Developing news about Ibrahimovic's loan move to Milan on [url=http://twitter.com/MarcottiGabriele Marcotti's[/url twitter.

Apparently he'll be loaned this season with the deal including a clause where Milan have to buy him next summer or pay Barca a penalty clause, reason for the loan is that he will stay on Barca's balance sheet as an asset which helps them, and he won't go onto Milan's until next year, which helps them as they have so many OOC players next season.

Rumour has it the €15m difference in asset value will go to Ibrahimovic as a golden farewell, nice work if you can get it.

Melanie Winiger, for all the pervs

Hull signed Ayala off us for a year? Decent-ish signing for them, he's a good young lad, but they'll have to be patient.

Toon fans getting giddy r.e Ben Arfa, they could have kept james Milner instead of getting a hard one when they sold him for next to nothing.

I'm guessing that's who Catalancs was asking about?

Liverpool set to sign from Raul Meireles Porto. Cracking player.

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Catalancs will be pleased and you'll have helped LFC Rhino's research no end

You'll have square eyes all this research you're conducting.

Mark Lawrenson on today's Mirror saying Hodgson's done a terrific job getting Liverpool into group stages of Europa League

Not really a massive job to overcome Rabotnicki and Trabzonspor.

Newcastle still made over £8m in profit on him.

Are we not entitled to be pleased with the signing of Ben Arfa, or just because we are Newcastle fans, we meant to not say anything? ? ?

Just watching Gillette Soccer Saturday, could they make their font any smaller? ? ?

I'm guessing the main reason for this whole rebranding is the new HD channel. Making the ticker smaller allows them to show off the HD more. That's my guess anywho

Tottenham.







Apparently, a mammoth following of 60 have gone to White Hart Lane supporting Wigan.

That's embarrassing. Even BSP teams travel in greater numbers!

Wait a minute I dont believe that for a second!!



Wigan actually have 60 fans?!?

The White Pele finally scored again

So does anyone know what Meireles is actually like? I only see Porto in the CL occasionally and paid little attention to the World Cup. Apparently United have trailed him for a while. Hopefully he'll be a good buy if he comes to Liverpool, though he's obviously in for a lifestyle and footballing culture shock.

Not the most gifted physically. Is decent at passing, crossing and an alright shooter, has good movement off the ball and likes to get forward, good work rate but he might struggle to find a 'role' in our side. As you can see, he's 27 and has only really established himself during the past two seasons. He was good for Boavista, but was only 'decent' at Porto for years. They tried him as a defensive mid, attacking mid and shifted him around a bit, but he seemed to work well in the midfield 'three' being the 'medium' advanced player. Not in the hole, not in front of the defence, but allowed to drift between both.

Some fans are getting stupidly giddy, I wouldn't be that excited as he doesn't strike me as a 'premier league' player, but if he settles well, we should have a good, reliable player. Much better than Lucas, not better than Xabi.

A god only knows where they got their figure from - I'm hardly keen on the Latics, but the real figure was actually more than double that. Hardly a huge following, but who can blame them at £35 a pop and their performances recently?!

Meireles is a good all round midfielder, excellent in the tackle and a good shot on him. Not the fastest but good tackling and fairly good technically. If he adapts to the Premier League he will do a good job.

Maybe a lot of the Wigan fans are also rugby fans and decided to go down the pub to watch the CC Final instead of forking out the money for a trip to White Hart Lane?

Good work my friend

I [ithink[/i that's three penalties in a row Lampard has missed now.