Articles tagged with "transfers-and-player-movement"
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 ...
Transfer Time: The mystery that is Oguchi Onyewu
By Sam | January 26th, 2007Today, Bob wrote in his daily transfer article about American defender Oguchi "Gooch" Onyewu's certain transfer to Marseille, according to one site. If that's the ...
Plane tickets from Glasgow to Paris are selling like hotcakes
By Sam | January 25th, 2007Because when Paul Le Guen bails out of a coaching job with Rangers, which he never seemed comfortable doing in the first place, and heads ...
Transfer Time: Baros hopes the third time's le charme with Lyon
By Sam | January 22nd, 2007Just as both my index fingers suddenly come down with injuries (bagel slicing, you know), Lyon and Bordeaux go and decide to get active with ...
I started it: Canadian businessman to buy Olympique de Marseille, I mean it
By Sam | January 20th, 2007It's no longer a secret, but what will come of it remains a mystery. Will Jack Kachkar, future owner of the prestigious French club Olympique ...
Frédéric Piquionne rejects Saint-Étienne shirt, whip marks on back
By Sam | January 16th, 2007It's a rule of thumb in professional football, at least in France. When a player cleverly compares himself to a slave under the totalitarian and ...
PSG finally get a move on, sack coach
By Sam | January 16th, 2007Alain Cayzac, proud president of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, is a brave man. Boldly defending head coach Guy Lacombe for their short-lived relationship in the ...
Transfer Time: Lyon to buy Milan?
By Sam | January 10th, 2007Rid yourself of that puzzled look, especially you, Martha, I'm not talking about no Italian nothing, it's the guy I like to call The Wasted ...
Transfer Time: From Russia with love, maybe
By Sam | January 7th, 2007Hola amigos, I know it's been a while since I rapped at ya, but I've been quite the busy bee of late. Here's more on ...
Transfer Time: Much ado about Ribéry
By Sam | January 2nd, 2007Sure seems that tabloids and footie magazines can't get enough of my buddy Franck Ribéry as the transfer window opens. Strongly expected to stay in ...
Ribéry to a Serie B club? Guess which!
By Sam | December 28th, 2006Only once in a few thousand blue moons will you hear a Serie B club go on about signing players such as Miroslav Klose, Florent ...
Barthez back in business
By Sam | December 17th, 2006As previously mentionned, retired goalkeeper Fabien Barthez has evoked an eventual return to Ligue 1. And here he is! On the French television show Téléfoot this ...
Ricardo Costa, Laurent Blanc, Gonzalo Higuain, Oh my!
By Sam | December 14th, 2006Mucho transfer rumours as we approach the winter window... Olympique de Marseille have seemingly found the perfect piece for the always-almost-finished puzzle that is their defence. ...
Paris-SG turns it on, finally, and what's this about Barthez?
By Sam | December 13th, 2006If you're going to win a game after a long and painful slump, you might as well make it a 4-0 win at home against ...
Paris wants you as a fan, Lyon wants you as an attacker
By Sam | December 11th, 2006The two richest clubs in the country are in two very different pickles lately. One is suffering a horrible season, is having fatal hooligan problems, ...
Lyon would like you to shut up
By Sam | November 27th, 2006Jean-Michel Aulas, president of Olympique Lyonnais, would like you to know that David Trezeguet, Nicolas Anelka or Frédéric Piquionne will not be signing with Lyon. ...
Paris Saint-Germain: Frustration, Confusion and A Horrible Coach
By Sam | November 23rd, 2006Those are the three things going on these days in the French capital. The second-richest club in the country, who have a very decent array ...
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