My apologies for the very late post tonight but the internet is a fickle lady. Luckily I have managed to secure her services for the moment with promises of trinkets and love, so count yourself very lucky that I am willing to make these sort of sacrifices for the greater good of football blogging.
To the news, as I mentioned yesterday Sheffield are now taking their appeal to the high court. I completely agree with the comment from Wes yesterday, Sheffield have to give this up as they will not win, and they have to start concentrating on the coming season. This whole appeal process has shadowed the summer and Sheffield will not be able to move on until it is over, so let's hope that after the High Court hearing on the 13th July, everything moves on.
A few signings to report, Tottenham have secured the services of Younes Kaboul for around 8 million pounds from Auxerre. He's a very highly rated defender, and is definitely a player for the future. He will spend this season adapting to the Premiership by coming off the bench, and starting in less important games, beforereally making an impact next season. Though if Ledley and Dawson get injured then he may be getting a chance to strut his stuff earlier then expected.
Tottenham have now spent around 34 million on new players, which is a clear signal of intent for next season. Spurs fans must be pretty happy at the moment, though personally I don't think they'll break the top four this season as the big four all have very good players in every position, whereas Spurs still have a few missing links. Their central midfield is an area that needs work if they're really going to challenge this season.
Elsewhere, Steven Davis has joined Fulham for 4 million pounds from Aston Villa. He didn't have a great time last season, but in the season before that, he looked like a very decent player. The lack of first team football hampered his progress last season, and he should slot in very well to the Fulham midfield. I'm having to re-evaluate my opinion on Fulham, I did think they'd be relegated but now I'm not so sure. They're not going to be pretty to watch this season, but they may just have the defensive organisation to grind out results. Still, they definitely need a couple of defenders to be brought in before I completely change my opinion.
Copa America news, Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico and Chile have progressed to the quarter-finals of the Championship. After an interesting start, the group stages petered out into a dour affair, though Argentina look very good indeed. I can't see anyone winning against them, as Brazil have been pretty standard, and the other sides do not have the class to match Argentina. Of course Brazil may come alive in the knock-out stages but we shall have to wait and see...until then, my money shall be on the argies.
Not much else left to report, Man Utd are closing in on Tevez according to most of the papers and the BBC, but I shall remain wary of this transfer as no-one seems to kno who Tevez belongs to at the moment. United may announce the signing soon, but there shall be a lot of interest in who actually gets the money for the player, and there may be more legal battles over Tevez to come.
Also, Arnold Mvuemba has gone to Portsmout on a free transfer. Don't know a huge amount about him so I shall wait to see him play before I comment on his transfer.
Alright, best be off to bed. It's friday tomorrow, and I'm thinking that there may be a new feature to come on the deadballdispute blog...try not to get too excited though.
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