If you’ve been in a football vacuum (the moon, maybe, or North America) since Euro 2008 ended, you may have missed out on what happened - and didn’t happen - among the Barclays Premier League clubs this summer… Non-transfer sagas Never has so much been written about so little. Despite the rumours, hype and devious attempts by agents and clubs, there was about as much movement as you’d get from a geriatric tortoise standing in half-set concrete. Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Barry, Frank Lampard, Dimitar Berbatov, Didier Drogba, Roque Santa Cruz (right) and Emmanuel Adebayor all went… nowhere. So far, anyway.Busy Blackburn Mark Hughes decided it’d be a good idea to go and spend some of Thakshin Shinawatra’s millions down the road at Manchester City, and the Ewood Park managerial vacancy was filled by Paul Ince in June, Ince...
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