Sporting Lisbon winger Simon Vukcevic has agreed to join Blackburn Rovers for £2 million, The Sun understands.
The Montenegrin international has signed a three-year deal at Ewood Park to become Kean’s fourth summer signing.
Rovers are now hoping he will receive international clearance in time to make his debut against Everton on Saturday.
Kean told The Sun: “Hopefully he’ll be back in the country some time tomorrow.
“It’s going to be difficult for him to be involved against Sheffield Wednesday in the Carling Cup tomorrow because he has not even trained with us.
“But if he comes back with all the appropriate paperwork then he will train with us on Thursday and Friday in preparation for the Everton game.”
The Rovers boss has so far managed to bring in David Goodwillie, Radosav Petrovic and Myles Anderson this summer.
At £2 million Kean believes he signed one of the bargains of the summer with Vukcevic boasting extensive Champions League and international experience.
“He is an exciting player who can play wide on either side.” He said.
“When you meet him he is a very focused guy who takes his football very seriously.
“He likes to take people on, to be the guy who makes a difference, a bit of a match winner.
Kean added: “He is a very good player with lots of international games under his belt for a country in the top 20, so he has performed at that level at a consistent basis.
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“He will give us a different dimension.”
The 25-year-old will certainly provide Rovers with a massive boost after a terrible start to the season saw them lose their first two games of the season.
Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli is expected to be fit for the derby against Manchester United on February 12.
Balotelli, 20, is in the United States to visit specialist Bill Knowles as he attempts to overcome a long-term knee problem.
The Italian has struggled with a knee injury since joining City from Inter Milan in the close season.
He missed nine weeks after aggravating the knee in September and has been out of action after the problem flared in City’s 4-0 win over Aston Villa in December.
“He is continuing to work and maybe he can come back to play in three or four weeks,” City boss Mancini said.
“It is important he shows his talent here. For his future it is important for him to improve and this is the best championship in the world.”
Balotelli, no stranger to controversy during his short career, recently made the bold statement that he was a member of the best attacking line-up in the world.
He also claimed United forward Wayne Rooney was ‘not even the best striker in Manchester.’
The comments have angered the red half of the city, but Mancini believes the outspoken Balotelli should be taken a little less seriously.
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“I haven’t read the interview so I don’t know what he has said. But he likes to joke sometimes and these things are jokes,” Mancini said.
“We live in a free world. If someone wants to say something, it is better that he does. I respect every opinion.”
“We are not in a war. We are free to say what we want.”
Zaha is better than Beckham, and is going for gold at the Olympic Games.
It’s official, Zaha is better than Beckham! Well, this is what I was going to write if Stuart Pearce had included him in the Olympics squad.(at the time of writing both Zaha and Beckham are rumoured to be on the ‘backup list’.)
Golden Balls announced his own failure to make the Olympic team last week, usurping the official announcement on 1st July. I am a massive David Beckham fan, but was it really necessary to make it all about him, and gazump the announcement of the men’s team this week, and the ladies last week?
The cynic in me comes to two conclusions:
1. Either Beckham’s PR manager was working overtime, ringing around everyone from Jack Rodwell to Robbie Savage asking for support;
2. or Seb Coe is a genius in whipping up interest in an Olympic competition which the majority of Great Britain doesn’t give a monkey’s about (with the exception of Beckham, Bale, Pearce and a selection of officials from ticket sellers to sponsors).
It does beggar the question, what is the point of Olympics Football?
The Olympic motto is “Citius, Altius, Fortius” , or “Swifter, Higher, Stronger” for those of you that didn’t go to grammar school. I’m confident that there are several GB players that can surpass Becks in all three of those categories! Having tweeted last week, questioning the outcry over Beckham’s exclusion, and pedantically asking if they’ll be tears if Seb Coe is left out of the 1500m, it was pointed out to me that Coe hasn’t run for a long time. But Beckham hasn’t played elite football for a long time either!
