Moving away from the more serious side of football for a moment, check out this kid do absolutely fantastic impressions of Arsene Wenger, Thierry Henry, Rafa Benitez and, inevitably, Jose Mourinho.

Enjoy !

Remember Dragan Stojkovic?

If you do, you’ll know he was one of the former Yugoslavia’s best ever midfielders with an eye for goal that rivaled the very best in the world in his position. The Serb netted 150 goals in his career, but surely none better than this.

Now, Stojkovic is manager of J-League side Nagoya Grampus and by God, has he still got it.

Witness this from a recent Japanese league game, where Stojkovic pings the ball into the back of the net from inside his technical area.

It’s phenomenal. Of course, football officialdom being what it is: he gets sent to the stands. But it’s worth it for sure.

Back in the Sixties, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention released an album called ‘We’re Only In It For The Money’ that satirized the flower power movement, suggesting somewhat more cynical motives than love and peace.

In football, it now seems that the big names are gravitating away from the Man Utds and the Liverpools towards Real Madrid and AC Milan.

Of course, the players themselves are making all the right noises, “dream move”, “boyhood dream”, “playing alongside legends” - you know the stuff.

However, more cynical motivation does spring to mind however for this apparently sudden sea change in where the big players want to play.

Firstly, the strength of the Euro against the UK Pound means that no longer is it a guaranteed money earner to come to the Premier League.

And secondly, and even more critically, the recently introduced 50% top rate of tax on earnings over £150,000 has severely impacted the take home earnings of top footballers.

So, all of a sudden, moving to the top clubs on mainland Europe is five times as attractive as it was last season.  And for the top players already on the continent - the Premier League looks just a little less glossy.

Only In It For The Money? Perhaps.

As we all know, quantum mechanics virtually demands the existence of parallel universes.

And, in one of these parallel universes Inter striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is really as good as he thinks he is.

In fact, you can get a peak into this universe on YouTube with this video.

However, in this universe, Ibrahimovic isn’t anywhere near the player he thinks he is. He goes missing at international level for Sweden, he goes missing in big European games and the top defenders in the game have no trouble keeping him quiet.

None of this, of course, troubles the mighty Ibrahimovic ego. Because, according to The Zlatan himself, he is the north, south, east and west.

Yes, really. He is, you know. He said so in a diary that is sold to Italian children.

Full details here, but my favourite excerpt is :

“‘I am west because I love the United States, where I often spend holidays with my family. I love the weather and I like English as a tool to communicate with the world.”

Zlatan - you are as pretentious as you are overrated.

By all accounts, Barca striker Samuel Eto’o has quite an ego. This has caused clashes with his club and managers down the years and, in fact, Barcelona have been trying to sell him for a couple of seasons now.

The thing is: Eto’o seems reluctant to leave. He feels that Barcelona have messed him around - and he’s right. Rumours coming from Spain suggest that he will see out his contract, which ends in 12 months and then leave…for nothing.

Right now, Eto’o’s agent is making all the right noises about compromising if the club want to sell the player, but yesterday Eto’o himself was wanting a £13million ’signing-on’ fee to stay at Barca.

You’ve got to admire the cheek of the guy. But then again, he did score 36 goals last season and helped his side win the treble.

If Manchester City do land the player - and they’ve offered him a huge deal which will make him the world’s best paid player, they will have a proven striker with an ego to match.

Rumours that his ego and Robinho’s ego will get their own dressing rooms to make space for the rest of the players have yet to be confirmed.