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Football transfer rumours: Diego Forlán to Manchester City?
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...Apply here : Three European mega clubs looking for new coach
Monday, May 18, 2009
Being in the shadows of rivals Barcelona, Manchester United and Inter is not good enough for mega clubs Real Madrid, Chelsea and Milan. Within the next couple of weeks don’t be surprised if these clubs have signed a new coach to lead them on the hunt for revenge. Real Madrid Situation: Real Madrid have a habit of kicking [...]
Continue reading...Learning from history: How Benitez must avoid the mistakes made by Houllier
Monday, May 18, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Samuel Eto’o’s form leaves Guardiola with some big decisions
Monday, May 18, 2009
Two goals in the last 9 games. That is the total tally for Samuel Eto’o. Here is an overview over the games: FC Barcelona vs. Recreativo Huelva 2-0 (Eto’o didn’t participate) Bayern Munich vs. FC Barcelona 1-1 Getafe vs. FC Barcelona 0-1 FC Barcelona vs. Sevilla 4-0 (Eto’o scored a tap-in) Valencia vs. FC Barcelona 2-2 FC Barcelona vs. Chelsea 0-0 Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona 2-6 Chelsea vs. FC Barcelona 1-1 FC Barcelona vs. [...]
Continue reading...Robbin’ a Van Persie?
Monday, May 18, 2009
Plenty of Tevez talk doing the rounds on Sunday, but we’ll get round to that! The more interesting story concerns Arsenal, with the News of the World claiming that the Gunners are considering cashing in on their niggle-friendly forward. He’s yet to sign a new £70,000-a-week contract at the Emirates and Monsieur Wenger could use that [...]
Continue reading...Wenger has his head turned
Monday, May 18, 2009
Monday morning, another title gone up north and Arsenal fans wake up to the news that manager Arsene Wenger finds Real Madrid ‘interesting.’ Now this would be fine if it was the type of ‘interesting’ usually reserved for that person on the bus with tin foil on his head, but quotes attributed to the Frenchman in [...]
Continue reading...Kaka to Real Madrid?
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Kaka’s agent says there is no agreement with Real Madrid but Spain’s two biggest newspapers today state that an agreement has been made between Kaka himself and Real Madrid. Newspapers La Marca and AS claims that a five year deal is agreed on, worth 12 million euro each year for the 27 year old Brasilian superstar. Supposedly [...]
Continue reading...Yet more Tevez
Saturday, May 16, 2009
It’s one of those transfer sagas that seems certain to run and run, no matter how much you want it to end. Yes, it’s Mr Carlos Tevez. There’s quite a few stories doing the rounds on Saturday, including The Sun’s story. The paper has quotes via Argentina coach Diego Maradona which suggest that Sir Alex Ferguson [...]
Continue reading...Three Rounds remain in a crazy La Liga season
Saturday, May 16, 2009
It’s been a busy week in the world of La Liga. Javier Saviola finally realised that he wasn’t a required player at Real Madrid, and if he actually wanted to be able to write the word ‘footballer’ as his occupation on his arrival card whenever he nicked back to Buenos Aires for a holiday, he [...]
Continue reading...Owen angry at Express train
Friday, May 15, 2009
It’s a bad day to be the Daily Express, as they’ve angered little Mike. The paper has ticked off the smaller Michael (Owen, not Ashley) on Tyneside by creating a story claiming that the striker is ready to retire from the game at the end of the season and take up a new career as [...]
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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