For me the Olympics should be the pinnacle of the sport that is involved, and for the vast majority of sports, London 2012 will be the biggest stage since Beijing in 2008. Football however has the World Cup, and it really doesn’t need the Olympics does it?
In fact the Men’s Olympic Football isn’t even an elite tournament with the under-23 restriction and 3 ‘over-aged’/over the hill players, basically ensuring there are no players in their prime competing.
I know that other countries such as Nigeria and Argentina have used the Olympics as a springboard for future success at elite level, but with our weird English/Welsh hybrid team, will this really work for Team GB?
With Wilfred Zaha included in Stuart Pearce’s shortlisted squad of 35, and potentially on stand-by for the final 18, it’s another feather in the cap for Palace’s famous academy, even if he didn’t make the cut. It’s a shame that Nigeria haven’t qualified as Victor Moses could have featured. There was a slim chance that Nathaniel Clyne could have been included, and Antonio Pedroza could have been involved through his Mexican heritage too.
Zaha’s inclusion would have certainly meant more interest in the tournament for Palace fans, myself included. Like Beckham, Zaha doesn’t have the benefit of playing at the highest level at the moment, but if the Olympics is going to be treated as aid to developing young talent, then it would have been a great opportunity for the player. He broke into the England under-21 squad towards the back end of the season, and this was another opportunity to add to his experience.
With Senegal and Uruguay in the GB’s group, he would have been able to pit himself against some talented and developing teams, who might also be able to match him for flair. Not sure what sort of opposition UAE will present, but they are historically much weak at senior level.
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It’s a shame Pearce did not pick him. Perhaps the Olympics came a year too early for Wilf. At least Palace can claim to have aided the development of one of those selected. Scott Sinclair made 6 appearance on loan from Chelsea in 2008, scoring 2 goals. In fairness, he’s not a dissimilar player to Wilf, but ahead in the development curve and age.
So Beckham is consigned to history, having made a significant impact on England’s football heritage. If Wilfred Zaha can have half the impact that Becks has done on the global stage, he’ll have done alright. But for now, Wilf will have to make do with destroying the Championship and Manchester United full backs instead.
Oh, and Psycho, if you’re reading this, “He’s just too good for you…”
For anyone that’s interested, check which countries will be playing the Euro2012-format here: http://www.london2012.com/news/articles/london-2012-olympic-football-tournament-draw-made.html
According to the Daily Mirror, Inter Milan are ready to offer their Brazilian attacking right-back Maicon in part-exchange for want-away striker Calos Tevez.
Much has been made of the Argentine’s ‘chance’ meeting with Inter’s director of football Marco Branca whilst in holiday in Italy, and since then it has been presumed the Italian club lead the chase for Tevez, whose deal to return to Corinthians of Brazil fell through.
Inter, who are yet to make a marquee signing this summer, see Tevez as the ideal target to lead them in their challenge to reclaim the Serie A title from neighbours AC Milan. It was thought that Manchester City were offered the opportunity to take on Cameroon international Samuel Eto’o in any part-exchange deal, but that seems to have changed with Maicon now on offer.
Maicon, who has been Brazil’s first-choice right-back for a number of years despite the presence of Barcelona’s brilliant Daniel Alves, has only one year remaining on his current contract with Inter, and the Italian giants are thought to be considering cashing on the player, who is now 30-years old.
However, any straight swap deal involving Tevez would interest the Italian’s, with no actual cash changing hands, but with City setting Tevez’s value at £40 million, and Maicon valued at around £15 million, there’s a £25 million shortfall.
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Ironically, it was the current Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini, who signed Maicon whilst in charge at Inter, 5-season ago.
Four second-half goals saw Bayern Munich romp to a 5-1 victory over Kaiserslautern in Saturday’s Bundesliga action.
The performance from Louis Van Gaal’s side was the highlight of the day’s play in the German top flight, with Mario Gomez striking a hat-trick in the triumph.
