In case you missed it - Phil Brown celebrates guiding Hull to the second-worst surviving Premier League points haul of all time with a songJose Mourinho signs a new contract to stay with Inter until June 2012
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Former owner John Hall states the obvious by calling Newcastle “rubbish”
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Berbatov says he’s not lazy, he’s just so good that everything looks effortless
[Daily Mail]
Leeds put Jermaine Beckford on the transfer list after he rejects a new deal
[BBC]
The latest transfer gossip, rumours and damned lies…
Alan Shearer will be offered a four-year contract
Joe Kinnear’s favourite journalist Simon Bird is reporting that Mike Ashley wants Alan Shearer to sign a four-year contract. The Geordie Messiah failed to pick up the six points from eight games needed to survive yet is still viewed as the ideal man to bring Newcastle back to the Premier League.
The Spoiler truth-o-meter: Ashley has pretty much botched every major decision he has had to make so it’s no surprise that he is willing to give an unproven manager a long-term deal just to appease the fans.
Franck Ribery to Manchester United
Patrice Evra has described his international teammate Franck Ribery as “the
Transfer rumours and quotes that are doing the rounds today
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Spurs start planning for the summer The Spoiler thinks Tottenham would be wise to make only minimal changes to their squad during pre-season. The chaos of last summer’s revolving door policy led to Spurs making their worst ever start to a season and recent results - they have lost just one league game since the January transfer window closed - suggest that the current squad doesn’t need to be drastically altered. Harry Redknapp may view things differently though and this afternoon alone the club have been linked with Brazilian defender Joao Miranda de Souza, Gabriel Heinze and Djibril Cisse.
Optimist of the day
Tony Mowbray’s glass appears to be not so much half-full as overflowing. The West Brom manager is refusing to throw in the towel
Just two weeks remain before the transfer window is opened again
January 1 is looming large on the horizon and after the return of the Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid saga yesterday, the Roque Santa Cruz to Manchester City rumour got jealous and has now made a comeback in an attempt to steal back the spotlight. Here all The Spoiler’s favourite pieces of transfer guesswork from today’s papers:
Roque Santa Cruz to Manchester City
While some newspapers are reporting that Sam Allardyce only agreed to take the Blackburn job if he could keep the Paraguay striker, The Times go against the grain and say Big Sam wants to sell him for £20 million to raise transfer funds. They also claim that Manchester City’s highest bid in the summer was £14 million so why the logic in them offering an extra £6 million for someone who has scored less than Roman Bednar this season is flawed.
The Spoiler Truth-o-meter: If they sell, they probably won’t make as much money they could have in the summer
Newcastle/ West Brom, Sat, 7.45, Sky Sports 2, Free £10 bet
West Brom picked up their only away win of the season in the North East last month against boss Tony Mowbray’s old club Middlesbrough, but it’s unlikely they’ll make it a double tonight. Here are five reasons why chickendinner believe Wimbletoon will finally bag three points:
1. Newcastle have comfortably beaten West Brom in their three previous Premier League meetings at St James’ Park.
2. The Magpies haven’t lost a home league game to a Midlands outfit in three-and-a-half years.
3. West Brom have conceded seven goals without reply
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