After the news that Kevin de Bruyne is set to sign for Chelsea before the transfer window closes and then immediately loaned back to Genk for the remainder of the season, today is about some Brazilian targets.
First up and as reported the other day, there is Willian the 23 year old Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder.

Liverpool duo Andy Carroll and Jose Enrique believe they need to improve their home form if they are to have any chance of finishing in the top four.
The Reds were held to their seventh draw in 11 games at Anfield this season as Stoke ground out a goalless draw at the weekend.
Kenny Dalglish's men have struggled for goals this season, having netted only 24 goals in 21 Premier League games and Carroll, who started the draw with Stoke on the bench, believes they need to start taking their chances if they are to turn draws into victories.

To start this new year of 2012 Magpie's manager Alan Pardew has said for the first time that European football is a reasonable aim of Newcastle United. Alan Pardew it's possible for us to qualify for Europe Newcastle have taken 30 points from the first half of the season of 19 games, and that's 8 points better than they had at this time last year.

Barcelona aim to extract one euro from every Chinese citizen to access their webpage in order to make €1.3 billion (Dh4.78 billion), as chairman Sandro Rosell believes internet users are the only growth revenue streams left for clubs to tap into.

What are the odds Spurs finish the season as London's top team? Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day

Spurs have been touted as serious title contenders, but only by those who go to bed wearing Tottenham pyjamas wrapped in a Tottenham duvet. You get the impression Harry Redknapp's aim this season is to finish in the top four and then leave to pursue the England job he looks nailed-on for.

Are YOU our Fan of the Month?

There's no other team in world football with a stronger bond with their supporters than Liverpool and now main club sponsors Standard Chartered aim to celebrate this unique relationship with the official Fan of the Month award.

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It is being reported this morning that Arsene Wenger has got his scouts out in force ahead of the January transfer window, and they have been revealing their targets to the Daily Mail. Of course Wenger's main aim is to find a striker to cover for Gervinho and Chamakh, and the scouts will be in [...]

There are a number of people whose behavior in football probably shouldn't serve as a role model to children. One of them is Jose Mourinho, since he's often busy behaving like a child. (You know getting piggybacks and poking people in the eye.)

And yet here he is, getting his own cartoon to nurture our future, the children.

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Sir Alex Ferguson's side aim to close the gap on rivals Manchester City at the top of the table, while the Gunners have the chance to move into a Champions League spot

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Jamie Carragher returned to his old school to donate a footy kit on Friday.
The 33-year-old visited All Saints Primary in Bootle as part of an initiative launched by the Barclays Premier League and the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) to boost the sport at grassroots level.
All 20 top flight teams have donated £25,000 to create a £500,000 fund to provide schools and clubs with free kit and equipment.

Reds aim to equal record

Liverpool head to Fulham on Monday knowing a win would equal a club record of away successes.

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Liverpool Football Club has given its backing to World Aids Day.
World Aids Day has been held on December 1 since 1988 with the aim of fighting prejudice and educating people about the disease.
Mark Haig, LFC's manager for Action for Health, said: "Liverpool Football Club is supporting this international health campaign because we're aware of the devastating impact that HIV has caused many people globally.

Dalgish treats his players like family but even Carra and Stevie G know there's only one boss

A manager's loyalty to his players is pretty much taken for granted. Kenny Dalglish takes it to extremes. Had he been boss when Craig ­Bellamy took aim at John Arne Riise with a seven-iron, Kenny would probably have given the Welshman a few swing tips.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish: Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard's critics are looking 'a bit stupid'

Scot takes aim at the England star's detractors and says the 33-year-old's career is not finished, while admitting that he expects the Blues to challenge for the title

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Feliz Sabado! It's our weekend wrap-up again, and first on the menu is Cristiano's enthusiasm for playing dress-up... típicas! Earlier this week, your favourite Portuguese hunk (don't try to deny this, grandmas!) launched his special CR7 collection, which features a series of his favourite white sneakers, the Nike5 Street Gato ("cat" in Spanish), specially-designed T-shirts in red, white and blue, a CR7 matchball and even shin-guards!

The new Arsenal: focus, enthusiasm, togetherness, and a mixture of raw talent and calm experience

The interlull is almost over. Although it has been a boring period from a footballing point of view at least we did not have to endure again the spectacle of recent interlulls: in-fighting of fellow Arsenal fans.

It was a disappointing night for Liverpool's youngsters in Portugal as they lost 5-1 to Sporting Lisbon in the NextGen Series.
With qualification for the next stage of the competition already ensured, Rodolfo Borrell's side set out with the aim of trying to be the first team to beat the Portugese outfit in the competition so far.

Nicky Butt has today revealed that he has started taking his coaching badges to fulfil his ambition of becoming a manager.

"I've started my badges now and am getting the hours in," Butt said. "I'll get assessed in the next five or six months. I go to Carrington a lot and just watch, I don't really take any of the sessions.

News reports are dominated by one story today and that concerns Tottenham's intention to de-list from the Stock Exchange after posting record annual profits.

The Statement on the club website from Daniel Levy reads,

"It is clear to us that increasing the capacity of the club's stadium is a key factor in the continued development and success of the club and will involve the company in considerable additional capital expenditure," a club statement read.

