While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

While most folks couldn't wait to give their opinion on the recently completed transfer market, I decided to take the international break off. Now with the best league in sports starting back up tomorrow, I figured it was time to... Click to continue reading...

This week's show is now up as a podcast. You can listen to the show from here, via the On Demand player, or you can subscribe to the show via iTunes.

Plenty to talk about on this week's show.
* I give you my take on the Alan Curbishley resignation and I give you what I think happened with Kevin Keegan and Newcastle United on Tuesday.

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With the season having started, it's been a little while since we made mention of the transfer market, but there are a few deals being talked about at present which merit mention. Prior to this weekend's clásico with River Plate, San Lorenzo welcome a new arrival on a year-long loan, Santiago Solari, having beaten several [. Click to continue reading...

In the midst of the gloom of a terrible start to the season, Racing have heard some positive talking this week. On Monday, new signing Javier Cámpora arrived from Mexico, amid hopes from the fans that he could be the team's saviour, and got straight down to talking up their chances. 'My dream is to [. Click to continue reading...

Racing showed on the opening day of the Apertura that they've still got some improving to do in certain areas if they're not going to have a repeat of last season's desperate struggle against relegation. On Tuesday, a step forward was taken with the unveiling of Boca Juniors' Pablo Migliore on loan, to provide more [. Click to continue reading...

Ariel Ortega agreed with the River Plate board on Tuesday to go out on loan for a season to Mendoza club Independiente Rivadavia, of Primera B Nacional. Ortega turned down the chance to move to the United Arab Emirates to play a season for Al Mir Sports due to the distance from his family and [...] Click to continue reading...

As if to prove that he can put together quite a handy team without including the Olympic-bound Lionel Messi, Juan Román Riquelme, Sergio Agüero et al, Alfio Basile has named the Argentina squad to face Belarus in a friendly in Minsk, two weeks from today (Weds). There are a couple of surprises in the all-Europe [. Click to continue reading...

One of the winter's longest-running transfer sagas has finally come to an end on Friday with the news that the apple of Diego Simeone's eye, Newell's Old Boys' Paraguayan striker Santiago Salcedo, has left Rosario to join River Plate. The champions have been ceded Salcedo's registration by Fernando Hidalgo and Eduardo López, a pair of businessmen who've just [. Click to continue reading...

For the National Basketball Association, it has been a turn-around of a situation it has long held advantage of.  In the last couple of weeks, the league has seen several current players or draft picks decide to turn down the chance to play in the NBA in order to move to, or stay in, Europe, and more [. Click to continue reading...

Now, here's a surprise. For days, his departure has been a given, but on Monday Oscar Ahumada, who's been arguing with River Plate's directors about his contractual status for over a week, agreed to a contract extension with the Núñez club which will see him remain with the champions for the foreseeable future. Click to continue reading...

So the saying goes, and so it's proven this weekend. Germán Denis has moved clubs and continents, joining Ezequiel Lavezzi at Napoli, and is scoring as freely as ever in pre-season for his new side. He got a hat-trick in his first appearance (as did Lavezzi last year, funnily enough) and scored again on Sunday [. Click to continue reading...

A quick note to let you know that during the 2008 winter break (that's summer for our northern hemisphere readers!), the page formerly known as 'squad lists' has been renamed 'transfers', and will contain a list, updated as frequently and accurately as I can manage (but please bear with me) of all the ins and [. Click to continue reading...

River Plate may have just won the title after a long wait but manager Diego Simeone already knows he's still got to find a few missing pieces in the jigsaw to get the side playing the way he'd like. One very important piece he already had is now out of the equation, though: his passport [...] Click to continue reading...

On the eve of the Clausura, Argentine clubs have been trying to get through one or two last-minute deals, with Independiente finally signing Freddy Grisales after much coming and going, and Andrés D'Alessandro and Maxi Moralez being unveiled at their respective new (or in Moralez's case, old) clubs. Click to continue reading...

With just a few days remaining before the 2008 Torneo Clausura begins, some of the sides are still going over their options when it comes to the formations and personnel for their opening matches. No such trouble for Argentina's Olympic manager Sergio Batista, who already seems to know his starting XI for Wednesday's match against Guatemala [. Click to continue reading...

Yesterday, HEGS reported that Andrés D'Alessandro's move to San Lorenzo from Real Zaragoza was all but done. On Thursday, it fell through after the clubs failed to agree a fee. And guess who might be sweeping in to pick up the pieces and bring the player back home? The club of his boyhood, that's who: [. Click to continue reading...