Laurent Blanc is flavour of the month at the moment after winning the league with Bordeaux and currently standing top of his Champions League group, which contains Juventus and Bayern Munich.

Back in May, RoM looked at the reasons why Blanc should replace Sir Alex Ferguson, but Eric Cantona wants him to be the next manager of France.

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Vola il Marsiglia di Deschamps (nella foto). La sentitissima sfida con il Psg viene risolta, a favore della compagine allenata dall'ex giocatore ed allenatore bianconero, da un guizzo di Heinze. Tre punti fondamentali che avvicinano l'Olympique a grandi falcate al Bordeaux.
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We continue to edge closer to United related news, but this was too difficult to pass up. When the King speaks we have to listen:

"I think that Raymond Domenech is the worst coach in French football since Louis XVI. If it was up to me, I'd put (Bordeaux coach) Laurent Blanc in charge of the France team," the former Manchester United hero continued.

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Manchester United is one of the best football clubs in the world and Sir Alex Ferguson is the most decorated manager in England. It is very difficult to replace this man once he steps down. But that has to happen and happen soon. So who will replace Fergie? I wish Sir Alex could continue forever at Old Trafford. Click to continue reading...

The ball from the infamous Tottenham-Liverpool match earlier in the year was sold online.
400 pounds to charity. Good stuff.
Did you buy it?
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• Happy birthday to a blog bud.

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Sir Alex looking to pick up two of Ligue 1's top stars.

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Reports in France suggest that Sir Alex Ferguson is keen to bring in Bordeaux's Marouane Chamakh and Marseille's Benoit Cheyrou.

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Want-away striker has many admirers.

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Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh linked with Arsenal, West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland this summer is now a target for Premier League champions Manchester United, according to reports.

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Laurent Blanc's Bordeaux went back to the top of the table with this easy win over struggling Le Mans.

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Sky Sports Magazine'den Alex Ferguson'un tedrisatından geçmiş eski futbolcu yeni teknik adamlar kolajı. Alex Ferguson'un dünya futboluna katkısını farklı bir biçimde ele almışlar. İsimlere tek tek bakınca dudaklar uçukluyor. Alex Mc Leish, Gordon Strachan, Steve Bruce, Roy Keane, Bryan Robson, Mark Hughes, Paul Ince, Darren Ferguson, Henning Berg ve Laurent Blanc listenin ilk akla gelen isimleri. Click to continue reading...

French Ligue 1 returns into action after the international break and Olympique Lyon are leading the title race at the moment. Bordeaux and surprise package Montpellier are just behind the leaders, while Marseille and PSG are slowly falling behind. Monaco and Lorient are also exceeding expectations at the moment, while Toulouse, Nice and Lille are not doing as well as last season.

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As we've been reporting recently on Jeu Du Jour, each of the main contenders for the Ligue 1 title this season have been losing their unbeaten records one by one. Going into last weekend's games, only two were left and one of those, unsurprisingly, was the seemingly unbeatable Bordeaux. Unbeatable, that is, until Saturday when Saint Etienne, of all teams, handed out a 3-1 beating at the Stade Geoffrey-Guichard knocking the French champions off the top spot. Click to continue reading...

Lyon and Marseille are making Bordeaux's Ligue 1 title defence rather too easy this season. While Bordeaux continue to churn out one victory after another (and not always comfortably so), their main title rivals seem all too happy to drop points to ensure a safe passage for Laurent Blanc's men.
Prior to last weekend's matches, four teams had an unbeaten start to 2009/10, but two of them slipped up on Saturday and Sunday. Click to continue reading...

After a sensational run of five league games unbeaten, newly-promoted Montpellier were finally put to the sword in a comprehensive 4-2 defeat away to a virtually full-strength Marseille side on Saturday.
And the good news for Didier Deschamps was that he finally got to see a return on the €18 million invested in Argentinean playmaker Lucho Gonzalez. Click to continue reading...

Wenger set to pounce.

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admits he may "reconsider" a move for Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh when the transfer window re-opens in January.
The Gunners were strongly linked with a £10million swoop for the Morocco international before the September 1 deadline.

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You know what they say about title-challenging teams: if you can play badly and still win, you've got what it takes to be the champions. The question is, does the reverse apply for relegation-threatened teams?
Grenoble are challenging the theory at the moment, that's for sure. Having played five and lost five so far this season, they've played well more often than not and yet still won nothing for their efforts. Click to continue reading...

L'Europa ribalta l'Italia

Juve in fuga e Milan in crisi in Italia. In Europa accade esattamente il contrario, il Milan vince nel difficile campo di Marsiglia, la Juve s'impantana tra le mura amiche contro un bel Bordeaux. I girondini non meritavano di perdere. Se ne è accorto persino Cobolli Gigli, che al pari del collega Moratti non ha molta dimestichezza con forme geometriche del pallone di football. Click to continue reading...

The UEFA Champions League is officially back and ready to feature the world's best teams and players in a competition that is sure to entertain us all the way to May of 2010.

Matchday One kicks off on Tuesday with eight matches and some entertaining encounters. Before we touch on all eight matches, here is a quick look at your live viewing options on Tuesday:

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ON TV

2pm- Setanta Sports USA- Chelsea vs.

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The UEFA Champions League is officially back and ready to feature the world's best teams and players in a competition that is sure to entertain us all the way to May of 2010.

Matchday One kicks off on Tuesday with eight matches and some entertaining encounters. Before we touch on all eight matches, here is a quick look at your live viewing options on Tuesday:

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ON TV

2pm- Setanta Sports USA- Chelsea vs.

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Ligue 1 defending champions Bordeaux's coach Laurent Blanc says he wouldn't be interested in taking over the France squad if Raymond Domenech was to leave sooner than expected. Blanc, who won the French League title last season with Bordeaux, is considered one of the best French coaches along with Arsenal's Arsene . Click to continue reading...

