Benfica's Pablo Aimar.

Benfica's Pablo Aimar: Barcelona's Lionel Messi is at the same level as Diego Maradona to the 32-year-old midfielder says that the Barca attacker is as talented as the retired striker hailing the finishing attributes of Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Benfica playmaker Pablo Aimar believes Barcelona star Lionel Messi is as good now as Argentina legend Diego Maradona was in his prime.Messi broke into Barca's senior ranks in 2004 has won several individual awards such as the FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon d'Or honours and is now widely considered to be the best player in the world to former Argentina coach Maradona has often praised the 24-year-old, proclaiming him as his true successor and Aimar believes that comparisons between the two are justified.

A 32-year-old playmaker also praised Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, claims the Portugal international falls short of Messi and the "Cristiano Ronaldo's statistics are from a different time," Aimar noted in the "More than 50 goals in a season? That is absurd you cannot score 50 goals every year in Cristiano continues to do it to those are statistics from a different time.

The Aimar, who played in Spain for 7 years in spells at Valencia and Zaragoza, believes La Liga's big two, Madrid and Barca, are well ahead of the rest in Europe and i believe that if Chelsea, Manchester United, AC Milan, Inter or Bayern Munich, for example, played in the same league as Real Madrid and Barcelona to they would always finish below them," he explained.

Liverpool's Luis Suarez Ruled Out.

Liverpool's Luis Suarez ruled out of Uruguay italy friendly and they says coach Oscar Tabarez confirmed that the in-form forward would not take the field at the Stadio Olimpico and has picked Sebastian Fernandez to partner Edison Cavani in attack.

The uruguay's four-goal hero from Friday, Luis Suarez, will miss out on the Celeste's encounter with Italy on Tuesday, despite recovering from a minor muscle strain sustained in the last World Cup qualifying clash and the Liverpool striker was in sensational form before the weekend against Chile, scoring all Uruguay's goals in a 4-0 destruction in South American rivals Oscar Tabarez's team at the top to the Conmebol standings for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

A coach confirmed on Monday evening in Rome that Suarez would not play a part in the next fixture, as the discomfort which forced him off the Centenario field early proved enough to convince the ex-Milan trainer not to risk him in this friendly to suarez's place will be occupied by Sebastian Fernandez in the Malaga forward partnering Edison Cavani up front.

The Fernandez's entrance is one of 3 changes made for the Italy match for a Benfica's Maxi Pereira starts on the right of midfield in place of Alvaro Gonzalez, Porto's Cristian Rodriguez gets the nod ahead of Gaston Ramirez.

Uruguay XI vs. Italy (4-4-2):

Muslera; Caceres, Lugano, Godin, A. Pereira; M. Pereira, Arevalo Rios, Perez, Rodriguez; Cavani, Fernandez.

A Every Player Dreams Of Barcelona Says Ajax's Christian Eriksen.

The Denmark international has admitted that a move to Camp Nou is tempting to added that he is in no rush to leave his current club and the ajax star christian Eriksen said he would be open to a transfer to Barcelona in added that he still has plenty of things to achieve at his current club.

A report on Wednesday suggested that the Catalans consider the Denmark international to be the perfect replacement for Xavi once the midfield maestro hangs up his boots in riksen has admitted that wearing the Barcelona jersey is a dream for most players, he is not in a rush to make the move to Camp Nou i think that most footballers dream of playing for Barcelona," Eriksen was quoted as saying by sporten.dk.

I think that Barcelona's style would fit me very well and a transfer to Camp Nou would be great to i still have plenty of challenges left with Ajax We'll see what happens when the time is right to move on the 19-year-old playmaker recently revealed that he turned down an approach from Manchester City in the summer transfer window, Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea are also believed to be keeping tabs on Eriksen.

Gabriel Agbonlahor Out For England Squad Due To A Hamstring Injury.

The Gabriel Agbonlahor has withdrawn from the England squad due to a hamstring injury and returned to Aston Villa and the agbonlahor has been in magnificent form for Villa during the early part of the Premier League season and had been rewarded with a callup by Fabio Capello for the friendly against Spain on Saturday and next Tuesday's clash with Sweden.

He had been hoping to get the opportunity to impress at the Wembley and stake his claim for a place in England's final Euro 2012 squad Capello reconsidering his attacking options following the news that Wayne Rooney would be suspended to group games next summer to the 25-year-old sat out training on Friday and England's doctors have now allowed him to head back to Villa.

