BLACK

Real Madrid smashed their own player transfer fee record after signing Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United. The Club have broke player transfer fee records for the four consecutive times in the past ten years. AC Milan is the only other club to have smashed transfer fees records four times by signing Juan Schiaffino from Peñarol, (1954), Ruud Gullit from PSV Eindhoven (1987), Jean-Pierre Papin from Marseille (1992) and Gianluigi Lentini from Torino,(1992).


The four galacticos who smashed records are Luís Figo from Barcelona (2000) at £ 37,000,000, Zinedine Zidane from Juventus (2001)at £ 46,000,000, Kaká from AC Milan at £ 56,000,000 and Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United (2009)at £ 80,000,000


Real Madrid was knocked out of champion league last week by Olympic Lyon after loosing 2-1 on aggregate. The Club have won 9 champion league trophies (1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1966,1998,2000,2002), last one was in 2002 under Vicente Del Bosque, the current Spain coach.

His name is José Mário dos Santos Félix Mourinho, born 26 January 1963,a Portuguese football manager.

He is the current manager of Italian club F.C. Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan). The son of Portuguese goalkeeper Félix, Mourinho. In 1990, he started his career as an assistant manager and a youth team coach in the early 1990s, he became an interpreter for Bobby Robson. Mourinho learned much from the veteran coach and worked with him at top Portuguese teams Sporting Clube de Portugal, F.C. Porto, and at Spanish giants FC Barcelona FC.
Benfica 2000
União de Leiria 2001–2002
Porto 2002–2004
Chelsea 2004–2007
Internazionale 2008-Current

Jose Mourinho began managerial role at S.L. Benfica and União de Leiria, and theb moved to Porto in 2002 as head coach where he won the Portuguese Liga, Cup of Portugal and UEFA Cup in 2003. In 2004 he won the UEFA Champions League and moved to Chelsea in 2005. At Chelsea FC he won two consecutive Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006, among other domestic honours.

Mourinho was named the world's best football manager by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) for both the 2004–05 and 2005–06 seasons. He then moved to Serie A and he currently have a two years contract with Inter Milan. So far with Inter Milan he has won the Italian Supercup, and national Serie A title.

Champions League draw
Arsenal may face Wembley cup winner Celtic in the final stage of champion league qualifying round. Tony Mowbray's have to beat Dinamo Moscow in away game to enter this stage. Qualification play off have been schedule ton 18/19 August and 25/26 August

The 10 remaining clubs in big league in Europe that did not win in domestic league will compete for 5 places to in champion league

Another path is for 10 league winner in leagues which are not given much weight in Europe football. Will also compete for five places to go to champion league. Ten qualifying team will join 20 team which qualified automatically to make a list of 32 teams

Full Champions League play-off draw:
FC Sheriff v Olympiakos
SV Red Bull Salzburg v Maccabi Haifa
FK Ventspils v FC Zurich
FC Copenhagen v Apoel Nicosia
Levski Sofia v Debrecen
Lyon v Anderlecht
CELTIC v ARSENAL
FC Timisoara v VfB Stuttgart
Sporting v Fiorentina
Panathinaikos v Atletico Madrid