Not the greatest of starts for Villa, but that can be put down to the managerial mess that the club currently finds themselves in rather than the quality of squad. Anyway, here is my analysis on the 25-man squad that Villa have named …
Brad Friedel; Brad Guzan; James Collins; Carlos Cuellar; Curtis Davies; Habib Beye; Richard Dunne; Eric Lichaj; Stephen Warnock; Luke Young; Stewart Downing; Jonathan Hogg; Stephen Ireland; Isaiah ...
"And we're better than Germany, and Upson's world class..."
So, Mr. Capello. Your England “stars” play like Barcelona. Hmm. I understand that there’s a lot of pressure on you, and that you are constantly hounded by the media for nonsense quotes, and that your English is shite, but that, my friend, is ludicrous.
Let’s compare a cross-section of both sides. Milner, Lampard and Rooney versus Messi, Xavi and Villa (or Ibrahimovic/Bojan, if you ...
England kicks off their Euro 2012 qualification campaign tonight against Bulgaria at Wembley. The nation will be hoping for a good performance to go with a positive result. England crashed out of the World Cup at the last sixteen stage against the old enemy Germany. We all know things could have been different had Lampard’s clear goal been given, but that’s history now, they were poor all tournament.
Since then England have ...
Capello summed it up his England predicament perfectly with the words: “When you win, you’re the best. When you lose, you’re the worst”.
This statement certainly holds true for Capello, as everybody sang his praises when England walked through World Cup qualification under his stewardship.
Following Sven and Steve McClaren’s leniency, his disciplinarian management style was seen as exactly what was needed to get ...
Mancini: setto pressione (under pressure)
There’s no doubt that with all the millions spent by Roberto Mancini that City have got to win something this season. I’m not even sure an FA Cup would be considered good enough by the clubs owners. For all the money spent I would think they are expecting a Premiership trophy come the end of May. So here are the twenty five…..
Shay Given, Joe Hart, Stuart Taylor, ...
"Owen, you're in ... 'cos there's no-one else"
Edwin van der Sar, Tomasz Kuszczak, Gary Neville, Patrice Evra, Jonny Evans, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Nemanja Vidic, John O’Shea, Ritchie De Laet, Nani, Anderson, Ryan Giggs, Ji-Sung Park, Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes, Darren Fletcher, Antonio Valencia, Darron Gibson, Owen Hargreaves, Dimitar Berbatov, Wayne Rooney, Javier Hernandez, Michael Owen
The 25-man squads have all been named, then, with few high-profile casualties, it has to be ...
Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson seems to have made a stuttering start to his time on Merseyside, picking up 4 points in his first 3 league games. Although its very much early days and a lot could happy in the next 35 gamers, if Hodgson is to take Liverpool back to where they belong in the coveted top four of the Premier League, how will he best utilise the players at his disposal ...
Sad news coming in from several sources now that Jonathan Woodgate’s playing career is prematurely ending. Word being precipitated by the understanding that a rather large insurance payout is on the cards.
Prior to his time at Tottenham he had a chequered career, Christ he even dated that blonde bit off of Big Brother. But his move to Spurs seemed to signal the drawing of a line under the ups and ...
Alan Curbishley is right back in the managerial fray today. The veteran of the Goals on Sunday sofa is supposedly in Birmingham to interview for the vacant Villa post; news which has reminded us all of the manager-less plight of Aston Villa, and now that the transfer window is closed, Randy Lerner is free to hire someone who can’t try to buy/sell anyone for the next four months. Bliss.
Curbs hasn’t had ...
Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi has told Sky Italia that he would like to return to Serie A in the future. This pretty much quashes any hope United fans have of him one day returning to the club. Rossi said:
“I’m not tired of Spain, I am fine, but I’d like to someday return to my country, it’s my dream. I waited until the last minute for a call from an Italian ...
