Gary Cahill made his long awaited debut for Chelsea against United last Sunday and I thought he did well and looked calm and composed. OK there is an argument that he was part of a defence that conceded three goals but two of them were penalties and you he is in no way at fault for the Hernandez header.

Good morning and welcome to that most exciting of days. Tuesday.

Sorry, I mean Transfer Deadline Day. The day when all kinds of deals go down. Players are traded like cattle, Premier League slave ships buffet about in the choppy waters scouring for a bargain here or cast-off there, oh, the fun we'll have.

Milan transfer guru Adriano Galliani definitely knows how to work a bargain. Since 1986, when he started his long and prosperous career at the Via Turati, the man known as Uncle Fester has been the man behind the scenes. The one who has engineered deals that have seen so many of the world's best players [.

Buy Belgian. Ho.

We talked yesterday about the club allegedly reentering talks with Racing Genk over the transfer of the young Belgium international Kevin De Bruyne. Those talks (gasp) are actually true.

This according to a spokesman for Genk:

Dirk Degraen is in London and the expectation is that it (the transfer of De Bruyne) will be finished this week.

Football at the moment is about money isn't it. All we are reading and hearing about at the moment is either player salaries or the size of transfer fee's. Chelsea are now a club that is constantly linked with big money moves in EVERY transfer window as AVB looks to rejuvenate our club out of the shadows of the Mourinho era.

Everton is in dire need of attacking help, and once again turned to an American to try and help turn things around.

The Toffees have handed Edson Buddle a week-long trial, and will be hoping to find a goal-scoring bargain at a time the squad is struggling to generate goals.

If there was ever an award for a manager who can pick a bargain, look no further than a certain David Moyes. Having to overcome financial obligations in the transfer market year after year, Everton have always been widely seen ...
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Mail: Harry Redknapp: Demba Ba release clause is less than £10million

Newcastle striker Demba Ba could be offloaded for a bargain £5million according to Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp. Ba has scored 15 goals for the Magpies this season.

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Liverpool has held talks with the representatives of Jaguares striker Jackson Martinez.
The Colombia international, 25, has also attracted strong interest from Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal but his club have raised the price since negotiations were opened in September.
He was originally available for a bargain £5.

News has broken this morning as the now the transfer window is open, that Alex will speak to QPR about a possible move to Loftus Road as early as today.
Some people have questioned with all our injury problems lately, as to why Alex has been frozen out and not called back into the squad but you have to give credit to AVB for sticking to his guns.

This right here is a shocker. Eh, not really.

The club today confirmed that it had agreed a fee with Bolton for Gary Cahill. It's not a done deal yet, though, with personal terms still far off between the two parties.

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Andre Villas-Boas spoke of Cahill at his pre-match presser for Aston Villa.

Mike Williamson has always been a favorite of ours, ever since he was brought to Newcastle almost two years ago, for a bargain £1M from Portsmouth. Mike Williamson played very well at Bolton Because of the terms of the deal Portsmouth made with his former club Watford, when he was signed on in late August of [.

There's not much in the way of significant news circulating in the immediate wake of our grossly disappointing 1-1 draw in Wigan on Saturday afternoon. What we do have, though, is a few interesting tidbits to touch on. Let's take a look shall we?

To Naples, not London

Vargas opts to join Napoli
Disappointing news out of Chile, with Eduardo Vargas confirming he'll be joining Napoli in the January transfer window.

By Chris Wright

Chasing a huge goal difference swing and needing POAK to beat Rubin Kazan elsewhere, the odds were against Tottenham making it through to the knockout phases last night, but they held up their end of the bargain by racking up an impressive drubbing of Shamrock Rovers at the Tallaght Steven Pienaar, Andros Townsend (a real beauty, well worth watching the highlights for), Jermain Defoe and Harry Kane all bagging a goal apiece.

Jose Enrique has been a revelation since arriving at Anfield, and he's arguably proving to be the summer's biggest bargain. One little known fact about the left back is that he started his playing career as a striker, so it comes as no surprise that his favourite player is a striker.Enrique, who has scored only one goal in his two hundred-game career, revealed:"I started off as a forward myself,

By Chris Wright

After entering the game tied with Brian McBride on 36 goals, Clint Dempsey became the highest-scoring American player in Premier League history when, in the 85th-minute, he pounced on Pepe Reina's fumble to tap home the winner for Fulham at Craven Cottage.

By Chris Wright

After entering the game tied with Brian McBride on 36 goals, Clint Dempsey became the highest-scoring American player in Premier League history when, in the 85th-minute, he pounced on Pepe Reina's fumble to tap home the winner for Fulham at Craven Cottage.

By Chris Wright

The FFF have today announced that Lens' Venezuelan defender Gabriel Cichero will not be allowed to play again until March 15th 2011 after being caught on CCTV assaulting Bastia director Alain Seghi in the tunnel following a match in the French second division on October 15th.

I think it's fair to say that Andy Carroll has struggled at Liverpool since his 35m move from Newcastle. Things just haven't gone according to plan, and lately, he's found it increasingly hard to break into the first team. At Chelsea on Sunday, Carroll was given only three measly minutes of pitch time, but in that short period, he delivered a mini-masterclass of footballing technique, skill, movement, and composure on the ball, and offered a compelling reminder of why Kenny Dalglish handed over 35m for his services.

