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Is Man City In A Financial Meltdown?

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The British newspapers today are all noting that Ukranian club Shaktar Donetsk have reported Manchester City to FIFA over the £475,000 (600,000 euros) still owed to them over the transfer last summer of Brazilian Elano. According to the Daily Mail: "The money is a 'solidarity payment' on European transfers. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Daily Mail, English Premier League, Manchester City, donetsk, elano, money

Observations of England U-21 Friendly Against Slovenia

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• I was disappointed to see how many empty seats there were at Hull City's KC Stadium. I know this was only a friendly, but come on. These players are the future of England's national team, and the already small stadium wasn't even half-full to watch them.

• I liked the 4-3-3 employed by Pearce. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: England U-21 national team, Friendly match, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Hull City, Manchester City, Micah Richards, Slovenia U-21 national team, Starting Lineup, Stuart Pearce, aston villa, fraizer campbell, hat trick, kc stadium, striker

French striker set for Sunderland loan spell

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Djibril Cisse is set to spend the season on loan with Sunderland after the Black Cats agreed an "agreement in principle" with Marseille over the transfer of the striker.Cisse has been expected to head for England this season, with Manchester City among the clubs he was linked with, particularly as his wife still lives in the north west. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Cisse, England, Liverpool, Manchester City, Marseille, OM, Pape Diouf, Sunderland, auxerre, bench, black cats, confirmation

Donetsk tell Manchester City: ‘You owe us half a million quid for Elano’

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It's fair to say that the finances of Manchester City could be in better shape at the moment. Owner Thaksin Shinawatra has had his assets frozen by the Thai government, meaning they are no longer prepared to throw bucketloads of cash to land the likes of Ronaldinho, and are instead ... Click to continue reading...

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Tags: England, Manchester City, Ronaldinho, Thaksin Shinawatra, shape

Arsenal poised to sign United defender

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Arsenal are today poised to sign Manchester United defender Mikael Silvestre after the player turned down a move to Manchester City. The United veteran is more than likely to leave the club before the transfer window shuts after admitting he is frustarted with the lack of first team football.

The former French international has spent nine years at United making just over 250 appearances in the process. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Arsenal, Emirates, Manchester City, Manchester United, Silvestre, bargain, old trafford, playing time, veteran, wenger

What’s worse - United selling to City or to Arsenal?

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Usually selling a player to your fiercest rivals would be considered a controversial decision at best, and an absolute travesty at worst. Think of the outrage at Tottenham when Sol Campbell went to Arsenal, Fergie's insistence on keeping Heinze away from Liverpool, the stick Lampard gets (ok, that's a different story but still), the stick [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Arsenal, English Premier League, Europe, Football Transfer Rumours, Lampard, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Sol Campbell, Sunderland, heinze, rivals, tottenham hotspur

How to scare Arsenal fans to death

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...link a 31-year old, injury-prone, error-prone defender to the club and make him look like Wenger's first choice partner for another 31-year old, injury-prone, error-prone defender. They're both pretty fast though (fast enough to escape from Man City / Sunderland and Chelsea, respectively), although it'll be interesting to see if Wenger says 'I didn't see [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Arsenal, English Premier League, Europe, Football Transfer Rumours, Man City, Manchester City, Manchester United, Sunderland

Ag. Joaquin: "Vuole solo l'Italia. La Roma s'è fatta sotto" (Il Romanista)

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AGENTE RIVELA L'INTERESSE GIALLOROSSO.MA SUAZO È IN POLE

«Joaquin vuole l'Italia. La Roma s'è fatta sotto»

«Roma e Inter si sono fatte sotto con il Valencia per
Joaquin». A parlare è Eduardo Espejo, il procuratore
dell'esterno spagnolo in rotta con la società.
Ieri l'agente e il giocatore si sono incontrati con la società e hanno
ribadito la voglia di lasciare Valencia al presidente Soriano. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Alvarez, Manchester City, Mercato AS Roma, Mercato Internazionale, Mercato Italiano, Nery Castillo, Roma, Serie A, Suazo, as roma, liga

