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via Yahoo Chelsea’s accounts show $45 million was spent as a result of firing manager Carlo Ancelotti and hiring Andre Villas-Boas. A year after winning the Premier League, Ancelotti was removed in May after failing to win a trophy in his second season at Stamford Bridge. The 28 million-pound cost of “changes in the first team management ...

via ASRoma “We have reached an agreement with Daniele De Rossi on a new five-year contract starting from 1 July 2012, with an annual salary of €10 million, so €5.5 million net, and a series of bonuses related to appearances and the team's results. There is no release clause in the contract, which contains an agreement that the club will ...

According to the NY Times, its just might: The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network’s first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected to be worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly later this year. *These are my ...

from JamesList.com: The Castle (3700 sqm / 39826 sq.ft) is one of Italy’s most beautiful monuments and it is considered one of the most scenic and extraordinary castles in the world. 30 bedrooms all with A/C + 47 bathrooms and the castle is heated throughout. Its marvelous Noble Courtyard with the suggestive Fountain of the Mysteries, is ...

Wikipedians have chosen to black out the English Wikipedia for the first time ever, because they were concerned that SOPA and PIPA will severely inhibit people’s access to online information. Over the last couple of days, many other websites have decided to join in on the protest: mgur / Tor Project / Miro / iSchool at Syracuse University / ...

The Chicago Fire Soccer Club are kicking off a season of food, fitness and fun for the city's soccer fans and families by naming Quaker as the club's official Breakfast Foods & Nutritious Snacks Partner with the centerpiece of the partnership being the new 2012 jersey, which prominently features the famed Quaker logo in a powerful yet classic ...

via Guardian Jack Warner, the former Fifa vice-president, has claimed that he acquired the World Cup television rights for Trinidad & Tobago for as little as $1 in 1998 after helping Sepp Blatter get elected as president of football's world governing body, according to reports. Warner, who resigned from Fifa in June when he was being ...

image source French socialists are so bothered by David Beckham's proposed £700,000 a month wage at PSG that they are are demanding a new law on maximum salaries. via the daily mail It is being reported that the LA galaxy captain, whose contract expires on December 31, is set to move to the Paris club in January with an agreement 'in ...