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Newcastle striker Micheal Owen is set to get a wage cut of £25,000, the former Anfield man is currently on £105,000 a week but has been offered a new contract at Newcastle which consists of £80,000 a week.
Owen has suffered form a series of injuries after leaving Real Madrid in 2005 but has still proved over and over again that he is a top goalscorer. Owen is a free agent this summer and rumour has it he will wait till his contract runs out at St James park and sign for a free agent to one of the top four clubs to play Champions league football.

Manchester City are set to make a shock 50 million bid for Liverpool ace Fernando Torres.

City are determined to bring top players to their club and the latest man to be linked with the blues is Torres, Mark Hughes has stated he would love to see the former Atletico Madrid man at The City of Manchester stadium.

Torres only signed for Liverpool at the start of the 2007-08 season for a club record of £20 million. The 24 year old had a great season in his first year at Anfield scoring 24 league goals and also played a major role for Spain in securing the UEFA Euro 2008 and was named in the team of the tournament alongside strike partner David Villa. This season so far has been a disappointment to El Nino due to a series of injuries.

It is said that Torres will stay faithfull to the Reds but who knows what will happen if your offered £300,000 a week.

Brazilian club Corinthians have confirmed they have signed Ronaldo on a 1 year deal. The legendary striker has been recovering from a serious knee injury and is dying to get back to his goalscoring ways. The 32 year old has been linked with a number of clubs around Europe especially English premier league club Manchester city but looks to play the rest of his carear in his native country.

The FIFA all time leading goal scorer is a huge fan of mine and i would have loved to see him playing in the Premier League, in my opinion Ronaldo has got more to give to football and i cant wait to see him back playing.

Eric Djemba-Djemba has claimed club West Ham United want to bring the Manchester United flop back to the the Premier League.

The Cameroon international failed to achieve high expectations at Manchester United and then moved on to Aston Villa where he found first-team football hard too come across. Djemba Djemba has got his carear back on track with Danish club Odense and the Hammers are said too be watching him closely.

The 27 year old says he would be interested in a move back to England saying he has unfinished business there.

Manchester United defender Patrice Evra has been baned for four matches and fined £15,000 by the FA after an incident on the 26th of April with Chelsea`s groundskeeper Sam Bethell during a warm down.

However an allegation from Evra insisting that Bethall engaged in racist comments and abusive language towards the French man. Evra reacted and admitted he pushed Bethall in the chest and hit him at the side of his head.
The FA reviewed the situation and found Evra guilty of improper conduct. Chelsea have also been fined £25,000 for failing to ensure an employee behaved in an orderly fashion.

Sunderland have confirmed that Roy Keane has left the club after a run of disappointing results.

Keane has been under immense pressure recently as the club have slipped into the relegation zone.
Keane was appointed manager of Sunderland in August 2006 and lead the club to promotion to the Premier league, in his debut season in the Premier league Sunderland finished a pleasing 15th position.

Since the Irish man has been in charge at the Stadium of light he has been give a great financial backing signing numerous amount of players. Keane stated that he asks himself everyday is he the right man for Sunderland and today he doubted himself and decided to move on in his managerial carear.

Niall Quinn said that we wanted Keane to stay at the club but things were not to be and wished him all the best in the future.

Birmingham City have agreed a deal with Irish Club St Patricks Athletic for playmaker Keith Fahey. Fahey started his carear at Arsenal and then moved on to Aston villa but things did not go his way and went home.

The 25 year-old deserves a second chance in English football and he is joining up with the Blues on the second of January. The deadball specialist will give Birmingham a cutting edge and help them regain their Premiership status.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the hot favourite to win the prestigious award Ballon d`Or. The Manchester United star had an unbelievable year last season scoring 42 goals last season and helped United become Champions league and Premier league Winners.

The 23 year old has already won World Player of the Year and has also took the top prizes in the PFA and Football writers last season.
If Ronaldo does win the award he will become the first Manchester United player since George Best to win the Ballon d`Or.

Spanish giants Real Madrid are said to make a bid for Argentinian forward Mauro Zarate. Zarate who is currently on loan at Lazio has impressed in the Seria A scoring seven goals.

English Premier league clubs are also interested in Zarate after he Shone last season on loan at Birmingham. The Argentinian stated that he would be interested in a permanent move to the Premier League but his Club Al-Sadd said they will accept the highest bidder.

After January will Zarate be in the Prem or la liga??? leave comments on your opinion!!

Manchester United and Villareal book their places in the knockout stages of the Champions league with a goalless draw.
It was a disappointing match with few chances and sloppy possession.

elsewhere in group in group E Aalborg beat Celtic 2-1 to take 3rd position in the group while Celtic crash out of Europe.

Cesc Fabergas has been named Arsenal captain today, he replaces William Gallas as captain after criticising his team mates. The Frenchman is set to stay at the club and may start against Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday.

Fabergas revealed he is trilled to be a captain of a top club at such a young age of 23 and Wenger insisted this is the next step in his career in becoming a world class player.

Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed he would be interested in buying Giuseppe Rossi back from Villareal, he revealed it was a big decision to sell Rossi for 6.6million but the Red Devil inserted a buy-back clause in the transfer.

