Showing posts with label Tottenham Hotspurs. Show all posts
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This is the GoalZone prediction for the end of this season in England:

1) Chelsea
2) Liverpool
3) Tottenham Hotspurs
4) Arsenal
5) Manchester United
6) Blackburn Rovers
7) Aston Villa
8) Portsmouth
9) West Ham
10) Everton
11) Middlesbrough
12) Newcaastle United
13) Bolton Wanderers
14) Wigan Athletic
15)
Sunderland
16) Manchester City
17) Fulham
18) Hull City
19) West Bromwich Albion
20) Stoke City

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After Euro 2008, rumors about Russian's superstar, Andrei Arshavin leaving Zenit is spreading out, signaled big clubs to spend money buying him. Big clubs start to find a way to sign him but the price tag is too far expensive for some clubs. The only clubs who is reported still pursued this playmaker are Tottenham Hotspurs and Barcelona.

Even though Nou Camp is Arshavin primary target, there are still possibilities to see Arshavin to set foot in England. Luckily, the price tag is reduced by Zenit to a lower price, allowing Barca and Tottenham to continue their hunt for this forward.

Arshavin's outstanding performance in Euro 2008 for Russia attracts the attention of Spaniard coach, Juande Ramos to sign him and he is reported to be most interested person with him. Although Arshavin dreams a move to Barcelona, but according to Guardiola, Barcelona's coach, Arshavin is just one of their option and they do not necessarily have to sign him in as there are still lots of players on the market have the chances to be in Barca's squad next season.

Juande Ramos does not give up in signing this Russian and had already made personal contact with him and it seems that Arshavin is interested to go to White Hart Lane. He like the attacking style of Tottenham and a move to Tottenham would not be impossible. As Robbie Keane had walked out the club to join Rafa's side at the Anfield and Berbatov is most likely will be in Old Trafford soon, Ramos needs to sign players which is suitable to fill the empty seats leave behind.

Zenit's coach, Advocaat meanwhile stated that everything will be decided this week. These rumors had really affected the overall performance of the team. With only sits in seventh place this season after 17 matches, this thing needs to be resolved as soon as possible. Advocaat also had seen a possible transfer if Arshavin should leave the club.

But who is he? Zenit understands that they can't stop Arshavin to
leave and they would have to prepare for the worst. To be in Barcelona will be almost impossible to Arshavin and England might be his only target left. Zenit is planning to sign Miguel Alves from Dynamo Moscow but is is look like impossible transfer as the club demands €30 million for their player. It causes they change their attention to this Feyenoord's midfielder, De Guzman, who is currently play for Oranje in Olympics. Maybe this is their only option left for Zenit but there is nothing they could do as Arshavin is not happy at Russia.

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Everything is seemed not going well for Real Madrid this season. Even though they manage to retain La Liga league title last season with a huge advantage compared to their challengers, Villareal and Barcelona, this upcoming season maybe will not be as good as before. With Wesley Sneijder is unable to start the season due to injuries and Julio Baptista is leaving Bernabeu for AS Roma, Real Madrid is in crisis.

Despite they have lots of option for their offensive with Raul, Robinho, Javier Saviola and Higuain, but the only true striker in the team is Ruud van Nistelrooy. With Nistelrooy will be too old for playing in few more years, Real Madrid should really find another striker for backup, which at least can be a replacement for Nistelrooy when he retires. The attacking crisis of Real Madrid is become more obvious as Robinho starts to refuse to travel with his team for Supercopa campaign as his request to move to Stamford Bridge is not approved by the club. With Ronaldo's is surely will not fly to Real Madrid this season, obviously Real Madrid has to find a striker as soon as possible because lots of time has been wasted to lure Ronaldo's out of Old Trafford until they maybe not have enough time to buy another players.

But, what are strikers available for Real Madrid? They surely will want someone who can prove that they can become a perfect 'second Ruud' for the team. According this year transfer market, Real Madrid surely has l
ots of forward to choose from. Dimitar Berbatov, Didier Drogba, David Villa, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and the latest, Real Madrid seek a chance to bring in Karim Benzema to Bernabeu.

This maybe looks like a solution for Real but with lacks of time available, and plus they start do not have a lot of option anymore. With Drogba decided to remain at Chelsea and David Villa also had announced his loyalty to Valencia, their option become less and less. Meanwhile, Dimitar Berbatov most likely will become one of Red Devil's squad rather than be in Bernabeu.

Even though Real Madrid has launched a bid valued €25 million for Ajax's striker, Huntelaar but Huntelaar is also seemed to stay, relieving Marco van Basten even though he knows someday Huntelaar will go out but he really hopes it is not this season. So, with that, the only available striker for them is Karim Benzema but it is not that easy to bring him to Spain as Lyon's president has decided that Karim Benzema will only leave for €50 million. Surely, it is not worth is for a striker which is might only start his first season at the sub bench.

