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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’.

Andy Murray ranked world no three British player has been pulled out for Japan Open held in Tokyo due to enduring wrist injury. However, Murray is overwhelmed by this problem over past six weeks, he is paying attention to play at the end of season ATP World Tours finals held in London.

Murray mentioned on his website that ATP is the biggest tournament in London and he need to make it sure about the fitness. He added saying about his disappointment of not challenging for Japan Open. As per the medication, he is advised to give left wrist some more time to get well. Injury is improving on daily basis; full training will be restarted soon, his wrist will be evaluated by this weekend again. He was injured while playing three matches for Davis Cup in Great Britain. Uttering about the Davis Cup defeat said pain is bearable however, decision need to be made. Doctor consulting him said hurt in his right wrist happened two year ago but medication started after three months. Murray added saying that he need to be careful with wrists and not keep playing because such problem does not go away Murray is determined to reach the ATP season finale held at 02 Arena. Champions Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin Del Potro are all qualified for the elite eight-man tournament. Murray mentioned the most freaking thing is not playing the tournament but could not even hold the racquet.

Rafael Nadal world number two player has been singled out from Thailand Open to improve from abdominal injury just days before the tournament begins. Injuries as hindered the performance at US Open and was also pulled out from Spanish squad for the Davis Cup semi-final win over Israel.

Juan Martin Del Potro defeated Nadal in US Open semi finals. Nadal injury needs to been taken care of and must rest for at least 10days. Spanish Tennis Federation Dr Angel Ruiz Cottoro chief of medical service said ultrasound scan discovered that he has an acute rapture on right abdominal muscle. Nadal is very disappointed as he not able to play in Bangkok and looking forward to play next year in Thailand, a base of huge and loyal fans. He expressed his disappointment through emails said the organizers and added saying he eagerly wanted to play and enjoy a holiday in Krabi before the tournament began.

Downfall of Khalid Yafai in Flyweight and Scott Cardle in Light-welterweight brought no medal to Great Britain from Milan. Not securing at all medals brings up Britain’s disappointment.

The examination put on the decision of team bosses overtake elite squad which many needless arouse question on Olympic performance of preceding 56years. Yafai fighter of Birmingham was inspired reaching till quarterfinals and could have reached further but his team was doubtful of achieving the contest with Beblik. It seems that number of good shots were not been counted has his two points were penalized in the second round for a low blow. Cardle said he really wanted to finish the fight his defender was more skilled than he was and uttered saying next time he will bring back the medal. Last year Beijing Olympics England team won three medals similar to World Championships in Chicago held at 2007, later on Coach Terry Edward contract was not renewed.

Rain gods were not in favor of the tour as it poured on the riders for most of the race. But German Heinrich Haussler was determined to fight and he did winning the stage in style. He attacked the peloton at the three kilometer mark and took all the climbs and descents with aggression. As he crossed the line at Colmar, he had tears in his eyes, quite an emotional first stage victory for him at the tour. Other gainers in the race were Hushovd who took the green jersey away from Cavendish and the other gainer was Franco Pellizotti’s who gets to wear the polka-dot jersey on Saturday.

The Friday stage between Vittel and Colmar had a total distance of 200 kilometers. There were in all five climbs in the stage including category 3 at cote de Xertigny, category 2 at col de la Schlucht, category 1 at col du Platzerwasel, category 3 at col du Bannstein and category 3 at col du Firstplan. The stage also had three sprints including Xertigny at 43.5 kilometers, Gerardmer at 88.5 kilometers and Luttenbach at 24 kilometers.

There was one major disappointment especially for team Astana as one of their most experienced climber Levi Leipheimer had to leave the tour due to a fractured wrist. Leipheimer was thought as a great helper to Contador, Armstrong and Kloden as the tour enters the Alps.

It’s been an amazing tour this year, out of the 11 stages 5 have had excellent sprints and what’s most amazing is that 4 have been won by the phenomena Mark Cavendish. The sprint king took away the green jersey from Norwegian Thor Hushovd and also equaled Barry Hoban’s British record of eight stage wins. There were doubts if this would be an ideal stage for Cavendish to charge, but he timed it to the perfection. Till now Cavendish has been the one who started the sprint but in this stage he waited for the right moment and showed the world his caliber as a class sprinter, not to forget he won four stages in last years tour and also has an Olympic gold to his name. It was a disappointment for the green jersey holder as he could manage only a fifth place finish and also lost the jersey to Cavendish.