He has this morning returned to Aston Villa," read a short statement on the Football Association's official website to having been assessed by the England medical staff, Agbonlahor is unable to train today at Wembley and has returned to his club Villa will be hoping the injury is not serious and that Agbonlahor will be fit to face Tottenham at White Hart Lane on 21st November.

England players and coaching staff held a two minutes silence in the Wembley centre circle in honour of Remembrance Day before undertaking their final training session ahead of Saturday's game to skipper John Terry stood alongside head coach Capello while Frank Lampard, tipped to wear the armband if Terry is not selected, was next to Under-21 coach Stuart Pearce he is fit enough to participate against Spain will not be revealed until Capello stages his pre-match media conference later on Friday.

Real Madrid VS Barcelona Players Unite To Launch New Spain Kit Ahead Of England Friendly.

The several of La Roja's top players met in Madrid on Thursday to unveil their team's new strip for the European Championships next summer, while the side's centurions were honoured and the spain launched their new kit for Euro 2012 on Thursday with a clear message for the past does not count.

A slogan used by Adidas at the event in Madrid, where Spain and Real Madrid captain Iker Casillas was joined by club colleagues Xabi Alonso, Alvaro Arbeloa and Raul Albiol, Barcelona stars Xavi and David Villa, as well as Malaga's Nacho Monreal and Athletic Bilbao's Fernando Llorente and Casillas hope his side can repeat the success of 2008 to they went all the way to win the continental competition in Austria and Switzerland.

This new shirt, we want to repeat the success of Austria and Switzerland, the goalkeeper told reporters we know it won't be easy but we will try and defend our title I'm sure we are going to do it was flanked by the European and World Cup trophies, team mate Villa admitted he hoped Spain could be the first side to claim a Euro, a World Cup and another Euro title consecutively.

The zubizarreta and Xavi were also there to receive medals, but Raul remained in Germany with his club, Schalke and will pick up his award later to a javi Martinez will miss the game against England through injury after failing to shake off the knock he picked up in a 2-2 draw at Barcelona on Sunday.

Newcastle's Naming Rights Worth Up To £10m a Year Derek Llambias Says The Club Had To Move Forward And Consider Stadium Sponsorship.

The Newcastle managing director Derek Llambias says the club can generate up to £10m a season by attracting a joint shirt and stadium sponsor and the Magpies have changed the name of a St James' Park stadium to the Sports Direct Arena in an effort to attract a new naming partner.

Llambias says the club need extra funds to compete in the Premier League and i would be hope to generate between £8m-10m a year, that will give us another player," Llambias told BBC Newcastle to compete we need to go further, we've had a fantastic start of a newcastle are third in the Premier League and having won seven of their opening 11 matches.

Llambias added, The fans want us to buy more players, we need a new striker in January, we'll need replacements in the summer to we need to give ourselves as much of a chance as possible to stadium sponsorship is growing in English football, with most new-build venues such as Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and Brighton's Amex Stadium utilising brands to help finance costs.

The Manchester City completed a deal worth £400m over 10 years to sponsor their existing City of Manchester Stadium with Etihad Airways in July of this year to Newcastle's plans, Chelsea are considering the option of selling the naming rights of Stamford Bridge, a venue they have been synonymous with since their formation in 1905 for "The history is always going to be there, we need to become part of the history," Llambias said.

Report Says, Atletico Madrid's Jose Antonio Reyes In Talks About Sevilla Return

The Spain international has reportedly grown unsettled at the Vicente Calderon and a move back to the Seville-based club appears to be a strong possibility and the Atletico Madrid winger Jose Antonio Reyes has engaged in talks with Sevilla about a return to the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, Diario de Sevilla reports.

A 28-year-old has been linked with a new challenge after falling out with coach Gregorio Manzano last month for the tv footage appeared to show Reyes swearing at the coach after being substituted in the second half of his side's 3-0 La Liga defeat at Athletic Bilbao and the reyes has not been included in a match squad ever and reports suggest the player is looking for a way out of his situation.

The Spain international reportedly travelled to Seville on Monday in the company of his father and his agent to listen to learn the conditions about a potential move to the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan outfit and he represented from 1994 to 2004 and the former Real Madrid and Benfica loanee has been at Atletico Madrid since 2007 when he joined the club from Arsenal.