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Weak exclusives: Manchester City want Torres and Gerrard
A brilliantly emotive piece hit the News of the World this Sunday. Who would have thought it - the day that Manchester City were due to face Liverpool was the same day that the paper would unearth an extraordinary exclusive about Liverpool’s two star players?
City set up every Liverpool fan’s worst nightmare
And of course, NotW are not [...]
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, [...]
News: Gerrard says nothing
Is there literally nothing else to fill the back pages with other than phantom players heading to the north east and the prospect that 29 year-olds might retire from football in a few years?
Evidently not, and this time it’s the Sun’s turn to have a go at spinning the straw of nothingy comments into back page gold:
Gerrard [...]
Kaka quoting from The Daily Mail
When the biggest names in football talk, the world stops and listens. And there are few footballers who command more attention than Kaka, whose name has been heightened further by the Manchester City saga. So when he urges his board to sign another great footballer, namely Steven Gerrard, that constitutes big news.
The Daily Mail leads the [...]
From our inbox: Why Ashley Cole?
Last week we published an article on Ashley Cole, and one of our regular readers, Joe, got in touch with the following response:
Why Ashley Cole?
In terms of public outrage at an autobiography, what of Jamie Carragher who wrote about intentionally injuring one of his own team-mates as well as his negative feelings towards the England national team — why [...]
Rumour: Real Madrid may try to sign famous player
It’s becoming as much of a summer tradition in the UK as cricket and flash-flooding. Real Madrid will lead a relentless chase to sign one of the luminaries of football, and we will have to hear about it until such point as that deal either becomes a reality or an impossibility. It began with Luis [...]