According to Darren Lewis at MirrorFootball, West Ham United are going to have a tough time holding onto Valeri Behrami as he is drawing interest from Lazio and Roma.

An FA Cup match is always a different ball game. No matter how different 2 teams are in terms of league standings or even the league that they play in, it has no bearing in the FA Cup. Early on, the first real shock of the competition was given by Leeds United, 2 league lower [...]

UPDATE: According to Sky Sports News, the agent of West Ham United footballer Valeri Behrami expects his client to stay at the club this month. Allessandro Beltrami told Itasport,

"A return to Italy for Behrami is a rumour .

By Chris Wright

Rumours are the opiate of the people. Here's the round up...

Most City fans are glad to see the back of him

Rumour No. 1: It is now official that Manchester City's thumb-sucking weakling Robinho has completed his six month loan switch to Santos.

Only one more after today and he qualifies for a winner's medal.Man UtdFoster, Neville, Brown, Vidic, Evra, Valencia, Gibson, Scholes, Anderson, Berbatov, Rooney. Subs: Kuszczak, Owen, Park, Rafael, Evans, Fletcher, Diouf.West HamGreen, Faubert, Tomkins, Upson, Spector, Behrami, Noble, Kovac, Diamanti, Franco, Cole.

Welcome to the debut of the newest weekly feature of Premiership Talk: The Hurting Lockers! This feature, which will be published every Friday, seeks to provide readers with the injury reports from every single Premier League team that is in action over the course of the weekend that follows.

Of course, the injury reports will only be accurate as of the time of publishing, and the availability of a certain player could change on the matchday itself.

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Last 4 head-to-head:
3-2 Liverpool (a) 09.19.09
3-0 Liverpool (a) 05.09.09
0-0 (h) 12.01.08
4-0 Liverpool (h) 03.05.08
Last three matches:
Liverpool: 0-0 Fulham (h); 4-1 Benfica (h); 1-1 Brum (a)
West Ham: 1-0 Sunderland (h); 2-2 Everton (a); 0-1 Stoke (h)
Goalscorers (league):
Liverpool: Torres 18; Kuyt 9; Gerrard 7; Benayoun 5; Ngog 4; Babel, Johnson 3; Aquilani, Kyrgiakos, Skrtel 1
West Ham: Cole 9; Diamanti 7; Franco 4; Ilan, Stanislaus, Upson 3; Collison, da Costa, Noble 2; Behrami, Faubert, Hines, Jimenez, Kovac, Parker 1
Referee: Peter Walton
Guess at a squad:
Reina
Johnson Carragher Kyrgiakos Agger
Mascherano Aquilani
Maxi Gerrard Babel
Kuyt
It's another game against a side Liverpool drew 0-0 at home last season.

West Ham look to build on a good result at Wigan last week with an equally good performance against Fulham. Roy Hodgson's team will be physically exhausted after a tough Europa League semifinal win over Hamburg.
A tight passing game maintaining possession will be a great strategy to wear down the Fulham players and allow West Ham to dictate the tempo of the game.

Manchester United play Host to West Ham this evening after a crushing 3-1 defeat at the hands of Everton in their last Premier League outing.

The Champions will be hoping to bounce back in style after the disappointing result at Goodison Park, by beating a West Ham side currently just 4 points above the relegation zone.

A Suíça divulgou sua convocação para a Copa do Mundo com apenas 23 nomes, que devem disputar a competição na África do Sul. Entre os nomes lembrados pelo técnico Ottmar Hitzfeld está Alexander Frei, capitão do time e maior artilheiro da história da seleção europeia.A grande estrela da companhia tem história no futebol alemão e hoje atua no Basel, da Suíça.

Portugal gave us our first true rout of the World Cup, beating North Korea 7-0, while Spain returned to their winning ways and Chile said goodbye to Valon Behrami and hello to first place in Group H. To talk about these three Monday matches and a Tuesday's docket which will see four teams sent home, I was joined by Laurence McKenna and Kartik Krishnaiyer for this edition of the World Cup Buzz Podcast.

Portugal gave us our first true rout of the World Cup, beating North Korea 7-0, while Spain returned to their winning ways and Chile said goodbye to Valon Behrami and hello to first place in Group H. To talk about these three Monday matches and a Tuesday's docket which will see four teams sent home, I was joined by Laurence McKenna and Kartik Krishnaiyer for this edition of the World Cup Buzz Podcast.

Portugal gave us our first true rout of the World Cup, beating North Korea 7-0, while Spain returned to their winning ways and Chile said goodbye to Valon Behrami and hello to first place in Group H. To talk about these three Monday matches and a Tuesday's docket which will see four teams sent home, I was joined by Laurence McKenna and Kartik Krishnaiyer for this edition of the World Cup Buzz Podcast.