Karthik’s Observations - Premier League Week I

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This last weekend, I had to miss the mouthwatering season start fixtures and move houses. So here is my late report based on the highlights I was able to catch online. Geovanni I cant believe this fellow was released by Manchester City. Facing their mini personnel crisis and lack of funds, I have no idea why [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Alonso, Arteta, Benitez, Capello, Daniel, England, Geovanni, Huth, Manchester City, Mido, Newcastle United, abramovich, agbonlahor, barry, hull, ince, levy, robinson, tottenham hotspur

Keane eyes a hat-trick of players

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Roy Keane is planning a £15million triple swoop for Anton Ferdinand, Benni McCarthy and Michael Ball.(The sun)Sunderland manager Keano is waiting to hear if West Ham defender Ferdinand fancies a move to Wearside after Hammers boss Alan Curbishley accepted an £8m bid.Former England Under-21 star Ferdinand, 23, is considering his options and will give Sunderland an answer within the next 48 hours. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Alan Curbishley, Anton Ferdinand, Benni McCarthy, Manchester City, Manchester United, Roy Keane, Silvestre, West Ham, black cats, midfielder

Afternoon Ticker: Terry retains England captaincy, City takes out a loan and EPL transfer watch

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Good afternoon folks. If you are at work trying to catch up on everything you were supposed to be doing when you were watching Argentina-Brazil, don't worry. We will catch you up on some of the other news in the soccer world.

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Ronaldinho following Ronaldo's downhill path

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After watching the Olympic semi-final between Argentine and Brazil, I couldn't help but notice how poor Ronaldinho played. He was, without doubt the worst player on the pitch, and in my opinion should of been taken off at half-time.

He was simply on the pitch by reputation alone. About an hour into the game, Brazil took of Rafael Sobis and brought on Alexander Pato. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: AC Milan, Brazil, English Premier League, Manchester City, Rafael Sobis, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, camp nou, doubt, giants, pitch, reputation, shape, striker, sunday league

Liverpool to forget about Barry and move for £19 million Spaniard

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Liverpool are to re-ignite their interest in Real Sociedad midfielder Albert Riera. The Spanish international has been linked with a move to Anfield all summer up until Sociedad increased their asking price back in July.

Liverpool were prepared to spend as much as £13 million on the former Manchester City man, but Sociedad were holding out for nearer the £19 million mark. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Albert Riera, English Premier League, Gareth Barry, Liverpool, Man City, Manchester City, Rafa Benitez, Real Sociedad, aston villa, money, spaniard

Man United defender on brink of exit

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Manchester United defender Mikael Silvestre is on the brink of a £750,000 move to Sunderland. The French defender has struggled for a first team place at Old Trafford in recent months due to the terrific form of fellow countryman Patrice Evra.

The 31-year old has spent over nine years at the club, making 250 appearances in the process. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Celtic, English Premier League, Manchester City, Manchester United, Mikael Silvestre, Roy Keane, bargain, black cats, boss, caps, old trafford

Roma look to sign El Diablo

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If there was any doubt that i have been nervous about Roma's chances this year against an aging but still powerful Inter Milan it speaks to the issue that i feel we have yet to replace Ludovic Giuly and Mancini. In there stead we signed John arne Riise at left back from Liverpool and attacker Vincenzo Montella from Sampdoria. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: AS Roma close too signing El Diablo Nery Castillo, Benfica, Giuly, Inter Milan, John Arne Riise, Juventus, Lucas Podolski, Manchester City, Miroslav Klose, Nery Castillo, Vincenzo Iaquinta, david suazo, julio baptista, malouda, real betis

Does Shinawatra even care about Manchester City?

