I thought Daniel Levy was the Tottenham Hotspur Chairman? I was mistaken. It now seems that Mr. Pavlyuchenko is the Chairman of the Board.
"I am prepared to accept any decent offer from Russia", said our new Chairman.
Coming back to reality; it looks as though our Cameron Diaz lookalike is so eager to leave us, he's bypassed all forms of control at White Hart Lane. Click to continue reading...

Caught Offside has the following breaking transfer rumours,
Liverpool Linked with Move for £8m Dazzling Brazilian Playmaker Hernanes
Liverpool to Make Shock £12m January Raid for Cole: Intelligent Bit of Business
Liverpool Could Sign £13m Playmaker Rafael Van der Vaart
I had expressed my wish list previously during the August 31 transfer deadline and Liverpool are reportedly willing to splash the cash to get Brazilian midfield schemer, Hernanes. Click to continue reading...

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Roman Pavlyuchenko's agent has admitted that his client is set to hold talks with Zenit St Petersburg.

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It was a bad week for West Ham. In the wake of the Battle at Boleyn, the English Football Association had decided to charge West Ham with four offences and the club has 14 days to respond to these charges. Hopefully the punishment will be justified rather than just an publicity attempt by the FA chairman to set an example. Click to continue reading...

Perusing the press and blogs this morning, last nights victory over West Ham has in the main been described as a solid and functional victory - precisely the type of win that we should be putting together from our hour games, where three points should be the norm.
This view though both glosses over some of the inadequacies that were shown, but equally fails to offer praise where deserved. Click to continue reading...

In the wake of relegation from the Premier League, Bryan Robson had just one aim for the 1997-1998 Season: promotion at all costs.

The £5million signing of Arsenal's Paul Merson signalled this intent, but as transfer deadline day approached promotion was anything but certain. Robson decided to dig in to the chairman's pockets with a further four major signings: Paul Gascoigne, Marco Branca, Alun Armstrong and the enigmatic Columbian Hamilton Ricard.

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Gary Smith and the Colorado Rapids coaching staff don't look to have been able to snatch an extra player to add to their decimated ranks in time to beat the September 15th transfer deadline. It did seem a little bit of a stretch for the team to be able to secure a midfielder that would fit both short and long-term needs. Click to continue reading...

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September 1 2009 should be a date all Liverpool fans remember. Transfer deadline day was the time when it became abundantly clear that cash really is in short supply at Anfield.
Rafa Benitez had of course hinted as much in recent weeks as he played down the chances of making any more acquisitions before the window slammed shut. Click to continue reading...

Crawley are the latest club to introduce 'variable' admission prices after Kettering and Stevenage's new price initiatives' in the last 12 months. Crawley have 'banded' their games so that games against teams like Histon and Salisbury will be a lower price than 'premium' games against the likes of Cambridge and ourselves.

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When the £80m transfer deal for Cristiano Ronaldo was confirmed United fans were writing out their shopping list of players they wanted Sir Alex Ferguson sign. We could do with another winger, another central midfielder, another striker, maybe a right-back, but our transfer kitty meant we could buy as many players as we wanted.

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By Guest writer Thomas Rooney Transfer deadline day may have come and gone, but Barcelona are confident of making one more signing in the not too distant future. This is because Carlos Puyol is set to extend his stay at... Click to continue reading...

The men running League One strugglers Southend United will come under 'intense' scrutiny at the Blues' Annual General Meeting tonight (Thursday), amidst growing unrest from fans.
On Tuesday the Shrimpers decided to offload two players - Alex Revell (aboved) and Kevin Betsy (below) - on loan deals to Swindon and Wycombe respectively. Click to continue reading...

Done deal.

Hull City have signed former Celtic striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink.

The Dutchman has signed a two-year deal at the KC Stadium after passing a medical and agreeing personal terms.

Vennegoor of Hesselink is able to join Hull outside the transfer window as he is a free agent after being released by Celtic earlier this summer.

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The Daily Mirror is reporting today that Aston Villa striker Marlon Harewood is set to join Newcastle United on loan next week. Marlon Harewood - on loan to Newcastle And since we've learned more about the Championship transfer deadline and loan sytem, there seems no reason why Newcastle can't be working their loan deals right now, and [. Click to continue reading...

At 16:44 on transfer deadline day - i.e. when the frequency of transfers is supposed to be at its highest, Uefa announced - presumably trying to bury the story amongst all the transfers - that they were banning Eduardo for two matches for diving.
Of course its ridiculous, but I think a comprehensive analysis is necessary just to show up how preposterous this punishment is. Click to continue reading...

Gary Smith is a very patient and a very open and friendly guy who also has the ruthlessness in him that is needed to succeed in professional sport. He has shown that time and again in molding this team how he wants it. Witness the controversial decison to waive fan favorite Terry Cooke among other moves. Click to continue reading...

