Daniel Sturridge has gone- Transfer window January 2013

Sneijder to Spurs? What?

surely you jest

Gone where? Daniel Sturridge isn't still at City?

‘My agent is in talks with [Milan vice-president Adriano] Galliani, but it depends on what happens with Robinho and Pastore.’

However, in a move that is unlikely to endear the Moroccan to the Milan faithful, he added that he would only be using the Rossoneri as a stepping stone to greater things.

‘Milan aren’t going through a glorious period now, and they’re no longer a part of the top clubs,’ said Taarabt.

‘However, if I joined Milan then it would open up the doors for me to great clubs like Real Madrid and Barca.

‘My friend [Kevin Prince] Boateng is also at Milan. When we were at Tottenham he was often in the stands, so I think that I have a chance too.’

Never change.

Kinda sweet that he still holds out hope for a Barca/RM move. He's been on it for the SuperHoops so far this season from what I can tell tbf.

he always gives it the biggun on hols or international duty, i think everyone he meets in morocco must just absolutely rip the piss

still nothing like as good as his talent suggests he could be but tbh it's all been so long the frontiers between dream and reality have become irrevocably blurred, an ultimate literalised reification of the fantasista

Zeki Fryers signs for Spurs, completing Levy's brilliant, cynical, 4M-saving fuck you to Man U and FA youth rules.

the boy's a talent alright

http://i.minus.com/iNGI3rASpwC3c.gif

idk if he is that highly rated but hope he succeeds just to irritate ynahtid ppl

as you can see i'm already enraged

Spurs announce that Holtby will join in the summer. Seems a great pick-up for free.

Giuseppe Rossi looks set to join Fiorentina.

is he fit?

maybe by March, or so I read.

Of the transfer of Fryers, now 20, Ferguson said: "I am disappointed in Tottenham, I really am. I think it has been a blatant manipulation of the situation. They tried to buy him from us at the end of last season but we couldn't agree terms. They then took him on trial and took him to Portugal with the squad and came back and said that they couldn't afford him. And then all of a sudden he signed for Standard Liège and at that moment in time, when I heard that, I expected him to go to Tottenham in the January window.

"I'm disappointed in Tottenham. The Premier League should look into it and I think they should stop the registration until they examine it. There will be a trail, mobile phone [records] or something. It is obvious to me [what has happened]."

lol fuckin ol cunt lol

holtby, is he much different position wise etc to sigurdsson or dempsey? still, free signing cl level player that'll do i spose

he is more of an ordthodox attacking midfielder

like technically better and a more natural playmaker, not so much a late arriving goalscorer

ive not seen that much of him and in any case im more intrigued by this draxler kid at schalke who was playing wide last time i saw them and who will presumably now move into the #10 on the reg

"The Championship is not an option" - I Love Football off-season and transfer speculation thread 2012

that was last season and now with neustadter (who i could see in the epl soon) he is mostly playing ahead of him and jones aiui

this presumably means moutinho isnt going to arrive, cuz they would be pretty similar players

avb wanted to use the system he employed at porto when he moved at chelsea but it didn't work -- a more fluid midfield where all three players can interchange, notionally defensive mids running beyond the lines etc

holtby like moutinho is the sort of player who could be the main attacking playmaker but unlike say vdv would be disciplined enough to cover if dembele was running forward

that all sounds very promising tbh

it appears arry's in france trying to sign up remy and m'vila

qpr yall ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

http://twitter.com/Serguei/status/287948445145247745

or gignac, why not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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So wait is David Villa to Arsenal something real? Blogs and papers have been writing vague stories for days but its... David fucking Villa... to Arsenal... from Barcelona...

Tell me this is just ridiculous pondering and we are actually just going to end up with Maxi Lopez or someone.

Because I can see myself about to get really excited over a transfer again.

Guillem Balague sez:

"Barcelona will not accept any offer for Villa in January.... If he doesn't feel important anymore at the end of the season, he will consider a transfer with the Premier League as his preferred choice.... rsene Wenger rang Villa three weeks back (so it is not only Barcelona or Madrid who do that kind of thing, I must add, it happens everywhere, it is common practice) but he got the message that the player's idea is to stay put till the end of the season where a decision will be taken."

his wife's about to give birth also

"worst signing of the season" Luka Modric is available though

just about to make a big commitment on walcott and giroud's there happy to play the squad role... shocked as i am to find myself saying so but huge fee & wages on an established striker don't really make sense imo

I agree.

shaw, yanga-mbiwa, strootman/bender, capoue, hughes, zaha/ayew, some fancy german cunt, some fancy brazilian cunt in russia

50 mil job lot bish bash bosh sorted m8

Zeki Fryers signs for Spurs, completing Levy's brilliant, cynical, 4M-saving fuck you to Man U and FA youth rules.

mizzell wrote this on thread "The Championship is not an option" - I Love Football off-season and transfer speculation thread 2012 on board I Love Football on 24-Aug-2012

Apparently Ezekiel Fryers has signed for Standard Liege, not Spurs as was originally reported a few weeks ago. Interesting move for him. Good to see young British players moving abroad.

― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, August 24, 2012 5:49 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Spurs would have had to pay 6M via tribunal so Levy worked a deal where he signs for free for Liege now, but Spurs have opportunity to buy him in 2 years. supposedly.

tip of cap btw

I can't believe Modric hasn't been able to oust Xabi Alonso and Mezut Ozil from the Real team, I mean whoever would have seen that coming?

people always say to me "well you'd take that kind of money to sit on a bench, wouldn't you" but fuck players who choose that route imo

Nah I think Modric probably went there for footballing reasons as much as money and players at that level seemingly never think they're going to be benched. Guess he'll be back in the Premiership before long.

