The little Croatian finally lands up in the Bernabeu after Daniel Levy made life miserable for
Florentino Perez. He could not have arrived sooner to help reverse Real's faltering start to the
Liga.
Spurs have tabled a bid for Rennes midfielder Yann M'Vila who most Arsenal fans have included in
their fantasy team but the money offered is supposed to be a wee short of club expectations.
The little Croatian finally lands up in the Bernabeu after Daniel Levy made life miserable for
Florentino Perez. He could not have arrived sooner to help reverse Real's faltering start to the
Liga.
Spurs have tabled a bid for Rennes midfielder Yann M'Vila who most Arsenal fans have included in
their fantasy team but the money offered is supposed to be a wee short of club expectations.
January will soon be with us and while the striking situation at White Hart Lane doesn't seem
quite so desperate as it did last season, it still seems likely that Spurs will be entering into
the market at some stage for reinforcements.
Despite Pav's wonder strike against his compatriots from Rubin Kazan last week, he has had a
lacklustre start to the season and could well move on this winter.
The theme for the rumour mills this week concerns the possibility of young footballing talent
moving to Spurs and the latest name in the hat is that of Max Clayton, a young striker who had
scouts from no less than 17 Premiership sides watch him score the winner for Crewe in the week.
Crewe boss Dario Gradi has a long history of bringing through young quality players and he had
high hopes for Clayton after the Johnstone's Paint Trophy win over Macclesfield.
Liverpool is the latest club to join the race to sign Irish and Manchester United defender, John
O'Shea.
The Waterford man is surplus to requirements at Old Trafford and will leave the club this
summer.
It had originally been expected that he would join Sunderland, but the player has held out for the
best deal available and is now being chased by five clubs.
When looking at Premiership sides, there are plenty of players and managers who are easy to
dislike. Aston Villa are one of the few set-ups that I find totally inoffensive. Martin O'Neil is a
good manager, doing a good job. They've got some handy players who go about their business in a
respectable way.
Usually when Liverpool signs a player, I've at least a passing familiarity with the player.
Sometimes, it's someone I've watched often – like Joe Allen, Andy Carroll, Stewart Downing,
Charlie Adam, etc. You know, players bought from other Premiership sides. Less often, it's someone
I've seen on a few occasions and can supplement with statistics and those damned YouTube videos,
like Fabio Borini.
The oldest club competition in football was here again, The F.A Cup was back, some say the
passion/magic has been lost from Cup, and that the big Premiership sides do not take it seriously
but todays game showed otherwise. Our featured player Nicklas Bendtner started in a right wing
position, where he played some of last season, It's not his favourite position but he is capable of
playing their with his direct dribbling and link up play.
The Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp is ready to challenge the Gunners in the race to sign Lille's
star midfielder Eden Hazard. The Belgian wonderkid is wanted by a host of European clubs with
Premiership sides United, City and Arsenal in the pole position. The Gunners tried to sign Hazard
in the summer but the deal [.
Being unbeaten at home for one of the smaller Premiership sides is something that should always
be celebrated but at Birmingham City, things are never that simple. They have now equaled the clubs
longest unbeaten home record of 18 games, it hides another story entirely. Now, 6 games in, the
club have 7 points and sit mid-table but once again, the crowd was just over 2/3rds of the
capacity.
While we know that this is almost certainly a non-starter, particularly if Harry Redknapp stays
at the club, it's interesting to see a number of Premiership sides being linked with Kevin
Prince-Boateng this week.
KPB was at the club between 2007 and 2009 and despite his undoubted promise, failed to make an
impact.
Oddly, the losing fans probably had more fun at Old Trafford than Manchester United's
multi-national supporters.
Crawley Town gave an audacious account for themselves, losing 1-0 but leaving the Theater of Dreams
with their pride, a million quid, and a distinct moral advantage over the Premier League giants
intact.
You should never get ahead of yourself in football. Sing the praises of a team too early, and
they can fade away and make you seem foolish (see the pundits handing Chelsea the title after five
games of last season).
In November 2007, after England failed to qualify for Euro 2008, The Daily Mail did a
quick scout of the country to highlight the players pushing for internation stardom in the future
entitled 60 reasons why the future of English football is not as gloomy as you might think...ITS
investigates.
Every January, as the third round of the FA Cup begins in England, the question is never whether
there will be upsets, but rather how big they'll be. Saturday's was one of the biggest in recent
memory.
