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Marcos Rojo confirms Man Utd deal
Marcos Rojo looks set to complete his €20m move to Manchester United from Sporting Lisbon.
The defender confirmed that he is to join Louis van Gaal's side in an interview with Argentinian radio Continental.
“It feels like a dream, to be a Manchester United player. Leaving Sporting wasn’t easy,” he said.
The 24-year-old added that he had spoken to former United midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron about the club when they were team-mates: “He told me about them when we played for Estudiantes.”
It has been claimed that the World Cup star will sign a four-year contract, with the option of extending the deal for a further year with Nani heading the other way.
The deal could be completed as soon as tomorrow with Rojo expected to fly into Manchester later today to complete his medical.
Rojo apologised to Sporting Lisbon on Sunday evening after refusing to train in an effort to push through the move to United.
“I was hot-headed and I’m sorry. I’ll be back with the rest of the squad tomorrow,” he said.
“Sporting signed me when I was not at my best and gave me the opportunity to play for a big club in Europe. I would like to thank the trust they had in me and I will resume training on Monday.”
Van Gaal was in the market for a left-sided defender to bolster his 3-5-2 system given the three recognised centre-backs in his squad, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling and Jonny Evans, are all predominately right-sided.
source: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/transfer-window/marcos-rojo-confirms-20m-man-united-move-30519332.html
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Lionel Messi almost joined Arsenal
Madrid: Some leading sports websites are claiming that Lionel Messi was interested in a transfer to English Premier League club Arsenal before signing an extension with the Catalan giants in May 2014.
The 27-year-old was locked in contract extension talks with Barcelona & reportedly bonus payments was a cause for concern for both parties.
Leading Spanish website Vozpopuli claimed that Messi had asked Barca teammate & former Arsenal midfielder, Cesc Fabregas, who joined Chelsea in the summer, to talk to his agent Darren Dein about a move to the London based club.
Messi has a buy-out clause approximately around a whopping 197 m Pounds & the Argentine player earns a massive 16 m pounds a year in wages.
World Cup Trophy damaged by unknown German Player
The Germany's football association chief (DFB) revealed that one of the team's players has damaged their FIFA World Cup trophy.
Germany defeated Argentina 1-0 in the final after extra-time to win the 4th world title in their history, after 1954, 1974 and 1990.
The German squad was welcomed home to jubilant scenes & toured Berlin with the trophy - but they may have celebrated a little too hard as it has been damaged by an unknown member of the team.
"At one point, a small piece of our World Cup trophy was chipped off," DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach is quoted as saying. "But do not worry! We have specialists on the case who can fix it."
"We have investigated persistently who it was that damaged the trophy, but the investigation was concluded without a result."
Luckily though, the cup they have been given by FIFA is a replica of the World Cup trophy they were presented with at the Maracana on July 13, which was estimated to be worth over €10 million (£8m).
Fifa, wisely so, tends not to trust football associations with the trophy after the original World Cup award, the Jules Rimet trophy, had been stolen for good in 1983 from Brazil after being targeted by thieves for a long time.