Indy reporting that Schalke might allow Lewis Holtby to join in January.

Modric took a pay cut to join Real

i think if you put yourself into the head of a footballer who has been better, and easily better, than 99%+ of all the players he's ever faced, you can give a little more benefit of the doubt than that.

erm isn't the tax bill a lot lower in Spain?

not for long

not saying in Modric's case he didn't think he could compete for a regular first team spot btw, my observation about players who don't care whether they play was a general one cough michael owen cough

xp and yeah, ik with something we all actually forgot there.

Bigger clubs have pull, you test yourself at the next level, modric is at the highest atm and if the chance comes he'd not be shamed there. First six months wasn't going to see him oust anyone outright tho, and real have, as always, an embarrassment of riches there.

S'why everyone should sign their castoffs, innit?

maybe not everyone

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/09/article-2230650-15F15CD9000005DC-803_468x437.jpg

scotching any gay rumours right there

ryan nelsen retiring and taking toronto fc job tomorrow apparently

fuuuuuuuuuuck

http://himg2.huanqiu.com/attachment/100625/5ec01932fa.jpg

some p sweet visualizations of transfers here: http://transferwindow.info/

oh wait, that's from the summer nm

did anyone read this thing about andy van der meyde, on bbc?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20946368

"I wanted to sign for Monaco before I went to Everton but my ex-wife likes a lot of animals. I like a dog or something but not what she likes - zebras and all that sort of stuff.
"If I went there I could have made a lot of money because I wouldn't have had to pay tax there. I phoned my wife and said "'hey they only have apartments there and you can't have a [picture of a] zebra in the flat, you'll have to leave them at home'.
"That was not her thing and she didn't want to go there, so we went to rainy Liverpool."

wtf

When you want a zebra, where else are you gonna go?

yeah i read it earlier and was slightly unnerved by how unintelligent he appears to be

the whole 'lol fitba players are retards' thing is often an unkind misreading via their class background and lack of (interest in) education, but even twp seems to be of average intelligence when answering questions

vdm just sounds like someone who could barely tie his own shoelaces

How big are these zebra pictures anyway? I'd imagine yr average footballing millionaire can get a pretty big apartment in Monaco.

"I said to my ex-wife that I wanted to go to a hotel because I was injured at the time and I needed some rest. But that was not the case - I was just cheating on her.
"After one week I was going home all the time and getting more clothes and she thought something was not right. She tried to follow me with cars but I was driving a little too quick so they couldn't get me."

This is the best bit. Your wife thinks, rightly, that you are are having an affair and tails you in the car. Dampen her suspicions by DRIVING REALLY FAST to get away from her.

great headline inside the piece: "Former Everton man Andy van der Meyde on drink, drugs and zebras"

you know you've got a problem when that's how your habit escalates

you start with a bit of horse...

I said to my ex-wife that I wanted to go to a hotel because I was injured at the time and I needed some rest. But that was not the case - I was just cheating on her.

it's just

idk

the blood was coming out of her skull pretty fast at this point. i told her it was a nice healthy bit of trepanning. but then she sussed me - i was trying to kill her.

yeah that line definitely stood out for me too. it's more hilarious the more you look at it.

like as if his excuse was grandiose and comforting and then "but that was not the case, i was just cheating on her."

luke shaw confirms he's staying with saints, great news. the future honestly looks so bright for the club, apart from the whole possibly going down this season thing.

Manchester United will make a formal bid for Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha, 20, in the next 48 hours - but will play hardball with the Championship club by making a cash offer as low as £6m.

imagining fergie standing over a gigantic stack of money with a box of matches, warning them that this is as good as it gets.

"sure we can do the transfer the 'modern' way, agents, cheques, all that bloody nonsense. or you can be man enough to take £6m in cash, right now, no questions asked, like our daddies did. the choice is yours. £6m, you hand me zaha tonight, and you walk away from here back to your wife and kids, in a month's time you're buying federico macheda off me, you won't believe how much this never even happened..."

On the one hand, I don't really see the point in buying a fifth striker to be behind RVP, TWP, p and Welbeck. On the other hand, I'll be pleased if it happens because he's done quite well for me in my role as Southampton manager on FM2011 (though I was only able to sign him after temporarily setting up a second manager by the name of Sock Puppet whose sole contribution was to sign Lambert for Man City for £20M).

lol p

Sock Puppet? Sounds Danish

most people see him as a Nani replacement NBS

I don't really see the sense of getting rid of Nani. He's the most talented of the three wingers we've got.

oh it's madness but it seems to be the way the wind is blowing

Seeing rumors of Brek Shea being sold to Stoke City. Gonna be a big squad for the US in WC2014.

He's more a winger than anything though, should be interesting.

Wasn't he your big hope a couple of years back?

one more name on the laundry list

Liverpool in for Coutinho, failed once at £8m apparently. Don't know what he's like now but I loved what little I saw of the child Coutinho, so this is all very encouraging.

Just cout

moves that shouldn't happen: Sneijder to Galatasaray has just been confirmed

Should form a nice midfield partnership with Eboue. Imagine Elmander and Milan Baros will be finally getting the service they deserve.

I'm thinking of buying a Rolls for my commute to the station of a morning

This is what everyone else was thinking when Laudrup, di Canio, Numan et al were pitching up in Scotland in the 90s, isn't it?

sneijder is far better than those three were though

comparable to laudrup i'd have thought

His reputation began to grow and Laudrup fulfilled his lifelong ambition when he moved to Serie A team Fiorentina. However, his time in Italy was both unhappy and unsuccessful and after Fiorentina were relegated he felt the fury of the tifosi so he was smuggled out from the stadium in the trunk of a car.

