Fulham and Arsenal in search of goalkeeper

Fulham boss Mark Hughes is hoping to sign Shay Given from Manchester City on a season long loan as a replacement for Australian Mark Schwarzer.

Mark Schwarzer is being linked with a move away to Emirates, as Arsene Wenger is not satisfied with the inconsistent performance of Manuel Almunia and Lukasz Fabianski and looking for the replacement.

Having £ 2m bid rejected by Fulham, Arsenal have now launched improved £ 4m bid for the Australian stopper.

According to Latest reports Shay Given has decided to stay at City. Now if Hughes does loose battle to keep Schwarzer, he could turn his attention to Reading goalkeeper Adam Federici.

Zalton Ibrahimovic is out Barcelona

Barcelona have send last season record signing Zalton Ibrahimovic on loan to AC Milan, he will complete a € 24 million (£19.8m) move to San Siro after his initial loan. the 28 year years old has reached terms on a four-year deal with the Italian giants.

"Guardiola is the philosopher who has shattered my dream to play with Barcelona," Ibrahimovic said.

Ibrahimovic is set to undergo a medical on Monday in order to complete his season loan move to Milan.

A story of good luck and bad luck

Well the 18 time BPL champs started their first game at Craven Cottage with lot of ups and down. Well as per expectations it was thought that MU will undoubtly overcomer their competators with ese. But fate had something else to say. As with the kick off MU started to dominate the game and started to make some impressive moves which result in scholes's trumendus shot from 25 yards which found the right corner of the net. With this MU started to dominate the game throughout the 1st half.


But with the end of 1st half things started to change a little bit. With the start of 2nd half Mark Hughes men bounce back with a superb move by Evra before he found Zamora who ultimately pass the ball to walves midfilder Davis who had all the time to pick a sweet spot to bring back The Cottagers in the game. Well now the scores are level. MU made their 1st sustitute with Nani which begain to look right as he started to make a brilliant impact on the game. He was stating to look dangerous which proved to be vital when in 83 minutes his innocent looking corner find the back of the net with the help of Hangeland. So now MU were back in business. Well there good luck didn't came to end when until in 86th minute Duff unintentional handled the ball which result in plenty. Well at this point one would think that mu had surely score the goal and would have increase their lead by two goals. But sorry to say this plenty started to prove bad luck for them. With Nani simply missing the plenty and no doubt a great save by Stockdale and the Fortuna left MU side. But Fortuna didn't left the game she join the side of Hangeland and Duff and gave them a chance to amends their errors. Fulham won a corner with only 1 min remaining on the clock. With an impressive shot by Duff from the corner at which Hangeland jumped and guided the ball to home. So in the end a game which was expected to be one sided proved something else.


Peace :)

New Premier League Rules

New Premier league rules have become headache for most of the Premier league managers this season.

According to new Premier league rules each club must announce its 25 man squad before the end of every transfer window. Managers will be allowed to change the squad only during the transfer window with provisional rule in place for extenuating circumstances (like Goal keeper Crisis).

In addition club must register a 25 man squad which must include eight 'home-grown' players, meaning that they have been associated with the FA or Welsh FA for three seasons (or 36 months) prior to their 21st birthday. And home grown does not refer nationality, simply how much years they have spend in England as a youngster.

And club can also supplement squad with unlimited number of players under the age of 21.

These rules applies to only Premier league matches and does not apply on Champions League, Carling cup or FA.

The new Premier league rules were imposed soon after the England's second world early exit. In theory these new rules will help to groom the young talent in house rather than buying expensive foreign players.

The prices increases in the market after Manchester City, Barcelona and Real Madrid spend a massive amount in the last season. Only Manchester City Spend more the 150 Million Pounds during the last three seasons.

Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive of the Premier League, said: 'It encourages youth development and promotion of young players, but this is nowhere near a nationality test'.

Now it would be interesting to see how Premier league clubs manages them-self according to new Premier League rules.

Mancini with Money at Mancity

Manchester City is the only club in Premier league spending more than 50 million in two consecutive seasons. During the last transfer season Manchester city buy four strikers Emmanuel Adabayor (Arsenal, £25 million), Craig Bellamy (West ham, £12 million), Santacruz (Blackburn, £17 million) and Carlos Tavez (Manchester United, £25 million). Even with so much fire power they were unable to qualify for Champians League spot without winning the single trophy last season.