Iain Dale, a celebrity West Ham supporter since 1974, has an engaging blog on the Hammers - West Ham Till I Die. In there, Iain had set up a very nice voting panel after each match for visitors to the blog to rate the players performance for that match. The condition set was that only those who actually watched the match live and/or on TV shall vote. Click to continue reading...

There is something hugely entertaining about Transfer Deadline Day.

After nearly four months to assemble their squad, clubs scramble around like a panicking teenager on the day before a new term, desperately trying to source uniform, books and a geometry set at short notice, whilst starting the homework they have had six weeks to complete.

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The solution to the above question is simple. You sign his Croatian counterpart Niko Kranjcar.
On a strangely quiet transfer deadline day, the usual unfounded Tottenham rumours abounded: Hutton's leaving. Bale's leaving. We're signing a second rate centre back (Anton Ferdinand, in this case). Click to continue reading...

As the transfer deadline drew to a close it seems French Side Monaco may have stolen the show with the move of the summer. While the big money moved the likes of Robben, CR7 and Kaka, it was the shock signing of Icelander Eidur Gudjohnsen for a measly amount of 2M Euros that may turn out to be the biggest return on investment

Yes 2M Euros, it's not a lot of money for a player of this pedigree.

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I feel disappointed and somewhat annoyed of how Arsene Wenger seems it liable to sell two main players this transfer window and bring in one (Thomas Vermaelen) as a like for like replacement. If Arsenal want to challenge for all trophies this season we needed a better squad, and without a doubt needed another CB.

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... go into hiding Bayern Munich defender Christian Lell came up with an ingenious plan to avoid a move to Stoke City. The 25-year-old went into hiding until the transfer window was safely shut and his proposed move to the Potteries scuppered. Tony Pulis was keen to meet Bayern's £3 million asking price, but the player himself [. Click to continue reading...

In the end, it was a damp squib of a transfer deadline day, hyped to the nines but delivering nothing of interest, and nothing at all for Arsenal.

The whole absurd day, which has become a newspaper-selling website-hitting phenomenon all of its own, with Sky Sports News the very worst culprit, is summed up for me by this one entry from the Guardian's live transfer deadline day page:

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Transfer deadline day came and went with no movement in or out at Arsenal - which wasn't really a surprise at all. There were rumours but when the most realistic piece of gossip comes from some twat texting the BBC claiming to be a security guard at Highbury House you know you're dealing with complete nonsense.

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Arsenal striker Eduardo has been suspended for two matches for his dive during Arsenal's recent UEFA Champions League victory against Celtic last week. He will now miss the first two matches of the group stage.

Eduardo was punished for pretending to be taken down by Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc on a play that earned Arsenal a penalty kick.

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Arsenal striker Eduardo has been suspended for two matches for his dive during Arsenal's recent UEFA Champions League victory against Celtic last week. He will now miss the first two matches of the group stage.

Eduardo was punished for pretending to be taken down by Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc on a play that earned Arsenal a penalty kick.

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Germany's Mario Gomez gladly lets an employee of the sports medicine university Saarbruecken take an ear blood sample. Perhaps a little too gladly...

And yes, the fact that you're looking at a picture of a grinning Mario Gomez give ear blood is definitely a clue as to how horribly boring today's transfer deadline was.

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Usually if you are stuck at work on deadline day it can be an immensely frustrating time without Sky Sports News to keep you upto speed on the latest news, rumours and deals. Today however, if you missed the deadline coverage, consider yourself fortunate indeed.
Today, especially with the deadline being 5pm, transfer deadline day was as damp a squib as the Twenty20 games at Old Trafford. Click to continue reading...

After two months, the transfer window has today slammed shut. What a transfer window, eh?
Obviously the big spenders in the Premier League were Manchester City, spending over £115 million. Mark Hughes was certainly given to freedom to spend money left, right and centre, building almost a fantasy football team in the process. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham Hotspur sealed the deal on arguably the best value buy on transfer deadline today after securing the services of Croatian midfield maestro Niko Kranjcar from Premier League rivals Portsmouth. The 25 year old international completed a move thought to be in the region of just £2 million in the final moments of English football's famously frantic deadline day. Click to continue reading...

We still await for official confirmation from either ourselves or Aston Villa with regards to the signing of Richard Dunne, with the Premier League yet to ratify the move (although the FA are believed to be satisfied all is in order).
The sticking point as far as we are led to believe was down to the potential pay off from the club that Dunne may be set to receive, but although there is still the possibility the deal will not be completed, I have been informed from a very reliable source the deal will be confirmed and Dunne will become an Aston Villa player. Click to continue reading...

Unlike last year, when summer transfer deadline day saw some records broken and millions upon millions of pounds change hands, things were a lot quieter this time around.

But as always, it's just as much about who didn't move as it is about who did move, and there were plenty of misses to go with the hits.

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We waited with bated breath, following weeks of anticipation, even though the outcome was almost inevitable. Despite rumours of several incoming loans and transfers, today's 5pm transfer deadline passed with only one addition to the squad and undoubtedly the biggest positive most fans took from today was that it appears that we managed to keep [. Click to continue reading...