Buzzin Football Blog

With FA cup third round games taking place this coming weekend, the next round of Premiership football will take place on the 10thJanuary 2009. So the notorious Christmas period of games comes to an end with Aston Villa taking on Hull tonight and the chance for Martin O’Neill’s team to nudge past Arsenal into fourthplace [...]

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Aston Villa have completed the signing of James Milner from Newcastle in a deal in the region of £10million.
The England Under 21 player was almost signed by Martin O’Neil for Villa back in 2006, having spent a season at Villa Park on loan from Newcastle, at the time the Magpies pulled out of the deal [...]

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It’s looking more likely that Gareth Barry will play for Villa in tonight’s UEFA game against FH Hafnarfjordur rendering him cup tied in all European cups till February, and putting the boot, finally, into the second longest transfer saga of the summer.
Hicks and Gillette must be secretly hoping for Barry to play this evening, and [...]

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The protracted transfers of Peter Crouch and Steve Sidwell have at last been agreed, with both players awaiting medicals with their respective new employers before being officially unveiled.
Crouch will join Portsmouth for a fee somewhere around £10million in a move that will see the striker back at Fratton Park for a second spell. There is [...]

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Aston Villa have agreed a fee of £5.5million for Chelsea midfielder Steve Sidwell, the player who left Reading last summer on a free transfer.
Sidwell has not been a regular choice at Stamford Bridge and will be excited by what has to be considered a move forward, given his lack of games this season. He was [...]

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