Wolfsburg secured Bundesliga safety on the last day of the season with a 3-1 win over Hoffenheim on Saturday.A brace from Croatian forward Mario Mandzukic helped Felix Magath’s team come from behind to guarantee their spot in the top flight next season.

Brazilian defender Roberto Firmino had given Hoffenheim the lead early in the second half, but Mandzukic’s double and a sealer from Grafite meant Wolfsburg did not have to rely on other results to avoid the drop.

The result means that Eintracht Frankfurt will be relegated after finishing 17th, while Borussia Moenchengladbach will face a relegation play-off against the third ranked side from 2.Bundesliga – Bochum.

‘Gladbach drew 1-1 at Hamburg on the final day, but the point was not enough to guarantee their safety.

A 42nd-minute strike from Juan Arango was cancelled out by Hamburg midfielder Anis Ben-Hatira, but the point would have been enough to move them from their relegation play-off spot if Wolfsburg had lost.

A win for Eintracht Frankfurt could also have saved Eintracht, but they were relegated following a 3-1 loss at champions Borussia Dortmund.

Midfielder Sebastian Rode put them a goal up early in the second half, but Dortmund fought back courtesy of a brace from Lucas Barrios and a Aleksandar Vasoski own goal.

Eintracht finished with 10 men after substitute Marcel Titsch Rivero was sent off nine minutes from time and just one minute after coming on.

St Pauli, whose relegation was already confirmed, slumped to a 2-1 loss at Mainz.

Matthias Lehmann gave them a lead before the interval but an Andre Schuerrle penalty and Sami Allagui goal kept Mainz in fifth.

Bayer Leverkusen kept hold of second with an own goal from Cedric Makiadi giving them a 1-0 win over Freiburg.

It meant Bayern Munich’s 2-1 win over Stuttgart left them in third, as goals from Mario Gomez and Bastian Schweinsteiger cancelled out Shinji Okazaki’s first-half strike.

Hannover maintained their grasp of fourth thanks to a 3-1 win over Nuernberg while Schalke’s poor season ended with a 2-1 loss against Cologne, where Milivoje Novakovic and Mato Jajalo struck before Raul’s 87th-minute consolation goal.

Kaiserslautern scored three times in the opening half an hour in their 3-2 win over Werder Bremen.

Strikers Adam Nemec and Srdjan Lakic, along with defender Rodnei, found the net before Bremen’s Torsten Frings and Marko Arnautovic pulled two goals back early in the second half.

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi said his side will use the Champions League final win over Manchester United in 2009 as motivation for the re-match.The two powerhouses met in the 2009 European final – which Barcelona won 2-0 in Rome – and they are set to lock horns again in Saturday’s Champions League decider at Wembley.

Despite the fact that the English side no longer possess the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez in their squad, Messi said talk that Sir Alex Ferguson’s side was weaker now in comparison to the team two years ago, was misguided.

“They won the English championship (Premier League) and they are in the Champions League final,” Messi told reporters at Barcelona’s open media day on Monday.

“They can’t be very weak if they have achieved all that. It is a final, it is a special match given what is at stake. The good memory of Rome is behind us. This will be a totally different match. We are facing a very strong adversary, which has very good players.”

Messi – who has scored 52 goals for Barca this season in all competitions – believes the match will be close and could possibly be deciding by just one moment of individual brilliance.

“They have a tough defence with players that have a lot of experience and have won a lot of games so it will not be easy,” he said.

“This week we will watch videos and talk about ways that we can beat them. It is a good way to finish the season by playing in the Champions League final and it would be very disappointing to lose.”

“It is a big game for the team, the coach and for everyone so we will all do our best. There is no team which has a better chance to win and I think that the match will be decided by an individual action, so we will have to be ready to take advantage of it when it happens.”

“It would be great if I could score in the final but the priority is that someone in the team does.”

The Argentine star is also hopeful that Manchester United play their normal style of play and don’t, like many other sides, try and stop Barcelona from playing their fluid style of football in the final.

“Manchester like to have the ball and pass so if they do the same against us then it will be an open match. We always go out and try to play good football and I can’t say if Manchester will do the same but that is their usual style.”

Up to seven sides can be relegated from Ligue 1 when the season ends on Sunday.With all 10 fixtures to be played at the same time, excitement aplenty is in store for fans of French football with the likes of Auxerre, Brest, Nice, Valenciennes, Caen, Nancy and Monaco all a chance to be playing in Ligue 2 next season.

