Articles tagged with "benfica"
Going Down?
By Greg | July 18th, 2007No, you sick, sex-crazed beasts, I mean down in the sense of an elevator. Or, in the case of Ricardo, Filipe Teixeira (pronounced Teh-Share-Uh), ...
Big Three Fashion Statements for 07/08
By Greg | July 17th, 2007Most of today's news is simply a reinforcement of the transfer rumors I touched on yesterday. While the asking price for Simao has been ...
State of the Club
By AJ | July 17th, 2007Well... Let's see here... Yea, I know I haven't been bloging, but I'll explain that in a future post. I wanted to give you a ...
Couceiro Watch: Firing Squad Assembled
By Greg | July 16th, 2007Nothing is going on today to get all wacky about... Quaresma looks like he may have another season at Porto while Lucho González is ...
Thank God It's Seixta Feira: Dicky Quaresma to be Royalty, 07/08 Fixture Highlights, and Born Loser Couceiro is Defeated in Tic-Tac-Toe Game Against Himself
By Greg | July 13th, 2007Even though in this blog it's always seixta feira, today it's really Friday and there's plenty of amuse bouches to get to your table, so ...
Honesty in the Transfer News World? Finally!
By Greg | July 6th, 2007Fabrizio Miccoli completed his summer transfer saga by signing with Italian side Palermo today. He had previously stated that he would be delighted to ...
The Portuguese Liga is a Slutty Ho
By Greg | July 3rd, 2007No, really: the Liga is taking it for the right price from just about anyone at this point. I'm not saying it's one of ...
Weekend Transfer Rumors and the Gignac Dispute
By Julien | July 1st, 2007A couple transfer rumors have emerged regarding Lille this weekend. Girondins de Bordeaux is planning on transferring Julien Faubert to West Ham. The Bordelais want ...
More Strikers On the Move (Or Not)
By Martha | June 29th, 2007If reports in the Italian press are to be believed (and at least one of them has already been denied), a couple of desirable strikers ...
Stream of Bad News Day Consciousness
By Greg | June 28th, 2007Okay, it's day two of "Deuce Watch." As in there's DEUCE going on right now that's newsworthy. Therefore, I figured I'd share some ...
Juve Love You Long Time
By Martha | June 28th, 2007Man, it's just all seduction, all the time up in Turin these days: Juve get promoted, and the next thing you know they're the bookies' ...
No News Is Bad News
By Greg | June 27th, 2007I won't resort to fluff and fill tactics in order to complete my daily submission today, OH NO. I'm clearly above that. There ...
Nuno Gomes in Italy Return? God, Don't Tease Us So!
By Martha | June 27th, 2007Early in his career, Portuguese international Nuno Gomes spent a couple of very productive years at Fiorentina, even winning the Coppa Italia during his first ...
Roundup of Rumors and Other Assorted Nonsense
By Martha | June 26th, 2007•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 ...
Pair of Lost Boys Set to Return
By Martha | June 19th, 2007Late last week, Benfica's Juventus-owned Fabrizio Miccoli got into some weird brownies and started sending "messages of love" towards Palermo, specifically to the club's nutso ...
Odds and Ends Roundup From an Oddly Subdued News Day
By Martha | June 13th, 2007It's a holiday in Portugal, but the internet feels like it's a holiday everywhere. Am I missing something? •Most importantly for all of us, the Azzurri ...
Miccoli and the 3rd Person
By Greg | June 13th, 2007Confirming the inevitable, new Juventus boss Claudio Ranieri has said that striker Fabrizio Miccoli will be coming back to the club after a second loan ...
What's Up With Lucarelli?
By Martha | June 10th, 2007Despite Livorno's ever-so-firm announcement last week that #99 was going to stay around for another season, Cristiano Lucarelli's name has been popping up in transfer ...
Simao to replace Malouda? LOL.
By Inara | June 7th, 2007MALOUDA EAGER FOR SWITCH TO LIVERPOOL "...The £8million-rated Lyon midfielder looks bound for Anfield in the next week after the French club agreed a similar fee ...
Where the CHiPs Fell...
By Greg | May 22nd, 2007There were nine distinctions handed out on Sunday: One champion, two Champions League group stage spots, one Champions League qualifier spot, three UEFA Cup spots, ...
Europe's On Stage, It's Time for The Final Countdown
By Greg | May 18th, 2007Obviously not all of Europe is on some stage waiting for a countdown to the end of the Portuguese season... I'm just envisioning Swedish ...
Postulations and Probabilities
By Greg | May 17th, 2007After a quick (thank God) conversation with my mother-in-law last night, I realized that there's a few crazy things that could happen this weekend that ...
Where Did I Go Wrong?
By Greg | May 14th, 2007How in the hell did NONE of my predictions come out this past weekend? I mean, the reverse jinx worked and Sporting won. ...
Jornada 29 Weekend Actually, It's More Like My Bachelor Party Weekend
By Greg | May 11th, 2007While I'm in scenic Atlantic City, New Jersey sipping on virgin pina coladas and playing bingo for my bachelor party, a bunch of guys from ...
(Transfer) Window of Opportunity
By Greg | May 10th, 2007Since most European club seasons are now winding down, the speculation has begun in earnest regarding who's going and who's staying. Sir Alex, the ...
Down the Stretch they Come!
By Greg | May 9th, 2007In honor of this past weekend's Kentucky Derby, I figured I'd lead off with a horse racing reference. The stretch run is here and ...
Did Somebody Say "Benfica?"
By Martha | May 3rd, 2007I don't know if this was announced before and I missed it or if the the match was only made public today, but I just ...
Super Extra Special Lisbon Derby Weekend
By Greg | April 27th, 2007While it's not quite Benfica - Porto, this weekend's derby between Benfica and Sporting carries fantastic implications. One of the two teams has to ...
Live to Fight Another Day
By Greg | April 26th, 2007It's a slow Portuguese football news day, so Eusebio's successful surgery will allow me to enlighten those who have no idea about the Pantera Negra's ...
Benfica Resurrected
By Greg | April 24th, 2007Jornada 26 is in the books and the immovable force that is the "Big 3" all won their respective games. Benfica finally got a ...
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