Czeching out

Confirmation from Rome that David Rozehnal has joined Lazio permanently, bringing to an end his brief sojourn on Tyneside. As far as I can see, and assuming we get something approaching the money we paid for him, there’s no loss. Disappointingly poor when it came to his strength and decision making, Rozehnal never really settled, and certainly wasn’t the assured defence recruit that we’d hoped last summer.

Following on from Emre’s recent return to Turkey, we now have no players involved in the European Championships, which hopefully means that at least everyone should be back fit and raring to go for pre-season.