If press reports are to be believed, we could be on the brink of a new era in football spending that will make Abramovich's Chelsea look positively frugal. I am of course referring to the takeover of Manchester City on Monday by an Arab consortium estimated to be worth around £650billion.

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If reality TV executives are looking for the next smash hit, they should consider Premier League football. Consider the real world drama that happened this week alone. There was Fergie picking up Berbatov in his Bentley under the noses of Man City's executives. In Newcastle, there was the two-day boardroom drama involving Keegan, his lawyers and [. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham's new striker Roman Pavlyuchenko has expressed his delight that he wont be partnering Dimitar Berbatov at White Hart Lane this season. The Just as Russian frontman Pavlyuchenko jetted in to agree a £13.8million move to White Hart Lane, Sulking Bulgarian Berbatov completed his drawn out move to Manchester United. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy believes players' contracts are worthless after seeing Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov quit the club this summer. The strikers moved on to Liverpool and Manchester United respectively, despite being on long-term contracts at White Hart Lane. Levy - who received over £50million for the pair - claims he had no choice to sell [. Click to continue reading...

Spurs defender Chris Gunter believes the club can be a success following the depature of sulking striker Dimitar Berbatov. The Bulgarian ace finally completed his drawn out move to Manchester United, in an £30.75million deal on deadline day on Monday. But while Tottenham fans will have been disappointed to see the second member of their prolific strike [. Click to continue reading...

Whilst United fans were sweating over Dimitar Berbatov's transfer last night, being forced to wait until 12.40am before confirmation finally came through. However, David Gill claimed last night that the club were never worried, despite a late bid coming in from our local rivals Manchester City. When asked if he was at any point concerned about the [. Click to continue reading...

Frazier Campbell turned out to be the key link in organising the Dimitar Berbatov deal to United. Once the price had been agreed upon, Daniel Levy was determined to see Campbell, who Hull had previously bid £7 million for, went to White Hart Lane as a part of the deal. It has emerged since that Steve [. Click to continue reading...

Spurs fume, but Dimitar Berbatov's Manchester United deal 'broke no rules'

Dimitar Berbatov happily rushed into Manchester United's willing embrace on Monday night, rather than Manchester City's as Tottenham had hoped, because Spurs had given him permission "to go to Manchester''.

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The ink has barely had time to dry on Dimitar Berbatov's signature following his dramatic deadline day transfer to the Champions, yet already he's talking like a veteran United player relishing the battle with our biggest rivals Liverpool, which just happens to be the Reds next fixture.

Berbatov has also made it clear that he's not come to Old Trafford for money alone; he says he could have signed for City or Chelsea if that was the case. Click to continue reading...

With all of the activity in the Premier League transfer window yesterday, the excitement is already building for the next round of Premiership games. After the international break, there are two massive games we have to look forward to on September 13: Liverpool against Manchester United (7:45am ET/12:45pm UK) and Manchester City v Chelsea (12:30pm ET/5:30pm [. Click to continue reading...

Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov finally realized his dream of signing for Manchester United yesterday, although the day was not without its twists and turns. In the early hours of deadline day, news came in that Manchester City had been taken over, and with it came a huge £34 million offer for Berbatov. Click to continue reading...

topic du jour It appears stealing the closing act was not enough, as Manchester City's new owners would like to steal tomorrow's matinee, the following evening performance, and the rest of the shows from here on out. Their point was made by the frankly shocking snatch of Robinho and equally as surprising bids for David Villa, [. Click to continue reading...

After, let's be honest, a pretty flat summer of press conjecture and outright lies, the transfer quagmire finally unravelled itself last night in spectacular fashion, causing many members of the STT editorial staff to actually indulge in an inadvertent speed binge just to stay awake in front of Sky Sports News through the night.

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Everyday, we are bombarded by news on the economic slowdown, housing mortgage crisis, credit squeeze and high inflation... add them up and we see a troubling picture of pay-cuts and unemployment looming ahead. However, most superstars in the Premier League have no idea what a recession means. If anything, they will be clamoring for fatter pay [. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is not preparing a complaint against Manchester United, after Dimitar Berbatov completed his long awaited move to Old Trafford last night. Levy had previously said he had reported the Red Devils to the Premier League for their supposed "tapping up" of the player and was clearly angry with the way Sir Alex [. Click to continue reading...

Two players and lots of money changed sides Monday as Robinho moved to Manchester City, and Dimitar Berbatov became a member of Manchester United. For Robinho, his move to Manchester City set the England transfer record, with his move costing a reported 32 million pounds.  Robinho leaving Madrid was not a surprise, as he has expressed his desire to leave the club since the beginning of Click to continue reading...

Long-winded people are boring, and writing full sentences is for chumps. So instead you have just SIX words. Sound easy? Good for you. Tottenham supporters woke this morning to find ex-Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov donning a Man United kit for all to see. For some the move was long overdue; for . Click to continue reading...

The transfer window has now come and gone. And to a bit of surprise, Wenger signed no one, although reports indicate he did make an effort to go after Xabi Alonso. In fact, the biggest signings for us yesterday were the youngsters Kieran Gibbs and Mark Randall agreeing to contract extensions.

The Alonso signing would be hard to pull off, because Rafa Benitez would be a bit off his rocker to agree a transfer fee to a direct rival without getting much more than the player is actually worth.

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Many Manchester United fans have been waiting for the day to see Berbatov wearing a Man United shirt, and here it is. Talk about a sheepish grin. The lad must be counting in his head how much money he'll be making each week and what he plans on spending it on. If you're new here, you [...] Click to continue reading...

After staying up until close to 1am to get the official confirmation through, I am fairly relieved that I can now say Dimitar Berbatov is a Manchester United player. At the start of the day, upon hearing that City had tabled a new British transfer record for the player, I must admit I got a [...] Click to continue reading...

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Sky Sports News through the night.

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1. Manchester City as a new superpower When Blues fans woke up yesterday morning they cannot have been expecting the rollercoaster day ahead. Just a couple of weeks ago they were outraged by rumours Vedran Corluka and Stephen Ireland were to be sold. Yesterday, Corluka slipped out the day to Spurs virtually unnoticed as City fans [. Click to continue reading...

The Republik of Mancunia forum was jam packed throughout the day yesterday until after the transfer window closed. As news about Dimitar Berbatov and Robinho was fed through over Sky Sports news, with scores of United fans discussing the latest goings on. Over 1000 guests popped by to check out the latest news as well as [. Click to continue reading...

So let's get our minds working over what chants our fans can sing at Anfield in a fortnight's time! Surely we can do better than what Spurs already have on offer. To That Boy Ronaldo: He plays on the left He plays on the right That boy Berbatov Thinks City are shite To Another One Bites The Dust: Dim Dim Dim, Dimitar [. Click to continue reading...

Though I'm sure the Man City takeover has been brewing for some time, for the general public it all happened in a flash yesterday. All of a sudden Man City were (all but) owned by the Abu Dhabi United Group for Investment and Development and had insane amounts of money to spend. They livened up transfer [. Click to continue reading...