Milan, Juve and Inter well represented at ‘worst player’ ceremony
Serie A’s least coveted award has revealed its ten player shortlist.The Bidone d’Oro (Golden Bin) award annually recognises the terrible efforts of some of Italy’s worst performers. Past winners include Christian Vieri, Adriano and Rivaldo.
Most of the 2009 list will read like a who’s who of dodged bullets for Premier League clubs.
Last year’s winner, Inter Milan and Chelsea reject Ricardo Quaresma, is back in contention, along with Arsenal’s summer target Felipe Melo. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, who Spurs are currently eying up, continues to have the worst year of his life and there’s a customary appearance from the world’s biggest disappointment, Ronaldinho.
Brazilian caught livin’ it up for the zillionth time
With Milan languishing in the bottom half of Serie A, now would be the worst time for Ronaldinho to be caught out partying in the early hours before a game. Oh hey, guess what happened at the weekend?
Unable to resist the prospect of samba rhythm and alcohol, the King of Nightclubs flew to Paris on Saturday afternoon to take part in a “percussion concert”. He continued to bang his drum well into the wee hours of Sunday morning, and French paper L’Equipe reports that he had “some difficulty” leaving the bar.
Ronny played for the Rossoneri against Atalanta later on Sunday, and undoubtedly excused himself from punishment by slotting home a superb equalising goal…
Ibrahimovic receives a record breaking welcome in Spain
Barcelona have finally ended their search for a Swedish striker with incongruous tattoos and a tendency to bottle big games by securing the services of Zlatan Ibrahimovic this week. And as a Brucey Bonus, the Catalan giants sent that pesky Samuel Eto’o off to Inter Milan as part of the deal. Everybody wins!
To celebrate the arrival of their new striker, Barca fans turned out in force at his official unveiling last night. In the biggest player presentation in Barcelona history, a whopping 60,000 people piled into the Nou Camp to see the Swede turn up two hours late, say thank you, kiss a badge and do some keep ups.
When Ronaldinho was unveiled in 2004, just 20,000 fans turned up. Therefore, Ibrahimovic is exactly three times better than Ronaldinho in his prime. Fact.
Referee suffers temporary bout of colour blindness
Having lost all three of their matches in the Americaland World Football Challenge, including a 2-0 defeat at the hands of fierce rivals Inter Milan last night, it’s fair to say that Post-Ancelotti AC Milan have not enjoyed the greatest of form.
Rossoneri fans, however, were given something to smile about in the Milan derby, however, as Ronaldinho was mistakenly given a red card. It was shortly replaced by a real yellow card. Oh, such fun times.
Earlier this month, The Spoiler brought you news of some of Brazil’s finest being ‘tricked’ into broadcasting images of their love tools across the web via webcam by a South American internet groupie unimaginatively dubbed ‘The Blonde from the Internet’. One of the group of poor unfortunates (which included AC Milan stars Ronaldinho and Pato) happened to be Manchester City’s moody midfielder Elano.
In a recent interview with Brazilian sports website UOL Esporte, as well as admitting to consorting with rivals Ronaldo, Anderson and Tevez for a spot of ’shopping and dining’, the playmaker has brushed off the revelations, noting having people screengrab pictures of your willy and posting them around the internet is just, y’know, one of those things:
Last summer, Emmanuel Adebayor nearly made an escape to his beloved AC Milan, but was thwarted by that pesky Silvio Berlusconi, who insisted the Rossoneri sign Ronaldinho instead (what a great move that turned out to be).
It was Milan manager Carlo Ancelotti who wanted to bring the Togolese striker to Italy, and since he is expected to announce a union with Chelsea in the next few days, Adebayor has been strongly linked with a move across London. Speaking in this morning’s Guardian, Arsene Wenger revealed that he has no qualms about selling his hitman to Chelsea:
“I don’t want to go especially into any individual assessment of who we want to keep and who not, at the moment, and normally Adebayor is part of our plans for the future,” he said. “If I feel that a player should go, or could go, why not sell him to one of the other top four?”
Selling a player to a rival club is something that Alex Ferguson generally tries to avoid (particularly the ‘L’ word), but the prospect of Manu banging in 30 goals for Chelsea next season apparently does not trouble the Gunners manager. Most Arsenal fans agree it’s time for the inconsistent striker to move on, but will selling him to a domestic rival come back to haunt them? Let us know your thoughts below…
The latest transfer gossip, rumours and damned lies…
Ronaldinho to Manchester City
They spectacularly failed to land his signature last summer, but The Daily Mirror believe Manchester City are in line to secure the services of the King of Nightclubs. The two-time World Player of the Year, who cost Milan €21m, could go for as little as €11m. To Manchester City. Who would probably pay €50m for one of his boots.
The Spoiler truth-o-meter: Speculation that he will leave the San Siro is strong, and the only other club who seem to be in the running are Napoli. His brother and agent Roberto de Assis Moreira has quashed rumours he will do an Adriano and bugger off back to Brazil:
“There is no chance of Ronaldinho going back to Brazil at the end of the season.
“But if you ask me whether he could change teams in Europe, I would say yes, definitely.”
Carlos Tevez not going to Real Madrid The wet dog-alike has been linked with a move to Spain for some time, but according to The Daily Mail, he has turned down a formal £40m offer from Los Blancos. Undeterred by the prospect of over-using his client’s name,
Yes, some crazy person had enough free time to make this
Admittedly, Sister Act/ footballer mash-ups are exactly common, but this is by far the best example we’ve seen. Stick with it until (2.40) for an angelic Cristiano Ronaldo solo.
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