EPL Gossip Monday September 12th
Manchester City will make an audacious £35m offer for Barcelona defensive midfielder Sergio Busquets in January. Full story: Caughtoffside.com
Well we did learn Sergio Busquets has a hand for goal this past weekend.
England boss Fabio Capello has been targeted for one huge final pay-day by big-spending Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala. Full story: Daily Mail
All I know is that England would be fools to dump Capello before Euro 2012. Like most people I heard the rumours of Anzhi 25 million euro offer to Jose Mourinho. If you are a coach like Capello and they offer “only” 10 million do you feel insulted?
Striker Emmanuel Adebayor – on loan at Tottenham from Premier League rivals Manchester City – has declared his career at Etihad Stadium “over”. “The love between myself and Manchester City is broken,” he said. Full story: Daily Mail
If anything Adebayor love with Manchester City was more like a one night stand. It didn’t last very long.
Italian giants AC Milan are keeping tabs on Chelsea striker Fernando Torres and could make a loan bid for the Spaniard, who has yet to find his best form at Stamford Bridge. Full story: Inside Futbol
A.C Milan already has enough moody strikers. With Álvaro Negredo tearing it up in Spain Torres shouldn’t even be in the national team set up anymore.
Spurs goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes wants to leave the club in January after losing his place to summer signing Brad Friedel. Full story: Daily Mirror
Tottenham rightly can’t trust Gomes. He can make some unreal saves but on the flip side pulls a David James and lets in a few that should never go in.
Danny Wilson is a loan target for Championship outfit Leeds United as the Scotland defender continues to find himself out of the Liverpool first team. (Daily Record)
It does bug me when top clubs buy young players then don’t throw them into the fire. Look at Daniel Sturridge, he has been ready for over a year now to produce at Chelsea and only now he is getting that chance.
Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke has broken his silence on the Gunners’ deadline-day transfer spending. Manager Arsene Wenger brought in Mikel Arteta and Per Mertesacker but Kroenke admitted: “There’s a risk of going backwards if you overreact and start throwing money around in an attempt to solve your problems.”
Full story: Caughtoffside.com
Like Stan Kroenke knows a damn thing about soccer aside that it makes him a boatload of money.
Harry Redknapp has revealed Spurs missed out on a £13m windfall for Giovani dos Santos in January. Italian side Udinese made the offer but the forward wanted to go to Sevilla, who tabled a much lower bid. Full story: Daily Mirror
Behind Porto no other club knows how to work the transfer market like Udinese. For example watch out for Gabriel Torje. In two years a top club will pay a lot of money for his services.
Sergio Aguero has vowed to do for Manchester City what Diego Maradona did for Napoli.
Full story: Daily Mirror
If you are a Manchester City fan you have to be beaming right now. Last year they were still playing with Tevez up front by himself. Now Manchester City looks to take the game to anyone they play.
Andre Villas-Boas wants to see changes made to the way teams drop out of the Champions League and into the Europa League. The side finishing third in each group currently moves into Europe’s second club competition, but Villas-Boas says that rewards failure. Full story: Sky Sports
Pretty smart thinking by Villas-Boas.