Will He Stay Or Will He Go?

Will he stay or will he go? Lucas Neill let me know. I’d just got used to being without your sunny Australian smile this season, ...

The Loanee Roundup (revised)

A couple more young bucks have moved to greener pastures for the time being. Let's take a look, shall we? Scott Sinclair Destination: Wigan Athletic Loan Length: Season-long Man. ...

The Tightrope

There's a fine line to managing Hertha this season. Success and failure are balanced on a razor's edge, and there's no room for error. Other ...

Go Back To The Start

A battling 1-0 win that my Bayern-supporting friend (bitterly, after I teased him about which team had won and which team didn't on Saturday) referred ...

Hey, Remember That Swedish Guy?

You know, the one I said signed for Lazio and that our Lazio blogger said signed for AZ Alkmaar? Turns out neither of us were right, ...

Things That Hertha Berlin Are Not

Number 1: a cup team. At least, in all the time I've known them. They've not done particularly spectacular in any of the cups they've been ...

The Loanee Roundup

You're may be wondering: Where have all those talented Chelsea youngstas buggered off to? Well, you're in luck. Here's a roundup of those youths -- the ...

Finally

HSV have a meaningful match this evening/afternoon, as they take on Danish outfit Randers FC in the Europa League third round qualifying. About eff'ing time ...

Season Preview: Goalkeepers, Defenders

Hello everyone. Villa's preseason is well under way and its almost over! Only two and a half more weeks until we kick off ...

Click for bigger Jennifer is still stuck on this. Looking good Gaby :( Click for bigger ETA: Mickaël Ciani (central defender) might sign on to Bordeaux for 4 years. Gourcuff ...

Meet the New Simunic, and A Few Others

So, after a bit of the standard transfer hemming and hawing, we've got our man. 21-year-old Nemanja Pejcinovic, billed as the 'new Josip Simunic' by ...

The Transfer Dance

Jan put it best when he called our transfer targets those that "cost nothing and earn less". It's not an easy job that Michael Preetz ...

The Mountain Cometh

The "Mountain" is a nickname given to a certain transfer target, who finally inked a five year deal after protracted negotiations over the fee to ...

All the Tabloid Favorites

That's what Hertha has right now. A 2-0 friendly win against Ferencvaros of Budapest (just a bit over the border from the Austrian training camp) was ...

Beating Them To The Punch: Athletic's Third Signing

According to the latest reports (here and here) Athletic have signed Real Sociedad's 23-year-old left defender Xabi Castillo for €1 with another €600,000 in based ...

Vielleicht Hertha

So, where were we? The Battle of Berlin ended in a 5-3 win for Hertha. A festive Alte Forestei was treated to two goals from Artur ...

New Signing: Oscar de Marcos

According to various Spanish news sources (such as this one- it's in Spanish), Athletic have bought Alavés midfielder Oscar de Marcos. Depending on where you ...

Die Wölfe Summer Transfer Preview I, or, You Forgot About Dže

It’s been a long hot transfer season for every league but the Bundesliga. Sure, we have our weekly Real unveiling of Kaká, Ronaldo, that ...

Goodbye Gaby

It is a shocking and tearful goodbye I must say. Who would have thought Sir Alex would sign Gaby? I think all of us were ...

Official: Time to Zhirkov

Man, I just finished my Zhirkov. Pure bliss. Anyway, the man with one brilliant last name has finally, officially, joined Chelsea. Yuri Zhirkov, aka the Russian ...

Training camp, Day 3 wrap

All's well that ends well, or something like that. As Jan pointed out in the comments of the last post, HSV have their man--Eljero Elia, ...

Ancelotti: Terry 'captain forever'

King Carlo brought the ruckus today in his first press conference as Chelsea manager. Among the highlights... Carlo's sense of humor: When asked about the future of ...

HELLO!

Hello readers, my name is Paul and I am now the blogger for Athletic Club Bilbao here on theoffside. I have been a follower of ...

Sturridge deal finally official

It's been official for a while, but now, it's official official -- the Web site says so. Former Manchester City striker Daniel Sturridge finally signed off ...

The Return of the King

A new striker before Austria (on the 10th of July)? How about a new striker today? Well, not so much a new striker. A returning striker. ...

Where To Now?

It's signed, sealed, and exit-interviewed: Josip Simunic has left Hertha after nearly 10 years. I honestly thought it wasn't going to happen. A bit of ...

City launch Terry bid, promptly told to f** off

Those baby blue boys on the other side of Manchester have come knocking again. And, again, they're bringing the chocolate and flowers to the door ...

Carrasso Signs For 4 Years

You can read his first interview with Bordeaux here. The presser has yet to go online, so no pretty jersey pictures. Carrasso is quite the stud, ...

Official: I Am A Jinx

Also, Josip Simunic is going to Hoffenheim. More discussion later.

Sahar shipped out

Via the official Web site of RCD Espanyol (note: this report has been doctored a bit) ... "Ben Sahar (10/08/1989 Jolón, Israel) has become a new ...