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On this day in transfer gossip history. . . July 4 2004
One this day in 2004, BBC’s transfer gossip column mystifyingly has Arsene Wenger chasing all the big names, has the Daily Star Sunday pricing Rooney at £50m without so much as a Florentino Perez in sight, has Chelsea eyeing up the Spanish totty and featured some future Borussia Monchengladbach players with careers in flux. Meanwhile, [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history… May 23 2007
On this day in 2007, Scottish-based stories were the flavour of the day, lots of figurative (or literal?) transfer ‘races’ and ‘chases’ were set in motion with the transfer window set to re-open, and Middlesborough were more concerned about where Mark Viduka would be playing the following season than they were about having to travel [...]
Meaningless football transfer cliches - HANDS-OFF WARNING
You’re the manager of a football club. You decide you need a new player. You scour the divisions, and listen to the sage words of your scouts. You make an enquiry. But oh no! “Hands off!”, you’re warned. By all rights you should slink back to the hole from whence you came, but you’ve read [...]