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The past seven days has finally seen some big moves being made in the transfer market. It is no surprise that Manchester City have yet again been flexing their muscles with the signings of Mario Balotelli from Inter Milan and James Milner from Aston Villa. City have paid a reported £24m for Balotelli, who scored on his debut last night in the Europa League tie against Timisoara, with the same figure being quoted for the James Milner deal, which saw Stephen Ireland [Read more...]

After the shock resignation this week of Martin O’Neill from Aston Villa, the Midlands club are now faced with the tough task of finding a manager that can build on the foundations that have been put in place by the Irishman. O’Neill joined the club in August 2006, finishing 11th in his first season in charge and then taking Villa to three consecutive 6th place finishes, improving on their points tally each time. He has assembled an excellent squad of players, they are in Europe again this season and having got them to League Cup final and FA Cup semi-final last season , they will be an attractive proposition for a number of managers. [Read more...]

With just two teams left to battle it out in today’s World Cup Final, all of the other squads have left South Africa and their players have travelled back to their respective homes or taken a well earned holiday. This means that transfer speculation has started to increase as attention now turns to the return of the domestic leagues, which for some leagues in England, is less than four weeks away.

There are a number of transfer rumours doing the rounds today, which range from the highly probable to the outright ridiculous. Stay Onside takes a look through some of the stories and rates the chances of them happening. [Read more...]

With the World Cup now in full swing in South Africa, it is hardly surprising that there is a distinct lack of activity in the domestic transfer market. Most of the high profile players are all participating at the finals and supposedly concentrating solely on their country, although judging by some of the performances we have witnessed so far we can all be forgiven for thinking that this might not actually be the case. I would however like to focus on one of the most talked about potential transfers of the summer [Read more..]