Drogba's replacement, has been replaced by Drogba?
Odd indeed, as Everton would seem to know more about him than any other team in the prem. I suppose, Everton may be the strongest team interested?
United has their forwards sorted. As does City, Liverpool, and Arsenal.
And Tottenham, has Soldado.
Adebayor fits much better in Poch's system too, can move around the whole pitch, work rate is better, passing is 83% compared to Lukaku's 66%
and if anyone saw any of Spurs games in the US, the whole front 4 was a very fluid system moving around all game, I don't think Lukaku who gives the ball away a lot would have fit that
once Poch came in the rumors of Lukaku really stopped
and the only other club that was mentioned as being interested was Atleti and they got Mandzukic
The Glazers have sold another 5 percent of their shares. 90m straight into their pockets ... Malcolms kids are cashing in, I guess. This won't change anything for the club for now, since they still own over 80 percent of the club.
The Glazers have sold another 5 percent of their shares. 90m straight into their pockets ... Malcolms kids are cashing in, I guess. This won't change anything for the club for now, since they still own over 80 percent of the club.
The Glazers have sold another 5 percent of their shares. 90m straight into their pockets ... Malcolms kids are cashing in, I guess. This won't change anything for the club for now, since they still own over 80 percent of the club.
So it looks like the BPL will move with the times.
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Premier League To Introduce Vanishing Spray For New Season
30 July 2014
BBC News
Vanishing spray will be introduced in the Premier League next season following its success at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Referees use the spray to indicate the position of free-kicks and the distance the defensive wall must retreat.
The Premier League had said it did not plan to introduce the spray until it had monitored it in other competitions.
But chief executive Richard Scudamore said the Premier League was "open to developments".
He explained: "It was clear from watching the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil that vanishing spray benefited referees, players, and all of those who watched the matches.
"Following consultation with our clubs and the Professional Game Match Officials Limited [the refereeing body], we have decided to introduce it in the Premier League and look forward to having it in place for the 2014-15 season."
“Such suburban models are being rationalized as ‘what people want,’ when in fact they are simply what is most expedient to produce. The truth is that what people want is a decent place to live, not just a suburban version of a decent place to live.”
"I didn't know him a lot because I was really young when he was Barcelona's coach, but he had a really good relationship with my grandfather, the former vice-president of the club.
"I had the chance to see him one day at my grandfather's house when I was 12 or 13 years old. He arrived at the house and he knew I was playing for the Barcelona youth team. He pushed me and I fell to the floor, and he said 'you are not tough enough to be a centre-back'.
Frank Lampard is set to sign a short-term deal with Manchester City. The former Chelsea midfielder has agreed to join City’s Major League Soccer team, New York City, but they will not begin playing until March.
Lampard rejected the chance to play in Melbourne at City’s other new venture and although Queens Park Rangers are leading the chase for his signature, the 36-year-old favours a spell with Manuel Pellegrini’s side.
The shock move will enable Lampard to keep fit and, providing there are no last-minute hitches, City will register him for their Premier League and Champions League squads.
It is a move which is believed to suit both parties with City keen to boost their quota of English players in a squad packed full of foreign imports while Lampard, who has yet to announce his international retirement, will remain in the England manager Roy Hodgson’s gaze.
Rooney and Mata score within two minutes to go up 2-1 vs Liverpool after 57 minutes ... interesting game, definitely not a friendly. Well, I doubt those two could ever play a game that is "friendly"
what is interesting that United conceded a penalty once again ... so that's 3 penalties in 4 games at the International Champions Cup now (one vs Roma, one vs Real and now one vs Liverpool). The positive for United is that they only conceded one goal in open play, and that was a ricidulous Pjanic goal vs Uniteds 4th goalie Ben Amos:
but other than that, United has been very solid defensively despite the new 3-4-1-2 system with Evans-Jones-Smalling ... if they now could stop conceding penalties, that would be great.
EDIT: United win 3-1. LvG will have a tough time keeping the euphoria down after that tour ... certainly a better set of pre-season games than last year (lost 2 and only won 2 of 6 vs mediocre Asian teams) Shaw and Young were excellent as wing-backs ... I hope they are first choice, but for some reason LvG also liked Valencia during that tour. Young has been a revelation, he's playing with confidence and pace. The fact that he can play on both sides certainly helps ... never thought I'd say this, but Young is looking like a great player at the moment and he'll be very important for United this season.
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The Football Association has introduced new guidelines and rules for the management of concussion and head injuries next season. The campaign, which is supported by the Premier League, Football League and League Managers' Association, is accompanied by an education programme which will be rolled out in conjunction with the Professional Footballers’ Association to help raise awareness among players.
The FA guidelines set out the procedures and processes which follow any suspected head injury and how players should be re-introduced to competitive football over time through the new ‘return to play’ rules.
The rules detail that after any 'confirmed or suspected period of loss of consciousness' the player must be removed from the field of play and not be allowed to return.
Where no loss of consciousness is apparent an on-field or touchline assessment will take place.
The second one being that hopefully some ref will have the gonads to set a precedent and remove a player from a game after play acting dead from a light tap to the head from an accidental backhand. They could really use this to cut down on play acting.
Was wondering how Kramer was doing since his event and stumbled across this.
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Nicola Rizzoli, the ref for the final, said on Thursday to Gazzetta dello Sport that Kramer approached him after the jarring collision and asked him whether he was, indeed, playing in the World Cup final.“Shortly after the blow, Kramer came to me asking, ‘Ref, is this the final?' I thought he was joking and made him repeat the question and then he said, ‘I need to know if this is really the final.' When I said, ‘Yes,' he concluded, ‘Thanks, it was important to know that.'”
After Giggs, Ferdinand, Vidic and Evra, United now lose another club legend.
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Howard Webb has retired as a match referee and has been appointed technical director of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited, the Premier League has announced.
According to a statement released on Wednesday afternoon, Webb will be responsible for overseeing the technical direction and standards that govern the on-field performance of PGMOL’s match officials. He will also “take a public-facing role, informing and educating on refereeing matters” and report to the PGMOL general manager Mike Riley.
“I am very excited to start this new chapter in my career after a wonderfully rewarding 25 years on the pitch,” Webb said. “I have spent over a decade with the best seat in the house for Barclays Premier League matches, been lucky enough to be involved in nine Uefa and Fifa tournaments, and taken charge of the Uefa Champions League and Fifa World Cup finals.
“Refereeing has given me so much and it’s important that match officials who have had the rewards remain in the game to pass on their knowledge. I also have much more to learn about the business of refereeing and the best place for me to do that is with PGMOL. It’s an incredibly positive working environment and we all have a common goal of improving refereeing.”
Webb’s career reached a peak in 2010 when he became the first person to referee the Champions League final and the World Cup final in the same year. He also refereed at Euro 2008 and Euro 2012, and was widely-praised for his performances at the World Cup in Brazil.
