Scout Reports

Last week saw Newcastle make the first major foray into the January transfer market with the purchase of Papiss Demba Cisse from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg on a five-and-a-half year deal. The fee, thought to be in the region of £7.5m, sees Cisse link up with fellow Senegal international Demba Ba on Tyneside...

Bottom of the league entering December, the light appeared to be dying for Steve Kean and his beleaguered ...

We knew it was coming, we just didn’t quite expect it against one of the best defences in the league. We’ve screamed about the merits of Clint Dempsey during this wildcard window for several weeks – we couldn’t have laid it on any thicker...

As the second half of the season starts to kick in, Brendan Rodgers has turned to a familiar ...

Paul Scholes is of course an Old Trafford legend, but when a 37-year-old comes out of retirement to ...

There was plenty logic behind the move to draft in Yakubu this week. Having been rested for the ...

Benoit Assou-Ekotto’s left-foot ensured that the double gameweek had the impact we’d anticipated, but there can be no ...

It didn’t take him long, did it? Ten minutes into his return to the Emirates and Thierry Henry ...

The giants are being cut down to size with alarming regularity. Bobby Zamora’s at the death volley, sweetly struck inside Wojciech Szczesny’s near post, was another blow applied to the Premier League’s big boys...

Continuing our usual analysis of the double gameweek prospects with a look at Everton’s squad, assessing their potential ...

Our first Scouting the Doubles article of the 2011/12 season sees Tottenham come under the microscope. Harry Redknapp’s side have a couple of home games on the agenda, as West Brom and Everton visit the Lane, and plenty of investment in the third-placed club can be expected...

They were odds-on favourites to hand out a hammering. With back-to-back 5-0 wins over the festive period, the smart money was on Man United to sweep Blackburn aside this lunchtime. Many Fantasy managers sat back in anticipation of another goal frenzy, handing the armband to the likes of Nani and Wayne Rooney...