Japanese playmaker Keisuke Honda has been the talk of the town (or should I say country) in Holland as he attracted a lot of attention with his impressive performances for small Dutch club VVV Venlo. His goals, assists and superior technical skills haven’t gone unnoticed with clubs like Liverpool, Chelsea and Everton thought to be keen on the Japanese player. Since the next transfer window not due before January, Honda will have plenty of time to impress the visiting scouts, although his asking price is thought to be around 10 million euros.
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Saint Etienne started this season just like they ended the last one, with poor performances and they quickly found themselves in the relegation zone. Seeing that the team have taken the wrong path, the club management decided to act and brought a couple of very good players in the dying moments of the transfer window, but it was Argentine striker Gonzalo Bergessio who stole the spotlight in the last few weeks and he certainly looks like the man that can turn things around for Les Verts (The Greens).
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Vladimir Bystrov has made the headlines thanks to his beautiful goal in the derby match against CSKA, which was his fourth in as many games for his new/old club Zenit. Not only did he score a great goal, but he terrorized CSKA defenders, most of whom are regulars in the national team, throughout the match despite playing through the pain barrier and the big European clubs must be regretting their decision not to sign him last summer.
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Saga of the transfer of an excellent, experienced English defender to the ambitious fourth-league club was over even before it started. Sol Campbell broke the five-year contract with Notts County after only one match and this move might cost him a break from professional football till next midterm, that is to say January. According to FIFA regulations, a player who breaks a contract after the closing of the transfer window, cannot sign a new contract, change the club before the next transfer window, without a reason. Excuses like “I changed my mind…”, or “ I had a slight misunderstanding with the coach or the president…” are definitely not considered legitimate. Since Sol is a free player now, it is more than obvious that the option of going somewhere on loan is out.
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For years now Milan’s name has been synonymous for spectacle. Just like Juventus’ always win without leaving their hearts on the pitch for attractive football, rossoneri were a symbol of a different approach to football, perhaps not so attractive but with a certain Brazilian charm.

Silvio Berlusconi’s unofficial crown of the ruler of Italian entertainment industry turned out to be a whole new understanding of the play. First “flying Dutchmen“ and then the Brazilians made Milan’s performance vivid, in spite of the conservative coaches on the bench. The owner Silvio perfectly fit in the whole circus with the constant demands to play offensive and with three strikers.
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It has been 16 months since the „Special One“ took over Inter’s bench and now we are free to say that he made no impact. There hasn’t been any progress and it is time for Massimo Moratti to ask himself what was wrong with Roberto Mancini.

The fact that Inter defended the title cannot be considered success and most of Italian football fans will agree with me on this. In the situation when Milan are going through the roughest crisis in the last 20 years and Juventus are still recovering from relegation, Inter clearly have no competition. Also, the referees favoured them in the past few seasons and made them untouchable, because the fear of making a decision that might harm Inter was visible on every Italian referee’s face.
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