Out of the seven sides, only two will play against each other with Nice’s trip to Valencinnes the pick of the final-day fixtures.

A win for either side will keep them in the top division, meaning everything is at stake at the Stade Nungesser.

Valenciennes have improved greatly in the second half of the season, having just lost two of their past 17 league matches and home ground advantage means they are favourites.

Another exciting match will take place at the Stade Louis II when Monaco host Lyon.

Monaco, who are 18th, will need a victory while Lyon – who sit two points clear of PSG in third – will be desperate to book their spot in the Champions League qualifying stages with all three points.

It sets up a hugely anticipated match as Monaco, seven-time winners of Ligue 1 and Champions League finalists in 2004, attempt to keep their place in the division.

“We’ll have to play very intelligently, because Monaco also really need the points,” Lyon’s Ederson said.

“It’ll be like a final. We have to win, and we won’t be thinking about how PSG are doing in Saint-Etienne. If we win, we don’t have to worry about anyone else.”

Other battles that will decide who stays up see 17th-placed Nancy host already-relegated Lens while Caen, in 16th, at home to Olympique Marseille.

Auxerre travel to Lorient and Brest are at home against Toulouse.

At the other end of the table, Lille will celebrate their first Ligue 1 title in 57 years in front of their home fans against Stade Rennes.

In other fixtures, Bordeaux are at home against Montpellier while PSG need a win at Saint-Etienne and a Monaco victory to wrap up third spot.

Rumour is working its way through the press, media and thus, the internet at the moment that Liverpool have somewhere in the region of £75 million to spend on players this summer. That is an immense sum, particularly given the famine of previous summers when Rafa Benitez was working purely from profits of sales and anything the board could scrape together for him. It is not yet clear whether this number includes any potential sales but, for the sake of argument, let’s just say it doesn’t. With outgoings over the next couple of months, we’re likely to see that amount swell by another £10-£20 million. Now, there’s no guarantee that the full percentage of sales will given to the management to spend on players but we can expect at least some of it to be handed over to top up the coffers. With the £50-odd million spent on Carroll and Suarez in January, that’s a pretty hefty sum already put forward by the new owners and it’s a very clear sign of intent for the coming season.

I wrote a few days ago about how I believed that spending so much money on four unproven English youngsters was a massive gamble and one that I didn’t entirely agree with but, as this isn’t my money being spent, I’m more than prepared to see where it gets us. Much better that we actually have the money to spend on potential than having none to spend at all.

So with the purchase of Henderson likely to have gone through by the time this article is being read, it’s fair to say that at least £16 million of that sum has already gone. Percentage from sales aside, that would leave the manager with around £59 million to work with and apparently – according to reports this morning – he already has another £50 millions worth of players lined up.

A couple of players that I genuinely hope to see incoming over the next few days and weeks are Scott Dann and Bojan Krkic . Now, as I said a few days ago I am all for investing in potential but not when it’s swallowing up vast sums of our transfer funds. And while Henderson is a little too expensive for my tastes I think it would be possible for the Reds to get Scott Dann for a fairly reasonable sum. Given Birmingham’s relegation this season, they will be unlikely to try to hold Liverpool to ransom in the way cash-rich Sunderland have been able to and I’d much prefer to sign the more experienced (and let’s not forget, local) Dann than spend about twice as much on the equally promising Phil Jones . Watching Birmingham over the past two seasons, it is clear to see that he and Roger Johnson have formed a pretty formidable partnership at the back. In fact, a large part of Birmingham’s poor showing this season is probably attributed to Dann’s injury in January which saw him ruled out for the season’s remainder.

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As for Barcelona’s Bojan, we have been being linked with him since the January transfer window and with his agent touting him around Europe, it may be wise to move fast. In Bojan, it would be clear to any fan of European football what we’d be getting: a very talented, almost Messi-esque youngster. Already declared – and recently capped – for Spain the 20 year old is a fine prospect who, like Messi before him, has been playing in Barca’s first team since the age of 16 and has managed over 150 games and 30-odd goals, mostly from the bench it has to be said. Given his style of play though, he would offer the Reds something we didn’t have until we signed Suarez – a certain unpredictability in front of goal and a different option from the bench. And if he can bring us something similar to what we’ve had so far from Suarez then I’m all for that. Like Dann, it is unlikely that we would have to pay over the odds for the youngster, as he has fallen out of favour at Barca over the last 12 months and with Barcelona chasing after a couple more strikers this summer it’s likely that he’ll be actively seeking an exit.

