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Yeah 10-0 is a lot - Azeryk now has an outstanding national record of 8 goals from 4 games. This ignores his U23s performances of 5 goals from 4 appearances!!

As Turkmenistan didn't have to play in the 1st round, their next 1st team fixtures will be 2nd round group fixtures which will comprise of 6 games starting in February 2008.

Both U23 teams have 6 games in the period February-May 2008, so plenty of int fixtures coming up for both teams in 2008. icon14.gif

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Good work lads against Maladives. Sorry Hermandinho wasn't around to help you guys out. I promise he'll be fit for the next match!

A congratulations to our friends from Kyrgyzstan. 10-0! Winning with double figures. Drinks on you blokes I suppose? icon_smile.gif

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Nepal (0) v (10) Kyrgyzstan

Weds 5th Dec: World Cup 2010 Asian Qualifying 1st Round 2nd Leg

Pre Match

After Professor Frink is laid low with food poisoning for a few days, only 7 of the superkids start the 2nd leg, Elfdog, Halali + Freealdinho again on the bench. The captain is a non-superkid.

My Opinion:

Barring the greatest turnaround ever in the history of world football, Kyrgyzstan will qualify for the next round. I would imagine around 3 or 4 for Kyrgyzstan as they usually take the 2nd leg easy after a big 1st leg win.

6 minutes in and a deep cross from the right wing picks out Azeryk who calm as you like puts the ball in the net. 0-1.

Bill and Benj both shoot narrowly over in the next 5 minutes.

Bartinho is forced off after 18 minutes through injury.

Gosh, Nepal win some corners. From one, they even force Lui to make a save!

However, service is resumed as normal come the end of the half. Passing the ball round calmly, Azeryk feeds the ball back to Benj who pops the ball into the top left hand corner of the goal from 25 yards.

HT: Nepal 0 v 2 Kyrgyzstan

Half Time Stats

A quiet second half. On 72 minutes, Ryan + Bill are subbed off and replaced by Halali + Freealdinho.

FT: Nepal 0 v 2 Kyrgyzstan

Match Overview

Player Stats

The game was a lot poorer than the 1st leg, but there was no real need for Kyrgyzstan to play attacking football, they were just getting the job done.

MOM again goes to Azeryk for his goal and assist.

Kyrgyzstan win 12-0 on agg. and qualify for the 2nd qualifying round

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Player Cam Match Report

Sat 8th Dec: Livorno (6th) v Brescia (22nd) - league match

After missing the last 2 games due to Kyrgyzstani commitments, Ryan starts the game at right back for Livorno.

Not a good start for Livorno, they concede a headed goal in the 2nd minute from a corner. 0-1.

In a game they should win, they fall further behind after just 6 minutes, a well timed tackle from a Livorno centre back unfortunately goes straight into the path of a Brescia player who has plenty of time to stroke it home. 0-2.

Ryan prevents it becoming 0-3 as he is first to react to the GK's parried save, hooking it upfield.

The closest Livorno come to scoring in the first half was a header over the bar from a corner.

HT: Livorno 0 v 2 Brescia

Half Time Stats

Livorno go 3 down after 57 minutes after a penalty is giving for a push in the penalty area.

FT: Livorno 0 v 3 Brescia

Full Time Livorno Stats

After a game like that its hard to see how Livorno were in 6th place and Brescia were bottom of the league before this game?! At least Ryan was one of the few Livorno players to play reasonably well, making 10 interceptions during the game.

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Week ending Sunday 9th December 2007

De Santiago is out for 2 weeks with a broken hand.

Sevilla obviously felt that Freddie Kanoute could offer more to Alan, so is tutoring him for a 2nd time!

Despite his season ending injury, Birkinaldo still has interest in him, with Arsenal now also wanting him (along with Everton, Man Utd and Stoke).

World Cup 2010 2nd Qualifying Round Groups

Fixtures will be held between Frebruary and November 2008, playing each team home and away. Top team qualifys for the 3rd round group stage.

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Group 5 Group 7

Kyrgyzstan (118th) Turkmenistan (130th)

China (37th) Hong Kong (137th)

North Korea (114th) Saudi Arabia (26th)

Vietnam (133rd) U.A.E. (94th)

*Figures indicate team's world rankings as described in Nov 2007 list.

