Just a few days ago Andrei Arshavin was one of the golden boys of Euro 2008, with the top teams from La Liga and the Premiership showing interest in the Russian midfielder as a possible transfer target.
Barcelona, the club Arshavin has supported since a boy, were the first club to show their intent making an [...]

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has followed UEFA president Michel Platini by poking his nose into the ongoing Cristiano Ronaldo affair.
Blatter, like Platini says that Ronaldo should be allowed to join Real Madrid if he so desires, but I wonder what their perspective would be if Manchester United were the club making overtures towards Real Madrid.
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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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Felipe Scolari has just finished speaking with the English media, his first press conference as the new Chelsea manager.  He was speaking from Chelsea’s training ground in Cobham, Surrey.
He spoke well, telling of how John Terry knocked on his office door and introduced himself as ‘John Terry, the Chelsea captain’.  He said John Terry would [...]

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Alexander Hleb has admitted to falling out with Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger over his playing role in the team during last season and says that he told Wenger that he wanted to move at the end of the season.
Hleb is frustrated that despite putting his cards on the table, he is still at the Emirates [...]

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