Last week, I asked you to vote for you favourite 20 players of the decade, here in this very post, are the Top 100 players of the last 10 years, voted for by you, the readers and bloggers of the offside. First thing I want to say is thank you, everyone for the absolutely amazing response [...] Click to continue reading...

Aguero's brace denied Chelsea a perfect start.

Yet again Europe's top talent provided us with some magnificent goals. Argentine striker Aguero may have found his form with two howitzers against Chelsea.

Enjoy!

Babel's goal against Lyon:

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Debreceni vs Fiorentina

A win against Debreceni would bring the Viola to the brink of the knockout stages of the Champions League.

Fiorentina are hoping to have Mutu and Jovetic for the match. Mutu is trying to recover from a knee injury while Jovetic is suffering from a problematic toe.

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(video gol highlights di Genoa-Fiorentina)
GENOA (3-4-3): Amelia, Sokratis, Biava, Bocchetti, Rossi, Milanetto, Zapater, Modesto (35' st Esposito), Sculli (27' st Palacio), Crespo, Palladino (22' st Mesto). All.: Gasperini (squalificato, in panchina Caneo).
FIORENTINA (4-3-3): Frey, Comotto, Gamberini, Dainelli, Pasqual (37' st Castillo), Donadel (16' st Zanetti), Montolivo, Jovetic (10' st Marchionni), Mutu, Vargas, Gilardino. Click to continue reading...

(video gol highlihts di Napoli-Fiorentina)
FIORENTINA (4-2-3-1): Frey; De Silvestri, Gamberini, Natali (28'st Comotto), Gobbi; Zanetti, Montolivo; Santana (30'pt Jorgensen), Jovetic, Vargas; Mutu (1' st Gilardino). (Avramov, Pasqual, Donadel, Castillo). All.: Prandelli.
NAPOLI (3-4-2-1): De Sanctis; Grava, Rinaudo, Contini; Maggio, Pazienza, Gargano, Aronica; Hamsik, Lavezzi (45'st Datolo); Quagliarella (42'st Denis). Click to continue reading...

Goalkeeper: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow)

Despite being on the losing side Akinfeev kept his team close with Manchester United testing him eight times and only finding the net once. The Russian international is a top-class keeper and denied the likes of Berbatov Valencia a number of times.

Centre-Back: Sebastien Squillaci (Sevilla FC)

Squillaci has plenty of Champions League experience and is will be an important part of Sevilla's side if they want to make a run.

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Ryazantsev goal against Barcelona:

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Mutu goal against Debreceni:

Ibrahimovich goal against Rubin Kazan:

Pato goal against Real Madrid:

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Same names, similar stories:

• Beckham deal to Milan is done, they say.
  
• Portsmouth rules out Zaki move.
  
• Robinho set for Jan. move to Barcelona.
  
• Birmingham promises to spend 40m pounds.
  
• Fergie wishes Belgium midfielder a speedy recovery. Hmmmmm.

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Its a list, and a damned long one, but well worth taking a look at! We love Four Four Two, almost as much as we love Fennec Fox's.

Our friends over at Four Four Two have compiled their annual list of the top 100 players in the world today, take a look below and let us know what you think?

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United and Barcelona can't stay out of the rumors:

• New Iniesta deal with Barca.
  
• No Milan move for Adriano?
  
• Mutu might leave Fiorentina.
  
• Figo wants Messi at Inter.
  
• United tracking Maicon.
  
• Cunningham waiting to be replaced at Dallas.

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(video highlights di Fiorentina-Lazio)
Fiorentina: Frey (c), Comotto, Gamberini, Kroldrup, Gobbi, Zanetti, Montolivo, Marchionni (31'st Jorgensen), Jovetic, Vargas, Mutu (20'st Gilardino). All.: Prandelli.
Lazio: Muslera, Lichsteiner, Cribari, Radu, Del Nero (39'st Luciani), Foggia (30'st Meghni), Baronio (c), Mauri, Matuzalem, Rocchi (19'st Dabo), Zarate. Click to continue reading...

The Champions League returns, with few thrills, most of them being Spanish. Click read more for match reports.
Match Results:


Bayern Munich - 0-0 - Juventus
Bordeaux - 1-0 - Maccabi Haifa
CSKA Moskva - 2-1 - Besiktas
Manchester United - 2-1 - Wolfsburg
AC Milan - 0-1 - Zurich
Real Madrid - 3-0 - Olympique Marseille
APOEL - 0-1 - Chelsea
Porto - 1-0 - Atletico Madrid
Fiorentina - 2-0 - Liverpool
Debreceni - 0-4 - Olympique Lyon
Rubin Kazan - 1-1 - Inter Milan
Barcelona - 2-0 - Dinamo Kiev
Unirea Urziceni - 1-1 - Stuttgart
Rangers - 1-4 - Seville
Arsenal - 2-0 - Olympiakos
AZ - 1-1 - Standard Liege


Match of the Round: Fiorentina - Liverpool


Fiorentina - Liverpool
Stadio Artemio Franchi - Attendance: 33,426
28' GOAL! Click to continue reading...

