According to our old friends at the Daily Mail, Spurs have opened talks with club captain Ledley King over a new contract to replace his current one which expires at the end of the season. The report also suggests that the player will reject a pay as you play deal although it seems to offer no claim that this is the type of contract that the club is offering.

09.02.2012 - Ya aceptada y firmada la propuesta de nominación para el Torneo Clausura 2012 como "Crucero General Belgrano", algunos medios ingleses tomaron nota y publicaron al respecto.
Sabiendo de antemano que las notas referidas serán negativas, la curiosidad sería sobre la base argumental que sostendría la negatividad de las notas.

Greetings, Googlebot, spiders, monkeys, SEO linkbuilders, webcrawlers, and click-jackers. I have been asked, in a consultancy role, to spread the blackhat gospel and decide a contest winner. John Terry FA Captain. Harry Redknapp Trial. Mourinho to England. I will now do so.

First, the depressing news.

"We don't think he should ever have been away but we are delighted to get him back," Kenny Dalglish said when asked about the return of Luis Suarez following Monday's match against Tottenham. The response from the papers was immediate—and exactly what one would have guessed it would be.

"Kenny Dalglish has risked infuriating Manchester United ahead of Luis Suarez's appearance at Old Trafford next weekend," began the always understated Daily Mail.

...well that's according to our favourite newspaper the Daily Mail anyway!. Being a Chelsea fan, hardly a day goes by without reading a ridiculous headline from this lot as they look to fill their pages and websites with headlines to grab peoples attention with little basis for the story!.
In this instance, they claim the following:

Chelsea face a battle to keep Daniel Sturridge after Arsenal took significant steps towards a shock summer swoop.

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5 minutes into their first preseason game of the year Atiba the Hun Harris of Vancouver picks up a yellow card for a reckless tackle. The more things change the more they stay exactly the same!
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Crazy cool idea! All Colorado Rapids fans that have renewed their season tickets for the 2012 season, as well as those that purchase new seats by March 1, 2012, will have their names printed into the design of the Rapids authentic home jerseys in 2013 and 2014!

With matters outside of football keeping Roman Abramovich busy, it was great to hear that he was at Cobham to see the players train on Saturday, to see AVB for a chat about things and to attend the game on Sunday. Roman even popped in to chat with the players for 30 minutes after the 3-3 draw with United.

74 killed and over hundreds were injured when politics mixed with football in violent fashion last night in Port Said... I'm not quite sure what to say about this as it's one of the most insane things I've ever seen, so below is what the Daily Mail wrote about the incident. After Al-Masry beat Al-Ahly, [.

Arsenal star Jack Wilshere looks almost certain to miss the rest of the season after scans showed his latest injury setback is worse than first feared. The Daily Mail is reporting that our boy wonder is now even doubtful for England's Euro 2012 campaign as he is unlikely to feature at all for us this season.

Arsenal star Jack Wilshere looks almost certain to miss the rest of the season after scans showed his latest injury setback is worse than first feared. The Daily Mail is reporting that our boy wonder is now even doubtful for England's Euro 2012 campaign as he is unlikely to feature at all for us this season.

The breaking news from the Daily Mail is that Adrian Mariappa has turned down a move to Wigan Athletic. Adrian Mariappa - has turned down move to Wigan The rumor was that a fee had been agreed between Wigan Athletic and Watford, and that the Lancashire club had outbid Newcastle for the player, and could have been closer to the [.

Following the conclusion of a loan deal to send full-back Vedran Corluka to Bayer Leverkusen for the remainder of the season, Tottenham Hotspur are set to live up to their expectations of making significant moves at the eleventh hour.

The 25-year old Corluka's work ethic has been consistently praised by Spurs boss Harry Redknapp but the Croatia international's playing time was limited this season by the emergence of youngster Kyle Walker.

Yesterday we looked at the possibility of new arrivals at White Hart Lane and the general consensus was that we were due for a quiet day. Later in the evening, reports suggested that Vedran Corluka was a target for Bayer Leverkusen and they seem to be gaining momentum this morning.

At the start of the month, Harry said that the Croatian would definitely not be leaving but after omitting him from the cup games where much of the fringe side appear, it may well be that Charlie is on his way.

