Spanish goalkeeper Pepe Reina has finally brought an end to his misery at Liverpool to an end after agreeing a permanent move to Bayern Munich. The former number one goalkeeper at Liverpool has struggled for first-team opportunities following the arrival of Simon Mignolet last summer. The Belgian international was brought to Anfield for £ 9 million and Reina immediately found himself on the fringes. After having been a first-team regular for almost a decade, the inability to play every week resulted in him moving to Napoli on a season-long loan deal.

It’s been reported that Louis Van Gaal wants Rafael Da Silva to be sold this summer. It has come as a big surprise for the Manchester United supporters.

The club, already having lost the likes of Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic, was expected to keep somebody as experienced as Silva, but, it seems the new management wants a completely new looking defence for the upcoming season.

Silva was immensely liked by the legendary Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. It was him who had brought the full back at Old Trafford in 2008 saying that there was something special about the Brazilian.

Silva has a big fan following United. His fearlessness on the pitch is something that the club fans appreciate a lot.

The Brazilian defender of Manchester United Rafael da Silva has not been able to perform in all of the pre-season matches for his club after sustaining a groin injury which will keep him out of the playing ground. With Louis van Gaal in charge of the English club, United has so far been enjoying a positive pre-season campaign with victories against: LA Galaxy, Inter Milan and As.Roma.

But now that Rafael da Silva is suffering from an injury even before the start of the Premier League season this might turn into a huge problem for the Dutch coach if he doesn’t decide to reinforce the defensive department of Manchester United before the summer transfer window reaches its end.

Rafael Da Silva has said that the whole Manchester United squad is responsible for how the last season went and nobody, in particular, should be blamed for that.

The Red Devils finished the last season at the 7th position in the league points table. It was their worst performance in the top tier of English football in more than two decades.

The manager of the team, David Moyes, had to pay the price for all that at the end as he was sacked with 4 matches remaining in the season.

Many people were not happy with that decision of the Manchester United board to axe Moyes. They felt that the 50-year old Scot was hard done by. It was always going to be a tall order for him to make the team finish at a higher position in the table in his very first year.

After weeks of rumors and speculation surrounding the coaching position of Manchester United it has been officially confirmed that Louis van Gaal is going to succeed David Moyes and turn things around for the Premier League club which just concluded a disastrous season with David Moyes.

“This club has big ambitions. I too have big ambitions. Together I’m sure we will make history. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are.” Van Gaal stated as he confirmed his appointment as the new manager of Manchester United.

Manchester United right back Rafael Da Silva has stated that his teammates should be display quality when they take on Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals at Old Trafford. United had been given a formidable draw in their hopes of winning the Champions League.

This is the first season at the club for manager David Moyes and he has been struggling a lot to maintain their winning ways of Sir Alex Ferguson. However, Champions League has been one competition were they have been looking at least half decent this season.

If Manchester United is unable to get a top 3 spot in the Premier League, this will be the first time that happens since the starts of the top tier English competition and this is just another evidence of how disastrous the transition between Sir. Alex Ferguson and David Moyes has been.

It has been a season of inconsistent results with some positive outcomes in a week but the following one was a totally different story. David Moyes has revealed to the media that the negative season has hurt him and he was not expecting the job to be so tough.

“The results against the big teams have definitely hurt. They have hurt more because I joined Manchester United with big expectations myself that I was coming to the winning football club’’.

Rafael Silva is not only an amazing soccer star but he is a doting brother as well. As soon as his elder twin left Man U & joined up with erstwhile United striker Solskjaer, the younger Silva contacted Ole and asked him to be careful with his brother.

Much to the dismay of Man U fans, David Moyes has already confirmed that one of their most favorite stars Fabio has already moved towards Cardiff City. He would be joining Ole at Wales.

While there is a big amount of players and coaches that have critized David Moyes claiming him to be the reason for the recent demise of Manchester United, there are others that are suggesting that the blame should not be put on David Moyes and instead it should be on the players themselves.

The Brazilian player, Rafael da Silva believes that Moyes is not the man to put the blame on.

The experienced midfielder of Manchester United Ryan Giggs says he has no plans of retiring despite having turned 40 years old in this week.

“I’m lucky that I have been at one club, where I am surrounded by good players and a good manager.It can be hard sometimes but I am still enjoying it. As long as that is the case I will carry on.”

Ryan Giggs added: “I still want to do well in every game, want to win trophies and my focus needs to be on that. I don’t know what the younger lads think of me. “When I was 17 and 18 I thought 31 were ancient. And here I am at 40!”