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Manchester City are being thrashed in the press because of Thaksin Shinawatra - and as long as the owner keeps silent about what's going on and the financial situation surrounding the club, he's going to keep getting thrashed. A billionaire taking out 30m loans against future TV earnings to manage operations is clearly suffering from severe [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: English Premier League, Europe, Loans, Manchester City, Thaksin Shinawatra, billionaire

Glory Fans - Not So Bad After All?

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As a child, the summer holidays brought about a family trip to a campsite in Europe. We'd get in the car to travel down to Dover and I would always be wearing my United shirt. After hours and hours of driving, we'd pull in at our designated tin can and the holiday had begun. It wouldn't [...] Click to continue reading...

BBC SPORT | Football | Gossip | Tuesday’s gossip column

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Sunderland are in preliminary talks with West Ham centre-half Anton Ferdinand and are tracking Manchester City's £1m-rated defender Michael Ball. (Daily Star) But Tottenham are monitoring Ferdinand after the Hammers apparently rejected a £6m bid from the Black Cats. (Daily Mirror) BBC SPORT | Football | Gossip | Tuesday's gossip column. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Anton Ferdinand, BBC, Gossip, Manchester City, West Ham, West Ham United, black cats, hammers, premiership football, tottenham hotspur

Daily Dose: 08.18.08

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Stuff to read while you realize the resale value of public toilets is not all that wonderful..... Football with a basketball guy. (Unprofessional Foul) It's never too early to sound the alarm. (Reuters Soccer Blog) Big Phil's #2 is a moustachioed muscleman. (Sniffing The Touchline) Citeh fans have been packing on the winter pounds a bit early this year. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Luiz Felipe Scolari, Manchester City, Manchester United, Marc Stein, Premiership, Soccer, Wayne Rooney, World Football, basketball, blog, reuters

Football’s Favourite Basket Cases

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Plus ca change. In June 2007, we expressed our concerns over the new ownership taking over at Manchester City. "The military government in Thailand have already tried to seize all of his assets once", we said. "I can imagine more stable financial backgrounds that he could have come from", we said. Did anyone listen? Click to continue reading...

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Tags: English Premier League, Manchester City, Thailand, clubs in crisis, latest

EPL Week One: A Look Back

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The English Premier League is back, and not a minute too soon. After months of transfers and coaches hirings and firings and rumors and speculation on how the new EPL season would eventually shake out, we are finally into the season. No more wondering, the games are on and we will find out soon enough who the real contenders and fake pretenders are.

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Premiership rules v1.0

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Chelsea 4, Portsmouth 0 -- The Blues lived up to their payroll with a thorough whipping. Roman the billionaire stays happy with Scolari (top middle) for at least a week.

Aston Villa 4, Manchester City 2 -- Agbonlahor (top left) says even "If you can't pronounce my name, you will respect me" -- with a hat-trick in 7 minutes, I do. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Capello, English Premier League, Fulham, Manchester City, Manchester United, West Brom, West Ham, billionaire, hat trick, tevez

Americans Abroad: Weekend Rewind

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It is that time of year again. Time for European leagues to kick off and time for American players to ply their trade throughout Europe (and Mexico).

This week marked the first week for the English Premier League and German Bundesliga, meaning several names joined the list of Americans playing abroad.

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Are Manchester City Fans Getting Fatter?

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Are Manchester City fans getting fatter or are they requesting baggier shirts for fashion reasons?! I think the former. The above image is taken from Man City's online shop. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Bookmark to: Click to continue reading...

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Tags: England, Fashion, Man City, Manchester City, football shirts, le coq sportif

Is it time to panic yet?

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The first weekend of the 08/09 season saw Tottenham lose away to Middlesbrough, Manchester United held to a draw at home to Newcastle, Portsmouth destroyed in a game that will be as remembered for Chelsea's tactical superiority as the lack of effort from Pompey players and Everton lose at home to a Blackburn side that [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, English Premier League, Europe, Everton FC, Fulham, Hull City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Portsmouth, Studs Up, Sunderland, West Brom, West Ham, Wigan, aston villa, pompey, tottenham hotspur

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