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Louis Saha transfers from Manchester United to Everton

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September 1, 2008

The french player transferred from the Uefa Champions League winner Manchester United to Everton in an undisclosed fee.
Although he showed brilliant skills in some memorable encounters in the 4 years with Manchester United ,his evolutions were darkened by the many unfortunate injuries that he had suffered.

The french will move to Goodison Park on a 2 year contract with and option of a third.
Saha made his English football debut on loan from FC Metz to Newcastle United in 1999, making
11 appearances and scoring one goal before returning to Metz.

He was transferred to Fulham for £2.1million in 2000. During a spell of nearly four years at the club,
he scored 63 goals in total.

Saha was transferred to Manchester United for a fee of £12.8 million in 2004 after impressing Sir Alex Ferguson
in Fulham‘s 2-1 loss to Manchester United and throughout the season having scored 15 goals up to that point. Fulham were reluctant to sell Saha but he pushed
for a deal and it eventually transfered to Old Traffor on 23 January 2004.

Number 9 will be Saha‘s number at Everton, and here he will join former United team mates Phill Neville and Tim Howard.Evertone’s hopes are high and everybody will be looking forward to seeing Louis Saha playing to prove himself as a good signing.

Real Madrid still after David Villa

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September 1, 2008

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Real Madrid are desperate to sign a striker until the end of transfer window. They increased their offer after that last one 40 million euro was rejected by Valencia. Now they are waiting for Valencia‘s permission to talk to the player.

Villa had an excelent Primera debut with Valencia opening the score in 3-0 win against Mallorca.
Villa wouldn’t say no to the move, because he wants to play at highest level and Real suits perfectly. All is up to Valencia‘s president Vicente Soriano.

Soriano knows that if he sold the player the fans will turn agains him even if the fee is very good.
Probably if the deal will complete then Robinho will be allowed to move to Chelsea. Robinho recently declared that he wants to leave and that Chelsea would be perfect destination for him.
Real‘s coach Bernd Schuster complained in the last period about the few forward options that he has in the team.
Real Madrid have failed to sign their first target this summer, Ronaldo from Manchester United.

Ronaldinho back to his best?

Italy

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September 1, 2008

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Ronaldinho who was transferred this summer from Barcelona to Milan for around 20 million euro, had already impressed at his debut in Serie A.

Even if Milan losed that game against Bologna, Ronaldinho delighted the fans and the Milan‘s president.
Berlusconi described Ronaldinho as an extraordinary champion and declared Ronaldinho the man of the match for Milan. He also considered that Milan were unlucky to loose the game, but he is confident that Milan will win next match when probably Kaka will be back again.
Ronaldinho created a lot of chances but Milan scored only once.
Also Ronaldinho is very confident and thinks that with hard work they can achieve what they propose.
The brazilian was superb all the 90 minutes, showing a great form.

Valentino Rossi wins at San Marino

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September 1, 2008

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Valentino Rossi from Yamaha won the San Marino race to assure his third consecutive win and the six of this season.

The italian leads the standing with 75 points in front of Stoner who is closelly followed by Dani Pedrosa.
Stoner started the race from pole position, managing to take a good advantage before he crashed his Ducati in seventh lap. After that Rossi controled the race.
Rossi was followed by his teammate Jorge Lorenzo and Toni Elias from Ducati finish third.
This was the first win of carrear for “Il dottore” on Misano.
This was the thirteen race of the season and there are only five left.
Rossi is five times champion and looks like this season will win another title. The next race will be at Indianapolis on 14 September.

Inter signed Quaresma

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September 1, 2008

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Inter were in negotiations with Porto all summer but the transfer was not completed yet because of the huge transfer demand.
However it look like the transfer will never completed after president Massimo Moratti declared that Inter are not interested anymore in signing Quaresma.

Coach Jose Mourinho has never hide his admirer for the former Porto winger.
Probably this was the main reason why Morrati decided to spend the money on the player.
Last week Liverpool manager Rafa Benites declared that they are also interested in signing the player.
Mourinho had already bought Mancini and Muntari in midfield. Now Mourinho can play his favorite tactic with three players in front, one striker and two wingers on the bands.
Inter payed 18,6 million euro, plus 6 millions based on player performances. Also young prospect Pele was part of the deal. Pele is valued at 6 millions so the deal rises to around 30 million euros. Now Mourinho will have to sell some of the players because of the big squad that Inter posses.