By Chris Wright

Comments allegedly made by Liverpool winger Ryan Babel in the Dutch press have sparked speculation that toothy Ajax forward (and Uruguay 'keeper) Luis Suarez may be on his way to Liverpool, with Babel returning to his former club on loan for the rest of the season as part of the deal.

After a couple of seasons of wondering whether Roman Abramovich has still passionate about Chelsea the Blues owner has answered his critics by making offers of over £110million this month. Unfortunately for Chelsea fans, none of their offers for players have been accepted yet.

The latest Chelsea target is Liverpool's Fernando Torres and newspaper reports say that Chelsea have had a £40million bid for the Liverpool striker turned down.

The former Tottenham and Middlesbrough striker, Egyptian international Mido, is now a free agent after he agreed to cancel his contract at Ajax, by mutual agreement. Mido now a free agent And the 27 year-old player has said that he has a number of offers with reports that one of them is from [...

Maurice Edu returned from injury to score the final goal as Rangers hammered Hamilton Academic yesterday. Edu had been down since November, but he has featured regularly for the Scottish side this season and should be the American every team scrambles to pick up.

The MLS Supplemental Draft will help teams fill out their reserve team rosters.

Ryan Babel signed for Liverpool from Ajax and immediately made an explosive impact in his first season. His 10 goals in 49 appearances for the Reds earned him the adulation of the Liverpool fans. He was named the Liverpool Young Player of The Season in 2007-08.
He had a bit of everything as do all Dutch players.

Liverpool and Arsenal are confirmed challengers in the race to sign Daniel Opare.
The Ghanaian international defender has been linked with a number of Barclays Premier League clubs in recent months, and the player's agent has confirmed interest from Liverpool, Arsenal and a number of top English sides.

January Transfer Window: 5 potential last minute deals is a post from: Just Football

With just over a week remaining of the January transfer window 2011, teams around Europe are busy scrambling around looking for the last big purchase or bargain buy of the season, desperately grabbing onto whatever they can and shoving their fellow shoppers out of the aisle like contestants on Supermarket Sweep.

Keeping goal is former Guatemalan international Edgar Estrada. He picked up 80 caps for the national side between 1995 and 2003. A back four of Emmanuel Eboue (Ivory Coast and Arsenal), Erik Edman (Sweden and Helsingborg), Emad El-Nahhas (Egypt and Al-Ahly) and Nigerian Eric Ejiofor.

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El Liverpool rechaza una oferta del Chelsea por Fernando ¨el niño¨ Torres que fue de 40 millones de euros por parte del multimillonario Roman Abramovich.

Liverpool have confirmed they have reached an agreement with Ajax to sign Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez for a fee of £22.8million, becoming the club's new record signing.

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Reports from the Netherlands that former Dutch international midfielder Aron Winter was flying to Canada to sign a three-year deal to become the new head coach and technical director of Toronto FC show just what the club is aiming for – footballing perfection.

Interim general manager Earl Cochrane said last year that Canada's first Major League Soccer franchise was keen on playing Total Football – the Dutch soccer philosophy that emphasizes fluid interchange between players, meaning every player other than the goalkeeper can theoretically find himself playing anywhere on the field at any point during a game.

Repeating your own mistakes is bad. Especially when you've spent good money to bring in people to tell you how NOT to repeat those mistakes. However, repeating other people's mistakes? There's something special about that.

Reports out of Toronto have approximately every out-of-a-job manager eager to head north and try to turn Toronto FC into a playoff team.

It's official now. MLSE and TFC held a press conference today to confirm that Aron Winter, Paul Mariner, and Bob de Klerk will be joining Toronto FC. In a nutshell, here is what our staff will look like for the new season:

Aron Winter Head Coach & Technical Director
Paul Mariner Director of Player Development
Bob de Klerk - First Assistant Coach
Earl Cochrane - Director of Team and Player Operations
Stu Neely Head of Academy
Nick Dasovic, Jim Brennan, and Danny Dichio will all remain a part of the organization; official roles yet to be named

Basically, Winter is our main man.

