According to this source, Juande Ramos will dip into his transfer budget again when the window re-opens to secure this very impressive winger! Don't forget to check out Online Football Manager! Tottenham's goalless draw with Wigan has convinced manager Juande Ramos that Diego Capel is the answer to his misfiring strikeforce problems. Click to continue reading...

LA CURIOSITÀ

Offerte, bufale e la carica dei 120

Tanti sono i nomi di mercato,
veri o presunti, accostati alla
Roma. Ma le strategie erano altre

Di DANIELE LO MONACO
Loria, Riise, Artur, Julio Baptista,
Menez: i cinque dell'apocalisse
sono ormai,
chi più chi meno, di casa a Trigoria,
capitoli già aperti di un libro
che si pensava appassionante sin
dalle prime pagine, e invece qualcuno
è rimasto deluso. Click to continue reading...

Well, first of all, you may have noticed that I can no longer post as Tom, so I came up with this very witty moniker, but I can assure you that it is actually me (which may or may not be a good thing).

Secondly, due to a communications/brain fault on my part, and a memory like a sieve, I'm afraid I completely forgot that I had to write today's blog, despite it SAYING ON YESTERDAY'S PAGE THAT I HAD TO WRITE IT.

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Arsene Wenger has rejected director Danny Fiszman's invitation to splash up to £30million on a player in favour of pursuing his policy of keeping faith with a young side. Fiszman refuted claims Arsenal's transfer budget is affected by their Emirates stadium and insisted the cash was there for Wenger to spend as he pleased. Click to continue reading...

A year ago, TamU were getting a good seeing to at the hands of Norwegian giants Rosenborg in the Champions League Third Qualifying Round. The Trondheim club have a budget roughly 10 times bigger than TamU, so it was no surprise that Rosenborg ran out easy winners. No shame for a Finnish club in losing [. Click to continue reading...

He's out. One of our great hopes of last season, now just disappointingly regarded as an overpriced back-up. This comes as no surprise. With last week's signing of Juanfran, we all saw this coming. His wage bill was simply too high for a second string left back at a team with our limited budget. It's [. Click to continue reading...

At a press conference yesterday the FA were forced to defend the quality of the upcoming Independence Cup.

Libya were once runners up in the African Cup of Nations but only when they hosted it while Cambodia and Brunei have had marginally less impact on the football stage than a three legged hedgehog. Click to continue reading...

Intanto la Roma, non avendo la certezza di arrivare a Malouda, sta valutando di tornare su un vecchio obiettivo, Fabio Quagliarella. Il jolly offensivo dell'Udinese e della nazionale, capace di ricoprire tutti i ruoli del rombo offensivo compreso anche quello di prima punta, piace molto a Spalletti che lo indicò ai dirigenti giallorossi già l'anno scorso quando Mancini insisteva per andar via. Click to continue reading...

Just two months after appearing in the UEFA Cup final in the City of Manchester Stadium in May. Glasgow Rangers have been knocked out of the UEFA Champions League by Lithuanian side FBK Kaunas, who are part owned by the same man who owns Heart of Midlothian Vladimir Romanov. No doubt there will be chuckles of [. Click to continue reading...

Di DANIELE LO MONACO

Ditelo a Pradè e ve lo farete nemico. «La Roma punta in alto, molto in alto. L'escalation di nomi, da Mutu a Silva e soprattutto Eto'o, ha un significato preciso: la Sensi stavolta cerca il bersaglio grosso».
La frase non è nostra, ma di uno che sulle cose romaniste la sa lunga, e al direttore sportivo è stata semplicemente riferita, col risultato di farlo arrabbiare. Click to continue reading...

I don't want to appear to be counting chickens before they're hatched, and hopefully I'll have more to write about this early next week, but I wanted to say one thing upfront. Georger said similar in the comments last night, but I want to expound on it as well.

If it comes down to Robbie Keane or Gareth Barry, I'm taking the somersaulting Irishman (worst celebration ever) every time. Click to continue reading...

The English Championship 08/09 season stars in just 2 weeks and the League season starts in 4 weeks and the Soccerlens Championship Fantasy Football League is now open for business. Budding managers will be given a budget of £10 million to select their best XI, including being able to choose a Captain whose points score [. Click to continue reading...

