Giovani Dos Santos has admitted that his first choice would be to stay with Barcelona this summer amid growing rumours of bids from Premier League teams keen on taking him to England. The Mexican youngster signed off his first full season in the Blaugrana first team with a hat-trick in an entertaining encounter at Real Murcia [...]

Racing Santander grabbed the last available Uefa Cup place thanks to an 86th minute winner against Osasuna, while at the other end of the table it is Zaragoza who join Levante and Murcia in the second division. It doesn’t seem so long ago that Nayim was scoring against Arsenal ’s David Seaman to win them the European Cup Winners Cup. Real Madrid celebrated their season again by thumping ...

So. Is the glass half-full, or half-empty? Depends. The half-fullers will say “See, the lads just needed to relax and be a bit more direct, so that truth, goodness and joga bonito can prevail. They want to fire coaches and sell players after that glorious display? Lordy!” The half-empties will say “Yeah, anybody can beat up a side that is going down, with absolutely ...