Manchester City managing director Garry Cook has warned the Premier League that the Blues' new owners are thinking 'large scale' - and that could include a bid for Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo. Provided their new owners from Abu Dhabi back up their statements with hard cash, there appears little to prevent City muscling into England's [. Click to continue reading...

West Ham striker Carlton Cole has revealed he has no intentions to leave Upton Park and would like to pledge his future to the east Londoners. The 24-year-old was subject to a lot of speculation on transfer deadline day, with Sunderland reportedly interested in the forward. But the former Chelsea man has revealed that he never [. Click to continue reading...

Arsene Wenger is confident that his young guns will be able to compete for major trophies this season despite claims that his side lacks strength in depth. The Frenchman is confident however that his young squad can cope with the demands of delivering silverware after three trophyless seasons. Wenger was merely a spectator on transfer deadline day, [. Click to continue reading...

West Ham chairman and owner Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson maintains the east London club are heading in the right direction. In the wake of what maybe viewed by most Hammers fans as a fiasco, the Icelandic chief remains calm following the departure of manager Alan Curbishley. The ex-Charlton chief quit yesterday after having players sold over his head, and [. Click to continue reading...

Reported Tottenham target Diego Milito has revealed his reasons behind snubbing the Lillywhites and joining former side Genoa. Milito was hugely popular with the Argentinian side during his first spell with the club and the 29-year-old revealed that when he left in 2005 to join Real Zaragoza he always had his mind set on a move [. Click to continue reading...

The big topic in football this week has been the ownership change on the blue side of Manchester and what it means for both the Premiership and football economy. But contrary to popular belief, there is other non-English stuff happening (guilty) and some of it is pretty damn discussion worthy. Take for instance, the champagne [. Click to continue reading...

Media reports this morning claim that West Ham legend Paolo Di Canio could emerge as the early front runner to get the vacant managers job at his former club thanks to Italian connections with inside Upton Park. Di Canio, who was hero worshipped during his four year spell with the Irons from 1999, may well gain [. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham's new striker Roman Pavlyuchenko has expressed his delight that he wont be partnering Dimitar Berbatov at White Hart Lane this season. The Just as Russian frontman Pavlyuchenko jetted in to agree a £13.8million move to White Hart Lane, Sulking Bulgarian Berbatov completed his drawn out move to Manchester United. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas believes that there are a lot of similarities between the Gunners and the Spanish national side and has revealed he enjoys playing in both systems. Fabregas has played 32 times for his country and the 21-year-old believes that the style of football for both Spain and Arsenal is quite similar. Click to continue reading...

Sunderland boss Roy Keane has backed Alan Curbishley's decision to quit Upton Park, despite signing the two players the former Charlton boss was most upset about losing. Curbishley quit the Hammers yesterday - blaming a breach of trust and confidence as his reasoning for leaving- and fellow Premier League manager Keane has revealed that if he [. Click to continue reading...

Despite the billions rolling into Manchester City Spurs new boy Vedran Corluke claims he is still happy to be at White Hart Lane. The Croatian defender must be the only player happy to be leaving Eastlands, rather than looking to cash-in on the financial revolution happening at City under their new mega-rich owners. Click to continue reading...

Despite moving to England this summer, French midfielder Samir Nasri feels right at home with most of the dressing room speaking in his native French tongue at the Emirates. The 21-year-old moved to the north Londoners in the summer for £12 million, and the former Marseille man has revealed that it has been a lot easier [. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool right back Alvaro Arbeloa is certain that his team mate Fernando Torres can move past his 33 goals, which he scored last season and make an even bigger mark in the Premier League.

Torres, who joined the Reds last season from Atletico Madrid for a fee of £20million and became the first Liverpool player to score 20 league goals in a single campaign since Robbie Fowler along with breaking Ruud van Nistelrooy's record for Manchester United, for most Premiership goals by a foreign player in their debut season. Click to continue reading...

The events of the last few days point pretty clearly to one thing: the end of the football manager. Alan Curbishley quit because West Ham sold players without his consent, Kevin Keegan may or may not be about to do the same thing. In the age of billionaire businessman owners and/or sporting directors, managers just don't [. Click to continue reading...

After a two week period which has seen his name battered from pillar to post, his reputation dragged through the London and Madrid sewers, and been labeled as nothing more than a mercenary, how to you think Robinho would take to sprucing up his image and defending himself? Children's charities would be a start. Click to continue reading...

The Offside Forums are brand new and already seeing some high quality action, so we've decided to bring some of these topics to the forefront ever day. Or, if we've got a question we're curious about, we'll ask one ourselves and send you in that direction for your thoughts and ruminations. To kick things off, [. Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you listen to a sermon about sex from a porn addict..... The exodus of Dutch talent from the Netherlands. (ESPN) The magic of the Real Madrid mercato lacked this summer. (Reuters Soccer Blog) "Jimmy Bullard - England's saviour?" (SoccerLens) Who Ate All The Pies bids adieu. (Who Ate All The Pies) What West Ham & Newcastle's [. Click to continue reading...

Obviously the true bargains won't be known for some time, but there were a few transfers which caught the eye before the participants had even put on their new shirt. Eliminating loans made sure somebody has actually bought up the entire contract this summer, and everyone of these guys happened to come in at under [. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy believes players' contracts are worthless after seeing Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov quit the club this summer. The strikers moved on to Liverpool and Manchester United respectively, despite being on long-term contracts at White Hart Lane. Levy - who received over £50million for the pair - claims he had no choice to sell [. Click to continue reading...

West Ham legend Paolo Di Canio could be set to make a sensational return to the club as manager after being installed as one of the favourites to replace Alan Curbishley according to Datasport. Former Charlton chief Curbishley quit his post at Upton Park today, and while the bookmakers have installed Croatia national team boss Slaven [. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy insists the club were right to allow Dimitar Berbatov to join Manchester United. The Bulgarian made a deadline-day switch to Old Trafford in a £30.75million deal after being linked with a transfer all summer. Levy told the club's official website: "The decisions we took to allow the transfers of Berbatov and Robbie Keane [. Click to continue reading...

Departing West Ham boss Alan Curbishley claims he was "gutted" after felling forced out of the club. The 50-year-old, former Charlton boss had originally joined the Hammers in 1975 as a player, and spent four years at Upton Park before joining Birmingham. He returned to the club in 2006 as manager after replacing Alan Pardew, although despite [. Click to continue reading...

Spurs defender Chris Gunter believes the club can be a success following the depature of sulking striker Dimitar Berbatov. The Bulgarian ace finally completed his drawn out move to Manchester United, in an £30.75million deal on deadline day on Monday. But while Tottenham fans will have been disappointed to see the second member of their prolific strike [. Click to continue reading...

Alan Curbishley has resigned as manager of West Ham saying that transfers were being made without his knowledge or input. Such a situation is clearly an untenable position for a manager. Curbishley said that what had happened amounted to "a breach of trust and confidence meaning I had no option but to leave. Click to continue reading...

IT'S arguably come as no shock that Alan Curbishley has quit West Ham. The crows over the 50-year-old have been circling for some time and the sale of Anton Ferdinand and George McCartney to Sunderland seems to have been the last straw. But one thing his departure has certainly drawn to the attention is the black [. Click to continue reading...