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No love lost for Adebayor, but do Manchester City know the score?

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Rumours have persisted over the weekend and yesterday that Adebayor will be the latest 'big-money' acquisition for Manchester City. It now seems more and more likely that such a deal will be going ahead, and if rumours are to be correct the money changing hands will be in the region of £20 million. If Manchester City do eventually sign Emmanuel Adebayor it will represent and confirm a shift in their potential transfer dealings of late.

Manchester City should confirm their purchase of Carlos Tevez today and along with Adebayor both players demonstrate new ground being broken in the clubs potential market. Obviously the purchases of Robinho, Gareth Barry and Shay Given amongst others have shown a statement of intent and purchase power by the Citizens up to now. They are all good signings, but for the players the move was either a step-up club wise, or a step-up wage wise.

Goodbye from Setanta and hello from ESPN.

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The penultimate confirmation of Setanta Sports death knell was rung on Monday June 22nd with the announcement that ESPN had bought the rights from the English Premier League for the 46 live games that Setanta originally had for next season. Today they also added the rights to show the same matches in the Republic of Ireland for 2009/10, these had also been under the prior ownership of Setanta before the Irish company went into administration on the 23rd of June.

The American company announced on Tuesday that they will be launching their own UK based sports channel on the 3rd of August. It is in this medium that they will broadcast the 46 matches that they have acquired from the Premier League, most of which will consist of the Saturday early evening kick-offs. As it stands the new channel will be available for subscription through Sky, but there are apparent negotiations ongoing in order to make it available through Virgin and BT service providers.

 

What a Mestalla to make!

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Nou Mestalla under construction

One of the expected big transfer stories of the summer is that of David Villa from Valencia CF, but as things stand it also appears that it will be one of the most protracted as well, if it does actually come to fruition. The Spanish hot-shot has increasingly become a focus in recent months for Europe's other major clubs, both Real Madrid and Chelsea have been consistently linked in the way that usually invokes an air of inevitability.

Let’s learn about…Wolverhampton Wanderers: Part Two

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With his mouth now stretched beyond the bounds of human imagination, Mick McCarthy, as usual, started well in his new job.

He got Wolves to fifth in 2006/07 before losing in the play-offs to West Brom. The next season he only managed seventh, missing out on sixth courtesy of Watford’s superior goal difference, but the third time did indeed turn out to be lucky for McCarthy.

Let’s learn about…Wolverhampton Wanderers

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As part of a new series here on 90minutes we’ll be looking at all of this season’s promoted teams.

Wolverhampton Wanderers have long been overshadowed by their West Midlands rivals Aston Villa, but more recently their bitter Black Country rivals West Bromwich Albion have also taken a greater share of the limelight.

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