By Chris Wright

Eng-lish Pre·mi·um/ing'liSH ˈprēmēəm/Noun: An amount to be paid on top of any given football transfer fee to recognise the paltry significance of said footballer hailing from these sceptred isles and will hopefully therefore play with 'bags of passion', etc.

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Guardian: Football transfer rumours: Andy Carroll back to Newcastle?

Today's fluff is covered in a deep layer of cinder The Mill bought a toaster last winter. At the time it seemed like the bees knees, all shining dials and levers, promising crisp, crunchy slices of breakfast goodness and boasting the capacity to adequately service a thick teacake or hefty muffin.

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!

Football transfer rumours: Didier Drogba to Milan?

Today's Mill can see the wood for the poppies The Mill is no fan of international breaks, never has been, never will. Out goes this country's love of all things domestic, most notably transfer tittle-tattle, and in comes a whole load of patriotic piffle and posturing, three lions this, three lions that.

So this rumour has made it from Twitter to the larger web.English eyes on US starlet | Sky Sports | Football | Transfer Centre | Speculation:Skysports.com understands a host of Premier League clubs are tracking American hot-shot Brek Shea.The FC Dallas ace is regarded as one of the best young talents in America and is already an established member of Jurgen Klinsmann's USA side.

Football transfer rumours: Arsenal to sign Daniel Parejo?

Today's junk is using reverse psychology As a wise old jobbing American character actor in a Burt Lancaster film once said, even a hawk is an eagle among crows. And so it is that in these times of inter-window waffle-scarcity the news that former Liverpool wing mediocrity El Hadji Diouf is on the verge of a foul-tempered and ultimately short-lived return to football appears to qualify as a major transfer rumour.

Football transfer rumours: Joe Cole to Tottenham Hotspur?

Today's twaddle is in a muddle Today's rumours are 100% GUARANTEED to be non-singing and non-dancing. Straight down to business. No convoluted intros! No weak puns! No creaking set-ups or laboured pay-offs! Just lean, mean transfer chat, designed to start your weekend with a bang!

Football transfer rumours: Liverpool's Raul Meireles to Chelsea?

Today's tell-all is down but not out So then Britain, how are you feeling the morning after the day before? Strange, isn't it, waking up to the usual fume-filled skies, the sound of commuters tutting at delayed trains and the sight of Foot Locker branches smoldering into rubble, but now living in a world where Cesc Fábregas actually plays for Barcelona .

Football transfer rumours: Raul Meireles heading for Chelsea?

Today's Tell-all is down but not out So then Britain, how are you feeling the morning after the day before? Strange, isn't it, waking up to the usual fume-filled skies, the sound of commuters tutting at delayed trains and the sight of Footlocker branches smoldering into rubble, but now living in a world where Cesc Fabregas actually plays for Barcelona.

Football transfer rumours: Joe Cole to Paris St-Germain?

Today's tell-all is feeling the burn ... The Mill's social network of choice, as you can probably imagine, consists of a few like-minded fellows who collect around the back of the local offie to share a flagon of Fermented Apple Elixir and discuss the price of fish fingers.

Football transfer rumours: Gary Cahill to Liverpool

All today's Rumours are feeling sick Summer's gone. You can tell because it's raining outside, and football's coming back. Oh summer! Cycling, cricket, golf, even the odd shaft of sun finding its way through the cracks in the curtains every now and then.

The never-ending football transfer stories 1. Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid The ultimate annoying transfer saga. There was years of winking back-and-forth between Ronaldo and Real, secretly registered Spanish trademarks and a lot of bad feeling between Old Trafford and the Bernabeu. The deal seemed to be done in the summer of 2008, but the [.

This SPANISH FOOTBALL transfer story is beginning to stink. Its a "love story" that has hit the wall of reality with full heart wrenching consequences. FC Barcelona player Xavi Hernandez mentioned it the other day ..."Cesc is suffering", reminding me of Romeo yelling his heart out for Juliette. The negotiations between ARSENAL & FC BARCELONA for Spanish Football International CESC FABREGAS are

"News goes in cycles. One week there's the day-by-day developments of a Richard Keys and Andy Gray scandal with more videos being released on an almost daily basis. And on another week, such as when international fixtures happen, you can almost hear a pin drop due to the lack of breaking news.

An apology to the TSG community on our "editoring" around Michael Bradley's loan move.

In August of 2010, TSG commented on Jozy Altidore heading to Besitikas. It was off a media report, that said the deal was finalized. Of course, as we know, didn't happen.

So, at TSG, we went over August and took a look at which media reports and tweets for primarily American sources, twitter feeds and publications but also using this site Football Transfer League were most accurate versus their frequency.

I'll be leaving out that door. Sky Sports | Football | Transfer Centre | Speculation | Bent asks to quit Black Cats Sunderland striker Darren Bent has handed in a transfer request after Aston Villa made an £18million move for the England international. Bent has been a regular scorer for the Black Cats since joining from Tottenham 18 months ago, but he has now asked to quit the North East.