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Transfer Talk: Eto’o to Madrid, Muntari’s Left Foot to Inter and Medication for Calderon
Published 39 hours ago by Daryl at The Offside
... than they quoted the Reds. Doesn’t make great financial sense, but for £5m Juande Ramos 1) gets to screw over Fergie and 1) won’t have to face Berbatov twice a season. Jose Mourinho looks to have given up on his romantic reunion with Chelsea ’s Frank Lampard Jnr. happening this season, and so has instead ...

and more to come
Published 4 days ago by j at Paris St Germain
It doesn’t stop at Claude Makélélé’s arrival today as William Gallas, formerly of Caen, l’OM, Chelsea and now Arsenal is quite openly on the agenda of Paul Le Guen. There has been no formal contact as of yet but when questioned today of French International, Charles Villeneuve, wryly smiled that while he has not heard from him he would wait and welcome his phone-call. With further discussion of another major signing on the horizon, rumours swirling of another Striker being signed with the names of ...

Who’s Going to the 2008 Euro?
Published 5/29/2008 by Greg at Portugal Football League
... Porto — Bruno Alves, Defender (Portugal) / Ricardo Quaresma, Winger (Portugal) / Raul Meireles, Midfielder (Portugal) / Hélder Postiga, Striker (Portugal) / Bosingwa, Defender (Portugal). Notes: Postiga played part of the season on loan to Panathinaikos in Greece. Also, Bosingwa played the whole season for Porto but has since been sold to English side Chelsea (yay!) ...

3 Marseillais in Raymond Domenech’s first list…
Published 5/18/2008 by Magnusson at Olympique Marseille
... ( FC Barcelona ) Jean-Alain Boumsong ( Lyon ) François Clerc ( Lyon ) Julien Escudé ( FC Sevilla ) Patrice Evra ( Manchester United ) William Gallas ( Arsenal ) Philippe Mexès ( AS Roma ) Willy Sagnol ( Bayern Munich ) Lilian Thuram ( FC Barcelona ) Sébastien Squillaci ( Lyon ) MIDFIELDERS : Alou Diarra (Bordeaux) Lassana Diarra ( Portsmouth ) Mathieu Flamini ( Arsenal ) Claude Makelele ( Chelsea ) Jérémy Toulalan ( Lyon ) Patrick Vieira ( Inter Milan ) STRIKERS : ...

Wednesday Already?
Published 4/30/2008 by CSD at Liverpool
... I’m a little down that Barcelona couldn’t get past Man Utd, but not really surprised. You could tell from the passing alone that the players are not on the same page. I think they would have been entertaining to play in the final, should we progress, but Man Utd will do. They’re being touted as the best team in the world right now, so who better to crush? We just have to get through that pesky Russian team first. ...

Tug-O-War: Enough about players, now its bloggers turn
Published 4/21/2008 by Adam at Champions League
... we thought of an idea wherein we will invite bloggers from blogs of the teams involved in Champions League, to have an indirect small argument between the two sets of fans. We created small questionnaire for them and asked them to given everything to anything. This is the very 1st edition of upcoming tug-o-war contests between the bloggers. Off course you can also contribute in space given below under the title of comments. For this edition we have invited (claps?) our beloved Jack ( Chelsea blog ) and CSD ( ...

How do you say “We don’t need you” in swedish?
Published 1/16/2008 by Shazback at Stade Rennais
... Rennes have relied on their youth system to push out good players year in and year out. So buying players is still there, but they’re intended to “help” the team rather than “be” the team… Along with this change of policy, Rennes also made a few good transfers thanks to a cell that began to rely on “how well the player plays football” rather than “how much money is he worth” or “where does he play”… So we brought in a few players around 2002-2003 that included Cech (now of Chelsea fame) and Frei (now at ...