Manchester United have taken a hard line against the use of social networking sites by banning players to maintain profiles on any social networking website

A statement on manutd.com read:

Player websites warning

The club wishes to make it clear that no Manchester United players maintain personal profiles on social networking websites.

Fans encountering any web pages purporting [...]

Stoke City are negotiating with Portsmouth to sign England keeper David James before Saturday’s EPL clash with Liverpool

The veteran international has found hart to remain fit and get enough games under his belt, but he is now reportedly fit to play

“We’ll have to see if the two clubs can come to a deal,” said Pulis.

“We’re [...]

Manchester United has announced its pre-tax profits of £48.2m for the year ended 30 June 2009.

The profit is a good indication compared with a loss of £21.4m a year ago

The profit includes the £80m fee the club received from Real Madrid for Cristiano Ronaldo last summer.

Man Utd has also said it plans to raise [...]

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson expects the title race to come down to a battle between his side and Chelsea, with other teams falling away.

Only 10 points cover the top six sides, while third-placed Arsenal can close to within one point of Chelsea if they win their two games in hand.

Ferguson said: “It is [...]

According to Tribalfootball, Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is delighted with the progress of former Wigan Athletic winger Antonio Valencia this season.

Valencia has only contributed five goals, but the United boss knew he was signing a completely different kind of player to Cristiano Ronaldo, in terms of personality and style, when he paid Wigan [...]

Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi has been named European Footballer of the Year to win the prestigious Ballon d’Or award.

French magazine France Football said that Messi beat last year’s winner Cristiano Ronaldo into second place by a massive margin – 473 points to 233.

Messi, 22, won the treble of Champions League, the Spanish championship [...]

Barcelona 1-0 Real Madrid

Barcelona beat Real Madrid to leapfrog their arch rivals and move to the top of La Liga.

Substitute Zlatan Ibrahimovic got Barca’s winner after volleying in a delightful Daniel Alves cross.

Sergio Busquets was sent-off after 62 minutes for a second yellow card but Barca survived to secure victory.

Cristiano Ronaldo had earlier missed a [...]

Cristiano Ronaldo looks set to make his return from injury after being included in the Real Madrid squad for their Champions League tie against FC Zurich.

The winger has missed Real’s last nine games with an ankle injury that also kept him out of Portugal’s World Cup play-off against Bosnia-Hercegovina.

However, the 24-year-old returned to full training [...]

Cristiano Ronaldo could resume full training with Real Madrid on Friday as he recovers from an ankle injury.

The former Manchester United winger sustained the injury against Marseille on 30 September and has missed nine games for the Spanish giants.

He was cleared to return to training after tests on Tuesday but the club are not saying [...]

According to Goal.com the Real Madrid star could be back training by the end of this week. ‘CR9′ has indicated that he is feeling increasingly healthy.

Cristiano Ronaldo is hopeful that he can return to training with Real Madrid this week as he aims to be fit in time to face Barcelona at the end of [...]