What you missed while finding new ways to reuse your Altoid tins…
- Liverpool have sent Paul Konchesky on loan to Nottingham Forest.
- If Liverpool end up selling Fernando Torres, rumors abound that they’ll try to sign Ashley Young and Charlie Adam with the money that’s made off the deal.
- Newcastle have rejected a £30 million bid for striker Andy Carroll from Liverpool.
- Aston Villa are hoping to sign Michael Bradley on loan from Borussia Mönchengladbach; if that goes through, Stephen Ireland will probably be sent to Newcastle on loan.
- Bolton are looking at signing Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge on loan.
- Sunderland have been busy over the weekend, signing PSG midfielder Stephane Sessegnon and loaning Inter midfielder Sulley Muntari.
- Spurs midfielder Jamie O’Hara will move to Wolves on loan for the duration of the season.
- Manchester City will be without Adam Johnson for three months after the winger suffered a ligament tear in training.
- Burnley winger Chris Eagles misses playing in the Premier League and would like to move to Everton. This news probably would’ve been more interesting to everyone about a week ago.
- Real Madrid’s 1-0 loss to Osasuna puts them closer to third place than first place.
- Sevilla have signed Boca Juniors midfielder Gary “The Pitbull” Medel.
- Arjen Robben and Thomas Muller don’t get along.
- Borussia Dortmund’s 3-0 win over Wolfsburg has reestablished their 11-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga table; Dortmund have now won 10 of their 11 away games this season.
- Inter striker Giampaolo Pazzini – newly arrived from Sampdoria – scored twice on his debut to lead Inter to a 3-2 comeback victory.
- Fiorentina look set to recall Adrian Mutu in an effort to keep themselves from getting relegated.
- The lastest stop in Freddy Adu’s international loan tour: Çaykur Rizespor, a Turkish second division team.
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I’m off to Dublin & Belfast for a week this afternoon. I won’t have a trivia answer for this week or probably next week either. I should (hopefully) have some new stuff so that I can submit my Coming out Of the Closet entry.
Newcastle accepted a 35 million pound bid for Andy Carroll. No news yet on whether the Earth has accepted Liverpool’s 400 billion pound bid for the moon.