Tag Archive | "Villa"

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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Samuel Eto’o’s form leaves Guardiola with some big decisions

Monday, May 18, 2009

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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. [...]

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Robbin’ a Van Persie?

Monday, May 18, 2009

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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 [...]

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Wenger has his head turned

Monday, May 18, 2009

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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 [...]

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Football transfer rumours: Ashley Young to Chelsea?

Monday, May 18, 2009

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Today’s Mill will not write that in this standfirst On the outside Sir Alex Ferguson was all smiles, but inside he was surely raging at how his big day had been ruined. And not in an accidental yet hilarious way either. True enough, everyone knew Carlos Tevez was likely to be on his way this summer, [...]

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Kaka to Real Madrid?

Saturday, May 16, 2009

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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 [...]

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