Both sides entered the game in form, with Bayern unbeaten in six while Kaiserslautern had not lost in five.
Arjen Robben opened the scoring on the stroke of half-time when he made the most of Thomas Mueller’s assist and just a minute after the break, Gomez doubled the hosts’ lead.
Kaiserslautern were entertaining thoughts of a comeback when Jan Moravek pulled one back just after the hour-mark, but Gomez’s second with just 10 minutes remaining wrapped up the result.
The in-form striker snared his treble five minutes later, making it a remarkable 22 goals in his last 17 matches in all competitions for Bayern, before Mueller added the fifth in injury time.
League leaders Borussia Dortmund remain 13 points clear at the top of the standings, despite sharing the spoils in a 1-1 draw with relegation-threatened Stuttgart.
Mario Gotze put the table-toppers in front on the stroke of half-time but Dortmund were made to pay by Pavel Pogrebnyak who struck with five minutes remaining.
Hannover failed to take advantage of Dortmund’s slip-up as they were beaten at home by Schalke by a solitary goal.
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Despite sitting a whopping 12 points behind Juergen Klopp’s side on the league table, Hannover found themselves in the usual position of second before kick-off.
But their league position counted for nothing as Raul struck the sole goal in the match after 33 minutes after good build-up work from Lukas Schmitz.
In other matches, Simon Kjaer’s 82nd minute goal gave Wolfsburg a 1-0 away win at Mainz while Julian Schieber’s equaliser gave Nurenburg a point in a 1-1 draw with Freiburg.
It took all of 17 minutes at this years European championships for Polish striker Robert Lewandowski to make his mark. The 23 year old met a cross from Dortmund teammate Jakub Blaszczykowski, bouncing a header into the ground and past the despairing Greece goalkeeper Kostas Chalkias. Warsaw and the rest of Poland burst into jubilation, and Lewandowski had further announced himself onto the European footballing stage.
Followers of the Bundesliga will be all too familiar with Lewandowski and his goals, as he scored 22 of them in Borussia Dortmund colours this year, guiding them to their second successive German title. His hatrick in the German Cup final contributed significantly to the demolishing of Bayern Munich 5-2, as The Borussians won their first ever domestic double.
There is no question that Poland’s number 9 is a goal getter. His goals in Germany this season may have put him on the radar, but he has been a consistent scorer throughout his short career. Prior to his move to Westfalenstadion, Lewandowski scored 41 goals in 82 appearances for Lech Poznan, a commendable rate which he further improved in the Bundesliga this year.
In recent weeks, a move to Old Trafford for Lewandowski has been circulating transfer gossip columns, although the Pole remains tight lipped on any speculation. Polish manager Franciszek Smuda however, has announced that the striker will almost certainly be on his way to Manchester United after Euro 2012, where he will join former teammate Shinji Kagawa.
So where would the Pole fit in should he move to Old Trafford? Last season saw Wayne Rooney playing predominantly as a supporting striker, with Danny Welbeck the first choice as an advanced forward. The proposed arrival of Lewandowski could potentially stunt Welbeck’s development should he find himself behind the Pole in the pecking order.
The most recent target man Sir Alex Ferguson signed was Dimitar Berbatov. Having initially excelled at Spurs, the Bulgarian is now a more prominent figure on the Old Trafford bench than on the pitch if last season is anything to go by. Manchester United failed to accommodate their last target man, and this is something that Lewandowski should be wary of prior to a move away from Dortmund.
At 23, a big move now could potentially excel Lewandowski to one of the best strikers in Europe in a short space of time. Manchester United are desperate to challenge the dominance of their rivals Man City following a season which reached its climax in a gut wrenching final day for United. The Polish forward is just the kind of signing that would be the perfect addition to Sir Alex Ferguson’s team. The creativeness of United that has been further added to with the signing of Shinji Kagawa could make Lewandowski an even more prolific striker at one of the biggest clubs in the world.
