WHEN LIVERPOOL DECIDED NOT TO BUY CRISTIANO RONALDO iIN THE YEAR 2003.

Now according to THE DAILY MAIL, Liverpool were very eager to sign up the young Portuguese player called Cristiano Ronaldo. Now Sporting Lisbon wanted a small transfer fee of just 4, four million pounds. But the Liverpool Manager Gerrard Houlier and the assistant manager Phil Thompson decided not to sin up the youngster from Portugal. But why was the decision by the two against buying young Cristiano Ronaldo. The two felt that as Cristiano Ronaldo would e getting a yearly salary of one million pounds, it would definitely unsettle the dressing room and more of the Liverpool players would be asking this amount as a yearly salary. Now a week later Cristiano Ronaldo signed up tat Manchester United for a sum of 12.2 twelve million pounds. Just imagine that! And as they say the rest is history.

MANAGING A TOP CLUB TURNS HAIR GREY IN SIX YEARS.

The stress is imense on the football coaches these days, it has now shown that the top managers have all gone grey in six short years of stressful job.Take some famous and sucessful managers,.
1 ) Sir Alex Ferguson, who started getting grey hair in the 1994-1995 season, when Manchester United lost the E.P.L title to Blackburn Rovers who had AlanShearer and Damien Duff that time. And Eric Cantona the manchester United Captain was banned for 8 months for kicking a Crystal Palace fan.
2) Kevin Keegan who was 58 years old and coach of New Castle United, and in 1995-1996, his became grey when Newcastle let a 12 point slip and ended second to Manchestere United.
3)Arsene Wenger the famous French and Arsenal coach, has had a constant race with Ferguson for trophies in the 13 years he has been at Arsenal.
Some have had heart surgery when coaches, Gerrard Houlier, Joe Kiennar and big Sam Allardyce all felt the strain .

GOSSIP AND MORE NEWS.

1) Gerrard Houlier the former Liverpool and Lyon coach says he has no desire to take over as Sunderland coach.
2) Harry redknapp wants to sell the Russian player Roman Pavlyuchenko, who Tottenham Purchased in the summer for 13.8 million pounds. But he fears there want be any takers for him.
3) Chelsea are willing to unload Alex the Brazilian for another Brazilian defender Thiago Dsilva, the one on their shopping list is the Espanyol goalkeeper Carlos Kameni for a sum of 5 million pounds.
5 ) The Spanish club have told Manchester City to forget all about the Brazilian Striker Luis Fabiano , as they are not selling him for the money offered , which was 25, twentyfive million pounds.As Sevilla say he is not for sale.
6) Rafael Benitez has already written of Liverpools challenge for the year, he says, that to expect three good and powerful teams such as ,Arsenal , Manchester United and Chelsea all to collapse, is unthinlkable, it may go all the way to the wire like last year. For example Arsenal got 82 points and still came third.