It’s part 2 – the part that contains Newcastle. 11th Manchester City Last season: 9th Transfers in: Jo (CSKA Moscow, £18m), Tal Ben-Haim (Chelsea, undisclosed) Transfers out: Andreas Isaksson (PSV Eindhoven, undisclosed), Sun Jihai (Sheff Utd, free), Geovanni (Hull City, free), Georgios Samaras (Celtic, undisclosed), Matthew Mills (Doncaster, £300,000), Paul Dickov (Leicester, free) While Manchster […]
It’s that time again. Time to second-guess how the English Premier League will pan out. Here’s part one of our preview. Part two will be later in the week. 1st Manchester United Last season: 1st Transfers in: None Transfers out: Chris Eagles (Burnley, undisclosed), Danny Simpson (Blackburn, loan) I wouldn’t say Man U retaining is […]
This “contract” thing It was intriguing to watch Gareth Barry return to first team duties for Aston Villa this weekend given the seemingly burnt bridges that existed between the two parties. Barry made a determination to leave when he heard that Liverpool were interested and openly critcised manager Matin O’Neill in the media. This led […]
How hard can it be? At least Michael Carrick might look useful. The Gareth Barry Mess The red tops have been ensuring that they have had something to write about this summer by updating us daily on the Rafalution. Incase you fell asleep, here it is in a nutshell. Rafa winks at Gareth. Martin tells […]
What price loyalty? What’s going on? Lampard wants to walk out on Chelsea, Ronaldo feels Man United owe him after he won every title for them single-handedly, Robbie Keane has decided to go back on his desire to “finish his career with Spurs” and Emmanuel Adebayor – after a good half season – reckons he’s […]
As explained in the “about” page, I’m a Tottenham fan so occasionally there will be a “Tottenham-focus”. Like right now. Let’s take a peek at the top ten rumours surrounding players coming-and-going from White Hart Lane. Heading for the exit? Younes Kaboul (to Portsmouth, £6m) Kaboul became the fall guy last season – and with […]
Nice work if you can get it If I slagged off my boss in the media I’d probably get little understanding – maybe even the bullet. What does Gareth Barry get? A day off! The versatile mid-table defender-cum-midfielder has been told to stay away from the training ground and fined an obscene amount of money […]
Man U News In other news, the transfer merry-go-round continues. Man U think they might fancy a bit of Colombian striker Falcao for £15m rather than shell out £30m for proven Premiership player Dimitar Berbatov. Clearly the Diego Forlan fiasco didn’t dent Sir Fergie’s faith in South American strikers. Perhaps more worryingly for Fergie is […]
Not that Keane I’ve never been a big fan of Rafa Benitez. He’s your typical big-four manager: always moaning, blames referees for bad results and a bit of a spoofer. The patchiness of his transfer record is up there with the best of them but while Wenger and Ferguson can point to huge success in […]
A lot is made of the way the sacked Avram Grant, Martin Jol and Sven-Goran Eriksson were treated by Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester City respectively this season. Little loyalty was shown to the managers who failed to meet the expectations of their owners and now reports suggest that the new Man City manager Mark Hughes […]
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