Premier League returns this evening with Liverpool v NorwichGet the latest team news and reaction from transfer deadline dayTeam-by-team guide to the Premier League summer dealsYou can email Simon or tweet @Simon_Burnton 2.53pm BST What links Micky Quinn with Didier Drogba? One was an excellent, destructive striker of enormous technical qualities while the other was a Bob Carolgees impersonator in a football kit, but both were members of a very select club. Here’s Richard Foster with more: Related: The players who have hit hat-tricks on Premier League opening weekends 2.43pm BST Hang on, what happened to “Mr Happy Plus”, aka Mauricio Pochettino? He’s turned grumpy again, having this to say on the Premier League’s early transfer shutdown, fearing that European clubs could still wade into White Hart Lane waving a massive chequebook and “make a mess” of his carefully-hatched plans:That is another point to argue that we are at a disadvantage with European clubs because they have 20 days more, because I think it is a big mistake for the Premier League to allow that. In this situation we open the door for clubs in Europe to try and create confusion in the club. The Premier League cannot give this advantage to European clubs because we are going to compete with them. If you are not going to compete with these clubs in the Champions League then OK, but competing with European clubs, it’s a big advantage to them. They can create a mess in a club like us. Continue reading…
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