He was loaned to Milan for the 1993–94 season, which only saw him play a handful of matches throughout the season. Despite being on contract with Fiorentina until the summer 1996, Laudrup stated in December 1993 that he did not want to return to the club.[13]

I'd've said Numan was probably the most obviously top-level player who most obviously had no business being in Scotland; good as they were, the rest of them usually had some kind of issue making it seem slightly less implausible.

closest comparison is eto'o to anzhi

Simonsen to Charlton

flopping in 90s serie a puts him in fine company

Alexei Mikhailitchenko, dammit

some other inter reject to some bruce rioch team

Them was different times.

true, i was 10 yrs old then iirc and it was the only transfer that has ever _really_ surprised me

it was like.....serie a is what they show on channel 4 with all of the famous footballers ever, epl is something you collect stickers for, and never the twain shall meet, until bergkamp arrives for the implausibly high fee of £7m into the world of jason dozzell, adie mike and nicky summerbee

Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mykhaylychenko (Ukrainian: Олексій Олександрович Михайличенко) (born March 30, 1963 in Kiev), is a Ukrainian football coach and former professional football player. He is the Distinguished Master of Sports of USSR and the Distinguished Coach of Ukraine.

Maradona to Napoli must've been quite the stunner in its day

actually i have forgotten andy nee andrew nee andy cole to manchester united which was, or seemed quite surprising back in the day

i was more surprised by andy cole for 7m and keith gillespie tbh bah xp

bergkamp was like some curio from the moon but there was a degree of kneejerk scepticism iirc, there had to be something wrong with him, the usual

i can vividly recall reading this one broadsheet article stating that if bergkamp succeeds his disseminated technical ideas will change the face of british football forevermore

what happened to simon barnes anyway

with cole i can remember the morning after being sat on the tube in my uniform on my way to school across from one guy reading the sun, and just staring at the backpage like seven million pounds

and keith gillespie

not really sure why i feel more dismissive of sneijder than i did eto'o

i was off school sick that day and i remember my friend dropping off my homework assignments and imparting the solemn and scarcely believable words, then intimating that no fitba talk could permissably be talked cuz his mum was waiting in the car, so i rushed off to ceefax

i remember the keith gillespie thing being more surprising because i had the impression he was highly rated (conceivably i was more aware of him than scholes or beckham at the time) and yet he was only valued as a £1m makeweight

are there makeweights any more or did they go the way of helmut kohl and terris

In fairness to Gala, going to the best team in Turkey, who qualified for the CL knockout stage, is a slightly different prospect to Eto'o pitching up at the sixth best team in Russia. Liverpool would not have been an obviously superior alternative.

There was no doubt Eto'o was still the real deal; Sneijder might've gone to shit since 2010, how would anybody know?

The Cole one was huge, yeah - probably as much due to echoes of Cantona as AC himself, good as he was. My younger sister channelling funds to the Utd premium rate infolines that day - truly we have come to a better world.

AC! Little beats Andy Carroll to Liverpool for a truly bewildering swoop.

yeah i'm the same wrt eto'o/wesley, cuz sneijder is a couple of years younger, turkey is inferior to russia (anzhi being sixth best or whatever is neither here nor there cuz eto'o surely expects/ed them to be champions league qualifiers) and i don't think sneijder is getting the same ridiculous wages

in mitigation, galatasaray is more 'real', a regular champions league entrant from now on probably, and he can play at reprising the gheorghe hagi 'europe's most peripheral #10 superstar' role

i think sneijder must fancy himself as a laconic old school playmaker rather than a high intensity goalscoring late arriver type these days

the carroll transfer seemed insane even then, but wasn't quite as surprising cuz it looked like someone was going to throw £20m at him asap, and the january inflation inherent in torres' fee suggested that liverpool would return the favour

gillespie was definitely a hyped player, the new best, i think (open to correction) he'd had a mini-run in the team before scholes broke in (beckham had debuted as far back as idk 92/3 but wasn't a regular til the CWOWK villa defeat)

The Cole transfer was jaw-dropping because a) it just seemed to come from nowhere, and b) it didn't seem to make any sense - why on earth would Keegan sell the man who had just scored >40 goals in a season for Newcastle to a team that were obviously their rivals for winning the league? The fact is was a record amount of money wasn't quite such a big deal (the record seemed to be tumbling fairly regularly at that point). It was exactly the same as the Cantona one in that sense, except in a way the Cantona one was even more shocking precisely because it *wasn't* a record fee - why the fuck were Leeds selling him to the team they hated more than any other for such a low fee??? The Carroll/Torres thing was madness, but people had known Chelsea were after Torres for a while and there had been speculation about Carroll too, so crazy as it was, it didn't come from nowhere (or defy logic).

Re: Gillespie, Scholes, Beckham, etc. - I think various members of that 92 Youth Cup winning team had made brief bit-part sub appearances prior to the 93/94 season, but Gillespie was the first one to get a proper run in the first team. He played and scored (I think?) when we beat Newcastle at Old Trafford in the autumn - I think United overtook Newcastle to go top that day (only to overtaken by Blackburn within a couple of weeks or so) and was definitely seen as the next big thing. I think Scholes broke through a month or two later (still late 94) scoring a couple of goals at Ipswich. I don't remember Beckham until quite a bit later.

