Well now that Sky Sports is calming down a bit from its day of "twist and turns" (sure), the transfer deadline is upon us and teams can no longer make any more permanent signings. The football league sides can still sign free agents and make short term loan signings, but any permanent signings in these […]

Markus Rosenberg, who scored the vital goal in Werder Bremen's Champions League qualifying match against Sampdoria, has today been loaned out to Racing Santander in La Liga for more consistent first-team opportunities. This summer, Werder Bremen have signed Austrian striker Marko Arnautovic, as well as German prospect Felix Kroos, and so Rosenberg's first-team opportunities would […]

Hoffenheim have snapped up Iceland and Reading wonderkid Gylfi Sigurdsson for a fee believed to be around 5 million euros. Sigurdsson had recently made himself a key player for Reading, impressing especially during Reading's FA Cup run where they defeated Premier League side Liverpool in dramatic fashion. Sigurdsson has been purchased to replace attacking midfielder […]

Schalke have added creative midfielder Jose Jurado to their ranks after signing Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar earlier in the day. Jurado will have cost Schalke another 13 million Euros, so Magath's side are certainly splashing the cash to combat their very poor start to the Bundesliga season. Jurado has been at Atletico Madrid for four […]

Prolific Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has completed a move today to the Bundesliga with Schalke, where he will rejoin former Real Madrid teammates Christoph Metzelder and Raul. Huntelaar had been on the outs at Milan for some time now after failing to secure a first-team place, and the signing of Zlatan Ibrahimovic further reduced Huntelaar's […]

Juventus and Italy winger Mauro Camoranesi has today been snapped up by Stuttgart on a one-year loan deal with the option to sign on for another season. Camoranesi's first-team place at Juventus was filled by new signings Milos Krasic and Simone Pepe, so the experienced winger was forced to move on to secure regular playing […]

Watching Saturday's games in the Premier League, there's no doubt that we're spoilt for choice. Every single Premier League match was available for us to watch live thanks to a combination of Fox Soccer Channel, ESPN2, Fox Soccer Plus and FoxSoccer.tv. And knowing that we would be on an international break for the next two […]

I'm chucking work and heading to the UK in October. I'm putting my money where my loud mouth is. Months and years are creeping by far too fast. My twenties are oh so close to a fleeting memory in my mind while I continue to count the long gray hairs that emerge from my dark […]

I don’t think Lampard is done anymore than I think that about Terry or Gerrard, but EPL Talk blogger Jesse Chula raised an interesting point about how long England can stick with the “Golden Generation” and realistically expect success. The same question might just as easily be asked about their club teams and the teams […]

The Serie A has begun, a nostalgic set of games which begin to show how teams will play, and what they'll get out of this new campaign. After every weekend of matches, I'll be publishing five things to note from the Serie A matches this weekend, whether it be a team in form, a player […]

When Aston Villa chief executive Paul Faulkner issued a club statement Sunday afternoon announcing that the Midlands side had identified the two most important traits in the search for a new manager, US coach Bob Bradley was effectively ruled out of the running. The first trait was they wanted candidates with experience managing in the […]

Reports have come out this evening confirming that Bob Bradley will stay as coach of the US Mens National Team for another four years. Just as speculation was growing that Bradley would be out, Jurgen Klinsmann would be in, and US Soccer was going to make some significant changes before the next World Cup, it […]

Reporting from Camp Nou (although belatedly) As Ronaldinho took to the field, the last player to do so for either team, 96,315 people cheered and applauded. A chant of 'Ronny, Ronny, Ronny' started around the stadium. People smiled as he lined up with the Barcelona team for the photo just before the Joan Gamper trophy […]

UEFA President Michel Platini has today announced that UEFA, the European football governing body, will pass a law that states that clubs cannot spend more money than they make, and that the 'sugar daddy' owners who have become so infamous in football, cannot inject massive amounts of cash into their clubs to provide for excessive […]

The kid is back. Throughout last season, Liverpool supporters groaned as Fernando Torres fell again and again into the arms of Ol' Mistress Injury. We groaned throughout the summer's World Cup as he looked far from his best and couldn't find a single goal (although we also groaned when Pedro ignored a wide open Torres to take […]