Tuesday night must have felt strange for Liverpool supporters. While things on the field were going as planned - the Reds recorded a comfortable 3-0 win over struggling Wolves at Molineux - it was the lack of transfer activity on deadline day which will have come as a surprise to the fans. The Merseyside club had previously spent more than £50m on new players in each of the first two windows under new owners the Fenway Sports Group, but...More
During January, Tottenham Hotspur manager, Harry Redknapp repeated that Spurs would do little business but that he was interested in bringing in a world class player to improve the squad: "We've got to be a club looking to go places,” he told reporters. “If we're going to make a signing, let's make one big signing. That would send out a message."
Spurs fans may be forgiven for asking then how this statement fits in with the signings o...More
Newcastle moved into fifth in the table following a hard fought win over struggling Blackburn Rovers in midweek. The result moves the Magpies above Arsenal and Liverpool while they are only three points behind Chelsea. Given the trios struggles this campaign; a top four finish is not impossible, although Newcastle will need to put together another strong run of results. After the game Alan Pardew was content that his side were safe from...More
Relegation-threatened Blackburn Rovers managed to keep hold of star players Christopher Samba and Junior Hoilett as the January transfer window came to a close, but Venky’s decision to price their prized assets out of the market could well come back to haunt them. While interest in the creative Canadian midfielder Hoilett was not as high as expected, he is still likely to leave Ewood Park on a free transfer this summer. It is the skippe...More
One of the effects of Everton’s hectic Tuesday - where the Toffees first beat Premier League leaders Manchester City and then beat the transfer deadline to bring Steven Pienaar back to Goodison Park on a six-month loan deal, joining fellow deadline-day signing Nikica Jelavic - has been that neither feat has received the coverage it truly deserves.
Despite leaving for Tottenham Hotspur a year ago, Pienaar’s popularity has not diminished...More
A lively transfer window for Queens Park Rangers came to a close on Tuesday with the purchases of Bobby Zamora from Fulham and Djibril Cisse from Lazio, after a month that saw the R’s also dispense with the services of Neil Warnock in favour of Mark Hughes. With a host of players added to the Rangers squad before deadline day, Hughes must hope he now has the tools to secure Premier League safety.
QPR’s post-transfer window survival b...More
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