Charlie Davies's road to recovery finally appears that it's getting closer to the end as the striker has been selected into the matchday 18 for Saturday's game at Stade Rennes.

Mais uma vez, o Campeonato Africano das Nações vai disputar-se numa altura em que a maioria dos principais campeonatos europeus se encontra em pleno andamento. A Ligue 1 francesa volta a ser a competição mais afetada pela chamada de internacionais dos mais variados países que participam na prova que arranca amanhã.

FIFA Club World Cup on Fox Soccer: Barcelona - Al Saad at 5:30am. Europa League on GolTV: Hannover 96 - Vorskla Potlava at 1pm and Atletico Madrid - Rennes at 3pm. All Times Eastern

Dopo le emozioni del San Paolo, con il pirotecnico 3 a 3 nel recupero di Serie A stasera tocca all'Europa League, con la quinta giornata della fase a gironi. Dalle gare delle 18 (anche alle 19) ai match in programma alle 21, sono tante le sfide da non perdere. Tra le squadre impegnate c'è ancheContinua a leggere .

All eyes will be on Asamoah Gyan at the upcoming African Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in January as he attempts to help Ghana go one better than their second place finish two years ago.
The Ghanaian striker was voted African player of the year in 2010 and was one of the players to make the biggest impact on the World Cup in South Africa as he helped his side become only the third African country to make the quarter-finals of the tournament.

Arsene Wenger has been an admirer of the French international midfielder Yoann Gourcuff for many years, since he was a youth player at Rennes in fact, but currently the 25 year-old is languishing on the bench at Lyon and the French press are reporting that Arsenal have arranged a deal with the French giants to [.

Bad luck. Just about to start the biggest game of this fall, and possibly of this season, Olympique Lyonnais is in disarray. After a promising start to the season, both in the game and in the mindset, OL is so far in a series of three defeats, regardless of the competition. Rémi Garde's men are ineffective upfront and fragile behind.

Lyon vs Rennes 1-2 Highlights Video 2011 OL SRFC is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

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Jonathan Pitroipa's transfer to Rennes in Summer 2011 immediately looked a very shrewd piece of business when the Burkina Faso international took to Ligue 1 like a duck to water, instantly endearing himself to supporters with his dazzling pace and trickery down both flanks and a hugely welcome, late, point-rescuing goal against Paris-Saint Germain in a 1-1 draw early in the season.

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Just Football was recently invited to PUMA's African football 2012 kit launch at the Design Museum in London. While there we were able to mingle and chat with various stars of the African football world.

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Just Football was recently invited to PUMA's African football 2012 kit launch at the Design Museum in London. While there we were able to mingle and chat with various stars of the African football world.

Rennes midfielder Yann M'Vila deserves to play in a big club according to team-mate Abdou Kader Mangane. Speaking to Goal.com, the 28-year old was full of praise for his friend as he declared that his dream ...

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This week was full of funny and strange incidents, that I think worth assigning a full post for them.
I will start by a very stupid unintentional behavior by this player:
And thanks to cameras to uncover many of players deceiving behaviors of like Aurélien Chedjou from Lille vs.

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The third round of the Europa League group stage is underway, and there are a handful of intriguing matches on tap.

Udinese and Atletico Madrid are set to do battle in one of Thursday's top matches, while Celtic's road game against Stade Rennes is another to keep an eye on. Several Americans could also see the field today, including defenders Steve Cherundolo and Jonathan Spector.

Spurs continue to be linked to a number of African strikers and the latest of these is 26 year old Senegalese Moussa Sow. Currently at Lille, Sow has 12 caps for his country scoring five goals to date and his performances this season have caught the eye of a number of scouts across Europe.

If you go on all the different Arsenal forums the same names keep cropping up as who the fans would love to see come to the club. One of those names is Yann M'Vila of Rennes, and today reports in France suggest that Arsenal are planning to break their club record transfer with a fresh [...]

Continua a vincere l'Udinese di Guidolin. I bianconeri, con un pizzico di fortuna (gli avversari finiscono i cambi e sono costretti in dieci per un infortunio ad un giocatore), piega per 2 a 1 il Rennes, grazie alla rete di Armero nel finale e conquista i tre punti nella prima sfida di Europa League, competizione [.

Continua a vincere l'Udinese di Guidolin. I bianconeri, con un pizzico di fortuna (gli avversari finiscono i cambi e sono costretti in dieci per un infortunio ad un giocatore), piega per 2 a 1 il Rennes, grazie alla rete di Armero nel finale e conquista i tre punti nella prima sfida di Europa League, competizione [.

FC Sion is a small club from a small Swiss town, one which only harbors under 30,000 inhabitants. And yet, they seem to be single-handedly taking on and defeating UEFA in perhaps the fall's most intriguin football sideshow outside of Who Wants A Beckham? (PSG is, yes, the perfect fit.)

After being booted from Europe by UEFA for fielding ineligible playesr, they've gone to court to take them on, and in the process, beat them.

FC Sion is a small club from a small Swiss town, one which only harbors under 30,000 inhabitants. And yet, they seem to be single-handedly taking on and defeating UEFA in perhaps the fall's most intriguin football sideshow outside of Who Wants A Beckham? (PSG is, yes, the perfect fit.)

After being booted from Europe by UEFA for fielding ineligible playesr, they've gone to court to take them on, and in the process, beat them.

El Atlético de Madrid ha sido el mejor equipo del mundo en agosto, según la clasificación que elabora la Federación Internacional de Historia y Estadística del Fútbol (IFFHS). Las puntuaciones más altas de todo el mundo en el pasado mes las alcanzaron el Viktoria Plzen (48), el Rennes (46), el Bayern de Múnich (40), el Botafogo (40) y el BATE Borisov (39), pero todos tuvieron una derrota en partido de competición y quedaron descartados para la selección como mejor club del mundo.

