Archive for the ‘ Premier League ’ Category
In an exclusive interview for the Guardian, Manchester City chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak criticized Michel Platini’s planned control of football club expenditure. He has a point. Platini wants new financial rules by 2012. Under those guidelines, Clubs would spend within their soccer-generated income. Failure to do so would end in a European ban. Khaldoon argues that this [ READ MORE ]
Before playing Arsenal, former Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor said Arsenal supporters are “not real fans.” Continued at EPL Talk[ READ MORE ]
Paul Doyle of The Guardian once described Carlos Tevez as “the rich man’s Dirk Kuyt.” That man may be far more rich than we thought. Carlos Tevez left Manchester United for Manchester City, in a deal that reportedly paid Tevez’ handlers £25.5m. According to a new report in The Times, Tevez’ fee may really be [ READ MORE ]
Toward the end of his book Inverting the Pyramid, Jonathan Wilson writes about the changing nature of modern football. A player he brings up to emphasize this is Michael Owen. To Wilson, Owen is a relic of a previous era. Continued at EPL Talk[ READ MORE ]
Arsenal Statement: Arsenal’s new 4-3-3 formation eviscerated Everton’s defense for a 6-1 away win. Cesc Fabregas, finally healthy, erupted with two goals and two assists reasserting his claim to be considered one of world’s best. Van Persie, Arshavin and Denilson, the most underrated player in the EPL, were fantastic. Vermaelen and Gallas were solid in [ READ MORE ]
Nouveau Riche: Manchester City spent nearly $160 million this summer on players and rude billboards. The number excludes the combined $800,000 in salary, per week, said players will be paid. Mark Hughes must make sense of a squad rife with well-recompensed strikers and fragile egos. He must find another defender. The players were pampered like [ READ MORE ]
Manchester City are spending their way into the Premier League top four. Paradoxically, the club most amenable to their ambition is Arsenal, whom they wish to supplant. The Gunners sold City striker Emmanuel Adebayor for £25m. Less than two weeks later, they are prepared to sell them defender Kolo Toure for another £14m, as the [ READ MORE ]
Former England, Manchester City and Mexico manager Sven Goran-Eriksson did not become director of football at Notts County “for the money.” Nor, apparently, did he go for the prestige or mild degree of difficulty. Eriksson inherits a club that finished 19th in League Two last season, essentially the worst club in England that can be [ READ MORE ]
Sir Alex Ferguson has a practical take on morality. Anything benefitting Manchester United is right. Anything hindering Manchester United is wrong. With Manchester City and Real Madrid suddenly able to outbid Manchester United for players. It should surprise no one that the grizzled Scot spoke out for the little man…. (continued)[ READ MORE ]
The United States’ unexpectedly successful run in the Confederation Cup aroused the attention of the mainstream media. This gave a few soccerphobes the forum to cloak their neuroses beneath alleged truisms about “American” reaction to the sport. Not only are these “common sense” statements trite and cliched, but they are misguided and often irrelevant. Here [ READ MORE ]
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