(video gol, 1-0. Jovetic)
(video gol, 2-0. Jovetic)
Fiorentina: Frey, Comotto, Gamberini, Dainelli (C), Gobbi, Zanetti, Montolivo, Marchionni (43'st De Silvestri), Jovetic, Vargas (28'st Jorgensen), Mutu (37'st Donadel). A disp: Avramov, Kroldrup, De Silvestri, Pasqual, Donadel, Jorgensen, Castillo. Click to continue reading...

GOOD WEEK

The Golden Age
Hats off to Francesco Totti and Michael Ballack for celebrating their 33rd birthdays last week. We'll cheers to the three decades of computer-melting mancandy material they've supplied us with. You know, like this. And this. And also this if you're into that kind of thing.

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(video highlights Roma-Fiorentina)
TABELLINO
ROMA: Julio Sergio;, Cassetti, Burdisso, Juan (3'st Mexes), Riise; Taddei, Perrotta, De Rossi; Pizarro (24'st Faty); Totti, Vucinic (14'st Okaka). All.: Ranieri.
FIORENTINA: Frey; Comotto, Gamberini, Dainelli, Pasqual; C.Zanetti, Montolivo (23'st Donadel); Santana (16'st Jorgensen), Mutu (16'st Jovetic), Marchionni; Gilardino. Click to continue reading...

ALLEZ LYONNAIS!!! We can do this!

Lyon:

Lloris
Reveillere - Cris - Toulalan - Cissokho
Pjanic - Makoun - Kallstrom - Bastos
Gomis - Lisandro

Bench: Vercoutre, Ederson, Govou, Clerc, Delgado, Seguin, Gonalons

Fiorentina:

Frey
Comotto - Gamberini - Danielli - Gobbi
Donadel - Montolivo
Marchionni - Mutu - Vargas
Gilardino

Bench: Avramov, Kroldrup, Jovetic, Natali, Jorgensen, Pasqual, Santana

Feel free to post commentary, frustrations, and thoughts here during and after the game.

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The Sun always has entertaining stuff.
Recently it was soccer players that match up with Zodiac signs.
How bizarre.
To the links:

• Maradona's seat is scalding hot. [Yahoo!]
  
• Getting rich after getting sacked: a Chelsea thing. [The Offside]
  
• Zidane complex gets the green light.

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Liverpool
Lyon
Fiorentina
Debrenci VSC
Group E awaits. Not the easiest group (Groups G or H), but it's not Groups A, C, or F either. Neither Lyon nor Fiorentina will be easy matches, but they'll be interesting pairings against prestigious teams, while Debrecen's a completely unknown quantity. Click to continue reading...

Within days of the season's kick-off, the powers behind Italian football rubber stamped the establishment of their version of the Premier League, effectively separating the top two divisions from next season. The separation is hoped to stem the dwindling power of the League, an atrophy highlighted this summer with the departure of two of its biggest stars, Kaka and Ibrahimovic, to Spain. Click to continue reading...

Si haci como lo leen, para el agrado de Adrian Mutu, Abel Xavier y muchos mas parece que hay una barra en La Paz, Bolivia llamada Route 36 donde un mesero te sirve cocaina con toda normalidad, como si fueran papas fritas. Desafortunadamente no pude encontrar el articulo en castellano. Buuu!
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Don't do drugs.
Especially when Roman Abramovich is negatively affected.
After getting busted and dumped by the Blues for cocaine use, the Romanian forward has been ordered to pay the club back 17.2 million euros due to breach of contract.
Word is Mutu doesn't have that kind of cash available and he'll appeal the decision. Click to continue reading...

This week's furor over Manchester United "stealing" Le Havre's Paul Pogba shows, to me, the deeply conflicted ethical issues at play regarding underage players in today's soccer world.
The player here, Paul Pogba, is a very highly rated 16 year old who plays for Le Havre. According to Le Havre, Man U have offered his family money/employment for him to end a contract he has signed with the French club. Click to continue reading...

Adrian Mutu was fined $17.2 million euros today after a long dispute between him and his former club. It was supposed to be one of Cheslea's best additions to their team but things quickly went sour.

