Tom Tully surely performed a double take when he happened upon the match report from Southampton's final stand at The Dell. Having written so many tales of glory for Roy of the Rovers, he likely thought his work had been plagarised when news came through that the final goal at those grounds, after 103 years of football, was a match winner over Arsenal scored from the foot of modern club legend Matt LeTissier.

The boy's dream is to play for Chelsea. I reckon Roman is close to making that dream a reality.

Installing a manager remains at the forefront of summer business. That has done little to deter the rumor mill from churning, however, with an ungodly amount of talent some elite, some not being linked with a move to Stamford Bridge already this offseason.

Liverpool confirmed on Friday night that the out-of-favour forward had...

As reported by the Daily Mail, Chelsea delegates are due to meet with 18-year-old Anderlecht striker Romelu Lukaku to bring what many call "the next Didier Drogba" to the club next season. Lukaku, who's already been wooed by Real...
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1- Juan Pablo Carrizo (River)
2- Ezequiel Garay (Real Madrid)
3- Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City)
4- Nicolás Burdisso (Roma)
5- Esteban Cambiasso (Inter)
6- Gabriel Milito (Barcelona)
7- Angel Di María (Real Madrid)
8- Javier Zanetti (Inter)
9- Gonzalo Higuaín (Real Madrid)
10- Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
11- Carlos Tevez (Manchester City)
12- Mariano Andújar (Catania)
13- Nicolás Pareja (Spartak Moscú)
14- Javier Mascherano (Barcelona)
15- Lucas Biglia (Anderlecht)
16- Sergio Agüero (Atlético Madrid)
17- Marcos Rojo (Spartak Moscu)
18- Javier Pastore (Palermo)
19- Ever Banega (Valencia)
20- Fernando Gago (Real Madrid)
21- Ezequiel Lavezzi (Napoli)
22- Diego Milito (Internazionale)
23- Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar)
Desafectados
Enzo Pérez (Estudiantes Lp)
Diego Valeri (Lanús)
Luciano Monzón (Boca jrs)
Doble 5: "Los 23 de Batista: ¿Qué decir?

Meet Chelsea's newest signing, Romelu Lukaku. Aged 18 years, the former star for Belgium club Anderlecht is often called "the new Didier Drogba," so it's fitting that he has signed for the club he called his favorite team to play on the same team as...
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Liverpool are reportedly weighing up a move for Anderlecht midfielder Lucas Biglia as a cut-price replacement for his namesake Lucas Leiva.
Leiva, the Reds' player of the year last season, is rumoured to be on his way out of the club on loan to balance the books after manager Kenny Dalglish spent big on the likes of Charlie Adam, Jordan Henderson and Stewart Downing.

by Dru Boyer The following is the third in a four part series comparing the 2011 Gold Cup rosters of the two "giants of CONCACAF". Midfielders The Yanks: Michael Bradley (Aston Villa), Maurice Edu (Rangers), Clint Dempsey (Fulham), Landon Donovan (L.A. Galaxy), Jermaine Jones (Blackburn), Sacha Kljestan (Anderlecht), Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew), Freddy Adu (Rizespor, [.

I guess South Melbourne (in white) must be absolutely frustrated by the passing-holding game deployed by Albirex Niigata (Singapore) in their RHB Singapore Cup encounter at the Jalan Besar Stadium.
For a moment, the way the White Swans played was almost identical the way Super Reds made SAFFC looked jaded years ago on the same ground.

Liverpool defender Chris Mavinga is understood to be joining French club Rennes and has a provisional date for a medical next week, according to Ouest France.
The 20-year-old Frenchman has been a player at Anfield for two years but has yet to force his way into the first-team reckoning at Anfield, and will undergo a medical with the Ligue 1 side on Tuesday.

French club Lille OSC is considering a late move for Liverpool winger Milan Jovanovic, according to the Daily Star.
The Serbia international's transfer to Anderlecht has stalled, as the Belgian side is unwilling to match Jovanovic's colossal wages at Anfield - a staggering £100,000 per week if the Guardian is to be believed - though both parties claim they still hope the switch will go through.

Jovanovic Completes Anderlecht Move

Milan Jovanovic has completed his move to Anderlecht, Liverpool have today confirmed. The Serbian international passed a medical in Belgium yesterday and departs Anfield having spent just one unhappy, unsuccessful year on Merseyside.

Meet Chelsea's newest signing, Romelu Lukaku. Aged 18 years, the former star for Belgium club Anderlecht is often called "the new Didier Drogba," so it's fitting that he has signed for the club he called his favorite team to play on the same team as...
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By Chris Wright

Spotted during Bursaspor's 2-1 home defeat against Anderlecht in the Europa League last night, quite possibly the worst penalty call of all time, ever well, at least the worst one since whenever the last one was...

