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so emmanuel adebayor has put pen to paper on a five year contract for manchester city, and i’m a little amazed. not so much that he’s leaving arsenal, because that’s not really surprising at all. i’m shocked with how out of left field this move was, and how quickly it happened. just a few weeks […]

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in what i think will become a semi-regular posting, i’d like to present the first edition of the “round up.” we’ll quickly take a look around a few short news stories that i found interesting, but don’t have a whole lot to say about… yet. we’ll sell cesc… for £40m – the sun in an […]

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First off, congratulations are in order to you Mr. Onyewu. After a collection of stand out performance at the Confederations Cup, you’re move from Standard Leige to AC Milan still caught me by surprise. While you have performed consistently well for the perennial Belgian power over the last few years now, it’s still a bit […]

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i won’t lie… i’ve been doing my damndest to hold my tongue and keep from gloating so far this summer. i don’t want to be the spoiled kid bragging to his guests at his own birthday party about all of the sweet presents he just got. but it’s so freaking hard. how am i supposed […]

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while bob bradley was trying his best to make me look stupid last week (and just barely failing), good old michael owen seems to be taking my advice. all of the major news outlets out of england are reporting this morning that owen is currently at old trafford taking an “extensive” medical, ahead of a […]

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What the hell is going on at the Eastlands? Who is making these transfer decisions? Is there an actual game plan for their purchases? I like to think Mark Hughes doesn’t have complete control over Manchester City’s transfers, because I don’t think he’s this stupid. Are the Arab owners pulling an Abramovich, and mandating that Cit-eh […]

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How long and hard the fall from Europe’s elite must be for Michael Owen. Just a few years ago, the former Balon d’Or winner was making his “dream move” to Madrid to become Florentino Perez’s last Galactico. Well, the last of his last set of galactico’s anyway. He was arguably (one of) the most feared […]