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Florentino Perez saw his ambitious $250 million dollar dream crash at Santiago Bernabeu. Lyon drew with Real Madrid in the Champions League and they go to the next stage due to aggregate goal difference.

Thus continues the Real Madrid hoodoo, they haven’t won a match in the knock out stage since the past five years. Big stars such as Ronaldo and Kaka were not enough to end the five year long drought. Lyon teenage sensation, Miralem Pjanic put a nail in Los Merengues coffin to send the new Galacticos right out of the Champions League.

Nobody knows what went wrong. Higuain, who has been the best player for Real Madrid in this season couldn’t sync with other players. He missed a goal in the early stages of the game which stunned the Madrid loyals.

Ronaldo was perhaps the only player, who looked dangerous, but “CR9” faded after the first half and other players didn’t seem to co-operate with him on the attack.

All the other players were lacklustre; this was the shadow of the Real Madrid team that we have seen in the La Liga.

This defeat has sent rumors floating that Perez is now looking for a new manager to lead his new side. Current Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger, who is currently with Arsenal, are tipped to take over from Manuel Pellegrini. The current Real Madrid manager however says that he has no plans of resigning from his post.

Juventus are the latest club to join the race for Ribery’s signature. Ciro Ferrara is convinced that the Frenchman is the ideal solution to solve their attacking problems.

Ribery was on the Italian clubs shopping list ever since Claudio Ranieri was in charge at Turin but the Bavarian club was reluctant to sell their most influential player.

Times have changed now with Ribery going public with his intentions to leave the German club. Ribery is contracted to F.C. Bayern Munich till 2011 however; the former Galatasaray winger wants to leave Germany in the summer to sign for a bigger club.

Ribery has said that he wants his future sorted before the World cup so he can concentrate on playing in South Africa.

Spanish giants Real Madrid and London club Chelsea are the two favorites for the 26 year old French star. Chelsea were desperate to sign the French forward last season because of the transfer ban imposed by FIFA which will probably come in to effect from next season.

Between the two clubs, Ribery is looking to join Los Merengues where he will unite with his compatriot Zinedine Zidane who is currently the advisor for transfers at the Santiago Bernabéu.

Juventus will have to spend big if they are to compete with Chelsea and Real Madrid for the Munich winger.

Rumors regarding Vidic’s exit from Manchester United were fuelled when the defender was pulled out at last minute citing an injury during the weekends match against Leeds United at Old Trafford. Manchester United went on to lose the game 1-0 and now are out of the FA cup.

Ferguson had no words when asked about situation of Vidic at the end of the match. All he could say was “I couldn’t tell you what the situation is with Nemanja. I couldn’t tell you at all”

The 28 year old Serbian defender wants to move out of England because his wife is unhappy with the climate. AC Milan and Real Madrid are both chasing the defender but according to latest reports Barcelona have also joined the hunt with their ace defender Carles Puyol skeptical over contract extension.

Reports say that Vidic will be out of Old Trafford by the end of the season with Real Madrid already bidding £30 million for the Serbian stopper. Manchester United meanwhile is resigned to losing the former Spartak Moscow defender; they are looking for options with Jack Rodwell from Everton being the favorite to replace him.

Former Chelsea manager and current Inter boss Jose Mourinho has said that he will return to England to manage a premier league side but that won’t be before next year. Mourinho is rumored to be out of favor at San Siro due to poor performances in the Champions League and may be on his way out soon.

Massimo Moratti, the owner of Inter Milan expressed displeasure publicly when Milan were defeated by Barcelona in Champions League at Camp Nou. Mourinho has since replied by saying that he wants to go to coach in Spain.

Mourinho visited Stamford Bridge to watch Chelsea defeat Fulham and was mobbed by reporters and fans where he reiterated his desire to work in England. Mourinho is rumored get the coaching position at Manchester United, something that is endorsed by Sir Alex Ferguson who said that he would like the Portuguese to take over at Old Trafford.

Chelsea enjoyed one of the best days when Mourinho was in charge, won every cup except the Champions League and left Chelsea with a mutual agreement. The Russian oligarch was stunned last year when the Chelsea players requested him to bring back Mourinho back to London to get back to their winning ways.

AC Milan confirmed that David Beckham will join the club for on loan during the winter transfer window just like last year. Both the player and the club are eager to complete the transfer as Beckham wants to cement his place in the England’s world cup squad next year although he has lost his starting place due to age.

