Fabio Capello’s future as the national team manager of pressure is under doubt after a 1-0 defeat against Austria left the fans in extreme displeasure against the manager.

Despite having a world-class coach like Capello in their ranks, Russia have been struggling to live up to the achievements of past successes. Under the regime of Guus Hiddink, the national team reached the semifinals of the Euro 2008. Since then, it has been a downhill path for the national team and the Russian Football Federation. Due to significant a lot of debts, the RFU has been unable to pay Capello for the last eight months.

Yet, the national team boss has not been stepping down from his role and has continued to manage the team. The recent defeat against Austria came despite some extreme attacking potential within the team. Russia even had attacking full-back Yuri Zhirkov running up and down on the flanks. However, they do not create much opportunities and suffered a loss that sees them fall eight points behind Austria in the table. They are third in the group and would have to go through a qualification stage in order to reach the Euro 2016.

“We have already made a certain decision on Capello’s future. But there is the executive committee of the Russian Football Union (RFS). I think in the very near future one of these bodies will look at this question in detail,” said Russian sports minister VitalyMutko.“I don’t have a problem with talking to my employers about this question.However, I have worked for eight months for free. Now they owe me for another two months. This is not a problem for me. If I was only interested in the money then I would have complained to FIFA a long time ago,” said Capello in response.

There is clash that is going on involving Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho and Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger which has extended for over 10 years as the managers of each club critique the other one and it continues to capture the attention of the media.

One of the latest things that Wenger said is that Chelsea’s defensive style is easier to implement in a match and master in comparison to Arsenal’s but Mourinho responded by saying: “It’s not easy. If it was easy, you wouldn’t lose 3-1 at home to Monaco. If he defends well he draws 0-0 against Monaco and wins in Monte Carlo. It’s not easy to prepare a team to defend.”

Arsenal was knocked out from the Champions League round of 16 after losing against As.Monaco and Mourinho reminded Wenger about that incident which occurred a few weeks ago.

Even though Chelsea is positioned at the top of the Premier League, they have received continuous bashing from their playing style and especially Jose Mourinho who has had to play on a defensive method of play for certain matches in different situations. This style has been labeled as: ‘’Parking the Bus’’ and Arsene Wenger stated that this playing style is easy to master but then Mourinho responded by saying that it wasn’t so easy to do taking into consideration that Arsenal was knocked out of the Champions League after losing against As.Monaco.

The verbal attacks didn’t stop there as the Portuguese coach continued bashing Arsenal and Arsene Wenger after saying that CescFabregas joined Chelsea because he wanted to win titles and winning major pieces of silverware is something that Arsenal has struggled on doing for the past 10 years.

The latest title that Arsenal secured was the FA Cup but some clubs and managers don’t really consider that piece of silverware to be a major one in comparison to the Premier League or the Champions League.

It’s been over 11 years since Arsenal has managed to win the Premier League title and they have never won the Champions League. Chelsea on the other hand are huge favorites on being crowned as the champions of England and this is why Jose Mourinho said those words involving Fabregas making a move to Chelsea because he wanted to win major titles as it wouldn’t happen in Arsenal.

The Russian outfit Anzhi Makhachkala is on their way of returning to the top tier league of Russia in the Premier League which is the league where they used to compete some time ago but after being relegated, making a return to that league has turned into of the main objectives of the club.

Anzhi is positioned in the 1rst spot of the Russian National Football League with 51 points but their nearest rivals is Tosno which are following them closely behind with 49 points as the race for the top spot is being tightly between these 2 teams.

Even though Anzhi Makhachkala is making a genuine run for the top position of the league and are going through an impressive campaign, there was an incident which occurred that has turned things around in a very negative way for the Russian club and it’s supporters

Earlier in January of the ongoing year, the 20 year old midfielder GasanMagomedov was shot dead near his home. According to statements that have been released to the public, the player was driving to his home on a Saturday night when suddenly an unknown man with a shotgun started spraying bullets with a machine gun.

Magomedov used to perform in the youth academy of Anzhi Makhachkala and after the incident occurred, the Russian club expressed their condolences to the family and friends of the player through a statement which read: “We console with Gasan’s family. I hope the law-enforcement bodies will quickly find the killers and they will receive just punishment.”

Dagestan was the region where everything took place and it has recently been experiencing a number of outbreaks involving Islamist activities.

The police still have not been able to find the actual perpetrators of the shooting, investigations are gong underway and a suspected was arrested and it has now been revealed that Magomedov was not the actual target of the shooting but no further news have been announced.

Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone has had to fend off questions about leaving the Spanish club in order to join a top club like Manchester City.

After managing to make the perennial underdogs as the champions of Spain, Simeone has seen in recent weeks that it is looking unlikely that they will be able to retain the title. Atletico have done extremely well since the Argentine came to the club in 2011. However, there is a feeling in Spain that he may have reached his best with the club and that it is time to seek new challenges.

Simeone dispel those rumours by saying that he was not going anywhere. This has hampered preparations ahead of the match with Malaga during the weekend. Simeone has had two weeks to allow the defeat against Real Sociedad sink in. Atletico’s surprise defeat against the relegation threatened outfit means that they are now four points away from the top of the table. Atletico have struggled this campaign after losing a number of first-team regulars like Diego Costa and Filipe Luis over the summer. They still have quality names like Garcia andKoke, but it has not been enough to find a way past the tougher Spanish opposition.

