Former Chelsea defender Ashley Cole’s experiment with Italian football seems to be coming to a premature end after being left out of the Roma first-team squad for the opening game of the campaign.

The Italian Serie A resumes this weekend with Roma taking on Hellas Verona, but Cole will not be part of the team named by Rudi Garcia as he has been left out of the squad entirely. Garcia has explained that the decision to leave out the former England international is something that was taken by the club and that it was not a personal decision.

Southampton defender Ryan Bertrand says that he is looking to follow in the footsteps of Ashley Cole.

The former Chelsea defender was an understudy to Cole during his time at Stamford Bridge. Even though Bertrand was part of the Champions League final in 2012, he never was considered as a regular first choice at Chelsea. This led to his permanent move to Southampton last summer. The benefits of regular football have been immensely helping him, as Bertrand was part of the defence that conceded the second least amount of goals in the league last season.

Roma manager Rudi Garcia says that he is extremely angry with the performance of his team after they dropped more points in the league match against Atlanta.

The Arsenal fans believe that Ashley Cole should not have decided to stay away from the book which was released by the club the previous year.

That book was named ‘Invincibles’. It was about that glorious 2003-04 Season of the Gunners during which they did not see a single defeat on their way to the Premier League trophy.

Cole was one of the heroes for Arsenal in that season. He regularly showed up in the left side of defence and did an incredible job for Arsene Wenger, the manager.

Leaving Chelsea after 8 wonderful years filled with success left Ashley Cole searching for a new club in what became the most important summer of his career to date.

The 34-year-old was tipped to seek a new adventure by moving to the MLS, but Rudi Garcia pounced upon the availability of a top quality left-back who still has a lot to offer to bring him to Roma. It represented an excellent move for Cole, who gained the opportunity to end his illustrious career on a high through winning more major honours.

The MLS side New York City FC wants to make a big splash in their inaugural season which kicks off in 2015 and this is why they decided on signing Frank Lampard as the English midfielder is an experienced player who even at the age of 36 still has a lot to offer.

New York City FC is part owned by Manchester City and the authorities of the Premier League are eager on signing a few more top European players to their MLS franchise as Frank Lampard is only the beginning.

Former Chelsea defender Ashley Cole has revealed the truth behind the sacking of manager Andre Villas-Boas.

Sunderland went through their 3rd consecutive Premier League after facing Swansea City with the game that ended with neither teams being able to score a single goal throughout the entire match. The team of Gus Poyet has played 6 Premier League matches and has tied 5 a total of games but the coach of Sunderland wants his squad of players to not settle with a simple draw and wants them to aim higher by collecting more points in each match.

Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has claimed that he does not plan to follow in the footsteps of former Chelsea defender Ashley Cole, who recently joined Italian club Roma on a two-year contract. Regarded as one of the best left backs in the world, Chelsea decided not to extend the contract of the 33-year-old as he was coming to the end of his career. It was widely speculated that Cole would be joining a club in the MLS or Middle East. However, he surprised everyone by staying in one of top European leagues after signing for Roma.

Although Hugo Lloris has said that he is not going anywhere away from Tottenham Hotspur, but, everybody has the idea that in professional soccer, the statements made by the players and the officials don’t always point towards the actual scenario. Things can be very different from what has been said.

Lloris is optimistic about his stay at White Hart Lane purely because of the no. of years that is still remaining for his contract to finish. But, there is every possibility that he would be sold if somebody comes with an extremely high bid.