TRANSFER TALK
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

Tags: AC Milan, Adriano Galliani, Andrea Pirlo, Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Cesc Fabregas, Clarence Seedorf, Emerson, Emmanuel Adebayor, Frank Lampard, Gennaro Gattuso, Inter Milan, Jose Mourinho, Massimo Ambrosini, Mathieu Flamini, Portsmouth, Sulley Muntari
Posted: October 22nd, 2008 by Michael Lintorn
'Homely' Footballers
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.
3. Carles Puyol

It’s not 1976 - get a haircut, hippy!
4. Philippe Senderos

Tags: Andrea Pirlo, Carles Puyol, Euro 2008, Franck Ribery, Jan Koller, Jorge Ribeiro, Ludovic Magnin, Niko Kovac, Philippe Senderos, Rüştü Reçber, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Stephane Grichting, Ugly, Ugly XI
Posted: June 10th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey