It’s summer, the World Cup is finally over, and the dull hangover has begun. Nonetheless, the new Premier League season is already looming over us like a grey, gloomy cloud of crippling despair…or a beautiful, joyous rainbow if you’re after a happier analogy (depends what mood you’re in really).
So, let’s force a smile and take a gander at some – or, more precisely, one – of summer’s most wanted; Anas Sharbini.
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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 …
Manchester City have been on the look out for a centre midfielder ever since Roberto Mancini took charge at Eastlands. After being turned away in a bid to lure Fernando Gago to City, the Italian tactician has turned his attention to Parma starlet McDonald Mariga; the midfielder has been a revelation in Italy and has attracted interest from a number of English clubs already in his career.
The Kenyan international …
To say Chris Smalling’s rise from non-league football obscurity to starting the 2010-2011 season possibly taking the field at Old Trafford to play at the heart of Manchester United’s defence, is meteoric would, for once, be something of an understatement. Manchester United’s new £7m signing from Fulham, who he only joined in June 2008 and for whom he has made a grand total of 4 league appearances, was snatched …
Standard Liege striker Milan Jovanovic has been the subject of prolonged speculation regarding his future in Belgium, with clubs such as AC Milan, Everton and Aston Villa all monitoring the striker’s form. He recently admitted that Liverpool are very much interested in his services.
Jovanovic confirmed, “News that I have already said yes to AC Milan are not correct,” Jovanovic said. “I am still waiting, I haven’t decided. Also …
In football we are forever hearing about the next ‘big’ young star. A new week will bring another young prodigy who is supposedly the future of football yet these rumours will often amount to nothing and the name will disappear into obscurity, never to be spoken again. There is however, occasionally a name that comes along and brings with it a wave of genuine excitement over the talents of a hot …
French striker André-Pierre Gignac has been linked with a move to the Premier League since his goalscoring exploits last season. The likes of Arsenal and Juventus have all been said to be interested in the powerful striker.
Currently with Toulouse, 24-year-old Gignac was the top-scorer in Ligue 1 last season with 24 goals in 38 appearances. He was in great form throughout the season and really dominated defences. Gignac is powerful figure; …
Manchester United are not the sole club to have been strongly linked with Argentinean left winger Angel Di Maria in recent times. Both Chelsea and Manchester City, as well as a host of clubs from Spain and Italy are all thought to be very keen on the left footed winger, whom Diego Maradona recently cited as being the “next big thing from Argentina”.
What is it that makes Di Maria so …
One European youngster that will be plying his trade in the Premier League before long is Ajax’s Gregory van der Wiel. The 21-year-old right back is attracting interest from a number of sides in the Premier League, including Arsenal and Manchester City.
Van der Wiel made his debut for Ajax on March 2007 in a 4–1 away win against FC Twente. He made a further three appearances that …
Although he may not be a name that has been pasted all over the back pages of the newspapers recently, don’t be fooled into thinking that the likes of Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United have conveniently forgotten about the mercurial talents of SC Lille’s exciting young Belgian born midfielder Eden Hazard.
The youngster has been on the radar of many of European soccer’s elite clubs since …
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