Contrasting attitudes

Two rather different attitudes to problem players are being demonstrated today, on either side of the Atlantic. Villarreal, who have a playmaker many sides would be delighted to get their hands on, are trying to get rid of Juan Román Riquelme. And River Plate, who have a second striker no-one else will touch with a [...]

The Millionaires start spending… oh.

After all that selling, River Plate have finally signed a footballer in this transfer window - but the traditional big-spenders won’t be shelling out anything but his wages. Ernesto Farías, Juan Pablo Carrizo, Nelson Rivas, Ruben Sambueza, Víctor Zapata, Diego Galván and Matías Oyola have all left. Today, Sixto Peralta arrived - on loan - [...]

A shock draw

Boca continued their pre-season tour of the United States on Tuesday night with a 1-1 draw in Utah against Real Salt Lake. Falling behind early on to a harshly given penalty after Real’s Freddy Adu fell over in the box. Again Boca used the 4-4-2 system with wide midfielders Neri Cardozo and Jesús Dátolo providing [...]