Oguchi Onyewu went into this summer a free agent and hoped to put together a strong Confederations Cup performance to draw some potential suitors for his services. It appears he has found a taker, though not one from the leagues we might have expected him to go to.

According to Sky Sports, Onyewu has signed a three-year deal with Turkish club Fenerbahce, choosing to pass on the possibility of signing with Birmingham City after talks stalled with the English club.

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Didn't loyalty used to go a long way? I know, not with players who immediately leave clubs when they smell two Euros more at another one. Okay, there a few exceptions of course, Lukas Podolski for instance who returns to his love FC Cologne or Robert Enke who does not want to transferred away from Hannover but should and therefore has to.

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Didn't loyalty used to go a long way? I know, not with players who immediately leave clubs when they smell two Euros more at another one. Okay, there a few exceptions of course, Lukas Podolski for instance who returns to his love FC Cologne or Robert Enke who does not want to transferred away from Hannover but should and therefore has to.

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Didn't loyalty used to go a long way? I know, not with players who immediately leave clubs when they smell two Euros more at another one. Okay, there a few exceptions of course, Lukas Podolski for instance who returns to his love FC Cologne or Robert Enke who does not want to transferred away from Hannover but should and therefore has to.

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Didn't loyalty used to go a long way? I know, not with players who immediately leave clubs when they smell two Euros more at another one. Okay, there a few exceptions of course, Lukas Podolski for instance who returns to his love FC Cologne or Robert Enke who does not want to transferred away from Hannover but should and therefore has to.

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Se acabó el periplo de dos de nuestros entrenadores por el fútbol del este de Europa. Y es que a la noticia confirmada ayer noche por el Fenerbahçe de que Luis Aragonés dejaba de ser técnico del equipo de Estambul, se le une hoy la contratación de Ernesto Valverde, que dirigió al Olympiakos griego esta temporada, por el Villarreal, despues de que Pellegrini firmara por el Real Madrid para las dos próximas temporadas.

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Big and surprising news this morning as Cologne FC Coach Christoph Daum unexpectedly canceled his contract to return to his second home Istanbul to coach the local club Fenerbahce. I can't help it but this got an awkward smack of breach of trust. After a soap-opera kinda like office taking three years ago with press conferences held in hospitals, a lot of seesaws with quotes like ‘there are no pros and cons when it comes to love' (great conclusion, though) and joyful elations in Cologne, the lost son leaves the city once again to return to his other love, Turkey.

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Big and surprising news this morning as Cologne FC Coach Christoph Daum unexpectedly canceled his contract to return to his second home Istanbul to coach the local club Fenerbahce. I can't help it but this got an awkward smack of breach of trust. After a soap-opera kinda like office taking three years ago with press conferences held in hospitals, a lot of seesaws with quotes like ‘there are no pros and cons when it comes to love' (great conclusion, though) and joyful elations in Cologne, the lost son leaves the city once again to return to his other love, Turkey.

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Big and surprising news this morning as Cologne FC Coach Christoph Daum unexpectedly canceled his contract to return to his second home Istanbul to coach the local club Fenerbahce. I can't help it but this got an awkward smack of breach of trust. After a soap-opera kinda like office taking three years ago with press conferences held in hospitals, a lot of seesaws with quotes like ‘there are no pros and cons when it comes to love' (great conclusion, though) and joyful elations in Cologne, the lost son leaves the city once again to return to his other love, Turkey.

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Turkish media has recently reported that:
1- Real Madrid's Javier Saviola will sign with Galatasaray.
2- Ottmar Hitzfeld will be Galatasaray's manager next season.
3- Either PSG's manager Paul LeGuen or FC Cologne's Christoph Daum will return to Fenerbahce.
4- Sochaux Turkish forward Mevlut Erdinc will transfer to Aston Villa, Fulham or Wigan Athletic. Click to continue reading...

Ich weiß nicht genau, was mit Christoph Daum los ist. Schon immer ist er bekannt für seine Aussagen und Interviews, denen jeglicher Bezug zur Realität fehlt. Früher schob man das auf Daums Kokain-Konsum. Heute ist er jedoch angeblich clean, also gibt es keinen Grund mehr für selbstherrliches und unprofessionelles Geschwätz in den Pressekonferenzen. Click to continue reading...

0 - Number of wins by Frankfurt, the last remaining winless team 5 - Total number of shots by Gladbach in their 0-1 defeat to Hamburg 7 - Goals scored by Patrick Helmes this season, that's equal to or more than 8 teams (Hertha, Köln, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Bochum, Cottbus, Frankfurt, and Gladbach) 8.06 - The average number of [. Click to continue reading...

Herrlich. Gestern war Christoph Daum im aktuellen Sportstudio zu Gast bei Wolf-Dieter Poschmann. Christoph Daum hat mal wieder auf seine typische Art auf die Fragen geantwortet. Man mag von ihm halten was man will. Aber seine Antworten sind meist ausführlich und regen oft zum Schmunzeln an. Gestern war mal wieder so ein Moment. Click to continue reading...

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Mensch da hat Reiner "Calli" Calmund schon seit zwei Jahren einen YouTube-Channel und ich habs heute zum ersten Mal mitbekommen. Danke an meine Keule für den Hinweis! Calli wird in diesem Interview mit der Fußballreporter-Legende Manni Breuckmann, a.k.a. Die Stimme des Westens, recht zudringlich, was Herrn Breuckmann offenbar ein wenig nervt.

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Part III: The Post-1998 World Cup Breakout
By now, most of the trailblazers had returned home to play in Major League Soccer (MLS); Caligiuri to Los Angeles, Wynalda to San Jose, Harkes to DC United, and Lalas to New England. Nonetheless, the number of American players in Europe exploded to unprecedented numbers with over 20 playing in Germany alone – a combination of established professionals, young players, and journeymen. Click to continue reading...

The Deutsche Presse Agentur released a poll yesterday about predictions for the upcoming season. Bayern Munich was the unanimous favorite of Bundesliga coaches to repeat as champions. The most common reason given was the quality of Jürgen Klinsmann's squad. What follows is a hasty translation of what each of the 18 gaffers [. Click to continue reading...

US defender Oguchi Onyewu is still drawing great interest from FC Cologne coach Christoph Daum but the German club also reports that they are facing competition from an English club which they did not identify. Later, Belgian soccer magazine Voetbal Belgie identified the club as (surprise, surprise) Fulham. Click to continue reading...

Anyone watching the US team's 2-0 loss to England this week probably had the same sick feeling some of us had during the 1998 World Cup - that the US team looks (and is) not even second rate.
Frankly the US was quite lucky not to fall 4-0 last week in London as the home team spent the last 20 minutes toying with our team the way a cat plays with a mouse it has caught (before eating it). Click to continue reading...