Tag Archive | "Liverpool"

The team for Rome?

Friday, May 22, 2009

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Normally teams are announced an hour before kick-off, but not if you’re the Sun. They have the inside scoop on the United team to face Barcelona in the Champions League final and it’s… well… pretty unsurprising. Carlos Tevez is out, Dimitar Berbatov is out, Park Ji-Sung and Ryan Giggs are in. The paper claims it’s a [...]

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Top of the flops: The five worst Premier League signings of the season!

Friday, May 22, 2009

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There’s nothing quite like the buzz and thrill of expectancy when your club announces a new signing. Let’s face it, it doesn’t matter if you follow a team in the lowest echelons of the Conference South or one of the European superpowers at completely the other end of the spectrum, you just can’t beat that [...]

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Liverpool’s Big Step Four-ward

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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18, 30, 37, 9, 21, 11. No, these aren’t the winning numbers for tonight’s National Lottery, they’re actually the gap between Liverpool and the winner of the league dating back to the 2002-03 campaign. It’s sobering the realise that whilst Liverpool are a world class club, their inability to contend in the Premier League has [...]

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Football transfer rumours: Glen Johnson to Liverpool?

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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Speculation continues to swirl around Liverpool’s Xabi Alonso – but is Madrid’s interest for Real? The Legacy of Reprocessing in the United Kingdom by Martin Forwood (A research report of the International Panel on Fissile Materials), seven pages worth of averages from somebody’s village cricket team, a Daily Mail article detailing the drunken debauchery of champagne-guzzling [...]

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Rafa’s £50m Tevez bid stuns Spurs

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

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Not content with provoking Sir Alex Ferguson during the season and then failing to offer his congratulations to the Manchester United manager upon winning the Premier League title, Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez is set to further annoy his nemesis with an astonishing £50million swoop for Carlos Tevez. Benitez’s attempt to lure Gabriel Heinze to Anfield from [...]

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Football transfer rumours: Carlos Tevez to Liverpool, not Spurs

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

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Today’s tell-all has arrived at the conclusion that pompous hacks who keep writing about “the integrity of the Premier League” obviously aren’t familiar with the Premier League The Rumour Mill has no problem admitting that much of its daily round-up of transfer speculation is taken from The Sun, but we were puzzled by their proud boast [...]

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Transfer Rumors (18 May 09): Chelsea to make Tevez move, Liverpool and Manchester City after French star Gourcuff, Arsenal to rival Aston Villa for Ajax defender Vermaelen, and more

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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Seasons are coming to a close around Europe, and while many big names will make moves in the upcoming summer transfer window, we’re also going to see a few notable managers change clubs in the near future. With that in mind, today’s transfer news and rumors roundup has a little managerial news from around [...]

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Fergie must match Real’s £21.5m to land Valencia

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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With the European football season drawing to a close the attention of the UK press is fully focused on transfer tittle-tattle and Tuesday’s big money move centres around Wigan Athletic winger Antonio Valencia. The Daily Mail ‘exclusively’ reveal that the Ecuador international is set to join Real Madrid after Latics boss Steve Bruce thrashed out a [...]

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Football transfer rumours: Diego Forlán to Manchester City?

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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Today’s rumours are looking for a comfortable dark place in which to hide Yes, he’s really off now. Off. This time. Going now. Five-goal ace Carlos Tevez really is packing up his little scurrying legs and taking his wounded, puppyish baby-brown eyes off to somewhere else, somewhere better, somewhere his organ grinder can get a few [...]

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Learning from history: How Benitez must avoid the mistakes made by Houllier

Monday, May 18, 2009

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My Grandad always used to say “The Runners Up in anything are just the first losers”. It is a notion that is unlikely to endear himself to the man who he refers to consistently as “Bennertez”, as Rafa Benitez wakes up today contemplating being the “first loser” of this season’s Premier League. But, clichés and mispronunciations [...]

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