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Guy Lacombe’s Monaco moved to within a point of the league leaders with this win away at Boulogne.
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This season, Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor has been in excellent form and is vying for the top scorer award in the Premiership. The Togo international has been earning accolades for finally emerging out of Thierry Henry’s shadows but the ever so humble Adebayor doesn’t forget the man who brought him to London in the first place.
Arsene Wenger signed Emmanuel Adebayor from French club AS Monaco in January 2006 for £7 million. The player had been a mediocre player for Monaco then and could manage only four goals in the second half of that 2005-2006 season.
This season though Adebayor is flying high and he says that his manager Arsene Wenger is responsible for the turnaround:
At Monaco, from June to December I scored only one goal in 19 games. How come Arsene Wenger came and looked for me? It is something special. He is the one who gave me a chance to become who I am today. I want to keep on enjoying myself and listening to him.
Once again, Wenger’s hawk-eye vision does the trick for Adebayor and Arsenal. Indeed the Frenchman is a genius when it comes to spotting talent and galvanizing that into something concrete and constructive.
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Didier Deschamps has come out of the bag and has accepted that he would have cherished working as the manager of Newcastle United. Last week, former England boss Kevin Keegan was appointed as the manager of the Geordies but as Newcastle United Mad quotes him, Deschamps admits that he would have loved the adventure.
The former AS Monaco manager says:
I was interested and would have studied that option, but I did not have live contacts with the club. They are not a top-four club but have a big history and a billionaire as boss. It would have been interesting, but as soon as they contacted Kevin Keegan I knew it was over. I am not rushed by anything, I will manage again in the future, it is a question of opportunities and of a club’s plans.
And opportunities will throw themselves at your feel, Monsieur Deschamps. He guided modest Monaco to the final of the UEFA Champions League in 2004 and led Juventus back into the Italian Serie A last season. Surely another managerial job for the French great is just round the bend. Any Premiership club ready to oblige?
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With 15 points from 21 Premier League matches, Fulham are one from bottom and two points off the safety zone. This is not the first time that the Londoners have been battling for survival in top-flight English football and they have to pull out a giant miracle to stave off relegation. According to The Sun, to accomplish that, new manager Roy Hodgson has decided to drag out a giant from Europe.
The giant in question is a certain 6ft 7in Czech international striker named Jan Koller, who is currently with the French Ligue 1 side AS Monaco. Fulham have struggled for goals this season and are in desperate need of a target man to rescue their season. So far, the Cottagers have won just two matches, both at home, and have scored just 22 goals. No wonder that Hodgson has identified the Fulham attack line as the main area of trouble.
Koller is unsettled at Monaco and is reported to be looking for a move out of the municipality club. His giant stature makes him a daunting prospect for the defenders in the air and his physical strength, too, is massive. Koller had been good at Borussia Dortmund for whom he netted 59 times in 137 appearances but goals have dried up at Monaco.
Koller would be just one of the new signings. Hodgson is famous for fostering contacts with scouts across Europe and he could well use his contacts to import some players from overseas to breathe life into this insipid Fulham side that desperately requires a shake-up.
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