A Livorno Mercato (We keep Candreva)

Here's a bunch of unorganized,misspelled, mercato ramblings Francesco Ceravolo leaves Livorno a winner and New DS is Nelso Ricci and he's been working overtime already... Spoke to ...

Poulsen Is Not D'Agostino's BFF

According to reports, the D'Agostino deal has broken down on account of Poulsen's unwillingness to live in Turkey... well sort of. The Turkish giants offered ...

Mercato; Co-ownership deals resolved

So this is the week when the teams start to resolve co-ownership or exercise contractual options, or else it goes to the envelopes, in which ...

Offside Sound-Off: Who Should Your Team Sign This Summer?

Rob posed this same question to Premier League fans over the weekend, but I wanted to steal his idea open it up to fans of ...

The Official Biography of Diego

First of all my heart goes out to those of you who've been waiting awhile for this piece. Truth be told, every time I started ...

So Long, Viking Warrior!

I never saw this coming, no doubt. The crystal ball failed me on this one, you'll notice there was no mention of Olof Mellberg leaving ...

The D'Agostino Deal

Everyone thought, myself included, that Diego would be the dragged-out mercato aim of this summer. Given his price, Bremen's reluctance to let him go, and ...

Salim Arrache leaving as well...

Here are some players whose names I haven't heard in a while, Salim Arrache and Fabrice Begeorgi. The two Marseille natives were kept in rosters ...

Juventus Mercato 2009: The Departures

So we've done a post on the possible arrivals at Juventus this mercato. As part of the season review, Martin of the Arsenal Offside did ...

Juventus Mercato 2009: The Arrivals

It's silly season, everyone. Of course, it's silly season all year long, but this is the time when actual negotiations and moves go on. Thus ...

Cleaning out the Locker room...

First of all, About Eidur Gudjohnsen, Pape Diouf said to French radio station RMC a few hours ago that there was no agreement whatsoever between ...

Zubar at Wolverhampton...

While everyone was expecting him to go to Bordeaux where Laurent Blanc seemed very keen on welcoming him, and where he could have become the ...

Olof Mellberg courted, Lyon seducing Mamadou Niang...

The phone between Marseille and Turin has been working non stop ever since Didier Deschamps took office. After having downplayed very quickly all the rumors ...

Mathieu Valbuena leaving and all other transfer rumors...

Mathieu Valbuena, one of Erik Gerets' favorite players was definitely one of the few players who were perceived as potential transferable players once new manager ...

Coaching Staff Info + Pics and Video of Ferrara's First/Second Training Session

After the words come the facts. The day after the announcement and the official presentation of Ciro Ferrara came the time to begin work on ...

A Step in the Wrong Direction..

Children, you too can abandon your club in its´darkest hour and return a few years later to a glorified retirement! "Fabio Cannavaro again with Juventus ...

PotD: This Is Kind Of What It Feels Like

Udinese Beat Milan, Gap At Four

Five points from the last eighteen available- no kidding we're in third. Thankfully, Udinese continued their winning ways and defeated the Rossoneri 2-1 this evening to ...

Photo of the Day: 'Something Stinks All Right'

The rumour mill's running overtime right now boys and girls. Voice your concerns in the mean time while I let the dust settle over a ...

The Final Stretch....

Genoa's victory on Saturday pretty much destroyed any remaining Scudetto hopes for the Juventini. Once again, a disastrous return from a break seems to have ...

NO CASSANO!

I don't get it, honestly, I don't. I am a big fan of Cassano, having watched his genius-yet-insane "coming of age" story, if you will, ...

Champions League: Chelski vs Bianconeri

Uefa Champions League - 25 Febbraio 2009 Stamford Bridge - Londra - h 20.45 Oh, how the times have changed at Stamford Bridge since Mr. Ranieri got ...

Sylvain Wiltord is Marseillais...

Yesterday around noon, Nino Wiltord arrived at the Commanderie for the traditional medical visit and an hour later, he was on the pitch for the ...

SpongeBob is no more!!!

Our owner, billionaire Robert Louis-Dreyfus, a.k.a. Spongebob doesn't grant many interviews. But when he does, he rarely beats around the bush and goes straight to ...

Gerets' killer? Brandao

Out of the long list of strikers we could have bought, Gerets, Anigo and Diouf decided on brandao after a whole week of negociations ...

The Most Expensive Signings of Summer '08, Halfway Through.

This isn't a subjective rating, it's merely the ten most expensive transfer fees by price of the summer 2008 throughout the world (read: Europe). Because ...

Making the Grade: Secco's Report Card and an Evaluation of Gli Big's

Let's be honest, Secco's first two summer mercatos were a disaster. We can perhaps forgive him for the first one, given the absolute chaos that ...

Tyrone Mears and the Mercato is done...

British right-back Tyrone Mears came on loan from Derby County (English First Division) this morning for the traditionnal medical visit and was then officially included ...

Djibril Cissé leaves on loan to Sunderland...

It had to be something big to get me out of my Olympics "vacation". Something even bigger than us scoring fours goals in each of ...

New Zebras

Since outgoing transfer action was touched upon in my last post, I figure we'll run through Udinese's summer signings this time around, even though we ...