Transfer Round-up: Sickening Summer for Liverpool

It has been a sickening summer for Liverpool. What with Javier Mascheranos apparent eagerness to move to Barcelona and Xabi Alonsos determination to move to Real Madrid, Rafael Benitez has found himself battling to hold his midfield together.Perhaps just as worrying is the fact that so far nothing h...

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Villain's Role For Zenga

As press conferences go, Walter Zengas first as Palermo manager was surely entertaining, in a ha-ha funny sort of way: if his initial I have a squad brimming with important players and Im aiming for the league title made you smile then his follow-up Im convinced that between myself and Maurizio Zamp...

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Ancelotti Looking to Move Away from Loser Tag

Theres no hiding from it now: the Premiership they won were nice but what Chelsea really want now is the Champions League. In truth, that has been well known for quite a while yet if any confirmation was needed it came with the appointment of Carlo Ancelotti as manager. For, despite winning an Itali...

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Goalkeepers Have Cost Middlesbrough Dearly

Any Middlesbrough fans who still had the stomach for football after Saturdays shambolic defeat at Bolton will have regretted switching over to watch Fulham take on Liverpool.Within four minutes, former Middlesbrough goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer pulled off the first in a series of fine saves that kept F...

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What Liverpool Must Do Next

So, that’s it then: another year’s title challenge has faded away. Well, at least this year it really was a challengee. Trawling through the message boards, you’ll find many who want a clean sweep which includes getting rid of the manager. It is an understandable, if far fetched reaction, but in rea...

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Could Peter Crouch Regret Leaving Liverpool?

When Peter Crouch decided that he wanted to leave Liverpool last summer, it was impossible to blame him. With Benitez set on a system spearheaded by Fernando Torres and with Steven Gerrard just behind him, there was no room in the starting line up for Crouch. Sure, the manager publicly said that he...

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Liverpool - January 2009 Transfer Wrap

For many clubs January is the month of hope, a time when they get to dream about that potential signing that could make or break their season. At Liverpool, however, that isn’t the case. Certainly not this year where the hope of winning the league title has been slipping away with each game and d...

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Liverpool: January 2009 Transfer Window - Week Two

Hah, and you all thought that Liverpool weren’t going to do any business this time round! You thought that Benitez didn’t have any money and no one would be coming in unless Jermaine Pennant decided to shift his unwanted backside elsewhere? Hah and hah again! You’ve fallen for the old ‘no, we won’t ...

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2766: Wigan Athletic: January 2006 T

by : Paul Grech Whilst labelling Paul Jewell as the best English manager may be a little bit premature, if not wholly unmerited, he is certainly forging a reputation as being one of the shrewdest in the transfer market. The low key signings made during the summer have been doing extremely well wit...

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