There are some interesting rumors floating out there today. Is Lukas Podolski staying or going? Are Everton looking for a new striker? Are Tottenham looking to replace Gomes as their goalkeeper? What big name could be heading to the U.S.? And are Manchester City preparing to shatter the transfer record [. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham are linked with more reinforcements (no central midfielders though), Podolski is linked with a move to England, the Owen to Liverpool and Arshavin to England rumours will never die, and will Beckham find a permanent home in Milan? Spurs Plan Spending Spree Christmas has come early for Harry Redknapp, who is interested in putting in bids [. Click to continue reading...

Spurs Plan Spending Spree Christmas has come early for Harry Redknapp, who is interested in putting in bids for Inter Milan's Adriano, Middlesbrough's skipper Stewart Downing, and Manchester City's Elano. The price could exceed £25 million. Analysis: Clearly, Tottenham didn't spend enough money during the summer. Click to continue reading...

This summer many rumors were flying around about the future of Zenit St. Petersburg star Andrei Arshavin. After Arshavin's amazing display in the Euro 2008 tournament he was the one of Europe's most prized targets. Arshavin looked to be heading to Tottenham but nothing happened from those talks mainly because of the high 27 million euro transfer price. Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid have suffered another major injury blow as striker Ruud van Nistelrooy's season looks to be over after it was announced that he will undergo an operation to correct a problem with his right knee. The reigning Spanish champions already have Arjen Robben and Mahamadou Diarra out of action due to calf and thigh [. Click to continue reading...

After it was confirmed that Dutch international Ruud Van Nistelrooy would be out for the remainder of the season, the Madrid brass began Operation RVN (Replace Van Nistelrooy). It would not be easy to find a player that would fill the shoes of one of the top goalscorers in the world the past decade, but it [. Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you striptease for your students....... Tottenham's four phased stadium plans. (The Spoiler) Israeli coach gets fired the classy way: via text message. (Unprofessional Foul) What if the EPL was the APL: American Premier League? (EPL Talk) Fabio Capello eliminating condiments one by one. Click to continue reading...

What, is he injured again? He sure is, and everybody's favourite search engine has had just about enough of it. The Real Madrid striker is set for more surgery and another long lay-off due to his notoriously dodgy knees. Spotted on The Beautiful Game Click to continue reading...

Like a phoenix rising from its ashes, Juventus was reborn Tuesday. With two majestic strokes of the paintbrush, one by Del Piero to erase a never-ending streak of injuries, another by Amauri to wipe five consecutive winless matches clean, the Bianconeri imposed a lesson of great will & determination on their Real Madrid rivals. Click to continue reading...

Like a phoenix rising from its ashes, Juventus was reborn Tuesday. With two majestic strokes of the paintbrush, one by Del Piero to erase a never-ending streak of injuries, another by Amauri to wipe five consecutive winless matches clean, the Bianconeri imposed a lesson of great will & determination on their Real Madrid rivals. Click to continue reading...

If you're a Real fan...what more could you ask for, really? A start off the blocks in lightning fashion, mid-game drama worthy of the stage, all culminating in a soul-sucking 96th minute win across town at the hands of your city rivals, whose heads must be spinning out of control after the last few weeks. Click to continue reading...

Everything about Dimitar Berbatov has been fairly casual since joining Manchester United. Whilst I'm more than happy to give him time to settle in, some people have already begun to get on his case a bit for being lazy. I think we have to be mindful that Ruud van Nistelrooy, who scored 149 goals in 217 [. Click to continue reading...

The world's fastest man is Jamaican and surprisingly his name is not Dane Richards. His name is Usain Bolt and he's a huge (and misguided) Manchester United fan with a bit of a thing for Ruud van Nistelrooy. Too bad he's not a Red Bull fan; it be great to see him and Dane face in a 120yd sprint on the Giants Stadium turf for the All-Irie Footie/Track Speed Supremacy Challenge built by Makita. Click to continue reading...

THE OLD MEN AT MADRID ALWAYS SHINE EARLY IN THE SEASON
I'm still kind of busy these days so I'll keep posting AP and REUTERS coverage of futbol until I have time to cover the games myself. In overall Flowing Futbol commentary, I have noticed that the supposed two best players in the world these days C. Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid have not lost the killer instinct they demonstrated to devastating effect in the first half of last season and which effectively gave them their second successive league title. Playing one man down for most of the second half they saw Betis equalise their early goal and then lay siege to Iker Casillas's goal. Click to continue reading...

It's difficult to work out what was the bigger shock at Anfield on Saturday – Stoke gaining a point or the strange feeling that many among the Liverpool faithful are not happy with Fernando Torres' form.

It's not long since ‘El Nino' could do no wrong it seemed.

As Liverpool's record signing's debut season in England went on, he just got better and better. Click to continue reading...

Raul has scored 61 goals in the Champions League - his closest rival being his teammate Ruud van Nistelrooy at 53. Can any of the younger crop of players - Messi, Ronaldo, Benzema, Torres etc - catch up with the likes of Raul, Ruud, Sheva (47) and Henry (45) or is the age of the pure [...] Click to continue reading...

I'm back in Germany after a week of fun and, err, rain in Ireland, and I'm looking forward to the resumption of the Bundesliga. Here's one big reason.
Ireland being a country that specializes in weird pursuits like hurling, both on the pitch and in alleyways behind pubs after too many Guinness, the Irish tend to get their football from the English Premiership. Click to continue reading...

