David Ngog

Newcastle United slipped to a new low for the season after suffering an exit from the League Cup at the hands of a Championship team.

The north-east outfit were taking on Sheffield Wednesday in the third round of the League Cup. Despite their poor form under Steve McClaren, Newcastle were expected to get a win. Even McClaren saw this game as an ideal opportunity to get some form and confidence under the belt. However, a 1-0 defeat courtesy of a second-half goal fromMcGugan saw manager McClaren term the current situation as a crisis.

Manchester United might place Jesse Lingard on loan again, this time to Newcastle United.

Steve McLaren, who has recently been given the charge of Newcastle, likes Lingard’s game having already worked with him and he is willing to have the youngster in his ranks again.

McLaren and Lingard had had an association at Derby County and the winger pretty much managed to impress his boss there.

The Manchester United management is also not reluctant to let Lingard go and why would they be?

Lingard is not up there in the pecking order as far as United is concerned.

Before Brendan Rodgers was selected as the manager of Liverpool, the coach hailing from Northern Ireland was in took charge of Swansea City and it was during this time that he attracted the eyes of top clubs.

When Brendan Rodgers managed Swansea City, the English club was competing in the English League Championship but after a string of impressive performances and results, Swansea City was promoted to the Premier League.

Brendan Rodgers eventually decided to leave Swansea City as he accepted the managerial role that was offered to him in Liverpool after Kenny Dalglish left Anfield.

Manchester City’s latest Premier League match was against Swansea City and Manuel Pellegrini’s team picked up a scare in this game as their opponents took the lead at the 9th minute through Wilfried Bony as the Ivorian forward received a pass from his teammate Dyer before slotting it into the net of Joe Hart.

Jose Mourinho is considered one of the smartest managers around, but, when he signed Didier Drogba in the summer, there were not too many people who backed that move of his.

There was a general opinion that Drogba was well and truly past his prime and there was no point spending money on such a player.

People were obviously saying that on the basis of how the 2013-14 Season had gone for the Ivory Coast player. Not only had he suffered serious injuries, he had played some pathetic football.

The former English forward Paul Merson believes that with guys like Nicolas Anelka and Robert Pires going to play in the first Indian Super League, it will raise the standard of the tournament quite high.

Anelka and Pires, both of whom have played Premier League football in England, will be featuring for the central India based clubs i.e. Mumbai City and FC Goa respectively.

As per Merson, ISL is going to have the similar impact as the Indian Premier League, a franchise based cricket tournament in India.

French club Reims have managed to sign former Bolton and Liverpool striker David Ngog on a free transfer. The 25-year-old striker has been without a club since leaving Bolton at the end of last season. Despite his relative young age, he has been unable to find a club. This has partly because of his poor form in recent years. The Frenchman was signed by Bolton in 2011 with a view of returning straight back to the Premier league, but his three years at the championship outfit saw often score only 14 goals in 81 matches.

The manager of France national football team, Didier Deschamps, has said that it’s the experience which was the real difference between his side and Germany in the first quarter final match of the ongoing FIFA World Cup.

Germany defeated France by a narrow margin of 1-0 in that match to register a place in the Round of 4.

The comeback man, Mats Hummels, gave Germany an early lead which the Les Blues were not able to nullify.

Swansea manager Garry Monk says that he is excited by the transfer market that is about to start in the next few weeks. Swansea had a tough season that brought them back to earth after a campaign in which they lifted their first major title in the history of the club. Out went Michael Laudrup and in came Monk to steady the ship. He certainly achieved this and help the club to finish in the Premier league for another season. This was extremely important for the club given the relegation would have cost them a lot of money.

Swansea have revealed that four key players will not be offered new contracts at the end of the season. Former Bolton striker David Ngog is one of them. He has been at Swansea since the January transfer window after leaving Bolton. However, he has found little game time under Michael Laudrup and under current manager Gary Monk. After managing to secure another season of Premier league football, the club have decided to part ways with those players in order to strengthen the squad in the summer.