The Ballon d'Or is nothing if not a lightning rod for controversy and year-long verbal sparring matches with inflatable gloves. Yes, some deserving players win it. Others not so deserving also win it. In short, it's like nearly every other award handed out by any other organization in the world. But perhaps worth the debate is [. Click to continue reading...

Eskimo kisses all round Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o and Recreativo Huelva's Cesar Arzo get up close and personal. Hope they both opted for a pre-match brush of the teeth. Click to continue reading...

The final installment of the Award Winners series will feature the candidates for the African Player of the Year.  The winner of the 2007 award went to Sevilla's Mali striker Frédéric Kanouté. Kanouté was the 1st African P.O.Y. not to be born in Africa, but this year's candidates & eventual winner were all born on the African continent. Click to continue reading...

Four goals. Pretty rare feat. But having two players score four apiece in the same league on the same day is exceptionally crazy, especially when considering the league is of the quality of La Liga. Now feel free to add a third to the list of dudes who scored four in a game during this [...] Click to continue reading...

His name has been floating about for some time as the latest unpolished diamond the emerge from the heart of Africa, but without a concrete deal on the continent, he's been biding his time back in the DR Congo, his homeland. Now, one year after a trial with Arsenal, interest is finally heating up across [. Click to continue reading...

Two clubs who put up vastly different performances and perhaps equally undeserved results in the Champions League walked out of their domestic fixtures with "Well whaddya think of us now?" plastered all over their faces this weekend. Barca were a large disappointment in Ukraine for about 87 minutes until Leo Messi & karma took over; though [. Click to continue reading...

Barca coach wants his players to keep their hands to themselves Just look at the glare Samuel Eto'o receives after shoving his coach Pep Guardiola as they react to a Barca goal against Real Betis last week. You don't mess around with Pep. Click to continue reading...

FC BARCELONA star SAMUEL ETO´O has a song dedicated to him by Cameroon female artist Nguéa Laroute. The track is called simply "Etoo" which is found in her seventh & new album titled... Read all the news, results, details & comments in English on Spanish Football & Sports Click to continue reading...

Credit goes where credit is due: FC Bunyodkor is not fucking around. Earlier in the summer you may remember they'd announced they had signed Samuel Eto'o on a six month contract, who went along with the ruse and even flew out to Uzbekistan for the royal treatment at the club's facilities before hunkering back to [. Click to continue reading...

Now that Barcelona are done batting their eyes and flipping up their skirt to Arsenal and Togo Emmanuel Adebayor, they've settled into reality: Star striker and Cameroon international Samuel Eto'o is staying.

Didn't we know this all along? Did any of us really think he was off to play in Antarctica or whatever place he was rumored to go? Click to continue reading...

Media reports have once again linked Tottenham with a move for Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o. The Daily Mail claims that the Cameroon frontman is still attracting interest from Spurs and London rivals Chelsea, as Spanish giants look to raise funds to secure their own transfer targets. Juande Ramos is reported to be a long-time admirer of Eto'o, [. Click to continue reading...

Would someone make up their minds about these players already?

One day, Cameroonian striker Samuel Eto'o is not wanted by Barcelona, new manager Pep Guardiola saying, 'We are putting a team together and they (Eto'o and Ronaldinho, who has since moved to AC Milan) aren't in our thoughts but we'll see what happens. Click to continue reading...

Local dailys like "Marca, As & Sport"give the news that French Champions OLYMPIQUE LYON are thinking about FC BARCELONA forward SAMUEL ETO´O. It´s published that Lyon President Jean-Michel Aulas... Read all the news, results, details & comments in English on Spanish Football & Sports Click to continue reading...

Do you have a pinch of salt handy? Good, you're going to need it. Time for some more summer Transfer Talk... Real Madrid are interested in signing unwanted Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o, despite the Cameroonian leaving the Bernabéu on very bad terms last time. I honestly think there's more chance of Eto'o going to Uzbekistan than [. Click to continue reading...

So much hype weeks back with Tottenham, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Valencia... to see now how FC BARCELONA forward SAMUEL ETO´O has no real firm offers. The forward is doing... Read all the news, results, details & comments in English on Spanish Football & Sports Click to continue reading...

Something to read while you pay £72 million in rent... Chelsea taking the scenic route to self-sufficiency (Cheer Up Alan Shearer) Premier League on US TV schedule (EPL Talk) Al Ahly vs Zamalek preview (Egypt WCB) Tapping up - all part of the game (Football Fan Cast) When Wolves ruled the world (Pitch Invasion) Will Barca regret shipping out Eto'o and [. Click to continue reading...

Some transfer rumours are so bizarre they make you dizzy, and they don't come much dizzier than Samuel Eto'o to Uzbekistan side Kuruvchi. But that's what's in the news today. Let's all take a second to let that sink in... ... ..Kuruvchi's sporting director Bahtier Babayev claimed that: "Eto'o will arrive in Tashkent on Thursday and he will [. Click to continue reading...

Spanish sports daily "Mundo Deportivo" inform that FC BARCELONA forward SAMUEL ETO´O & INTER MILAN are in "silent" negotiations & hint that both maybe getting close to a transfer... Read all the news, results, details & comments in English on Spanish Football & Sports Click to continue reading...

