Shola Ameobi loan out to Championship side!
Newcaslte United striker, Shola Ameobi, joins Championship (division two) team Stoke City. Ameobi is loan out to Stoke City and will be playing for the rest of the season.
Ameobi, the former Under-21 England player, only appeared eight times this season for Newcastle United.
According to Stoke City’s website (www.stokecityfc.co.uk), Ameobi would be make is debut for Stoke City this Saturday.
Stoke City leads the Championship and have only six games remaining. Stoke City’s manager, Tony Pullis is positive that Ameobi would help Stoke City to promote to Premier League next season.
Sir Alex Ferguson blocks Ben Foster loan bid
Ben Foster will Remain with Manchester United
Ben Foster’s bid to go out on loan to the Championship has been blocked by Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson. The once-capped England keeper asked if he could drop down a level and sign on loan for the rest of the season, but Fergie has refused despite Edwin van der Sar and Tomasz Kuzszack being fit. Foster had been given the go-ahead to leave before making a shock debut at Derby County but now Fergie has told him to wait for his chance.
There are chances that Edwin van der Sar will retire this year and Ben Foster will be promoted from Reserves to the Bench.
Referee Mike Riley will not be in charge of a Barclays Premier League fixture this weekend.
Referee Riley not playing this weekend after failing to send off Ashley Cole at Spurs
The West Yorkshire official appears to have paid the price for the controversial part he played in Chelsea’s fiery 4-4 draw with Tottenham at White Hart Lane.
Riley came under heavy fire for failing to send off Chelsea’s Ashley Cole against Spurs and for not reporting Cole and team-mates for harassing him following the left back’s horror tackle on Spurs defender Alan Hutton.
Instead of being on top-flight duty, the referee has been handed the Coca-Cola Championship fixture between Charlton and Wolves on Saturday and Nottingham Forest’s visit to Carlisle - in League One - three days later.
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Fears over Cahill injury
Everton’s Midfielder Tim Cahill aggravates metatarsal fracture
Everton’s Tim Cahill looks set to miss the rest of the season after suffering a reoccurrence of a long-standing foot injury.
Cahill was forced to leave the field after just 10 minutes in last Saturday’s 1-1 draw against West Ham United. The attacking midfielder also had to miss the Australia’s midweek international versus China. And there are now fears that Cahill has aggravated a metatarsal fracture he suffered last March.
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Another Injury for Arsenal
Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna has been ruled out for at least three weeks with an ankle injury.
Sagna headed Arsenal in front at Stamford Bridge last Sunday before collecting the knock prior to Didier Drogba’s double for the Blues.
The defender was forced to pull out of the France squad to face England on Wednesday night and could even be out for up to five weeks.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said: “The first news that we have is that he could be out for quite a while. I have seen it again. He wanted to kick the ball out and he twisted his ankle. That made it a bad injury.”
Sagna is now likely to miss Arsenal’s triple header with Liverpool in the Premier League and Champions League at the beginning of April also the weekend match against Bolton.
He could also miss the Gunners’ crucial trip to Manchester United on 13 April.
The right-back has featured on a regular basis for Arsenal this season after signing from French side Auxerre in the summer.
