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Transfer Rumors (17 June 09): Liverpool close on Portsmouth’s Johnson, Man United to land Wigan’s Valencia by the weekend, Manchester City near deal for Blackburn’s Santa Cruz, and more
Did you know that a player’s teeth could cause a transfer to collapse? I didn’t, but apparently that’s the case with potential AC Milan signing Aly Cissokho, who could be set to remain with Porto after a problem with his teeth came up in his medical. If that happens, that’ll be one name to [...]
Continue reading...Transfer Rumors (15 June 09): Man United after Valencia stars Villa and Silva, Aston Villa close on Tottenham duo, Berbatov and Pavlyuchenko linked with Bundesliga moves, and more
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
We’re already in the middle of June, and though the signings haven’t been coming hard and fast just yet, that doesn’t mean that there’s a shortage of action thus far in the summer transfer window. In this morning’s transfer news and rumors roundup, we’ve got tidbits from England, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and Greece, [...]
Continue reading...Transfer Rumors (19 May 09): Ribery, Ronaldo, or Valencia for Real Madrid?, Tottenham chase Lazio’s Pandev and Wolfsburg’s Dzeko, Inter set to snap up Genoa duo, and more
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Another week, another rumor linking Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid. Will it ever end? Not until he actually moves to Madrid, which can’t happen soon enough for some. But, until he moves, he’ll still be popping up in our transfer news and rumors column, along with several other tidbits from around England and [...]
Continue reading...Fergie must match Real’s £21.5m to land Valencia
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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 [...]
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...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...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...Football transfer rumours: Ronaldinho to Man City?
Friday, May 15, 2009
Today’s rumours think play-off defeats plus 1664 do not a happy Mill make The Mill is usually a snout, a grass, a squealer, reporting the tittle-tattle of others and rarely breaks sweat, never mind stories. But we have one exclusive this morning, straight from the mouth of Jermaine Beckford, lamenting his lame Berbatov-esque penalty in Leeds’ [...]
Continue reading...Perez dreams of Galácticos return to the Bernabéu
Friday, May 15, 2009
Former Real Madrid player Steve McManaman called it the “Disneyfication of Real Madrid”; others scoffed at the idea as a bad science experiment gone wrong. If there was ever a time where football was at its peak of absurdity, this was most definitely the time. Los Galacticos. The mere mention of the two words together conjure [...]
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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