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As a guide, Nepal are ranked 169th in the world in the Nov 2007 rankings. Both teams have a chance of qualifying, I would say the games against China and Saudi Arabia will be the crunch ones as the other 2 nations should be 6 points each. I would say Saudi Arabia are harder than China and so for that I would say Kyrgyzstan have the slightly easier group.

Hopefully there won't be any clashes over call ups with the U23 Olympic Qualifiers, so that both teams have as good a chance as possible of qualifying in both tournaments.

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Player Cam Match Report

Weds 12th Dec: Livorno (7th) v (13th) Genoa - league match

Ryan starts at right back for Livorno. 4-4-2 formation.

Livorno have the first chance of the game, a header over the bar after 3 minutes.

Livorno go into halftime after dominating the 1st half, yet neither team having had a shot on target yet.

HT: Livorno 0 v 0 Genoa

52nd minute and Livorno win a penalty. Up steps... Ryan!! However, the right back dispatches the penalty with ease. 1-0 Livorno. (Looking at his stats I then realise he has a rating of 20 for penalties, apologies for the previous consternation).

3 minutes later and a cross from the right is converted to double Livorno's advantage.

3 minutes later (not a typo) and Genoa have a goal back via the penalty spot.

After 64 minutes Geno go down to 10 men after their man is sent off for a second yellow card.

76 minutes gone and Livorno make sure of victory after a nice turn by their striker before placing it in teh top corner of the goal.

FT: Livorno 3 v 1 Genoa

Match Stats

Full Time Player Stats

Good game for Ryan, a goal and a win.

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Player Cam Match Report

Sat 15th Dec: Albinoleffe (18th) v (5th) Livorno - league match

Ryan starts for Livorno is his last match of player cam, due to Italy's forthcoming xmas break.

Albinoleffe have the better of the first 20 minutes, with Livorno only offering a shot on the run over the bar.

Livorno take the lead after 26 minutes, a great cross from the left is headed in by Fabbiani.

HT: Albinoleffe 0 v 1 Livorno

Half Time Stats

After 70 minutes, Livorno change to a 3-5-2 formation, with Ryan being the left centre back.

A very quiet 2nd half comes to an end.

FT: Albinoleffe 0 v 1 Livorno

Full Time Livorno Stats

A solid game for Ryan, another 7.

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Week ending Sunday 16th December 2007

David Moyes has criticised Luke Swinson for his recent poor form (6-6-6-7-5).

Sam Taphouse is currently being tutored by Joey Barton - oh well, if you turn into the next oddball you know where you got your traits from icon_wink.gif

Salman Al-Dahash is now on his 2nd tutor - this time he is learning from Javi Flores.

Roberto Rossini is out for 2-4 weeks with a twisted knee.

The Champions League and UEFA Cup group stages have been complete:

Champs League Groups A-D

Champs League Groups E-H

Samaras Taraldo could not help CSKA progress into the knockout stages of the champs league. CSKA finish bottom of the group with 2 points. Roma and Barcelona qualify from the group. Koppers parent club Chelsea qualified top of their group with 15 points.

UEFA Cup groups:

Top 3 qualified in each group.

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Group A Group B Group C

1. Lille +5 10 1. Dyanmo Kiev +3 10 1. AC Milan +3 10

2. Ajax +3 8 2. Everon (Swinson) +5 9 2. Leverkusen +3 9

3. Braga (Hermandinho) 0 5 3. Club Brugge -2 4 3. Zaragoza (Gonzalez) +1 7

4. Levski Sofia -3 4 4. Werder Bremen 0 3 4. NAC Breda -3 1

5. FC Kobenhavn -5 3 5. Toulouse -6 2 5. NK Dinamo -4 1

Group D Group F Group H

1. Panathinaikos +3 8 1. Celtic +4 9 1. Anderlecht (Chaoconov) +2 7

2. Athletico (Atas) +2 7 2. Espaynol +2 6 2. Fiorentina +1 6

3. Newcastle +5 6 3. Middlesbrough (Azeryk) 0 6 3. Dinamo Moscow -1 6

4. Udinese -2 5 4. Frankfurt 0 6 4. Hertha BSC 0 5

5. Zurich -8 1 5. Chievo -6 3 5. Lyon -2 4

Villareal (De Santiago) also qualify for the knockout stages.