Former Liverpool winger Mark Gonzalez scored a winner against ten man Switzerland. The Swiss get their 67 minutes becoming the toughest defense in World Cup history beating the Italian record of 550 minutes without conceding a goal. But in the end their manful effort was not enough.

This was another officiating nightmare and Valon Behrami should never have been sent off.

By Chris Wright

TMFJCAIF. Here's the round up...

Rumour No. 1: Reports in the German media today are suggesting that Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Barcelona and Real Madrid target Franck Ribery is set to sign a new five-year deal at Bayern Munich that will see him tied to the German club until 2015 thus putting the kibosh on any prospective summer move.

Ancora un arbitro protagonista in negativo, in questa edizione sudafricana dei Mondiali di Calcio. Un fatto che si sta ripetendo con troppa frequenza e che non ci piace assolutamente.
Si tratta del fischietto dell'Arabia Saudita, Al Ghamdi che, nel delicato e importante match tra Cile e Svizzera (in palio il vertice del Girone H che comprende anche i campioni d'europa della Spagna), rovina sostanzialmente la gara sventolando ingiustamente il rosso in faccia a Behrami al 30′ del primo tempo e costringendo gli elvetici a giocare in dieci per il resto dell'incontro.

Two different wins, while they are both very important for Chile and Portugal, they were different types of wins, we saw Portugal eventually break the floodgates open to score 7, and Chile having to grind out a goal for a tight win.
Here's how Group G stands after Portugal's win:
Brazil (6)
Portugal (4)
Ivory Coast (1)
DPR Korea (0)


Ronaldo's head juggling right before the goalPortugal - DPR Korea


In the first half we saw a tight game, with Portugal having difficulty to break down a tight DPR Korea defence, all this while DPR Korea attacked Portugal with organization and speed.

Like an attractive older auntie who's had too much yaegermeister at Thanksgiving, Group H is beginning to show a bit too much leg for everybody's comfort. Firstly, the Rojas are still rocking at the top of the group as they came through their test against the suddenly serious Swiss. The 1-0 scoreline probably flatters the mountain men but the main talking point was the controversial sending off of Valon Behrami for a non-existent elbow on Arturo Vidal.

Seeing red
The 14 Players That Have So Far Been Sent Off During the 2010 World Cup
1. Nicolás Lodeiro (for Uruguay v France)
2. Abdelkader Ghezzal (for Algeria v Slovenia)
3. Aleksandar Luković (for Serbia v Ghana)
4. Tim Cahill (for Australia v Germany)
5.

Rodriguez non arriva, Behrami vicino ai GiallorossiDi Fabrizio LandolfiIn questi giorni in casa Roma è al centro dell'attenzione la vicenda legata al possibile passaggio di propriet della societ . La Compagnia Italpetroli e la Banca Unicredit, di fatto, non hanno ancora ufficializzato nessun accordo: nonostante il lungo incontro tra le parti tenutosi nella giornata di ieri, tutto è rinviato a

The Hammers are up next in our pre-season review of all the teams in the EPL. It's all change at Upton Park with the advent of new ownership towards the end of last season. Although much loved as a player, Gianfranco Zola fell short of what it takes to be a top flight boss and his tactics were exposed quite painfully late on in the season.

The what: Premier League, Round 4 – West Ham v. Chelsea
The where: Upton Park (35,303)
The when: September 11, 3pm local time (10am EST)
The how: ESPN2 (DirecTV 209, Dish Network 144)
The why: Because Super Frank is unable to play, and, well, a win against West Ham is always always satisfying.

Liverpool will launch an £18m double West Ham swoop this January as Roy Hodgson hopes to take advantage of the poor start to the season the Hammers have experienced. The Anfield boss tried to lure Carlton Cole to Anfield last month but failed in a last ditch bid but will return with an offer for the England international striker as well as utility player Valon Behrami.

LONDON, England – In the Premier League Arsenal only briefly led the table after getting back on track at the end of a traumatic week with a 4-2 victory at Aston Villa. The Gunners crashed 2-0 at Braga in the Champions League in midweek, just days after blowing a two-goal lead to lose 3-2 at [...]

Valon Behrami e la Roma, un matrimonio che si può fare. Il nazionale svizzero (ma di origini kosovare-albanesi), classe 1985, attualmente al Westham, squadra nella quale non è riuscito ad esprimersi (contrasti con il club e infortuni muscolari le principali cause), sogna di tornare a vivere la Serie A nella capitale, ma sulla sponda opposta.