Bursaspor's Teteh Bangura climbs over his marker to flick the ball on with his hand and then, to put the icing on the dog turd, gets rewarded with a spot kick for his troubles.

Sacha Kljestan's run of form is turning out to be anything but temporary.

Kljestan continued his strong season for Anderlecht, scoring a goal in the club's 5-3 triumph over Lokomotiv Moscow in their UEFA Europa League battle. His curling effort to the far corner dug Anderlecht out of an early 1-0 deficit and helped the Belgian side win its group, which should make for a more favorable result during Friday's knockout round draw.

Sunday saw its usual share of transfer tabloid rumours and for Spurs, outside of the Beckham story, there were many names linked with both the entrance and exit door.

Through all the gossip and works of fiction, some of these may have a grain of truth. Top of the ‘please don't let this one be true!

Durante la última década el fútbol sevillano se ha visto demasiado "distanciado" pese a la igualdad histórica entre los dos equipos más importantes de la ciudad, Betis y Sevilla. Los primeros ganaron una Copa del Rey en 2005, acto seguido los de Nervión ganaron varios títulos europeos y coperos diferenciado esa igualdad de palmarés de más de 100 años de historia.

So if reports are to be believed, Chelsea have been quoted a figure of £25m if they want to sign one of the hottest properties in Europe, 17 year old Romelu Lukaku. That's the figure his club Anderlecht have apparently quoted anyone interested!.
"Anderlecht general manager Herman van Holsbeeck told Belgian paper Sudpresse there are plenty of teams interested in meeting the valuation: "The Lukaku price in the market is 30m euros.

We have all seen the speculation during the course of this season about Chelsea being linked with Romelu Lukaku the big 18 year old Anderlecht striker. Hailed as the "New Didier Drogba" it seems as though it only seemed a matter of time before we made our move. However, recent comments from the player himself seems to have dampened the speculation as he seems to be focusing on his current club in the immediate future rather than a move away.

Liverpool are struggling to reach a compromise pay-off agreement with Milan Jovanovic in order to move the Serbian international on.
Anderlecht and FC Brugge have offered Jovanovic, 29, a return to Belgian football but the former Standard Liege striker is not prepared to take a considerable cut on his £60,000-a-week wages.

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By FRANCO PANIZO

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - For Sacha Kljestan, a year has made a world of difference.

Last summer, Kljestan was battling the disappointment of not having made the U.

Milan Jovanovic has revealed that he has met with Anderlecht officials to discuss his transfer from Liverpool.
The former Standard Liege forward has already been told that he can leave Anfield for free after just one year, with the Premier League club reportedly prepared to pay off his £60,000-a-week wages.

Kenny Dalglish faces task of thinning out Liverpool's bulging midfield

Kenny Dalglish is likely to sell Milan Jovanovic as a first step in solving Liverpool's crisis of oversupply in the middle of the park Despite the 12-hour flight time, the humidity and the sometimes draining adulation, Liverpool's tour of Asia was the easy part.

Despite the 12-hour flight time, the humidity and the sometimes draining adulation, Liverpool's tour of Asia was the easy part. Now Kenny Dalglish has the rather more unpleasant task of pruning a bloated midfield.
The Liverpool manager has invested £47 million this summer in three midfielders - Stewart Downing, Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam.

Anderlecht has confirmed their interest in signing Liverpool's Milan Jovanovic - if they can agree personal terms with the Serbian forward.
"We're currently negotiating with Jovanovic, but we couldn't achieve an agreement (yet)," a spokesman for the Belgian side told BBC Sport.
"We're very much interested and the player would like to come.

Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA, is a Belgian football club from Anderlecht, in the Brussels Capital Region. Anderlecht is the most successful Belgian football team in European competitions (with 5 trophies) and the Belgian First Division (30 championship wins). With USA international Sacha Kljestan in its ranks, the club finished the [.

Liverpool forward Milan Jovanovic is understood to have been offered the chance to move to the Middle East and play for Al-Shabab Riyadh.
According to The Daily Mail, former Standard Liege manager Michel Preud'homme wants to bring the Serbian to the wealthy Saudi Arabian club and is willing to match his current salary of £60,000 a week in order to persuade him.

I know there are more substantive things to blog about at the moment, but for today, I'll take a slight detour. We'll be back soon to discuss the transfer comings and goings. I believe the sales of Eboue and JET are close, there is always Cesc news, and then there are rumors about Cazorla, Campbell, Jagielka, and Enrique.

