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    “How Rafa Benitez holds his head up high after this, heaven only knows” - Matt Lawton
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    Jean-Michel Aulas, chairman of Olympique Lyon, said the club would ‘have to part with one or two good players’ if the tax break is scrapped.” In the transfer news, the Independent reveal that “the agent of Andrea Dossena has denied reports he is in talks with Napoli to negotiate the transfer of the Liverpool defender to the Serie A outfit in January.” The Independent continue to deny rumours by reporting “Osasuna full-back Cesar Azpilicueta insists he has no plans to leave the club despite reported interest in his services from Manchester City.” Alan Nixon takes a backhanded swipe at Antonio Valencia farting "Sir Alex Ferguson is ready to swoop for Argentine star Angel Di Maria - and finally fill the gap left by Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure" while John Cross invents the rumour that “Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce is trying to set up a cut-price £4m deal for Nacional Madeira midfielder Ruben Micael.” Full Article at 101 Great Goals
    Sir Alex Ferguson is ready to swoop for Argentine star Angel Di Maria - and finally fill the gap left by Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 3 weeks ago
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“How Rafa Benitez holds his head up high after this, heaven only knows” - Matt Lawton
  1. we think that he has assured the club that he doesn’t want to buy it. What he seems to be doing is trying to make sure that Usmanov cannot buy the club by purchasing as many spare shares as possible.
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 3 weeks ago
  2. Osasuna full-back Cesar Azpilicueta insists he has no plans to leave the club despite reported interest in his services from Manchester City.
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 3 weeks ago
  3. The best footballers will always manage to find a way out of a slump, and Rio Ferdinand, without doubt a world-class player, will do just that.
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 3 weeks ago
  4. Clearly it is difficult now but it is not impossible. We have to win our next game and see what happens between Fiorentina and Lyon. Our approach to the last game will depend on what happens next, but we have to keep going. We have done miracles before and maybe we can do one again. We still have a chan...
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 3 weeks ago
  5. Stan Kroenke has moved to the brink of launching an obligatory takeover of Arsenal after increasing his stake in the club to 29.9 per cent.
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 3 weeks ago
  6. Newcastle’s famous old ground now resembles an email address, with Ashley’s own company on the title.
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 3 weeks ago
  7. Advocates of the rule say it contributed to attracting the likes of Jonny Wilkinson to Toulon and Yoann Gourcuff from Milan to Bordeaux. Jean-Michel Aulas, chairman of Olympique Lyon, said the club would ‘have to part with one or two good players’ if the tax break is scrapped.
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 3 weeks ago
  8. two more Premier League clubs bowed to Poppy pressure yesterday… That leaves only three in the Premier League — Manchester United, Liverpool and Bolton who will play at the weekend without a poppy on their shirts in stubborn defiance of public opinion.
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 3 weeks ago
  9. Benitez has had five years of ceaseless transfer dealing to assemble a squad capable of rolling with the punches at home and in Europe, and is too often exposed. Yes, Lyon appeared fragile and had Steven Gerrard been available and Fernando Torres fully fit the scoreline may have been different, but Beni...
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 3 weeks ago

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