Both these players would be coming in to fill in areas where we really need the cover too and they would add much needed quality cover and beef up the squad a little bit and I couldn’t see the pair costing us more than £20 million between them which would leave plenty over to strengthen elsewhere and, like Henderson, would have all of their best years ahead of them.

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I’m sure Comolli and Kenny have other ideas in mind or at least other options they’d like to consider but while we’re in the market and seem to have plenty of money to throw around it would be a good day for me to see these two young, established players brought to the club.

Article courtesy of David Tryer from Live4Liverpool

Australia’s run at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup ended in a 3-1 quarter-final loss to Sweden in Augsberg on Sunday.Early goals to Therese Sjogran and Lisa Dahlqvist had the Matildas on the ropes, but they went into half-time with confidence after a sublime Ellyse Perry strike five minutes before the break.

But Tom Sermanni’s side could not pull off what would have been a brilliant comeback, as Lotta Schelin’s goal seven minutes into the second half sealed the result.

Australia were lucky not to be behind as early as the sixth minute, when a back pass from Collette McCallum was dealt with clumsily by Perry, but goalkeeper Melissa Barbieri was on hand to avert the danger.

But the Swedes only had to wait another five minutes to take the lead when Schelin charged to the byline and cut the ball back to Sjogran who fired home a right-foot shot from inside the box.

Sjogran turned provider at the 16-minute mark when a pinpoint cross found Dahlqvist unchecked inside the Australian box and the midfielder’s bullet-like header left Barbieri no chance.

Australia went close to scoring a leveller after 38 minutes when a speculative McCallum free-kick almost deceived Sweden goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl, but it drifted just wide.

The Matildas did claw a goal back though, when Perry collected a McCallum corner outside the box and launched a left-foot strike.

Perry, 20, who also represents Australia in cricket, was understandably delighted as her shot curled past an outstretched Hedvig Lindahl and into the top corner.

After an enterprising start to the second half, Australia fell 3-1 behind after 54 minutes when a calamitous back pass from Kim Carroll succeeded in finding only Schelin, who coolly rounded Barbieri before side-footing into an early net.

Australia continued to battle hard, and Kyah Simon had a good chance to score in the 63rd minute but her header was just wide.

Despite applying considerable pressure midway through the second half, the Matildas were unable to add to Perry’s goal, ending their World Cup dream.

In the day’s other quarter-final, the United States defeated Brazil 5-3 on penalties.

After the match went to extra-time at 1-1, Brazil looked to have booked a spot in the last four when Marta scored her second goal after 93 minutes.

But Abby Wambach’s goal in the 122nd minute forced the contest into penalties, with the US prevailing.

Ok – Sir Alex has spoken.  No more midfield players for United this summer, and instead we have the talent within to take us through the next season.

“In Fergie we trust” we often cry. We all use a “Fergie knows best” sentence to try and end a debate on players when someone has a fair point that you can’t disagree with.  In general, Fergie’s word is gospel.

That is, unless you still really want to sign a certain player for a certain position…then he can easily be ignored, or accused of playing a mind game to either speeding up a sale, or keeping a price down.

“Fergie, Fergie sign him up…” didn’t you once cry…?!

With the speculation and giddy hype of some of the worlds biggest and best midfielder’s starting to die a death, I’m going to throw a new name in to the ring of a player, who I think is class and isn’t on the “Europe’s biggest clubs” radar, or City’s.  I don’t think he’s on anyone’s summer spending list.  A realistic purchase I believe, not an expensive one either – but one I reckon each and every red, at this current time, would think of him as a shrewd signing – a clever one, and at worst an amazingly effective stop gap for two or three years which would be a great answer to the need for a creative and attacking midfielder.

Ladies and gents, I give you….Mikel Arteta .

I’ve thought about how well the 29 year old Spaniard would fit in at the Theatre Of Dreams for years now.  He’s had seven seasons in the Premiership with Everton, and is a player who is way more effective than the headline writers give him credit for.  He’s easily forgotten about isn’t he?  And I have no idea why?

He’s an artistic, and dynamic midfielder, and maybe a £6m to £10m bid by Fergie could secure the signing of the former Barcelona man – and improve a midfield which is in need of a little bit of orchestrating in terms of liquidising our football.