El Atlético de Madrid ha sido el mejor equipo del mundo en agosto, según la clasificación que elabora la Federación Internacional de Historia y Estadística del Fútbol (IFFHS). Las puntuaciones más altas de todo el mundo en el pasado mes las alcanzaron el Viktoria Plzen (48), el Rennes (46), el Bayern de Múnich (40), el Botafogo (40) y el BATE Borisov (39), pero todos tuvieron una derrota en partido de competición y quedaron descartados para la selección como mejor club del mundo.

Celtic will play in this seasons Europa League after UEFA chose to suspend FC Sion for fielding ineligible players. The result of UEFA's investigation process will be a huge relief to the hierarchy at Celtic, who faced a huge financial loss by not playing in Europe this season.

Arsene Wenger is closing in on £8million Germany defender Per Mertesacker and has completed a £6.2m deal for Brazil left-back Andre dos Santos and there are reportedly more signings on the way.

At least Mertesacker is a Gooner. Back ion 2004 he said: "Since I was small I was an Arsenal fan.

Eden's balls might prove a hazard to other clubs

Arsene Wenger is making his much awaited push for getting quality into the Emirates by offering £22m for highly rated holding midfielder Yann M'Vila. Rennes had rejected his initial bid of £15m.

Can't see how they can reject an offer that increases the initial amount by almost 50%.

Arsene Wenger bids £22m for Yann M'Vila

Arsenal are ready to make an improved bid of £22million for Rennes star Yann M'Vila as Arsene Wenger desperately looks for a solution to his midfield crisis.

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Transfer Rumors: Nasri Is The Man For City - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

For much of the summer, Arsene Wenger had to field questions about the futures of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri, trying to ward off the speculation and likelihood that arguably Arsenal's two best players would be leaving the Emirates Stadium this summer.

Rennes midfielder Yann M'Vila has been linked with Arsenal

Arsene Wenger might finally bring in a late cavalry charge to add quality to the midfield.

Yann M'Vila the highly rated holding midfielder from Rennes is a £15million target, although there are reports of Rennes denying any such link.

By Rumour Monger

According to the Guardian, Arsenal have opened talks with Rennes over a move for their £12 million-rated holding midfielder Yann M'Vila a player who has been attracting a fair amount of interest after establishing himself in the France national side over the course of the past year or so.

Morning all.

A big week lies ahead, pivotal, you might say, both for the club and for Arsene Wenger. Champions League qualification against Udinese will be first on the agenda, then it's Manchester United at Old Trafford. I'm not looking any further than the game in Italy at this stage. We can worry about the champions as and when it's necessary.

France's first choice holding midfielder, Yann M'Vila of Stade Rennais F.C. (Rennes), is reported to be a transfer target for Arsenal FC of England's Premier League. And "reported" is meant with its traditional connotation of assumed validity, coming from David Hytner in the Guardian. The Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, is [read more]

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish remains reluctant to agree to the sale of David N'Gog to Bolton Wanderers.
The Liverpool boss wants a replacement identified and brought to Anfield before he will allow N'Gog to head to the Reebok Stadium and join Owen Coyle's side.
But the Reds are not yet clear on who might land at Anfield, with South Korea striker Park Chu-Young, despite being desperate for a switch, not yet the source of agreement on Merseyside.

Newcastle are hoping to make progress in the striker stakes this week, and the surprise news today is they have not yet given up on getting Mevlut Erdinc to Tyneside. Erdinc - Newcastle still have hopes of getting this lad Erdinc was a sub in PSG's 1-1 draw at Rennes, when former Newcastle target Kevin [.

Newcastle are hoping to make progress in the striker stakes this week, and the surprise news today is they have not yet given up on getting Mevlut Erdinc to Tyneside. Erdinc - Newcastle still have hopes of getting this lad Erdinc was a sub in PSG's 1-1 draw at Rennes, when former Newcastle target Kevin [.

Here's Laurent Blanc's selection for the friendly on Wednesday in Montpellier against Chile:

Goalkeepers
Hugo Lloris (Lyon)
Cedric Carrasso (Bordeaux)
Steve Mandanda (Marseille)

Defenders
Eric Abidal (Barcelona)
Patrice Evra (Manchester United)
Younes Kaboul (Tottenham)
Adil Rami (Valencia)
Anthony Reveillere (Lyon)
Bacary Sagna (Arsenal)
Mamadou Sakho (PSG)

Midfielders
Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle)
Alou Diarra (Marseille)
Yann M'Vila (Rennes)
Florent Malouda (Chelsea)
Marvin Martin (Sochaux)
Blaise Matuidi (PSG)
Samir Nasri (Arsenal)
Jeremy Menez [read more]

Paris Saint-Germain have shattered the French transfer record by signing playmaker Javier Pastore from Palermo for €42m.

The fee for the Argentinian international, who has signed a five-year contract, eclipses the €33.5m PSG paid to Real Madrid CF for Nicolas Anelka in 2000

Qatar Sports Investments bought a 70% stake in PSG on 30 June and quickly installed former Inter Milan coach Leonardo as general manager.

Worried. Rarely have Lyon supporters felt so worried before the start of the championship. Worried that, for the first time in over ten years, their club might not be on the podium come the last game of the season. Indeed, Ligue 1 observers now seem to predominantly place Lyon in the outsiders category, with Paris, Marseille and Lille being the favourites for the podium.

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