Yesterday evening I kept a close eye on Sky Sports News to see what last ditch transfers was completed before the 11pm shut-off and I wasn’t disappointed.
The British transfer record was brought broken twice in a very short space of time with Liverpool and Chelsea being the guilty clubs.

Liverpool were the first to break the record at around 5:45pm when they announced that they had agreed a fee of £35million with Newcastle United for striker Andy Carroll. This then enabled the Merseyside club to accept the £50million bid Chelsea had offered for Fernando Torres, after he had handed in a transfer request at the weekend.

I still can’t believe that Liverpool have paid so much for a striker who’s only played half a season in the Premiership and has yet to really prove himself. Whereas I’m not surprised Chelsea were willing to pay £50million for a Torres because he’s a world class player who looked like he didn’t really want to be at Liverpool anymore.
I just hope he doesn’t help Chelsea stop United from winning the title!

I must say that being a Manchester United fan, I’m a little concerned about the current league table. A quick glance tells a story of a start to the season where Chelsea have set the early pace and no other team has really been able to keep up. Chelsea I’m sure, will agree with the pundits in saying that they were handed one of the easiest ever starts to the football season, however United have been culprits in letting somewhat guaranteed points slip away with careless defending in the last few minutes of games against Everton and Fulham.

I’m also concerned to see Man City in second spot. However it’s early days and things can change again and again over the course of the season. I think that if Chelsea get a few injuries (OK, Fat Frank has been out for a few weeks) they will struggle against tougher opposition on the road. Especially if Drogba or Anelka are out for a period of time. Next May I reckon United will just pip Chelsea and get revenge for last season. Especially as Chelsea are the only team which have started with a bang and not really suffered a dip in form yet, largely due to their inferior opponents to date.

Oh, and wouldn’t it be nice if Liverpool got relegated too.

Come the end of the season I’m predicting the top 4 to look like this:

Man United

Chelsea

Arsenal

Man City

Another weekend, another 3 points for Manchester United and Chelsea respectively. The Premier League 2009-2010 season now seems like it will be a two horse race between champions United and ex champions Chelsea. Both teams have brushed Arsenal aside with ease over the last week, and surely have the strength and depth in their squads to maintain title bids, whereas the floundering Arsenal, without their main striker Robin Van Persie, look decidedly weak.

Watching the game on Sky Sports yesterday, there was a comment that Arsenal WERE dangerous last season with their formidable partnership between Van Persie and Emmanuel Adebayor, now of Manchester City. They brushed aside AC Milan in the Champions League, and were a team that were nearly perfect, bar maybe 1 or 2 signings. Bring on the summer transfer window at the start of the season and what did they do? That’s right, they sold Adebayor and didn’t recruit anyone as a worthy replacement.

Arsene Wenger is a great manager, but I still feel that he has a stubborn streak that is leaving his side a little short when it comes to challenging for the Premier League crown. Hopefully my words won’t come back an haunt me.

So who will win the league this year? My bet in on the winner of the Manchester United vs Chelsea game at Old Trafford on 3rd April this year.

England manager Fabio Capello is due back in London today for showdown talks with current England captain John Terry. Terry, the serial womaniser has recently been the subject of a massive media story surrounding his affair with England colleague and former Chelsea team mate Wayne Bridge’s ex girlfriend Vanessa Perroncel. Perroncel is also mother of Bridge’s son, now 3 years old. Bridge now plays for Manchester City.

Chelsea and England captain Terry is alleged to have had an affair with Perroncel. The allegations are yet to be confirmed but Perroncel has held talks with publicist Max Clifford over dinner regarding the affair and her story is likely to be released soon.

Terry’s wife Toni Terry is currently in Dubai with their twins following the allegations. Capello is is keen to get crisis talks out of the way so he can concentrate on England’s build up to the World Cup in South Africa this summer.

I have just read on Football.co.uk that spurs may be ready to make a bid for Chelsea’s Joe coal. Joe has been a regular in Chelsea team and has shown some good England performances. He has however had a long period out of action due to injury.

In this time Ballack has been playing in the role and since the new manager has come in a new formation is being played.

Now Harry is said to be monitoring the situation, this must show that there is an opportunity to strike as there is very seldom smoke without a fire.

Spurs are said to be thinking of balancing the books by selling Roman Pavlyuchenko, who is said to be linked with Zenit St Petersburg.