What Del Piero Means for the A-League

If you’re not from Australia, you’ve probably never watched an A-League match in your life.  Hell, I’m from Australia and I’ve hardly watched a match.  After being raised watching the English Premier League, Champions League, World Cups, La Liga, and the like, watching an A-League match is like watching schoolboys play.  I don’t like to criticise the A-league too much, as the financial backing for it is miniscule in comparison to the big leagues around the world, but let’s be honest, the quality of the league is really not great.

The fact that the biggest player to be brought in last season was Harry Kewell, who can’t even get an English club to sign him for cut wages, doesn’t give off the greatest image for the league.  But lo and behold, almost out of nowhere, Sydney FC have managed to sign a true legend of the game, Alessandro Del Piero.

Post Transfer Window Concerns: Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, and QPR

Perhaps I’m becoming forgetful, but I feel like this summer transfer window brought about more shuffling of players than previous seasons.  Sure we’ve seen Chelsea go on a splurging rampage, and then City, and now we’re seeing the ramifications of that as all the clubs do their best to try stay afloat in the league.  We’ve seen so many changes with AVB and Brendan Rodgers taking charge and respectively overhauling their teams, Arsenal losing the best player of last season as well as (the evidently less) important Song, Chelsea splurging some more, and QPR quite literally buying a new team.  Now I won’t give a ridiculously long breakdown of every single team like I did in my previous article, but rather, I’ll just go through the ones I think had the most changes, and who I think could struggle (or in Liverpool’s case, are already struggling) as the season develops.

Lloris: EPL’s Best New Signing

As an Arsenal fan, it’s hard for me to compliment anything Tottenham do, but the signing of Hugo Lloris from Lyon may be one of the master strokes of the transfer season.

Cazorla and Hazard have both impressed for Arsenal and Chelsea respectively and van Per$ie and Kagawa have wasted no time in scoring for the Red Devils of Manchester, but here are some quick thoughts on why Lloris could blow them all out the water in terms of overall impact.

Who Should They Sign? Final Week Transfers in the EPL

Ahhh…..football is back! What an opening day we had, watching some of the big boys fall flat and some of the smaller teams turn heads, filling their fans with delusional, soaring hopes for the season.  With just over a week to go until the Summer transfer window is closed, most teams need will be looking to fill some preexisting holes, as well as some new ones which were exposed last weekend.  We’ll have a look at some of the more likely rumours, and who they should be going for.  The more chance of moves happening, the more I’ll ramble.