With today's draw done, we're back again to get our UEFA cup tracker properly calibrated. First, let's go ahead and spill all of today's relevant drawn match-ups for the Europa League playoff round:Aalesunds FK v AZAtlético Madrid v Vitória SCBursaspor v Anderlecht Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk v FulhamFC Nordsjælland v Sporting CP FC Sion v Celtic HJK Helsinki v Schalke Hannover 96 v SevillaMetalist

Jovanovic joins Anderlecht

Serbian winger Milan Jovanovic has left Liverpool after just one year at the club to go to Anderlecht.

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Could this finally be close to completion? More after the jump:

True Blue?

It's been a long-running saga for the past two seasons, but at last we may finally have a major breakthrough in the transfer of one Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea, after Anderlecht's Chairman and the player's agent were seen departing The Bridge last night.

Chelsea have finally agreed a deal with Anderlecht to sign 18-year-old Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku

Lukaku needs to agree personal terms with Chelsea, but that should be a formality as this deal has been in the works for weeks.

"An agreement has been reached with Anderlecht for the transfer to Chelsea of striker Romelu Lukaku," a statement on Chelsea's official website said.

By Chris Wright

Fresh off the train at St Pancras, Romelu Lukaku arrives in London to cross the I's and dot the T's on his £20-ish million move from Anderlecht to Chelsea...

Photos: PA

The world's worst seat at football, plus Rooney's on-pitch stalker and daft quotes of the week

QPR'S pledge to refund money to a season ticket holder with a restricted view of the Loftus Road pitch has led to an internet campaign to find the world's worst seat at football.

Reported Liverpool target Lucas Biglia is being pursued by Arsenal, according to the agent of the Anderlecht midfielder.
The 25-year-old Argentine is also on the radar of Fiorentina and AC Milan, with the former making a concerted effort to seal a January deal for his signature.
Liverpool has been frequently linked with Biglia in recent months, and injury to Lucas Leiva has led to renewed speculation that he could move to Anfield.

Or maybe it should be Players You Were Going To Watch Anyway?

In typical FIFA fashion, they didn't quite go off grid with their selections, rather plucking from a Wonderkid Top 10 found somewhere in the bowels of the internet, even if they did their typical FIFA duty and picked those still plying their trade in South America and Asia (sorry, Africa & NA) before the great navigation to Europe.

Liverpool have been told that only an 'obscene' offer will be enough to land Luis Suarez from Ajax - with Anderlecht's Romelu Lukaku now seen as the club's primary target.
Reports that Ryan Babel would return to Ajax as part of a deal for Suarez appear to be premature, with Bundesliga club Hoffenheim ready to make a £7m offer for the forward.

Hello readers, this is post is actually not my work, it's a contribution from a person that some of you may be familiar with: Steven, who used to write for the Palermo Offside. His story is about one of his favorite players, Dario "The Bison" Hübner, probably one of the most underrated strikers in calcio in the mid to late 90's and early 2000's.

Here is the Line-up for the Argentina Vs Portugal friendly on Feb 9th in Geneva. The biggest surprise here is the omission of Carlos Tevez & Sergio Aguero. It seems that coach Batista is going to force the team to be centered around Messi. I guess it's worth a shot.
Goalkeepers:
Sergio Romero - Az Alkmaar - Holand
Mariano Andújar - Catania - Italy
Defenders:
Pablo Zabaleta - Manchester City - UK
Javier Zanetti - Internazionale de Milán - Italy
Nicolás Pareja - Spartak de Moscú - Russia
Ezequiel Garay - Real Madrid - Spain
Gabriel Milito - Barcelona - Spain
Nicolás Burdisso - Roma - Italy
Nicolás Otamendi - Porto - Portugal
Marcos Rojo - Spartak de Moscú - Russia
Midfielders:
Javier Mascherano - Barcelona - Spain
Esteban Cambiasso - Internazionale de Milán - Italy
Fernando Gago - Real Madrid - Spain
Ever Banega - Valencia - Spain
Lucas Biglia - Anderlecht - Belgium
José Sosa - Nápoli - Italy
Javier Pastore - Palermo - Italy
Ángel Di María - Real Madrid - Spain
Forwards:
Ezequiel Lavezzi - Nápoli - Italy
Lionel Messi - Barcelona - Spain
Nicolás Gaitán - Benfica - Portugal
Juan Manuel Martínez - Vélez Sarsfield - Argentina
Diego Milito - Internazionale de Milán - Italy

After a scoreless draw against new boys FC Mechelen, Anderlecht will look to return to winning ways when they host Westerlo at Stade Constance Vanden Stock on Saturday evening.