Whilst the speculation may suggest Lewandowski is on his way to join the Premier League runners up, there is no guarantee the move will pay off. Although should the move prove to be a success, the Polish striker could excel in spectacular fashion.
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However, Borussia Dortmund are hardly one of Europe’s smaller clubs, as the last two seasons have demonstrated thanks to the contribution of their prolific number 9.
Franciszek Smuda may believe Robert Lewandowski is due a move to a big club in the form of Manchester United, but it would be criminal to dismiss Borussia Dortmund and the foundations they already have in place to become one of Europe’s giants once again, something Lewandowski would no doubt play a key part in.
Rangers bowed out of the Champions League as a late Jiloan Hamad goal saw the Scottish champions eliminated by Malmo.After a shock 1-0 defeat in last week’s first leg, Rangers were back on level terms in their third round qualifying tie through Nikica Jelavic’s first-half strike in Sweden.
But Malmo would have the last say as Hamad’s intervention in the 80th minute condemned Ally McCoist’s men to a Europa League play-off spot.
Rosenborg’s hopes were also extinguished, with Viktoria Plezen sealing a 4-2 aggregate result over the Norwegian giants following a 3-2 win on Wednesday.
While one Czech side progressed, another was eliminated as Slovan Bratislava exited at the hands of APOEL Nicosia.
Bratislava were poised to progress to the play-off stages following last week’s scoreless draw at APOEL, but goals from Brazilian duo Ailton and Gustavo sent the Cyprian champions through.
Benfica moved into the final qualifying round after a 1-1 draw in Turkey against Trabzonspor gave them a 3-1 aggregate win. Croatian giants Dinamo Zagreb progressed by the same aggregate score after a 1-0 home win over HJK Helsinki.
FC Twente moved on despite a scoreless stalemate with Vaslui in Romania, with the Dutch side advancing courtesy of a 2-0 first-leg triumph.
Russian outfit Rubin Kazan wrapped up their tie with Dynamo Kiev after a 2-1 home win at the Tsentralnyi Stadium capped a 4-1 aggregate result.
Genk also advanced, as a 1-1 draw with Partizan Belgrade in Serbia sealed a 3-2 aggregate result for the Belgian champions.
Elsewhere, FC Zurich continued their push for the group stages after knocking out Belgian side Standard Liege, while Austrian powerhouse Sturm Graz ended the run of Georgian outfit FC Zestafoni.
Polish champions Wisla Krakow kept their dream of a first-ever group-stage berth alive at the expense of Bulgarian counterparts Litex Lovech, while Israeli side Maccabi Haifa ousted Slovenia’s Maribor.
Twitter. Love it or hate it, it has become a great place to get the latest football news and receive insights from Premier League clubs that you might not otherwise get. It is the tweets from professional players that are of most interest, unless of course you want to get embroiled in the world of the spoof Sam Allardyce (I can highly recommend that you do!). The personality of players really comes out, which isn’t always the best thing for players who are lacking a bit between the ears, and while Tweets many be of great interest to us, they are getting the players themselves into a bit of bother.
The prime example of this is Aldershot’s Marvin Morgan, who was transfer listed and fined two weeks wages after an outburst on Twitter in which he said to the Shots’ fans “I hope you all die”. Morgan was booed during his side’s 2-1 defeat by Hereford and responded angrily on Twitter with a rant that said “Like to thank the fans who booed me off the pitch. Where’s that going to get you! I hope you all die.” Not exactly a great way to get on side with the fans and the statement from Aldershot that said Morgan was foolish was something of an understatement.
It isn’t just Morgan that has got himself into trouble. Newcastle’s Jose Enrique didn’t put himself in new manager Alan Pardew’s good books by saying that he would miss the Tottenham match at White Hart Lane with an injury before the starting XI was even announced. Newcastle responded by saying that they were going to educate the players on how to use Twitter, a meeting that I’m guessing would have gone along the lines of “just keep your mouth shut”.
