Articles tagged with "transfers-and-player-movement"
Forget Abidal, Lyon's Going for Fabio Grosso Now
By Sam | July 3rd, 2007I'm back from the dead, aka from that dreadful Wordpress bug that kept me out of action for a few days, but it's all better ...
Yinkamania is Dead
By Max J. | July 2nd, 2007Kasali Yinka Casal, we hardly knew ye. The official word is in and Casal is no longer a DC player. Goff's reporting today ...
Paging Mr. Casal to the Courtesy Phone
By Max J. | July 1st, 2007We're now three days removed from the Rapids game and no word on Casal's injury. Meanwhile, the BigSoccer rumor mill has picked up the ...
The Bell Tolls for Erpen
By Max J. | June 29th, 2007Yeah, look, I'm not going to pretend to shed too many tears for Facundo Erpen, most of which I think are based on optimistic attachment ...
Bordeaux Wants 15 mil for Faubert, Sam Laughs Heartily
By Sam | June 25th, 2007Okay, listen up. First of all, everyone knows Julien Faubert is on his way out of Bordeaux, everyone also knows he wants to try something ...
Sablé turns around and signs with Lens, Valdo could be an OM player right now, Mendy headed to Parma?
By Sam | June 22nd, 2007First off, the big one. After making it crystal-clear that he loved Marseille, that he was coming to Marseille, that all parties had found an ...
Read all about it: Marseille finally wake the hell up and sign some delicious defending
By Sam | June 21st, 2007Weeks of laborious persuading and bartering have paid off for Olympique de Marseille, as they announced the imminent arrivals of three very respectful players, those ...
(Inhale...) Giuly! Sablé! Queudrue! Payet! Ziani! Runje! Malouda! Cheyrou! Koller! Sagna! Rozenhal! Givet!
By Sam | June 20th, 2007A particularly mouth-watering few days on the transfer front these past days, and Ligue 1 are doing their part in keeping the rumours going. Here's ...
Dhorasoo Blunders Once Again, Cissé Could Be Staying Put, Lille Start Rebuilding
By Sam | June 18th, 2007If one of you is planning a party, be sure not to invite Vikash Dhorasoo. The bitchy little midfielder, rumoured to be joining Sochaux after ...
The France Offside is not Dead
By Sam | June 16th, 2007I'm awful sorry for not posting for over a week, folks, it's a bit frantic behind my steering wheel these days. Between gearing up for ...
An Idle Thought About Josh Gros
By Max J. | June 14th, 2007Goff has an update on DC's new trialists: Defender Kim Jaggy and forward Mira Mupier began their trials today and will be in camp for as ...
OFFICIAL: Franck Ribéry departs from Marseille, Champions League
By Sam | June 7th, 2007This ain't a rumour no more, folks, it's quite true. Midfielder Franck Ribéry has left club and country to pursue a new adventure with Bayern ...
BREAKING NEWS: Franck Ribéry is an moron who makes no sense
By Sam | June 4th, 2007Q: When you blabber that you'll stay at Marseille if they make it to the Champions League, because that's what you want to do and ...
Spanish prodigy Bojan Krkic on loan to Saint-Étienne!
By Sam | May 29th, 2007How about that? According to an unofficial Barca website, the club is loaning the offensive midfielder, born of a Serbian father, to les Verts for ...
Houllier Leaves Lyon, Swears that "It's not you... It's me"
By Sam | May 25th, 2007Note the lack of ampersands and dollar signs in my article. Because to me, if Jean-Michel Aulas hires a good coach, this could be a ...
A Few Quick Fixes to Keep up with the Rumours
By Sam | May 23rd, 2007- Real Madrid totally digs Samir Nasri, so much that they've made the trek to see him play a few times this season. In other ...
Some Ligue 1 Briefs To Nibble On
By Sam | May 3rd, 2007-Marseille and Sochaux are in talks before facing each other next Saturday in the final of the Coupe de France, as rumours have Karim Ziani ...
Fabien Barthez Goes And Kills His Career As Nantes Plummets
By Sam | April 29th, 2007Parents, please, for the well-being of your young, I plead you not to let them around former/current Nantes goalkeeper and former (for sure) French international ...
Jean-Michel Aulas: We don't want Nasri.
By Sam | April 12th, 2007Sam: Yeah right. After footie tabloid Foot Transfert screamed that Lyon were officially jumping on the Samir bandwagon, the quintuple champions set things right on their ...
Ribéry wants you to know that he likes Marseille, he just really wants to play in the Champions League
By Sam | April 6th, 2007Olympique de Marseille is in eighth place right now, with eight games remaining in the Ligue 1 season. You may just know that's not enough ...
The rumours begin, and they are glorious. Get this: Drogba wants to come back to Ligue 1
By Sam | April 1st, 2007Didier Drogba must be homesick. Not only is being the top scorer in the Prem not enough, he wants to go back to where he ...
What does every single club in the world have in common? They all want Nasri sooo bad
By Sam | March 29th, 2007And it's not as if surreal performance against Austria did anything to calm the likes of Inter and Arsenal down. Furthermore, it has come to ...
Tevez to Marseille? Yeah, we wish
By Sam | March 13th, 2007The second you get yourself interested in French footie, you realize that Marseille, the medditeranean city of Olympique de Marseille is otherwise known as Marseille ...
Nantes sack coach, seem to have a knack for hiring men with odd names
By Sam | February 12th, 2007FC Nantes-Atlantique, currently 19th in the Ligue 1 table, started out the season with a man named Serge Le Dizet at the helm. Translated from ...
Fred Piquionne isn't a slave, he's a hostage!
By Sam | February 8th, 2007It took Monaco's new striker Frederic Piquionne a few weeks to apologize for the comparison he drew to himself about being a slave under AS ...
N is for Nifty, Neat, and Nasri
By Sam | February 5th, 2007If you've never heard of Samir Nasri, you definitely aren't a cool cat. All the young punks and new kids on the block are talking ...
Transfer Time: ...And we're done.
By Sam | January 31st, 2007What an, um, exciting transfer month! Meh. Well actually, I suppose it wasn't that bad. The last day of January surprised me and a few ...
Transfer Time: Onyewu ain't coming, merde!
By Sam | January 29th, 2007I certainly hope this is the last post i write about that mysterious Gooch. Sadly, it's not to officially pass the word that he put ...
Transfer Time: Ordem e progresso e Lyon
By Sam | January 29th, 2007All of two days and a few hours to go in the transfer window, and have I got news for you! The Brazilian takeover of ...
Transfer Time: Goochie-goochie-goo! But still not sure...
By Sam | January 28th, 2007We've gotten a bit further in the Oguchi Onyewu story, however nothing has been confirmed by any club. The solid Yank defender, who is still ...
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