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http://z6.invisionfree.com/22men/index.phpHere goes for today’s rumours. As the transfer window is coming to the final stages, many clubs will be looking to strengthen their squads with last minute buys. This is the period where flukes come frequent.
First up, Ronaldo has moved to AC Milan. This means that a new Trim and Fit programme will be installed in Milan. 22men feels he will regain his form at Milan. It was a good move for him.
Meanwhile, we see that 2 clubs are set to bring back former EPL players. Struggling Hornets are going to offer Ray Parlour a chance to return to the EPL. This might prove to be a good move as 22men thinks what Watford currently need is experience. Why? The reason is that we feel Watford has got players capable of running but not capable of making intelligent runs. Next, Wigan boss Paul Jewell is ready to bring ex-Spurs man Thimothee Atouba back to the EPL from struggling Hamburg. Due to inadaptability, left-back Thimothee Atouba was unable to succeed in his previous career and had to leave.
Here are some forever on-goings. Real Madrid will offer £35m to Man Utd in the summer for winger Cristiano Ronaldo. To be more persuasive, Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy has been “forced” by his board to urge him to join him in Spain. Also related to Manchester United, Bayern Munich will make their decision whether to sell Owen Hargreaves by next week. 22men hopes it will get through this time so we do not have to bug our readers further on him. Here’s 1 more related to Manchester United. Arsene Wenger is set to open his cheque book on Gareth Bale who is rumoured to go to Old Trafford. As you can see, he does not usually sign cheques unless youngsters are involved. He stills holds on to his “youngster policy” or rather not. Arsenal are also trying to scupper another Manchester United's transfer plan by bidding for midfielder Aldo Duscher. Alex Ferguson sure deserves our pity as Arsenal has been bombarding on his team’s transfer and Goal Post.
Previously we see that Stuart Pearce is interested in Mido and Martin Jol is interest in Sylvain Distin. In today’s rumour, we see that the 2 managers are going to make an exchange between the 2 of them. If this transfer goes through, Stuart Pearce will be blessed with one of the strongest aerial attack.
Fulham's Papa Bouba Diop has snubbed a £4.4m move to Wigan. Chris Coleman must be feeling that he is the most unlucky manager as the players that he wants to leave won’t leave and players that he does not want to leave is leaving. Elsewhere, we see that Newcastle fluke, Albert Luque is wanted by Spanish clubs, Villarreal and Racing Santander. We feel he should leave as soon as possible for the sake of his career as he does not fit into the EPL style of play. The Spanish league should suit him.
Lastly, LKW’s hated player Julio Baptista is on his knees. He wants Wenger to make an exception and sign him permanently instead of other youngsters. Poor Baptista.
That’s all for today’s rumours.
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12:24 PM
Occasionally from time to time something happens that just shocks and baffles everyone around. A mystifying decision that either will be viewed as a piece of brilliance or a moment of stupidity, from time to time an absolute shocker happens. And good gosh, what do you know, Manchester United are interested in
Owen Hargreaves! Apparently, the decision will be made by Thursday for the transfer. That sly old fella,
Sir Alex Ferguson, never letting us know about his plans, eh?
To prove this case further,
Alessandro del Piero has revealed that Ferguson had previously made a move for him last summer to add firepower to his squad, but the Italy veteran turned the offer down as he was too loyal to Juventus. Awww. Now how often do you see that? Give the man a handclap. Man Utd, though, would probably be better off trying to polish their wonderkids into wonderplayers, something that Ferguson isn't doing with
Giuseppi Rossi. The Italian youngster has failed to break into the first team after impressive displays this season and will spend this season entirely on loan away from Old Trafford.
Oh well, if SAF isn't interested, at least the Italian Big Four are. AC Milan, Inter Milan, Roma and relegated Juventus are rumored to be wooing the youngster. The transfer will undoubtedly be subjective to Rossi's performances at his former club Parma, where he is now on loan at.
A few streets across at the City of Manchester Stadium,
Stuart Pearce is trying to sign Egyptian bad-boy
Mido to his squad, giving a brand new life to his nickname "Pyscho." Mido has fallen out of favour with
Martin Jol recently after quarreling with him, and he will seize this opportunity with both hands. Another addition to the Sky Blues Pearce is considering is AZ Alkmaar left-back
Tim de Cler.
Somewhat dubiously,
Alan Pardew is looking to sign the "cousin" of
Clarence Seedorf,
Stefano Seedorf. Discounting the fact that the angle-hungry tabloids would definitely have picked up on this player if he was any good at all, there is still the fact that Pardew had famously once rubbished
Arsene Wenger's accomplishments and accused him of underdeveloping English football. Bollocks to that, Gunners cry, as they pick up the newspaper and read the news of Pardew's interest in Sheffield Wednesday's
Madjid Bougherra.