He got 9 assists in 29 games for Everton last season.  Impressive.  5 in 13 the season before when he was out for a long time with a serious knee injury, and an impeccable haul of 23 assists in 35 games in the 2006/2007 campaign.  Stick that together with 11 in 26; and 16 in 27 in the seasons in between, and you ask the question why he isn’t at a top four club.  No disrespect to Everton, but imagine the damage he could bring in at that level with world class players surrounding him.

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He may only have scored 27 goals in 172 games for the Toffees, but when we’re getting the goals from other areas as United always do, and the Spaniard is setting up 76 goals in those 172 games, is this guy worth a punt?

But it’s not just about the direct assists.  It’s easily forgotten about in this world of stats and facts that build up play, passing, moving, and gaining fluidity throughout a passage of play is vital for an attacking team to succeed, and to do that you need someone with a bit of difference to spot the others who can go on and add to their assist tally.

Arteta’s qualities and technical ability are typical of that of a player from Y Viva Espana.  Close control, vision, skill, elegance and timing of that killer ball to put it on a silver platter for his strikers.  The stuff we’ve been lacking in the last 12 months.

To me, it means that if the deals for the Dutch one, or the Arsenal player…or any other ‘big’ name are dead in the water, Sir Alex could much worse than take a look at someone just down the road in Merseyside to be our new maestro on the block.

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If people say we’re “sh1t” champions, then they’re wrong.  We’re efficient.  Playing within our means.  But someone like Arteta will be able to provide us with the fluidity, creativity and build up play in the middle of the park to take us from “sh1t” to entertaining once again.

Fergie…sign him up?

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Transfer gossip is a regular fixture in modern football, many clubs even dedicate pages of their website for the latest rumours surrounding their clubs. The demand from fans for the latest news on possible arrivals or departures (especially during the transfer window periods) is great and this fuels the increasing impact these rumours can have. On most occasions transfer gossip can cause a lot more harm than good for the players and clubs involved.

Players can easily be unsettled by unfounded talk about their future and suddenly doubt spreads amongst the dressing room and fans, often destabilising football clubs. A player’s head could easily be turned by talk of a move to a bigger club. Tottenham have faced constant speculation about the future of Luka Modric this summer and despite insisting he won’t leave White Hart Lane, the rumours have persisted. Whilst Modric has made his interest in leaving public, constant talk about his future may affect his focus and could easily seep into the dressing room.

Manchester United’s pursuit of Wesley Sneijder is also a popular story in this summer’s transfer gossip. Reports of unofficial talks have suddenly turned into stories claiming the Dutch international will be staying at Inter Milan. But what impact does this transfer talk have? For Inter and Sneijder it could easily affect his performances on the pitch whilst the media interest in the story (whilst inevitable) will have made any potential talks or deal harder for United to complete. It also raises doubts for United’s existing stars. How would current United midfielder Anderson feel if he read about the possible arrival of Sneijder who plays in the same position as himself?

Transfer rumours also have a habit of destabilising a football club, sometimes distracting a club throughout pre-season and beyond. Despite a deal looking to be close, Arsenal have faced intense speculation about the future of Cesc Fabregas for years and there is no doubt that talk of his departure has destabilised the club yet again this summer ahead of the new season. Talk about the future of his teammate Samir Nasri has also increased the doubts about the capabilities of their squad and manager Arsene Wenger. Transfer gossip has once again plagued Arsenal and could have a serious impact on their season.

But is there anything positive clubs can take from transfer rumours? Well probably not. For teams at the end of speculation about their star player they often have to deal with the fallout and doubts. Rumours without any truth behind them can be brushed under the carpet but when transfer talk escalates clubs are faced with players looking to the exit door. There are also problems for the clubs at the other end when their interest in player becomes public. Keeping your interest quiet often means a deal runs a lot smoother rather than facing increased competition from other clubs or more demands now everyone knows the next star you are chasing.

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But the effect these rumours can have really depends on what they say. Talk of Fabregas wanting to move back to Barcelona is destructive for Arsenal but also clearly grounded in a lot of truth. Talk that Cristiano Ronaldo was moving to Manchester City earlier this summer in a £150million deal with the former Manchester United player being paid £400,000 a week in wages was harmless and laughable speculation.

Transfer rumours will remain a constant source of entertainment for fans, from the completely unfounded and ridiculous to the inevitable talk of a probable transfer deal. But for the clubs and players involved, flicking through to the back pages and reading about yet more transfer talk will always cause more harm than good.

