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Roque Santa Cruz to Manchester City and Glen Johnson to Liverpool – Done Deals
It took almost six months to complete the deal but yesterday Roque Santa Cruz left Blackburn for Manchester City. The transfer fee is reported to be around £18m and Sant Cruz joins City on a four-year contract. The former Blackburn striker said on Man City website: “I’m very happy to have signed for City – it’s [...]
Continue reading...Portsmouth and Newcastle United summer takeovers could be disasters
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
With the credit crunch and the ever increasing debt in football, this summer looks set to be filled with a lot of high profile club buyouts. West Ham have recently been taken over by CB Holdings and Portsmouth and Newcastle look set to be the next clubs to be taken over in the English game. [...]
Continue reading...Real Madrid Firesale: Sneijder, Huntelaar, Robben, Diarra, Van der Vaart and Ruud for sale
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The other shoe has finally dropped. Real Madrid have put up nine players for sale, including their whole Dutch contingent. Joining Heinze, Saviola and Mahamadou Diarra on the transfer list are Ruud van Nistelrooy, Rosten Drenthe, Rafael Van der Vaart and perhaps most surprisingly, the young trio of Arjen Robben, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Wesley [...]
Continue reading...Football chant challenge gives fans something to sing about
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
They echo throughout fields all over the UK during the football season, and on many occasions have been known to give players a lift. I’m talking about football chants. From Fernando Torres’ “Liverpool’s Number Nine” to “Glory Glory Man United,” songs and chants are a massive part of what makes football such a unique sport. Some [...]
Continue reading...Transfer Rumors (21 May 09): Liverpool in 15m bid for Portsmouth defender Johnson, Celtic target Everton’s Moyes as next manager, Bayern Munich lead race for Arsenal target Elia, and more
Thursday, May 21, 2009
We’ve got a laundry list of transfer news and rumors in today’s roundup, from England, Scotland, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France. Who’s being linked with big (and small) moves for names from here and there? It’s worth noting that Steve McClaren might not be too happy of a man if he read today’s roundup. [...]
Continue reading...Football transfer rumours: Diego Forlán to Manchester City?
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Transfer Rumors (14 May 09): Chelsea after Arsenal’s Adebayor and Villa’s Young, Tottenham want Santa Cruz, Barcelona to land Inter’s Ibrahimovic, and more
Friday, May 15, 2009
Is it safe to say that striker receives more time in the transfer gossip pages from January to December than any other position? Several well-known strikers are in today’s transfer news and rumors, but the goal-getters aren’t the only men in the summer shop window. In today’s roundup, we’ve got tidbits from several of [...]
Continue reading...Football transfer rumours: Carlos Tevez to stay put or go to Milan?
Thursday, May 14, 2009
If today’s tittle-tattle can suss out the light source, maybe it can make some sorta UV flash-bang grenade or somethin’ Long, protracted and excruciatingly tedious legal battle ahoy! Maybe. Yesterday he was off to Liverpool or Manchester City, but today it’s been revealed that Manchester United could try to sign Carlos Tevez on what the Sun [...]
Continue reading...Football transfer rumours: Manchester United’s Dimitar Berbatov to Internazionale?
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Today’s rumours chow in public to 80s tunes The Mill almost got away with it. Mrs Mill’s birthday yesterday sneaked up unexpectedly, but some emergency last-ditch present buying (books, clothes, wine, online experience) looked to have saved the day. The birthday meal venue, though, was a bit of a disaster. Even the Mill, not being quite as [...]
Continue reading...Football transfer rumours: Didier Drogba to the highest bidder
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Today’s rumours can’t apologise enough, but these things happen Today’s Rumours are late but they shouldn’t have been. They were written … finished … a fait accompli. Well, almost accompli. They were in an unsaved office document that crashed. IT were called, a man with fingers stained orange through years of Cheesy Wotsits abuse did his [...]
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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