EPL Gossip for Friday May 23rd
Juande Ramos is set to bring Lyon goalkeeper Gregory Coupet to Tottenham for £2.5m. (The Sun)
Coupet is a fine goalie but he is also 35 years old. If Tottenham can’t find there long term solution in goal then Coupet is a good 1-2 year stop gap.
Bolton boss Gary Megson is battling Aston Villa to sign Spurs keeper Paul Robinson in a £5m deal. (Daily Star)
There is no battle. Unless Bolton offers a boat load more money than Villa for Robinson, the soon to be former Tottenham goalie will decide to play for Aston Villa.
Chelsea could sign Barcelona’s talented Mexican teenager Giovani Dos Santos in a swap deal for £14m-rated Florent Malouda. (Daily Telegraph)
Dos Santos will get eaten alive by the British press. He’ll be better suited saying at Barcelona for another year or two. Yes Barcelona are a big team but it’s also Messi’s team. The expectations are a lot less as suppose to if he moves on to Chelsea a big money transfer.
CSKA Moscow’s Brazilian striker Jo has arrived in England and is expected to complete a move to Manchester City despite reported interest from Everton. (Daily Mail)
Jo will be a success in England. Big and strong and knows how the find the back of the net. City will do well to sign him.
Manchester City hope to finance a £12m deal for Zenit St Petersburg’s Andrei Arshavin by selling defender Richard Dunne and midfielder Stephen Ireland, with Roy Keane’s Sunderland leading the chase. (Daily Mirror)
Makes sense. Selling both would command roughly the 12 million that is making the rounds as the fee needed to sign Andrei Arshavin.
Chelsea have decided to sell striker Didier Drogba, with the club’s patience snapping with the petulant star after he was sent off in the Champions League final. (Daily Mail)
Drogba will only start to realize how good he has it at Chelsea when or if he decides to move on.
Portsmouth trio Sean Davis, Lauren, and Milan Baros could be on their way of Fratton Park after it was revealed that none of them turned up for the FA Cup winners’ parade through the town on Sunday. (Independent)
Milan Baros was on loan anyway. He also didn’t score a goal for Portsmouth in his half season there. Pretty much assuring that Portsmouth won’t make the loan move permanent.
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Just heard fulham are to release Carlos Bocanegra which is quite suprising. Whats the reasoning behind this do you think and where do you think he’ll go?
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Didnt feature all that much under Roy Hodgson the last half of the season. That pretty sums it up. For some reason Bocanegra wasn’t Hodgson’s type of player. Naturally MLS rumors will come into play but Bocanegra is still good enough to feature for another European team.
May 24th, 2008 at 10:54 am
yeah i could see returning to the mls as appealing because its on the up at them moment but if he wants to stay in england im sure somebody like wigan or bolton would snap him up or maybe one of the newly promoted teams god knows who ever goes up between hull and bristol is going to need help