April 2014 - Soccer Wiretap

Arsenal Prepared To Spend In January To Improve Defense
Arsène Wenger insists he will have money to spend on improving Arsenal's roster this January.

Paul Doyle/The Guardian

PSG Booed Off Home Pitch After Scoreless Draw
Paris Saint-Germain were held to a goalless draw at home against Montpellier in their final match of 2014.

ESPN

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Signs Extension With Schalke Through 2017
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has scored 101 goals in 160 competitive games for Schalke since arriving from AC Milan in 2010.

ESPN

Jürgen Klopp Denies Considering Departure From Dortmund
Jürgen Klopp has clarified his statement that he will miss Borussia Dortmund fans when he is no longer in charge of the club.

Stephan Uersfeld/ESPN

Rodgers: Alexis Would Have Been Perfect Replacement For Suárez
Brendan Rodgers is still lamenting the decision by Alexis Sánchez to go to Arsenal instead of Liverpool in his transfer from Barcelona.

James Goldman/Goal.com

Eden Hazard To Sign £200,000-A-Week Extension With Chelsea
Eden Hazard has been working without an agent on negotiations.

BBC

Frank Lampard Could Stay At City But Not Until End Of Season
Frank Lampard is on loan from sister club New York City FC of the MLS.

Press Association

City Expects James Milner To Sign New Contract
James Milner is in the final season of his current deal and would be free to talk to other clubs from next month.

Press Association

Blatter Rules Out Revisiting Votes For 2018, 2022 World Cups
Sepp Blatter said "external legal experts" supported the view that "there are no legal grounds" to revoke the controversial vote in 2010 to award the World Cups to Russia and Qatar.

PA Sport

Real Madrid 'Delighted' To Offer New Contract To Carlo Ancelotti
Carlo Ancelotti led Real Madrid to the Champions League championship in his first season.

The Guardian

Bayern Expects To Keep Xherdan Shaqiri Through January Window
Xherdan Shaqiri has been linked to a move to Liverpool as he's been a spare part for Bayern Munich behind Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben on the wing.

Nicholas McGee/Goal.com

Rodgers Compares Sterling To Alexis
Brendan Rodgers compared the play of Raheem Sterling at striker to Alexis Sánchez, who was a Liverpool target this summer.

Adam Bate/Sky Sports

Russian Owners Of Chelsea, Arsenal, Monaco Lose Millions
Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov and Dmitry Rybolovlev all lost hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of Russia's current economic troubles.

ESPN

United Confident January Transfer For Kevin Strootman Now Possible
With Roma out of the Champions League, they could finally sell Kevin Strootman to Manchester United.

Miguel Delaney/ESPN

EPL Clubs Charge Up To $940 For Kids To Be Mascots
11 Premier League teams, including Tottenham, ask a fee for being a mascot on matchday.

James Riach/The Guardian

Falcao Wants To Stay At United
United have the option to wait until after the season to make Falcao's loan deal permanent, though terms have already been agreed upon with Monaco.

Chris Davie/Goal.com

Sam Allardyce Unconcerned Extension Talks With West Ham Haven't Begun
Sam Allardyce's contract expires at the end of the current season.

FourFourTwo

Liverpool To Conduct Review Of Transfer Strategy
After Luis Suarez was sold to Barcelona for £75 million, the Reds spent over £100 million on eight new players last summer, including £16m on Mario Balotelli.

Sky Sports

Bayern Interested In Raheem Sterling
Raheem Sterling figures to be Bayern's contingency plan if they are unable to acquire Marco Reus.

Tom Doyle/ESPN

Martin Odegaard Expected To Sign With Bayern
Martin Odegaard has done at least a dozen major interviews and has trained with or at least visited Liverpool, Arsenal and Bayern Munich.

Jonathan Wilson/The Guardian

Thierry Henry Dreams Of Managing Arsenal
Thierry Henry will begin his post-playing career as a television analyst, but he would one day love to be a manager at Arsenal.

FourFourTwo

Daniel Sturridge To Work With Red Sox Medical Team
Daniel Sturridge has been out with injury since August.

The Guardian

Chelsea Planning On Sitting Out January Transfer Window
Barring injury, Chelsea will not be adding any significant transfers during the January window.

Kevin Palmer/ESPN

Xavi Interested In Managing Barça Someday
Xavi replaced Pep Guardiola on the pitch as the midfield playmaker having been promoted to the first team by Louis van Gaal and is interested in following him as manager of Barcelona.

Reuters

Inter Won't Pursue January Transfer For Mario Balotelli
Inter is currently 11th in the Serie A table and won't target Mario Balotelli.

Ben Gladwell/ESPN

Liverpool 'Sure' Raheem Sterling Will Sign Extension
Raheem Sterling and Liverpool have held extension talks since October.

Mike Whalley/ESPN

Andrea Pirlo Wins Third Straight Serie A Player Of The Year
Andrea Pirlo joins Zlatan Ibrahimovic as the only other player to have won the award three times.

Ben Gladwell/ESPN

Rodgers Denies Report Of Issues Within Liverpool's Dressing Room
Brendan Rodgers has denied reports of issues in the Liverpool dressing room.

Andy Hunter/The Guardian

Neymar Ruled Out City Move Due To Muddy Pitches Of England
Neymar believed he would have to wear specially tailored boots to play in those conditions and preferred to go to Spain.

Jamie Jackson/The Guardian

Jeremy Ménez Finally Delivering On Potential In Central Role For Milan
Jeremy Ménez is averaging one goal every 85 minutes and has a more impressive conversion rate than Carlos Tevez.

James Horncastle/ESPN