Ay: Mayıs 2016

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri awarded major Italian honour

The Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has been appointed a Grand Officer of the Italian Order of Merit, one of his home country’s highest honours. Ranieri’s award has reportedly been approved by the Italian president Sergio Mattarella, meaning that the 64-year-old will receive the third-highest honour in Italy’s six-tier grading system.

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Jürgen Klopp – serial loser? No, he can do a Dortmund at Liverpool

Jürgen Klopp: an apology. Like many other news sources, we might previously have given the impression Liverpool’s manager was a charming, successful, tactically coherent all-round hunk of competence. Headlines such as “Klopp’s Dortmund win Bundesliga title”, “Klopp leads so-so Liverpool to European final” and “Klopp: pretty much every other club jealous they didn’t hire him” might, in retrospect, have been misleading.

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Tottenham only Premier League club to make transfer profit in past year

Tottenham Hotspur were the only top-flight club to make a profit from their transfer dealings over the last two windows. Mauricio Pochettino managed to bank £6.7m while taking his team to third place in the Premier League and automatic Champions League qualification. A string of sales last summer was led by Paulinho’s £9.9m move to Guangzhou Evergrande.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/may/18/tottenham-only-premier-league-club-to-make-transfer-profit-in-past-year