(i meant 94/95, not 93/94)

cole was really weird alright.

ravenelli felt like a big deal to me at the time, a lot of those transfers felt like a big power swing to the premier league, as mentioned, all these sort of glamorous players you watched on c4 or eurosport. klinsmann too was big.

boksic to boro, remember that

luc nilis to villa, rip

nicola berti to spurs, italian international ffs

Juninho to Boro was quite a big deal

90s Boro were masters at pulling off baffling transfers for world renowned players who ended up doing nadge all.

didn't boksic and ravanelli score hatfuls of goals? juninho obv a success.

yeah ravanelli was a success i thought. at least initially.

karlheinz riedle to liverpool. lol.

Ravenelli invented the shirt over the head celebration as well, he probably didn't but it felt like he did at the time.

Bergkamp to Arsenal was the most shocking one to me, I couldn't believe he would want to play in England. Of course LFC managed to spend more on Stan Collymore that same month.

Was Vialli the same transfer window or was that later?

Just looked up the 1996-7 season and it's like another world. Utd win the league with a paltry 75 pts and they're 7 pts clear of the nearest challengers!

Collymore wasn't that bad for Liverpool. Not that Bergkamp wouldn't have been a better buy, obviously.

Just looked up the 1996-7 season and it's like another world.

the suddenness and overbearingness of the financial distortion of the league makes you think it was probably quite avoidable if the right decisions had been made at the right time

Yeah Vialli was 96-97 I think, although Chelsea had set their own precedent by signing Gullit the previous year. Klinsmann was a massive deal at the time as well.

The Boro transfers stick out particularly because they still got relegated at the end of it. A load of clubs spunked ridiculous cash everywhere at that time and ended up without very much to show for it.

I don't know about that - hasn't the same pattern (fewer challengers, fewer hiccups by challengers) happened pretty much everywhere bar France?

xp2nv

not really the right time to do research but i suspect not in the same way

could be a good ILF thread investigating the monopolising of European leagues?

Just looked up the 1996-7 season and it's like another world. Utd win the league with a paltry 75 pts and they're 7 pts clear of the nearest challengers!

That season was unusually low even by the standards of the time, though. Nobody was really any good - United were pretty awful until around Xmas time, but everyone above them just kind of collapsed.

Did Juninho pre-date Ravanelli? I saw QPR v Middlesbrough (cos my mate was a QPR fan) in Dec 95 and I think Juninho played then. And I think he was a recent signing then. I think Ravanelli was a summer signing along with that bloke with the big hair who never did anything (Emerson?), but I can't remember which summer. Vialli was definitely at Chelsea in Oct/Nov 96 because I saw him score at Old Trafford. When did Di Matteo and LeBoeuf turn up?

think gullit signed di matteo and leboeuf - 95 maybe? was it 96 they won the fa cup?

or was that man u/liverpool?

96 was the Cantona v Cream Suits final, 97 was Chelsea breaking relegated Boro hearts

Many xps for completeness re shameful Scottish transfer swoops of your childhood: the Maurice Johnston hijack and, even less honourably, the Mark Walters transfer, were epically humongous things in their day.

England striker Frazier Campbell has joined Cardiff City for £650,000.

Lol. The Sun had him going to Hull for £7m last month.

I keep forgetting that Frazier Campbell exists and he actually played for us for a bit.

every time he's available he gets linked with Hull, you'd think Tigers fans would've got the message by now

I keep forgetting that Frazier Campbell exists and he actually played for us for a bit.

ditto

Striker Fraizer Campbell has completed his £3.5m move from Manchester United to Sunderland after signing a four-year contract with the Wearsiders.

The deal for the 21-year-old forward, who was also wanted by Hull manager Phil Brown, could rise to £6m.

He passed a medical on Saturday to become Steve Bruce's first signing.

newcastle making a cheapo move for the impressive gouffran

Fergie and AVB at the Celtic game tonight...

There was a 'Wanyama to Arsenal' story doing the rounds earlier

Wanyama scored tonight and Hooper got two so they did themselves no harm with potential suitors. I expect decent bids both before the end of the month. I expect at least one of them to leave.

A story "broke" today that Hooper had rejected a final contract offer from Celtic - except it happened months ago and was publicised at the time - looks like his agent is drumming up interest.

I think Hooper could do a job for most teams in the EPL but I can't work out who out of the BIG clubs would go for him and give him a game. Wanyama on his game looks like he'd fit right into a Man United midfield but when he's off his game he's simply far too careless in possession so idk.

I'd like some news from Celtic about other players extending contracts given that those two seem to have made their minds up.

m'vila gone to russia then, what a bellend

qu'est ce qu'un gland

Harry Redknapp wants to sign Blackburn defenders Martin Olsson, 24, and Scott Dann, 25, to help QPR beat the drop.

Season saved.

why the fuck is Scott fucking Dann the philosopher's stone for shit managers trying to keep shit clubs in the Prem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8ARez-JPY

we're signing this bloke coming in after 1 min apparently

his voice is a bit weak

we did put a bid in for celine dion but she went to russia

Llorente going to Juventus on a free in the summer

Ha, Blibao must just disdain money. Sell llorente or keep him not play him let him go for free? tbf his replacement has been banging the goals in iirc. They've probably just burnt the €40m they got from Bayern.

Ah tits

really badly want this coutinho thing to come off.

supposedly bilbao werent even taking 4m for him this month the daft fuckers

Fergie and AVB at the Celtic game tonight...

