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Vidic rumours require giant leaps of imagination - The Sun obliges
There’ve been a lot of rumours this week surrounding the future of Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic, and they don’t appear to have been based on very much. The same themes that drove the rumours back in August - ambiguous words, the lure of Spain and Mrs Vidic’s apparent distaste for British weather, despite coming [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history … October 17th 2004
On this day in 2004, the papers were inventing commitment issues for key players at Europe’s biggest clubs, the one guy they said definitely wasn’t leaving is the only one who did, and every rumour looked plausible compared to the barmy double act the News of the World dreamt up for Rotherham to cap a [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history… August 22nd 2004
On this day in 2004, BBC’s transfer gossip column caught the News of the World on a hot streak, announcing that Sol Campbell would stay with Arsenal for life and putting Rooney in the frame for a switch to Real Madrid whilst confidently ruling Manchester United out, and spelling the end for Peter Taylor at [...]
On this day in transfer gossip history… 18 July 2004
BBC’s transfer gossip column on this day in 2004 the papers were split over Wayne Rooney’s date of departure, whilst elsewhere everybody were getting slightly ahead of themselves, musing over the fictional imminent transfers of Patrick Vieira and Sol Campbell who would both turn out for Arsenal the following season, and even more prematurely calling [...]
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 16th 2004
Five years ago the names might be different, but the themes of BBC’s transfer gossip column are the same: Chelsea are commanding major gossip headlines, Newcastle are deemed to be in ‘crisis’, Spurs are in the market for new strikers and hyperbole reigned supreme, with Aston Villa’s rumoured ’swoop’ for Robbie Savage being described as ‘audacious.’
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Friends Reunited? Five Tottenham Hotspur rumours
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 [...]
Scrapping in a gossip vague-off
How much of a place does gossip have in sport? Most people do like a bit of speculation and the thought that they might have the inside line on a event or news. Some even like the opportunity for baseless speculation and the chance to let their imagination run wild. But is there really a [...]