Liverpool are reportedly in line to launch a double bid for Ajax duo Luis Suarez and Urby Emanuelson.
According to The Telegraph, the Reds have been monitoring both players and now it would appear they could be set to launch a €31 million swoop on the Dutch giants.
Liverpool have consistently been linked with a move for Suarez in recent weeks in their pursuit of more potent goalscoring options.

Urby Emanuelson's agent has played down reports linking Liverpool with a move for the Ajax defender.
Reports have suggested Liverpool have targeted the Dutch international to help solve their problematic left-back position.
Emanuelson's future at Ajax has been the subject of speculation for some time with the player rejecting a new deal at the Amsterdam ArenA and his contract expiring in the summer.

Luis Suarez is the name on every ones lips in the papers and on the street.
The Uraguay International is a free-scoring footballer playing with Ajax in Holland.
Daniel Comolli has watched him on several occasions and I hope John Henry spends the £15 million needed to buy him for Liverpool as he would be a great strike partner for Torres.

As always, it's been difficult to sort through all the transfer rumours and make any informed decision as to which of them may be true. However, according to Everton manager David Moyes, Spurs did make a concrete bid for Steven Pienaar.

On Friday afternoon, Sky Sports gave us the breaking news that talks between Everton and Chelsea had broken down and that the player would be making a move to a major European club imminently.

The u-turn that was hinted at yesterday looks to be almost complete as reports claim that Everton have accepted an offer from Spurs for their midfielder Steven Pienaar. Last week, Chelsea tabled a bid of £3m which was accepted by the Toffees and it would now appear that Tottenham, who had initially made an offer that fell short of Chelsea's bid, have matched the asking price.

In somewhat unsuspected Liverpool FC transfer news, Ryan Babel is on his way to Hoffenheim to discuss personal terms with the German side, despite reports that he would be used as a makeweight in the transfer of Luis Suarez from Ajax.

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The South American Youth Championship, like most youth tournaments, is dominated by domestic-based players. After all, most national youth teams aren't going to fly the average 18 year old footballer across the world for a month in the middle of their club season. But of course there are many 18 year old footballers who are far from average, and so there are a couple of Europe-based players currently in Peru for the tournament.

Manchester United are officially the best supported club in Europe according to Futebol Finance.

Futebol Finance based their analysis on attendances last season, and with an average Old Trafford attendance of 75,304 last season, United surpassed Real Madrid, the 2009-2009 winners.

What is surprising is the lack of Premier League sides on the list.

Charlie Adam could be set to leave Blackpool this month and join Liverpool after the Reds chairman Tom Werner declared a mountain of transfer funds will be made available to manager Kenny Dalglish.
The 25-year-old Scotland international has expressed his desire to play at a top level club after impressing in the Premier League this season.

Liverpool are reportedly set to turn their attentions to Lacina Traore - should they lose out on Luis Suarez.
Suarez's protracted move to Anfield has eked out for some time now and - according to The Telegraph - the Reds and Ajax are currently way apart in their valuation of the Uruguayan.
And, with Liverpool desperate for striking reinforcements in January, they could be forced to set their sights elsewhere in pursuit of more potent attacking options.

Morning all. Throughout January Soccerlens is going to be bringing you a daily round-up of the morning's various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we'll have it covered.

Here's this morning's batch.

Free-Wieling.

ROTTERDAM The agony of Feyenoord Rotterdam does not end. Today, a new chapter was added to the story of the declining club. Three days after the hopeless 2-0 defeat at Ajax, the fans saw De Graafschap was too strong: 0-1. "Shame on you, shame on you', rolled it from the angry stands. The only [...]

