Mark Van Bommel's understudy is taking over at the San Siro
Gazzetta Dello Sport is reporting that Milan shocked off their socks by their weekend defeat to
Sampdoria is adding Man City hardman, Nigel De Jong to their roster. With Jack Rodwell brought over
from Everton showing signs of promise in the backfield and freeing up Yaya Toure to rove ahead,
Roberto Mancini can afford to let go the Dutchman who is in his last year of his contract.
Tottenham have been linked with moves for many players over the course of this summer but when a
new name crops up it seems worthy of mention. Roma's Bosnian international Miralem Pjanic is that
name and although this may well be more paper talk, there have been worse players mentioned as
possible replacements for Luka Modric.
We saw that Norwich City manager Chris Hughton has signed former Newcastle center-backÂ
Sebastien Bassong from Spurs, and that another Tottenham player, central midfielder Tom
Huddlesdtone is available for a season long loan deal. Seb Bassong while at Newcastle for one
season Since Bassong left Newcastle when the club was down and out in the summer of 2009 for
£8M, he has not progressed [.
Newcastle target Mathieu Debuchy, the France international right-back, Â has said in an interview
that he still wants to leave the French club he's played for since back in 2004. Mathieu Debuchy
seems determined to leave Lille When Newcastle didn't meet Lille's asking price of about €8M
(£6.
There are reports in Holland that Newcastle have indeed made a new bid for Ajax' Dutch
International midfielder Vurnon Anita, thought to be around €8M, which is about £6.5M. There
have been many reports over the last week that Newcastle were preparing a new bid, Â but there is
news in Holland today that the Ajax club have [.
There are reports in Holland that Newcastle have indeed made a new bid for Ajax' Dutch
International midfielder Vurnon Anita, thought to be around €8M, which is about £6.5M. There
have been many reports over the last week that Newcastle were preparing a new bid, Â but there is
news in Holland today that the Ajax club have [.
We had reported on Tuesday night that Newcastle had put in a bid of €6M (£4.8M) for MathieuÂ
Debuchy with bonuses included, but that it had been rejected, and that Lille President MichelÂ
Seydoux wanted closer to €8M (£6.4M) without any bonuses, for the right-back and was awaiting a
new bid by Newcastle.
The Journal is reporting they think Newcastle could get the Swedish International striker, Ola
Toivonen, for around £5M, even though he is said to have a release clause of £8M in hisÂ
contract. Ola Toivonen - cheaper option than de Jong It seems that Newcastle's number one choiceÂ
at striker FC Twente's Luuk de Jong is just too [.
There is news coming in from Holland that Newcastle have increased their bid for 21 year-old
striker target Luuk de Jong of FC Twente. Luuk de Jong Newcastle have bid €12M for this 21
year-old Newcastle had bid £8M for the player earlier this week, but that was turned down almost
immediately by Twente, and they [.
TweetArsenal have completed the signing of Montpellier forward Olivier Giroud for £12.8m with the
Frenchman ready to pen a four-year contract. Giroud was an inimical part of an unfancied
Montpellier side who blasted their way to the French title last season with the 25-year-old bagging
an impressive 21 league goals as La Paillade defied odds [.
News today that Ajax are asking £8M for their full-back/midfielder Vernun Anita. Vernun Anita -
valued at £8M by Ajax Newcastle lodged a bid for the player over the weekend, according to his
agent, and the initial bid was somewhere between £5 and £10M, but it seems the asking price is
now £8M. Newcastle's offer [.
The Euros are almost here, and with it distraction from the offseason doldrums and transfer
market lunacy. But they aren't here quite yet and Liverpool's had its manager sorted for a week
now. Which means it's beyond time for the club to be linked to 37,581 players who will never arrive
and half of whom nobody was previously aware existed.
Newcastle tracked Kevin Gameiro last summer, but the striker eventually moved from Lorient to PSG
for €11M. Kevin Gameiro - PSG striker That's about £8.8M in today exchange rate, but Kevin has
had a poor season in Paris. After scoring 24 goals in 41 appearances for Lorient in the previous
season, he notched just 11 [.
It hardly seems a year ago that Spurs were being linked with a move for former Ajax man and
current Dutch international keeper Maarten Stekelenburg. Even after the capture of Brad Friedel,
there was a theory that Brad had been brought in as back up to a major arrival at the Lane.
