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COMMENT: The €75 million record signing has struggled to fully adapt to the Premier League but what has been stopping the Argentine from replicating his Real Madrid form? Feb 16, 2015 10:15:00 By Greg Stobart Angel Di Maria admits he can still barely speak a word of English, but by now he must have asked his teacher the meaning of the chant directed towards him at almost every away ground he has been to in England. ‘What a waste of money’ they sing about the most expensive player signed by a British club when he joined Manchester United from Real Madrid for a record €75 million last summer. Di Maria will not be spared by the Preston North End supporters on Monday when they look to put him off his stride in the FA Cup fifth round clash at Deepdale. And judging by the Argentine’s performances so far in a United shirt, the message of the chant rings true. Di Maria has played like there was a decimal point out of place in the contracts exchanged to take him to the clu...

The attacker has backed the former Chelsea boss to help Schalke spring a surprise against the Champions League holders this week By Joe Wright Feb 16, 2015 16:36:52 Schalke  striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting says Real Madrid  are not unbeatable, especially with "master tactician" Roberto Di Matteo around. Madrid crushed the Bundesliga side 9-2 on aggregate in last season's Champions League on their way to lifting the trophy and begin the knockout phase this term with a trip to Gelsenkirchen on Wednesday. However, 25-year-old Choupo-Moting insists Schalke are looking to take a first-leg win to Santiago Bernabeu for the return match as his side prepare for their clash with the holders. "We have been working hard and Madrid are not unbeatable," he told  AS . "Everything and anything can happen and that’s why football is so special. We ideally don’t want to draw or lose the home game. "Di Matteo is a master tactician. Not just for what he...

The former France coach believes the Portuguese will brief his players to provoke the opposition and is keen to avoid suspensions on top of an injury crisis Feb 16, 2015 15:31:00 By Liam Twomey at Parc des Princes Laurent Blanc has warned his  Paris Saint-Germain players to keep their heads against  Chelsea  in Tuesday's Champions League round of 16 first-leg clash after suggesting Jose Mourinho will try to "bring the heat". PSG prepare to face the Premier League leaders with a squad decimated by injuries - Serge Aurier, Lucas Moura and Yohan Cabaye all picked up problems in Saturday's disappointing 2-2 draw with Caen that will keep them out of the game, while Marquinhos, Thiago Motta, Javier Pastore and Blaise Matuidi all face late fitness tests. With his resources already significantly depleted, Blanc is keen to ensure the situation is not compounded by suspensions arising from Tuesday's game and believes Mourinho may brief his Chelsea players to try to ...

Olivier Giroud Named Hottest Premier League Player Arsenal and France international, Olivier Giroud has been named the ‘Hottest Premier League Player’ by Paddy Power inaugural. According to the Paddy Power’s inaugural poll which gathered results from 250 American women asked to rank 300 players from the English premier league, the Frenchman came out tops. After accepting his award, the football star thanked his parents for making him look this way and also gave props to his team-mates, barber, make-up artist, tailor and his selfie assistant, Gunners right-back, Mathieu Debuchy. See another picture below:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or other extremist groups, including at least 3,400 from Western nations among 20,000 from around the world, U.S. intelligence officials say in an updated estimate of a top terrorism concern Intelligence agencies now believe that as many as 150 Americans have tried and some have succeeded in reaching in the Syrian war zone, officials told the House Homeland Security Committee in testimony prepared for delivery on Wednesday. Some of those Americans were arrested en route, some died in the area and a small number are still fighting with extremists. The testimony and other data were obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. Nick Rasmussen, chief of the National Counterterrorism Center, said the rate of foreign fighter travel to Syria is without precedent, far exceeding the rate of foreigners who went to wage jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen or Somalia at ...

Remember 1994’s  Beverly Hills Cop III ? Neither do we, either, save for that weird George Lucas cameo , and the fact that the film’s score sounded like a Tangerine Dream nightmare. But star Eddie Murphy is still bummed about the widely derided third installment of the  Cop  trilogy,  telling  Playboy   the movie put the “F” in “Axel F.”  "The third  Beverly Hills Cop  was garbage,” says the suddenly self-aware star of such films as  Daddy Day Care , The Adventures of Pluto Nash , and Vampire in Brooklyn . ”Those [ Beverly Hills Cop ]   movies, when I travel overseas, people say [in a foreign accent] ‘Hey,  Beverly Hills Cop ! Axel Foley!’ They call me that s—t. All the movies I’ve done, and they call me that. If we do that movie, it has to be right. Not just thrown together to get a big check. I don’t need anymore of those.” Facebook® Account Sign Up. Join for Free Today! Facebook  Sponsored  Murphy...