Thaksin, Copa SudAm, Pasarella, Harry Redknapp.

Manchester City's banker (and former Thai PM) Thaksin seems to be milking his Asian roots: he wants to set up City academies in Asia and bring players to the Premier League.
No real surprises there. Nor from Luton where former manager of Luton Town manager Mike Newell (he of the "women and football" comments) seems to have blown the whistle on the club's allegedly illegal shenanigans involving players' agents. Luton fan website lutontown-mad: "If Luton are to survive this, then the chairman needs to act now and try to show the FA that he is committed to eliminating corruption at Luton Town FC."
On 28 November 07 the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana will take place in Mexico between Club America and Arsenal de Sarandi.
Daniel Passarella has quit River Plate after their defeat to Arsenal de Sarandi in the semi-final of the Copa Sudamericana.
Repechage first leg result: Pachuca 0 Cruz Azul 0.
MLS news: Luciano Emilio wins Major League Soccer's Most Valuable Player Award.
Seattle and San Jose are the two new "expansion teams" to join MLS next season. Great for people on the west coast of the States. We wonder if San Jose Earthquakes will be allowed to take their pick of the Houston Dynamo team when selecting their squad. San Jose played in, and won 1-0 against DC Utd, the first ever MLS game, and were twice MLS Cup Champions. Bizarrely, despite the success, the whole franchise moved to Houston to become the Houston Dynamo in 2005.
Fox Soccer Channel pundit Max Bretos believes Turkey will make it through to the Euro 2008 finals in Switzerland and Austria, as will Italy, France, and England, too. The Benayounless Israel will not be beaten by genius Russian national team manager Guus Hiddinck, then. According to Max, Russia aren't that good. But they were good enough to beat England, though. It's true that England's results haven't been bad under Steve McClaren, but we at watchsoccer would prefer to see Portsmouth coach Harry Redknapp in charge of the national team.
Steve Bruce may move to Wigan. Chairman David Whelan is waiting for a reply from Birmingham FC. Stuart Pearce is not interested in the Wigan position.