Rumours have revealed that Big Phil is still keen on bringing Brazilian genius Robinho to Stamford Bridge. Robinho was set to sign for Chelsea in the summer but instead was signed by Manchester City for a British transfer record 32.5 million.

Robinho has been in fine form since arriving in the Eastlands Scoring 9 goals in sixteen games and has quickly becoming a fans favourite.

Will Robinho be playing in a darker shade of blue after the

January transfer window???

It was a disappointing day for the top two as they dropped points.

Chelsea drew 0-0 with Newcastle while Liverpool also drew 0-0 with Fulham.

The Champions Manchester united failed to capitalise on the top two dropping points by yet again another 0-0 draw with Aston villa.

Elsewhere it Finished...........

Stoke 1-0 West Brom

Man City 3-0 Arsenal

Portsmouth 2-2 Hull

Middlesbourgh 1-3 Bolton

Arsenal Captain William Gallas has revealed a series of bust ups in the Arsenal Camp.
Gallas has gone public after being criticised as captain a number of times. Gallas the man who sat sulking in the middle of the pitch against Birmingham last season said his team mates have to start fighting the opposition instead of themselves.

The Frenchman also admitted there was a bust up in the dressing room at half-time in the 4-4 match against spurs and a fellow player abused him in a recent match not naming names but saying that he was six years younger than him!!!!

But the question still remains Will Gallas keep his captaincy next season????

Inter Milan striker Hernan Crespo has been linked with a shock move to the Bernabeau. The Argentinian admits that the speculation is a surprise to him who is currently finding first-team football hard to come across at Inter.

Madrid see Crespo as a replacement to injured striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy.

Manchester United turned on the style at old Trafford today beating stoke 5-0. Cristiano Ronaldo scored a swerving free kick in the first half just after 3 minutes.

United continued to dominate and just before half time united got a second through a sweet left footed strike from Micheal Carrick. Berbatov in top form made made it 3 with a close range volley. Substitute Danny Welbeck got on the score sheet for Uniteds 4th goal late on.

While the Portuguese man Ronaldo yet again scored a free-kick for a 5-o victory for Manchester United.

Robbie Keane believes his partnership with Torres is about to take the Premiership by surprise!!!

The Republic of Ireland international scored his first goal finally in a Champions league encounter with PSV Eindhoven which the reds won 3-1.


In my opinion Robbie is a top player but i think he likes Torres a bit to much, check out the pic holding hands an all. Sort it out keano!!!!!

Manchester United beat Bolton at Old Trafford yesterday, Ronaldo got a doggy penalty decision and converted it. While the in form Rooney scored the second, this victory climbs the champions into 11th spot with a game in hand.

More problems for Spurs and Ramos after they stay rock bottom of the table after a 2-0 Defeat to Portsmouth. Jermaine Defoe scored from the penalty spot against his former club and the big man Crouchy got the second.

elsewhere it finished.............

Wigan 2-1 Man City (Valencia with a cracking goal for Wigan)

Arsenal 1-2 Hull (brilliant result for Hull)

Aston Villa 2-1 Sunderland (Cisse scoring his second goal for Sunderland what a man)

Everton 0-2 Liverpool (Torres is a class act)

Fulham 1-2 West Ham (Zola turning out to be a great gaffer)

Middlesbrough 0-1 West Brom (Olssen snatching a win for the Baggies)

Newcastle 1-2 Blackburn (not looking good for Newcastle)

Stoke 0-2 Chelsea (Chelsea think there slick

Carlton Cole will be fined by west ham for a breech of club
discipline after he was driving his Audi Q7 in the early hours of
Tuesday.

He supposedly wasn't drunk (sure) and too my surprise he had
no birds with him or no boyrez(Cole if your going to have a night out rallying the Audi bring the birds).
The Italian gaffer Zola said he was disappointed in him and hoped Carlton will learn form his lesson.

Chelsea earned a point late on against Manchester United on Sunday. Park ji sung supplied the goods for United while the substitute Kalou scored a superb header for the blues late on .

It was a close affair with Mike Riley flashing the yellow card left, right and centre. In total 7 yellow cards for Manchester United, in the end it finished 1-1 at Stamford Bridge.

Elsewhere it finished.........
Tottenham 0-0 Wigan
Hull 2-0 Everton
West Brom 1-2 Aston villa

Arsenal moved to the top of the table after coming from behind to beat bolton 3-1.Kevin davies put bolton ahead in the 14th minute with a powerfull header from a corner.

The gunners started to play some slick football and it paid off with two quick goals from eboue and the danish man bentnar,and with 3 minutes to go denilson added his name to the score sheet by finishing at the far post from an adebayor cross.


Liverpool ended a fustrating afternoon with a 0-0 result against Stoke city.Liverpool controlled possession but failed to make oppertunities while stoke battled hard for a draw

West ham beat newcastle 3-1 at Upton park in Zolas first match in charge after he watched the defeat at west ham from the stand.
David Di Michele was on top form today with 2 goals and setting up the third for Etherington, who else but michael owen scored for newcastle with a curling shot into the far post.

elsewhere..
Blackburn snatched a 1-0 victory over Fulham at Ewood park in a hard-fought incounter and
and Sunderland beat Middlesbrouagh 2-0 in the noth-east derby.