EPL Gossip Wednesday October 27th
Manchester City striker Roque Santa Cruz intends to leave the club in January – and suggests fellow City forward Carlos Tevez could follow him through the exit door. the Guardian
Can’t picture Carlos Tevez going anywhere unless he rasies a Wayne Rooney like stink. It does suit the pattern however with Tevez never staying very long with one club.
Fulham manager Mark Hughes will try to bring Santa Cruz to Craven Cottage during the January transfer window. Hughes signed the Paraguay frontman while in charge of Manchester City and Blackburn. Full story: Daily Mail
Santa Cruz has to go somewhere if he wishes to play football again.
Manchester City may make a move for Lazio’s Romanian defender Stefan Radu, who is eager to leave the Italian club in the January transfer window. talkSPORT
One of the key reasons for Lazio’s turn around this season is selling Aleksandar Kolarov to Manchester United. With that money they then went out and brought Hernanes who is pulling all the right strings in the Lazio midfield.
The Eastlands outfit are also interested in Sporting Lisbon defender Daniel Carrico. Juventus and Atletico Madrid are among those eyeing the Portugal Under-21 star. Daily Mirror
Portuguese football can’t produce a striker but boy can they develop defenders and midfielders.
Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson will not target any marquee signings in the January transfer window as New England Sports Ventures, the club’s new owner, looks to put a stop to the profligate spending the company believes has hampered the club’s progress in recent years. Daily Telegraph
All that doom and gloom aside, January is an awful time to try and remake the club anyway.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted he is under pressure to bring the club’s five-year wait for a trophy to an end this season. Daily Express
If Mourinho goes so much as one season without a trophy calls for his head are made. Even when he won the Carling and FA Cup double they still wanted him out. Wenger has it good with Arsenal and to be fair he’s been good to the club as well.
Celtic boss Neil Lennon has denied whipping up the frenzy that led referee Willie Collum to receive death threats following Sunday’s Old Firm defeat by Rangers. (Daily Record)
Neil Lennon didn’t help matters with his comments after the match.
Manchester United fans flocked to the club’s Old Trafford megastore on Tuesday. However, it was not striker Wayne Rooney’s name they wanted on the back of their replica jerseys – it was that of Mexican forward Javier Hernandez, the new United hero who has his nickname Chicarito emblazoned across his number 14 shirt. Daily Star
I’ve said it before but I know I’ll be eating my words when this transfer was announced for along time.