If a team is looking at available free agents, they could do much worse than the fastest man in the world, even if he has no footballing skills to speak of. I mean, just think of how that would affect opponents playing the offside trap. Throw him ten yards in front of the last defender [...] Click to continue reading...

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Originally uploaded by C.G.B. Spender Ya habiamos puesto la lista de la MLS, pero me llamo la atención ver esta nota en futbol champagne donde muestra a los 200 mejores pagados, yo solo pongo la lista de 100, lo doble es demasiado dinero junto.

Kaka liderea la lista y eso que el Manchester City se lo quiere llevar, necesitaran muchisimo dinero mas. Click to continue reading...

Joe first....

Then Iniesta....

and if that's not enough here's what Ruud Van Nistelrooy knows..
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Manchester City are determined to sign Real Madrid striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy come January after missing out on the Dutch international on deadline day. The former Manchester United goal machine is high up on City's January wish-list which also includes Fernando Torres, Cristiano Ronaldo and Cesc Fabregas. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool right back Alvaro Arbeloa is certain that his team mate Fernando Torres can move past his 33 goals, which he scored last season and make an even bigger mark in the Premier League.

Torres, who joined the Reds last season from Atletico Madrid for a fee of £20million and became the first Liverpool player to score 20 league goals in a single campaign since Robbie Fowler along with breaking Ruud van Nistelrooy's record for Manchester United, for most Premiership goals by a foreign player in their debut season. Click to continue reading...

Manchester City could become the new powerhouse of English football. For anyone that doesn't know, City was recently bought by an Arab company Abu Dhabi United Group which means that City now has more money to spend then ever before. City has brought in Shaun Wright-Phillips and Robinho this offseason, and reports are coming in on last minute bids that were also made by City. Click to continue reading...

There is a reason why Manchester United have been the dominant team in England throughout the 1990's and 2000's, its because they have Alex Ferguson as their manager. Great players have come and gone, but the one constant has been Ferguson and that's because he always puts together a great squad full of top class players. Click to continue reading...

Wayne Rooney's goals will come if he gets some forward help

Wayne Rooney goals will flow if Sir Alex fixes the errors of his ways, by buying Berbatov.

Sir Alex Ferguson has been remarkably confessional in the build-up to this season. Maybe his age is showing, but he admitted to Sir David Frost that it had been a mistake to sell Jaap Stam to Lazio in 2001 and then later, during the club's tour of South Africa, he conceded that errors had been made in his deployment of Wayne Rooney. Click to continue reading...

Valencia's David Silva scored first but a nine-man Real Madrid rallied to beat Valencia 4-2 and lift the Spanish Supercup 6-5 on aggregate on Sunday.
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Sergio Ramos, Ruben De La Red and Gonzalo Higuain scored for Madrid, Rafael van der Vaart found himself on the sidelines in the 39th minute and Ruud van Nistelrooy joined him there in the 73rd.

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(First half highlights above, second half after the jump.) It was "only" the Super Cup, but it's impossible not to think of this as a demoralizing, crushing blow for Valencia, and as a warning served to the rest of La Liga from Real Madrid. Yes, they've won the last two titles, but this was an absolutely [. Click to continue reading...

Sky Sports News have announced that Manucho has been given a work permit, allowing him to play for Manchester United. The 24 year old Angolan hit man's arrival is welcome news to Sir Alex's ears. Having spoken of his diminishing confidence of landing another striker, the arrival of Manucho will lighten the load of pressure on young Fraizer Campbell. Click to continue reading...

I've posted the greatest soccer commercial ever made on the blog, done by Nike soccer. Here is a video of behind the scenes. It lets you see a little of the personalities of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Wesley Sneijder, and Cesc Fabregas. Click to continue reading...

The rumours linking Klaas-Jan Huntelaar to Manchester United are doing rounds all year long and have been doing so ever since Ruud van Nistelrooy was rumoured to be leaving the club. This season they've linked Huntelaar to Real Madrid as well, presumably because people think Madrid are thinking of replacing RvN or at least getting [. Click to continue reading...

A short one today ...

I've made no denials of my admiration for the reigning Spanish champions and 9-time European Cup winners Real Madrid, our opponents in this season's curtain-opening Super Copa.

Who isn't seduced by their pristine white kits, their unbelievable history, their dashing players, their Spanish-ness and their incredible pedigree?

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There is no doubt that we need strengthening in the goal scoring department, but the question remains exactly who are Ramos and Levy planning to bring in?

Two names in the frame this morning (and let's face it our links with strikers change like the wind at the moment) are Klaas-Jan Huntelaar of Ajax and Blackburn's Roque Santa Cruz. Click to continue reading...

Almost ten years after his debut in Oranje Ruud van Nistelrooy decided to stop as international. The 32 year old striker wants to focus fully on his career with Real Madrid. He already told new team manager Bert van Marwijk that the WC2010 is a bridge too far. Van Nistelrooy said Click to continue reading...

The fact that United have played the best part of two seasons without an out-and-out striker, after the sale of Ruud van Nistelrooy and the injuries to Louis Saha, seems to have passed most people by. I have to wonder if the journalists writing about United's title chances have been paying much attention over the [. Click to continue reading...