he will always be one more.

“When he plays there, he will fight with Johan Cruyff, Diego Maradona and Pele. Messi plays when they let him play. It’s very easy to play with everything in your favour at home.”

Messi missed some portions of 2019-2020 season due to injuries but, he has scored six goals in his last 5 matches for Barcelona. He has also help Barca to move atop of the league table.

Bayern Sacked Kovač

Bayern München has confirmed the dismiss of their coach Niko Kovač. Bayern lost 5-1 in their bundesliga game against Eintrach Frankfurt this week and it has pushes them to sack Kovač.

Bayern has won just one of their last 4 league games and it has send them to the 4th position on the league table.

Kovač has work with Bayern for one and half years. He turn the face of the Bayern team to won the league, the DFP Pokal cup and the DFL super cup last season when he was appointed.

The team CEO Harl-Heinz Rummenigge explain the reason behind the decision.He said ”the performance of the team in recent weeks and the results have shown us that, the was a need for action. So I, Uli Hoeness and Hason Salihamidzic had a meeting with Niko and on this basis, with the consensual results that Niko is no longer a coach of Bayern”.

Bayern has confirm Hansi Flick as the person who will take in charge of the team in their Champions League game against olympiacos this Wednesday and the Klassiker against Borussia Dortmund this weekend.