Likely Fergie was just there as a guest of the club as he was speaking at Sean Fallon's funeral the following day.

yeah, i read that since. Doubt Utd will be moving for anyone other than Zaha this window

dont think wanyama is good enough for united and the sure as fuck dont need hooper

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Ingleses 'loucos' para convencer central a aceitar proposta

someone's gonna slap a restraining order on us at this rate, leave these poor decent-quality footballer fuckers be already

Hearing on twitter that AVB wasn't at Celtic Park at all on Tuesday. Stand down all Hooper to Spurs rumours.

moussa sissoko to newcastle on six year deal

Liverpool try a third time to sign Internazionale's Philippe Coutinho
• Anfield club say £8m is their final offer for Brazilian midfielder
• Southampton's £10.2m bid accepted but player not interested

http://www.london24.com/sport/qpr/qpr_boss_reveals_sales_pitch_and_insists_he_must_do_something_1_1807088

He said: “I’d tell them to come here and help us stay up and we’ll build a team here that won’t get in this position again,” before he added: “Although I think someone else said that before but it’s the first time I’ve said it."

lol

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11698/8439699/West-Brom-forward-Peter-Odemwingie-wants-to-be-allowed-to-leave-the-club

can't recall a statement as craven as this in a long while

coutinho fee agreed 8.5m

anelka to juve short term deal

so excited about coutinho. hope the work permit goes through.

i only remember him from destroying us for 45 mins in milan that night but wth i'm all for it

my only memory of him is from before the but another CL game, basically thinking "who the fuck is that" at how good he was. obv it's a gamble but i am happy to see pool taking that kind of risk on talent rather than the plodders they've signed for houllier/rafa/dalglish eras.

*before then, my n key is fucked

World Football - Drogba to join Sneijder at Galatasaray
Didier Drogba has agreed a one and a half year contract with Galatasaray, according to reports on Turkish television.

The report was announced on the official broadcaster on the Turkish League.
It is the second massive deal for the Turkish giants this January with Wesley Sneijder having already signing from Internazionale.
Drogba had been playing in China with Shanghai Shenhua but his future there was plunged into doubt amid reports of unpaid wages.
Drogba signed a two-and-a-half year deal reportedly worth around $300,000 per week last June, but the Shanghai-based Oriental Sports Daily said the 34-year-old was owed wages in the wake of a long-running equity row at the club.
Drogba applied for permission in November to leave Shanghai on loan before the January transfer window, but FIFA refused the request.
He then returned to Chelsea to train at his former club in a bid to stay sharp for the African Nations Cup, where he is currently in action for the Ivory Coast.
More to follow...

Leroy Fer to Everton - LBI? Wasn't expecting them to weigh in heavily tbh.

Fer, nicknamed "The Bouncer" due to his physical strength, hit headlines last year when he spent 22,000 on a horse for his girlfriend, only to find she could not keep it as she lives in a block of flats.

On 28th January 2013 it was announced that Everton F.C. of the English Premier League had agreed a deal to secure the services of Leroy Fer.[20]
The deal involved Leroy being involved in Bill's panto, and he will also get a job at the Factory on Corrie, Bill will play his Uncle.

yer mane's not down yer not coming in

http://inbedwithmaradona.com/the-100-for-2012/2012/11/26/leroy-fer.html

bet moysie just read this and immediately bought him sight unseen

Spurs sign holtby, that's our attacking midfield crisis solved

Lorenzo Insigne rubbing his hands at the prospect of a move to the epl's third-placed club

Dear Toffees,

The rumours that are making the rounds on your side of the sea right now, regarding your newest signing Leroy Fer of Twente, are entirely true. Fer indeed once bought his girlfriend a horse, only to realise later that his girlfriend lives in an appartment with a drafty balcony and does not have room for a horse. So he sold the horse again.

That is all,

Sincerely,

Spurs sign holtby, that's our attacking midfield crisis solved

Nah I think we need him, if Dembele gets injured we don't have a decent playmaker. Whatever AVB's been saying in public there's no way he isn't asking Levy for more money for a striker right now. We're running Defoe into the ground at the moment.

Spurs sign holtby, that's our attacking midfield crisis solved

― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Monday, January 28, 2013 11:39 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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will avb move to a 4-3-3 with dembele sandro holtby next year?

and defoe might need surgery
xp

Alan Hutton is being loaned to Real Mallorca.

holtby looks a bit like ryan gosling but without the mystery ryan gosling thing

Balotelli to juve

brek shea goes to stoke. gis tip brek shea hair

Kinda bummed. Dallas team doesn't have a ton of star power. Brek was important more than just on the field; only soccer player that is going to get interviewed outside of a game setting, the kids love him, he's the marketing face, etc.

Best of luck to the dude though.

balotelli's gone to milan

AC MILAN AGREE TO SIGN MARIO BALOTELLI FROM MANCHESTER CITY - IT

Reuters, Tuesday January 29 2013

AC MILAN AGREE TO SIGN MARIO BALOTELLI FROM MANCHESTER CITY - ITALIAN CLUB'S TV CHANNEL

nice minimal release from reuters, very early 20th century telegraphy feel to it

Manchester Evening News says Wanyama to United is a done deal, quotes head of Kenyan FA.

http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1505781.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Mario+Balotelli+of+Italy+

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Manchester Evening News says Wanyama to United is a done deal, quotes head of Kenyan FA.

Except the head of the Kenyan FA did not specifically mention United or say that any deal was done.

“Wanyama will soon be joining one of the big two clubs in the world.”

His performance against St Mirren on Sunday makes me think he's found his level in Scotland tbh.

