Friday 30th August
Jason Lippitt today named his squad for the very important home matches against Poland and Montenegro. Oxlade-Chamberlain misses one match due to injury but is included in the squad. England Captain Parker is definatly out due to injury. The keepers are unchanged and there is no one who has not won a cap other than Stockdale(GK). Ashley Young and Aaron Lennon miss out, New Newcastle singing Adam Johnson comes in along with Aston Villa striker Gabby Agbonlahor and Lescott misses out for Danny Guthrie of Reading.
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Sunday 1st September
Transfer News
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Manchester United have splashed the cash again in signing Milan Badelj from Hamberg for $27.5m. Hamberg then used $25.5m of that money to buy cheick Tiote from Newcastle. Cameroonian centre back Aurelien Chedjou pictured below has signed for Newcastle for $25m. Nuri sahin has moved to Chelsea from R.Madrid for $19m.
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Elsewhere Aleksander Kolarov moved to QPR for $12.5m fans of QPR praised there manager Mark Hughes for bringing in such a player and Jonny Evans has moved to Tottenham from Man Utd for $10.25m.
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Monday 2nd September
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In a EXTREMELY busy transfer deadline day, Norwich made the headlines by spending $41m on 3 players. More on that later. First of all 23 year old former Bayern Munich man Thomas Muller has signed for Man City in a $62m deal, Muller said he is the man to fire Man City to another Premier League title and another Champions League title. Chelsea have signed 22 year old spanish defender Marc Bartra from Barcelona for a reported $24.5m, Chelsea who struggled defensively last season look to have sured up there defence this season. Newcastle have added another expensive signing to there books in American Micheal Bradley from Roma. The midfielder is looking forward to playing for a 'Big club' like Newcastle. Now onto the shock transfer news where Norwich have spent $22m on Lazios Bosnian midfielder Senad Lulic. Lulic pictured below has become Norwich's record signing (pictured below)
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Following Lulic in is Czech Vaclav Kadlec. The 21 year old signs from Czech side Sparta Prague for $14m, also joining these two is 22 year old right back Chris Solly from Charlton for $5.75m, Norwich boss Chris Hughton will be hoping these 3 do the bisnuess for him this season.
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Friday 6th Spetember
Match Day
England HAVE named Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in the starting line up for the game against Poland and it is a calculated risk from manager Jason Lippitt. Adam Johnson also starts and Frank Lampard is named as captain as Rooney only makes the bench again, Gabby Agbonlahor is the striker as Lippitt goes for speed against Poland at the Bolelyn Ground. Defender Ryan Shawcross keeps his spot with Chris Smalling in central defence.
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Gabriel Agbonlahor gave Poland a footballing masterclass on a showery Autumn evening at The Boyleyn Ground, London. A drab, dull first half came to an end and the decision to play Oxlade-Chamberlain did not pay off so on came Scott sinclair and Wayne Rooney. Immediately Sinclair and rooney combined to allow a charging Frank Lampard to smash a header against the bar, thats when Poland must have new it was only a matter of time when Agbonlahor opened the scoring on 54 minutes. Nathan Dyer who was very impressive again played a ball to Rooney who then threaded a ball through the eye of a needle for a storming Agbonlahor run and knocked it into the botton right hand corner for 1-0. On the 63rd minute it was all over when Agbonlahor again running at pace at the aging Polish defence got brought down, it looked like a dive to me but the penalty was given and Frank Lampard, who was impressive all game smashed it into the top corner for 2-0. It will be the same team that finished the game that will start the match vs Montenegro with the exception of Chris smalling who will be replaced byPhil jones as he has reached his yellow card limit.
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England vs Montenegro
Lippitt names the exact team that finished the match so in come Danny Guthrie, Wayne Rooney and Scott Sinclair, out go Kevin Nolan, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Adam Johnson.
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Montenegro shock England 1-0. England are now hoping for a miricle to qualify.
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