Even if players aren’t making Twitter gaffes, their mothers are on Facebook really sticking the boot in. Paul Konchesky has been getting a bit of stick at Anfield since his move from Fulham, something Liverpool fans have every right to do. However, his mum Carol was far from happy and on Facebook told the ‘scouse scum’ to ‘stop living off the past’ (you can see the rant in full here). Konchesky must have shook his head in disbelief when he saw that, but I suppose you can say good intentions and all that.
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Social networks are a way to show support for players, something that Arsenal’s Cesc Fabregas did after teammate Jack Wilshere was dissed by Manchester City’s Mario Balotelli who said “Jack who?” However, I think Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has got it just right with Twitter, with Tweets such as “Oh my days….has any1 else seen what Song has done to his beard??? Not a good look…AT ALL!!” showing just what it should be used for. Social networking is just a bit of fun, and players should steer clear of abusing fans and just have a bit of light-hearted banter!
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A patch of grass. Painted white lines. Two sets of goalposts. And that’s about it; the only common constituents shared by our two most imperial of sports, football and rugby. Despite emerging from the same cultural and ideological backgrounds, the two have rarely found mutual ground as they abide by diverging societal paths. Football; opium of the people, the embodiment of the working classes. Rugby; penchant of public schoolboys, attached to society’s middling masses.
As football becomes increasingly opulent and demographics of followers of both sports constantly shifting, the two can no longer be so acutely separated along such strict philosophical lines. Likewise, it is progressively evident that the realms of football and rugby are entwining further as groundshares between clubs on both sides becoming a more salient feature in British sport. Can they really get along?
With London Welsh’s victory over the Cornish Pirates on Wednesday night at Oxford United’s Kassam Stadium raising the prospect of promotion the AVIVA Premiership, further debate has been ignited by the potential presence of Welsh on a permanent basis at the League Two club. Though embroiled in murky dispute with the RFU over the issue, there remains a fair chance of rugby being played regularly at the Kassam next season.
Reaction to the decision is a potent mix of cautious apprehension and outright revulsion. As mere tenants of the ground, Oxford United hold little sway over the decision as all negotiations go through the stadium company. Besides the obvious anxiety with regards to the state of the pitch, fears linger that the club will be conceding a segment of its identity. Likewise, London Welsh Managing Directon John Taylor claimed that “it could be a match made in heaven with both seeing financial benefits”, yet with the club receiving only a fraction of the profit generated through the stadium’s activities and paying substantial rent, this seems less a realistic prospect and more an attempt to mollycoddle fans into placating hostilities.
If made prime tenants, London Welsh will have priority over fixture scheduling and stadium branding; on Wednesday night, all traces of Oxford United were abolished and pasted over with Welsh signage. Understandably, many Oxford fans are unwilling to relinquish the stamps which define the club’s presence at the ground, as abounding efforts have been made in recent years to brew a greater sense of belonging where previously detachment was the prevailing sentiment. Supporters group OxVox have established a ‘heritage project’ in recent years in an attempt to promote a more visible poise at the ground; there is a real prospect that all this may be vanquished. The arrival of rugby will only exacerbate the disconnection between club and home.
With an attendance of around 3,000 for what is the biggest game in domestic rugby outside the top flight on Wednesday, many are rightfully skeptical as to the feasibility of London Welsh playing at the Kassam Stadium. With a traditionally small fan base, the club would be reliant upon a combination of larger swathes of visiting supporters and an unlikely growth in local enthusiasm to vindicate such a move. History suggests that may be hard to come by; Oxford previously held the final of Rugby’s Europa League equivalent in 2002 and 2005, the latter attracting a crowd of just over 7,000 for European Rugby’s second most prestigious event. With Oxford averaging more than this in the fourth level of English football, the implication is that the city has firmly marked its preference for football.
