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Louis Saha out five weeks
Published 5 days ago by 21 at Everton FC
... uninterested and the club is investigating loan options. Although they are unlikely to pry Vágner Love from CSKA Moscow’s Vágner Love without a sizable offer they are trying to loan ...

Ivica Olić delivers payback
Published 11/24/2008 by Jackson at Werder Bremen
... from CSKA Moscow, Ivica Olić has become a fan favourite notably for his tough work-ethic and timely production. In the Nord derby today he not only settled the match with a explosive goal to give Hamburg the 2-1 victory but also served up a tidy bit of payback to Tim Wiese for his grievous foul last year. ...

Mateja Kežman update 4
Published 7/30/2008 by j at Paris St Germain
... Luis Aragonés is putting together a very impressive squad at Fenerbahçe and with many other deals in the offing and the market competition with Zenit St. Petersburg of the Russian Premier League interested as well, PSG will likely need to move higher or this deal will fall apart. ...

Russian League Commences Today
Published 3/14/2008 by chris at The Offside
... I was at this match,” said Viskhan Abubokarov, a 20-year-old student of Chechnya State University.“It shows that peaceful life has returned here. The war is over,” he said. Sometimes sport transcends mediums and makes an otherwise mundane occasion so special. Looking for bloggers The RPL is a rising league with many great squads, great players and, like above, great stories making their way into the big lights of European football, and we’re looking for bloggers - for the Russian League blog already up or any team blogs. If you’re interested then send an email to ...

Marseille gets the job done…
Published 2/14/2008 by Magnusson at Olympique Marseille
... | February 13th, 2008 On their first European match of the year, the Marseillais team had to face an always hard to manoeuver russian side of Spartak Moscow . In what will be one of the hardest weeks Eric Gerets has faced yet, Marseille started with a diminished squad ( Julien Rodriguez and Ronald Zubar , added to Karim Ziani ) and some returns ( Samir Nasri , Jacques Faty ad Mamadou Niang coming back from the African Cup of Nations. He played against Nice but he seemed tired at the end of that match). Gerets started up with a 4-4-2 that seems to be finally getting ...

Davai! Davai! Davai!
Published 2/27/2007 by Zach Dundas at Eleven Devils : A Football Blog
The awesome soccerblog constellation known as The Offside offers all kinds of specialized, enthusiast-driven coverage; winning the Eleven Devils/Komsomolets Order of the Achievements of the People's Economy today: the site's awesome Russian League blog. Molodets, tovarishi!