Caulker leaves for Cardiff !!!

This came to a bit of a surprise to me as Tottenham Hotspur agreed to sell promising young centre back Steven Caulker to Cardiff City for a reported fee of £9 million which is Cardiff's transfer record.

The former Spurs player has already completed a medical and has agreed a four year deal. The Welsh side were reported interested in Steven Caulker but it seemed like they were going to find it extremely hard to get the player with Manchester City and Liverpool looking at the player but surprisingly they landed the young centre back but for a hefty price. After signing he said "I'm delighted to be here and excited for this fresh challenge.

To be honest I am disappointed we have let the youngster go, I think he has great potential and could become a legend but £9 million is too big an offer to refuse. I think he will do well at Cardiff as he will get regular playing time unlike if he was at Spurs where he will be on the bench for most of the time and I wish the best of luck to him and hopefully we will see him performing great in an England top.

News Today 31/07/13

According to reports Roberto  Soldado is really close to completely a move to Spurs with it being expected to be finished today

AVB wants to sign young Tiago Ilori as a centre back replacement but Sporting Lisbon want £8 million for the young defender

Spurs have reportedly made an enquiry for PSG playmaker Javier Pastore as a replacement for Bale.

Spurs would consider an offer of over £80 million plus Luka Modric

Spurs have Luis Suarez on their shortlist of replacements if Bale leaves for Madrid

News Today 29/07/13

According to reports everything has been agreed for the Soldado transfer and all that is left to do is the medical.

Chelsea are planning to hijack the young brazilian defender Doria off of Spurs.

Real Madrid are to offer £51 million plus Di Maria and Fabio Coentrao for Bale.

Adebayor is still a target for Besiktas but only if they can lose their ban for Match Fixing.

Jermain Defoe has said that the hat-trick he scored against South China has given him a huge boost come the new season.

Team expectations for next season - Chelsea

Chelsea have now have Mourinho as a manager... again!

Now Sir Alex Ferguson has retired from being a manager in football and Manchester United have a new manager, Chelsea are favourites to win the premier league ! 

In my opinion, Chelsea will be 2013/14 premier league champions and that would be great for them and a lot of Chelsea fans will be hoping Mourinho can do that for them! 

So yeah... Chelsea should be hoping for 1st spot!

Team expectations for next year - Cardiff City

Cardiff City will be new to the premier league this season as they have just been promoted to the premier league after being the winners of the championship.

One player in particular helped Cardiff win the championship this season and that it is 31 year old centre half Hudson. I'm pretty sure Hudson will captain Cardiff in the premier league and I feel Cardiff are good enough to survive the premier league and I do not think they will get relegated! 

Team expectations for next year - Aston Villa

Near the start of the transfer window it looked very bad for Villa as a few teams were keen to sign their main man and extremely good goal scorer Christian Benteke. It looked even worse when the godly striker put in a transfer request to speed up the chase and now Spurs were very close to signing Benteke and they started with a bid what was not quite enough so Spurs were to try again but... It wasn't to be, everyone was shocked when they found out Benteke had signed a new contract with Villa !

This news was amazing for everyone at Aston Villa because Benteke is very young and he has great potential so he will only get better and better. Aston Villa will hope for a top half finish next season and that would be a good position for them!

Team expectations for next year - Arsenal + Spurs

Tottenham and north London rivals Arsenal always have a competetive battle for a  champions league  spot and to be honest, Arsenal usually come out on top and this year Spurs missed out to Arsenal by just one point! This year I think that will change because Spurs have made a few great signings already and they also have back two of their best players - Sandro and Kaboul. AVB said this was like two amazing new signings now they're back from injury! Which I agree with, Sandro would have made a huge impact if he didn't get injured and arguably he looked even  more promising than the one and only Gareth Bale! Also Sandro is only in his early - mid twenties so he is just getting better and better, Kaboul is also a very good player Spurs missed out on this season and being one of the fastest and strongest centre-backs in the game the two would have made a huge impact and maybe pushed us to 3rd spot ahead of Chelsea and Arsenal! Spurs look more promising so far as Arsenal have failed in all their attempts of signing players accept one (Sanoga) which to be honest is not a major signing! So on transfers Spurs are definitely in the driving seat and the Spurs team looks better than Arsenal! I think Spurs will finish 3rd or 4th this season if everything goes to plan and at this rate, Arsenal 4th, 5th or even 6th!