How much harm do you think transfer rumours cause your club? If you want to read more of my bite size, 140 character views and thoughts follow me on Twitter @jennyk5

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Young Scottish defender Danny Wilson has spoken out on his desire to leave Liverpool on a short-term basis, in order to gain some regular first team action, as he feels his immediate international future is under threat.

Wilson’s comments came after he started and impressed for Scotland during their 2-1 victory over Denmark on Wednesday night: ‘I think it’s highly unlikely that I’d be picked to play against the Czechs if I wasn’t playing first-team football somewhere,‘ before adding: ‘I completely understand that the national team needs people to be playing week in and week out. I was surprised to be in the squad for Denmark having not played regularly for Liverpool, but I was grateful to be included and to have been picked to play. Craig has obviously seen something in me to keep bringing me back, but I know I can’t keep living off what I’ve done in the past. I need to go somewhere and start playing now and that’s my objective.’

Liverpool signed the 19-year old from Glasgow Rangers in July 2010, but only made eight appearances for his new club, mostly in the Europa League at fullback. Whilst Liverpool manager Steve Clarke was in the crowd to watch the Scotland game, likelihood is that Wilson will be sent on loan this season for some much needed playing experience: ‘I think I’ll probably have to go out on loan, although I’m not sure where,’ the young Scot added: ‘There are a lot of players at my club so it would probably be best for my career to go somewhere else just now. Kenny Dalglish has been really supportive of me. He knows that I want to go and play somewhere and he needs me to go and play too – it’s no use to him having a young boy on the sidelines. I need to get more experience and he supports that. I didn’t play a lot of first-team games last season and I don’t want a repeat of that.’

Manchester United are scoring goals for fun and Rooney is certainly living up to his promise of trying to emulate Lionel Messi’s goal record this season. Wazza is on fire at the moment and shows what a real difference 12months make in football.

At FFC this week we have seen a mixed bag of Manchester United blogs that includes Ashley Young provides a slice of humble pie; detrimental to Smalling’s development, Fergie snubs £15m move.

We also look at the best Manchester United articles around the web this week

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For a player that possesses such a great deal of talent, not to mention a very healthy contract, Carlos Tevez has found a remarkable amount to complain about since arriving in England. First came the move from West Ham to United, which involved questionable conduct on the part of his agent Kia Joorabchian, then the move to the other half of Manchester and the infamous ‘Welcome to Manchester’ poster, which went down with as much success as Torres’ aim on goal with United fans, and finally his attempts to leave City this summer, and the subsequent ‘eating disorder’ he suffered due to the emotional trauma of it all.

What Carlos may call an eating disorder, most of us simply call over indulgence, yet in an era of over-paid diva footballers, Tevez has managed to surpass even the most outrageous of behaviour this week, by refusing to come on as a substitute during the away tie in Europe to Bayern Munich .

However you look at it, the behaviour displayed by Tevez has been simply deplorable. It was entirely reasonable for the player to state how unhappy he was without his wife and children in England, yet they have since moved over. Every attempt that could be made by Manchester City to accommodate the player has been, yet it has not been good enough.

By refusing to come on as a substitute, Tevez has not only let the club and his team mates down, but also the City fans who have followed the club through thick and thin and given him unconditional support throughout a summer of uncertainty. Tevez may well have been joint top scorer last season with Dimitar Berbatov, but he too has found that this does not warrant a place in the starting eleven when there are players in better form ahead of you. Yet Berba has not behaved in such a shameful way – it does seem hard to imagine anyone refusing to come on if Sir Alex Ferguson requested however – and there is no excuse that Tevez can give to atone for his conduct.

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It speaks volumes that a player who has been in England for over five years still needs an interpreter in interviews, and has not bothered to gain a working knowledge of English yet. The commitment shown by Tevez this season has not warranted a place in the starting eleven, and the fact that he was given a chance to play at all should have been something the player took and used to his advantage to prove that he should be starting for City.

Whilst the boy may come under constant criticism in the media for his behaviour, Mario Balotelli used the chance given to him on the weekend by Mancini to come on as a sub and score a brilliant goal, putting City in the lead. The reaction he displayed to scoring was one every city fan will have enjoyed seeing, and his whole performance and attitude had a positive effect on the team. Tevez’ conduct had the completely opposite effect, and City are well within their rights to suspend the player, as has been the case.

Article courtesy of Rebecca Knight from This is Futbol

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