Tiny Stevenage, which only became part of the Football League this season, and currently sits
15th in the League Two table, not only out-shot and out-possessed its Premier League opponents, it
out-played them.
David Silva (AM/W) The former Valencia man sealed his £25M move to Manchester
City signing a four-year contract with the Premier League's posh. After Spain's World Cup
victory, he was able to finally turn up for his medical at Eastlands and complete the
deal.
Just when you think it can't get any worse for France, it does. Head Coach Raymond Domench has
sent home forward Nicolas Anelka. The forward launched an expletive ridden tirade against his coach
at halftime of France's 2-0 loss to Mexico on Thursday.
The third round of Carling Cup continues on Wednesday night and some memorable moments occurred
on the day especially for Manchester City fans as they witnessed the return of injury plagued Owen
Hargreaves, who made a memorable comeback with a special goal.
The ex Manchester United player's goal helped his team to beat the Cup's defending Champion,
Birmingham City, a result which was followed by other top premiership sides, Liverpool and Chelsea,
who were victorious as well.
The third round of Carling Cup continues on Wednesday night and some memorable moments occurred
on the day especially for Manchester City fans as they witnessed the return of injury plagued Owen
Hargreaves, who made a memorable comeback with a special goal.
The ex Manchester United player's goal helped his team to beat the Cup's defending Champion,
Birmingham City, a result which was followed by other top premiership sides, Liverpool and Chelsea,
who were victorious as well.
Despite the urged from many people in acquiring an experienced and established star for his
team, Arsene Wenger, still consistent with his youth policy especially with the arrival of another
young talents, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
The 17-years-old England under 21 international, cost Arsenal around 12 million pound plus 3
million bonuses, although it's pretty steep number for a pretty unexperienced youngster, Wenger
seems delighted with the purchase and confident over Oxlade-Chamberlain's future with the
Gunners.
Well that's what The Mirror believe with their article that has appeared in the paper and online
this morning.
The article believes that due to Stoke's physical approach to the game, Drogba will be given the
nod and Torres will be a substitute. Now as usual we have to remember this is the British press we
are talking about here.
MOSCOW, Russia — Former Dutch international skipper Ruud Gullit was appointed on Tuesday coach of
Russian Premier League club Terek Grozny, local media reported. The 48-year-old has previously
coached English Premiership sides Chelsea and Newcastle United along with Dutch giants Feyenoord
and MLS club Los Angeles Galaxy.
Premiership sides Chelsea, Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers will spend part of the 2011 summer
training and competing in Hong Kong as the three clubs, along with the champion of the HK First
Division League, will battle in a four-team tournament for the Asia Trophy.
Asia has proved fertile training grounds for clubs as they prepare for upcoming Premiership seasons
and the these three will ready for the 2011-2012 Premier League Season in Hong Kong.
With the Emirates Cup now taken care of, and only a trip to Poland between now and the start of
the Premier League season, the Arsenal squad is starting to take shape. Of course you've got the
likes of Cesc Fabregas, Robin Van Persie and Thomas Vermaelen, three players who will need to be at
the peak of their powers if the Gunners are to mount a serious assault on the major honors this
season, but I want to focus on those who will be trying to establish themselves in the squad for
that opening trip to Anfield.
Dutch striker Klass-Jan Huntelaar has finally spoken out about his future, and Premier League
fans are excited that he has revealed that he would love to land in the Premiership. The AC Milan
striker has long been linked with Premiership sides such as Manchester United, Arsenal, and
Tottenham, and after leaving Real Madrid for AC Milan he has failed to see his career take off.
One remembers Shola Ameobi as a talented goalscorer before a series of injuries consigned him to
the wilderness before he came back last season with some big goals that helped gain promotion for
Newcastle. Well he is back and with a bang. Today, he scored two goals including a stoppage time
winner against Chelsea in their Carling Cup fixture.
I hope everyone had a great new year, but now their is work to be done and New Year'sÂ
Resolutions to be kept especially for Premiership sides and footballers...
10. Come to the realisation that you are not a ‘gangsta', far from it, you are a footballer
Visually we have You're boy, Ferdinand and Nigel Reo Cooker to prove my point.
When Iker Casillas raised the World Cup high in the Johannesburg sky and the streamers and
cheers rocketed around the Soccer City Stadium, the English public set down their suppers and dug
out the replica shirts and scarfs they had hidden away for a month and anticipated pre-season.