Adrian Mutu

Mutu used to play for Chelsea back in 2003 but was suspended after he tested positive for cocaine.

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• Sir Bobby Robson, English legend, dies at 76 [NY Times]

• Darren Bent uses Twitter to attack Tottenham boss Daniel Levy [Goal]

• It's time to start considering strategies and selections for Fantasy Premier League 2009/2010. Are Man City worth looking at? [The Football Blog]

• Mutu loses appeal against Chelsea over huge fine.

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(30/11/08, highlights di Roma-Fiorentina 1-0)
I precedenti:
139 le sfide tra le due squadre: 43 vittorie per la Fiorentina, 56 pareggi e 40 affermazioni della Roma.
All'Artemio Franchi sono stati 31 i successi gigliati, 29 i pareggi e 10 le vittorie giallorosse.
Probabili formazioni:
FIORENTINA (4-2-3-1) - Frey; Comotto, Gamberini, Dainelli, Pasqual; Donadel, Montolivo; Semioli, Jovetic, Vargas; Gilardino. Click to continue reading...

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(highlights di Fiorentina-Chievo)
FIORENTINA (4-4-2): Frey, Zauri, Kroldrup, Gamberini, Vargas (1' st Pasqual), Kuzmanovic (23' st Bonazzoli), Melo, Montolivo, Jovetic (1' st Semioli), Gilardino, Mutu. All: Prandelli
CHIEVO (4-4-2): Sorrentino, Frey, Yepes, Morero, Mantovani, Bentivoglio, Italiano, Marcolini (30' st Bogdani), Pinzi, Pellissier (40' st Mandelli), Makinwa. Click to continue reading...

As reported in the New York Times, Jozy Altidore has been loaned from Villareal to Deportivo Xerez, a team in Spain's Second Division. It seems as if this was always the plan for Villareal, to loan Altidore out to a smaller Spanish club in order to give him more playing time and experience.
There really is nothing wrong with this as its something that is commonly done. Click to continue reading...

ANDREI ARSHAVIN will sign for Arsenal this month — despite Zenit St Petersburg turning down an initial £10million bid. Club spokesman Alexei Petrov revealed: "I can confirm that Zenit did get an official offer of about £10m from Arsenal for Andrei Arshavin. "It was rejected as insufficient. No new offers have arrived from [. Click to continue reading...

Sokratis Papastathopoulos, former AEK centre back, has made his Serie A debut with Genoa today. Genoa are playing Fiorentina and are currently tied 0-0 early in the second half. Papastathopoulos has apparently been playing a great game and has been marking and closing down dangerous Fiorentina striker Mutu. Click to continue reading...

Luciano Spalletti aveva scelto l'alternativa a Mutu. A rivelarlo è la Gazzetta dello Sport, secondo cui il nome individuato dal tecnico di Certaldo per sopperire al mancato arrivo del rumeno, non era né quello di Baptista né quello di Menez. Sarebbe stato il brasiliano Thiago Neves, stella del Fluminense, il sogno dell'allenatore giallorosso. Click to continue reading...

AQUILANI
Il Principino Alberto
è in pole position
È da tanto che si parla del rinnovo di Aquilani e nelle prossime
settimane, a Trigoria, si lavorerà anche per questo. Il Principino,
lo ha dichiarato più volte, vuole rimanere nella Capitale. Un
pensiero confermato nei giorni scorsi anche da Franco Zavaglia, l'agente
che, insieme al padre del numero 8 giallorosso, ne cura gli interessi:
«Aquilani vuole restare alla Roma? Click to continue reading...

DALLE PAROLE DEL PRESIDENTE ALLE OPINIONI DEI TIFOSI: IL PA REGGIO COL NAPOLI NON CAMBIA NULLA
«La Roma è forte e vincerà»
Rosella Sensi: «Le scelte di mercato sono state condivise con lo staff tecnico. Baptista meglio di Mutu»
«La Roma è molto forte ed è quella che volevamo». Click to continue reading...

«La Roma è forte ed è quella che volevamo». Lo dice Rosella Sensi. Da presidente sembra quasi voglia spegnere sul nascere la polemica che sta montando in città.
Partiamo da Júlio Baptista.
«È un ragazzo sensibilissimo, domenica si è emozionato. Il pubbico, lo stadio, la prima volta. Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you call the cops for a noise disturbance at a kindergarten....... Argentina's women's team pays tribute to the Spanish men's basketball team. (The Spoiler) Everton has peaked, for now. (Reuters Soccer Blogs) Captaincy is the least of England's worries. (Guardian Unlimited) Mutu thinks FIFA are guilty of human rights violations. Click to continue reading...