Eric Dier is one step closer to becoming Tottenham Hotspur’s newest defender. Pictures have emerged of the Sporting defender at Lisbon Portela Airport. Various reports have said the defender will sign from Sporting for £4 million on a 5 year deal. The left back would slot right in to the starting Spurs defence.
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Have you watched the new Tottenham?
I’ve been really impressed with the way Tottenham are doing things this season, we needed a left back to compete with Danny Rose so we sign Ben Davies.Tottenham actually strengthening in a position we have been desperate for quality in since Christian Ziege/Taricco.The good thing about Davies is he can actually defend. But the best thing Levy and the club are doing is signing key players to longer deals Lloris signed a five year deal then today Jan Vertonghen …
So England have left yet another World Cup in a disappointing manner. In this blog I will offer my own opinions and analysis on England’s current debacle and their potential future outlook.
The Manager
After the 2010 World Cup there was an outcry from England fans for Fabio Capello to be replaced as England manager. Roy Hodgson has not had to endure such an outcry despite failing to guide England through their group into the second round at this years World Cup. I believe the decision the FA have taken to allow …
So, to the fourth in this series of 6 articles looking at the top 60 players in world football and probably the hardest list to select. In researching this list I realised our generation is blessed with a group of fantastic central midfielders and picking just 13 was very difficult. In fact, it proved too difficult and I had to choose 4 honourable mentions instead of just 3. I apologise and hope you will understand the difficulty. Thank you and please enjoy, comment, discuss, vent your outrage at my selections and read the …
The third in a series of six articles looking at the best 60 players in the world at the moment, we are now onto full-back having done golkeepers and centre-backs. Please enjoy, comment, discuss and read the next article; the top 10 central midfielders.
Full-backs
Honourable mentions:
Fabio Coentrao – A frustrating year for the 26 year old former Benfica man, playing second fiddle to Marcelo for club and having a disappointing World Cup for country. However, he is still an intelligent player, who is technically skilful and tactically versatile. Young enough to still …
Colombia’s number 10, dubbed ‘El Nuevo Pibe’ (The New Kid), successor to Colombian legend Carlos Valderrama the original ‘El Pibe’, James Rodriguez is reportedly on the verge of a massive €80million move to Real Madrid that would make him the most expensive Colombian footballer of all time, surpassing the €60million current club AS Monaco paid for teammate Radamel Falcao last summer. The World Cup Golden Boot winner, and unofficial best player in the tournament, has the world at his prodigiously talented left foot. After his outstanding performances in leading Colombia …
With Lallana, Shaw, And Rickie Lambert all Leaving the saints. what do I think the Saints will have in store This upcoming season?
Under new manager Ronald Koeman, i Expect too see Attacking minded Football with the expected 4-3-3 formation. and Hopefully we can keep the possession style football in our game that Mauricio Pochettino taught us as well. With the players coming in, Pelle and Tadic.. i expect them to be quiet for the first 4-5 games, Just so they get use to the league. i don’t expect 30+ goals …
On the 17th of November 2010 in the Swedish city of Gothenburg with just over 20,000 in attendance Germany and Sweden played out a drab goalless draw. It was a match never likely to live long in the German memory. However, the day held a much wider significance. After 78 minutes of an otherwise unremarkable game, substitutes Mario Götze, then 18, and André Schürrle, then 20, simultaneously became the first German players born after reunification in 1990 to represent the senior national team.
Less than four years later in Rio …
