Having left a pretty bad mark in their latest meeting with Manchester United, Liverpool apparently wants their upcoming meeting against Sir Alex Ferguson’s side in the FA Cup returns as a memorable fixture in a footballing way.
This wish is being revealed by the Reds’ captain, Steven Gerrard, who felt that what happened in both clubs’ previous meeting have pretty much gave more negative aspect towards his team which is obviously not related with football.
Stop me if you have had heard this story before. An Arsenal players original injury is misdiagnosed and during his rehab, he gets injured again. This scenario almost cost Thomas Vermaelen all of last season, and now it is happening to Jack Wilshere. Its like Groundhog Day all over again.
Wilshere, whose original stress fracture injury was misdiagnosed, underwent surgery in the fall and was expected to make his first appearance in an Arsenal shirt this season in the next few weeks.
But Arsene Wenger told the media today that:
Carlos Tevez’s advisor, Kia Joorabchian is quoted in the English newspapers as saying that Tevez will not be sold in the January transfer window:
“We’ve been in negotiations with three big clubs but I don’t think they have reached the figures Manchester City want. Carlos will remain at Man City until the summer. They [City] would like to move him on but only at a certain price.”
Joorabchian was interviewed earlier today on TalkSport and said that Roberto Mancini’s handling of the situation is what caused the at situation to deteriorate the way it did:
Italian champions AC Milan have stated that they will be making a decision on signing Carlos Tevez today. Tevez who has been making headlines since he infamously snubbed Roberto Mancini’s request to come on as a substitute in their Champions League fixture against Bayern Munich last September, remains AWOL in his native Argentina.
The 27 year old striker has now taken to playing golf as his agent Kia Joorabchian tries to finalise a deal to Milan with only days left until the transfer window closes. However, the problem remains City’s hard stance on Tevez’s buying price.
As you probably know, Tottenham coach Harry Redknapp is currently been investigated for tax evasion offenses committed over 3 years ago and things got interesting yesterday when in tape recordings presented to the court, Redknapp said that he could not have fiddled his tax returns because he is illetrate.
Now, this might come off as unbelievable, but according to an embarrassed Redknapp, it is true. An excerpt from the recording below was played at the Southwark Crown Court yesterday.
Combustible words from Mario Balotelli’s agent Mino Raiola after his client was banned for four games for his stamp on the head of Scott Parker at the weekend.
Raiola was just getting warmed up when he said that he will take his client away from the Premier League if referees do not do a better job of protecting Balotelli:
The January 2011 transfer window was a blockbuster one as Premier League teams spent over £210 MILLION on transfers. Amongst the big spenders were Chelsea (David Luiz £21.4m, Fernando Torres £50m), Liverpool (Andy Carroll £35m, Luis Suarez £22.8m) and Aston Villa (Darren Bent £18m, Jean Makoun £6m). Who will be the big spenders this January?
When transfers have been confirmed by the league, we will post them below:
Updated Jan 26
Arsenal
Incoming:
Theirry Henry (loan)
Outgoing:
Luke Freeman (undisc.)
Emmanuel Frimpong (loan)
Sead Hajrovic (loan)
Vito Mannone (loan)
Aston Villa
Incoming
Robbie Keane (loan)
Enda Stevens (undisc.)
Manchester City have officially went out from another competition, this time it’s the Carling Cup after Roberto Mancini’s side only managed to get a 2-2 draw against Liverpool in the competition’s second leg, while getting beaten 1-0 in the first meeting.
Mancini himself was very disappointed at that failure but once again he put the blame on refereeing decision instead of his team’s own performance, which the manager though already pleasing enough.
Very interesting reports emerging that are linking Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger with Mourinho’s job at Real Madrid. Though very flattering the possibilities of Wenger leaving Arsenal any time soon are almost zero!
However, the same cannot be said of Jose Mourinho. The ‘special one’ once again had a negative result against arch rivals Barcelona, this time going down 4-3 on aggregate after pulling 2 goals back to level the scoreline in their Copa Del Rey quarter final return fixture at the Nou Camp.
A clearly angry Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak has ruled out Carlos Tevez’s move to Italian giants AC Milan. Mubarak who did not mince his words during an interview with The National in Abu Dhabi.
Mubarak is livid with the way Milan have conducted themselves the entire time and have continually maintained that loaning him with the option of buying at the end of the season is not an option.
Here are some of the not too friendly words that Mubarak had for Milan.
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