What you missed while cephalopods were gaining consciousness…
- The Premier League still hasn’t made a decision over Rafael van der Vaart’s proposed transfer to Tottenham; the issue seems to be whether or not paperwork was submitted by the deadline, which seems like it shouldn’t take an entire extra day to figure out.
- Manchester United fell 2,000 season tickets short of their 54,000 season ticket goal.
- Mark Schwarzer’s agent claims that Arsenal could’ve had Schwarzer for free two years ago, but that Wenger opted to go for Lukasz Fabianski instead. Ouch.
- New Wigan loanee Tom Cleverley hopes to have a breakthrough season with the Latics so that he can be in Manchester United’s first team next year.
- Arsenal have loaned Armand Traore to Juventus for the season.
- Blackburn’s move for Bulgarian striker Ivelin Popov has fallen through after Popov was denied a work permit.
- Wolves winger Michael Kightly was left out of Wolves’ 25-man squad after failing to recover fitness; Kightly hasn’t played since November 2009 while recovering from a patella tendon tear and will likely go out on loan for the first half of the season.
- Liverpool failed to signed Carlton Cole in spite of the fact that they offered Lucas Leiva and Ryan Babel as makeweights. Yeah, um…can we pretend none of this happened?
- Jose Mourinho thinks that only Harry Potter could’ve earned Real Madrid three points against Real Mallorca.
- Carles Puyol has pulled out of Spain’s squad with an injury. Fernando Torres, however, is still in…because, really, someone needs to score against Liechtenstein.
- Michael Ballack will remain the captain of Germany as long as he’s in the German squad.
- UEFA have banned vuvuzelas from all European competitions.
- Mexico’s top flight is looking at cutting the number of foreign players allowed from a maximum of five per team to…something less than that.
- Marco Branca, Inter’s technical director, has defended Inter’s lack of movement on the transfer market by saying that keeping Maicon was their best piece of business.
- Kansas City Wizards head coach Peter Vermes was arrested for drunk driving earlier this month; if this was another sport, you probably would’ve heard of it before now, but whatever.
- Adidas will continue to sponsor MLS through 2018; the extension is rumored to be worth about $200 million to MLS.
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