Por estas horas, la gran noticia del fútbol europeo pasa por Francia, más precisamente en la Ligue 1. Tras una temporada de mucho nivel y 38 emocionantes jornadas, el Girondins de Burdeos acabó definitivamente con la monarquía del Lyon al consagrarse campeón. Muchos equipos estuvieron cerca de llevarse el titulo, desde el Marsella hasta el Rennes, pasando por el PSG, Lille, Toulouse, entre otros, Click to continue reading...

By CARL ELDRIDGE With no transfers to talk of after a rather dull conclusion to trading on deadline day, the coverage of the Arsenal focuses on Eduardo's ban for diving and the pledge to fight the punishment by Arsene Wenger. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">

The Sun starts proceedings by telling us the Gunners will take on the imbeciles at Uefa after they branded him a cheat.

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Chamakh has been linked with a host of Premier League teams

Bordeaux's Moroccan striker Marouane Chamakh has made a good start to the Ligue 1 campaign, scoring 3 goals in 3 games for the club. � This form has seen him linked with a host of Premier League clubs, but is he really good enough to be considered by Premier League teams as a solid option?

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There is a surprise leader early in the 09-10 French Ligue 1 season. AS Nancy has been on fire offensively in rising to the top of the Ligue 1 standings. This week, AS Nancy defeated Monaco 4-0 in their home opener at Stade Marcel Picot. Cameroonian forward Paul Alo'o Efoulou scored twice to stand out in the win. Click to continue reading...

Alright all,

we host Pompey today for the first home game of the season in our new Arsenalised stadium. There is a chance the team could remain the same for the first three games of the season, I'm expecting an unchanged side of:

Almunia, Sagna, Gallas, Vermaelen, Clichy, Song, Denilson, Fabregas, Arshavin, Bendtner, van Persie.

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A new dawn may have risen on Ligue 1 but there was a definite air of 'as you were' about the opening weekend of fixtures in France.
Reigning champions Bordeaux (how nice it is to say that for a change) picked up from where they left off at the end of last season with a 4-1 drubbing of Lens. Click to continue reading...

Arsene has no further interest in signing Chamakh is the L'Equipe headline this morning. So what exactly is going on? This is brinkmanship. Laurent Blanc wants 12 million Euros and Arsenal will not budge from 7 million for a player that will be able to move as a free agent in five months anyway.

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Contrary to a number of rumours about the future of Marouane Chamakh, Arsenal have not made a new offer for the Bordeaux striker.

In fact, club chairman Jean-Louis Triaud, told L'Equipe:

I have not had any sign of life from Arsenal. I am waiting. If Arsene Wenger really wants Marouane, I suppose he will finally get in touch.

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Hurry up!

ARSENE WENGER has offered £8million for Bordeaux strike ace Marouane Chamakh.
The Gunners chief insisted he was no longer interested in the Moroccan international, 25, after an initial £6m bid was rejected.

But although Chamakh only has a year left on his contract, a Bordeaux insider said Wenger is in for a nasty shock as the French club is holding out for £10m.

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Laurent Blanc's title winning side got off to a flyer against Lens beating the newly promoted side 4-1. Some great finishes in this one, especially from Brazilian Wendell and Arsenal target Chamakh puts away a nice finish and then celebrates in a half assed manner.

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Today has been a big day for Arsenal; We are to face Celtic in Champions league qualifying which as "harregas the gooner" said on the post below is very ironic and many transfer stories have stated prevailing in the last few hours, so the papers should be full of them tomorrow.

Arsenal to up Chamakh bid

The Daily Mail is saying Wenger will up his bid for the Moroccan forward to £7.

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Morning Insiders plently to talk about from the newspapers this morning. As usual comment welcome....

The Mirror - Almunia sorry to see Toure go
Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia believes defender Kolo Toure left the Gunners because he was "bored" and fears the same could happen with captain Cesc Fabregas.

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What a difference a year makes. Against odds, FC Bordeaux dethroned Ligue 1's 7 time consecutive champions Lyon to lift the Ligue 1 trophy. With 12 wins on the trot at the tail end of the season, FC Bordeaux secured a top dog status with its first league title in a decade. Along with the Coupe De La Ligue crown to secure a league and cup double, les Girodins wagged its tail at fellow title hopefuls Marseille and Lyon - leaving the former chasing tails and the latter stuck with its tail between its legs.

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With Lyon finally knocked off their lofty perch by Laurent Blanc's fantastically well drilled Bordeaux side last season, there is a feeling that this season's Ligue Un title race might just be the most open in years.

With Claude Puel's side looking to regain the crown they had held in a vice-like grip for seven seasons in a row, Blanc's men will have their work cut out to retain their title, and with traditional powerhouses Marseille & Paris Saint-Germain looking to continue the excellent progress made last season under new coaches Didier Deschamps & Antoine Kombouaré respectively, not to mention the impressive underdogs of Lille & Toulouse lurking, French football has lot going for it at the moment.

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Les Girondins stock is incredibly high because Laurent Blanc whose footballing IQ must make him the Albert Einstein of the sport has fashioned a team in which "eleven players think the same thing at the same time."

The French Ligue threw up so many surprises last season. Lyon's uninterrupted reign was finally ended and Guingamp won the Coupe De France.

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Let's hope his finishing is better than his poor attempt at lying!

Blanc and Chamakh in happier times!

Marouane Chamakh is reportedly in London to discuss a move to Arsenal and has hit out at current employers Bordeaux.

The 25-year-old Moroccan international is a target for both Arsenal and Sunderland and is apparently in London as the Gunners edge closer to securing a deal for the talented striker.

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