Meanwhile, Middlesborough boss
Gareth Southgate, when not trying to be a James Blunt lookalike, is apparently singing "You're Beautiful" to West Brom's
Zolten Gera. Provided Gera doesn't mind the breakingly bad falsettos Southgate will eek out, Gera will provide excellent quality to the Boro midfield.
Jeremie Aliadiere, though, is rumored to be more into that zingy dang-dang boom type of French rap club captain and French youth idol
Thierry Henry prefers, and won't take well at all to a sappyly sweet guitar ballad. Just as well that Southgate isn't that much into him too, after all. "Goodbye, my lover," sings a mournful Middlesborough home crowd sick of
Mark Viduka's antics at the edge of the BMI cliff.
In the aftermath of
Andrei Shevchenko's freescoring delights against poor Wycombe's
Ricardo Batista, the relationship between
Jose Mourinho and
Roman Abramovich seems to be on the mend again. This means good news for those waiting anxiously to prove the law of supply and demand: i.e, Premiership clubs demand adorably high prices that has everyone in spastic jerks of laughter and Chelsea supply more reasons to work that six-pack by paying them. Bolton's Israeli defender
Tal Ben-Haim could therefore very well be making the move from Bolton's penalty box to Chelsea's bench, where he shall join the likes of
Shaun Wright-Phillips in snivelling about how one Ukrainian gets all the lucky breaks.
Bolton fans however shouldn't worry too much, as Ben-Haim's possible replacement,
Anthony Gardner, reckons he's the man to take on the likes of
Thierry Henry, and proudly proclaims he enjoys the battle of wits everytime he takes on the Frenchman. Oh dear, that nasty fat man Martin Jol must be driving them mad over there if they are turning masochistic now.
-Hacjience Yukona
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6:23 AM
A match that could have gone either way went neither way as it turns out, as Singapore finished the match with ten men after captain Aide Iskandar was sent off for a laughable second yellow card.
The Lions were missing two first-teamers against Malaysia tonight as S. Subramani's injury paved the way for Hafiq Osman, who had sparkled in the crushing 11-0 demlition of Laos to fill in at rightback, while the till-now in form Mustafic Fahrudin's suspension meant that defensive midfielder Isa Halim was called upon to anchor midfield. Singapore had lined up with a more attack-minded 3-4-3 formation, with Khairul Amri, Noh Alam Shah and Indra Sahdan providing the firepower for the Lions, but it was Malaysia who dominated the opening exchanges of the game. Eddy Helmi's cross delivered immediately after kickoff was put out for a corner, and a defensive lapse in the 5th minute allowed Nizarudin Yusof through, but he was bravely stopped by Lions custodian Lionel Lewis who made the clearance after rushing out. Singapore's passing was looking nervous and edgy, and when chances came, such as Noh Alam Shah's wide shot in the 16th minute, they failed to convert. Singapore were nearly punished in the 19th minute when Nizarudin was let through, but he was ruled offside.
For all of Malaysia's chances, however, Singapore missed a big chance to strike the early blow in the 41st minute when a dancing Indra Sahdan slipped a slicng through ball into the heart of the Malaysian defence to Khairul Amri's feet, only to see the forward completely fluff the shot.
The halftime team talk must have fired up the Singapore team as they came back in the second half stronger and more dominant. For all of their aggression, though, it was Malaysia who struck first blood. A moment of magic came about in the 57th minute when Hardi Jaafar received the ball back after having given it to a teammate from a throw-in. The shaven midfielder proceeded to stun the fans and Lionel Lewis alike with an amazing curler from the left wing that somehow swerved over and away from Lewis at full stretch into the top right corner. The number 10 for Malaysia almost scored a double goal in the 64th minute when he unleashed an identical shot from nearly the same position that somehow swerved just wide.
Singapore equalised in the 73rd minute when Isa Halim pumped an inch-perfect cross into the box. Noh Alam Shah somehow ghosted past his marker in a fine display of off-the-ball movement before leaping to meet the ball with an emphatic header that left the Malaysia keeper stunned.
Nine minutes from time, Malaysia nearly won the match when Eddy Helmi fired in a shot after dribbling into the box, only to see Lionel Lewis save superbly with his knees. Controversy struck in the 89th minute when Aide Iskandar was derisively sent off for a second yellow card for reentering the field without the referee's permission. The Lions captain's look of incredulity underlined the dubious nature of the decision, and further amusment was to be derived after the referee could not properly decide whether to allow a broken corner flag to be replaced deep into added time, restarting and pausing the timing alternately. The match finally ended 2 minutes later than announced, and the reputation of one Wang Da Xue is undoubtedly in question with FIFA's refereeing section.
