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London, Sep.4 (ANI): Premier League champions Manchester United is still the world’s richest sports club.

The club is valued at between 1.3 billion to152 million pounds, which is more than American football’s Dallas Cowboys in a new rich list.

Magazine Forbes believe the Old Trafford side’s value has [...]

London, July 16 (ANI): Manchester United will undertake a lucrative tour of the Far East from today, even as the club’s CEO, David Gill, described it as a delicate juggling act between making money and ensuring that the players were not jaded ahead of the new season.

According to the Daily Express, United will play six [...]

London, July 9 (ANI): Manchester United is looking to rope in Inter Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic after missing out on several top signings.

Left with limited options after Lyon striker Karim Benzema opted to join Real Madrid and Bayern Munich striker Franck Ribery revealed his desire to play in the La Liga, The Mirror said coach [...]

Madrid, July 5 (ANI): Spanish football giant Real Madrid’s astonishing summer of transfer window continued with a 55 million pounds offer for Bayern Munich mid-fielder Franck Ribery.

The Los Galacticos have offered Dutch stars Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder in exchange for Ribery, which amounts to 40 million pounds. The rest of the amount is supposed [...]

London, June 22 (ANI): Manchester United should use as much of the 80 million pounds they received for ace striker Cristiano Ronaldo to replace him with French star Franck Ribery.

Former France and Chelsea icon Marcel Desailly, at same time insisted that [...]

London, May 29 (ANI): Ace striker Cristiano Ronaldo is officially off Real Madrid’s radar as his Manchester United received a welcome lift after their Champions League final defeat.

Florentino Perez, who will now be unopposed in Real’s presidential elections, yesterday briefed Spanish journalists that AC Milan’s Kaka has replaced Ronaldo as club’s No.1 summer target.

The news [...]

Munich – Bayern Munich on Thursday dismissed British media reports that they are in talks with Chelsea about a sale of their French star Franck Ribery to England.
“This is not true,” Munich spokesman Markus Hoerwick told the German Press Agency dpa.
The reports said that Chelsea and Munich were negotiating a 43-million pound (49.3 million euros) [...]

London, May 28 (ANI): Chelsea is locked in talks to sign Bayern Munich ace Franck Ribery for 43-million pounds.

According to The Sun, the two clubs are believed to have agreed to the fee and Blues are now thrashing out terms with the 26-year-old French international midfielder.

Ribery [...]

Shanghai – Striker Mario Gomez hopes his move to Bayern Munich will help end a 14-month goal drought for Germany when the national team takes on China on Friday.
“It certainly can’t be a disadvantage that the decision has now been taken,” Gomez told reporters Wednesday after the Germany squad arrived in Shanghai.
Gomez, 23, has not [...]

Munich – Bayern Munich are seeking additional signings for next season after paying a Bundesliga record 30 million euros (42 million dollars) for Stuttgart striker Mario Gomez, chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.
“I believe we will be make one or two more transfers but I don’t think we have to go on a really big offensive. We [...]

Rome – Sir Alex Ferguson believes his young Manchester United team is capable of dominating European football for years to come, starting with victory in Wednesday’s final against Barcelona at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico.
United are looking to become the first team to successfully defend a Champions League crown since the format was introduced in 1992 and [...]

Frankfurt – Germany embarked on an eight-day swing on Tuesday for two friendlies in Asia which despite beach holiday temperatures at the venues is no post-Bundesliga holiday.
“We are not on holiday,” said Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger before the scheduled evening departure in Frankfurt.
A depleted Germany squad of 17 flies to humid Shanghai for a [...]

Hamburg – Bayern Munich will make use of a special clause to sign VfB Stuttgart striker Mario Gomez for a Bundesliga record 30 million euros (42 million dollars), the Bild daily reported on Tuesday.
Bild said that Gomez, who is officially tied to Stuttgart until 2012, has one clause to leave for a foreign club and [...]

Rome – Manchester United and Barcelona have swept all before them domestically this season and now face off on Wednesday in Rome for the title “champions of Europe.”
Having already secured La Liga with ease and trounced Athletic Bilbao 4-1 in the King’s Cup final, Pep Guardiola’s Barca stand on the verge of going one better [...]

Hamburg – Bayern Munich are determined to bolster their attack with the hiring of Germany striker Mario Gomez despite a price tag of around 30 million euros (42 million dollars).
Munich general manager Uli Hoeness said in the DSF television network on Sunday that Munich will start talks on a transfer of the VfB Stuttgart player [...]

Hamburg – Armin Veh will be named new VfL Wolfsburg coach on Sunday, the Augsburger Allgemeine and newspapers in Wolfsburg said on Saturday ahead of the final Bundesliga round.
Veh, 48, is to take over from Felix Magath, who moves on to Schalke 04 after the season.
Neither Wolfsburg nor Veh wanted to confirm the reports, [...]

Hamburg – Wolfsburg’s dazzling striking duo of Grafite and Edin Dzeko kept the side from northern Germany on track for a first- ever Bundesliga title with a 5-0 victory at Hanover 96 on Saturday.
Ahead of next Saturday’s final round, Wolfsburg have 66 points – two more than Bayern Munich and VfB Stuttgart, who face [...]

Toronto, May 5 (ANI): Manchester United has made an offer of about 62.5 million pounds for Bayern Munich midfielder Franck Ribéry, as they close in on a deal that would shatter the world transfer record.

Sources in Munich confirmed the bid has been received for the French international, who has made his desire to leave Germany [...]

London, May 3 (ANI): Arsene Wenger will commit the rest of his career to Arsenal after turning down a 40 million pound offer from the Spanish football club Real Madrid.

Real’s president-elect Florentino Perez was desperate to lure the Frenchman to Spain but the Gunners boss has decided [...]

Sinsheim, Germany – Hertha Berlin won 1-0 at slumping TSG Hoffenheim on Friday to keep their German Bundesliga football title hopes alive.
Patrick Ebert scored the winner in the 40th minute, taking up a pass from Marko Pantelic and beating goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand from a tight angle with a shot into the near right corner.
Hoffenheim [...]