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The draws for the 1st KO round of each competition have also been drawn:

Champs League 1st KO Round

UEFA Cup 1st KO Round

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">David Moyes has criticised Luke Swinson for his recent poor form (6-6-6-7-5). </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

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Week ending Sunday 23rd December 2007

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has won the European Footballer of the Year Award.

David Villa won the World Player of the Year Award.

Forgot to mention earlier that a couple of game weeks ago, my holiday man 'Sepp Blatter' who is overseeing the progress of the Turkmenistani superkids was offered the job as manager of Chile, despite being unemployed for the past 18 months. Sepp Blatter kindly declined the job offer to concentrate on his Turkmenistni scouting commitments.

Halfway stage league tables coming up next, though that may not be until tomorrow. icon14.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Walcott's Wonderkids:

Yeah 10-0 is a lot - Azeryk now has an outstanding national record of 8 goals from 4 games. This ignores his U23s performances of 5 goals from 4 appearances!!

</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Wahoo - Finally a sign up game where I do well, what can I say - Kyrgyzstan rocks \m/

KUTGW

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Week ending Sunday 30th December 2007

Swansea's manager praises Freealdinho for his good performances of late.

El Loco Bartinho has signed a new contract with Manisaspor until June 2010.

Hacken of the Swedish premierleague have made an offer for Libertinho of £49k. The offer has been accepted.

League Table Updates

Belgium Premier League

England Premier League

England Championship

England league One

Italy Serie A

Italy Serie B

Portugal Premier League

Spain La Liga

Turkey Premier League

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Swansea's manager praises Freealdinho for his good performances of late. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm getting praised AND Swansea are doing well in the league. icon_cool.gif

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Tuesday 1st January 2008

Thought I would give an extra mid-week update as its New Years Day and awards have been collected!

Didier Drogba has won the World Footballer of the Year Award.

David Platt has been appointed the new boss of Norwich.

Azeryk has rejected the offer of a new contract from Middlesbrough, wanting a bigger bonus for apps in the 1st team.

Habib Halali has only 6 months left on his contract at Canterbuty Utd in New Zealand. He has been offered a new contract with them, but Charlton have suddenly appeared as wanting him as well.

Libertinho has signed for Swedish Premier League side Hacken and has stated that he can't wait to test himself on the bigger stage.

The main reason for this mid-week announcement is because on the 1st January each year, the Asian Manager, Player and Young Player of the year awards are made. Unfortunately none of our players or managers won the player or manager awards, but for the young player award:

Selim Atas has been crowned Asian Young Player of the Year 2007.

1st. Selim Atas

2nd. Azeryk

3rd. Pablo Gonzalez

Following this news, I felt it was only right that Player Cam for January will follow Atas.

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Week ending Sunday 6th January 2008

Lui has turned down the latest offer of a contract with Qingdao.

Norwich have made an offer to extend the loan of Davo for a further 3 months, which has been accepted.

George Robson has become the 1st player to be subject to 'co-ownership'. About 10 Serie A teams offered to co-own him with Vicenza, with all the offers around £700k. In the end Inter Milan won out and he is under a co-ownership contract until June 2009, although both clubs have a contract with the player until June 2010. He will stay at Vicenza during the co-ownership period.

Maldinov, on loan at Pescara until the end of the year, has extended his contract with Fiorentina until June 2012.

Spartak Moscow become the next team to offer Sepp Blatter a job, which again he politely declines.

Apologies as it is very late, but the World Rankings update for December:

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Kyrgyzstan 107th Up 11 places

Turkmenistan 135th Down 5 places

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Up next, player cam match report...

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Player Cam Match Report

Sun 6th Jan: Osasuna (4th) v (12th) Athletico - league match

Atas starts upfront for Athletico in a defensive 4-4-2 formation.

Osasuna have a freekick well saved after 19 minutes.

After 26 minutes Osasuna take the lead. Their right mid somehow keeps the ball in play by the corner flag, hangs in a cross, the Athletico keeper goes and misses and Osasuna head into an unguarded net. 1-0.

Osasuna continue the pressure for the rest of the half, with the Athletico keeper making up for his error on a few occasions.

Athletico have yet to have a shot as the half time whistle is blown.

HT: Osasuna 1 v 0 Athletico

Half Time Stats

Atas picks up a yellow card in the 55th minute for tugging on an opponents shirt.