Simeone is aware that anymore dropped points could spell the end of the title.”We have no room for error, we must treat the game like a final.They have been doing well for a while. We can see their results and we also know they stopped Barcelona playing well [in a 0-0 draw in September]. They have a very strong offensive unit, much technical ability and experience on the pitch,” said the Argentine ahead of the match with Malaga, who are just two points behind them in the table. Atletico could realistically go second this weekend if results go their way.

The Russian football Federation is in danger of losing Fabio Capello as their manager after it was revealed that they do not have the necessary finances to meet the contractual agreement of the Italian. Capello is one of the highest-paid international coaches in the world with an annual salary of around £ 7 million. It is almost similar to the wages that former coach Guus Hiddink was paid. However, the Dutchman was largely paid because of the funding from billionaires like Roman Abramovich. Such funding has evaporated in recent years and it has resulted in Capello not being paid for the last few months.

The Russian FA have admitted that they should have looked at their finances before hiring a coach like Capello. There have been suggestions that the former Real Madrid manager may be forced to sign a new contract that pays him on a performance related basis. Despite his impeccable reputation as a club manager, Capello has been incredibly disappointing in the international scene. He has only managed a handful of victories with both England and Russia at two major tournaments. Russia suffered a disappointing World Cup 2014 after being knocked out of the group stages, but that does not seem to be any threat to the safety of Capello’s job.

“It’s no good when the financial upkeep of the head coach of the Russian team is not being paid. But they should have thought about the sources to finance the contract when they drew it up. And now we need to search for those sources,” said a member of the Russian Football Union executive board. “I’m confident the issue with paying his salary should be solved on 15 November, the day of our match with the Austrian team. It should be solved by those responsible for signing the contract with Capello,” said Russia’s sports minister.

The January transfer window is over 2 months away from opening and allowing clubs from making a move for players but even though it is such a fairly long period of time away from actually happening, rumors do not stop from emerging and being spread linking certain clubs with certain players and Chelsea is one of the teams that is rumored to be on the move and interested in signing Real Madrid’s Sami Khedira.

Chelsea is a club that is known to not be afraid on spending huge amounts of cash in order to sign their respective targets and the team of Jose Mourinho has an attacking lineup of players which includes: Cesc Fabregas, Oscar, Eden Hazard, Diego Costa and Andre Schurrle.

All of these players have played a huge role in Chelsea’s superb start of the season as those are some of the main goal-scoring machines for the Premier League club but having so many attackers can also cause a problem if the squad does not have any players that can provide backup in the defence and this is why Sami Khedira is constantly being linked with a move to Chelsea.

Sami Khedira is a veteran defensive midfielder who not only has experience playing at a club level but also in the international stage as he has represented Germany in some of the biggest and toughest tournaments in the world.

The German midfielder is a viable option for Chelsea as Khedira is currently performing for Real Madrid but he has lost his place in the starting lineup of the Spanish club and Jose Mourinho could use this chance to sign Khedira without having to spend huge amounts of cash.

The pre-season for Stockport County is going impressively well for the team of Alan Lord as they have already managed on signing a few players to reinforce certain aspects of the squad as well as gaining a number of victories prior to the start of the upcoming campaign.

Stockport County initiated their pre-season campaign by picking up a 1-0 victory against Northwich Victoria with their new signing Chris Sharp being the player that scored the only goal of the entire match.

4 days later and Stockport County played locked horns with Nantwich with neither teams being able to score a single goal but the head coach of Stockport County admitted that it was a great result for his players and his team.

Lord said: “They got a bit fitter and I think we looked very solid; we don’t look like people can penetrate us and they tried going for the throat, they tried down the outside and they didn’t get anywhere. All round it was an exercise in getting players fitter, preparing for the next game, looking at strategies and systems and whether we need to change them or not.

The pre-season continued on for Alan Lord and his players by playing against the team of Stockport County of 1996-97. The current day squad of Alan Lord claimed a 6-0 victory against some of the best players of the team of some years ago.

With all of these positive victories, the head coach of Stockport County Alan Lord is optimistic about the next season and the squad has been reinforced further by signing Danny Hurst and Scott Spencer.

Spencer is a 25 year old forward who has experience playing in a number of different clubs which includes: Everton, Lincoln City and Rochdale while Danny Hurst has experience of his own after performing with Southport and Fleetwood Town.

Chelsea is expecting that they conclude signing the Spanish star of Athletic Madrid, Diego Costa with a price tag of €31.8 million which is the amount that his release clause states in his contract.

Diego Costa’s superb season has been one of the main forces behind Athletic Madrid’s title charge. The Spanish attacker scored 36 goals throughout the entire campaign which helped the club on becoming the champions of the Spanish League.

Jose Mourinho is desperate to sign a reliable attacker that can substantially increase Chelsea’s chances of not only winning the Premier League of the upcoming season but their Champions League campaign as well and it seems like he has his eyes targeted on Costa.

Chelsea struggled on scoring goals in this season as they only managed on scoring 71 goals which is a significantly low amount compared to Manchester City’s 102 and Liverpool’s 101.

Thibaut Courtois has helped Athletic Madrid on securing their League title and the Belgian shot-stopper is on the wish-list of many managers and clubs around the world. Barcelona already secured signing the successor of Victor Valdes with Marc Andre Ter-Stegen but they have made contact with staff members of Chelsea in relation to the availability of Courtois.

It will be however incredibly difficult for Barcelona to sign Courtois as the young shot-stopper is expected to make his return to Chelsea after the Champions League match against Real Madrid.

Athletic Madrid is hoping that they can sign a permanent deal for Courtois but Chelsea is reluctant on letting him leave Stamford Bridge as he can step it up and turn into the main goalkeeper of the Premier League club when Petr Cech decides to hang up his boots and retire.