Cavani joins PSG from Napoli

Edinson Cavani has completed a £55m move from Napoli to Paris Saint Germain. The Uruguayan striker scored 40 goals for his club last season. The player also scored some fantastic goals for his country at the FIFA confederations cup in Brazil.

Cavani came into limelight when he was a thorn in the flesh of top European sides in the UEFA champions league in the 2011-2012 season.

He has been linked with a £40m move to Chelsea before PSG hijacked the player.

PSG will find it difficult to have a pair of Cavani and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in their starting line up next season.

The Swedish player has declared his intention to join an English premier league club before the start of next season.

PSG won the French ligue 1 for the first time in 19 years under Carlo Ancelotti. The Italian is now the new Real Madrid manager.

Who's next after AVB?

Andre Villas Boas has been relieved of his position as the manager of Chelsea FC of London. For the sixth time in three years Chelsea have parted ways with their manager. The London club announced this decision on Sunday afternoon, 24 hours after their 1-0 loss at The Hawthorns against high flying West Bromwich Albion who won their third straight match in the League for the first time in 76 years. Andre Villas Boas joined Roman Abrahamovic's side in June 2011. The Portuguese manager led FC Porto to the Europa League and the Portuguese league title last season but he has failed to show any sign of doing that at Chelsea. The 34 year old manager became the youngest Premiership manager when he took over from Carlo Ancelotti who is currently enjoying a good spell at PSG of France. Avram Grant was sacked at the end of the 2007/2008 season while Luiz Felipe Scolari was brought in as a replacement. The former World Cup winning manager was fired in February 2009 while Guus Hiddink was named as a temporary manager. The National team job of the Dutch man prevented him from taking the Chelsea job on a permanent basis and Carlo Ancelotti was hired to tinker the London club for the 2009/2010 season. The Italian tactician won a double in his first season before he was sacked for his failure to win trophies at the end of the 2010/2011 season. This paved the way for AVB who couldn't control his players. Senior players like Drogba and Lampard were rumoured to have been one of the players that made AVB to lose his job. The Portuguese could have had a different experience at the club if he had sold players like Didier Drogba and Florent Malouda. This view was echoed by Scolari when he left Chelsea. Now that AVB has been sacked, former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has been linked to the job. Barcelona's Pep Guardiola is another man that has been linked with the hot seat at the Stamford Bridge.
The question now is "Who is the next manager that will be fired at Chelsea?" Only time will tell.

Can money buy trophies?

Roman Abrahamovic bought Chelsea in the year 2003. His aim was to make Chelsea a top team both in England and Europe. As at that time, Manchester United,Arsenal,Newcastle United and Liverpool were the teams that used to represent England in the UEFA Champions League. Italian coach, Cladio Ranieri was the man at the helm of affairs at Stamford Bridge as the time the Russian billionaire became the sole owner of The Blues. At the end of the 2003/2004 season, Jose Mourinho was hired as the new Chelsea manager. The Portuguese technocrat had just won the UEFA Champions League with FC Porto just a year after winning the UEFA Cup with same team.

Jose Mourinho

The Portuguese went ahead to lead Chelsea to their first Premiership title for the first time in 50 years in 2005. He also won the League Cup sponsored by Carling in the same year. Although Liverpool knocked out his team in the UEFA Champions League.
Meanwhile, Chelsea defended the Premiership crown the following season and lost to FC Barcelona in the quarter final stage of the 2005/2006 season. The Portuguese manager won the Carling Cup in 2007and he left the Stamford Bridge job in September,2008. Avram Grant took over and led the team to the final of the Champions League in the 2008/2009 season. Felipe Scholari that led Brazil to the 2002 FIFA World Cup title glory was hired and fired due to poor results. Guus Hiddink and Carlo Ancelotti were other managers that had some brief spells at the club. While the latter won a double in 2010, the former stabilised the team at the end of the 2008/2009 season.
 It's almost a decade since the Russian billionaire bought Chelsea, but he's yet to win the UEFA Champions League.

Manchester City
The Citizens  are fondly called "Noisy Neighbours" by their city rivals Manchester United. In September 2008, an Arab group bought the club and hired Mark Hughes as the manager of the club that was playing the Nationwide league as at 2000. A lot of players joined the club. Sheik Mansur from the Abu Dhabi capital group bought the club in the summer of 2009. The club won the 2010/2011 FA Cup under Roberto Mancini and also got a UEFA Champions League ticket in the same season. The Citizens were placed in the same group with Bayern Munich,Napoli and Villareal. After 6 round of matches in the group phase, Man City were knocked out by Napoli of Italy. Liverpool also knocked them out of the League Cup,while Manchester United sent them packing from the FA Cup in the third round. Manchester City are still two points clear of their city rivals at the top of the table, while they accounted for the ouster of FC Porto from the Europa League.

Roberto Mancini

PSG

Paris St. German (PSG) is another big spending club that was acquired by Arab millionaires in 2011. Carlo Ancelotti was named as the new manager of the capital club at the end of 2011. PSG is currently second on the French League table. PSG were on top of the league standings for several weeks. Argentine International, Javier Pastore is one of the big players that were bought last summer. The club spent over £100 million which is a record-spree in France. The quest for success has led to the influx of players from other clubs. Will PSG win the French Ligue 1 this season? Will PSG grab a Champions League ticket? Only time will tell whether these will happen or not.

Carlo Ancelotti