The Spanish league is more open, anybody can win.
The English League is more predictive although there have been surprises

Yup yup, so any news on big name transfers from other league to BPL?

ex Arsenal midfielder, Fabrice Muamba became Gary Megson's first summer signing at Bolton

Muamba targetting Euro place with new club; Bolton

for more than 5 million pound!!!!

Fabrice Muamba eh ... Don't really remember much about him

man...targeting Euro with Bolton? why Arsenal now not in Euro cup meh? haha...

i think those writing the rumours are mostly spanish girl journalists! hehehe no wonder they kept saying that ronaldo wanted to go RM...so that ronaldo will be influenced by the media and really go to Spain...whatcha all think?

Someone better show him where Bolton ended up last season. Targeting a Euro spot with Bolton? Haha. Not even thru the fairplay league knowing Bolton's style of play

MANCHESTER CITY are caught in a new third-party ownership storm.

SOS

damn MSI....celaka....

Roma In Furious Attack On Sir Alex Ferguson

Roma technical director Bruno Conti has unleashed a furious attack on Sir Alex Ferguson, calling the Manchester United manager a hypocrite after he poached one of Italy’s brightest young talents from the Giallorossi.



It's time Fergie had a taste of his own medicine after Portugal is knocked out of the Euros.

what a pity the big team is taking an advantage of the loophole in the law..... but most of the promising young players are already snapped up at very early ages, anyway.
perhaps, the african and sa streets offer more unpolished gems.
then, we could not just take 'em away from their parents.

btw, never really heard of fabrice muamba. at 5mil, the bpl's rate is overrated!

THE SUN

Manchester City have offered Ronaldinho £30million in wages.

Xabi Alonso's future is still up in the air as Liverpool have yet to agree a fee with Juventus.

Michael Owen has finally started contract talks at Newcastle.

Avram Grant is set to become FC Twente's new manager.

Wigan plan to sign Olivier Kapo from Birmingham.

Middlesbrough have agreed a £4.5million fee with Paris St Germain for Didier Degard.

Fulham want £2.5million to let Lee Cook return to QPR.

Crystal Palace have shelved plans to sign Colchester winger Mark Yeates.

DAILY MIRROR

AC Milan star Kaka does not want to move to Chelsea.

Arsenal are ready to make a £10million bid for Andrei Arshavin.

Turkey boss Fatih Terim has been sounded out about the Blackburn job.

Manchester City will sign CSKA Moscow striker Jo in a record-breaking £18million deal - and buy out an old sell-on clause.

Emre's move from Newcastle to Fenerbahce has been delayed - because he faces a call-up to the Turkish army.

Birmingham want to sign Portsmouth striker David Nugent.

Leeds want to swoop for Jamaica striker Luton Shelton from Sheffield United for £800,000.

DAILY MAIL

Blackburn are ready to make MK Dons boss Paul Ince their new manager.

Aston Villa want to seal deals for Steaua Bucharest defender Nicolae Dorin Golan and Valencia full-back Miguel.

Norwich are close to signing Shola Ameobi in a deal worth up to £3.5million for Newcastle.

DAILY EXPRESS

Liverpool and Everton both want to sign highly-rated Leicester defender Joe Mattock.

DAILY STAR

Manchester United must persuade Carlos Queiroz to stay at Old Trafford to keep Cristiano Ronaldo.

Aston Villa are ready to hijack Tottenham's move for Blackburn midfielder David Bentley with a £15million bid.

Barcelona will use club legend Hristo Stoichkov to help land Tottenham's £25million-rated striker Dimitar Berbatov.

Chicago Fire will pull out all the stops to sign former Fulham striker Brian McBride.

Nottingham Forest striker Nathan Tyson is on the verge of joining Bristol City for £750,000.

Wolves are set to bid £2million for Peterborough striker Aaron McLean.

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Chelsea face a fight with Real Madrid and Liverpool for the highly-rated Valencia striker David Villa

Arsenal look to have secured the services of France midfielder Samir Nasri.