-Hacjience Yukona
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7:48 AM
Tuesday Transfer Rumours
Manchester United wants his sweet/deadly/super/out-of-the-world left foot to replace out-going Gabriel Heinze…
Tottenham wants anything that is English…
Arsenal wants anything that is young…
And there we have 3 clubs fighting for Garethhhhhhhhhhhhhhh BALE!!!
Manchester United can offer him a Premiership trophy (most likely)…
Tottenham can offer him a place alongside supposedly other next big things…
Arsenal can offer him… Well, Arsenal is late. So they wont get the boy.
Instead, Bale has decided to go straight from Heaven to Hell (Saints to Red Devils). 22men.blogspot.com wishes him good luck.
Next up, we have St Etienne defender Fousseiny Diawara holding talks with Bolton boss Sam Allardyce. Well, 22men.blogspot.com doesn’t really know much about the player. We are guessing he is old, African, weird hairstyle, mean and very physical.
Also, Tottenham have struck a £3.3m deal for Benfica defender Ricardo Rocha - plus the Portuguese club will play Spurs in two friendly matches, with Benfica receiving all profits from the gate receipts and television money. Last heard, Tottenham fans have decided to boycott the match so that Benfica would not receive any gate receipts.
Jose Mourinho is again leading his army to raid Porto. This time, for Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo. Porto is holding him hostage and is demanding a £14m ransom. But it seems destined to fail as the Chelsea gaffer is not on good terms with the sugar daddy. Hence, no money for the gaffer, no money for Porto, and no move to London for Quaresma.
22men.blogspot.com’s tip to Jose Mourinho: Try sucking up to Andriy Shevchenko.
Anton Ferdinand has decided to stay with new pals Kepa Blanco and Lucas Neill instead of joining Titus Bramble and co. That’s not much of a choice for Anton there, but nevertheless, he made the right one.
Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp made Lomana LuaLua train an extra hour before holding talks over whether he would be doing his backflips at Fratton Park in the future. Apparently, this is a tactic employed by the Pompey boss. ‘This would make the player tired and accept to any demands!’ said a gleeful Redknapp, followed by evil laughter.
Info Bits: LuaLua's baby son Jesus died of pneumonia on January 20th 2006 while he was away on African Nations Cup duty.
Lastly, Cookie Coleman's Black 'n' White Army has £1m in the bank. He would split it into half, dividing it between Celtic forward Shaun Maloney and Preston keeper Carlo Nash.
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7:35 AM
If football was compared to cards, then Aston Villa would definitely never be near the best, therefore explaining why he is going for second best option, Hearts midfielder
Paul Hartley.
Martin O’Neill is said to have tabled a £1m bid. Watford youngster,
Ashley Young (pretty redundant surname), is also set to complete a £9.65m move to Villa. Martin’s good looks and charms seem to have won the battle over namesake Jol’s fatty pies, with no better example than
Andy Reid, and also stolen Young from under the noses of
Alan Curbishley.
Middlesbrough striker
Massimo Maccarone is wanted by a trio of Italian clubs; Torino, Empoli and Siena. Maccarone has decided that staying in Boro’s reserves as about as fun as going out with
Alan Pardew, not very fun at all, therefore increasing speculation that he might return back to his motherland. Funny. I thought that they were famed for their pizzas rather than noodles over at Italy.
Southampton are determined to stay in the media spotlight for as long as possible, considering they have been like
Paul Scholes to England ever since their relegation. Boss
George Burley is once again saying he is prepared to lose left back
Gareth Bale, even though most of the rest of the world takes it as a certainty. Fascinating indeed.
Newcastle are being very cheeky, offering
Titus Bramble plus £9m for West Brom defender
Curtis Davies. Perhaps they should blindfold West Brom’s boss to ensure that the deal goes through. Better still, use some of the £9m for Brambles plastic surgery and West Brom could actually be interested.
Wigan hope to get a loan move for South Korean winger
Lee Chun-Soo, and also hope to have a £5m offer for Fulham’s
Papa Bouba Diop accepted. Papa will definit-lee be wanting to show Wigan fans “Who’s your daddy.”
