Ryan Babel Reveals On Twitter 'I'm Going Nowhere' After Liverpool Accept Tottenham's £5m Offer

Ryan Babel has proclaimed on his Twitter site that he will be staying at Liverpool.

The Dutch international has been at the centre of a limit day transfer tug-o'-war involving Tottenham and West Ham but has broken speculation about his instant future 80 minutes before the end of the move window.

Babel's posts on his Twitter explanation read: "Guys, guys, guys...I'm going nowhere...LFC all the way...ynwa."

Following Goal.com UK revealed that Spurs had complete a swoop for the anxious Liverpool forward, Tottenham followed up their first enquiry about taking the player on a season-long loan by means of a £5 million offer.

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Calcio Debate: Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic Move Was Magic, But Robinho Is Result Of The Popularity Going To Silvio Berlusconi's Head

Calcio Debate: San Siro was fairly the place to be on Sunday evening. The intelligence of expectancy and anticipation was sweeping from side to side football's La Scala as the buzz surrounding Zlatan Ibrahimovic's loan move enclosed everybody present.

Abruptly Milan had becoming a realistic applicant once more, and the fans were reveling in it. Other than the Rossoneri's capture of Manchester City's Robinho suggests that president Silvio Berlusconi might just have got a little too agreed away.

Inside so many ways, Ibrahimovic's arrival is the ideal way to cover some of the cracks on show in new times. There have been suspicious problems galore – especially when the outstanding Alessandro Nesta has been struck down by the newest in his catalogue of medical issues – and the aged midfield has begun to look more and more in require of a young Gennaro Gattuso. Or at least a first-team Mathieu Flamini.

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OFFICIAL: Juventus Sign Fabio Quagliarella From Napoli

Juventus have long-established the signing of Napoli striker Fabio Quagliarella from side to side an official declaration free by the club.

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The football player undergo a medical in Turin on Friday at the club's head office and place pen to paper on his new agreement.

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Stephen Appiah Raring To Go For Cesena

Retire Ghana international Stephen Appiah affirmed that he needs more playing time this period with his new club Cesena and exposed that he feels good ahead of the create of the new Serie A season.

"I didn't play a lot of games for Bologna last period but I'm hoping to get additional playing time this season,” the 29-year-old told the BBC.

"In training I've showed the coach that I'm prepared to play and I feel good.

"I've had a hard time in the last two years and I'm strong-minded to put that at the back me and enjoy my football again," the former Fenerbahce ace said.

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Inter Star Diego Milito Is The UEFA Club Footballer Of The Year

Bury striker Diego Milito has been chosen as the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year at the Champions League group phase draw in Monaco. The veteran striker score crucial goals for the treble winners in Europe's top opposition, counting two in the final alongside Bayern Munich.

In the meantime, the individual place awards are voted on as the Nerazurri took a clean sweep with Julio Cesar, Maicon and Wesley Sneijder - who was winner of the Goal.com 50 - all given script of difference. Goal.com breaks it down.

UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year: Julio Cesar

Nominees: Julio Cesar, Hugo Lloris, Victor Valdes

UEFA Club Defender of the Year: Maicon

Nominees: Lucio, Maicon, Gerard Pique

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Champions League Draw: Inter To Face Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United Draw Valencia, Barcelona And Rubin Kazan To Meet Again

The 2010-11 UEFA Champions’ League group phase is now set following the draw took put in Monaco on Thursday and it suggests some exciting match-ups and intriguing potential.

The cup holders Inter have been dealt a rough hand in Group A as they will face-off alongside Werder Bremen, Tottenham Hotspur, and Twente. The probable group of death would appear to be Group G with Real Madrid, Milan, Ajax, and Auxerre.

Meanwhile, Barcelona in Group D will be comparatively pleased to battle against Panathinaikos, Copenhagen, and Rubin Kazan.

Previous year's finalists Bayern Munich also have a Germany - Italy contest versus Roma. Basel and Cluj round out Group E.

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Jorge Valdano Reveals Mahamadou Diarra Is Likely To Leave Real Madrid

Real Madrid director-general Jorge Valdano has exposed that the club are looking to offload two or three players previous to the end of the move summer window and confessed that suspicious midfielder Mahamadou Diarra is likely to leave.

The Spanish giants at present have 26 players in their first-team team but need to trim the number down to 25. The likes of Fernando Gago, Lassana Diarra, Mahamadou Diarra and Rafael Van der Vaart have been talk about as possible candidates to head out the way out door.

“We will be at ease with two or three exits," he said, according to AS. "He (Diarra) is the only one we have verbal in a direct manner, but we have talked to a number of of the other players that will have difficulties charming a place in the first football team."

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