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Benitez’s optimism, Man City’s £25m Brazilian target and a Danielle Lloyd shocker


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Channel Bee (run by Spoiler fan Tim Lovejoy) brings us some shocking Danielle Lloyd news
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Gerard Pique tries his hand at DJing
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Benitez wants six wins from six games
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Man City are still after Werder Bremen’s Diego
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It’s Lampsie’s best ever season, says Lampsie
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Posted: April 21st, 2009 by Ryan Bailey

Carlton Cole to Juventus, Manchester City target another Brazilian, Pele to Portsmouth


The latest transfer gossip, rumours and damned lies…

Pele

The chap wrestling for the ball with Fenerbahce’s Ed in the picture above is Vítor Hugo Gomes Passos, also known as Pelé He should be filling a Lassana Diarra-shaped hole at Pompey for the rest of the season.

Elsewhere in Transferland…

Diego to Manchester City
Remember last week, when we told you that Werder Bremen striker Diego could be on his way to Manchester City for £25m? The English press have finally caught up with us - well done, Daily Mail.

The Spoiler truth-o-meter:
The Brazilian is well acquainted with Robinho and Elano, and the price fulfills City’s requirements of paying far too much. Diego is also in trouble for drink driving and strangling another player during a game - let’s hope he gets along with Craig Bellamy…

Carlton Cole to Juventus
According to Sky Sports, The Old Lady may give their old boys Trezeguet and Del Piero some competition up front with the signing of West Ham’s in-form striker. No money is mentioned, but the sum was said to be around £8m when Spurs were chasing him.

The Spoiler truth-o-meter: It sounds a little incredulous, but Claudio Ranieri is a huge

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Posted: January 26th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey

Are Man City planning another big Bundesliga signing?


Werder Bremen’s Diego could be on his way to Eastlands

Werder Bremen’s Diego

Now that Kaka has passed up the opportunity fight for Premier League survival, Manchester City have turned their attention elsewhere in the search for a creative attacking midfielder.

City are said to have strengthened their midfield with Bundesliga star Nigel de Jong today, but according to Bild, they are also hot on the heels of Werder Bremen’s Brazilian sensation Diego.

The 23-year-old is already well acquainted with Robinho, as the pair went through the same youth system together, and went on to form a formidable duo at Santos. Elano also played with them at the Brazilian club.

Some sources are putting a price tag of around £25m on the former Bundesliga player of the year, who is under contract at Werder Bremen until 2011. He is said to have attracted interest from Arsenal, Juventus and Real Madrid.

If he does come to the Premier League, Diego is sure to keep the tabloids entertained: he was recently caught drink driving, and has just served a four match ban for attempting to strangle Karlsruhe defender Christian Eichner.

Spoiler bonus: See a video of Diego in action after the jump…

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Posted: January 20th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey

WAG No. 228: Sarah Connor


No, it’s not the woman from the Terminator films

Sarah Connor

In Germany, Sarah Connor is a huge pop star who has released eight hit albums, and has her own lines of perfume, jeans and cakes. Up until this month, she was married to American popstar Marc Terenzi (I have no idea either), but just days after announcing the split, she has been spotted having dinner with Werder Bremen’s Brazilian midfielder Diego.

According to German tabloid Bild, she had bream and he had beef, and they both drank red wine. Unfortunately, it is not known if they had dessert.

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Posted: November 27th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

The ‘players to watch at the Olympics’ XI


Feast your eyes on some football players in China

Alexandre Pato

Perhaps one day someone will start a sentence with “there’s an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman” without it being a joke about people in boxes saying “potatoes” - it could even be used to introduce a Great British football line up. How wonderful would that be? Although, of course, the Irishman would have to come from the less green-grassy part of the emerald isle, and more the cobbled street bit where horses run wild (that’s the north, right?). Until that day, though, we’re going to have to content ourselves by gazing jealously at the other countries who get to call their footballers Olympians. Here’s eleven to keep a hungry eye on this year…

GK Brad Guzan, USA
Aston Villa’s (other) new American goalkeeper called Brad, the USA’s decision to make him one of their three over-23 players - he turns 24 during the tournament - shows just how great he is. That, of course, will count for nothing when he gets to Villa and warms the bench for the next decade, as Friedel becomes steadily more decrepit but still brilliant.

DL Marcelo, Brazil
Real Madrid signed the left wing-back in 2007 and he became a regular starter last season, pushing Gabriel Heinze into the centre. Unsurprisingly, he gets compared to Roberto Carlos - everyone does - and found the net on his international debut against Wales.

DC Vincent Kompany, Belgium
For those who spend their weekends playing Football Manager instead of talking to girls, you already know this guy, he’s one of the best buys in the game, damn it! And as it turns out, the 22-year-old isn’t too shabby in real life either. Right now he’s at Martin Jol’s Hamburg, and The Spoiler’s computerised West Ham.

DC Ezequiel Garay, Argentina
With all the Ronaldo talk this summer, Garay’s arrival at the

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Posted: August 7th, 2008 by Josh Burt