EPL Gossip Monday November 23rd
Manchester City defender Kolo Toure has admitted that a falling out with a team-mate forced his summer transfer from Arsenal to City. “I had problems with certain players at Arsenal, especially one, whose name I will not say because I don’t want to feed the controversy,” Toure told Eurogoals One to One.
Considering Toure all but admitted the one teammate was William Gallas don’t understand why he didn’t come right out and say it.
Chelsea are hoping to win the race with Real Madrid for Bayern Munich’s £45m-rated French midfielder Franck Ribery in January. The Sun
The Blues’ pursuit of Ribery has been given a boost by Bayern general manager Uli Hoeness conceding the player will leave the German club if he does not believe they are ambitious enough. Daily Mail
Forget ambitious enough as Bayern Munich did spend quite a bit of money this summer. Good enough should be the main point. This Bayern Munich team has looked lost for most of this season.
Liverpool face an injury crisis ahead of their must-win Champions League match with Hungarian side Debrecen on Tuesday, with major doubts over the fitness of Glen Johnson, Daniel Agger, Ryan Babel, Jamie Carragher, Steven Gerrard and Javier Mascherano. The Reds are already without striker Fernando Torres. Daily Mirror
Liverpool will face an even bigger crisis if Fiorentina knock Liverpool out of the Champions League on Tuesday.
Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe has revealed that a change of boots before the game with Wigan on Sunday helped him to score five in Spurs’ 9-1 win. Daily Mirror
Wigan’s awful defense didn’t hurt matters either.
Manchester United defender Gary Neville has joined his manager Alex Ferguson in blasting players who rely entirely on their agents and said: “A player doesn’t need to pay between five and 15% of his wages to a guy to set up a bank account or buy him a new fridge.” (Various)
A player could use an agent to set up an 90 million pound move to a Spanish club.