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| The governing body played the populist game and lost a manager who still had English football's best interests at heart but would not accept responsibility without command. |
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| FC Basel says star forward Xherdan Shaqiri will join its Champions League round-of-16 opponent Bayern Munich at the end of the current season. Basel did not disclose the fee Bayern will pay for the 20-year-old Switzerland international, whose contract with the Swiss champion ran through 2014. Shaqiri had been expected to move in the January transfer window, but Basel's surprise progression to... |
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| The Brazilian defender joined the Nerazzurri in the closing days of the January transfer window, and trained with his new club for the first time on Tuesday |
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| Diego Maradona has warned the owners at Al Wasl that he may not return to coach the team next season if it doesn't buy the kind of players that would allow him to compete for the league title. Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, the Argentine football great complained that the United Arab Emirates club didn't bring in enough quality players during the recent January transfer window. |
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| Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says he will allow Carlos Tevez to return to the team if the Argentina striker can prove his fitness. Tevez was included Thursday in City's Premier League squad for the rest of the season after failing to secure a move away from the league leaders in the January transfer window. |
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| Big deals collapsed in the final hours, an unknown Korean was plucked from obscurity and some big names were put on the unwanted list, completing a tumultuous time for Asian footballers during Europe's January transfer window. The most eagerly anticipated move never happened as the transfer of Keisuke Honda, Japan's most famous player, from CSKA Moscow to Italian powerhouse Lazio failed to... |
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| Carlos Tevez says he is in a "negative spiral" at Manchester City and doesn't know "what will happen with me now." Tevez says in German magazine Kicker that offers for him from AC Milan, Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain all fell through in the January transfer window because "something was always wrong" for Man City. |
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| You know it's a quiet transfer window when the most frivolously spending club only brings in one player on loan, but the diminutive Pizarro could fill a hole at Man City. |
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| The midfielder left Atalanta for the Bianconeri on deadline day of the transfer window, and is eager to win his first major trophy at the Turin giants this season |
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| English Premier League
soccer clubs spent around 60 million pounds ($94.7 million) in
the January transfer window, down 70 percent on last year as new
rules to curb excessive losses put a damper on the market,
business firm Deloitte said on Wednesday.
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