Month: June 2009

As we move closer to the start of the season, it’s at this stage that fans start analysing the squad list, namely which players to sign and who of the…

The transfer news and rumors aren’t as plentiful tonight as they were in the morning, but sometimes, it’s about quality, not quantity, and in tonight’s roundup, we’ve got a couple…

England has a lot to look forward these days when it comes football. With the senior squad all but assured a place in next year’s World Cup and the U-21’s…

Bolton Wanderers captain Kevin Davies is reportedly a transfer target for Bolton’s Lancashire rivals Blackburn Rovers. Davies endured a (very) difficult season for the Rovers way back in 1998/99 after…

So Arsène Wenger has done it again. Not content with making one big money, straight-to-first-team signing this year, he has gone and produced another. The need for a new centre…

In case you may have missed anything over the weekend, we’ve got a nice fresh batch of transfer news and rumors to deliver bright and early this morning. In the…

The second coming of Florentino Perez should not be judged on what big name stars he brings to the Santiago Bernabeu. His ability to attract the world’s best has never…

In the first half of a month which has seen Real Madrid twice break the football record for player transfer fees paid, the news that World cup winning Brazilian coach…

The 35 year old midfielder from Wales Ryan Giggs has been playing for Manchester United since 1991 (came to the United youth academy in 1987 from Manchester City). So, it…

It’s been a busy week in the transfers world, and just because it’s the weekend doesn’t mean that there’s going to be a break of any sort. Today’s transfer news…

The Premier League has terminated its license agreement with Setanta Sports for 09-10 Premier League matches after Setanta failed to meet the Friday deadline for making payments due to the…

When American soccer players discover they have the athletic prowess to play overseas, they go, and we encourage their choice. But when American soccer fans choose to ignore MLS, its…

After taking a few weeks of the 2009 Major League Soccer season to get going, Houston Dynamo rose to the top of the table last weekend as their remarkable run…

The transfer news isn’t as plentiful today as it has been in the last several days, but there are still some big names in the gossip pages today. Manchester United…

How times have changed for Michael Owen. The former undisputed golden boy of English football, feared by defenders throughout the World and lauded by Europe’s biggest clubs, is, if growing…

The USA under-performed or were outclassed (depending on your point of view) by Brazil in today’s Confederations Cup clash, with Brazil putting 3 goals past the Americans.

Florentino Pérez doesn’t do things by halves. Neither do Real Madrid. For most clubs, a season finishing second only to a magisterial Barcelona side in La Liga, and suffering an…

Ever since Patrick Vieira left Arsenal for Juventus, in the summer of 2005, there has been a void in Arsenal’s midfield enforcer role. Sure, Gilberto Silva helped clean things up…

As the main protagonists of last summer’s transfer sagas settled for early moves in this year’s annual ritual of transfer trials and tribulations so now the next big transfer saga…

Did you know that a player’s teeth could cause a transfer to collapse? I didn’t, but apparently that’s the case with potential AC Milan signing Aly Cissokho, who could be…

They echo throughout fields all over the UK during the football season, and on many occasions have been known to give players a lift. I’m talking about football chants.  From…

The 2009/2010 English Premier League fixtures list was announced earlier today. The Premier League kicks off on Saturday, 15th August 2009 with Tottenham taking on Liverpool at White Hart Lane…

With the credit crunch and the ever increasing debt in football, this summer looks set to be filled with a lot of high profile club buyouts. West Ham have recently…

In a summer bereft of football, the release of fixture lists this week provide some form of respite for fans starved of action. Away trips are plotted, long weekends at…

The other shoe has finally dropped. Real Madrid have put up nine players for sale, including their whole Dutch contingent. Joining Heinze, Saviola and Mahamadou Diarra on the transfer list…

We’re already in the middle of June, and though the signings haven’t been coming hard and fast just yet, that doesn’t mean that there’s a shortage of action thus far…

USA scored the first goal but at 10 men down and playing against the World Champions was never going to be an easy task, and Italy duly equalised and then…