Today Southampton has a new manager. The owners of the club, for whatever reason, recently decided that Nigel Adkins is not the man to lead the Saints any further in their Premier League campaign despite the club sitting sixth from bottom. The club announced the decision with nothing more than "Southampton Football Club has this morning […]

Who is Mauricio Pochettino, the man who Southampton has chosen to replace Nigel Adkins as manager of the Premier League club? Coaching career: Former manager at Espanyol, where he was able to turn the team around with limited funds to finish in eighth place last season. Southampton will be his second position as a manager. Pochettino […]

Southampton have sacked manager Nigel Adkins after 2.5 years in charge, and have appointed Argentine Mauricio Pochettino as his replacement. According to the BBC, Pochettino took charge of Espanyol at the age of 36 in January 2009, and managed a best finish of eighth in La Liga in 2010-11. He left the club by mutual […]

Watch PSV Eindhoven play PEC Zwolle live today online beginning at 6pm ET/3pm PT. PSV is currently in first place in Eredivisie, while PEC Zwolle is fifth from bottom. You would think this would be a comfortable win for PSV at their Philips Stadion. Live video from your Android device on Ustream

French striker Loic Remy was convinced he should join Queens Park Rangers instead of Newcastle United because QPR owner Tony Fernandes took time to play a FIFA 12 game against him at the end of four hours of negotiations. "It showed to me what a good person Tony is. He showed his human side […]

For our New Year’s Resolution, the EPL Talk Podcast crew have decided to bring you a new weekly feature, the EPL Talk Podcast Discussion. We want to get you all involved in the debate so each week we will bring you an article designed to get you talking. So as our dear leader Mr […]

Is La Liga finally becoming the dominant force in Europe, if not the world? For many years the Premier League has been seen as the best league in Europe, but I and clearly many others around the world beg to differ. Just last week we watched the World XI announced live on TV and in […]

At EPL Talk, we hardly ever steer off course to focus on different leagues or nations outside of the Premier League and England. But in this case, we can be excused because we're really excited about the leaked photos of the new soccer shirts from Brazil, Netherlands and Portugal. In all three cases, Nike have […]

Despite the fact that the MLS Cup was played just last month, the offseason might as well already be considered over. With the SuperDraft taking place today, teams headed to the field for scrimmages and friendlies as early as January 29, it would be safe to say we are back in session. Below is a […]

It's not often that Sunderland is the main story in the news, but today it's been revealed that they've made a formal bid for Swansea City striker Danny Graham, while Sunderland striker Fraizer Campbell looks set to join Cardiff City in the Championship. Graham hasn't had as much first team action at Swansea as he […]

Congratulations to Bayern Munich for capturing the signature of one of the most sought after managers in world soccer. While some had thought that former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola would be taking a long sabbatical from the game, The Guardian's Rafa Honigstein reveals that Bayern Munich had been busy trying to capture Guardiola's signature long before the […]

After yesterday's FA Cup matches where Sunderland were knocked out of the competition by Championship side Bolton while other Premier League clubs advanced to the fourth round, today's FA Cup replay matches are a different matter entirely. For one, both of them are being televised and are available to view live on TV and the […]

What is the Premier League's Worst XI based on highest transfer fees and worst performances? If you could pick a starting eleven, what would it look like? In my opinion, here are my picks of the current Premier League footballers who deserve to be in my What A Waste Of Money XI: Goalkeeper David De […]

French striker Loic Remy has officially joined Queens Park Rangers in a club record deal believed to be £8 million. QPR manager Harry Redknapp has long been an admirer of the former Marseille footballer's skills, and it's certainly a somewhat risky move considering that the French striker has only scored three goals for his club […]

Being born in the United States in the late 80's and growing up through the 90's, I was exposed to the great "resurgence" of "soccer" in America. With the World Cup here in 1994 and the US women's team winning their titles in '91 and '99, soccer began to get massive exposure here in the […]