By Ollie Irish
Edin Dzeko: Desirable to all
The Guardian's Barney Ronay captured best the ubiquity of Edin Dzeko, in a superb piece about
the January transfer window:
"The player who is suddenly everywhere will, once again, be everywhere.
Manchester City have reached an agreement to sign Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko from Wolfsburg
according to City manager Roberto Manciniin a deal worth around £30m. For that, City get a young
(24) striker who has scored 66 goals in 111 games for Wolfsburg.
"We have an important game at Arsenal coming up and I will speak about him after that," said
Mancini.
Manchester City have reached an agreement to sign Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko from Wolfsburg
according to City manager Roberto Manciniin a deal worth around £30m. For that, City get a young
(24) striker who has scored 66 goals in 111 games for Wolfsburg.
"We have an important game at Arsenal coming up and I will speak about him after that," said
Mancini.
Today's pre-match is difficult to write following RockyLives' fine and controversial post on
Monday. In his post he covered many of the subjects I would have chosen to write about, in
particular, the changing face of Man City.
I have been swayed by some of the articulate arguments raised by the City fans who came onto the
site and expressed themselves so eloquently perhaps they are not just a rich man's foible.
Chelsea legend Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has urged Chelsea to spend as soon as possible and sign
Sergio Aguero. Hasselbaink sees the Argentinian front man as an ideal signing that would help save
our season and he is quoted in the STAR here by saying:
"This boy is on fire right now.
Manchester City's new £30m striker Edin Dzeko has already endeared himself
with City fans after digging at neighbours United claiming most Manchester fans are City
fans. But who will have the last laugh come May I wonder!
Yesterday I spent much of the afternoon checking and double checking some information I received
regarding Eden Hazard and the state of his reported transfer to Arsenal in the summer.
Using a mixture of sources (including information from private discussions with journalists), I
am 100% certain the following information is correct.
According to a report in Voetbal International, Ajax are far from happy with Liverpool's attempts
to lure Luis Suarez away and are ready to file a complaint to Fifa against the Reds for illegally
approaching the player.
Liverpool supposedly contacted Suarez's agent Pere Guardiola in the first week of January, but
didn't inform Ajax about their interest until January 14.
Only at Liverpool could a day where a fee for Luis Suarez is agreed first be dominated by news of
Fernando Torres' possible exit. The last remnant of the Hicks and Gillett era is the perpetual
expectation that only bad things are going to happen. It's going to take more than a few months
where we've seen the return of the King and slightly improved results to wash away the preeminent
feeling of paranoia.
There have been a number of contributions to Manchester United's currently unbeaten Premier League
campaign but who has been your player of the season so far?Perhaps its Dimitar Berbatov who has
started to justify the £30m paid for him by becoming the league's leading goalscorer or maybe its
Ryan Giggs who, despite turning 37 years of age in November, is still as crucial a player now as he
ever
Dimitar Berbatov is 30 today. Once upon a time that age seemed to spell decline or the closing
of a career. In this day and age, with players looking after themselves the way they do, that
doesn't have to be the case.
Berbatov joined United in what was meant to be his prime as a 27-year-old, which is why we
forked out a massive £30m for him.
