If you, like me, find yourself sitting at your desk on the eve of 4PM and don't feel the need to do any more work today, then take some much needed personal time and head over to soccernet.com and read Phil Ball's excellent article on the war of words between Fergie and Madrid.

Is this man fighting a losing battle in the war of words?

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It's a testament to Phil Brown's achievements at Hull City this season that after taking a 4-1 lead the Champions were left hanging on at the end of a pulsating, if error ridden game, that finished 4-3.

It's not often that the United home crowd see visiting teams come to Old Trafford and throw men forward in pursuit of three points, but that is precisely how the Tigers approached Saturday's encounter with the Red Devils. Click to continue reading...

When it comes to winding up the opposition, there's no better exponent of the art than Sir Alex Ferguson. The United manager famously cranked up the pressure on Kevin Keegan, manager of Newcastle, who at one point in 1996 had a 12 point advantage over the Red Devils in the title race, but following the Magpies manager's rant at Fergie they squandered their lead as United eventually ran out champions again. Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid's silence over the future of Cristiano Ronaldo was all too short, when they knew United were not going to sell their star player to the Spaniards' in the last transfer window, they somewhat reluctantly threw in the towel and temporarily conceded defeat.

Since then we've heard the usual media wind-bags, aka 'informed sources', spinning various lines such as "Real are no longer interested in Ronaldo". Click to continue reading...

Following a superb season by Manchester United, the wind was taken out of sails somewhat by the constant speculation linking Cristiano Ronaldo with a move to Real Madrid. Ramon Calderon stalked our winger, talking about him to the press almost every day and the column inches were filled with stories of Ronaldo rather than stories [. Click to continue reading...

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Skysports/James Evans - Briatore won't risk QPR future
Rangers supremo has big hopes

Queens Park Rangers chairman Flavio Briatore has told skysports.com he will not gamble with the future of the West London club and searches to create the ultimate football boutique brand. Click to continue reading...

Here, an interesting interview with Valencia president and majority shareholder Vicente Soriano in today's Las Provincias.

It's an illuminating read and to that end, I've done the hard work and translated it for you, my dear readers.

Please understand I'm not 100% fluent in Spanish.

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Real Madrid has sent Robinho to Man City and the only person more upset about the move than Ramon Calderon is Mr. Abramovich. Real Madrid wanted to keep him, Chelsea so coveted him, but now the young Brazilian is Mark Hughes' weapon. I doubt Calderon ever wanted to lose Robinho. Wanting to get rid of a kid [. Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon says the club have agreed to sell Brazilian Robinho to Manchester City. Calderon (speaking to Spanish TV): "We have agreed to sell the player for human reasons, and for footballing reasons and for an important quantity of money. The fact the player accepted the offer from City proves he isn't moving for sporting [. Click to continue reading...

MADRID (AFP) - Real Madrid's Brazilian striker Robinho said Sunday that his "head was at Chelsea" and that he was determined to leave the Spanish club despite efforts of team bosses to keep him.

"I've already told the president (Ramon Calderon), and coach (Bernd Schuster), management and (the media): my head is there (at Chelsea), I want to play over there," the 24-year-old said. Click to continue reading...

Ramon Calderon is a man who has serious problems with putting his finger on reality. It could be that the pressure of presidency at the greatest club in the world is getting to him. Or it could be the age. Or the cocaine... In any case, he's been speaking to the press again (what with the [...] Click to continue reading...

Per 40 milioni di euro il Real sarebbe disposto a cedere Robinho. Lo riferisce l'edizione online del quotidiano spagnolo Marca. Il brasiliano si sarebbe presentato al patron delle merengues, Ramon Calderon, riportando l'offerta di 32 milioni avanzata dal Chelsea, da settimane in pressing per ingaggiare il giocatore. Click to continue reading...