After Stekelenburg joined Roma, that particular rumour was filed away but it has resurfaced
today amidst claims that the 29 year old is unsettled at his new club.
As we all know, Andre Villas-Boas is set to take over at Spurs next week which is somewhat of a
surprise. It's surprising because I will never understand why Harry Redknapp has been sacked with
his record at Spurs and also because AVB is taking over a club so quickly after being sacked by
Chelsea AND being another club in the Premier League.
It does seem fairly certain that the new boss will take a look at the goalkeepers at Spurs and
he could have a major decision to make over Brad Friedel. Naturally, he may retain Brad for
stability or alternatively he may decide that it's time to start looking at the long term.
Over the last few weeks and months there have been countless keepers doing the paper rounds and
the latest of these is Italian international Emiliano Viviano – a 26 year old who is currently
with Palermo, his fifth domestic club.
In a decision that was undoubtably cheered at the FA's headquarters, a jury today cleared Spurs
manager Harry Redknapp and former Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric of tax evasion.
Speaking on the steps of Southwark Crown Court, Redknapp said the case "should never have come
to court".
Brendan Rodgers today said Gylfi Sigurdsson's wage demands scuppered the midfielder's move to
Anfield.
Sigurdsson completed his move to Tottenham this week, having at one stage looked odds-on for a
move to Liverpool. Spurs paid Hoffenheim a fee of around £8m for the 22-year-old's services.
Andre Villas Boas wasted no time bringing Gylfi Sigurdsson to White Hart
Gylfi Sigurdsson was supposed to be Liverpool bound in a re-union with former Swans boss Brendan
Rodgers except Andre Villas Boas managed to spirit him away to White Hart Lane. Sigurdsson was hot
property after his performance lit up Swansea's season on loan from Hoffenheim.
Liverpool may be thwarted in their bid to sign former Chelsea man Fabio Borini after one of the
forward's co-owning clubs, Parma, expressed their intention to keep him in Italy.
The 20-year-old left Stamford Bridge for Parma last summer, before moving on loan to Roma the
following month.
The Italy international made an impressive start to life at Roma and the capital city club decided
to pay Parma around £1.
According to the BBC, Liverpool are in talks with Gylfi Sigurdsson, who had looked set to make a
permanent switch to Swansea.
The 22-year-old playmaker enjoyed an impressive campaign during his season-long loan with the
Swans last season and looked all set to tie up a club record £6.
Swiss starlet Granit Xhaka is unlikely to move to the Premier League this summer after revealing
that he is close to joining German side Borussia Monchengladbach.
Xhaka, who plays for Basel, impressed during the Swiss side's run to the last 16 of the Champions
League this season, reportedly attracting the interest of suitors such as Liverpool.
ARSENE Wenger is said to have agreed a fee of almost £13million to take Olivier Giroud to
Arsenal from Montpellier, reports tonight suggest.
There is a vast amount of conjecture swirling around that Giroud joining the Gunners could be
part of a deal that sees Marouane Chamakh head the other way either on loan or as part of a
swap-deal-plus-cash.
Roman Abramovich has had an "interesting" few days being back at Cobham hasn't he. Being present
for the most part last week and taking an interest in training, to then watch the performance we
gave on Saturday at Goodison and to then hear the Manager speak of not preparing the team
properly must have been a real eye opener.
The Blues might be sitting pretty in position 6 in the football money league rich list but the
truth of the matter is that their financial situation is not too good. With a massive debt in
excess of over £1 billion, Chelsea could soon find itself in a very messy situation.
It is also now emerging that Chelsea paid £28 million to sign Andre Villas-Boas from Porto last
summer.
Chelsea have sold and loaned out Raul Meireles and Michael Essien and I get the impression that
quite a few Chelsea fans are asking why?.
I admit, I was surprised to see the Meirles story break and for then for the deal worth £8m to be
concluded fairly quickly especially after Chelsea loaned Michael Essien to Real Madrid.
We just hope the Daily Mail is right, when they are reporting today that Newcastle are close to
sealing a deal for 21 year-old Dutch International striker Luuk de Jong. Luuk de Jong Newcastle
said to be close to a deal That's the news this morning and Newcastle's initial bid of £8M for the
[...]
When questions about your football club are raised in Westminster and the Prime Minister agrees
that the situation needs investigation then you know you are in a bad way. Not because you might be
investigated but because the Prime Minister actually knows what Penny Mordaunt, MP for Portsmouth
North, is talking about.
