The latest transfer gossip, rumours and damned lies
Andrea Pirlo, Franck Ribery and Sergio Aguero to Chelsea
Chelsea have been searching all summer for what they call a “marquee name” and now The Daily Mail expect them to bring three in at once by spending £100 million on Pirlo, Ribery and Aguero.
The Spoiler truth-o-meter: The Blues have been linked with Pirlo ever since Carlo Ancelotti’s appointment and that looks a reasonable possibility but Bayern Munich have said Ribery is no longer available and Aguero is supposedly happy to stay in Spain.
Joe Cole to Spurs
Obviously the arrival of two more midfielders would damage Cole’s chances of
Chelsea manager drops pretend bombshell in press conference
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During his most recent press conference, Carlo Ancelotti claimed that Chelsea had brought Andrea Pirlo over from AC Milan, only to cheekily retract his statement.
Either he is football’s greatest prankster since Franck Ribery, or the nuns who taught him English were playing a Monty Python-style trick on him…
The latest transfer gossip, rumours and damned lies…
Andrea Pirlo to Chelsea
It’s inevitable that Carlo Ancelotti will bring some Milanese talent to West London with him, and The Telegraph believe his first choice is girly-named midfielder Andrea Pirlo. AC will apparently accept no less than £20m.
The Spoiler truth-o-meter: We can’t see Chelsea splashing that kind of cash on a 30-year-old, but stranger things have happened.
Paul Scholes to Stoke
Clearly impressed by his bone crunching tackle on Sergio Biscuits earlier this week, Stoke will offer Scholesy a player/coach position next season, say The Daily Mail. The Potters will offer a ‘nominal fee’ (read: ‘very small fee’)
Cesc admits receiving an interesting offer from an Italian club
Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas has revealed that a Serie A side attempted to sign him over the summer and admitted that his head was turned by the amount of money that was on offer. He told Sport.es:
”Yes, it’s true. I did have offers from an Italian side which were interesting from an economical point of view. However, nothing really happened after that.”
It has been speculated that AC Milan were the side who made the bid but The Spoiler isn’t convinced
The Spoiler considers Euro 2008’s aesthetically challenged stars
If the 1997 Oscar-winning Italian World War II film Life Is Beautiful taught us anything, it’s that beauty can be found even in the darkest of circumstances. Yet sometimes, even the beautiful game is plagued by the ‘handsomely impaired’. What follows is a squad that may be described as ‘ugly’, ‘fugly’ and perhaps most harshly, ‘pug fugly’. Read on if you dare…
1. Rüştü Reçber
The war paint and ‘face art’ are distracting, but not quite distracting enough.
2. Ludovic Magnin
You know life isn’t fair when you grow up to be bald and ginger.
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