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Transfer Balls: Fabregas Rejoins Arsenal Who Then Sell Him To Liverpool To Spite Manchester City

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TRANSFER Balls looks at Barcelona’s Cesc Fabregas’ summer in the news media. Can he fill space to deadline? What utter balls can he news media say of the player?

May 19, Daily Mail:

Fabregas’ suitors have already been told that it will take £45million to get him…

May 21, Indy:

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Posted: 1st, June 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comments (2)


Transfer Balls: Manchester United, Arsenal Get Juve’s Alexis Sanchez As Liverpool Prepare Bid

TRANSFER Balls: The contest in the national Press is to link every big English team with Barcelona’s Alexis Sanchez.

Daily Star:

Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd target Alexis Sanchez

October 2013, Daily Star:

SNAPPED: Barcelona ace Alexis Sanchez dons a Manchester United shirt! ALEXIS SANCHEZ is pictured for the first time in a Manchester United shirt – but it’s only a Starsport impression!

May 10, Daily Mirror:

Wenger has been tipped off the Chile international will be sold this summer and is set for a £20million tug-of-war with Juventus

May 11, Daily Mail:

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Posted: 30th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment


Liverpool Balls: Hands Up Who Wants Luis Suarez To Miss The World Cup

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THE Daily Suarez: A look at the Liverpool star in the news:

The Liverpool Echo picks up the news that Suarez is injured:

Liverpool FC star Luis Suarez looks set to be a major doubt for the World Cup after the Uruguayan hitman suffered a knee injury whilst training with his national team according to reports in his homeland. Uruguayan journalists tweeted the news early this morning and it looks the 27-year-old is set for surgery on his meniscus, which will make him a major doubt for the tournament in Brazil.

The Mail calls this “a direct boost to England’s chances of progressing out of Group D”.

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Posted: 22nd, May 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment (1)


Transfer Balls: Arsenal Force Liverpool To Sell Suarez To Madrid

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TRANSFER Balls, in association with the Daily Suarez: today the Express reports that Real Madrid have told to pay £40m if they want Karim Benzema. Real need the money to fund a bid for Suarez.

The reason behind the Spanish side’s reluctance to let Benzema depart on the cheap stems from their desire to sign either Liverpool’s Luis Suarez or Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero.

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Posted: 21st, May 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comments (4)


Transfer Balls: Luis Suarez Leaves His Kids In Liverpool As He Heads To Real Madrid

WILL this summer be another season of Luis Suarez transfer rumours? No say these Liverpool FC experts:

 

Daily Telegraph, March 4, 2014:

 

Liverpool striker Luis Suárez vows to stay at Anfield no matter whether club qualifies for Champions League

 

 

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Daily Star, March 26:

 

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Daily Mail, April 7:

 

Although Ayre admitted that Liverpool’s remarkable success in the Premier League this season could see the vultures circle around Suarez in the summer transfer window, with Manchester City and Real Madrid understood to be monitoring the Uruguayan, the managing director insisted that the club is not in the business of selling its star assets.

 

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Sky Sports, May 5:

 

Speaking to Uruguayan TV channel Canal 10, the new PFA Player of the Year said: “Don’t worry, nothing is going to happen to me. I’m very happy here and my family is happy here.

 

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Liverpool Echo, May 15:

Liverpool FC boss Brendan Rodgers is confident there will be no repeat of last summer’s Luis Suarez transfer saga as he insisted: “I know he’s very happy here.”

 

 

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Daily Telegraph, May 16:

 

Luis Suarez: Liverpool are one of the best clubs in the world – I love it here. Premier League’s leading scorer says he has no thoughts of leaving Anfield for Real Madrid or Barcelona despite persistent rumours of a move away

 

 

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Daily Express, May 18:

 

LUIS SUAREZ has committed himself to a renewed title challenge with Liverpool by enrolling his four-year-old daughter in a Merseyside school.

 

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LUIS STAYS!!!!!!!

 

In other news…

 

May 20, 2014:

 

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Such are the facts…

 

 

Posted: 20th, May 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment (1)


Transfer Balls: Liverpool Shedding Between 7 And 15 Players, Say Experts

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TRANSFER Balls, with the Liverpool squad, So. How are Liverpool going to reshape their squad ready to go one better next time and win the Premier League?

The Western Morning News cites 7 who could be leaving the club.

The Guardian ups that:

The futures of as many as a dozen players are in doubt

Irish Independent says it’s 14 players.

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Posted: 15th, May 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Transfer Balls: Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United And Maybe Man City And Chelsea All Get Benzema

TRANSFER Balls, with Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema.

