Mirror phones it in: Clubs in for Marta

[holdsteady]

A host of top Premier League clubs are ready to battle each other - and FIFA - in a bid to sign top WOMAN Brazilian footballer Marta Vieira da Silva.

MirrorFootball can reveal that Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea are locked in a six-way fight with Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona for the 25-year-old, who is a five-time winner of the FIFA Player of the Year award and is known as "Pele in a skirt" in Brazil.

But whichever club wins the race will then have to persuade FIFA to allow her to compete in men's competition, in what would be an astonishing first for top flight professional football.

Scouts from a raft of clubs have been watching Marta, 25, play in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league in the USA and are convinced that not only could she cut it in the men's game in England, but that she could be a top star.



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They're not even trying at this point.

 

[Scrumpet]

Indeed, very poor.

It's posted already here though https://www.redcafe.net/f7/april-fools-articles-324871/

 

[Mick1991]

They're not even trying at this point.

It's a joke mate!

 

[holdsteady]

It's not the first here yet!

Damnit.

 

[Mick1991]

Delete the thread man, only a few have noticed yet!

 

[holdsteady]

Gotta go down with the ship.

 

[Tumbling-Dice]

Gotta go down with the ship.

Very admiral able mate.

 

[Ole's_toe_poke]

She looks like a female Valencia

Antonio Valencia

Marta

 

[Valentino]

it would be funny to have woman player at MUFC. but what about lockers, would she need her own?

 

[CLK_FPC]

SMH so you fell for it?

 

[Redfighter]

She's actually pretty good. I'd rather see her in the line up than Joe Cole.