Athletico change to a 3-5-2 formation.

Atas is subbed on 73 minutes after a frustrating game for him, couldn't get going.

FT: Osasuna 1 v 0 Athletico

Full Time Athletico Stats

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Selim Atas has been crowned Asian Young Player of the Year 2007. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Congrats to Selim Atas.

Well done!

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by TeeWee:

Braga's doing very poorly. No European football next year icon13.gif

Poor defensive line. I hope Hermandinho is doing well personally though... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hermandinho has now played 14 games for Braga at an average of 7.00.

Everyone's games played stats will be published on Feb 1st.

Right thats it for today, more updates tomorrow. I'm off out to get smashed icon_biggrin.gif Ahhh, post exam uni time - love it icon_wink.gificon14.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Everyone's games played stats will be published on Feb 1st. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

It will be interesting to see Freealdinho's match stats, Roll on Feb 1st. icon_cool.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Walcott's Wonderkids:

Hacken of the Swedish premierleague have made an offer for Libertinho of £49k. The offer has been accepted. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Won't be long till my transfer dealings will be in "m's" and not "k's". Hacken are a decent team, the CM legend that was Kim Kallstrom played there! icon_cool.gif

Is the Swedish Premier League viewable on your game WW?

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by eldereth:

Alright!!! Vicenza up in the league and a co-ownership deal with Inter!

Haven't got a clue what it means though... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

From what I understand, you stay at Vicenza until June 2009, then at the end of that period both team make an offer or the remaining 50% of the contract and the team who offers the most takes control of the player.

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Player Cam Match Report

Sun 13th Jan: Athletico (12th) v (18th) Castellon - league match

Atas starts up front for Athletico in a 3-5-2 formation.

Sissoko has a curling long range shot for Athletico after 20 minutes.

The Athletico keeper makes a good smouthering save after half an hour.

HT: Athletico 0 v 0 Castellon

Half Time Stats

Riise narrowly misses the target from a corner after 55 minutes for Athletico.

Atas heads just over from a cross on the left.

After 69 minutes Athletico take the lead. Cross from the left is laid back by Atas, who sets up Sissoko to power home. 1-0.

In injury time, Athletico win a free kick on the edge of Castellon's area, which is well saved by the Castellon keeper.

FT: Athletico 1 v 0 Castellon

Full Time Athletico Stats

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Week ending Sunday 13th January 2008

Lots of contract news this week:

Davo has signed a new 4 year contract with West Ham. He has also had his loan period at Norwich extended for a further 3 months.

Bill has rejected a new contract offer from Belenenses, wanting a bigger bonus for 1st team apps.

Freealdinho has signed a new 3 year deal with Swansea, becoming the highest paid player in the process at £4,300pw.

Ryan has signed a new deal with Livorno and is now contracted to them until June 2012.

Elfdog has had his loan at Leyton Orient extended for a further 3 months.

Gonzalez has rejected a new contract with Zaragoza, wanting a bigger bonus for 1st team apps.

Taraldo has rejected a new contract with CSKA Moscow, unhappy at the length of contract being offered.

Atas has turned down a new deal with Athletico, wanting a bigger bonus for 1st team apps.

Charlton have announced their interest in Habib Halali. Canterbury's manager has however said that his player is not for sale and has change his status to now 'the club does not wish to sell this player'.

Azeryk is wanted by Liverpool and West Ham.

Gonzalez now has Sergio Garcia, his previous tutor, listed under favoured personel. He also picked up a new PPM from him, he now has 'places shots', 'moves into channels' and 'likes to beat the offside trap'.

Atas is now regarded as a 'wonderkid', the 1st person to be regarded as such.

It is also interesting to note that Halali, Freealdinho, Benj, Lui, Ryan, Davo + Prof Frink has Azeryk listed under favoured personel (someone has a few admirers then icon_wink.gif). Azeryk does not have anyone listed under favoured personel.

After Sepp Blatter turned down Spartak Moscow, the club then offered Kyrgyzstan player scout Gary Lineker a job as their manager. He also rejected the offer due to present commitments in a scouting capacity.

