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Article: Firms rue dearth of deadline day action; Rooney favourite to be Three Lions star.(Sports)
- Article from:
- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2009
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Byline: Ian Wilkerson
THIS time last year, Robinho was joining Manchester City and Dimitar Berbatov was heading to Manchester United, but all was quiet on transfer deadline day yesterday as the big four decided to go with what they have got.
There was an absence of bigmoney moves before the 5pm deadline and bookmakers were disappointed with the volume of bets made on player movements.
Ladbrokes had posted a number of specials and were "a couple of grand down" after being stung by Tottenham's move for Croatian midfielder Niko Krancjar. He had been ...