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UF Quick Throw: The Pompey exodus begins

Portsmouth have accepted a “substantial bid” from Real Madrid for midfielder Lassana Diarra. As if things weren’t hard enough for Adams already… he’ll lose Defoe and Johnson in less than a month too.

[BBC Sport]

Written by Darkvader on December 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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Gone Baby Gone

When I began to write this on Tuesday morning, just hours after Dimitar Berbatov was unshackled and unveiled as the newest slave on Colonel Ferguson’s Old Trafford Plantation, the plan was to slice up the sulky Bulgarian and feed his limbs to the woodchipper. I was insane, combing the Yellow Pages for a Zoroastrian (preferably named “Vilma”) to ritualistically shave my testicles.

But with time and the first few chapters of “The Joke” now having stewed around my head a bit, the gauntlet has been retrieved. The daggers, sheathed. I’m still going to have to buy a new Spurs shirt. Please, Dimi, $70 payable to The Likely Lad. The rage though, has passed. Berbatov was never staying at White Hart Lane. To have sold him at such an inflated rate– and to bring in Young Campbell too– is victory, however Pyhrric, for the club and its fans.

As first noted by PavlyuBent (nee BerbaKeane, nee BerbaBent), the credit in the outcome of this miserable, prolonged drama, goes largely to Those Batshit Arabs (TBA) who purchased Manchester City. Daniel Levy had no choice but to sell Berbatov by the transfer deadline and everyone knew it. By Monday morning, as Colonel Ferguson rose from his alcoholic stupor, there was no chance a club bidding against itself was going to pay Spurs’ asking price. But in came TBA, always there to bail us silly Jews out of our silly Jewish messes, and their Citeh caper. Fourty-eight hours later Berbatov is, for no less than 30.75m, property of the second largest club in Manchester.

I’m a Spurs supporter. My heart is full and my life is one piece. There is joy (little “j”) and pain and they can co-exist. But there are no tears. Not for this guy. Losing players is a part of this sport more so than any other. Football, as much as I love it, is still new to me. That, along with so many years of rooting for shitty-but-rich New York teams (Mets, Jets, Rangers), has made the process– and the process is as bad if not worse than the fact– of losing such a talented player that much more galling.

Berbatov signed from Leverkusen in the summer of 2006 with average expectations. But he was magic from the start. For six brilliant months it was flick-ons, dummies, step-overs and goals. Loads of goals, even if the highlight reel shows a lot of Middlesbrough and Slavia Prague.

The crack-up, the kind “you don’t feel until it’s too late to do anything about,” came in the Spring of ‘07. Just one season at the Lane (and as noted, just six months before the chatter began) and it was clear that this was not a long term arrangement. In that regard, Monday’s move was an anti-climax. This deal was done more than a year ago.

Football is fleeting, and especially so for the footballers. Berbatov is 27 years old. Health-permitting he has three or four more years to pad his fag fund. Staying at Tottenham, he would never have entered the Nou Camp as anything better than a paying customer. Ambition is not Dimitar Berbatov’s sin.

It was his behavior, on-field and off, in concert with the agent Dantchev– whom I imagine to look like Borat’s producer– that makes Berbatov such a disdainful character. Barry Bonds never played for the Mets, so I don’t know how a Giants fan rationalized rooting for him. But it couldn’t have come from a much different place than allowed me to pull on a Berbatov shirt every weekend. His sulky gait, the rolling of the eyes, the pleading arms– it wore on for so long that now, a couple days after his departure, the only emotion is relief.

The team may hurt for goals this season, but come success or failure, there’ll be nothing owed, no moral promissory note on my fandom. The Spurs players now at Tottenham are there because they believe in the manager, their system, and better-than-average Premier League wages. No illusions here about how fragile that peace may be, but for today at least, I can like my football team again.

Written by Darkvader on September 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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Pick Me…Pick Me!

Need a Nobby? He’s on a free!

Morning all. On Monday night the transfer window slams shut until Jan 1st. Those left without will only be allowed to sign free agents and loans… is it such a bad thing? Bigus is a fan of loans as they allow Championship teams to grab a young promising player without any risk. How many times has a player been given a 3 year deal only to sit in the reserves as a failure? If you are from Norfolk, you could still be counting after an hour!

An example of a good “loan” was Ched Evans. Ched was excellent for Norwich last year. This year he finds himself in the Man City side. Yesterday he came on as a sub and scored a penalty as Mark Hughes’ team scrapped through in the UEFA Cup. So loans aside now, lets have a butchers at a few players who are available on a freebie…

Peter Enkleman
Stephane Henchoz
Bruno Berner
Stelios
Andranik
Hernan Crespo
Stefan Wessels
Jay Jay Okocha
Emile Mpenza
Mendieta
Dong Gook Lee
Stephen Carr
Dominic Matteo
Russell Hoult
Marlon Broomes
Adam Garrett
Ian Harte
Stanislav Varga
Stephen Wright
Nolberto Solano
Freddie Ljungberg
Anton Sibierski
Josip Skonko
Salomon Olembe

Sibierski? Yes please says this Norwich fan!

Some oldies but goodies. Stelios and Mendieta are still Premiership quality and I find it hard to believe that one of the bottom-half EPL teams has not thought about signing one of those two.

Solano, Sibierski, Ljungberg and Henchoz can also offer valuable experience to one of the EPL newcomers. Hull’s back line is strong but they could certainly do with Nobby Solano or Freddie Ljungberg in their side creating chances. Crespo will surely end up signing a deal in Italy, besides he is poop anyway, isn’t he? Over-rated muppet! (I’d take him for Norwich tho’, come on Glenn, get him in!)

Enkleman will join a number of that list dropping into the Championship or League 1 this term. His fumbly fingers were on show during the FA Cup final this year for Cardiff and he certainly looked as if his top flight days were definitely done. But a quick scan at that list offers hope to sides living outside of the top flight. If you are a Colaship club then you could be in luck… if, of course, you can convince one of the above to drop their Premier League wages.

Mpenza, Carr, Matteo, Varga, Harte, Skonko, Hoult and Lee would all do very good jobs at Championship level, AND if you have a little money in the budget you may even nab yourself a Solano or Sibierski!

One thing is clear, Premiership teams and Championship teams have been playing funny games all summer. This years transfer activity has been staggered and slow. Monday is going to be a roller coaster of a ride for fans all over the country as late deals are on and then off again and teams lose out as bigger teams turn to their second choice which was YOUR first.

Angry managers and teams holding out for a better deal should make it very interesting indeed, but once the dust settles on Tuesday it’s reassuring that there will be a few good players left on the shelf..hanging out for that last (big?) pay day.

-Bigus

Written by Darkvader on August 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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Where in the world is Wayne Rooney?

You can surely file this missive under the “Too Early” label, but it’s still a point worth mentioning: what on earth has happened to Wayne Rooney? He’s been on a rather troubling trajectory of late, and his growing anonymity in games is close to rivaling the disappearances of England teammate Frank Lampard. Where’s the hustle, the influence, the pace, the tenacity? Perhaps he left them all at the beach with Coleen?

As far as his career is going, he’s at a difficult age. Considering when he came into the league, he’s still incredibly young, but time served dictates that he should be emerging into one of the world’s top players at this point. He’s had great managers, great teammates, and all the opportunities in the world to take his skills to the highest possible level. Of course I’m not ruling out that he’ll still get there, but his rather lackluster form is troubling the masses.

The papers and the blogs are beginning to touch the story, so I figured I’d have a go. My solution is relatively simple: he needs to leave Manchester United.

The Guardian is the first to point out the delicate situation unfolding, noting that Fergie isn’t really doing a good job in figuring out what to do with young Wayne, or how to curb his natural tendencies to backtrack when he’s needed as a striker. For them, the answer is simple: buy another striker.

Right, it’s that simple, isn’t it? The process of solving problems via spending has worked, with varying degrees of success, the other big English clubs, and it seems like whenever they have a down year, Barca and Real simply open the purse and let their wheeling-dealing fix any issues they couldn’t battle out of before.

However, time is ticking on that window, and the Berbatov mess is now worse than the Gareth Barry quicksand that sapped our energy all summer long.

This guy sums things up a bit, but leaves us on a cliffhanger, although he does point to two other articles that present another side to an already complex problem.

Again, the Guardian looks at Rooney’s wandering tendencies as being part of the problem, and miraculously, they get Fergie to open up on the subject! Normally he would let his lacky deal with any unpleasantness, but Queiroz is long gone back to Portugal…

This is something we are talking to Wayne about and he himself has started to identify that it’s a weakness. It is not a bad thing for him to have come out [after England's 2-2 draw against the Czech Republic] and said so.

He is realising he needs to be more around the edge of the box in the last third of play. It can be a waste of energy chasing from man to man to man. But that’s his natural enthusiasm and you can’t fault that.”

Well, if we’re being brutally honest, you can fault that, especially if it’s stopping Manchester United from being the offensive juggernaut they and their fans have come to expect.

Meanwhile, another perspective offers word from young Wayne himself, and how he feels he doesn’t need to change his style in order to win:

While Ferguson is content the deficiency is nothing major, he does feel Rooney’s energy could be better utilised elsewhere.

Capello is of the same opinion and feels the 22-year-old should concentrate on terrorising opposition defences, but Rooney is content with the way he plays and does not believe any adaptation is required.

“I don’t think I will ever lose my determination,” he said.

“It is something I have always had. If we are not winning I get frustrated. “I don’t like losing. If you are telling me that is wrong I won’t believe you.”

Rooney clearly feels his all-action style is based upon a natural competitive streak that comes to the surface when situations are starting to turn sour.

Uh oh. Well this is a little mini-storm brewing, isn’t it?

Fabio and Fergie feel one way, Rooney does another. So what’s the tipping point?

As I see it, albeit in my outsider, bloggy perspective, think this isn’t something that’s going to disappear any time soon, regardless of whether Man U get themselves scoring three or four goals a game. Rooney’s style of play is rather hard to pin down into a system, but it appears that a system and form is exactly what Man United are looking for. They want a coherent style of play with a clear purpose, but it’s tough to do that when you have a player who doesn’t understand where their responsibilities begin or end.

A lot of people (including on this blog) point to Steven Gerrard as being a guy who gives Liverpool a similar problem; no matter what the formation or tactics, Stevie Mbe has freedom to do whatever he pleases, and while I welcome that, it’s not entirely beloved.

For Rooney, it’s slightly different considering he’s employed as a striker. It’s no secret that your strikers are going to be ineffective when they’re coming back to their own half to either win possession or collect possession, but what can Ferguson do? Tevez also loves to come back behind the front two and maraud, so that leaves them with just Saha and Frazier Campbell to actually play striker. Not exactly world-beating, is it?

The other big complication is Rooney’s age. He’s demonstrated in the past just how sensitive he is to criticism, a by-product of his tough upbringing, and while he thrived at a one-dimensional club like Everton, where both his work rate and enthusiasm were championed, things are a bit different at Old Trafford.

The team mentality is there like it was at Goodison, but there are still hierarchies of personality within the team, and it trickles down from there. Everyone has a job to do, and Rooney’s constant disappearance from the front line, where he should be, is causing problems in the way they distribute the ball and begin their attacks.

When Ronaldo is back, it should get easier for Fergie to marshal everyone into a coherent attacking unit, but if he speaks out much more on the subject, he risks sending Rooney into a tailspin.

Wayne Rooney is the future of England. He’s showing the skill of Beckham, the scoring ability of Lineker, and the guts and emotion of Gascoigne, arguably three of our biggest national heroes in the annals of history. Perhaps Man United’s formalism isn’t right for him. These problems wouldn’t crop up at a club where he could employ his work rate without fear of rebuke. For me, I certainly don’t think it’s where he is now.

Written by Darkvader on August 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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Guzan Gets His Work Permit

Hot off the FIFA wire…or at least into UF’s mailbox, US Olympic Keeper and former Chivas USA keeper Brad Guzan obtained his work permit from the “Home Office” completing his transfer to Aston Villa. He is set to join Brad Friedel, another American keeper, at the Birmingham club.

Written by Darkvader on August 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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The End Is Near…Isn’t It?

Rafa the rat? Something smells funny!

If I stay there will be trouble… if I go it will be double. Well, ok… no it won’t, it would be rather nice. Champions league football, more money and a guaranteed 4th place finish in the Prem.

The Gareth Barry saga rolls on. It appears as if Martin O’Neill’s latest bluff may have worked. O’Neill has stated that Liverpool had a deadline issued to them to meet Villa’s valuation of Barry and it passed. This means that the want-away midfielder stays a Villa player and is no longer for sale. Clever old Martin. Barry is pacing, Rafa is cursing (or is he?).

“Absolutely delighted” and “relieved there is resolution and closure to the transfer saga. Now we can all look forward to the season ahead with relief, anticipation and ambition.”

-Martin O’Neill on Barry ’staying’!


O’Neill: no nonsense!

O’Neill has talks set to take place with Barry today and the outcome could be that this little saga is over. Villa will surely point out that Liverpool have just spent 20 million pounds on Robbie Keane but have been playing silly buggers over Barry’s value all summer. “Dey can’t want yer that bad now can dey Gareth?”(Bad Irish accent)

Rafa has spent weeks bemoaning his need to off-load players before he can meet O’Neill’s lofty price tag. His window to sign Barry just stopped an inch from the sill and if he is not quick, you can either expect a new contract at Villa for Barry making him their top earner by a lot of weekly wedge, OR maybe even a move elsewhere. Arsenal have been lurking but they too seem reluctant to spend 18 million on Barry [Ed. Note: they could also be hesitant because he's not a French teenager. Sorry, it had to be done.]

If he stays, you can expect a statement declaring dedication and devotion to the Villain cause. Barry will lament his mistake of wanting to leave and will desperately try to get the booing Villa fans back on his side. He will also probably get a hefty pay rise!

O’Neill’s bluff is a no win for Benitez as he knows the feisty Villa boss means it… he also knows that if he does really want Barry and decides to stick his fingers on the window ledge, then Liverpool will be subject to sale-of-the-century bids for many of their players as their need to recoup the Barry fee grows desperate. Alonso will be the first bargain for sure.

But consider this… did they really think that Villa would fold? Even as they splashed 20 million on Keane? Seems odd that Barry was their focus for much of the summer only to be left dangling as Rafa emptied his red piggy bank on Daniel Levy’s table. Perhaps it’s all just a game. Could it be the mother of all smokescreens. Is another midfielder on his way? One that no one expected but many would like if they knew that he was available?

It wouldn’t be the first time. Usually managers never announce the targets they really want to get their hands on. How many of you thought Keane was going to Liverpool? That one was right out of the blue and was a done deal in 3 days. Bigus smells a rat here!

Why would Rafa decide to air his laundry for all to see? Sure he has unsettled the player, but he could have done that via his agent… and you know he did! By negotiating the transfer in the open you just alert all of Alonso’s suitors to your situation. No wonder he has not been flogged yet. Other clubs are playing the same game Rafa is!

Maybe he really thought that Villa would grant Barry his cut price move, that simple… “You’ve been a good servant to the club so you have lad… off yer go… 13 million? That’s alright..we never spend more tan foive on a player anyways!”(Bad accent again)

The biggest loser?

The only loser here is Barry, as he’s the one left to pick up the pieces. But don’t feel too bad, he earns enough! One thing is for sure, O’Neill means business and will not risk his plans for the new season. Expect an end to this nonsense very soon!

- Bigus.

Written by Darkvader on July 31st, 2008 with no comments.
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!

Stop the World, I want to get off! I thought I’d seen it all…

- Over 50% of the U.S voting population re-elected George Bush in 2004.

- Every winter, truck Drivers transport 6 tons worth of supplies at a time over 300 miles on frozen lakes.

- People actually bought Taylor Hicks records.

- Spurs are playing in the UEFA cup this year, and people actually paid good money to see this movie

But no, something more incredible has happened….Fulham are paying Everton 13 million quid for Andrew ‘Submarine’ Johnson. 13 million pounds for a guy who runs around the pitch like a headless chicken before conning the ref that he actually had a chance to score when he completes a triple twist somersault unlike any you will see in Beijing this Summer.