The Telegraph, May 14:

Arsenal to launch £30m move for Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema

Will they get him? No!

Daily Star, May 14:

Liverpool favourites to land Karim Benzema as Arsenal prepare to re-sign £3.2m Carlos Vela

So. He’s off to Liverpool.

Daily Mirror, May 14:

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Posted: 15th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment


Liverpool Balls: The Poor Reds Fans Who Bought Premier League Champions 2014 Shirts

WHAT’S that chirping sound. No. It’s not Jamie Carragher giving more insight on SKY TV (“Sleep cornflakes scouring pad chops medina happy ways on”). It’s the sound of chickens coming home to roost. For a period, the Premier League title looked like Liverpool’s to lose. Which they did, slipping – literally – against Chelsea and seeing a three goal lead undone at Crystal Palace.

A few fans – ones who surely have no memories of 1989 and all that – went out and invested their heard-earned cash in victory shirts.

 

 

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Posted: 12th, May 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Manchester United Balls: Bitter United Fans Fly Anti-Gerrard Banner Over Liverpool

MANCHESTER United fans are looking increasingly bitter and sad.To put the tin lid on a season where the club that for so long has held sway over English football fell to bits – and in which local rivals Manchester City won big – they flew a banner over Anfield.

As Liverpool fans and players watched the Premier League title they had looked well set to capture pass them by, overhead the message mocked Reds captain Steven Gerrard:

 

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Surely, the sign should have read: “United 20 – Liverpool 18.”

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Posted: 11th, May 2014 | In: Liverpool, manchester united, Sports | Comment (1)


Liverpool Balls: Professor Robbie Savage Forgets To Remember His Predictions For Everton, Spurs And Arsenal

MAKING predictions to deadline is Robbie Savage’s stock in trade. He is football punditry’s highlighted Mystic Meg.

In the May 8th issue of the Daily Mirror, Savage looks back at his foresight:

“Nobody likes a professor of hindsight, but three months ago in this column I warned that the Reds’ title charge would fall just short because they spring too many leaks away from home.”

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Posted: 9th, May 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Transfer Balls: Adam Lallana Leaves Manchester United For Liverpool

IS Adam Lallana staying at Southampton? Let’s see what the experts are saying?

The Sun has an “exclusive”:

Kop in £20m bid for Lallana

The Liverpool fans in their famous stand have raised millions to buy the player? No. The story is:

LIVERPOOL have made a £20million swoop for Southampton midfielder Adam Lallana.

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Posted: 9th, May 2014 | In: Liverpool, manchester united, Sports, Spurs | Comment


Liverpool Balls: The Best ‘Constantinopool’ Crystal Palace Memes

LAST night Liverpool did their best to reenact the 2005 Champions League final when the Reds came for 3-0 down to take the game in Turkey to penalties – which they won. Three goals up against Crystal Palace, Liverpool blew it.

This was Constantinopool 2014.

Brendan Rodgers’ team can still win the title, but the winds are with Manchester City, who now need to lose one of their two remaining home matches for Liverpool to taste ultimate victory. That’s unlikely.

As one wag put it: “Sad to see Liverpool choke like Suarez on a particularly gristly bit of Ivanovic.”

 

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Posted: 6th, May 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Constantinopool In Photos: Liverpool Do An AC Milan At Crystal Palace

IT was like the 2005 Champions’ League final all over again – but this time it was Liverpool tossing away a 3-0 lead to draw 3-3 with Crystal Palace. The Premier League title is Manchester City’s to lose now…

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Posted: 5th, May 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


May 4 1976: Liverpool Win The League At Wolves

FLASHBACK to May 4 1976: Liverpool win the League with a win at Wolves. Liverpool needed a win or low-scoring draw to pip QPR to the title.

They did it, winning 3-1. The defeat meant Wolves were relegated.

In this photo, we see the dressing room. No selfies back then:

Liverpool celebrate winning the League Championship after their 3-1 victory: (clockwise from top l) Tommy Smith, Ian Callaghan, Steve Heighway, Phil Thompson, Jimmy Case, Kevin Keegan, Emlyn Hughes, Phil Neal, David Fairclough, Ray Kennedy, Ray Clemence

 

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Posted: 4th, May 2014 | In: Flashback, Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Liverpool Balls: ‘Girls’ Ring The Bell In London As Arsenal take on Liverpool in The FA Cup Final

FLASHBACK to April 29, 1950: Arsenal take on Liverpool in the FA Cup final:

London’s April downpour couldn’t damp the enthusiasm of these Liverpool girls, garlanded with the colours their team and ringing a hand-bell, as they toured the city before going to Wembley Stadium

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Posted: 1st, May 2014 | In: Flashback, Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Liverpool Balls: Luis Suarez Joins In With Anti-Racism Banana Eating Show

IN an incredible, worldwide show of support for Dani Alves and the exemplary, “no f**ks given” way in which he reacted to a banana-throwing incident at Villarreal (who have subsequently banned the fan responsible for life) over the weekend, scores of footballers and other personalities have posted photos on social media of them eating bananas, along with the tag-line “we are all monkeys”.