L'ESTERNO

Malouda, il Chelsea rilancia per Robinho

Abramovich porta a 30 milioni
la sua offerta per l'attaccante

Di DANIELE GALLI
Premessa, opportuna. Il filo che lega l'operazione
Malouda a quella Robinho è sottile.
Alquanto sottile. Se Robinho riuscisse a
lasciare Madrid, sarebbe più facile arrivare Malouda,
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It's officially officially over. After nearly two months of speculation involving insane sums of money (€100m transfer fee, £200,000 per week wages) and of course Sepp Blatter's awesomely ill-advised slavery quote, Cristiano Ronaldo is staying at Manchester United. Alex Ferguson says so (he always did), Ramon Calderon says so (in so many words) and now Cristiano [. Click to continue reading...

Il Real Madrid ha venticinque giorni per attivare il piano B. È quanto sostiene il quotidiano spagnolo Marca, secondo cui il presidente dei blancos Ramon Calderon farebbe meglio a dimenticare in fretta la delusione e tornare alla carica per altri giocatori quali Villa, Diego, Kakà, Huntelaar e Benzema. Click to continue reading...

Interesting comment from Ramon Calderon after Real Madrid signed Rafael van der Vaart from Hamburg. "Rafael van der Vaart is a player of great quality, vision and talent," Calderon said when the midfielder was unveiled at the Bernabeu. "We are certain that he will be a player who will help us complement the already very strong squad [. Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon today appeared to accept defeat in the signing of Crisitano Ronaldo from Manchester United during the unveiling of Rafael van der Vaart. The eternal trouble making president has continuously suggested that the portuguese winger is set to quit Old trafford to link up with the Spanish giants but Calderon stated whilst presenting Real's new Dutch signing at the bernabau that "Van der Vaart is the first signing and probably the only one" It would appear that Man Utd fans can now breathe a sigh of relief as it seems that Ronaldo is set to stay in Manchester for at least another season. Click to continue reading...

Cristiano Ronaldo 'never coming back' to Man United as Real Madrid saga continues

Cristiano Ronaldo is due back in Manchester this week for rehabilitation work on his ankle, though reports across this morning's media suggest a resolution to the player's proposed transfer to Real Madrid is still to be found. Click to continue reading...

MANCHESTER UNITED will try and convince Cristiano Ronaldo to stay one more season — by promising to then let him go for £65million.

SunSport understands United's owners are considering giving the Real Madrid target a contract get-out clause.

But they will first have to sway boss Alex Ferguson who is dead against selling the Portugal winger. Click to continue reading...

5-0, my goodness. Who would've ever thought Anelka could've gone off like that? Four goals!!! And he still looked so damn smug doin' it.

I love Roman A. giggling at 3:30ish.

I saw another interesting tidbit in this recap from the Daily Mail:

Reports in Spain insist Robinho has told Real president Ramon Calderon and manager Bernd Schuster that he has made up his mind to join Chelsea.

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La Roma è pronta a chiudere per Julio Baptista. Le difficoltà incontrate per arrivare a Silva hanno indotto la società giallorossa ad accelerare la trattativa. Per domani è fissato a Madrid un incontro tra Pradè, Mijatovic e il consulente di mercato Bronzetti per definire il trasferimento. La Roma vorrebbe il prestito con diritto di riscatto fissato a 14 milioni, Calderon punta invece alla cessione a titolo definitivo. Click to continue reading...

President Ramon Calderon refused to disclose whether Real Madrid would step up their pursuit of Cristiano Ronaldo after Wesley Sneijder suffered an horrific knee injury against Arsenal yesterday. Click to continue reading...

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QPR Official Site - SPANISH STARLET SIGNS
Queens Park Rangers Football Club have agreed a deal with Real Madrid for highly-rated midfield ace Daniel Parejo Munoz.
Rangers have beaten off stiff competition from a number of Europe's top Clubs - including Arsenal, Deportivo La Coruna, Espanyol, Getafe and Villarreal - for the young starlet, who made his name playing for Madrid's nursery Club Castilla last season. Click to continue reading...

Il Manchester United dà segni di cedimento, il trasferimento di Ronaldo al Real si fa sempre più probabile e le cifre in ballo fanno già gridare al record. Gli spagnoli hanno già offerto 85 milioni di euro, ma secondo il portoghese A Bola con un'offerta vicina ai 100 milioni farannocadere le residue resistenze del Manchester United. Click to continue reading...

This comes fresh off the Madrid press. Well not fresh exactly but outrageous nonetheless. Ramon Calderon has again, not surprisingly, opened his mouth. Consider this from the Telegraph: "[United and Ronaldo] will talk next week and if, after this conversation, United decide to sell him, then of course Madrid will be there. Click to continue reading...

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Setanta/Laurent Picard - QPR to snap up Spaniard
Salgado coy on QPR offer
Real Madrid starlet Daniel Parejo is excited by the prospect of securing a loan move to Championship side Queens Park Rangers.
The 19-year-old is due to in London next weekend for the Emirates Cup, and the Spanish press claim he will stay in the capital to join QPR. Click to continue reading...

According to Ramon Calderon, Cristiano Ronaldo is set to hold talks with United next week; given that this news comes in the wake of United's tapping up allegations presented and rejected by FIFA, is it not strange that Calderon was the one who delivered news of these Ronaldo talks to the big wide world? Click to continue reading...

Firstly sorry for the technical issues this morning. Thanks for your patience. If you are having issues with the page redirecting to the home page still please make sure you're using the new URL:

http://oleole.com/blogs/arseblog

So what does a 10-2 win over Burgerland tell us?

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This summer has seen one of the most drawn out and dramatic transfer sagas ever. Real Madrid's pursuit of Cristiano Ronaldo has filled newspapers all summer and there is still not an end in sight. Manchester United official David Gill has repeatedly said that Ronaldo is not for sale while Real Madrid official Ramon Calderon has said time and time again that they will sign Ronaldo this summer. Click to continue reading...

This summer has seen one of the most drawn out and dramatic transfer sagas ever. Real Madrid's pursuit of Cristiano Ronaldo has filled newspapers all summer and there is still not an end in sight. Manchester United official David Gill has repeatedly said that Ronaldo is not for sale while Real Madrid official Ramon Calderon has said time and time again that they will sign Ronaldo this summer. Click to continue reading...

Media reports in Spain have once again linked Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas with a move to Real Madrid. Speculation in Fabregas' homeland claim that Madrid president Ramon Calderon will make a renewed push this summer for the Gunners biggest asset. A report in Marca says Calderon hasn't given up on trying to bring the 21-year-old back to [. Click to continue reading...

Non c'è solo Cristiano Ronaldo nei pensieri di Ramon Calderon. Fra le promesse elettorali del presidente delle merengues figurava anche lo spagnolo dell'Arsenal Cesc Fabregas. Negli ultimi mesi il Real è tornato alla carica per due volte, ma il centrocampista ha rifiutato in entrambi i casi ed è determinato a continuare la sua avventura in Premier almeno per un'ulteriore stagione. Click to continue reading...

The source below is claiming that a very large bid is imminent from a La Liga club for Arsenal's most important player, the source even suggests that the star player in question may in fact make an amazing Emirates exit! Ramon Calderon when he was campaigning for the role as president ... Click to continue reading...

In a summer when clubs and players have acted fairly appallingly to engineer transfers I find it rather heart-warming that we have a manager who not only doesn't engage in the same kind of tactics but who is brave enough to speak out against it.

I know that after three years without a trophy and almost over a week without making a signing himself Arsene has his critics amongst Arsenal fans but to man Arsenal fans should be right behind him when he says that big clubs need to act better.

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"Tranquilli, arriverà presto". L'approdo di Cristiano Ronaldo al Real Madrid è imminente, almeno a giudicare dalle parole che il quotidiano spagnolo 'As' attribuisce a Ramon Calderon, presidente del club merengue. Nel ritiro portoghese della squadra, il numero 1 della società avrebbe risposto con un sorriso e con tono giocoso alla domanda di un giocatore: "Presidente, quando viene Cristiano? Click to continue reading...