During the current transfer window till now Manchester City have invested more than £75 million and signed Yaya Toure (Barcelona, £28 million), David Silva(£24 million, Valencia ), Jerome Boatang (Hamburg, £11 million), Aleksandar Kolarov (Lazio, £16 million), Alex Henshall (Swindon, £250,000), Albert Rusnak ( MFK Koviec, £18) and reports suggests that they are also chasing Mario Balotelli who is currently with Inter milan.

Manchester City have another highly rated striker in their pockets, Robinho who cost them the massive £35 million but during last season he was send on loan to Santos........!

Roberto Mancini the current Manchester City manager took charge of the club when Mark Hughes was sacked by the club owner during last season and since then the new Italian manager is trying to make his impact on the club.

With too much stars in the club it would very interesting to see how Mancini manages his squad. The situation at Eastland doesn't looks good. During the last two years there are lot of changes recorded in the squad. And if Mancini wants to achieve some results this season, somebody Please tell him he can not win matches on the basis of star players at Eastland.

Another problem that all Premier League managers are currently facing is the New Premier League rules, according to which at the close of each transfer window a club must announce the squad list of 25 players.

Not only that, Eight of these players must be "home grown", meaning they have been associated with the FA or Welsh FA for three seasons (or 36 months) prior to their 21st birthday. And Home-grown does not refer to nationality, simply how many years they have spent in England as a youngster.

Now it would be interesting to see how Mancini manages his squad according to the New Premier League rules.

Bayern Munich begins with silver cup

Confirming their position as the strongest team in the Liga the bayern munich clinched the top spot in the recently revived Super cup DFL, after a gap of fourteen years.

Schalke's defence gave way to the german worldcup players on the FCB. Goals by Muller and finally by Klose sealed the fate of the Supercup final.

The paced of the game was good in the first half even though there were some attempts on the goal, but still non of the teams could find any break through. It was in the second half that the game heated up to energize the crowd of 25,000 in impuls arena. An attempt on goal with schweinsteiger passing the ball to klose who in his stride rattled the goal post. Schalke counter-attacked with dazzling fury only to be thrawted by Kraft. It was only on the 75th minute that the breakthrough was acheived by the FCB when Muller Steered the pass by Klose into empty net.

Schalke barely had recovered when Klose struck in a counter attack, to seal the fate of the match.

Last but not the least it seems that FCB flexed the german muscle it has, giving them a morale boost over the other Liga teams.

Mourinho will start Mind games soon..

Portugal national Jose Mourinho resigns as a coach of Inter Milan after winning the Champions League with the Seria A club, and become the first manager to win the title for two different clubs.

The most important thing about Mourinho’s management is the understanding of the situation and his reaction according to it. We saw in champions league how he trained his squad and change the strategies according to the requirement of the situation in the crunch match against Spanish giants Barcelona and his former

club Chelsea.

Before Inter Milan he wins the grand Champions League title with FC Porto in 2003.During his football career he managed some very good clubs like Benfica, FC Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and now he has signed a four year deal with the Spanish club Real Madrid.

Real Madrid make huge spending during the last transfer window and grabbed some very good star players like Cristiana Ronaldo(Manchester United ), Kaka (AC Milan), Karim Benzima (Lyon), Arbeloa(LiverPool) , Xavi Alonso(Liverpool) but the former Madrid manager failed to impress the fans and the management at Real Madrid and they have spend yet another trophy less season.

After the Mourinho’s impressive season at Inter Milan, many clubs were reported to seek the services of Portuguese International but he chooses to go with Real Madrid and signed a four year deal with Spanish giants.

At Real Madrid Mourinho’s biggest threat would be FC Barcelona. Till now Mourinho has signed the German international Sami Khedira Stuttgart (€12m, Stuttgart), with a fee reported 14 million euro, Angel Di maria(€25m, Benfica), Miguel Palanca (loan return, CD Castellon), Pedro Leon (€10m, Getafe). Mourinho has also show a desire to sign another striker this season.

After signing with the Spanish club Mourinho tried to grab Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and Ricardo Carvalho from his former club Chelsea FC. But the current Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelloti has made it clear that he would not entertain any offer for the above mention Chelsea players.

Now it will be interesting to see how Barcelona managed to react on Mourinho’s mind games …!

Bundesliga transfer details.