Look who joined in. It’s none other then anti-racism champion Luis Suarez:

 

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No picture, yet, of Chelsea John Terry doing the same…

No photo, either, of Suarez eating one of these.

Posted: 29th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Liverpool V Chelsea Balls: Learning To Hate Mourinho And Love Steven Gerrard, And Vice Versa

IT’S hard work being a football writer for the dead tree press, hitting an opinion to deadline. Take the usually excellent Michael Calvin, writing in the Indy the day before Chelsea won 2-0 at Anfield and upset Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade:

Jose Mourinho, Enemy of Football. The long-standing slur might be excessive and ultimately meaningless, but the status is irresistibly melodramatic. It conjures images of intrigue, a plotter’s face captured for an instant in the beam of a spotlight, shone into shadow.

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Posted: 28th, April 2014 | In: Chelsea, Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Liverpool Balls: Luis Suarez Wins PFA Football Of The Year 2014

REDEMPTION is easy if you’re brilliant at your job. Luis Suarez, once British football’s racist, diving, biting pariah has been voted the PFA Player of the Year.

He took his big cup at the awards do at the Grosvenor Hotel, London.

Suarez has been English and Welsh football’s most entertaining player (and we include the biting incident, which – let’s face it – we all loved. However, the laws of football journalism command me to say that Suarez is a role model whose nibbling of Branislav Ivanovic exposed raw Serbs to bouts of playground cannibalism and was further evidence that he was a cheating foreigner who wanted schooling in the British traditions of fair play, meat paste and honest-to-goodness over the ball leg-breaking challenges.)

Well done, Luis. Enjoy your dinner…

 

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Posted: 28th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Liverpool Balls: The Internet Reacts With LOLS As The Red Throw Away The Premier League

WHEN Liverpool’s premature victory parade was derailed by Chelsea winning 2-0 at Anfield, the internet reacted:

 

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Posted: 27th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Chelsea Balls: Liverpool Fan Wears The Most Regretful Shirt Ever

CHELSEA beat Liverprool 2-0 at Anfield to throw the Premier League title race open. And one Reds’ fan pops home to get some petrol and a match:

 

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Spotter: Mike Kritharis

Posted: 27th, April 2014 | In: Chelsea, Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Liverpool Balls: Statue To Manchester United’s Messiah Moyes Erected Outside Anfield

THE wags from a betting firm erected a stature to forcibly retired Manchester United manager David Moyes outside Liverpool’s Anfield ground.

Unless it is The Chosen One touting for spare change as a living statue?

Anyhow, United have moved on. Louis Van Gaal is now the name on fans’ lips:

“Come on Louis Van Gaal, play like Moyes’ gals”

 

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Posted: 27th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, manchester united, Sports | Comments (2)


1937: Matt Busby’s Liverpool FC Take On Chelsea

FLASHBACK to August 28th 1937:

Football League Division One: Chelsea v Liverpool at Stamford Bridge

Liverpool goalkeeper Arthur Riley (r) saves, watched by teammate Matt Busby (second l) and Chelsea’s Harry Burgess (l) and Jimmy Argue (c)

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Matt Busby… Whatever happened to him..?

Posted: 27th, April 2014 | In: Flashback, Liverpool | Comment


Liverpool Balls: ‘Premier League Champions’ T-Shirts Go On Sale (Only Fools Buy Them)

LIVERPOOL have not won the Premier League. It looks like they will. But if 1989 and all that teaches the Reds’ fans anything, it is that nothing is won (yet). So. What true Liverpool fan would buy one of the ‘Liverpool Premier League Champions 2013/14′ T-shirts on sale in Ireland?

None.

 

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Posted: 26th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Liverpool Balls Easter Miracle: ‘Nailed’ Luis Suarez Rises Again At Carrow Road

LIVERPOOL Balls: And on Easter did the Messiah of Anfield rise again on the Carrow Road pitch. It was a miracle:

 

Posted: 20th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Liverpool Balls Photos Special: Luis Suarez Wins The Title For The Reds

LUIS Suarez on toward the title for Liverpool!

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Posted: 20th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment