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Last week we looked at a journalist from The Mirror who wrote a rather confused article about Newcastle’s prospects of Premier League survival, professing himself convinced they would stay up whilst assuring readers there was no logic behind this belief and that we should “Forget the media pundits who all back Shearer to keep Newcastle [...]
Players often do follow managers they have a good relationship with to new clubs once said manager departs. Arsene Wenger notably took his former Monaco prodigy Thierry Henry from Juventus; Mourinho quickly transplanted Ricardo Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira into Chelsea’s defence from Porto; and Benitez brought in Mauricio Pellegrino and Fabio Aurelio from Valencia. It [...]
The Manchester City transfer bandwagon continued apace this week with the rumour that Raul, the Real Madrid captain, top scorer, and one-club man, was about to trade it all in for a career at Eastlands. If a man who is as about as unlikely to move to another club as anyone in the world. Raul [...]
