The Squad Sports Blog

Lionel Messi is set to make his 500th appearance for Barcelona at the weekend, and here are some amazing records of him after 499 games for Barcelona, courtesy of Opta: -Messi has 424 goals in 499 games with an average of 0.85 goals per game. -His highest scoring season was in the 2011-12 season where he score 50 times in La Liga and 14 times in the Champions League scoring a total of 73 in all competitions. -He has scored in 266 matches and Barca have only lost on 9 occasions whenever he scored (3.4 percent). -He has scored 236 goals at Camp Nou, 174 at away grounds and 14 at neutral grounds including goals in the 2009 and 2011 Champions League finals. -Messi has scored 12 times at the Santiago Bernabeu and 11 times at the Vincente Calderon, his two highest scoring grounds away from home. -He has played his 499 matches under five coaches, the most 219 under Pep Guardiola and the least 46 under Gerardo Martino. -He has tasted victory 349 times in 499 matches. -Messi has spent 3...

Jose Mourinho and Chelsea Football Club parted ways today by mutual consent as revealed by the official website of the club, www.chelseafc.com after losing his 9th English Premier League game of the season which left the team languishing in 16th place with 15 points in 16 games. Despite this, Jose Mourinho still boasts the best points per game ratio of managers in the Premier League and is still the best Chelsea manager of all time with 7 trophies in two spells (2004-2007 and 2013-2015). He's still the Special One.

Champions in May, 3 points above the relegation zone in November. What went wrong? You will be right if your answer is "a lot". In a league known for its competitiveness, you would have expected the reigning Champions to bolster their squad with high quality signings, but barring Pedro, who hasn't convinced since that man of the match performance on his debut, all they've done is bring in a certain Falcao in hope that he will rediscover his scoring touch, which hasn't happened so far, Rahman, who is still blending into English football with rather inconsistent performances, and Djilobodji, who I'm sure was as shocked as everyone else when he heard Chelsea wanted to sign him. Jose Mourinho, as we all know, wanted more than these, as the likes of Paul Pogba, Gareth Bale, Raheem Sterling and John Stones were all at one point rumoured to be on the transfer radar of Chelsea, with the latter being pursued, even until the end of the transfer window, without any suc...

Diary of a Gooner by Nrabalu A. E. The news that Hector Bellerin is going to miss the clash with Bayern tonight, comes a familiar sigh of resignation. I say familiar because this sort of 'news' isn't that anymore. The most promising youngster in all of English football is lost, well, we'll survive or won't we? Matthieu Debuchy will deputise superbly, we'll fight out a draw, maybe even a win and subsequently qualify in 1st place.   I know, that's how it plays out in my dream. As an Arsenal fan if you're not used to the roller coaster you're just joining, at this club everything is never really perfect, not even close. Forget about injuries, our trophy drought was well documented, we have overcome it, but not with the big one. I'd say it's coming this season but remember how nothing is ever really perfect at this club? I'm sure you wanna argue, this has been a mind blowing start to a season, best in a while. Important players firing on a...

http://theprideoflondon.com/2015/10/29/chelsea-fc-a-letter-to-roman-abramovich/

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http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/1862/premier-league/2015/10/26/16684522/you-can-sympathise-with-mourinho-but-you-cant-condone-his

I'm a very big supporter of Jose Mourinho, and I'd like to use this medium to voice my support for him in the most trying time of his illustrious career. Jose! Jose!! Jose!!!

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/462/netherlands/2015/10/22/16569312/johan-cruyff-diagnosed-with-lung-cancer

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/13452/opta/2015/10/20/16521062/pep-popped-the-incredible-stat-that-proves-wenger-can-cut-it

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/1716/champions-league/2015/10/21/16531632/old-dog-wenger-is-learning-new-tricks

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/7180/galleries/2015/10/20/16490982/mourinho-wenger-and-enrique-the-fifa-world-coach-of-the-year

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/7180/galleries/2015/10/20/15938992/messi-ronaldo-the-23-man-ballon-dor-2015-shortlist

http://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2015/10/see-inside-my-new-luxury-banana-island.html?m=1

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/1862/premier-league/2015/10/19/16458162/mourinho-fine-was-excessive-referee-mistakes-deserve-to-be

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/13452/opta/2015/10/18/16447782/move-over-neymar-wijnaldum-scores-four-as-newcastle-explode-into-

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/722/la-liga/2015/10/17/16426282/neymar-scores-four-goals-for-the-fifth-time-in-his-career

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/7157/euro-2016-qualifying/2015/10/18/16433992/breaking-sweden-draw-denmark-ireland-face-bosnia-in-euro

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/722/la-liga/2015/10/17/15503272/messi-is-barcelonas-best-ever-but-is-ronaldo-madrids-all

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/725/bundesliga/2015/10/17/16415712/good-omens-relentless-bayern-munich-set-new-bundesliga-win

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10030436/jose-mourinhos-16350000-fine-and-suspended-stadium-ban-explained

https://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2015/10/mourinho-we-have-solutions.html?extcmp=SOCIA_FB_ENG_NEWS_PREMATCH

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/1862/premier-league/2015/10/15/16358472/mourinho-fa-punishment-a-disgrace-but-at-least-im-not-tagged

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/1862/premier-league/2015/10/14/16313172/courtois-targets-december-return

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/13452/opta/2015/10/14/16313822/always-in-messis-shadow-how-many-goals-can-ronaldo-score

http://m.goal.com/s/en-ng/news/4071/premier-league/2015/10/06/16060672/mourinho-ferguson-couldnt-lure-me-to-manchester-united

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/1862/premier-league/2015/10/04/16023342/mourinho-ill-resign-if-chelsea-players-dont-want-me

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/1717/editorial/2015/10/04/16015072/blowing-the-suarez-money-falling-out-with-gerrard-why

http://m.goal.com/s/en/news/1717/editorial/2015/10/03/15986452/nowhere-to-hide-mourinhos-chelsea-are-an-absolute-disaster

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2015/10/final-whistle-verdict-after-southampton.html?extcmp=SOCIA_FB_ENG_NEWS_POSTMATCH

For, Petr Cech, I think it's safe to say that he didn't expect his Premier League debut to turn out as bad as it did, but then he can look forward rest assured that there were players who had really bad showings on their debuts and went on to do great things for their clubs and some even became club legends. Here's a list of some of those players... Jonathan Woodgate - Real Madrid Henrik Larsson - Celtic Tomas Repka - West Ham Zlatan Ibrahmovc - ACMilan Patrice Evra - Manchester United

Escapable Slide tackles Nine New Stadiums Vanishing Spray

Just saw this on the ESPN site... Don't expect comfort from a fellow manager 

FIFA 16 comes with new and exciting features including an ultimate team draft where you have to pick a squad for a tournament whilst being given only five options for each position and can play with the best players in the game, including in-forms and legends... Lionel Messi in FIFA 16 Story of the Season in FIFA 16 Career Mode Pre-season tournaments in FIFA 16 Career Mode

The stats are in Rooney's favour in the striking position. Can he replicate the form of previous years in a striking role this term? Only time will tell...

Talking about the two Ronaldos, here's what a face swap would look like...

                                                  They're from two different generations in football, two different countries, but both are similar in their appetite for goals, good with both feet, have bursting speed and are 3-time winners of the FIFA Footballer of the Year Award. Meet   Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima and   Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro.

14 matches played against each other, two of the world's top and highest paid managers in the world, a host of titles between them, both of them manage the two biggest teams in London, but there's still no love lost between them. I think it's time for them to grow up and start a healthy competition rather than continuing with the war of words. Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho! shake hands and shake it off.