Hull are seemingly following the Sam Allardyce route to Premier League survival this summer by targeting experienced foreign stars to aid them in their likely relegation battle this season. This week alone manager Phil Brown has been linked to the likes of Dutch pair George Boateng and Roy Maakay, Brazilian Geovanni and Frenchman Bernard Mendy.

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The Premier League title battle will be fought by the usual four clubs next season though one of those teams may have changed drastically from what we have known over the past few seasons. That team is Chelsea.

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Reports in the weekend’s press suggest Liverpool are chasing Tottenham’s talismanic Irishman Robbie Keane this summer. The 27-year-old striker has been at Spurs for close to 6 years and has proven himself to be a huge fans favourite. Whereas his strike partner Dimitar Berbatov has been linked away from the club for the past season, this speculation over Keane’s future is a new development and one you’d expect the club not to welcome. After all, of these two forwards I would wager the majority of Spurs fans would prefer to keep their club Vice-Captain rather than the sulky, whinging Bulgarian.

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Liverpool’s 6 ft 7 centre-forward is set to leave Anfield this summer with two of his former clubs interested in his services (Villa & Portsmouth). However, 3 potential new suitors are rumoured to be making their move. Those clubs are Man City and bitter North London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham (who are also a former club of Crouch).

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He’s only played two matches at Euro 2008 but already Russian superstar Andrei Arshavin has pushed himself to the top of almost every top club’s list of transfer targets this summer. The diminutive Zenit St Petersburg and Russian playmaking Captain has taken a grip on this summer’s tournament despite missing the opening 2 games through suspension.

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They say no one player is bigger than the club and when the club is Manchester United you’d expect that rule to run deeper than most. However, when there is the world’s very best within the ranks does this notion still apply?

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The Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari or ‘Big Phil’ as he is affectionately known has agreed to succeed Avram Grant in the Chelsea hotseat. He is rumoured to be armed with a £100million kitty and a hitlist including the likes of David Villa, Deco and Kaka. Should the rest of the title challengers be worried by the latest development at Stamford Bridge? You bet they should!

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This surely is an exciting time to be a Manchester City fan. After a demoralising last few months when Sven Goran Eriksson’s future lay in the balance the appointment of Mark Hughes as manager points to a brighter future for the club.

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With the start of the European Championship’s 2008 rapidly approaching, we cornered football’s funniest foreigner - Fulham defender and German international Moritz Volz - to give us his unique guide to the 16 nations competing in Euro 2008.

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Fabio Capello looks to have his thinking cap wedged well and truly on at the moment following his comments that some of his players again failed to perform to their training ground standards on the Caribbean stage last night.

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