Huge day for Stole City as they spent around £20million, including a club-record fee of £10million for Spurs striker Peter Crouch. In addition to Crouch, Stoke also signed midfielder Wilson Palacios and forward Cameron Jerome. The Crouch deal could even rise to £12million dependent on the fulfilment of various clauses. “These fantastic deals are a statement […]
Premier League
It would not be a transfer deadline without a surprise Liverpool and Chelsea deal. In January it was Torres going to Chelsea and this transfer window is was the sale of Raul Meireles to Chelsea for around £12m, who has signed at four-year deal with Chelsea. Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas worked briefly with the Portugal […]
Big move today by Tottenham have have signed England midfielder Scott Parker from West Ham for about £5m. The move comes after the 30-year-old handed in a transfer request on Tuesday, stating that he wished to play in the Premier League. Parker, who joined West Ham from Newcastle for £7m in 2007, was named Football […]
Arsenal fans have been asking Arsene Wenger to sign a center-half now all summer and it appears that the Gunners have finally done that. The surprise is that it is Germany centre-back Per Mertesacker and not England center-half Gary Cahill. It appears that the Cahill deal is dead (will be interesting if he signs at […]
There were goals aplenty for some of Europe’s leading clubs this weekend as both halves of Manchester celebrated big wins, Real Madrid kicked off the Liga season with a 6-0 win and PSV Eindhoven racked up half a dozen strikes of their own. Premier League Manchester United were rampant as they handed a depleted Arsenal […]
The center of football in England is in Manchester as Wayne Rooney scored a hat-trick as Manchester United thrashed Arsenal 8-2 at Old Trafford and Edin Džeko scored four as Manchester City beat Spurs 5-1 at White Hart Lane. Manchester City were impressive in the early kick-off as Edin Dzeko scored four times as he […]
Inspired by a tremendous performance again by Luis Suarez, produced an electrifying performance at Anfield, Liverpool beat 3-1 to move top of the Premier League. Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam scored their first Liverpool goals and with Downing and Suarez in terrific form, Kenny Dalglish has his Liverpool side is looking very much like Champions […]
Lionel Messi has been voted the inaugural winner of the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award. The Barcelona forward finished ahead of club-mate Xavi Hernández and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo in a poll of sports journalists representing each of the UEFA member associations. Messi, the overwhelming winner, collected his prize at the UEFA Champions League […]
Liverpool gave Kenny Dalglish his 200th win in charge of the club as Luis Suarez inspired a comfortable 3-1 Carling Cup second-round victory over Exeter at St James Park. The Uruguayan grabbed the opener after 23 minutes as he volleyed home, before teeing up Maxi Rodriguez and substitute Andy Carroll to put a seal on […]