Manchester city were given a boost on Tuesday when it was revealed that Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain has given the green light to his private advisers to go ahead and initiate talks with Manchester city over a £30 million transfer that would see him join his fellow Argentinians Tevez and Aguero at Manchester city. The Madrid striker has been a dominant force alongside Ronaldo in La Liga has proven to Roberto Mancini that is able to join the squad full of high-quality players and compete at the top level and deal with the squad rotation that inevitably happens at the worlds best clubs with Benzema and Higuain often rotating.
Archive | July, 2012
Steven Pienaar Returns to Everton for £5 Million
31 JulTottenham midfielder Stephen Pienaar has agreed to rejoin Everton ready for the 2012/13 Premier league season after a disappointing 18 months spell at Spurs. the midfielder is now 30 and has signed to the club where he made his name after returning on a loan deal in January meaning effectively only played for Tottenham for one year and while many would regard his time there is a failure he did show some glimpses and reminded Everton fans what they were missing in certain games including his good performance against Manchester United.
Manchester United Debt Burden Weighing Heavy on Fans
31 JulManchester United have been owned by their American paymasters the Glazer’s for a good few years now and in that time there’s been a lot of dissent from a good section of the dedicated Manchester United fans mainly over the level of debt that has been placed onto the club in order to finance the purchase of the club for the American owners. The interest on the debt has been questioned and been seen by many fans as a burden that has been borne by the club in order for the owners to actually afford to buy the club in the first place. Of course this is how a lot of business works and is a credit to the way the club is being run that they can afford to service this debt and still make money and grow the business.
Dempsey Looks Set To Sign for Liverpool
31 JulFulham’s player of the season has been left out of their trip to Switzerland for their pre-season training base where they will prepare for the 2012/13 Premier league season and what should be considered another European qualification bid with Martin Jol having settled in nicely to his role an adjusted well to life after Mark Hughes and Chris Coleman. it has already been reported on the website of Fenway sports group that the American Dempsey had signed for Liverpool only for that to be taken down after 24 hours when it was denied by fallen in what was an embarrassing scene for Liverpool football club and their American owners.
Manchester City must spend big to have a chance this season
30 JulThere is an old saying in football that as soon as you stand still, you start to go backwards. Roberto Mancini said exactly that today and tried to pass the message to the fans and the club that last season was won at the last minute and that they haven’t got a huge gap to defend: they hardly have a gap at all if you considered the stream of disgruntled fans walking out early because they tough that Man City would have blown the title in the match against QPR. Roberto Mancini have the right experience to understand that if winning is difficult, defending titles is much more complicated than that.
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Football Betting: Norwich to be relegated from the Premier League
28 JulLooking at last year’s Premier League table we can see that Norwich finished behind Swansea on goal difference alone however they haven’t received quite as much credit as the stylish Welsh side. Even if we look at what happened to their manager we can see that if Brendan Rodgers was able to land the Liverpool job, his colleague Paul Lambert only got Aston Villa’s vacancy. Swansea also attracted the attention of Michael Laudrup who saw that position as very fashionable whilst Norwich only attracted a Championship manager like Chris Hughton who underachieved last season with Birmingham.
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Liverpool FC New Philosophy Revealed by Rodgers
28 Julnew Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has been receiving a lot of good press in the last few weeks mainly from the players have enjoyed working with him in the early parts of the pre season tour of the United States of America. It is easy to see why he’s gaining the respect of the players if you listen to the reasons why they are praising him and the owners have recently received a fresh taste and reminder of why they hired the young manager with the presentation of a near 200 page document outlining the strategy of what he will try and do the take Liverpool to the next level and into the bracket competing with Manchester United and Manchester city.
Manchester City to Make Statement in Next 2 weeks
28 JulRoberto Mancini has made it clear to his Premier league rivals and the Manchester city fans that there will be new arrivals in the Manchester city squad within the next two weeks. He has not gone unnoticed that their main rivals including Chelsea have been very active in the transfer market in the early part of summer and with only two weeks before the community Shield clash between Chelsea and Manchester city Mancini has been keen to stress from his preseason tour press conferences that Manchester city will be ready with some more top-class players to start the new season making them even more of a threat for competitions they enter.
Football Betting: Chelsea shopping in Brazil
26 JulAfter winning the Champions League last season, Chelsea have invested heavily this summer to improve their squad and try to close the gap with the two Manchester sides in the Premier League. The Blues have focused on Brazil that not surprisingly is the nation that are the best youngsters at the moment. They have reported to have paid £25 million for the attacking midfielder Oscar and this is a remarkable amount of money if you consider that he is still 20 years old and only made his debut with the Selecao last September.
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Championship Betting: Outright
25 JulI was able to pick Reading at 18.0 to win last season and I have managed to cash in a decent amount so I though to try this again. When you bet on outright it is important that you get on it early so that you are able to get good value. This season the Championship should be wide open. Last season it was clear to see that some of the relegated teams stand out as ‘good things’ to go straight up and this doesn’t seem to be the case this term. If we take a quick look at the winner market we can see exactly how open this season promises to be as we have only marginal favourites.
