Transfer Special: 31 August 2007
Today is the biggest day in the calendar for all revenue-junkies with a football news website - ranging from the BBC to the Sun to Soccerlens to that new blog that’s just gotten accepted on NewsNow.
Sure, the CL final is big. Sure, the World Cup final is pretty big as well. But nothing beats the adrenaline rush of real 24-hour news reporting, especially if your previous bullshit turned out to be false in which case you have so much more to print!
If you support a football club, today is NOT the day to read the news.
Why? Because I unscrupulous bloggers will spam the hell out of NewsNow (Now there’s a simple problem - spam instead of news. Where do you draw the line?) today, and to be honest, as long as you check in at 3 am on a Friday night (after a good night, of course, instead of being curled up next to your PC hitting refresh on the Manchester United feed hoping that Fergie will shock us all by signing a striker who has a ‘R’ in his name (name them all and you get a prize)), you’ll be fine.
What you should really be worried about is whether it makes sense to take the Champions League qualification spot away from the 4th placed team in the Premier League, or whether your team will win over the weekend (fantasy and real), or better yet, whether playing football with women makes you horny.
Which reminds me … the weekend preview should be up in a few hours, you can check the latest Premiership transfers here and with Anelka, Berbatov, Defoe, Owen and Martins all affirming that they are staying at their respective clubs, unless Robbie Keane is suddenly available or unless George Best is coming back to lead us to a quadruple, Manchester United are NOT signing a striker.
Enjoy your spam-infested weekend. I know I will 
- Newcastle United 3rd Kit 2007/2008
- Barcelona’s 2007/2008 Fixtures (La Liga)
- Jose Mourinho page (updated)
- 2008 Emirates Cup - Arsenal, Juventus, Real Madrid and Hamburg
- 2007 Summer Prem transfers
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Ahmed, I checked “the latest Premiership transfers” link in this article. There must be some printing mistake there regarding Liverpool? I don’t want to start off something with the Liverpool guys again, BUT, did they really sign 18 players? That’s almost 2 teams? Confusing…
I also notice there’s 15 players sold. I get the impression that someone did not do his homework properly?!?
Of course, several players went into the academy, and several of the players going out were reserve players being released or going out on loan (for example they brought in a keeper and then shipped him off to loan).
They really did conduct that much business.