Middlesbrough star Rhys Williams insists that he has no intention of leaving the club in January.
Williams stated earlier this week that he was not ready to sign a new deal at Boro - unless they improved their offer.
This led to renewed speculation about his future with Bolton and Liverpool linked again, with Aston Villa also previously linked.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is an eager on-looker as England prepare for a pair of friendlies against Sweden and more importantly, reigning European and world champions Spain in the week ahead.

While Gerrard is focused on regaining a consistently high level of fitness for his club, he understands that winning back his regular starting position will be a massive challenge given the quality of talent available for selection.

If you're team is bottom you aren't usually happy - and few neutrals would ever tune into watch the bottom teams in England, Scotland, Spain or Germany.
In Australia it's different - the Melbourne Heart and Adelaide United Dutch Coached teams are bottom of the A-League but both play good football, or aim to.

Manchester United is building its own branded global social network and media outlet, with the aim of targeting its international base of an estimated 350m supporters.

Corluka's new squeeze, 27 year old Croatian model Vedrana Linardić. Apparently Vedrana loves the way Vedran can talk for ages about anything. Vedrana also admits to wanting to be internationally recognised before the end of her career. Dating the premiership footballer Vedran, will probably help Vedrana achieve this aim.

Why is John Terry such a trouble magnet?

Why is it always John Terry? There is no escaping the fact it always seems to be Terry caught in the eye of the storm. He always seems to be the common denominator in the stories. He tries to come across as more sinned against than sinning, but the Chelsea captain seems to have been involved in more than his fair share of problems.

Whoever Spurs aim to buy in January it won't be Giuseppe Rossi after the Italian was ruled out for the next six months with a cruciate injury that he sustained in Villarreal's 3-0 to Real Madrid in the week.

Harry Redknapp has admitted interest on several occasions in the past but this setback has ruled out any potential move for the striker this winter.

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men's faces in the UK and around the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men's health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.
Since its humble beginnings in Melbourne Australia, Movember has grown to become a truly global movement inspiring more than 1.

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It's been a tough week to be a Wolves fan.

The revulsion towards the behaviour of a significant section of Wolves supporters has been widespread – and the criticism has been coming from all angles.

The Guardian's Barry Glendenning tweeted that the fans were "clowns", ESPN's Daniel Pountney suggested they "grow up" and the WSC message boards were alive with the hot topic: "Are Wolves fans fickle?

Since yesterday all current Newcastle United season ticket holders were able to purchase further season tickets at a special half-price rate according to the club's website. The move comes after a fantastic start to the season for the Magpies on the pitch, but a slightly disappointing average attendance at home games.

If Danny Rose takes to the pitch against Rubin Kazan tonight, it will be a welcome sight for Spurs fans to see one of our brightest stars return from a troublesome long term injury.

Rose was converted to an emergency left back last season and impressed in the role to give some much needed competition and back up for BAE's slot and this position is now a long term target for the player.

Barton takes aim at Giggs, Terry and the media

QPR skipper was talking at the Professional Players Federation national conference

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Kenny Dalglish and Sir Alex Ferguson go head-to-head for the first time this season, while Andre Villas-Boas' side aim to keep up the pressure at the top against the Toffees

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Kenny Dalglish and Sir Alex Ferguson go head-to-head for the first time this season, while Andre Villas-Boas' side aim to keep up the pressure at the top against the Toffees

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Kenny Dalglish and Sir Alex Ferguson go head-to-head for the first time this season, while Andre Villas-Boas' side aim to keep up the pressure at the top against the Toffees

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For years the perception of most football fans and the media was that if you stopped Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres, you stopped Liverpool. Since taking over, Kenny Dalglish's aim has clearly been to build a squad with many players capable of driving the team in attack, rather than just relying on one or two players.

Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck says that he has been brought up with a winning mentality at Old Trafford and that the club want to beat every team that they come up against.
The 20-year-old had been in fine form for United this season up until a hamstring injury picked up during the 8-2 victory over Arsenal forced him out for a number of weeks, but he has returned well and secured an England call-up.

We reported the news in the summer that Newcastle were interested in signing Canadian youngster Junior Hoilet of Blackburn Rovers. Junior Hoilet Newcastle maintaining their interest At the time Blackburn manager Steve Kean was about to make the trip to Toronto, Canada to meet with Hoilet's parents, with the aim of getting him to sign a new [.

Liverpool midfielder Charlie Adam targeting improvement in form for Scotland

The 25-year-old is likely to be involved against Spain as Craig Levein's side aim to hold off the Czech Republic in the battle for a play-off place in qualifying for Euro 2012

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As I've previously posted, I had the chance to speak at the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports. They've now posted the videos and slides from all the presentations. I've posted my video below as well as the slides and original blog post so that all the content is in one place. Originally I wanted to title my talk "Cool Shit You Can Do With Markov Chains in Soccer" but toned it down a bit to "A framework for tactical analysis and individual offensive production assessment in soccer using Markov chains".

Reds aim for 50 under Kenny

Liverpool take on Everton at Goodison Park in the 216th Merseyside derby on Saturday needing one goal to make it 50 in all competitions since Kenny returned as manager in January.

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