The transfer period in the german bundesliga ends on the midnight stroke of 31^st august. Which now has pushed up the temperature in the liga transfers by a few degrees. So the overview of the transfer activity for this season is ‘hot’ taking into account the German performance in the FIFA2010 worldcup:

FC Bayern München
Arrivals:

Toni Kroos (Bayer Leverkusen, return from loan), Jose Ernesto Sosa (Estudiantes Buenos Aires, return from loan), Andreas Ottl (1. FC Nürnberg, return from loan), Breno (1. FC Nürnberg, return from loan), Edson Braafheid (Glasgow Celtic, return from loan)

Departures:

Luca Toni (Genoa CFC), Georg Niedermeier (VfB Stuttgart), Michael Rensing, Andreas Görlitz (club unknown), Christian Lell (Hertha BSC)

FC Schalke 04

Arrivals:

Carlos Grossmüller (Danubio FC Montevideo, was on loan), Tim Hoogland (1. FSV Mainz 05), Marvin Pourie (FC Schalke 04), Christoph Metzelder (Real Madrid), Erik Jendrisek (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Lars Unnerstall (FC Schalke 04 II), Atsuto Uchida (Kashima Antlers), Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Olympiacos Piräus), Raul (Real Madrid)
Departures:

Gerald Asamoah (FC St. Pauli), Kevin Kuranyi (Dynamo Moscow), Mohamed Amsif (FC Augsburg), Lewis Holtby (1. FSV Mainz 05, on loan), Ze Roberto II (Vasco da Gama), Jan Moravek (1. FC Kaiserslautern, on loan), Vicente Sanchez (unknown), Marcelo Bordon (Al Rayyan Sports Club Qatar), Carlos Zambrano (loaned to FC St. Pauli), Heiko Westermann (Hamburger SV), Carlos Grossmüller (contract terminated), Tore Reginiussen (US Lecce on loan)

Werder Bremen

Arrivals:

Felix Wiedwald (Werder Bremen II), Carlos Alberto (Vasco da Gama, return from loan), Torsten Oehrl (Fortuna Düsseldorf, return from loan), Kevin Schindler (MSV Duisburg, return from loan), Jurica Vranjes (Genclerbirligi Ankara, return from loan), Marko Arnautovic (FC Twente Enschede), Felix Kroos (Hansa Rostock)

Departures:

Aymen Abdennour (ES Sahel Sousse, was on loan), Martin Harnik (VfB Stuttgart), Torsten Oehrl (FC Augsburg), Carlos Alberto (Vasco da Gama)

Bayer Leverkusen

Arrivals:

Michael Ballack (Chelsea), Sidney Sam (Hamburger SV), Domagoj Vida (NK Osijek), Zvonko Pamic (NK Karlovac), Marcel Risse (1. FC Nürnberg, return from loan), Hanno Balitsch (Hannover 96), Nicolai Jörgensen (AB Copenhagen)

Departures:

Thomas Zdebel (Alemannia Aachen), Toni Kroos (FC Bayern München, was on loan), Theofanis Gekas (Eintracht Frankfurt), Zvonko Pamic (SC Freiburg, on loan), Jens Hegeler (1. FC Nürnberg, on loan), Lukas Sinkiewicz (FC Augusburg)

Borussia Dortmund

Arrivals:

Lukasz Piszczek (Hertha BSC), Mitchell Langerak (Melbourne Victory), Shinji Kagawa (Cerezo Osaka), Florian Kringe (Hertha BSC, return from loan), Robert Lewandowski (Lech Poznan)

Departures:

Tinga (Internacional), Marcel Höttecke (1. FC Union Berlin), Marc Ziegler (VfB Stuttgart), Julian Koch (MSV Duisburg, on loan), Uwe Hünemeier (FC Energie Cottbus)

VfB Stuttgart

Arrivals:

Christian Gentner (VfL Wolfsburg), Marc Ziegler (Borussia Dortmund), Martin Harnik (Werder Bremen), Georg Niedermeier (FC Bayern München), Georges Mandjeck (1. FC Kaiserslautern, was on loan), Elson (Hannover 96, return from loan), Cristian Molinaro (Juventus Turin, signed after loan deal), Michael Gardawski (1. FC Köln, on loan)

Departures:

Jens Lehmann (retired), Aliaksandr Hleb (FC Barcelona, return after loan), Roberto Hilbert (club unknown), Julian Schieber (1. FC Nürnberg, on loan), Martin Lanig (1. FC Köln), Georges Mandjeck (Stade Rennes), Sami Khedira (Real Madrid)

Hamburger SV

Arrivals:

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (1. FC Nürnberg, return from loan), Mickael Tavares (1. FC Nürnberg, return from loan), Änis Ben-Hatira (MSV Duisburg, return from loan), Jaroslav Drobny (Hertha BSC), Lennard Sowah (Portsmouth FC), Dennis Diekmeier (1. FC Nürnberg), Heiko Westermann (Schalke 04), Gojko Kacar (Hertha BSC)

Departures:

Sidney Sam (Bayer Leverkusen), Maximilian Beister (Fortuna Düsseldorf, on loan), Jerome Boateng (Manchester City), Tolgay Arslan (Alemannia Aachen, on loan)

VfL Wolfsburg

Arrivals:

Mario Mandzukic (Dinamo Zagreb), Nassim Ben Khalifa (Grasshoppers Zürich), Caiuby (MSV Duisburg, return from loan), Daniel Adlung (Alemannia Aachen, return from loan), Mahir Saglik (SC Paderborn, return from loan), Vlad Munteanu (FSV Frankfurt, return from loan), Arne Friedrich (Hertha BSC), Simon Kjær (US Palermo), Cicero (Tombense CF, on loan)

Departures:

Christian Gentner (VfB Stuttgart), Jan Simunek (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Obafemi Martins (Rubin Kazan), Jonathan Santana (Kayserispor)

FSV Mainz 05

Arrivals:

Mario Vrancic (Rot Weiss Ahlen, return from loan), Marco Caligiuri (SpVgg Greuther Fürth), Lewis Holtby (FC Schalke 04, on loan), Haruna Babangida (Apollon Limassol), Adam Szalai (Real Madrid Castilla, return after loan)

Departures:

Tim Hoogland (FC Schalke 04), Chadli Amri (1. FC Kaiserslautern), Dimo Wache (retired), Marco Rose (retired), Malik Fathi (Spartak Moscow, return after loan), Adam Szalai (Real Madrid Castilla, return after loan), Tufan Tosunoglu (FSV Frankfurt)

Eintracht Frankfurt

Arrivals:

Theofanis Gekas (Bayer Leverkusen), Markus Steinhöfer (1. FC Kaiserslautern, was on loan), Habib Bellaid (US Boulogne-sur-Mer, was on loan), Georgios Tzavellas (Panionios Athens), Sebastian Rode (Kickers Offenbach)

Departures:

Christoph Spycher (Young Boys Bern), Nikos Liberopoulos (club unknown), Jan Zimmermann (club unknown), Alexander Krük (VfL Osnabrück), Faton Toski (VfL Bochum), Selim Teber (Kayserispor), Markus Pröll (no club)

1899 Hoffenheim

Arrivals:

Tom Starke (MSV Duisburg), Ramazan Özcan (Besiktas Istanbul, return after loan), Wellington (FC Twente Enschede, return after loan), Peniel Kokou Mlapa (TSV 1860 München)

Departures:

Timo Hildebrand (club unknown), Per Nilsson (1. FC Nürnberg), Wellington (Fortuna Düsseldorf, on loan)

Borussia Mönchengladbach

Arrivals:

Jens Wissing (Preußen Münster), Igor de Camargo (Standard Liege), Anderson (Tombense Futebol Clube), Sebastian Schachten (SC Paderborn, return after loan), Mohamadou Idrissou (SC Freiburg)

Departures:

Oliver Neuville (Arminia Bielefeld), Roberto Colautti (Maccabi Tel Aviv), Thomas Kleine (SpVgg Greuther Fürth), Moses Lamidi (Rot-Weiß Oberhausen), Frederic Löhe (SV Sandhausen, on loan), Rob Friend (Hertha BSC)

FC Köln

Arrivals:

Konstantinos Giannoulis (Iraklis Saloniki), Alexandru Ionita (Rapid Bucharest), Marvin Matip (Karlsruher SC, return from loan), Wilfried Sanou (Urawa Red Diamonds, return from loan), Lukas Nottbeck (Borussia Dortmund II, return from loan), Michael Gardawski (Carl Zeiss Jena, return from loan), Martin Lanig (VfB Stuttgart), Christopher Buchtmann (Fulham FC), Mato Jajalo (AC Siena), Andrezinho (Vitoria Guimaraes)

Departures:

Maniche (Sporting Lisbon), Zoran Tosic (Manchester United, return after loan), Sebastian Zielinsky (FC Ingolstadt), Thomas Kessler (FC St. Pauli, on loan), Michael Gardawski (VfB Stuttgart, on loan)

SC Freiburg

Arrivals:

Jan Rosenthal (Hannover 96), Zvonko Pamic (Bayer 04 Leverkusen, on loan), Andreas Glockner (TuS Koblenz, return from loan), Alain Junior Ollé Ollé (Rot Weiss Ahlen, return from loan), Michael Müller (1. FC Saarbrücken, return from loan), Maximilian Nicu (Hertha BSC)

Departures:

Michael Langer (FSV Frankfurt), Mohamadou Issidrou (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Eke Uzoma (TSV 1860 München)

