Paris St Germain have insisted Gregory Coupet’s career will not be ended by his broken ankle. The 36-year-old goalkeeper broke his ankle when he wanted to kick a ball during the match against Auxerre (1-0 win), last Saturday. The goalie will be able to resume training within three months Coupet’s leg buckled underneath him after he caught his studs in the turf while making an 82nd-minute clearance. Afterwards, PSG feared Coupet’s injury might force him to end his career but... Read Full Story

Wesley Sneijder had to pull out of Inter Milan’s last games but is expected to return for this weekend’s top match against Juventus. Sneijder was part of the squad that travelled to the Camp Nou to face Barcelona for the Champions League (2-0 loss) but eventually wasn’t fit enough to play against the Catalan side. Afterwards, Inter boss Jose Mourinho declared that his team missed Sneijder’s input dearly. The Holland international also pulled out of last weekend’... Read Full Story

Roman Pavlyuchenko’s agent is trying to engineer a move to AS Roma for his player which is expected to take form shortly. The Russian striker has started only two games for Tottenham Hotspur this season, in the League Cup, but instead of leading the attack at White Hart lane, Pavlyuchenko is preparing for talks with Roma. Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has been linked with a move for the striker as he tries to find a partner for Fernando Torres up front and Birmingham City and Spartak Mos... Read Full Story

Sergio Aguero won’t join Chelsea in January. The Atletico Madrid striker has confirmed he wants to stay in Madrid until June 2010 but he won’t rule out a transfer in the summer. “If in June the club still need money in there are ways to help.” Aguero has been linked to Chelsea, who reportedly lead the chase to sign the 21-year-old in January. Diego Maradona’s son-in-law denied a possible transfer and stated he will stay at the Vicente Calderon but he also acknow... Read Full Story

The Premier League published, for the first time, the figures its club spent on the agents from October 2008 to September 2009, with Manchester City accounting for almost one-fifth of the $116 million total as its wealthy Abu Dhabi owner rebuilt the team. In total, the 20 topflight clubs spent £70.7 million on agent’s fees in last season’s transfer market. The figures revealed that, Manchester City who have failed to set the Premier League alight despite outlaying almost 150million pounds i... Read Full Story

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi beat last year’s winner Cristiano Ronaldo into second place in the poll for Europe’s footballer of the year, organized by France Football magazine. Messi, 22, the first Argentine to win the prestigious trophy, becomes the sixth Barcelona player to take the award but the first for four years since Brazilian playmaker Ronaldinho. Hailed by Argentina great Diego Maradona as his successor, Messi won an unprecedented treble in Spain last season, as the C... Read Full Story

Jimmy Bullard’s re-enactment of Hull City manager Phil Brown lecturing his players on the field has been widely praised — even by Brown himself. Bullard sat his team mates down and wagged his finger after scoring the equaliser in a 1-1 draw at Manchester City, where Brown had dished out his unsual telling off at halftime in a 5-1 defeat last term. Is Bullard’s the best goal celebration you’ve seen? If not what was better? Marco Tardelli? Robbie Fowler? Bebeto? Source Share and Enjoy... Read Full Story

Sepp Blatter revealed this morning that Ireland have appealed to FIFA to be allowed to compete as a 33rd team in next year’s World Cup. “I will bring it to the attention of the Executive Committee,” Blatter told (stunned) journos. “I cannot confirm what will happen, but I will report it.” I cannot confirm what will happen either, but I have a pretty good idea. In any case, aren’t the referees the 33rd team? Or if not, what about our idea here at Reuters Soccer Blog to put together a s... Read Full Story

Monday update: You would think 14 games into the season we would have learnt who was likely to beat who in the Premier League. Sadly not. I did OK for a change but only Martyn Herman really covered himself in glory with two five pointers for Villa 1-1 Spurs and Manchester City collecting yet another draw against Hull City. But I wouldn’t celebrate like Jimmy Bullard just yet, Martyn, you’re still third bottom. So how did you do? Let us know in the comments. If you predicted at least on... Read Full Story

More than 60 matches have been fixed in Germany’s second division and lower leagues, broadcaster ARD reported on Monday, citing a witness while a third division player was sacked after admitting to wrongdoing. The public prosecutor in the western city of Bochum had earlier this month indicated that 32 suspect matches had been identified. However, ARD’s investigative programme Fakt quoted a witness from Hamburg of Serbian origin that more matches were involved and that a se... Read Full Story