Players In
Yossi Benayoun (Liverpool, Undisclosed)
Ramires (Benfica, Undisclosed)
Matej Delac (Zapresic, Undisclosed)
Players Out
Ricardo Carvalho (Real Madrid, Undisclosed)
Joe Cole (Liverpool, Free)
Deco (Fluminense, Undisclosed)
Michael Ballack (Bayer Leverkusen, Free)
Scott Sinclair (Swansea, £500,000)
Seth Ofori-Twunasi (Peterborough United, Free)
Jack Cork (Burnley, Loan)
Franco Di Santo (Wigan, Loan)
Matej Delac (Vitesse Arnhem, Loan)
Michael Mancienne (Wolves, Loan)
Nemanja Matic (Vitesse Arnhem, Loan)
Slobodan Rajkovic (Vitesse Arnhem, Loan)
Ben Gordon (Kilmarnock, Loan)
Ryan Bertrand (Nottingham Forest, Loan)
Danny Philliskirk (Oxford United, Loan)
Rhys Taylor (Crewe, Loan)
Although the transfer dealings by ...
Hello everyone, I am a big wig...
David Gill has unsurprisingly come out in defence of Manchester United failing to reach their target of selling fifty four thousand season tickets for this season. It is thought that the club sold only fifty one thousand.
About the low figure Gill said:
“It’s pretty good in the current climate and the club is in good financial shape.”
How can he possibly claim either of those comments to ...
The new boy needs a song and my gut instinct is to go with a play on the old Fat Les Vindaloo number. It’s a cracking football song and to my mind one that would suit a terrace chant down to the ground.
Enjoy the tape and let us know what your suggestions are!
Van der Vaaaaaaart
Van der Vaaaaaaart
We All Like Van der Vaaart,
He’s Gonna Scare – The - Sh*t – Out – Of – You…. Tott ‘nam!
*clap clap clap*
Sports Director Miguel Pardeza has denied allegations made by Harry Redknapp, who said Bayern Munich had offered €21 million for the player.
“Real Madrid met all the deadlines regarding the transfer of Van der Vaart. It’s now up to the Premier League to accept the signing so that we can make it official.”
“It is absolutely false that Real Madrid received a 21 million euro ...
Players in
Marouane Chamakh (Bordeaux, free)
Laurent Koscielny (Lorient, undisclosed)
Sebastien Squillaci (Sevilla, undisclosed)
Players out
Luke Ayling (Yeovil, free)
Nacer Barazite (Vitesse, loan)
Sol Campbell (Newcastle, free)
Eduardo (Shakhtar Donetsk, undisclosed)
Luke Freeman (Yeovil, loan)
William Gallas (Tottenham, free)
Fran Merida (Atletico Madrid, free)
Philippe Senderos (Fulham, undisclosed)
Mikael Silvestre (Werder Bremen, free)
Jay Simpson (Hull, undisclosed)
Armand Traore (Juventus, loan)
Sanchez Watt (Leeds, loan)
The most obvious difference in the Arsenal squad that you’ll see this season is at the back. Arsene Wenger has cleared out ...
United’s transfer activity has been a cause for concern for their fans and tongues have been wagging due to an under whelming summer for United in the transfer market.
Questioning Sir Alex’s choices always comes with a high risk of having to eat your words, given that he has proven himself time and again throughout his tenure at Old Trafford.
United fans will have to put their faith in their manager’s supreme judgement ...
Zaire’s Finest, the Weekend Post Online is running with the news that Bafana Bafana star defender Bongani Khumalo is expected to join Spurs in the forthcoming January transfer window.
Khumalo’s business manager Glyn Binkin confirmed that the 23-year-old central defender, who shone for Bafana in the Word Cup, that a deal would be concluded with Spurs as soon as the end of business yesterday.
“The deal is on ...
Another transfer dealine day has come and gone, so here at The Transfer Tavern we take a look at the main dealings from the final day.
Assamoah Gyan (Rennes – Sunderland) Sunderland have broken their transfer record to bring Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan to the Stadium of Light. Bruce became a fan of Gyan after he scored three times during the World Cup in the summer.
Robinho (Man City – AC Milan) Robinho finally put an end to his Premier League hell after joining ...
New Liverpool signing Paul Konchesky has declared that the offer to join former manager Roy Hodgson at Anfield was too good to turn down and is looking to help the club capture some silverware during his time on Merseyside.
The 29 year old joined the Reds after making a deadline day move from Fulham on a four year deal for around £4 million and it is thought that former Liverpool player Danny Murphy, ...
