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Paatelainen: New signing
Hibernian have snapped up forward Steve Pinau from Serie A side Genoa on a one-year loan deal.
Pinau recently signed a five-year contract with the Italian club after spending four years coming through the ranks at Monaco, where he appeared for the first team towards the end of last season.
Pinau featured in […]

Pogatetz: Celebrates winner
Marcello Lippi’s first game back in charge of Italy ended in a 2-2 draw with Austria.
It was Lippi’s first match as a boss since his World Cup triumph in 2006 with the Azzurri.
But he clearly knows there is plenty of work to be done as they found themselves 2-0 down in […]

Baptista: Four-year deal
Roma have announced the signing of Real Madrid’s Brazilian midfielder Julio Baptista.
The 26-year-old moves to Serie A in a deal worth €9million (Ј7.1m), plus additional bonuses depending upon Roma’s success over the next three years.
It had been reported the deal had broken down with Roma rumoured to be unwilling to meet […]

Sensi: Died on Sunday
Roma president Franco Sensi has died, the club have confirmed.
The 82-year-old, who had been suffering in recent weeks with breathing problems, passed away in a Rome hospital on Sunday.
Sensi bought the club in 1993 when they were on the brink of bankruptcy, before leading them out of their difficulties […]

Vedad Ibisevic had his breakthrough at Alemannia Aachen on the 18th matchday of the 2006/07 season. He made Alemannia's starting eleven for the first time against Bayer Leverkusen.
Aachen lost that match 3-2, but Ibisevic scored one goal and set up the other, which helped him to nail down a regular place in the starting eleven.
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Schalke have started their season with a convincing win over Hannover 96. Kevin Kuranyi bagged a brace, now he talks about Schalke's ambitions.
Question: Congratulations, Kevin Kuranyi. A 3-0 win and two goals scored despite a short pre-season…
Kevin Kuranyi: I'm delighted that the team had a good game. I scored two goals, that does me good. […]

Bentley’s performances for Blackburn Rovers in recent years have seen him tipped as David Beckham’s natural successor on the right side of England’s midfield.
The transition is yet to occur, however, as Beckham’s experience and reliability have kept him firmly in Capello’s plans.
Bentley, with six caps to his name, has thus far failed to produce on […]

Former Liverpool forward Craig Bellamy, infamously dubbed ‘the nutter with a putter’ for his exploits with John Arne Riise in a Portuguese training camp, has been ruled out for around four weeks due to a troublesome hamstring injury.
Bellamy being sidelined means that manager Alan Curbishley will either have to dip into the transfer market for […]