Marco Amelia Desination of the Week ; Barcelona

That’s right Marco, Lovely Barcelona ! After Napoli last week and Siberia the week before, Marco Amelia is now a target of Barcelona! The city where you eat at 11pm, go to bed at noon and where you see beautiful lesbians making out in every

What does World Class mean? | Which Premiership Players are World Classs?

There’s a lot of talk about the need to sign “world class” players but how do you define the term? Is world class just another way to describe a player – like “good” or “great”? Or is it a literal term to mean players that are good enough

Roundup of Rumors and Other Assorted Nonsense

•Fact: Roma's money guy girl has flown out to Barcelona for a "supper" of negotiations. Multinational rumor (tracked by our own, never-sleeping, Roma-obsessing Chris): Cristian Chivu will be a Barca player by morning. Stay tuned. •Catania just

Serie A, Meet La Liga. La Liga, Meet Serie A. I Think You'll Get Along Just Fine.

The papers this morning are chock-full of stories about Serie A teams lusting after La Liga players, and Spanish clubs eyes boys who play in Italy. Why, whatever did we do before the La Liga season ended? One pile of names comes from our beloved La Gaz

Barca Launch (Hopefully) Doomed Bid for Adrian Mutu

It was reported in a couple of places this morning that, having wrapped up the La Liga season, Barcelona immediately turned around and threw themselves into the Italian transfer market. The target whose name shows up in most reports is Fiorentina's Adr

Sheva and Kaka and Adriano, Oh My!, Or: Rumor Mania in Milan

This is what we get for complaining about the shortage of rumors yesterday, I guess -- today, every time you turn around there's something more outrageous in the paper. First, old Silvio Berlusconi -- a man never known to lie, exaggerate, or talk loudl

Time To Steel Yourselves For More Eto'o Talk

Things have been quiet on the Eto'o-to-Milan front for the last week or so but, sadly, the blissful quiet is about to end: Media all over are reporting that Adriano Galliani will be in Barcelona next Monday to meet with club officials and try to score Mil

Milan Want Eto'o, But Only in a Totally Classy Way

After reports surfaced in the press yesterday that Milan were on the verge of a £30 million deal for Barca's Samuel Eto'o, the club flashed back to last summer's righteous indignation over Real's pursuit of Ricky Kaka and went into damage control overdri

Ancelotti to Gila: Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out

Oh, Gila. Gila, Gila, Gila. You really ought to know better than to start talking smack -- even a little -- about your club when you're at the end of a growing list of strikers. But no, you insist on opening your mouth, whining about not starting the Cham

Where you At, Gila?

Poor Alberto Gilardino. First he's left on the bench in favor of Super Pippo in the Champions League Final, then he goes in for surgery and misses out on key Azzurri matches, and now he doesn't even know if he'll be in Milan next year. With all the end

Getafe 4 - 0 Barcelona - Lowlights

Well, it's my duty, I suppose, to provide the eulogy for Barcelona's Copa del Rey campaign. Not that I want to think about this game now or ever again, but it has to be done, so here is a 5 minute "highlight" reel of the game : Note the terrible defend

The Eto'o-to-Milan Rumor Returns

During the winter transfer window, one of the roughly 400,540 names associated with a move to Milan was Barcelona's sublime Samuel Eto'o, who was probably seen as fair game by the rumor mongers because of his reported falling out with Barca's Powers That

Recreativo Huelva 0 – 4 Barcelona: Match Review

There is apparently something wonderful to be said about the 4-3-3; that something was four goals against a decent squad on Saturday as Barcelona won their first away game since something like 1979 (if you’re actually keeping track at home, the last a

Recreativo 0 - 4 Barcelona

4 goals. More tomorrow.

Rijkaard and Eto'o talking junk

Rijkaard thinks Benitez is conceded. He's probably right, I mean, you sort of have to be that way to be a good manager. I don't know anyone who would call Rijkaard a humble man, do you? We all know how humble Eto'o is. First, he's demanding to start

Liverpool - Barca II

So this is it. This is what our whole season has come down to, one game. There's nothing left to win. Barca's pulling out all the stops. They're bringing Eto'o and their yellow jerseys. This is no time to be complacent and Stevie G knows it. I doubt

Sevilla - Barcelona second half live blog

So it's 1-1 at half and Barcelona need to start creating more chances. I'm wondering if Eto'o will make an appearance for 45 minutes or if Rijkaard will wait until the 60th minute to put him on. Seems a good idea to keep him on the bench at the moment, bu

Sevilla - Barcelona: Saturday 2pm EST

[Update: the game is at 4pm EST, not 2 as the title says! I misread the schedule, sorry. The Valencia - Celta Vigo game is at 2pm EST. Sorry for any confusion.] Oh me oh my it's a number 1 visiting a number 2. Time for fireworks, I think. When the two

More on Fowler to MLS & Eto'o coming to Liverpool

According to Fowler's agent via the BBC, Fowler desires a contract renewal and that the New England Revolution, specifically Steve Nicol, has not spoken with his client, nor if they did, he doubts they would be able to afford him. Hmmm, not be able to af

Zaragoza - Barcelona Preview

Just a quick preview as I don't have the energy for anything in-depth. Barcelona play Real Zaragoza tomorrow at 3:30pm ET in the Copa del Rey quarterfinal return leg and it won't be easy for the blaugrana to escape this round. They're down 1-0 on aggregat

Eto’o Returns, Barça Wins, Critics Shut Up

If what Barça have needed all along was a healthy dose of Samuel Eto’o, well, now we’ve got it and, if the weekend is any indication of the future, most teams are going to need to start studying film from last year if they want to find a way to beat

All the goals from La Liga

Marca, as always, has a page of all the goals from this weekend in La Liga. Eto'o is back (more on that tomorrow) and he was pressuring the defender when Amorebieta scored an own goal, he got an assist on Xavi's goal, and he scored a nice goal to make i

Lineups for the Bilbao game and Dida to Barca?

It looks like Eto'o may get a start on Sunday against Bilbao, though there's nothing confirmed. Barcelona paper Sport reports (Spanish) that Eto'o and Ronaldinho are both in the lineup for the game, though it's unclear who will start. All we know for sure

Greedy, Greedy Milan

Not content to cling to the middle of the table, Milan are at least talking a big game as the winter transfer window opens. In addition to their on-again, off-again romance with Real Madrid's Antonio Cassano (Put in terms we can all understand, Cassano is

Today's Milan Rumor Roundup, Or: Whatever Will We Do When the Transfer Window Closes?

On any given day this week, I swear I read 10 different rumors about which players Milan will be bring in to rescue them from the swamp of suckage threatening to swallow the club whole. I sort of have my doubts about them pulling off ANY big moves before

Drogba's Goal in the Nou Camp (Say No More!!)