Last week, Cardiff City placed their head of recruitment, Iain Moody, the man presumably responsible for the signing of Gary Medel, Andreas Cornelius and Steven Caulker, on gardening leave and replaced him with Alisher Apsalyamov.
The BBC hailed this news with the headline, ‘Cardiff replace head of recruitment with 23-year-old Kazakh.’
So far, so accurate although as a sentence riven with hidden opinion, it’s as fine an example as …
Yesterday, Queen’s Park Rangers brought Matt Phillips to London. In the past twelve months, the 22 year old winger has been eclipsed somewhat by the arrival on the scene of teammate Tom Ince, while injury hampered his progress in 2012-13.
Even allowing for the stuttering nature of the player’s career, also highlighted by an earlier, slightly bemusing loan spell at Sheffield United in 2011, he remains hot property given …
The dismissal of Lee Clark from his last job inspired our then second most read post of all time and that he clings on for grim life at Birmingham City might seem incredible. To boot, he’s been allowed to completely overhaul the squad in a ferocious frenzy of downsizing.
But Birmingham International Holdings remain in charge of the second city club for the moment, with acting chairman Peter Pannu…
A look at the Professional Footballers’ Association list of out of contract and available players becomes more depressing by the year, even if there are Premier League outcasts aplenty whose current availability is often more a consequence of protracted contract negotiations and a choice of suitors. Hence, Chris Baird, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Carlton Cole and the like will end up somewhere eventually.
Of those, the pick of the list …
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