If this guy is worth 13 million then Robbie Keane’s move to Liverfourth should be trebled. 100 million for Kaka is starting to look like a right old bargain. 11 million smackers for Crouch? Sale of the f—— century.

Bigus… it sounds like you really loathe this Johnson fellow?


I actually do…For a couple of reasons. One, he dived in injury time of a game (the penultimate) for Palace against Norwich, winning a penalty and securing a point for Palace, robbing City of 3 points that would have meant Premiership survival for Bigus’ super Canaries! And… two, I cannot bare to see a diver wearing the England shirt. It makes me want to vomit.

Even with my partial opinion of submarine Johnson, I have sought my soul and still find it reasonable to attack this transfer as a sign of the apocalypse, an indication that money in football has spiraled out of control and a decent clue that Fulham manager Roy Hodgson couldn’t spot a talented player if he was transported here or here.

So what are Fulham getting for 13 million quid? Well you will get 1 goal every 4 games, many of which are penalties of course. Johnson scored a record 8 penalties in Crystal Palace’s relegation season of 2005. They are getting a player who has no credibility and has been criticized by many managers for his talent of finding the floor in the box.

Jose Mourinho famously called Johnson “untrustworthy” after a game in Dec 2006. Neil Warnock accused him of “gamesmanship” after he had won a penalty against Sheffield United.

But Jose, Warnock and old Bigus are all nuts right? He doesn’t really dive more often than the red arrows?

I’ll leave you with this…

-Bigus.

Written by Darkvader on July 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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Carlito’s £32 Million Way

Manchester United has finally splashed out the cash, £32 million, this summer…for a player already on the team, Carlos Tevez. United’s move will finally put to bed the long, sordid tale of Tevez. He was brought over to West Ham by Kia Joorabchian’s MSI company, then loaned to Manchester United but MSI still owned Tevez’s contract. It has been a complicated mess.

The transfer fee is an English record, surpassing Andriy Shevchenko’s £30.6 million transfer ins 2006. Hopefully, Tevez will be a better buy than Sheva.

Last season Tevez scored 19 goals in 48 appearances, helping Manchester United to the League and Champions League double. This coming a season after Tevez almost single-handedly kept West Ham from relegation.

It’s possible this transaction signals United’s intent to sell Ronaldo, at the peak of his value. The club is having massive debt issues and this isn’t likely to help the situation.

Written by Darkvader on July 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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Breaking News: Kaka to Chelsea for 100 Million Euros

I am admittedly not an expert on string theory, but I do know that one of its basic tenets is that the universe is made up of 9-10 simultaneous dimensions, most of which we cannot perceive. Although somewhat controversial, I would argue that Chelsea prove this theory to be true: they exist on a completely different plane than the rest of the football universe.

Want proof? Okay. The Guardian is reporting that Chelsea are in “advanced” negotiations to bring World Footballer of the Year Kaka to North London for an astronomical sum of 80 million pounds/100 million euros. The move does seem to make sense for both sides considering that AC Milan won’t be playing in the Champion’s League next year, except when you consider that the transfer fee equals the GDP of some third world nations. No matter: Abramovich just needs to open his checkbook. Guess this means that hiring Scolari really was a shrewd move and that Chelsea can afford to let Lampard and Drogba go, although I wouldn’t bet on it. This also makes the rest of this summer’s transfers seem like chump change.

More coverage to come, assuming the deal really does go through, but frankly I’m somewhat speechless at the moment.

Written by Darkvader on July 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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Transfer Market Irritations

Thanks to the idiot press back home, the papers are flooded with every possible transfer rumour under the sun. Every day, we get more news about so-and-so to Big Club FC, or the aging hero meekly accepting a small-ball bid to move to a small-town franchise. Even Jesus Christ himself is on the move, leaving heaven to ply his trade at FC Porto on a 2-year deal.

Bad jokes aside, there are a few players whose names are appearing far too much, and it has to stop. At this point, all quality and calibre aside, I couldn’t care less where they play next year as their sagas have become so protracted that you just wish the season began tomorrow and that we could enjoy 3 months with silence on the transfer front.

So who are these oiks that are overpopulating the world’s sports pages with will-they, won’t-they?