Hannover 96

Arrivals:

Moritz Stoppelkamp (Rot-Weiß Oberhausen), Lars Stindl (Karlsruher SC), Ron-Robert Zieler (Manchester United II), Markus Miller (Karlsruher SC), Emanuel Pogatetz (Middlesbrough FC)

Departures:

Jan Rosenthal (SC Freiburg), Jiri Stajner (Slovan Liberec), Arnold Bruggink (club unknown), Jan Durica (Lokomotiv Moscow, return after loan), Hanno Balitsch (Bayer 04 Leverkusen)

FC Nürnberg

Arrivals:

Timmy Simons (PSV Eindhoven), Jens Hegeler (Bayer 04 Leverkusen, on loan), Rubin Rafael Okotie (Austria Wien), Christoph Sauter (1. FSV Mainz 05), Dario Vidosic (MSV Duisburg, return from loan), Matthew Spiranovic (Urawa Red Diamonds, return from loan), Julian Schieber (VfB Stuttgart, on loan), Robert Mak (Manchester City), Per Nilsson (1899 Hoffenheim), Mehmet Ekici (Bayern München II), Felicio Brown Forbes (Hertha BSC)

Departures:

Thomas Broich (Brisbane Roar FC), Dominik Reinhardt (FC Augsburg), Havard Nordtveit (FC Arsenal, return after loan), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (Hamburger SV, return after loan), Mickael Tavares (Hamburger SV, return after loan), Breno (FC Bayern München, return after loan), Andreas Ottl (FC Bayern München, return after loan), Marcel Risse (Bayer Leverkusen, return after loan), Jaouhar Mnari (FSV Frankfurt), Dennis Diekmeier (Hamburger SV)

FC Kaiserslautern

Arrivals:

Erwin Hoffer (SSC Napoli, on loan), Stiven Rivic (FC Energie Cottbus), Ilian Micanski (Zaglebie Lubin), Christian Tiffert (MSV Duisburg), Oliver Kirch (Arminia Bielefeld), Chadli Amri (1. FSV Mainz 05), Ricky Pinheiro (VfL Osnabrück, was on loan), Ivo Ilicevic (VfL Bochum), Leon Jessen (FC Midtjylland), Jan Moravek (FC Schalke 04, on loan), Jan Simunek (VfL Wolfsburg)

Departures:

Erik Jendrisek (FC Schalke 04), Mario Klinger (Rot-Weiß Oberhausen), Anel Dzaka (club unknown), Dario Damjanovic (club unknown), Fabian Müller (club unknown), Dragan Paljic (club unknown), Sascha Kotysch (club unknown), Sidney Sam (Hamburger SV, return after loan), Georges Mandjeck (VfB Stuttgart, return after loan), Markus Steinhöfer (Eintracht Frankfurt, return after loan), Ivo Ilicevic (VfL Bochum, return after loan), Daniel Pavlovic (FC Schaffhausen, return after loan), Fabian Müller (Erzgebirge Aue), Christoph Buchner (1. FC Saarbrücken)

FC St. Pauli

Arrivals:

Gerald Asamoah (FC Schalke 04), Fin Bartels (Hansa Rostock), Moritz Volz (Fulham FC), Thomas Kessler (on loan from 1. FC Köln), Carlos Zambrano (Schalke 04, on loan)

Departures:

Jonathan Bourgault (Preußen Münster), Thomas Meggle (retired), Andreas Biermann (club unknown), Morike Sako (club unknown)

All about Spurs...!

Spurs looking to strengthen their squad without spending too much in summer transfer window.

Spurs's manager showed interest in some promising individuals, but he admits that he is unable to pay the price...!

Spurs finished at fourth in Premier League last season and qualify for the Champions League football. During 2009-2010 season Tottenham outclass the Premier league giants Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester city.

Currently Spurs have reported some major issues in the heart of their defense. The two experienced central defenders are injured and one of them is not looking good to start this season. Jonathan Woodgate played only three games last season and missed the rest of the season due to serious groin injury. The England international traveled to New York for physiotherapy and Australia for surgery in order to get rid of injury and is a huge possibility that he would not be the part of Spurs 25 man squad this season.

where as on the other end Spurs most experienced defender is also injured but according to reports he will be fit in three week time. In the absence of Woodgate Spurs are most likely to bring his replacement.

Unlike Manchester City Spurs are confident to strengthen their squad but without spending too much money.

If we look at the midfield and forward lineup of Tottenham it is far better from remaining Premier league clubs but in order to achieve something they have to be consistent.