Arsenal and Newcastle want to sign Galatarasay winger Arda Turan.

THE TIMES

Frank Lampard's contract talks with Chelsea have stalled over the length of his new deal.

Aston Villa and Tottenham want to sign West Ham goalkeeper Rob Green.

Monaco are interested in Portsmouth playmaker Niko Kranjcar.

Tottenham may be priced out of a move for Bayern Munich striker Lukas Podolski.

Hull want to sign former Bolton defender Bernard Mendy.

THE INDEPENDENT

Chelsea have still to agree a fee with Barcelona to sign Deco.

DAILY RECORD

Celtic are set to be priced out of the race for Tottenham striker Darren Bent after Aston Villa and Sunderland entered a bidding war for his signature.

Rangers' bids to sign Kyle Lafferty and Steve Davis are hanging in the balance.

David Weir will decide his Ranger future on Tuesday.

AGENT BACKS AQUILANI TO STAY

SOS

former denmark ace michael laudrup who's coaching at getafe may consider a move to blackburn rovers...cool he brought getafe to new heights...seems like many coach at spanish is coming to EPL...

Real Madrid awaits Ronaldo's declaration of intent

Make no mistake about it: Real Madrid wants Cristiano Ronaldo.

But the Spanish club said Thursday it is waiting for the Portuguese winger to make some sort of public declaration of intent before it tries to sign him away from English Premier League champions Manchester United.

Ronaldo, regarded as the best player in the world, has in the past few weeks become the subject of a possible big-money transfer between the two clubs. The 23-year-old star is currently playing for the Portuguese national team at Euro 2008 and although he has hinted that he'd like to play for Madrid, he told reporters earlier this week he won't comment on his future until the end of tournament on June 29.

As a result, the Spanish outfit is playing the waiting game.

"We're waiting for Cristiano to make a statement. Whenever he says he wants to play for Real Madrid, there would be conversations between the two clubs," Madrid spokesman and general director Miguel Angel Arroyo told radio station Onda Madrid.

"We would be delighted to reach an agreement with Manchester if the possibility exists, that is, if they want to sell and the price were reasonable," Arroyo added.

Recent Spanish media reports suggested Real Madrid would consider tabling a $158.7-million Cdn offer to United for the services of Ronaldo, who joined the English club from Sporting Lisbon in 2003.

Madrid holds the record for the biggest transfer fee in soccer history, paying Italian team Juventus $71.5 million for the services of Zinedine Zidane in 2001.

Reports also suggest Real would be willing to pay Ronaldo $30 million a season, a contract that would make him the highest-paid soccer player in the world.

Ronaldo signed a five-year contract extension with Manchester United last April, tying him to the club until the end of the 2011-12 season. For Ronaldo to join Real Madrid, United would first have to agree to sell him, but the English club has publicly and repeatedly said it has no intention of doing that.

United filed an official complaint to FIFA over Real Madrid's attempts to sign the Portuguese star but soccer's world governing body decided to take no action because it said no regulations had been broken.

Real Madrid have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

Manchester United has plenty of reasons for wanting to keep Ronaldo. He scored 42 goals in all competitions for United this season, helping the Red Devils claim their second consecutive Premier League title and win the Champions League final.

He's also the top candidate to win the FIFA world player of the year award that will be handed out by soccer's world governing body in December.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2008...no-ronaldo.html

Ronaldo, go to Madrid! You know you want to.....

if ronaldo win FIFA world player of the year and he already at real madrid, dunno can consider that MU has an ex-player of the year

and it becomes very complicated...why not they introduce another award for this kind of situation..i mean special case like him..

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_3713536,00.html

Ronaldo wants to go.....

Anybody can replace his role in Man Utd but nobody can replace him in the heart of Man Utd fans..

I don't think 'anyone' can simply score 42 goals for Man UTD...

it will take another ruud, perhaps.
but considering that ronaldo is operating from the wing, yet he still managed to bang in 42,
it's kinda hard to be replaced. anyway, mu is not all about ronaldo.
real madrid better tabled an offer of 80 million pounds.