You know what really stood out about the recently closed transfer window?  Not the brinksmanship, the complaints about tapping up, or even the idea of billion-dollar teams squabbling over a couple million pounds.  The one thing that really stood out to me was all the talk about "dream moves." It seemed like every high-profile star that [. Click to continue reading...

Dear Deidre, My name is Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson. That's bad enough - it takes me fifteen minutes to sign a cheque. I am chairman of West Ham United. That's even worse. I moved to England in late 2006 with a friend, Eggy Magnusson. We rented a flat with a girl called Alice Pardew. She was a nice girl, but [. Click to continue reading...

What's wrong with football? Ask any fan and you'd wish you'd never gotten them started. The referees get it wrong, the players cheat (always the opposition, mind you), there's too much money in the game, the players are greedy bastards who don't give two hoots about loyalty and honor, international football is crap, there's no talent [. Click to continue reading...

It infuriates me when people are judged on their appearance. Just because Rafa Benitez is a tubby mess, this does not give opposing supporters the right to abuse him. The Aston Villa supporters went well over the top with their ‘Fat Spanish Waiter' banner. Admittedly, he is carrying a few stone overweight, and he's [. Click to continue reading...

Well, that ends that. After a week filled with speculation about Kevin Keegan's future at Newcastle, Keegan has decided to call time on his second stint at St. James' Park, as he resigned today. In a statement, Keegan said, 'I've been working desperately hard to find a way forward with the directors, but [. Click to continue reading...

Well, that ends that. After a week filled with speculation about Kevin Keegan's future at Newcastle, Keegan has decided to call time on his second stint at St. James' Park, as he resigned today. In a statement, Keegan said, 'I've been working desperately hard to find a way forward with the directors, but [. Click to continue reading...

So, the transfer deadline (August 31) has passed and the football market is now closed. Closed? Not quite. Indeed, while transfers from one club to another will have to wait until January to resume, teams may still sign players as free agents (and that until March 31, 2009). So, inspired from this Top 11 Serie A [. Click to continue reading...

Watching England press conferences is a wonderful way of invoking a spooky sense of deja vu. The players sit looking like they would rather be somewhere else, going through the motions of rolling out the same old meaningless clichés, and generally leave it to their journalistic opposition to take the initiative. Click to continue reading...

Football transfer fees were thought to be affected by the global credit crunch but that didn't stop English clubs from smashing the English football transfer records twice in one evening as the clubs from Manchester bought Robinho and Dimitar Berbatov. Whether or not they deserved to be sold for more than £30m each is [. Click to continue reading...

The Internet is a great place to start a charitable campaign. If your message is rock solid and the destination for your funds instantly believable, serious funds can be raised. The message and the destination are intrinsically linked. ‘Cancer kills – we still need to find a cure - donate to cancer research' is clearly [. Click to continue reading...

Few noticed last week when Juande Ramos called for a shortening of the transfer window, but the nuclear fallout from Monday's race to the finish seems to support his argument. Prior to Monday, Robinho had been settling in nicely at for another season at Real Madrid, Kevin Keegan was sorting out his first proper [. Click to continue reading...

The Premiership woke up this morning to a lot of excitement. Everton fans were celebrating breaking their transfer record, West Ham fans were incredulous that they had sold half their defence without replacing them, Liverpool fans were "overjoyed" at signing two foreign 18 year olds to add to their increasing collection of foreign 18 year olds, [. Click to continue reading...

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...

After Dimitar Berbatov's strange menage-a-trois dalliance with Mark Hughes and Sir Alex Ferguson, and Man City gazumping Chelsea, yesterday's third oddest deadline day transfer was that of John Akinde from Ebbsfleet United to Bristol City for £150,000 plus add-ons. The transfer wasn't bizarre because of the player - Akinde has long attracted interest from league clubs [. Click to continue reading...

There's really only a couple (well, one to be specific) deal that many people followed on transfer deadline day, but while many looked to see if Dimitar Berbatov would sign for Manchester United and who Manchester City would nab with their newly-acquired mega-riches, many watched the window to see if someone would come through the [. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United have signed Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham Hotspur for £30.75m. Frazier Campbell is headed the other way in a 1-year loan deal (smart bit of business from United, that). The transfer was always expected to go down to the wire but Manchester City's weekend takeover threw it in a spin with City's new owners [. Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon says the club have agreed to sell Brazilian Robinho to Manchester City. Calderon (speaking to Spanish TV): "We have agreed to sell the player for human reasons, and for footballing reasons and for an important quantity of money. The fact the player accepted the offer from City proves he isn't moving for sporting [. Click to continue reading...

This is stark. raving. mad. A club up the creek without a paddle where finances are concerned, the owner sells the club on the weekend and with less than 10 hours to go to the transfer window, the board are off looking to spend 30m+ (some saying at least 50m if they can get their [...] Click to continue reading...

Manchester City have confirmed they are in talks with Abu Dhabi United Group over possible investment in the club. Reports earlier claimed that the Abu Dhabi United Group Investment and Development Limited (ADUG) had completed a takeover of the Premier League side, but the full details are not clear - Shinawatra wants to maintain a controlling [. Click to continue reading...

If you have never coached or managed a football team you will believe, like I did, that the fans feel the highs of victory and lows of defeat more than anyone else. You will believe that the players and staff just don't care as much as you do. I have always felt this way about my [...] Click to continue reading...

We're about to head into a new week, and if you've missed anything on SL over the last week, here's your chance to get caught up on some of the top topics from the site and the SL forum. UEFA Champions League 08-09 - Group Stage Draw LIVEBLOG Marco Pantanella brought you the complete Champions [... Click to continue reading...

Robinho is a liar. He doesn't want to play for Chelsea. He wants to leave Real Madrid because he thinks he's never going to get the money and the respect that he feels he deserves. Chelsea are just the richest club to have come along and offer him a spot. If Liverpool had the money [...] Click to continue reading...

In addition to our daily transfer news and rumours column, we also cover all the transfers happening in the Premier League. This summer we're taking our coverage to the next level, and you can now track confirmed transfers for the following leagues: English Premier League English Championship La Liga Serie A Bundesliga Ligue 1 You can click on any of the [. Click to continue reading...

Today is the second-last day of the transfer window for English and Scottish football - it was supposed to end at midnight tonight but Alex Ferguson threatened to finger Scudamore in a Bulgarian prostitute scandal, hence the one-day extension and more time for Manchester United to snap up that moody Bulgarian (the striker, not the [. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham have finally signed Roman Pavlyuchenko from Spartak Moscow for a fee rumoured to be £12m. The player was photographed arriving at White Hart Lane yesterday and after passing a medical, he is now formally a Tottenham player as announced on the Spurs official website. Question #1: Will he succeed in England? Click to continue reading...