Sportsmail strikes again. Though we may have to start giving the masked man/woman/thing a little more credit on the back of breaking the Willian negotiations last week. This time around, the Daily Mail's journo in the field, with a little help from the Mirror, suggests Chelsea are ready to make key moves for both Paul Pogba and Gregory van der Wiel.

By Alan Duffy

OMG... Da playrz h8 me... Im a total ****... FFS!!! :(

We've all done it, had a few too many down the pub only to drunkenly text someone, usually an ex or someone we fancy. However, I doubt many of us have sent a late night text informing professional footballers that they had been dropped for the following day's game.

Deepdale players discover they now need to be deep sleepers New Preston boss Graham Westley hasn't exactly endeared himself to some of his charges after sending a 2am text message that informed four players that they were being dropped. Westley sent the group text in the early hours of Saturday morning ahead of his side's [.

The Telegraph talks about the letter Sir Alex has written to fans attending Anfield at the weekend.

The Express reveals Scholes' fear of returning to play.

The United Religion compares Lindegaard with De Gea.

Red Flag Flying High has the latest on our players out on loan.

The Daily Mail reckons Paul Pogba is off to Juventus.

By Chris Wright

In which, shortly before scoring the winning penalty in Man City's at-the-buzzer victory over Tottenham yesterday afternoon, Mario Balotelli for reasons unknown quite obviously rakes his studs down Scott Parker's Tibetan Fox face...

Not our Mario's finest moment.

I initially filed this one under bullshit in my immensely well-organized mental filing cabinet. It was first reported in the Daily Mail after all. That bummy rag may have been on to something, though. In fact, they were probably dead-on.

Sincerest apologies, Mail.

As Tony Fernandes appears the only Premier League chairman willing to put the golden nib of his fountain pen to his cheque book, newspapers and sports channels alike struggle to satisfy the footballing publics insatiable appetite for transfer talk. This has resulted in the arrival of silly season appearing to be unavoidably upon us with rumours of Andy Carroll returning to Newcastle and Didier Drogba moving to China.

ManUtd24 reflects on Roy Keane's time at United... and his departure.

The Daily Mail talks about Vidic's claim that we'll win the title without him.

The Telegraph discusses the Bayern Munich president's attack on the Glazers.

United Rant looks to the returning players from injury ahead of crucial games.

Photo: Nicolae Stoian

Philadelphia Union

Bolton manager Owen Coyle confirms Sebastien Le Toux is trialing with the Premiership club. "We have received good reports about Sebastian, so we thought we would give him an opportunity to come into the group," Coyle told the Daily Mirror. "He will train with us for a week and we will see where we are after that.

The Telegraph talks about how Berbatov splits our fans.

ManUtd24 reminisces about the Yorke and Cole partnership.

The FCF looks at Wenger's best misplaced rants.

Ellzed's Blog looks at the reaction to Giggsy's birds.

The Daily Mail ponders on whether Cristiano Ronaldo would return to United.

Our old friends the Daily Mail run a headline this morning stating that Harry Redknapp has ‘pleaded' with Chairman Daniel Levy to do all he can in striking a deal that is tempting enough to keep Emmanuel Adebayor at the club.

In contrast with The Guardian who slated the player at the start of the week, the Mail's article underlines the striker's qualities but Harry's quotes do rather stop short of sounding like a plea.

By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Jan 16, 2012) US Soccer Players -- Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore's interview with the Daily Mail's Martin Samuel has something for almost everyone. Depending on your constituency, there's something to confirm a position, challenge a view, or generally set you off.

Despite a non-sourced story from the Daily Mail stating otherwise, Michael Farfan is not a transfer target of Sunderland per the team's manager.

According to Roker Report, SB Nation's Sunderland site, Martin O'Neill, hired by Sunderland on December 3 in an attempt to save the team's season, addressed a reporter's question about Farfan's and trialist Alieu Darbo's statuses with the team.

Liverpool are reportedly leading the chase for Crystal Palace's highly-rated teenager Wilfried Zaha with the Daily Mail claiming Kenny Dalglish made a personal call to Dougie Freedman.
The newspaper claims the Reds manager contacted his Palace counterpart to express his interest and to discuss the 19-year-old's ability and character.