ROTTERDAM The agony of Feyenoord Rotterdam does not end. Today, a new chapter was added to the story of the declining club. Three days after the hopeless 2-0 defeat at Ajax, the fans saw De Graafschap was too strong: 0-1. "Shame on you, shame on you', rolled it from the angry stands. The only [...]

Ajax manager Frank de Boer has admitted he wants any potential move by Luis Suarez to Liverpool to be conducted quickly.
The Reds have reportedly been in contact with the Dutch club regarding Suarez, however the clubs' valuation of the player is believed to still be some way apart.
The Merseysiders are anxious to add fire-power to their line-up as they have been over-reliant on Fernando Torres this season which has seen them fall down the Premier League.

Liverpool is reportedly monitoring Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema.
According to 4-4-2, the Reds will make their move for the Frenchman if they fail to pull off a deal for Ajax captain Luis Suarez, whose protracted move to Merseyside continues to rumble on.
Benzema – who joined Real from Lyon for £30 million in 2009 – remains on the fringes at the Bernabeu and Liverpool are prepared to offer him a fresh start.

Morning all. Throughout January Soccerlens is going to be bringing you a daily round-up of the morning's various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we'll have it covered.

Here's this morning's batch.

Drog days are over.

I have admit I scoffed at the news headlines this morning that said Chelsea had bid £40million for Fernando Torres. Much like the Guardian's Twitter-publicised Gareth Bale non-story the day before, I thought it was at best a PR stunt by Chelsea.
But the noises this afternoon suggest Torres may actually be on his way after all.

So, people, turns out you can stop burning those Torres shirts in the street, as Chelsea coming in with a bid Liverpool could never accept with four days left in the January market even if Roman Abramovich had added a one to the front of it meant and means Torres isn't leaving in the January market, full stop.

Liverpool have agreed a £22.8m deal with Ajax for striker Luis "The Cannibal " Suarez subject to a Medical.

Here is the latest Fernando Torres transfer news as the striker prepares for a possible shock switch from Merseyside to Stamford Bridge in the 2011 winter transfer window. There is a lot awaited on the Torres transfer news front as the window closes on January 31, 2011 ( Monday) at 23.00 GMT. January 28, 2011- [.

Morning all. Throughout January Soccerlens is going to be bringing you a daily round-up of the morning's various goings-on. Be it juicy morsels of spurious transfer gossip or real, actual bona fide news, rest assured, we'll have it covered.

Here's this morning's batch.

Torres wants out.

Ajax had Stanley Menzo. A sensational goalie. Athletic, strong, smiling, agile, spectacular, good with his feet and fast. But according to the experts, the lanky Voorhouter who was coming up through the ranks was even better. A former football player with great feet but who was forced to play goalie [read more]

Liverpool Football Club have tonight confirmed that the transfer of Luis Suarez from Ajax will be completed on Monday.

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From the Toronto Sun:
According to reports out of the Netherlands, former Dutch international midfielder Aron Winter has agreed to a three-year deal with the club to become its new technical director and head coach.

Winter had spent years as an assistant with Ajax, a club he scored 50 goals for as a defensive midfielder in his playing days.

Reasons to be cheerful.
- Leadership hirings finally completed- fans can start dreaming of the season ahead, rather than dreading another day of TFC vacuum.
- I can't be the only one impressed with a Dutch coaching hire (Aron Winter). Although I am usually dubious when nationalities are thrown around as the answer to any problem, the Netherlands have supplied the world with quality players and national teams out of proportion to their population.

We talked last week about Toronto FC going after former New England Revolution assistant Paul Mariner, well it looks like he may not be the head coach after all, instead he will be the new technical director of the club. Now reports are saying Toronto FC will hire former Dutch midfielder Aron Winter as their new head coach.

In the drivers' seat! At last. But...where's the steering wheel?

Ajax and Frank de Boer formally struck a deal. He will stay officially till the summer of 2014.

With De Boer, Ajax has a coach who thinks, breaths and talks like ex-coaches such as Johan Cruyff and Louis van Gaal. De Boer [read more]