It has now been over a month since Chelsea’s separation from Jose Mourinho, and things are already noticeably better for the team from West London. In fact, Chelsea are unbeaten since Mourinho’s departure and Guus Hiddink’s subsequent hiring as interim manager.
Wayne Rooney has forged many great partnerships on the field over the years: Ronaldo; Tevez; Berbatov; Van Persie; Van Nistelrooy. But those pale in comparison to his latest partnership: Wayne Rooney and Deadpool.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said the Premier League should be worried about the increased spending of China in the transfer market. In this last January window, Chinese clubs were responsible for three of the top four biggest deals.
How much value can be gained in the January transfer window? Well, it all really depends who you ask and the circumstances surrounding any given transfer.
Football pundits, coaches and administrators in Germany and further throughout the continent see spending in January as a sign of weakness that reflects a complete lack of planning from a club.
Liverpool have failed to score a real goal in their last three games, and inevitably, the internet is ramant with speculation as to the cause.
And we think we found it.
Skrtel now has hair. What! pic.twitter.com/ZgXjeNHTlG
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We admire Barry Richardson. We admire him for many reasons. It is not easy to become a professional goalkeeper, as Richardson did, playing his last game in 2005. It's not easy to become a professional coach either, which Richardson did, he's currently with Wycombe Wanderers.
Stuart Pearce is a former defender for the England National Team. He is 53 years old. He is, we believe (though we have not sorted through every person) the only person nicknamed "psycho" to ever receive a knighthood.
Here's what we're getting at: Nottingham Forest legend Stuart Pearce MBE, a.k.a. "psycho," is back. He's coming out of retirement for non-league team Longford AFC, which is — according to the BBC — the worst team in all of England.
Hey Arsenal fans. Remember Andrey Arshavin? The boyish Russian whose career imploded and collapsed faster than Howard Dean's presidential campaign? Well, things haven't gone so well for the one time Russian player of the year.
It’s official, Pep Guardiola will join Manchester City next season and many changes are coming ahead for the Premier League Squad thanks to the arrival of the Spanish manager.
The 45-year-old is the most winning figure in modern soccer, winning 74.5 percent of games in his career, while only drawing 15.1 percent and just losing in 10.4 percent of the matches. This means that teams under his coaching get an average of 2.39 points per game. Plain impressive.
It's finally here! The end of the January transfer window is almost upon us. The Bale-to-United articles will finally disappear (for at least a week anyway), the squads will be set and business will resume as normal.
As a rule, the January window is always more rumour than substance, but there have been some interesting transfers this window that may have some bearing on the destiny for a few Premier League clubs (or in Aston Villa's case, a lack thereof). Here are ten January transfers that could make an impact.