With the gap between the Championship and the Premier League getting wider with each passing season, newly promoted teams are finding it harder and harder to conjure up enough points to maintain their place in England’s top league. In fact, in every season except 2001–02 at least one Premier League newcomer has been relegated back […]

With Martin O’Neill adamant that Gareth Barry isn’t leaving the club for any less than £15m, Rafa Benitez is looking to raid his old club Valencia for winger David Silva.
This will be good news for many Liverpool fans, who feel the club already have enough talent in a midfield which includes Gerrard, Xabi Alonso and […]

The Euro 2008 semi-finals might be upon us, but that hasn’t kept Tottenham boss Juande Ramos from making sure that his London club are well in the spotlight with the transfer window nearing the boiling point.

New Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has always wondered what £100m gets you on the football open market, and he’s about to find out.
Multiple sources are saying that Roman Abramovich has decided to get back in the transfer race, and will give Scolari a blank cheque to chase the top players in the world.
New Chelsea […]

With Manchester City slowing things down just a tad in their pursuit of CSKA’s Brazilian Jo, AC Milan and a mysterious unnamed Spanish club are having a sniff around the striker….
“Manchester City’s desire to slow down negotiations for the £18m-rated Brazilian striker Jo to give their new manager, Mark Hughes, a proper sight of him, […]

From the looks of it, Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso is ready to walk away from the Merseyside club after coming to terms on a weekly salary with Juventus.
The Sun reports that Alonso and Juve have agreed on a deal that would pay him £70,000-a-week, however any possible deal that could be concluded quickly is being […]

If there’s one thing I learned when I was in school, it was that ginger haired Norwegian footballers and sunny Rome are never a good mix. Can you imagine that fair skin in the blistering sun? Now that is a third-degree sunburn waiting to happen. But honestly, when has my opinion ever mattered?
It seems […]

If you’re type of person that believes the words coming out of Liverpool gaffa Rafa Benitez’s mouth, you’d know be part of a fairly small minority that believes his 15 million pound valuation of strike Peter Crouch was A-OK! For those of us not living in a dreamland, you’d know that no team in […]

Reports are emerging that Chelsea have bid 50 million pounds for Liverpool hot shot Fernando Torres.
The Daily Mail reckons Roman Abramovich is ready to tempt the Anfield hierarchy with a massive fifty million, a figure that would help Rafa Benitez rebuild his squad.
An unnamed Chelsea source claims:
“There is a desire among certain […]

With Fernando Torres, Liverpool number nine in form at the moment, it’s likely the Reds top scorer will find himself playing plenty of football at this summer’s Euro 2008. Now that might be good for Spain, but is it good for Liverpool?
The club don’t want a tired or possibly injured Torres slowing down the […]