Protected
Avila, Eric -TFC seems high on him, not sure myself
Dunfield, Terry – on list, JDG off, suspect something
Eckersley, Richard -young, energetic, potential and skill and fan fave
Frei, Stefan (GK) - team foundation
Frings, Torsten -team foundation DP
Harden, Ty- salary cap bargain
Iro, Andy- size and left foot?

Daniel Sturridge, seconds ago, took to the field at Wembley for his senior England bow. A massive accomplishment for the young man, one deserving of a mighty round of applause from The CO.

With that first cap also comes a price, in the form of a £1 million windfall to Manchester City the final installment of a £6.

We're almost a third of the year through the 2011-12 Premier League season, and already several summer signings have stood out as comparatively bargain buys. Which clubs have done their best homework to find the bargains who are producing the ...
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This video clip of Shamrock Rover's fan's staying on at White Hart Lane despite their team's defeat to Tottenham in the Europa League stages goes to show that they are probably the best supporters on the World.

Pick up a bargain at Soccer.com

Bayern Munich will be without their influential midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger until at least the New Year after the German International underwent surgery on his fractured collar-bone injury picked up last night in Bayern's 3-2 win against Napoli last night.
Schweinsteiger who has been a target for both Manchester United and Chelsea had a plate inserted into his fractured collar-bone is said to be ok after the successful surgery and will leave Hospital tomorrow.

News today that Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur are fighting it out for Lille striker Moussa Sow. Moussa Sow are Newcastle interested? Sow had an excellent season last season playing for the eventual French Champions, and since Newcastle were watching Yohan Cabaye, who joined them in the summer for a bargain €5M price tag, [.

One of the persistent (and unfair) criticisms of Charlie Adam this season is the alleged 'fact' that he can't tackle, and that he's poor defensively. Lucas is widely accepted to be Liverpool's best defensive midfielder, so I've compared Adam to Lucas in a bid to show that the criticism of the Scot's defensive ability is completely unwarranted.

One think you forget about regarding these St. Louis Cardinals is that arguably their best pitcher has missed the entire season. Adam Wainwright, who was 20-11 last year with a 2.42 ERA, has thrown a pitch in 2011. Even without him, the Cardinals are two wins away from a World Series championship.

About two weeks ago Roy Hodgson said that West Bromwich Albion's deal for Shane Long was "potentially the bargain of the season." Shane Long moved from Reading in the Championship to the Baggies for a fee of £4.5 million (potentially ...
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You would think that the last thing that Spurs need right now is another midfielder, but that hasn't stopped the rumour mills linking the club with a whole host of players from across Europe.

The latest of these is 26 year old Italian international Riccardo Montolivo whose contract is up at the end of the season.

Spurs look set to lose one Brazilian from their squad in January but the question is, how many if any will be coming the other way.

Harry Redknapp had already stated that Heurelho Gomes would be looking for a new club ahead of the new season in Brazil – comments that he has underlined today.

The transfer rumours over a new Spurs striker continue to hot up and as Leandro Damiao's stock continues to rise, so does his alleged transfer fee. With figures of around £15m quoted back in the summer, some stories have emerged suggesting that Internacional will be looking for a figure nearer to £40m when the Brazilian season comes to an end.

'He'll be bargain of the summer'

John Aldridge believes Craig Bellamy could prove to be the bargain buy of the summer.

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It was about as late as they come, but, in the end, we've added some exquisite tattoo work to the first team. Nicely done, Chelsea.

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Chelsea left it late really fucking late. It hardly matters now, though, as they have pulled off quite a coup in my mind.

Transfer deadline day hits and misses including Torres, Rooney, van der Vaart and Baptista

Stupid signings and bargain buys...

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Arsenal have hi-jacked Lille's deal to sign Monaco striker Park Chu-Young.

Park was due to undergo the second part of a medical with Lille after completing the first part yesterday, the thing is during that time Arsenal seem to have had a bid accepted by Monaco and they in turn granted Wenger permission to speak to the player.

If you watched Manchester United in the preseason or against West Brom, the one obvious difference between this season and last season is that United have a younger, faster, more mobile team where players easily interchange positions.

United are a yard faster all over the pitch than they were last season.

By Rumour Monger

Liverpool are thought to have nudged their noses ahead in the race to sign Bolton centre-half Gary Cahill after Kenny Dalglish gave the green-light for David N'Gog and Raheem Sterling to be included as ballast in the deal along with a cheque for £10 million.

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Attacking proficiency on the right side of our defense is not exactly something we've possessed in recent seasons. That's hardly a secret.

Sure, Branislav Ivanovic has been outstanding as a fullback. Outstanding in the face of being forced into the position. Applaud the man. Still, no matter how much we love him (and trust me we do), his ability in the offensive third of the field has never been of elite quality.

With the Premier League start beginning, it's time for previews. Take it away, Amy Lawrence:
Gervinho might prove to be another classic Arsène Wenger bargain, an athletic and pacy ball player raring to step up a level, spirited over from France for a fee that doesn't make a certain manager with a well-documented devotion to cautious housekeeping choke as if he was asked to fix the Greek economy before breakfast.