Final Whistle

Xabi Alonso yesterday became the next in a long list of summer 2009 transfers made by Real Madrid in their effort to prevent Barcelona repeating their excellent treble of last season.
The £30million paid to Liverpool for Alonso takes the club’s summer spending beyond the sensible £200million mark for one summer – after having signed Kaka [...]

Despite what the news might try to tell us, Twitter is not a good source of valid stories, whether about North Korea, or more important matters, such as football.
However, that was the place where, earlier this week, we started to hear rumours about Michael Owen heading to Manchester United.
Owen had failed to return to Newcastle [...]

And so it seems that Cristiano Ronaldo will finally get his wish: by June 30th 2009, Cristiano Ronaldo will be a Real man. Real Madrid, that is, as Alex Ferguson has agreed to transfer Manchester United’s top scorer to the club for a credit crunching £80 million.
As transfer fees go, this is a whopper, which [...]

After the Manchester City Kaka effort finally petered out this week, the world might just begin to view footballers as people inspired by things other than money. I mean, Steven Gerrard not going to Chelsea was one thing, but the boat wasn’t pushed out quite as far as half a million a week then was [...]

My word, how the world of football has changed. For all you City fans out there, I hope you’re learning the words to the Busta Rhymes song featured above – Arab Money – because you should be about to start singing it smugly at your endebted near-neighbours in Red quite soon. Coupled with a taunting [...]

Spurs have finally sacked Juande Ramos, following the worst start to their league season in living memory, and a huge crisis of confidence which seems to be running through the young Tottenham team. In his place, Tottenhmam have agreed a £5million compensation package to parachute Harry Redknapp in from Portsmouth.
Ramos began brightly with Spurs, and [...]