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Arsenal close in on Andrei Arshavin
Published 30 hours ago by j at Russian Football Federation Blog
... all account Zenit have maintained a hard-line stance with £20m needed to take the Russian international to the north London club from beautiful Saint Petersburg. With Arsenal now falling out of the top four in the table, three points behind Aston Villa, they are assumed to be more receptive to the deal. Whether the Gunners are the alone in England bidding on his services is another thing as with Tottenham’s £15m purchase of Jermain Defoe from Portsmouth is likely to leave them out sufficient funds for the Zenit sharp-shooter. Zenit ...

Milan 1 Chievo 0
Published 11/17/2008 by Gianfranco at AC Milan
... off the bench and his inclusion in the last 30 minutes can turn the tides for Milan while he gets back on form. I am by no means considering a permanent move, but just a game or two here in there will keep Ricky fresh and possibly build his confidence in himself and the squad again. Then again maybe there is more going on here than we have all been led to believe…I will cover that later this week… The next three matches, all away from home against Palermo, Portsmouth, and Torino are pivotal considering the difficult December to come. These ...

No League Matches, Let’s Do the Taça Dance
Published 11/7/2008 by Greg at Portugal Football League
Sorry I didn’t get to a recap of the league this week. I’ll throw one up sometime next week. The aforementioned domestic competition is taking the weekend off for Round Seven Bazillion of the Taça de Portugal (the Cup of Portugal). Not to be confused with the Carlsberg (mmmm) Cup or the Cup of Life, this particular tournament is basically tantamount to the Coppa Italia in (you guessed it) Italy and the FA Cup in Inglaterra. Ours is just far uglier. Most of these matches are rather meh, with the exception of the massively large ...

UEFA Cup draw - The going gets tough(er)
Published 10/7/2008 by Martini Extra Dry at Aston Villa
... Manchester City Racing Santander Twente Group B: Benfica Olympiakos Galatasaray Hertha Berlin Metalist Kharkiv Group C: Seville Stuttgart Sampdoria Partizan Belgrade Standard Liege Group D: Tottenham Spartak Moscow Udinese Dinamo Zagreb NEC Nijmegen Group E: AC Milan Heerenveen SC Braga Portsmouth Wolfsburg Group F: Hamburg Ajax Slavia Prague ...

DFB-Pokal Round of 16 and UEFA Cup Group Stage Draw
Published 10/7/2008 by Jan at Bundesliga
... Sevilla - Stuttgart 06.11.08 Stuttgart - Partizan 27.11.08 Sampdoria - Stuttgart 03.12.08 - 17.12.08 Stuttgart - Standard de Liege A though group for Stuttgart and to make matters worse, they aren’t even getting any of the revenue guaranteeing home games against Sevilla and/or Sampdoria. Stuttgart will probably just hope to get out of the group. Group E: AC Milan (ITA), SC Heerenveen (NED), SC Braga (POR), Portsmouth FC (ENG), VfL Wolfsburg (GER) 23.10.08 - 06.11.08 ...

Premier League 2008/9 Picks - Week 1
Published 8/15/2008 by Daryl at The Offside
... today (or possibly vice versa) but Sunderland are looking a lot better and will give Rafa’s men a tough time at the Stadium of Light by equalizing in the last ten minutes. West Ham 1-1 Wigan Amr Zaki might live up to his billing as the world’s best striker (source: FIFA ) with a debut goal, but Dean Ashton will live up to his billing as the best injury prone bleach blond receding hairline striker in East London and score the equalizer. Chelsea 1-0 Portsmouth Frank Lampard to celebrate his new contract with the only goal of the game. From the ...

Pedro Mendes to Rangers?
Published 8/15/2008 by j at Rangers
The BBC is reporting that Portsmouth have accepted a offer in the range of £3m for twenty-nine year-old midfielder Pedro Mendes. Walter Smith commented: “He’s very good technically and I hope he will come and improve us,” said Rangers manager Walter Smith. “He is a really good all-round midfield player. I will update this situation as further information is available.

Louis Saha?
Published 7/27/2008 by j at Paris St Germain
... natural competitive urge of a champion athlete looking for more playing time he has always given every indication that he would like to maintain a strong relationship with the club. Equally the club wishes to maintain a strong tie with him, long after his playing days are over and to have a better connection to all of French Football. Sir Alex, who behind the scenes builds tremendous grassroots relationships, was more than annoyed when Gaël N’Lundulu of the PSG Academy went to Portsmouth and knows full-well that much of the problem relates to its crumbling relationship ...

So…an actual game.
Published 7/17/2008 by Matt at Celtic
... job. The Saints hovered in and out of the relegation zone all year but stayed afloat on the last day of the season after a 3-2 victory over Sheffield United. It hasn’t been an exciting offseason for the Saints, with homegrown bean poll Peter Crouch possibly being sold to arch rivals Portsmouth. However, it is not all bad with the Crouch transfer as Southampton as set to bank 500,000 from the sale. ...

3 Marseillais in Raymond Domenech’s first list…
Published 5/18/2008 by Magnusson at Olympique Marseille
... ( Fiorentina ) Steve Mandanda (Marseille) DEFENDERS : Eric Abidal ( 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 ...

What The Rent Boys Are Up To
Published 3/17/2008 by Inara at Lyon
... | March 16th, 2008 Currently, Lyon have FIVE players out on loan and one playing for them. So let’s check on their progress, shall we? Milan Baros - 6 month loan to Portsmouth . Baros is enjoying regular playing time at Portsmouth, and though he has yet to score, he’s already notched two assists (against Chelsea and Manchester United), won a penalty (against Aston Villa), and essentially created two other goals (against Birmingham). He’s started six out of the last nine games and was subbed in for another two. Baros sweats his new team. For comparison’s sake, Baros ...