The transfer window (aka. silly season) is winding down, but in this case means the most action we've seen in a while for our Americans abroad.  We have less than three days left until the transfer window ends, and there are four Americans looking to make deadline moves to new clubs. Preston Zimmerman A man who moved [. Click to continue reading...

Modern football guarantees that silly season is always on, 12 months out of 12. Former Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu was sacked in 2004 after failing a drug test for cocaine. After a four delay (in claims, counter-claims, appeals, etc), Fifa's Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) awarded Chelsea a hefty compensation. Click to continue reading...

Football Rumours: Robinho not going to Chelsea

In a blow to the ego of Chelsea fans, Robinho is according to the latest football rumours going to snub Chelsea and stay at Real Madrid, providing they double his annual salary! Well, Well, money talks doesn't it, and not Chelsea's way all the time. 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...

Brandi Chastain: "We have to remember. New Zealand is a small island in the middle of the ocean, so they don't get a lot of games."

If only the Ferns moved to a bigger country, everything would be alright. If only Barack Obama as per Cokie Roberts had vacationed at Myrtle Beach instead of an exotic place like Hawaii, he would be considered American.

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A run down of the summer silly season can leave newspaper readers in no doubt: there have been a lot of big-money transfers already. Depending who you believe, both Chelsea and Spurs have signed Andrei Sergeyevich Arshavin at least four times, for fees ranging from about £20 million to about £50 million. Click to continue reading...

Football Rumours: Aston Villa after Arsenal's Hoyte & Chelsea's Paulo Ferreira

Football rumours continue to abound in the transfer window silly season. Latest ones are that Villa boss Martin O'Neill is reported to be after Justin Hoyte & Chelsea's Paulo Ferreira. Given that Ferreira cost Chelsea 17. Click to continue reading...

Reports are that we have signed Spaniard Mikel Arce from CD Lourdes. 6′3″, 24 years old, scored 20 goals in the Tercera (Third) Division in Spain last year. More info coming as it arrives. P.S. I'm Spanish, so it thrills me to see someone from the motherland come back for the Black and Blue. Click to continue reading...

Oh well. Someone had to go. Unfortunate that we could only get a partial allocation out of it, but I imagine thats more than we could have gotten from OG Denton. This gets us aligned with roster requirements, but it wouldn't surprise me if we are not quite done yet. OK, that last [...] Click to continue reading...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/2008/07/alvarez_to_san_jose.html YESYESYESYESYES WINWINWINWINWE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Needless to say, I approve. Click to continue reading...

Its the height of the Silly Season.

The options...
The Inter Toto Cup or watching Chelsea and Manchester United annihilate teams from economically disenfranchised regions - Sky tried to excite us about the breaking news that Derby County only managed a victory at Mansfield Town due to a last minute penalty save by Roy Carroll. Click to continue reading...

It's that time of year again when "Silly Season" finally starts to wind down and the thoughts begin to focus on the upcoming season, and finally the schedule for this season has been set. Week 1 begins with a bang as the Juve-Fiorentina rivalry is the obvious highlight, and Inter opening their defense of the Scudetto away at Sampdoria should be entertaining as well. Click to continue reading...

Why is no-one talking about this? From Climbing The Ladder: First of all, SJ would have to go back to their 2005 season to get a full 30 games. They could do that, or perhaps more likely, just take the current PPG and expand it to 30 games worth of points. They would then be the #1 [...] Click to continue reading...

After yesterday's posts, I'm sure you all know how much I hate the "silly season" and how I can't stand to hear the constant gossip and rumor mill concerning player transfers during the summer. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean I don't hear or read any of it; it's everywhere and practically impossible to avoid. Click to continue reading...

I read something the other day about some club in Uzbekistan claiming that they were on the verge of signing Samuel Eto'o and just dismissed it as the usual, desperate silly-season attempt to grab headlines by a club the size of Vern Troyer's nuts.

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First off, let me explain why I've been lacking on the actual content side of things lately.

I hate the off-season in all sports, but especially so in soccer. There is no other sport with a "silly season" as public and pronounced as soccer. Papers and media outlets with little else to talk about speculate on rumors about where players are headed, who managers want to sign, where managers may take another job, and other similar topics. Click to continue reading...

Perhaps this silly season's only loyal player, Cesc Fabregas is modeling the new away kit for next season. Funny how all the rumors from this season have swirled and yet here is Cesc in the new kit. Hopefully that means that he won't be leaving. Seriously, is there a better option for captain next season?

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Perhaps we should start hunting social networking sites to find out what's really happening behind the scenes during the silly season! After all, The Guardian report that Facebook users were the first to find out that Ashley-Paul Robinson was on the verge of leaving Crystal Palace to join Fulham. Ashley-Paul Robinson, . Click to continue reading...

Chelsea have reportedly had a massive offer for Kaka rejected by AC Milan. Now that's the silly season we've been waiting for. Could Arsenal really be going after Klaas-Jan Huntelaar for £18m? The Ajax forward who earlier in the weekend... Click to continue reading...

With it being the silly season and all, it's hard to think of things to write about. So re-hashing the same transfer rumors does me just right. Moving away from that is easy to do when the boss comes out to say that Arsenal will sell its players for the next two decades to pay for their stadium. This causes even your casual fans to do a curious head tilt, followed by a wtf Wenger?

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The Silly Season started off with a bang and then went into hiding as Euro 2008 took over our... Click to continue reading...

There is a reason they call this the silly season. Brazilian superstar Ronaldihno, currently with FC Barcelona, has been linked with AC Milan, the LA Galaxy (which no one took seriously), Chelsea, and now Manchester City is being mentioned. AC Milan boss Silvio Berlusconi is ready to sell the family silver for Ronnie and only one club can probably outbid him, Chelsea. Click to continue reading...

Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham, Manchester United, my Uncle Bob, your Aunt Fanny, Old Bromleynians Football Club, a Ptarmigan named Percy, and a carousel of continental clubs have been salivating over Valencia's David Villa for weeks now, unfortunately for those clubs, and the press (who have been acting like feral hounds this silly season) [. Click to continue reading...

Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham, Manchester United, my Uncle Bob, your Aunt Fanny, Old Bromleynians Football Club, a Ptarmigan named Percy, and a carousel of continental clubs have been salivating over Valencia's David Villa for weeks now, unfortunately for those clubs, and the press (who have been acting like feral hounds this silly season) [. Click to continue reading...

In further confirmation that the MLS Summer Silly Season is firmly upon us, we received the following email below yesterday afternoon and sat on it while we did what we could to confirm at least parts of this story. That confirmation has now come in the form of this article in the Columbus Dispatch. Click to continue reading...