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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 [...]

After 80 odd minutes of drudgery the other night (who would have thought it on Channel 5 after 9 o’clock – where were the warts and two headed babies?), Aalborg, the footballing dictionary table toppers (well, discounting 1fc Koln and others who start with a number anyway), managed to bury a shot in the [...]

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 [...]