3 Players United Will Have To Be Wary Of - Sunderland

Manchester United of course host Steve Bruce’s Sunderland at Old Trafford this afternoon, so with that in mind it’s worth taking a look at these three players who we should be wary of going into the game:

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Liverpool’s New Signings – The Story So Far

So, we’re a quarter of the way through the season, early season blues or lack of match sharpness are no longer an excuse, and we can start to really evaluate what we’ve seen so far. To that end, here’s my verdict on Liverpool’s new signings. I’m not including Suarez or Carroll in this for obvious reasons, nor Coates or Bellamy due to a lack of game time.

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Saluting The Vastly Underrated John O'Shea

Over the past 20 years of watching a very successful Manchester United team dominate the English game, there have been a number of key factors in winning the amount of trophies that Sir Alex Ferguson has.

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Saturday Morning Round Up @ City can go unbeaten, Gunners plan Madrid swoop, Black Cats ponder striker

Arsenal are planning a £7m swoop for Real Madrid midfielder Esteban Granero.

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Friday evening round up @ Chelsea & Madrid in for starlet, United line up £40m midfielder, Brighton line up Newcastle ace

Manchester United have made Benfica midfielder Nicolas Gaitan a target for the January transfer window but will have to meet a £40m release clause to capture the Argentine international.

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Weekend Predictions

Whilst unbeaten at the Liberty Stadium, Swansea haven’t exactly lit up the league on their away travels having lost all four of their games away from home with the most recent defeat coming at Carrow Road last week against fellow Premier League new boys Norwich.

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Played for Both: Wear the Arsenal boys

Nicklas Bendtner, Steve Bould and Niall Quinn… they are the most recent ‘famous’ names to make the switch from the red and white of Arsenal to the red and white of Sunderland.

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Pardew for England?

Whilst it may not be the holiday destination that many English tourists would have chosen, their tickets can at least be booked with a sigh of relief that Fabio Capello guided England through their last qualifying campaign under his command, relatively unscathed.

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Never Mind Battling Berba, Welbeck's Got A Fight To Land A Euro 2012 Place

What a year 2011 has been for Danny Welbeck so far. After suffering from injuries that curtailed the end to his season out on loan to Sunderland, the young Manchester-born forward has started the season on fire for Manchester United scoring 5 goals.

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Ten of the best: Robin Van Persie’s finest century strikes.

So he has done, after signing for Arsenal back in 2004, Robin Van Persie’s brace against Bolton at the weekend helped him earn his 99^th and 100^th goals for the club. Whilst the striker has spent a lot of his tenure in North London on the injury table, Van Persie’s goals over the last few years have been like gold dust to the Gunners especially last year. And being Dutch means that there have been some crackers along the way.

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League Table Prediction (20-11) 1 of 2

Now that the transfer window has been slammed shut for a while (until January) I have had time to analyse the teams as they stand right now. With that in mind here are my predictions for the final Premiership Table:

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Football through the night @ Lukaku wants CL football, Campbell loving it at Loftus and United and Arsenal target staying put

It took Massimo Moratti five competitive games into the new season to see another manager feel the full wrath of his forceful hand. Gian Piero Gasperini took over the vacant space left by Leonardo, who left for Paris St. Germain over the summer, and was a somewhat surprising choice for the trigger happy chairman. Having previously plied his trade with Crotone and Genoa, it was understandably going to be a whole other ball game when Inter came calling for the 53-year-old.

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Premiership Daily Round Up

Andre Villas-Boas admits he has spoken to chief referee Mike Riley regarding the officials performance on Sunday’s 3-1 defeat to Manchester United.

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Best and Worse

The first of this season's Sky-branded Grand Slam Sundays gave us thrills and spills of the highest order - some top quality finishing, and some top quality grimacing.

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The Big Pay Cheque

On the 10^th September, Asamoah Gyan joined United Arab Emirates side Al Ain from Sunderland on loan for a rumoured £6million fee being exchanged between the two clubs to acquire the Ghanaian’s signature.

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