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Dave Parker/Brighouse Echo - "The Big Voice of Sport"
Praise for the QPR Operation -
"...I CALLED in last Saturday at Loftus Road in Shepherds Bush, right outside the back door of the BBC Television Centre and the famous White City.
Hardly saw a car once I was off the A40 Western Avenue as there are so many tube stations and this made it easy for getting away afterwards and we were back in Brighouse for 8. Click to continue reading...

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Kilburn Times/Ben Kosky - Dowie doesn't expect striking changes
IAIN Dowie admits he needs to sign a striker - but has low expectations of doing so before the transfer window closes on Monday.
With Patrick Agyemang sidelined by a groin problem and Rowan Vine still some weeks away from returning, Dexter Blackstock - who missed Tuesday's Carling Cup win over Carlisle with 'flu - is QPR's only available senior forward. Click to continue reading...

Is it just me or are we linked with every striker in Europe that's around the £20m+ mark?

In the last week Spurs have been linked with Villa, Ashton, Arshavin, Pavlacheynko and even bloody Diego Forlan. And let's not forget it's only been a few weeks since we were apparently in the market for Lukas Podolski and Ruud Van Nistelrooy! Click to continue reading...

Long-winded people are boring, and writing full sentences is for chumps. So instead you have just SIX words. Sound easy? Good for you. Many believe the strict wage structure at Arsenal is commendable and some believe it to be holding the club back. The club's insistence on offering obscene amounts of . Click to continue reading...

Hleb, Flamini, Diarra and possibly Adebayor off to pastures new? Why do Arsenal's best players want to leave? Here are a few reasons why... 1. A rigid wage structure Rightly or wrongly, Arsenal has a wage structure that it's not... Click to continue reading...

It looks increasingly likely that Emmanuel Adebayor is going to take the money and run to Barcelona, something which Arsenal can do very little about, as they continue to adhere to their rigid wage structure. Obviously, Adey's departure might leave the team a bit short of firepower and that's where Daniel Guiza (diamond to his [. Click to continue reading...

The Telegraph reports that Big Phil, clearly a member of the Frank Lampard fan club, wants to offer the England midfielder a whopper of a contract. In fact, the contract that Scolari is offering Lampard is so huge that it is going to break the wage structure at Chelsea. Not that we knew there [...] Click to continue reading...

Tottenham continue to look for more top names to add to their fast-improving squad, however this particular investment would be a big mistake! Tottenham are looking to offer Blackburn Rovers winger David Bentley a deal worth £70,000-a-week to move to White Hart Lane. Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is reluctant to shatter the club's wage structure but [. Click to continue reading...

So what's going to happen this week? Well, given the experience of the last month, not a whole lot. Wenger, as we know, is working out in Austria and Switzerland (he has got his eye open for a deal he tells us - though I'm not sure how flexible the Uefa rules are about domestic managers with chequebooks and fountain pens pouncing on players on national duty).

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Mathieu Flaimini's decision to seek greener pastures at AC Milan has caused a massive upheaval for the Gunners. Despite forging a formidable midfield partnership with Cesc Fabregas, Flamini chose to forsake his blossoming career by cashing in on his status as a free agent. Is he right to do so? I will say yes, considering how [. Click to continue reading...