We start today with news that David Villa is leaving Valencia to join Newcastle United in a £14.5 million deal.

Actually he's not really. That was just a lie, but it's exactly the sort of thing that makes up so many of the transfer rumour and gossip columns seen these days on the web and in your daily newspapers. Click to continue reading...

Some news to read as you legally flip people off and drink from an unregistered keg in Belmar, New Jersey: WAG wannabes, dust off your fake nails, fake tans, fake personalities and spike heels. Cristiano Ronaldo is single again (Kickette) MLS: The mooches of the international transfer market (US Soccer Players) Arshavin: Growth stock, or [. Click to continue reading...

Ok, here's another news item you'll need to sit down to read ... and no, this isn't an April Fool's joke.

According to news reports, Uzbekistan League side Kuruvchi claim to have reached a deal to sign Barcelona and Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o.

The Catalan giants have laughed off the news. Click to continue reading...

The Sun's banshee transfer wail can be heard all over the Scepter'd Isle; apparently Big Phil Scolari has given the green light to "Flog Drog". Droggers - to his mates - has often been a mouthy critic of the Chelsea management, and openly wept when Jose Mourinho left, so any move to show [...] Click to continue reading...

Who knew that obtaining Samuel Eto'o's shirt would cost so much money?

The story begins here: Tanzania lost a hard-fought encounter against Cameroon 2-1 in recent World Cup qualifying. Tanzanian defender Nadir Haroub gave away his jersey to Cameroon star Samuel Eto'o after the game in Yaounde. Click to continue reading...

With Didier Drogba and Emmanuel Adebayor looking likely to leave their respective clubs this summer, it's little wonder that Arsenal and Chelsea are making several contingency plans. Both teams would look woefully short of firepower if indeed they sell their respective hotshots, and the Daily Mail report that they're now both in the hunt for [. Click to continue reading...

Cameroon boss Otto Pfister recently gave an interview where he confirmed that Arsenal and Chelsea are chasing Barcelona's striker Samuel Eto'o, and that he's extremely surprised Barca wants to let him go. "Eto'o's goals against Tanzania [in a World Cup qualifier] were in a class of their own," he told Kicker. Click to continue reading...

`The world is just a simple circle, You´ve got to keep on turning...´ While EURO 2008 continues to dazzle in Austria and Switzerland, with Spain basking in the glory of eliminating long-standing rivals and world champions Italy, over in the Iberian nation´s second largest city the fallout from FC Barcelona´s miserable season continues following the recent public declaration by new coach Josep Click to continue reading...

In the race to sign Arsenal's Togolese striker Emmanuel Adebayor, AC Milan look to have admitted defeat, just a few days after AC Milan vice president Adriano Galliani proclaimed that he was to be their only transfer target this summer: Milan remain true to their word, either Adebayor comes or we keep things as they are. Click to continue reading...

Imagine being Barcelona and being good enough to say you don't need Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto'o and Deco.

New Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola revealed just that on Tuesday, stating that Ronaldino, Deco and Eto'o are not in Barca's future plans. Now Ronaldinho and Deco weren't a surprise as they have been linked with exits for a while now.

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New Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola says Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto'o and Deco are surplus to requirements at Camp Nou.

Guardiola, who has replaced Frank Rijkaard as Barca boss, admits he is not currently planning on having the star trio in his squad next season.

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Barca striker Samuel Eto'o doesn't beat about the bush, and yesterday he was as frank as a Catchphrase contestant after being injected with truth serum and forced to "say what you see!" by a manic Roy Walker. According to the Cameroon star, Tottenham are far too lowly for him, Eto'o smashed through Spurs [. Click to continue reading...

Half of me is looking forward to settling on the couch tonight to watch the Yanks run out against Spain. Cold beer in hand, I'll have the opportunity to watch Clint Dempsey and the boys prove to themselves -- and everyone else, me included -- that they're not as bad as last week's 2-0 drubbing at the hands of England suggests. Click to continue reading...

I had started planning my season end series of articles on what I thought would be the areas each club would look at strengthening and who would be moving out. However, Tottenham have already started their work with one purchase and heavy rumours of a sale in the very near future. Tottenham manager Juande Ramos [. Click to continue reading...

It's obvious to anyone that follows the Beautiful Game that Samuel Eto'o is one of the greatest strikers of all-time.

While it hasn't been the best of seasons for the Barcelona striker, the Indomitable Lion can at least be content with establishing himself as the African player with the most La Liga games to his name. Click to continue reading...

Two below-par performances, two 1-0 wins and Barcelona are through to the Champions League semi-finals in the most unconvincing fashion. Not to begrudge them their victories - they took their chances (few as they were) and Schalke made a hash of the many that fell their way. And there's still time for Barcelona to improve [. Click to continue reading...

Photo, Shoot is a new feature at Just-Football, looking at football photography from around the world. We hope it will become a regular feature on the site and of course welcome any contributions which, for all you budding sports photographers out there, can be emailed to just-football@live.com. The first in the series features FC Barcelona hitman Samuel Eto'o celebrating his hat-trick in the 5-1 Click to continue reading...