So, will Real Madrid able to find a new striker for them or they will just have to rely on their all time scorers, Raul and Nistelrooy? We will have to wait and see whether this crisis is going to be resolved.

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Transfer window is going to be closed soon. Big clubs try to bid their selected player as high as they can so that the player will play for them. Transfer window this season also is mixed with different kind of drama where loyalty of the players starts to be questioned. Ronaldo's saga also seems going to be end as Ronaldo himself has stated that he will stay at Old Trafford even though Real Madrid is seemed not going to give up on him. Here are top five transfers of the season based on my review.

The first one is Barcelona's creative midfielder, Deco who moves to Stamford
Bridge to team up again with his former Portugal coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari. His transfer has brought positive changes to the Blues squad and his role in Chelsea in undeniably important. John Terry himself as the captain of Chelsea has praised Deco for his outstanding performance to the squad.

Secondly is the transfer of Tottenham Hotspurs's striker, Robbie Keane who decided to join Rafa's squad at Anfield. With the arrival of Fernando Torres from Atletico Madrid last season, Liverpool will surely need a partner for Torres so that the Reds's attacking is unstoppable. Keane is expected to build a good teamwork with Torres and Steven Gerrard.

Third, the transfer of Ronaldinho to AC Milan which had washed away all of the speculations about his future with Barcelona along this summer. Ronaldinho's performance last season is not good enough makes him being critic by the fan. He is also suffers from injuries, disallowing him to perform much for the Catal
an club. However, AC Milan decided to shine up Ronaldinho's name once again at San Siro which he will join his international friends there, Kaka' and Pato.

Fourth is the transfer of Arsenal's winger, Aliaksandr Hleb to Barcelona. Barcelona who is reported to be interested with this winger finally manages to lure him out from Arsene Wenger's side. Hleb's arrival at Nou Camp is seen as an option for Barca's new coach, Pep Guardiola to replace an empty seat which is leaved by Ronaldinho. The question is how good is Hleb actually to replace Ronaldinho?

The last one is the transfer of Hamburg's captain, Rafael Van der Vaart to Real Madrid. As transfer window is going to be closed soon, and they seem are not going to get Ronaldo, Van der Vaart is seemed to be a needed transfer by Real Madrid. This midfielder will bring a great impact to the team as their set piece taker; Wesley Sneijder is injured and unable to start the season with the squad. And at the same time, Van der Vaart arrives at Bernabeu, which I expected that he will take Sneijder's role with no problem at all.

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Rumors about Samuel Eto'o is going to leave Nou Camp has spread wide all over the world and draw the attention of big club to sign him. This Cameroon's striker is one of the best striker in the world, so no wonder that the rumors about his leaving is absolutely a big chance for other clubs to get his service. Some of the big clubs which are reported interested with him are Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspurs and also surprisingly Eto'o also has flew to Uzbekistan as local club, Kuruvchi is being reported to lure this Barca's superstar out from Nou Camp.

But, do you ever wonder why the rumors of Eto'o's are leaving spreading out? It is all because of Frank Rijkaard's successor as the coach of Barcelona, Josep Guardiola reveals his plans about the Barcelona's future in his first press conference which he stated that Deco, Ronaldinho and Eto'o are not in his plan. Plus, those three players are also being gave the permission to leave the club. As we all know, Ronaldinho has moved to AC Milan to join his international friends at San Siro, Kaka' and Pato meanwhile Deco chooses to follow his former Portugal's coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari to go to Stamford Bridge. Two out, how about Eto'o's future?

The answer is no. Eto'o will stay at Nou Camp for another season with Guardiola. This is what Guardiola tells recently. "Samuel Eto'o will stay with us because that's his wish and my wish. I know what I said in the first day, that I did not count with him, as I also said that I would treat him like any other player," Guardiola said.

Why is that so? Guardiola explains that Eto'o is able to impress him in the team's pre-season campaign. Eto'o's performance in Scotland and United States make Guardiola thinks back about his decision and the latest is Guardiola says he needs Eto'o at Nou Camp. Eto'os surely is a guy with a lot of talent as a forward and Guardiola will be stupid to let him go.

Guardiola denies that his decision is being influence by the difficulties to get Eto'o's replacement. Plus, he even denied that he is looking for that Cameroon's striker replacement. As a part of his statement, Guardiola also insists that Thierry Henry is also going to stay at the club despite the rumors of his leaving. Manchester United, Liverpool and his former club, Arsenal are said to be interested to bring Henry back to English Premier League.