5. Anything involving Spurs

Yep, I’m sick of all the rumours involving Spurs. I could single out just one — the Berbatov-to-Man U break, the Robbie Keane-to-Liverpool story, or how they’ve chased several players of interest, only to have them all publicly say they’re not interested.

Rafael van der Vaart said he’d rather stay in Hamburg (which speaks volumes, really), Capel wasn’t interested either, they were never in with a sniff of Podolski, but they’re labouring on. Granted, they have made big signings of Modric and Geovanni, but honestly, they’re being linked with just about anyone and everyone at the moment, and it’s torturous to digest.

Bentley is the latest apple of their eye, and meanwhile, we sit and sigh, waiting for August.

4. Emmanuel Adebayor

Another one I’m sick of. The constant flirtation between his manager and AC Milan is becoming so indecent, it could almost be considered pornographic and unsuitable for consumption.

There’s also Adebayor’s wonderful gift for PR, whereby he said publicly that he wants to remain at Arsenal during a press conference, only to go backstage and tell a Sky Sports employee that he’s looking at all options including a dream trip to Milan.

June 27th:

“Of course [I'm staying put], I have three more years contract so, no matter what, I have to stay. I’m staying at Arsenal.”

Then, later on June 27th:

“I have a lot of big clubs trying to buy me and it is up to me and my agent, Stephane Courbis, to sit down next week and find a good solution. I am in a position that I don’t know where I will be playing but that is normal. If you told me seven years ago when I was playing in Togo without football boots that I would have a choice of playing in Spain or Italy it would seem crazy.”

You can’t teach media management like that.

The broth is soured further by the constant fluctuation of his value, with his price ranging from 15 to 25 million and all points in-between, not to mention his club that’s looking to offload more dead weight than the two numbskulls in Weekend at Bernie’s.

The Togolese striker will make a club very happy indeed; it just remains to be seen exactly which one.

3. Ronaldinho

The bucktoothed Brazilian should really be higher on the list, but the homeland contempt brewing in the top 2 spots has consigned him to third, which is coincidentally a position in the league that his hungriest suitors, Manchester City, could never dream of achieving.

We’ve seen pictures of fat Ronnie all over the web, and yet Trashcan Sinatra is still wetting himself over the prospect of hooking the long-haired midfielder to come play at Eastlands. The price seems high, and pundits are advising teams to look elsewhere, but he’s still a marketable name, and that means everything nowadays.

In addition to Man City, there’s always AC Milan, who crop up so frequently in transfer rumours that I might dub them the Italian Tottenham due to their predilection for hijacking or voicing interest in any player that is for sale.

Please, make it end. Ronnie’s agent needs to be Old Yeller’d, lest we go insane with all the noise.

2. Gareth Barry.

Of course he’s on the list! Was there any doubt? The saga (that I detailed last week as best I could) is bordering on Monty Python-esque farce as neither Liverpool nor Villa show any signs of being able to compromise. Today’s fresh coat of paint came in the form of Arsenal, who apparently expressed interest to O’Neill, who promptly then told The Sun in the hopes of scaring open the Anfield pursestrings.

Savvy on his part, yes, but entirely boring for the rest of us. Barry’s fate is essentially sealed away from Villa Park due to his comments in the media about wanting better football (and I’m still not convinced that my Reds could even give him that), but the question remains as to where he’ll end up.

There is an inevitability about a move to Anfield eventually being ironed out, but it would be magic if this could happen soon. It might spare us all the added grief of the merry-go-round.

1. Cristiano Ronaldo.

At last, something he’ll finish first in on his own merits! Despite roundly failing at Euro ‘08, he enjoyed the spotlight that Spain should have had by stringing the media on for two straight weeks with veiled comments and entendres that whipped the writers into a fucking agonizing frenzy. Talk of Real Madrid being a dream move immediately woke Calderon from his coke-and-sunshine binge, and the world hasn’t been the same since.

The petulant one is facing a three-month layoff after some ankle surgery, but it hasn’t dampened the speculation much.

For the love of all that is holy, I wish it had.


Am I missing any? Other candidates for most annoying transfer talk?

Written by Darkvader on July 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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