The best of the latest verbals...
* "I'm already in the history of the club. When I play the fans will love me again" - Cristiano Ronaldo gives modesty a wide berth. And don't worry, there's more...
* "With this Golden Boot I have changed football a little. Usually strikers win this award and I am a winger. To be honest, I think I have been the most consistent and the best. And over time I want to enter the book of all-time greatest players" - He's certainly got ambition.
* "My life is very dear to me" - Emmanuel Adebayor is a selfish so-and-so.
* "If I'd known what Dwight was going to do, I wouldn't have given him a new contract. Dwight's a clown and he's on an ego trip; he's brought this on himself. He's retired from international football about five times. He's Trinidad and Tobago's most famous player and he's got a stadium named after him out there but he's 36 years old, he can't play two games in a few days and he hasn't played for us all season because he's had a busted cheekbone" - Roy Keane doesn't see the funny side after a row breaks out when he orders Yorke back to England rather than play for his country against the United States.
* "I think Jack Warner must be small because he's got small-man syndrome. I told him he was a disgrace and that I would not employ him. The man is a clown" - Keano selects his next target.
* "The disrespectful tone of your reported comments further demonstrates the total disrespect that you and others of your ilk have generally for players and officials from 'small' countries. I remind you that a player's greatest honour is to represent his country in spite of the fact that you chose to walk away from yours during the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup after publicly abusing your manager ... indictment that you will no doubt be proud of up to today. Poor Sunderland" - Warner's response.
* "I hope I have jeopardised their chances" - Keane's answer when told that England were trying to keep Warner, the FIFA vice-president, on side in the hope he would endorse their plan to host the 2014 World Cup. So there's another argument brewing...
* "I'd never heard of him so someone's in trouble" - And just to complete a good week, Keane sets up a meeting with Sunderland's scouting department after missing out on Wigan's Amr Zaki.
* "At least it wasn't Liverpool" - What Jamie Carragher revealed, via his autobiography, he thought whenever England lost.
* "We played quite well. We kept the ball, passed it around and once again it's got us nowhere" - Darren Bent can't spot the bright side after Spurs' third defeat in their opening four matches.
* "He's right up there with the very, very best midfield players in the world" - Harry Redknapp lauds Lassana Diarra.
* "I just laughed to be honest when we signed Robinho. We seemed all out for Berbatov and were bidding for everybody. We didn't bid for centre-halves but I'm sure they'll come. It's just great. Can City become one of the biggest clubs in the country? I think that's inevitable" - Richard Dunne.
* "The moment Barton came on to the pitch he made a bad challenge on Samir Nasri. Samir responded with an act that maybe wasn't especially nice. But bearing in mind the player he did it to, then fair enough" - William Gallas.
* "It would be suicidal for my career at my 21 years of age to move to City. It would make no sense" - Cesc Fabregas shakes his head at Robinho.
* "We never won a tackle. When you have bad days, the big thing is to get something from them but we conceded two goals that were absolute shockers. People will say that it is some Conference team defending when they see us on television. It was shocking stuff. The first was a really scabby goal to lose and the second was a shocker" - Sir Alex fails to see the funny side of ManYoo's defeat at Anfield.
* "From what I have heard, Keith Hackett has told the referee to rescind the red card and he wouldn't do it," the United manager said. "If it had been a Manchester United player, Keith Hackett wouldn't have done this. If the referee has made a mistake, this is going to happen all the time" - And asks for another personal hearing with the FA.
* "To concede eight goals in two games is not good" - Paul Ince confirms he is getting the hang of this managerial lark.
* "We made many mistakes in the second half. We did not control the game enough, we let them have too much of the ball. We did not play very well" - Luiz Scolari does his feet-on-ground routine after the 4-0 thrashing of Bordeaux.
* "What Guthrie did was clearly not acceptable. I'm not sure what the FA are planning but I think it's entirely possible they will come up with a charge of bringing the game into disrepute" - Almost as incredible as the FA not then charging Guthrie is that, for once, even Gordon Taylor didn't attempt to defend the indefensible.
* "It cannot be tolerated, it needs to be kicked out of the game" - Phil Brown's unfortunate choice of words after Danny Guthrie kicks Craig Fagan out of the game with a broken leg.
* "They didn't understand the decision of the referee and it is normal for some players to say, 'What is this, what is that?' - but with respect for the referee, not confronting the referee, not using bad words. They respect the decision of the referee" - Scolari explains why a posse of Chelsea players surrounded Mark Halsey after he dismissed the slow-departing John Terry. It's unclear why they did not know what a red card was.
* The team aren't good enough to respond. It wasn't as though they didn't try, but they lack quality. And that is the most depressing thing of all for Newcastle fans. I am genuinely not happy to say it, but my team of 2004 with Jenas, Bellamy, Robert, Shearer and Solano would have beaten yesterday's Newcastle 3-0. There is no pace. Only Steven Taylor of the current side would have got in my team from four years ago" - Sir Bobby Robson's damning assessment of Newcastle United after their defeat at home to Hull City.
* "He's thick, he's fat, he is a f***ing t***, Ashley, Ashley" - One of the songs sung by the Newcastle fans.
"He's a dwarf, a dwarf, it's plain to see, to see, he's smaller than you and me, he's a dwarf, a dwarf" - And another.
* "Are you Grimsby in disguise?" - The retort of the bemused Hull support.