AC Milan are also keen on the deal that will help them provide another attacking player to the already ageing Milan squad. But the move seems more of a move to improve the financial status of the Italian club.

Milan, were in financial crisis that led to the sale of Kaka to Real Madrid for around 65 million euros. The money has been used to relieve Milan of financial debts because there was no major signing done by Rossoneri apart from the 18 million euro Klaas-Jan Huntelaar from Real Madrid.

Bringing Beckham to Milan will improve sale of shirts around the world as the former England captain still has a huge fan following in Europe.

Beckham has promised that he will return to American MLS league after his loan spell ends at Milan which puts an end to all rumors that the midfielder wants a permanent move to Europe, although the loan move to Milan means that he will miss the start of American MLS season.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy one of the world’s best attackers is looking for a new club in order to make a position for himself at next year’s world cup in South Africa. Van Nistelrooy, a former Manchester United front man  was bought by Real Madrid for 24 million euros in 2006 but after a couple of success full seasons the striker has had a series of injuries which has left him baking the benches.

Liverpool are interested to buy the striker in order to improve their attack. The Merseyside club is currently having one of the worst seasons ever after being thrown out of Champions League and currently lying seventh on the Premier league with just three wins in their last 15 matches. But Liverpool will be asking Van Nistelrooy to accept a cut in wages, as they cannot afford to pay £100,000 a week after tax that he currently earns at Real Madrid.

Tottenham Hotspurs are the other club who want to purchase the striker and are currently accumulating funds by trying to offload Roman Pavlyuchenko, Alan Hutton, David Bentley and Robbie Keane who are currently surplus to requirements in White Hart Lane.

Real Madrid are offering Van Nistelrooy to Chelsea but are asking for Ricardo Carvalho in return to make up for injured Pepe who will be missing the rest of the season with torn cruciate ligament injury in right knee.

Van Nistelrooy is available for purchase for a few of £3 million and is desperate to leave the Los Merengues in order to cement his chance in World Cup 2010.

Liverpool has just had one of the most disastrous Champions league campaigns ever; they didn’t even make it to the knock out stages of the championship and got out of the group stages even before the final round of fixtures was played.

Nobody knows what went wrong with Liverpool, they have had great luck in the competition. A couple of years ago they struggled to finish in the top four in the domestic competition and won the European club competition.

Last year the manager Rafael Benitez spend about 18.5 million pounds on Glen Johnson, 15.3 million pounds on Aquilani (who never got to play much due to injury problems from his former club) and this was spent to help Liverpool’s chances of winning the cup. But instead things have got worse and compared to this year, they did better last time. Maybe selling Xabi Alonso was too overwhelming for them. This shows what kind of player he was.

Nobody knows what went wrong, when a team has players like Gerrard and Torres how can you not come in top 2 with a group of teams like Fiorentina, Lyon and Debrecen? This will be a huge loss to Liverpool in terms of money and the club’s image. To make matters worse there are rumors lurking around that say Javier Mascherano is leaving for Barcelona for earning more money and that Torres will be sold to relieve the club of financial burdens.

Liverpool now focuses on Europa League. If they win the cup it will be nothing great because Liverpool are the most talented team in that league but if they lose it will build even more pressure on them.

Mourinho has been asked by Inter Milan players Samuel Eto’o and Wesley Sneijder to bring José María Gutiérrez ‘Guti’ Hernández to Inter Milan to solve their mid field woes. The two players believe the attacking midfielder will provide great opportunities to the Inter strikers who are shy of scoring in Champions League.

Guti currently is out of favor at Real Madrid following a war of words with Coach Manuel Pelligrini, in which the trainer won the duel and now Guti has been left to warming the benches at Real.

Inter coach Jose Mourinho is currently facing the heat from owner Massimo Moratti, following their 2-0 deafeat at Barcelona at the Champions league. The “Special one” has done nothing spectacular since replacing Roberto Mancini in 2008. True, the have won a couple of Scudettos, but this was already achieved by Mancini. Moratti wants Champions League success and has gone public with his disappointment with Mourinho to which the latter replied by saying ‘I would like to coach in Spain’

Guti is expected to leave Los Merengues following the outburst against Pelligrini during the Copa Del Rey match against Alcoron. But both Real Madrid and the player have insisted that there will be no transfer. Pelligrini has other ideas; he is heard saying that Guti is not playing because he is ‘injured’.