Ruud van Nistelrooy to Liverpool

Thursday, 11. 26. 2009  –  Category: La Liga, Liverpool, Premier League, Real Madrid

There aren’t many pictures of Ruud running with the ball…

After the Michael Owen mini saga this summer, it would make sense that another Real Madrid alumnus to embrace his former club’s bitterest rivals. In this instance one, R. van Nistelrooy, former ambassador of the Lorg Ferg’s Empire of Salford, and now benchwarmer that the [...]

Rafael van der Vaart to Liverpool

Thursday, 08. 20. 2009  –  Category: La Liga, Liverpool, Premier League, Real Madrid

The Times is really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one, even by their own admission: “…given that the Holland playmaker would cost about £10 million and Benítez has nearly exhausted his budget, there is little chance of a deal”. So no mention of sources and an admission that Liverpool don’t have the [...]

Nemanja Vidic to Barcelona : Update 1

Wednesday, 08. 19. 2009  –  Category: Barcelona, La Liga, Manchester United, Premier League

Yesterday, Paolo Fabbri, Vidic’s “advisor” alledgedly tells El Mundo Deportivo
“It would be a dream for Vidic to play for Barcelona, as he wants to play in La Liga.
“We have to take a close look at the situation but things are complicated right now. Manchester United have just lost Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez, and [...]

Sergio Aguero to Chelsea

Tuesday, 08. 18. 2009  –  Category: Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, La Liga, Premier League

Even the Sun doesn’t think this is too likely to happen, stating that “…the Spanish club fear a backlash from their fans if they sell Aguero, 21, so close to the start of the season.”.
This is likely to join the increasingly long list of failed targets for the Blues this season; Franck Ribery, Kaka, Alexandre [...]

David Silva to Manchester United

Tuesday, 07. 28. 2009  –  Category: La Liga, Manchester United, Premier League, Valencia

In spite of protests to the contrary, it’s really really difficult to believe that Fergie won’t be making at least 1 major purchase this season. The latest name being bandied about is Valencia’s David Silva.  Silva is a significant talent, and would fit in well in any team.  Given Ronaldo’s left, presumably Rooney is [...]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Barcelona

Monday, 07. 20. 2009  –  Category: Barcelona, Inter Milan, La Liga, Serie A

Well the horse has kind of bolted on this one, a bit of analysis is in order.  Ibrahimovic is a talented player, a phenomenally talented player, but his record implies he’s a bit of a flat track bully; he’s never scored in a European match and sometimes goes a little missing in big clashes in [...]

Carlos Puyol to Manchester City

Monday, 07. 6. 2009  –  Category: Barcelona, La Liga, Manchester City, Premier League

The Sun has managed to win our award for most ridiculous transfer rumour of 2009/10.  Honestly, either City’s buying pattern is based upon Fifa 08 on xBox, or the Sun is printing absolute bullshit.  Both are entirely believeable.
Even if this ridiculous situation were remotely conceiveable, there’s no way it would ever, ever happen.  To be [...]

Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona

Wednesday, 07. 1. 2009  –  Category: Arsenal, Barcelona, La Liga, Premier League

This rumour has the unfortunate potential to turn into the Gareth Barry to Liverpool Transfer Saga of 2009™.
To make things easier, let’s do a recap on the action to date:

September 2003: Fabregas signs as a 16 year old for Arsenal from Barcelona’s Youth Team
2002-3 Arsenal win Premier League
2004-5 Arsenal win Premier League
2005-6 Arsenal win nothing
2006-7 [...]

Samuel Eto’o to Manchester City : Update 1

Tuesday, 06. 30. 2009  –  Category: Barcelona, La Liga, Manchester City, Premier League

When we last covered this rumour, our assesment was that there was not much doing here; that it was likely the results of City’s quixotic quest to buy every single forward in the world and Eto’o’s agents trying to make some money by horse trading their prize asset.
Subsequent to those initial rumours, City have put [...]

Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid : Update 1

Monday, 06. 29. 2009  –  Category: La Liga, Liverpool, Premier League, Real Madrid

Hot off the presses in Madrid, comes a story which is going to pique the interest of Liverpool fans across the globe; that Alonso and Rafa Benitez are going to have a Soprano’s style “Sit Down” this week to determine the future of the Spanish maestro.  The story comes from AS, which means we can [...]

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