Barca or Inter then?

when, if ever, etc

Hooper to Big Club Spurs is gathering momentum up here as apparently he's a lifelong Spurs fan and AVB has run out of strikers. Reports had him "waiting by the phone" last night.

Norwich also allegedly coming in with an improved offer (last one was up to ~£6m depending on a whole bunch of add-on shite).

Is he actually any good? Getting a bit of a Grzegorz Rasiak vibe from this transfer.

As for Wardy, he’s the only left-back at the club and there are only two or three left-backs available who I feel could play at this level in our team.

fuck off Saunders, we must have mascots who'd make better left backs than Ward

reasons Wolves is fucked number 1: asking ridiculous prices for shit players we want rid of

xp nah he's good imo but very defoe tho

latest from the insufferable rumour sausage machine that is arry's rangers is him and pulis are contemplating swapping mackie for crouch

mackie and walters at the same damn time, can u imag?

parliament should have convened and sent in the army to stop the unholy union of arry and qpr ever coming together tbh, it's like steptoe & son meets ghostbusters ii

very defoe tho

That's the main reason I couldn't see him at Spurs - unless there was a personality thing and AVB wanted rid (or wanted a cheaper replacement). I think he's less likely than Defoe to have a pop from distance and more likely than Defoe to get on the end of a tap-in but it's otherwise a fair comparison.

sounds like a slight upgrade then

Not as quick as Defoe & is untested at EPL level - though he has held his own in Europe. On balance I'd say Defoe was the better player at this moment but if you factor in age and also wages vs return I'd take Hooper.

Oh mario. Not with a B but a W eh? Like a girlfriend you've spent half a decade cheating on and emotionally abusing more or less with impunity coming to you and telling you that she's dumping you because she doesnt like your new aftershave or some shit.

If that's an in any way fair assessment of their relative abilities then yes please hooper

I already miss Balotelli being in England. And I'm not even in England myself ;_;

http://wallsoccer.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mario-balotelli-wiki.gif

RIP MARIO. You will be mourned.

http://www.thesweetescape.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/stephanie-marrott-goodnight-sweet-prince.jpg

There's that, and the pass to Aguero - name another good thing he did on an English pitch? <3 the guy obviously, but

He was there, IK, that was enough.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dno0Z6rP1qabuh5o1_500.gif

think any badmouthing on the RIP thread is in poor taste tbh

How long do we reckon Balotelli's going to last now? Move to AC in January?

― Number None, Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:13 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

Just a year or so out

I hope he's sensational for Milan btw. A couple of goals to dump Barca out the CL'd be a decent start.

He's got to be great at some point really, doesn't he? When he gets the winning goal at the Etihad in next season's Champs League knock-out stages it will be fucking all time.

Don't know too much about Milan atm, but the prospect of Mario and El Shawaary forming a devastating partnership for club and country over the next half a decade is an appealing one

Not everyone is as sad to see Mario go

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RBdXfTzbq8zkVFu0KknFqQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptussowexperts/mario-m_1663141a.jpeg

i miss mario but a new setting may be good to update his act. and its not like the english press is going to forget the guy - the last person (jm) they truly loved and went abroad is still plastered over the back pages at all times

That's the main reason I couldn't see him at Spurs - unless there was a personality thing and AVB wanted rid (or wanted a cheaper replacement). I think he's less likely than Defoe to have a pop from distance and more likely than Defoe to get on the end of a tap-in but it's otherwise a fair comparison.

You're missing the one reason I could see him at Spurs, which is we only currently have one striker who is on the verge of physically breaking down. This was why I asked whether he was any good or likely to be a stopgap/panic buy squad player.

He's got to be great at some point really, doesn't he?

Definitely, I mean I don't get the sense he's going to get fat or lazy or anything like that but he definitely needs the right manager and Mancini definitely wasn't. Not sure Allegri is that guy either though.

“Wanyama will soon be joining one of the big two clubs in the world.”
His performance against St Mirren on Sunday makes me think he's found his level in Scotland tbh.

― Stop Gerrying Me! (onimo), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:18 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was discussing this with a colleague this morning and he made the very good point that Wanyama had the look of a man who was told by his agent not to get injured, hence his willingness to give Paul McGowan the freedom of Hampden.

People who think balotelli is destined to become great confuse me. If yr the type who thinks he's great now, fair enough i disagree but your criteria are just different nbd. But he's not ever going to get any better, he's peaked. Found out. Bengal lancer etc.

He may not become more skilful, quick or strong - but he can maybe get better at not being a dick, not getting sent off, not ignoring his team-mates, etc. which would all make him a more productive footballer.

Don't think Balotelli was even remotely "found out" in the Premiership. "Found out" is what happens to limited but briefly terrifying attacking players with a few tricks that defenders get wise to. It was pretty obvious that he didn't really care in his latter months - a more motivated, focused and level-headed Balotelli would be world class and impossible for most players to deal with. But he needs the right manager to get that out of him.

english society is to blame, he deserves better

Also for all that I think he's a cunt he's been man-managed by an absolute idiot. This is the player who was left out of the team for weeks and when he was eventually brought on played the pass that won City the title.

balotelli is a goddamn angel

that pass to Aguero was his first and last Premier League assist

Wow seriously?

yup

People who think balotelli is destined to become great confuse me. If yr the type who thinks he's great now, fair enough i disagree but your criteria are just different nbd. But he's not ever going to get any better, he's peaked. Found out. Bengal lancer etc.

― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 11:13 (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

a nothing player for all to see

Found out can mean anything eamon dunphy wants

In this case, it means "the guy's not that good, not even potentially"

I can't see why he's rated as 'potentially' any higher than any other inconsistent chancer with the odd trick, without even a fuckin work ethic like idk tuncay or even jason fuckin roberts.

idg why this is so polemical

balotelli is basically like in the simpsons where mr burns makes a perfect worker automaton but puts homer's brain in

OTM.

he really is extremely talented, more or less complete cuz he's big, pretty fast and technically excellent, and he reads the game pretty well

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 15:36 (1 year ago) Bookmark

thread is just the old what use is talent with shitty application chestnut, answer not much, case closed

― r|t|c, Monday, 17 December 2012 14:28 (1 month ago) Bookmark

i feel for mancini, it's a real "if u love him set him free" moment ;_;

looks like napoli have got rolando, sparing u all from the "aztec miskick" type joeks i had ready in the chamber

Mancini's father (john lithgow)

west ham signing paul robinson

can we get a fund together to fly dmac into london to take his rightful place in the deadline day mob behind the upton park ssn reporter

ESTEPONA, Spain, January 30 (R-Sport) - Christopher Samba has fled Anzhi Makhachkala's winter training camp in Spain for England without informing club staff, coach Guus Hiddink said Wednesday.

"He left for England yesterday. I hope that today or tomorrow we'll find out what has really happened," Hiddink said.

"It's a shame to talk about this but he didn't even say goodbye, he didn't explain anything to us. Whatever happens to you, you should take into account the people with whom you work," he said.

On my mind today: what does Lewis Holtby talk like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1yIFN0v2wE

quite normally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3eFDzj2KHA

in related news i was thinking today if schteve hasnt been harshly judged, dutch does seems to be a remarkably catchy language

Rumours of Kranjcar to QPR as well now. I imagine Harry just going round humming 'The Boys Are Back In Town' for the whole of transfer deadline day.

It does have that maddening familiarity to an English-speaking ear, which probably makes people think if they just approximate the accent they'll be understood

xps that's slightly disappointing. He sounds like a foreign player gets when he's been at Liverpool for three or four years, actually.

Will he get his Magnificent Seven by the end of the week?

xp

hargeaves was like that as well, decade(s) in germany don't seem to stick the way dutch does

conversely dutch guys always stay dutch whereas your molbys and hamanns adapt

Always liked that Bergkamp, and other Dutch players, when talking about trophies would call them "prizes"

all the Scandinavian players seem to lose their accents really easily

It does have that maddening familiarity to an English-speaking ear, which probably makes people think if they just approximate the accent they'll be understood

― Number None, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 13:01 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

idk there is an element of acting to speaking languages imo. cf monoglot brits who literally can't conceive any progression from "bon jore gem apple"

Rumours of Kranjcar to QPR as well now. I imagine Harry just going round humming 'The Boys Are Back In Town' for the whole of transfer deadline day.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 13:00 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

i for one am eagerly awaiting a mendes davis pamarot triple swoop

Kei Kamara from Kansas City to Norwich City, huh? Didn't really see that one coming.

Gotta be another "well, he's a hard worker" kind of move.

Coutinho signs, this is getting interesting

Yes! That Suso-Borini-Sturridge-Coutinho-Suarez-Sterling forward line is going to be so good. Play him tonight, Bren.

there's something suspicious about this Coutinho transfer

Kamara really upped his game when he moved to Kansas City. I think his style would work in England.

What?! That he might be good? That we haven't paid £35m?

yeah, all those things

Sturridge coutinho 20m the pair idk that seems p good atm

Leroy Fer to Everton fell through

Any word on why? 'Medical issues' doesn't sound too good.

Dutch press is saying there was a deal with Everton, but apparantly there's excess fluid in his knee. Everton still wanted him after this, but wanted to pay less than first agreed. Twente said no to that: end of story.

Sour grapes for Filip Djuricic from Heerenveen who was going to replace Fer at Twente.

Can they play Coutinho behind a Suarez/Sterling/Sturridge front three or is his preferred position on one of the wings? They need to give Sterling a rest whatever happens really.

I had to look up 'sour grapes'

Reports say not that Everton wanted to pay less, but they wanted to restructure the deal which made full payment conditional on appearances.

Wolves sell Zoob, no signings in sight, looking forward to derby matches at Walsall next season

IK <3

Aldo, I just heard that too, that Everton wanted additional clauses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h_f1N51Gv9c

yacouba sylla?

"Yacouba Sylla (born 29 November 1990 in Étampes) is a French football player who plays for The English Premier League club Aston Villa ."

1995–2002 Étampes
2002–2006 Barcelona (B)
2006–2007 Montferrand
2007–2008 Malesherbes
2008–2009 Caen
2009–2010 Clermont Foot

lol think someone's made more than one change to his wiki page tonight

Yeah, was reassured by his one billion goals in 18 appearances at senior level for the Clermont lads

just what the squad needed though right? no danger of our midfield looking creaky and decrepit now there's a sprightly young 22 year old come to spruce things up a bit. Much needed injection of youth

Lambo is possibly confident that he has stumbled on another prodigious human win button a la Benteke

Hooper missing multiple sitters tonight, playing his way out of any move. Wanyama's pish as well. Bring on Juve.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/30/qpr-christopher-samba-anzhi?

Almost by way of consolation, Anzhi expect to sign the Brazilian winger Willian from Shakhtar Donetsk for around £29m.

