Long-winded people are boring, and writing full sentences is for chumps. So instead you have just SIX words. Sound easy? Good for you. Discuss the latest transfer gossip at the Brand New COS forum! One to watch in the Premier League's ridiculously hypocritical merry-go-round of tapping-up allegations for Tottenham fans. Click to continue reading...

This normally mild-mannered Finnish centre back has made it perfectly clear he is not a happy bunny after finding himself missing the cut for the club's Champions League squad! Discuss the latest transfer gossip at the Brand New COS forum! "The manager's decision to leave me out of the squad is a . Click to continue reading...

Apologies for starting this year's Bundesliga blog off with an entry based on ugly rumours (by which I mean allegations and not ex-British PM Tony Blair's ill-fated Stones-esque college band).
Since Euro 2008 ended, I've been feeding my soccer hunger by trawling my favourite sites for any morsel of information that can keep me sated. Click to continue reading...

According to the latest transfer gossip United may well try to sign Thierry Henry from Barcelona. We don't know who started the rumour, it could well have come from within Old Trafford, one theory doing the rounds is that the Reds are trying to force Spurs hand by telling them via the media that they will not budge on the Reds reported £24m valuation of Berbatov. Click to continue reading...

Today I concentrated on my French studies, picking up a free newspaper to read the football reports. Unfortunately the Liege "Dimanche" has a very limited grasp of the latest transfer gossip in the Premiership or how the pre-season training is going at The Walkers.

In fact, in truth it contained nothing about the football world at all. Click to continue reading...

I've had company, am trying to write the stuff I'm supposed to write, and it's downtime in the footie universe. So, for the moment let me just share this awesome video my guest shared with me: It's a German band called Sportfreunde and their song celebrates one of my favorite rising stars (and object of transfer gossip), Roque Santa Cruz. Click to continue reading...

About two weeks ago, I wrote a story about the kidnapping of Norum Yobo, the brother of Everton's solid center back Joseph Yobo, and how incidents like that involving high-profile African players and their families have become too all-too-common in recent times. While the situation obviously didn't look too good at the time, the good news was that more often than not, the situation was resolved peacefully — and that's a relative term — as long as the ransom was paid. Click to continue reading...

ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger is to adopt another child from abroad – after breaking down in tears when he realised most of his current squad of players want to leave. The Frenchman, nicknamed Fagin by pals, is world famous for recruiting young fingersmiths from foreign shores to carry out his miscellaneous larceny. Click to continue reading...

CHELSEA have today announced that Joseph Stalin's NKVD will be mediating peace talks between the club and ageing midfielder Frank Lampard. The two parties have fallen out over new boss Phil Scolari's erroneous claims that Frank Lampard had pledged his future to the club. The Chelsea midfielder maintains that this is complete bollocks and had [. Click to continue reading...

PORTSMOUTH yesterday completed a shock £11 million move for the world's tallest lamp post. It will be the 27-year-old lamp post's seventh club in eight years, after standing around and doing pretty much fuck all for Liverpool, Southampton, Norwich, Aston Villa, Portsmouth, QPR and Spurs. Ironically, Harry Redknapp sold the lamp post to Aston Villa back [. Click to continue reading...

Once again, I'm forced to apologize for the radio silence around these parts. While part of it is due to the fact I'm hesitant to write about unconfirmed transfer gossip, which is the only Liverpool "news" around, there's another reason as well.

Last Monday I ended my four-year exile from academia and began grad school. Click to continue reading...

Some news to read as you have "Highway to Hell" played at your funeral: Fabio Capello lounges around in Speedos. With photographic proof. (And for some reason this photo was less painful than expected. But still.) (The Spoiler) Transfer Gossip Poetry Grenade, Vol. I (Because what's the point of the transfer window if [. Click to continue reading...

As newspapers across the world fill their pages with transfer gossip, football fans are surely wondering when they can actually see their heroes step onto the pitch again. Surprisingly, most teams kick off their preseason schedules in about a week. Premiership Talk highlights Premiership teams' preseason plans:

• Manchester United kickoff their preseason against Aberdeen on July 12th.

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Blackburn's hiring of Paul Ince to become the club's next manager was probably the most under-the-radar, low-key appointment I've seen from a Premiership side in a long, long time. Ongoing action at Euro 2008, the release of next season's league schedule, and worst of all, unfounded transfer gossip, all received more coverage in the media than this piece of news. Click to continue reading...

Great match yesterday as Turkey played Germany off the park but had their luck run out on them. Still, one of the standout teams in the tournament and Fatih Terim is a wanted man across Europe now. On to today's rumours and transfer gossip: Rumours abound that Arsenal are lining up Peter Crouch as a [. Click to continue reading...

Here is an updated look at all of the latest transfer gossip for the Premier League clubs. I think every team is going to be linked with a Russian player over the next few weeks. Click to continue reading...

Here is an updated look at all of the latest transfer gossip for the Premier League clubs. I think every team is going to be linked with a Russian player over the next few weeks. Click to continue reading...

It's that time again, the summer transfer window has flung wide open with every Tom, Dick and Harry being linked to our favourite club. As soon as Euro 2008 finishes expect the transfer gossip to move up into overdrive. The tabloid press and their doctors of spin have only been warming up - it is going to get a lot worse, by the end of the silly season your nerves are likely to be shredded. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal have just confirmed that Aaron Ramsey is now officially an Arsenal player. Despite some rather mentally challenged calls for Arsenal.com to indulge some fans' calls for more transfer gossip and speculation, I am glad that our club only speaks once deals are done and dusted; the club generally conducts itself incredibly well as regards transfers and rises above the pathetic behaviour that Click to continue reading...

Not much is happening on the Arsenal front, so I won't bore you by filling this page with transfer gossip, that would be rather tiresome. Euro 2008 is underway, it hasn't exactly set the world on fire as yet, however it's still better than having nothing at all on the box. I'm sure it will pick up a bit once a few of the weaker nations have been sent packing, then the real competition can start Click to continue reading...

It's not usually my style to criticize the media. Bloggers do too much of that sort of thing already, and frankly, when it comes to the football press, I can't imagine a better system for keeping up to speed with the inner world of Tony Mowbray. Reporters seem to be everywhere; I honestly don't [... Click to continue reading...