There are of course a number of examples whereby football and rugby clubs have coincided in relative harmony for a number of years. Wycombe Wanderers, Reading and Watford each share with London Wasps, London Irish and Saracens respectively, with manageable levels of friction. The difference being here, however, that each is a secondary tenant to the football club: Wasps were forced to move a Heineken Cup tie to Coventry’s Ricoh Arena in 2007 as Wycombe had an FA Cup tie at home the same day. If a similar scenario were to arise in the case of London Welsh and Oxford, it is most probable that the football club would have to move their fixture in order to accommodate the rugby tie. Whilst fixture lists are easily workable around both sports, postponements and cup ties cannot be accounted for, throwing up contentious logistical quandaries for both parties.
Whilst the practical hurdles are manageable, it is the ethical dilemmas which pose most menace in groundshares. Football and rugby fan cultures exist in entirely different spectrums and as such attrition between followers of both codes is inevitable. Supporters of Wigan Athletic and Rugby League side Wigan Warriors have been embroiled in constant bickering for many years. There is only a limited crossover of consensus between the two sports, despite progress being made in recent years to alter stereotypical perceptions. The crux of the matter is that ultimately the cultural leanings of football and rugby are incompatible.
Whether London Welsh are able to win their appeal with the RFU and assume tenancy at the Kassam Stadium or not, the issue has undoubtably reignited tensions between the two sports and further emphasised the inherent disparities which are present.
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Though most poignantly, most ardently and most importantly, there lies one fatal flaw at the heart of London Welsh’s bid. With a car park occupying the vacant end of the three-sided Kassam Stadium, London Welsh will have a crippling amount of insurance claims for smashed windscreens to deal with.
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Transfer speculation can entertain and frustrate in equal measures. In the summer months waiting for the new season to start reading the back pages for the latest rumours of who could be leaving or arriving your club is an enjoyable pastime. But sometimes speculation can cause more trouble than enjoyment for clubs and players.
Tottenham have had a shaky start to the transfer window so far this summer. Intense speculation about the future of Luka Modric has prompted doubts over the futures of their other key players, including Gareth Bale who has been linked with Barcelona. But the latest name to be reportedly heading for the White Hart Lane exit door is Michael Dawson. Dawson wouldn’t be high on a list of the most likely leavers at Spurs, not because of a lack of talent but the Spurs’ skipper seems like a settled and loyal member of their squad.
Reports emerged on Wednesday that Dawson was in a dispute with Spurs over his contract but the defender has immediately refuted the claims. Unfortunately for Spurs they are one of the clubs at the centre of so much speculation and this has lead to the obvious and lazy rumours that everyone from the kit man to the captain is considering their future. According to the media there is currently a domino effect of discontent in the Spurs’ dressing room.
But Spurs are in no way the only club affected by speculation. Back in October last year Liverpool owner John Henry made a statement on the Liverpool website labeling stories about their key players possibly leaving as “destructive and unwarranted”. That statement came after speculation over the future of Pepe Reina. Henry seemed willing to ignore nuisance rumours and accepted them as common practise these days. If such reports are completely untrue most can be brushed under the carpet and deemed harmless. It is those rumours that plant a seed of doubt in people’s minds that can be destructive for both the clubs and players they are concerning.
Cesc Fabregas’ transfer saga is another popular rumour but this one just won’t go away. To be fair to the media this one seems to have just a little truth behind it despite a possible deal for Fabregas not gaining any steam recently. Whilst Arsenal claim he will stay speculation surrounding their captain’s future just won’t go away, the latest being that Fabregas has told Barcelona’s Xavi that he is ‘suffering’ because of his desire to join the European Champions. The constant speculation over the future of their captain and best player has understandably be causing unrest at Arsenal for years.
Luckily for Spurs these new claims about Dawson seem to just be rumours. Spurs will no doubt take centre stage on the back pages sometime soon but hopefully for Harry Redknapp it will about star arrivals rather than anymore unwanted departures.
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