Best Of The Noughties

As we approach another new decade, Goal.com is looking back on 10 years of fabulous football by asking readers to vote for the world’s best player of the noughties from each position. The series kicks off on Monday, December 21 and the voting will be open every day until Christmas Day.

So Very Different

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes that the Premier League is very different from the way it was when he first walked through the doorway of the north London club 13 years ago. It's now a worldwide product, and the ownership has changed...

Not Sunk In Yet

Barcelona captain Carles Puyol stated today that the Catalan club's achievements this season have yet to be fully recognised. While the players know they have won all six trophies, the full realisation has yet to sink in...

Argentina? Not Favourites

Estudiantes and Argentina midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron feels that his countrymen are not World Cup 2010 favourites. "Among the candidates to win, we are not," he said to Radio La Red...

Until 2012 Do Us Part

Following increasing speculation linking Jose Mourinho with a move away from Inter, ‘The Special One’ has publicly confirmed he will be staying at the Giuseppe Meazza until his contract expires in 2012. The Portuguese tactician has no intention of leaving before then...

Excl: Schafer Wanted

Atletico Madrid and Aston Villa are both interested in signing Wolfsburg left back Marcel Schäfer, Goal.com can exclusively reveal. The player's agent spoke to Goal.com about his client's future, and insisted that the defender was only focused on earning a place in Germany's World Cup squad.

Not Keane On Robbie Sale

Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has said he does not want to sell Robbie Keane in the January transfer window. The Spurs captain was said to have planned the Christmas party trip to Ireland that angered Redknapp, but he's going nowhere...