May

8

Benitez really has balls of steel

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You have to admire Rafa Benitez. Peter Crouch hardly gets a look in all season, the manager preferring to play the hard working but goal shy Kuyt ahead of him and deciding he’ll keep the frankly rubbish Voronin over him, yet there’s a £15m price tag slapped on his head.
Amazing. Crouch is a decent Premier [...]

Feb

22

Why did Portsmouth buy David Nugent?

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No sooner had they bought him from Preston there were stories that they were willing to sell him. Now it looks like he’s off to Ipswich on loan after barely making an appearance all season.
Did Redknapp buy him based on the newspaper hype? It wasn’t cheap either, £6m. To put that in perspective that’s as [...]

Feb

9

It’s all about the football

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It’s nice when a player is honest about why he joined a club. Sometimes it’s because it’s a big, important club. Sometimes it’s because he wants to work with a particular manager. Most of the time it’s about money. Which is exactly the case with Benjani who moved from Portsmouth to Man City.
Speaking about his [...]

Jan

26

Question

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You are Carlos Puyol. You are a Catalan boy now captain of that great symbol of Catalunya, FC Barcelona.
You have won league titles, the Champions League, you play with such great players as Thuram, Zambrotta, Ronaldinho, Henry, Eto’o, Deco, Xavi and Messi, plus incredible youngsters like Dos Santos and Bojan. Your team, the one that [...]

Oct

18

Drogba wants to leave Chelsea…

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…and it doesn’t look like he’s going to be inviting John Terry around for tea anytime soon either.
The damage has been big in the dressing room because we know now what happened and who caused Mourinho’s departure. Nothing can stop me from leaving now.
Or is it Shevchenko? Or is it John Terry who took umbrage [...]

Oct

11

B-Arse-a

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This is bollocks. Barcelona, along with Real Madrid are for some reason allowed to do what the bloody hell they like when it comes to (allegedly, of course) tapping up and tempting players away from other clubs. What Arsenal did, or more likely what the player and his agent did was not 100% above board [...]

Aug

29

Let’s stand up for the truth.

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There comes a point, where the fun is taken out of transfer speculation, and frankly, this summer it has been reached. When papers that sell by the million are prepared to employ ‘journalists’ that rely on blogs for their information and don’t bother to check any facts, as in the Palacio to Arsenal affair, and [...]

Aug

22

Red Rafa’s rage remiss

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I want to ask the Premier League why it was so difficult for Liverpool to sign Javier Mascherano, when we had to wait a long time for the paperwork, but it was so easy for Carlos Tevez to join Manchester United? - Source.

Was it just me who had the tits bored off them all summer [...]

Aug

6

Just when you think…

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…this summer’s already loopy transfer market can’t get any more unhinged there comes news that Craig Gordon might move from Hearts to Sunderland for £9m.
Yes, really. £9m. Of course nothing has been finalised but even talking about Craig Gordon as a £9m player is ludicrous. From what I’ve seen he’s an above average young keeper [...]

Aug

1

It’s not Paolo Rossi, right?

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Villarreal have apparently paid Manchester United £6.75m for Giuseppe Rossi.
That’s either great business by United or lunatic spending by the Spaniards. Or both. Perhaps they’re hoping for the Forlan effect again.

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