Blackburn are also trying to get 2 new defenders, Hertha Berlin’s
Chris Samba, and Liverpool’s
Stephen Warnock. With a name like Samba, it seems unconceivable that Blackburn would ever get him as it goes against their team ethics. Warnock is the subject of a £1.2m bid, something that
Rafa Benitez would definitely consider after not playing him for most of the matches.
In other not so interesting news, Hull City is keen to get Derby midfielder
Seth Johnson, while Wycombe striker
Jermaine Easter is at the centre of a transfer battle between Manchester City and Blackburn. Pretty much a no brainer, as Blackburn thugs do not look the sort to treat Easter bunnies the right way..
And that’s all for today’s rumors.
-yx
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8:54 AM
First up, Manchester United are apparently trying to entice Cristiano Ronaldo into a match-winning performance at the Emirates Stadium by offering to double his wages in a 100k per week contract deal. This deal comes on the heels of a string of blazing displays by the fleetfooted winger who has tormented fullbacks this season and who is a definite candidate for Player Of The Year. How reliable is this information? 22Men has no idea, but it is surely more reliable than the news that Sir Alex Ferguson is set to sign Gareth Bale for the 789654th time.
Also, in an apparent bid to make David Beckham feel even more unwelcome at United than he already is, Ferguson is trying to sign the man who broke his metatarsal just before the 2002 World Cup, Aldo Dusher.Talking about Beckham, he could be about to set a precedent for fading former England stars to head to cross the Atlantic for a lucrative big-money move to the US. Liverpool legend, Robbie Fowler, could be heading to the MLS in a bid for regular football, er, soccer, something he is unlikely to get under Benitez.
If Benitez has further reason to rub his reputation in mud, he will look no further than trying to sell Steven Gerrard to Juventus when they return to the Serie A. Gerrard will, of course, be delighted to join a club who will start the season without European football and with no likelihood of the championship. Of course. Definitely.
But hey, Benitez can't be that bad, not when he's just masterminded a 2-0 victory over Chelsea,
who are apparently trying to make up for their defensive shortcomings of late by signing Oguchi Onyewu. Who? Exactly. 22Men reckons Chelsea will be better off securing the futures of their superstars such as John Terry, Frank Lampard and Michael Essien, who are appearing unconcerned about Jose Mourinho's rumored departure.
Within the same city, City rivals Tottenham and Arsenal are also busy in terms of transfers, not
least Spurs, who have led the list for most number of unfulfilled rumors. This time, its winger
Damien Duff they want. Meanwhile, Arsenal player Jeremie Aliadiere could Ex-Arsenal player Jeremie Aliadiare as it is rumored he is leaving for Middlesborough. Another ex-Arsenal player Matthew Upson is trying to contain his disbelief after finding that he's rated a disgusting 8m. Heck, even top striker Djimi Traore costs less.
-Hacjience Yukona
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7:33 AM
Today seems to be one of the rarest days when those who spread rumours are on an off day. The rumours are pretty few. Let’s start,
The Manchester United Owen’s saga restarts. Manchester United is reported to be very confident that their 20 million bid for Owen Hargreaves will be accepted. Despite Manchester United’s confidence, Bayern Munich still insist that they will only allow the England midfielder to move to Old Trafford in the summer. Also, this saga is restarted by Owen Hargreaves himself. It was him who claimed that Manchester United had launched a 20 million bid for him. I wonder why Bayern Munich wants a player who wants to move so much. In addition, 22menlifeordeath.blogspot.com is telling Owen Hargreaves, “Please stop showing off how much u are worth.”
Elsewhere, Blackburn skipper Lucas Neill is not only on the shortlist of Rafael Benitez, but also David Moyes, Alan Curbishley and Glenn Roeder. Where will he fight next? We think Anfield is a better choice.
Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp is set to bid for Auxerre defender Younes Kaboul. The price tag is 6 million. Will Portsmouth be the best port in the world? Their defence and attack is already strengthened by new purchases Lauren and Djimi Traore respectively. Let’s hope the best for their attack.
Meanwhile, Wigan boss Paul Jewell is struggling to remain active in the transfer window. He has made 1.1 million bid to sign Lee McCulloch from Rangers and the Daddy from Fulham. He is Papa Bouba Diop. (Papa = Dad = Father)
Glenn Roeder has declared his interest in the boy who only used a scissors (scissors kick) twice in his career. Here’s an interesting fact. On January 20th, Newpaper (a Singapore local newspaper) reported that Crouch should not be played against Chelsea because he slows down the attack. However, after the match that is 21st of January, the same local newspaper reported that Crouch was the key to Liverpool’s win.
Lastly, Middlesbrough and Aston Villa are making a move for Garry O'Connor.
That’s all for today, short and simple.
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