L'eventuale accoppiata con Totti fa già sognare i tifosi
Scopriamo come potrebbe essere impiegato nella Roma

Mutu, ideale per Spalletti

Può ricoprire tutti i ruoli offensivi, è perfetto anche per il 4-3-2-1

di Piero Torri
ROMA - Perfetto. Non solo perché nel quattrodue-
tre-uno spallettiano dove lo metti, nei
quattro ruoli offensivi, lo metti bene, ma anche
perché il probabile arrivo di Adrian Mutu alla
Roma, può consentire a Luciano Spalletti di
pensare ancora più concretamente a un modulo
alternativo, magari quello
ad albero di natale che avrebbe il
vantaggio di garantire una maglia
da titolare ad Alberto Aquilani
e a Totti, confermatissimo
nel ruolo di centravanti, di avere
alle spalle (o davanti) due punti
di riferimento con cui puntare alla
porta avversaria. Click to continue reading...

Ieri la Roma ha sondato il terreno con Florent Malouda per valutare la disponibilità del 28enne francese di trasferirsi nella capitale e pare che siano arrivati segnali positivi. Forte della volontà del giocatore di lasciare il Chelsea, toccherà ora al ds Pradè trattare con il club inglese. Al momento al club giallorosso i soldi per acquistare il nazionale transalpino non mancano, ma si cercherà comunque di puntare in tutti i modi al prestito, così da non intaccare il budget destinato all'acquisto della punta. Click to continue reading...

Oltre alla punta brasiliana, ora la squadra giallorossa
ha nel mirino il centrocampista, in rotta con il Chelsea

Roma, c'è la pista Malouda

Il francese potrebbe arrivare in prestito. Baptista: il Real per la cessione definitiva

di Piero Torri
ROMA - Un problema e una novità. Click to continue reading...

Oh dear. So we're looking at Peralta and Gallardo being ready for action by August 7th, at the earliest, and they'll probably need a couple of weeks to get back into something resembling game shape. Given Gallardo's injury history, I'd budget at least another week or two on top of that for him. I seem to remember the last time we trotted down this particular herniated road, it was Namoff Click to continue reading...

Pre-season is Europe is right on top of us and I was thinking today that if I had an unlimited budget what pre-season friendlies would I want to see. These are the five that I came up with. August 1st - Celtic - Tottenham Hotspur - Port of Rotterdam Tournament. Anytime it is an England vs [...] Click to continue reading...

Ronaldo was last years most successful player, and is this years most expensive. As we saw at the end of last season, to finish in the Top 10 in the World, you needed to have Ronaldo.

This season he is priced at £14m, which is a massive chunk of your initial £100m budget and head and shoulders above most other strikers. Click to continue reading...

This is not my opinion. This is the view of "top French football boss" Michel Moulin. The former Paris St-Germain director of sport believes that Wenger is over hyped and and is a failure.

This dumbass has criticised Le Boss for not winning the Champions League in his time at Arsenal and that many other coaches would have won far more trophies armed with Le Bosse's transfer budget. Click to continue reading...

Ich weiß nicht, wie es euch geht, aber irgendwie wirkt dieser Tage vieles wie ein schlechtes Replikat eines gelungenen Sommers 2006. Wie ein Lo(ö)w-Budget-Remake des Sommermärchens. Die Darsteller sind größtenteils dieselben, aber trotzdem ist irgendwas anders. Die Sportfreunde Stiller singen in einem Anfall von Originalität "72, 80, 96, 2008 - ja so stimmen wir alle [. Click to continue reading...

Rafa Benitez has reportedly been assured that his transfer budget will not be affected by the losses suffered by Tom Hicks and George Gillett since their takeover of Liverpool - but any euphoria at the news will be quelled by suggestions that the Spaniard has relatively little money to spend this summer. Click to continue reading...

MLS owners recommended a 2008 budget that increases the league's salary cap 4 percent to $2.3 million a team. The decision came after a prolonged debate at a recent board of governors meeting that saw a divide among owners over what players should be paid as the league expands. The [...] Click to continue reading...