By Chris Wright

"Here love, put down the ironing for a minute, my car bonnet needs a good waxing..."

Ipswich lost again last night; 2-1 to Birmingham, Nikola Zigic nabbing the winner in stoppage time, their 11th defeat in 14 matches.

Manager Paul Jewell was also left fuming over an incident in which Ipswich winger Lee Martin was fouled in the box by Brum's Stephen Caldwell and no penalty was given on the insistence of the referee's assistant a lady human with a vulva and everything by the name of Amy Fearn.

Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho is ready to offer Luis Suarez an escape from his Liverpool nightmare reports the Daily Mail.
According to reports in Spain, the La Liga giants will offer £30million in a bid to bring the Uruguayan international to the Bernabeu this month.
Mourinho is hoping to take advantage of the furore currently surrounding the Liverpool striker, after Suarez was banned for eight games following an alleged race row with Patrice Evra.

Luc Castaignos looks set to leave Inter on loan this month and Liverpool have leapt in front of Bologna in the race to sign him.
The talented young forward joined over the summer from Feyenoord, but with one Serie A goal and relatively few appearances this season he is expected to go out on loan.

Photo: Paul Rudderow

In a conference call on Wednesday, Union assistant coach John Hackworth confirmed that Michael Farfan is in northern England training with English Premier League club Sunderland. "But with Michael, he's there because he wanted to make himself fully prepared and ready, he wanted to go experience it and make sure he's ready for preseason," Hackworth said.

The Daily Mail, an English news outlet with a dubious record when it comes to sports related rumors, is reporting that Sunderland has Michael Farfan not only in for a trial, but is also trying to get him a work permit. Farfan will train with Sunderland for two weeks, ending on January 24.

Farfan was originally said to be training with the English Premier side yesterday, when Soccer By Ives revealed the midfielder was heading to Tyne and Wear.

By Chris Wright

It's already been well and truly scotched by his agent, but the heftiest kernel of transfer tripe this morning was a rumour appearing in the Times, The Sun and the Daily Mail that Newcastle were willing to stump up between £10-£15 million to bring Andy Carroll back to Byker Grove and that Liverpool may be tempted into cutting their loses on their £35 million lump.

It seems that the recent Arsenal transfer news linking the Gunners with a move for the 26 year-old Chelsea striker/winger Salomon Kalou were completely accurate. According to many sources this morning, but originally in the Daily Mail i believe, the Ivorian international has been given special permission to return to London by his national team [.

Guardian: Liverpool winger Stewart Downing arrested on suspicion of assault

• Stewart Downing arrested in Yarm • Police say 'inquiries are ongoing' The Liverpool winger Stewart Downing has been arrested on suspicion of assault. The 27-year-old, who has 32 caps for England and joined Liverpool from Aston Villa last year, was arrested early on Sunday morning after an alleged confrontation with a former girlfriend at the Cross Keys club, on Yarm High Street.

Reports from the Daily Mail are out that Demba Ba could have a £10 million release clause in his current Newcastle contract.

This isn't really all that surprising if it is true as surely Newcastle never expected him to be one of the standout players of the season when he was signed.

Reports from the Daily Mail are out that Demba Ba could have a £10 million release clause in his current Newcastle contract.

This isn't really all that surprising if it is true as surely Newcastle never expected him to be one of the standout players of the season when he was signed.

As most of you will probably know, Tottenham Hotspur manager, Droopy Dog Harry Redknapp, claimed in an interview that there was a release clause in the contract of Demba Ba, with well known bastion of truth, the Daily Mail, following up the droopy one's claims with a story that the figure named in that clause [.

By Chris Wright

Frank gets as close to heaven as is humanly possible in this Earthly realm

As you may well have noticed, it's January which generally means it's open season for tabloids and newspapers for grown-ups alike to go big with half-arsed and utterly superfluous football transfer bulltattle and tittlehonky but not the Daily Mail, for they have themselves an EXCLUSIVE!

Talksport: Transfer rumours and paper review with Neil Ashton: Friday, January 6

Daily Mail journalist talks us through the backpage headlines and gossip

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