Football transfer news

After Roy Hodgson left Fulham for Liverpool, Fulham already found the replacement. New coach is Mark Hughes former Manchester city manager.

“Last two seasons under Roy Hodgson were two most successfull seasons in this clubs history. I am sure that with few reinforcements in our squad we can continue on this level,” said Mark Hughes to the english press.

Now that City is buying players like there is now tommorow and with Hughes saying that he will bring some new players, it could happen that Hughes will bring some of his former players to Fulham, especcialy those, who will not be happy with their status in Manchester City.

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The fixture for Serie A 2010/11 season was announced on Wednesday night and it seems very interesting for teams like Inter, Roma, Milan and Juventus. The coaches of these four big teams have been in some surprise in spite of having an easy fixture.

Claudio said there is a story behind every champion, whether it is easy or difficult we have to play with all the team in the tournament. In the same way Del Neri said, Inter and Roma will be facing in the fifth week which will be very interesting as both teams’ wishes to win the title.

Milan’s manager Allegri said, the opening matches are very important as many new teams have entered the tournament but we have to play with power and passion. Rafael Benitez who is new to Inter said, there are two important games which are against Roma and Juventus, we have to be ready to play with any team which is on the list and start the playing matches positively.

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Gael Clichy the defender from Arsenal says the team have to end its poor performance and start to win the in the upcoming 2010-11 season. The team had last won the FA Cup in 2005 by beating Manchester United in final.

The team after reaching the final of Champions League in 2006 and a year later in League Cup lost had failed to get the title. Even there is criticisms about the manager that he has not spend money to get more players, but Clichy expects that the team has got some young players who can get the title this time.

He also said that a few years ago I heard that the team has to end its poor performance and start winning the matches but it still remains the same. We are always not far from the victory but end of the season we stay on the losing side. The team was 11 points behind from Chelsea in last years Premier League last season finishing third.

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Arsene Wenger, the manager of Arsenal, has backed down the speculations regarding Fabregas’s transfer to Barcelona. Rumours from Spain were saying, that Arsenal and Barcelona found an agreement, but Wenger denied all of that.

“This is not true. Cesc is staying with us, i am 100% convinced in that. Barcelona is making noise throught the press, but we know what we want, Barcelona can forget on Fabregas,” said Wenger after being asked about Cesc’s future.

It is obvious that Barcelona will have to turn to some other player to replace Yaya Toure in the midfield. Now that Cesc is officialy unavaliable, first candidate to sign with Barca is Villareal’s midfielder Marcos Senna. We will see if that will hapen.

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Sami Khedira, the german international, has only one year left on his contract with Stuttgart, and then he can leave as a free agent. So it is obvious that Stuttgart will sell him, but they are saying that transfer will happen, if only Real pays the right price.

“We would like to extend Sami Khedira’s contract, but it is up to him. We will hold talks in the coming days. If we do sell Khedira, the income will be invested in new players, but not on a like-for-like replacement. We don’t need that – we have three players in our squad who can play in his position. Certainly there will be some more players arriving though,” said Fredi Bobic, former Borussia Dortmund player who is now the new sporting director of VFB Stuttgart.

Rumuors from Germany are saying that it’s just a matter of days, until Khedira will become part of Jose’s Mourinho squad.

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After a meeting with Roy Hodgson and Javier Mascherano on Monday, Liverpool announced that Javier Mascherano can leave, if club (Inter) offers the right amount of money to Liverpool.

“Last year, he was asked to stay on for one more year, he agreed, so now it is time for him to go. It was all very pleasant and it is now a question of the two clubs who are interested in him making an acceptable offer to Liverpool,” said Roy Hodgson after the meeting.

It looks like that its just a matter of time before Mascherano signs for Inter, and with this, Liverpool will lose first and maybe not last of their main players.

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Didier Drogba faces a race against time to be fit for the start of the new season after undergoing groin surgery. The Ivory Coast striker, 32, netted 29 goals last season, despite being troubled by the problem. Drogba is set to be sidelined for three weeks, making him a major doubt for the Community Shield against Manchester United on August 8 and the Premier League opener at home to West Brom.

“We will do all we can to help Didier recover soon enough, so he could be ready for season openers, but we cannot be 100% sure, that he will be fit”, said Chelsea’s doctor.

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Transfers expert of Sky Sports 24, Luca Marchetti, took time to speak briefly about the situation of Maicon: “Real Madrid is approaching an agreement with Inter, now the only thing missing is one with the player, but they are working on it. We know that Real was always focused on Maicon, with Mourinho pushing for his arrival, but meanwhile, the Blancos really tried to take a central defender instead. First was Vidic, but he renewed with Manchester United, then Chiellini, who renewed with Juventus, and finally Thiago Silva, who does not want to move. David Luiz remains, but he is not a big enough name for the ‘Casa Blanca’. Because of that, there was a new sharp tack…Maicon.”

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While english press was writing that Van Der Vaart could sign for Liverpool or Chelsea, the dutch already answered and told us that rumours aren’t true.

“I think that with Mourinho we can bring titles back to Bernabeu” said former Ajax and HSV player.

Van der Vaart has spent the last two years in the Spanish capital, after completing the move form Hamburger SV.

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Royston Drenthe said it’s not yet official, and that the clubs still didn’t negotiate, but that he only want’s Liverpool with words:

“Soon, I’ll be new player of FC Liverpool. I can’t wait to start in new club.”

On other side, Juventus FC offered their Tiago to new Liverpool’s coach, if Mascherano leaves for Inter Milan. They also offered exchange between their Poulsen and Agger. Manchester United is watching what will happen with Fernando Torres, while they are nogotiating with Diego Forlan. The price is problem for Torres, as they are asking 50m pounds, and none of clubs who are interested are ready to offer that much, Chelsea and Man UTD are most interested clubs. Forlan will cost Liverpool €20m if they choose to sign him.

Other news:
- Carvalho ready to demand transfer from Chelsea today.
- Roberto Mancini, coach of Man City, said on our previos romours: “Ramires and David Luiz are great players, but Chelsea outbidded us. We can’t sign everyone, but still, we have 20 days to bring some new players. We have money for transfers, but can’t offer so big wages.”

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