Bye bye Baby!
Manchester City striker Robinho is currently being name-tagged as a target for Italian outfit AC Milan. To say that the Brazilian star is unsettled in Manchester would be the understatement of the century with Robinho’s desired return to Santos clearly at the forefront of his mind.
AC Milan hope to capitalise on the player’s hope for leaving England as they attempt …
On the day in which Sky Sports launches its tedious news channel in high definition, it is hard to imagine how standard transfer fodder could be considered relevant in the minds of literally anyone. However, we must trundle on all the same, and so I bring to you the news that Zlatan Ibrahimović has today been linked with a move away from the Nou Camp.
Just one year on from his big …
Spurs’ boss Harry Redknapp is keen as mustard to augment his current strike-force before having another go at the Premiership and embarking on a first foray into Europe.
With the futures of Robbie Keane, Giovanni Dos Santos and Roman Pavlyuchenko looking quite like they may well lie away from White Hart Lane, Tottenham are in urgent need of reinforcements with pedigree if they are to avoid being overly dependent on Jermaine Defoe …
Huntelaarggggghhhh. The great enigma of the football world over the last few years, signed by the world’s greatest teams yet pushed towards the exit door before the ink has dried on his contract, a player that continues to frustrate.
Klass- Jan Huntelaar truly came to the attention of football fans during his time at Ajax, where he scored a fantastic 76 league goals in just 92 appearances, attracting the attention of clubs …
The gift that keeps on giving, namely this season’s owners at Upton Park, have been at it again.You can almost picture David Sullivan sat in his threadbare office at The Boleyn.
With his Panatella knocking out only marginally less heat than his electric fan heater, mental military style coat on, fully buttoned up, our hero is sipping champagne out of a polystyrene cup.
Strewn across his desk an eye watering plethora …
Want to know where Joe Cole, Edin Dzeko, David Silva, Jermaine Beckford and James Milner are heading this summer? So did we so figuring there’s no smoke without fire, Matt Weiner of Sabotage Times fed the players’ names and the clubs they’re linked to into Google to see where the most smoke is coming from. The results make very interesting reading…
Manchester City representatives were placing their bets with Barcelona yesterday. They met with Txiki Begiristain and Raul Sanllehí.
An initial bid of €20 million was made for the Ivorian. Unfortunately the player’s agent, Dmitri Selçuk seems to feel this is anywhere up to €15 million shy of the desired asking price. Other obstacles include City’s inability to boast Champions League football. Oh yes and Chelsea said to …
It’s incredible to think that Bosnian forward Edin Dzeko began his playing football for his youth side Zeljeznicar only a year after the ceasing of the hostilities of the Bosnian War.
Born and raised in Sarajevo, Dzeko, an unorthodox Muslim, amazingly survived the fierce confrontations and the Serbian ethnic cleansing between 1992 and 1995. “It was a hard time for everyone in the country,” he recalls. “There wasn’t much to eat, not really enough for three meals a day. I was very afraid every day. We were always having to hide when shots rang out or bombs fell. You could get shot at any time. I cried a lot in those days. Thank God the war is in the past.”
Now, remarkably, Dzeko, aged 24, is one of the most hotly touted personnel in world football.
The Bosnian continued playing for Zeljeznicar once he had turned senior in 2003 where he eventually made his debut as a midfielder. He had limited success during his first couple of seasons but a loan move to Usti nad Labern, a Czech second division club, provided a springboard to Czech Premier League outfit FK Teplice where his impressive performances brought him to the attention of Wolfsburg in 2007.
Dzeko was an instant hit. He finished his first season in the Bundesliga with eight goals and seven assists in seventeen games.
His outstanding performances along with those of his muscular strike-partner Grafite, who also joined the club in 2007, caused a rethink of Wolfsburg’s predominant 4-2-3-1. Manager Felix Magath advocated a switch to a system with two front men. The change quickly amplified the team’s efficacy: After garnering only 4 wins in 15 games before December, the reshuffle brought about 11 in 19. The following season, the combination of the Bosnian and the Brazilian Grafite (now the most successful combination in German league history), fostered a winning-streak of 10 games including a monumental 5-1 thrashing of Bayern Munich to take the German title to Die Wolfe’s for the first time in their history.
Despite Wolfsburg finishing a disappointing 8th this season, Dzeko defied the odds again by scoring 22 goals to become the Bundesliga’s top goal scorer. The striker’s astonishing strike-rate now stands at 54 goals in 94 appearances.
With Steve McClaren’s takeover of proceedings at the former German champions being greeted by a similar amount of confusion and questioning the board would have received had they appointed Keren Woodward from Bananarama, Dzeko is likely to reconsider his options this summer. AC Milan are rumoured to be his favoured choice; however, the striker, with an estimated value of around £25m, has claimed that he is willing to consider any interesting proposals. That, of course, will leave the door ajar for a Premier League transfer with Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham, Liverpool and Chelsea all rumoured to be interested.
The only presently foreseeable caveat is that Dzeko may require a robust partner for him to perform at his optimum.
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We’ve reached the end of the Serie A season and for the 5th season in a row Inter Milan, led by former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, have won the Scudetto and been crowned as champions. The Special One will now want to add a second Champions League trophy to his cabinet and possibly leave the San Siro for La Liga and Real Madrid in the summer having won the …
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