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Freealdinho has signed a new 3 year deal with Swansea, becoming the highest paid player in the process at £4,300pw. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Woohoo!!! icon_cool.gif

I'm in the money, I'm in the money. icon14.gif

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Player Cam Match Report

Sun 20th Jan: Athletico (10th) v (19th) Las Palmas - league match

Atas again starts up front for Athletico, in a 3-5-2 formation.

Athletico have the better of the opening exchanges.

After 21 minutes, Atas is the first to latch onto a bouncing long ball from the back and very calmly slides the ball passed the onrushing Las Palmas keeper to make it 1-0.

Both teams hit the side netting in the closing moments of the half.

HT: Athletico 1 v 0 Las Palmas

Half Time Stats

2 minutes into the 2nd half and Atas pulls a shot wide of the left post after being in a good position on the right.

Atas fires a shot over the bar when free on goal and only the keeper to beat.

Athletico change to a defensive 4-4-2 formation.

Atas has a header well saved by the Las Palmas keeper, who then saves the rebound shot by Atas's fellow striker.

FT: Athletico 1 v 0 Las Palmas

Full Time Athletico Stats

Atas scores the only goal of the game and generally has a good game.

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Taunton:

How is Koppers getting on in the Championship?

Is he playing, or is he keeping the bench warm in the cold northern english weather? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Koppers is playing regularly for Sunderland, who are 1 point clear of the relegation zone.

Games played stats to appear on Feb 1st. icon14.gif

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Week ending Sunday 20th January 2007

More contract rebels, you greedy b@st@rds icon_wink.gif :

Alan has turned down a new contract with Sevilla.

Atas rejects the 2nd contract offer from Athletico in 2 weeks.

Azeryk has rejected a new contract offer from Middlesbrough. All 3 rebels declined due to wanting larger appearance bonuses.

However, Al-Dahash has signed a new contract with Espaynol.

Ryan has suddenly become a man in demand. Porto has made a £1.8m offer for him, as well as Chievo and Juve making co-ownership offers for him of £1.1m. Many more teams are interested in him, the big teams being Arsenal, Lyon, Bayern Munich, both the Milan clubs and Fiorentina.

Ali Obeid has completed his loan spell at Notts Forest and has returned to West Ham. Loan spell stats: 14(2) apps, 6 goals, 1 assist, 1 MOM, 1 yellow card at an Av Rat of 6.94.

World Rankings Update for January 2008:

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Kyrgyzstan 108th Down 1 place

Turkmenistan 138th Down 3 places

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Week ending Sunday 27th January 2008

Halali may not be at Canterbury Utd much longer as he has rejected a new contract with them, citing the basic wage offer was unacceptable. Tottenham are now also interested in him (Charlton's interest remains).

Bill is reportedly attracting the attention of Calgari and transfer speculation that he may be moving in a £2.2m deal. Belenenses however have come out and laughed this off, stating that he will remain with them for the forseeable future.

Sam Taphouse has signed a new deal with Man City, keeping him at the club until June 2012.

Livorno have sold 50% of their contract with Ryan to Juventus for £1.1m. He will stay at Livorno until June 2009 when both clubs will have to submit offers for him. 2 days later and Bayern Munich cheekily offered both Livorno and Juventus £725k for their stakes in Ryan, which has been rejected by Juventus (who probably didn't agree with the notion of their stake in Ryan being worth 300k less than what it was 2 days previous).

Ali Obeid has signed a new deal with West Ham until June 2012.

Stelios has signed a new deal with Middlesbrough until June 2012.

Calgari are interested in Turkus Mendieta.

Sunderland have made an offer to extend their loan of Koppers for a further 2 months.

Fabiov Maldinov has torned his groin muscle and will be out for 1-3 months.

Alvaro De Santiago is out for a month with a fractured wrist.

With both Turkmenistan superkid keepers injured, it means that their fixtures in late February may take on a different complexion.

Player Cam for February will focus on... George Robson at Vicenza.

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> Alvaro De Santiago is out for a month with a fractured wrist.

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Walcott's Wonderkids:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by eldereth:

Alright!!! Vicenza up in the league and a co-ownership deal with Inter!

Haven't got a clue what it means though... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

From what I understand, you stay at Vicenza until June 2009, then at the end of that period both team make an offer or the remaining 50% of the contract and the team who offers the most takes control of the player. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks for pointing that out.

Also, I'm featured in the player cam \o/

now to make sure I don't embarass myself...

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