The 192 kilometers stage 11 was between Vatan to Saint-Fargeau and had 170 riders with one casualty on stage 10 as Kurt Asle Arvesen was forced out of the tour due to a fractured collarbone. The stage consisted of two category four climbs at cote d’Allogny at 40.5 kilometers and cote de Perreuse at 150 kilometers. There were three intermediate sprints in the race Quincy at 26.5 kilometers, St-Geols at 73.5 kilometers and Suilly-la-Tour at 114.5 kilometers. The stage saw an early accident when at the 14th kilometers mark Vande Velde and Rosseler crashed. At the 15 kilometer mark the race came to a halt due to a road block caused by a collapsed structure. This helped the two accident riders to join the main peloton. There was another crash involving Rojas and Righi at the 24 kilometer mark.

Tour leader Nocentini finished the stage at 34th place and will wear the yellow jersey on Thursday in stage 12. He his followed closely by Astana riders Contador and Armstrong.

As Webber took the checkered flag at the German Grand Prix his race engineer said on the radio to him “Mark Webber you are a Grand Prix winner. Well done! Brilliant drive!“. He started his race on a pole but his chances of winning were almost ruled after a drive through penalty that was imposed on him due to a brush off at the start of the race with Brwan driver Barrichello. But the mountain gods at the Nurburgring were surely in favor of the Australian and he won the race in style. This is his first race win in his long Formula 1 career with 133 races which started with Minardi in 2002.

A re-fuelling rig problem forced Ruben Barrichello out of the podium contention and also pushed him down in the order. Sunday’s race also saw Sebastian Vettel finish a strong second behind his team mate. This is the third time during the season when the top two positions have been taken by the Red Bull team.

A big disappointment for the day was Force India driver Adrian Sutil, who came close to taking the first points of the season for his team. He did and excellent qualifying on Saturday but missed out on Sunday after Kimmi took his front wing out and closed all doors for the Force India team.

ix After German Grand Prix the champion ship remains quite open and all the four can attack for the season reward. Button leads the championship with 68 points followed by Vettel is second with 47 points, Webber third with 45.5 points and Barrichello slips to fourth and is on 44 points.

It was like visiting history, Armstrong has done it in the past and almost did it in the time trial stage again. US Postal and Discovery were lead by Lance to achieve the amazing team time trial results and he did it again with Astana. I guess but the gods were with Fabian Cancellara as he retained the yellow with just two tenth of a second separating him and Armstrong. The stage also witnessed an excellent finish by Garmin – Slipstream who lost the four riders in the first half of the race. But its was the relentless pace that Garmin – Slipstream delivered and increased the tempo for the day, the remaining five riders – Bradley Wiggins, David Millar, David Zabriskie, Christian Vande Velde and Ryder Hesjedal delivered an excellent time taking them to a second place in the stage.

The Schleck brothers lead team Saxo Bank finished third and are now places second in the race behind Astana. The stage also witnessed Team a not so good performance by Team Colombia-HTC which was pushed to a fifth place by Team Liquigas. The stage was a big disappointment for Cadel Evans of Team Silence – Lotto and RABOBANK rider Denis Menchov as the poor result in the team time trial pushed them down in the overall ranking. Team Silence – Lotto finished a below par at the 13th sport, 6 minutes and 51 seconds behind the leader and Rabobank took the 11th position. Another disappoint of the day was defending champion Carlos Sastre who after a poor at stage 1 time trial slipped further down as his team finished sixth.

The day truly belonged to the excellent time trial by Astana with excellent riding has place five of there rider in the top ten. Armstrong, Contadorm, Kloden, Leipheimer and Zubeldia are in the top ten which is a clear sign how this team has eclipsed the race results so far.

There were no changes in the green, white and polka dot jersey standings. Stage five has two category 4 climbs and one might see some aggression and also a change in few positions.