£12.5m for chris samba

On 27 June, the move was confirmed by Real Madrid after Varane successfully passed his medical.[28][29] Varane signed a six-year contract with the club and the transfer fee is purported to be in the range of €10 million.[30]

im not even sure it's a bad signing for qpr but the amount desperate epl teams will pay for solid midtable epl players never ceases to dismay

Asked about the reasoning behind his decision to head for Spain, Varane told L'Equipe: "PSG? The project there wasn't clear. The Qataris had only just arrived and it was all very vague.

"Manchester United? They had just signed Phil Jones in my position.

jones was overpriced but so were ferdinand and carrick so assuming ferguson can extract some sort of actual fitba player from the irrepressable bigness and shoutiness they have a solid dependable player for a decade or more

would have been nice to see varane cluelessly running around all over english pitches

i think he's good. I think he's a central defender though

im not even sure it's a bad signing for qpr but the amount desperate epl teams will pay for solid midtable epl players never ceases to dismay

― How many of these effluential surveys do you take? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 23:47 (7 minutes ago)

as soon as ur having to sign a player to do something for you right now next game ur fucked basically

He went anzhi for around that i spose

yeah when yr judging value relative to prices paid by spendthrift russian billionaires

yeah but by same token they're not under pressure to sell or anything

right now the wages and release clauses etc are most important

samba they can probably resell for £8m to stoke if they are relegated, boswingas lingering in the reserves in the championship on £3m+ a year are more of a problem

i swear to god i had Yacouba Sylla playing for Lincoln or something in FM 2010

we've signed an 18 year-old midfielder from Newport, season saved

RT @KaiWayne: More transfer news. Paul Scholes' Chevrolet has just changed hands for 20,000 euros just outside Calais.

RT @SBNationSoccer: HARRY REDKNAPP INTERVIEW ON SKY FROM HIS CAR! HARRY REDKNAPP INTERVIEW ON SKY FROM HIS CAR! IT'S REALLY DEADLINE DAY!

Harry interviewed from scholes car, obv its not his car its someone elses car so e dont wannur say too much but its a car e likes an summink could appen

Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani has given the Italy international striker a special red pen with which to ink the deal worth 4m euro a year net

"I'm only signing if I get a special red pen!"

Wolves manager Dean Saunders today vowed to build a promotion-challenging team at Molineux next season.

good to see we'll be aiming to get straight back into the Championship

Scharner returns to Wigan on loan until the end of the season

Rumours of Kranjcar to QPR as well now. I imagine Harry just going round humming 'The Boys Are Back In Town' for the whole of transfer deadline day.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 13:00 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

i for one am eagerly awaiting a mendes davis pamarot triple swoop

― r|t|c, Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:12 PM (Yesterday)

BOOM BOOM POW

he's reaching roy keane levels of shame now. at this rate he'll sign eyal berkovic.

javier margas could do a job.

how do you even put a value on David Bentley now?

if you can kick a ball into a skip across the street you get him for free

i have no comment to make at this time

townsend arrives for medical, told to sod back off

one down two to go

Dunno quite where Harry thinks he's going with two players he previously dropped in a relegation dogfight and one he never bothered to play in the first place.

All the way to bank, knowing Harry *nudge nudge wink wink*

Samba reportedly on the same wages as Vincent Kompany.

has football gone mad?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2251973/Harry-Redknapp-Well-act-early-transfer-window-wait-Spurs-cast-offs.html

oh my sides

Becchio to Norwich

Beckham to PSG?

apparently yes

becchio swap with steve morison. about as rub as each other i'd have said

0737: TRANSFER LATEST
Fulham are poised to sign Urby Emanuelson on loan from AC Milan for the rest of the season.

The Dutch international midfielder played for Fulham manager Martin Jol during his time in charge of Ajax.

"He can play left midfield, wide, play number 10, and I feel we need fresh legs," says Jol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kirby_Wii.png

maybe morison a bit better even xp

we've signed an 18 year-old midfielder from Newport, season saved

― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 January 2013 09:18 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

never know, new kights...? i see mick signed that anthony wordsworth for 200k, quite good

Lee Evans might be a good one for the future, know nothing against the lad, it's just that we're dropping players left right and centre and the squad already is clearly relegation fodder

Looks like Hoffenheim are set to finally end Heurelho Gomes's era of hapless misery.

Wolves turn down £300,000 for Stephen Ward. Noodle Vague turns down offer of cyanide Cuba Libre but is keeping his options open.

HAHA Tim Wiese their current no.1 is even flakier than Gomes.

xp

Why the hell is Danny Graham going to Sunderland? How is that an improvement?

Does O'Neill favour 2 strikers? I thought Fletcher was lone striker which would mean Graham not getting many more minutes than he does at Swansea.

Does O'Neill favour 2 strikers?

tbh I think he would prefer 0

... if he could get away with it

Yeah yeah yeah Michu whatever but do Swansea have another striker lined up or anything? They basically have Luke Moore, who doesn't really get a game, and no one else as far as I can see.

Danny graham probs just told that laudrup wants rid and it was sunderland -and boro coming in for him. Obvious choice is obvious.

Dismayed by Matt spiro describing this Sylla lad as "intriguing". No top flight games, one appearance for the u21s. If lambert was managing anyone else I'd admire the stubborn cunt for sticking so adamantly to his guns. Someone needs to compile him a long list of captains who died horrible lingering deaths at sea after going down with the ship and get that bitch faxed over to him pronto.

Graham looking for move northeast for family reasons iirc, if he's owt like me his family must live in devon

Thudd talking to fulham

Obv clearing bentley and jenas out would be great

Huh, no duplicate message prompt

It is understood that Rangers were put off by Spurs chairman Daniel Levy’s demand that the relegation strugglers take all three players or none at all.

Two of the deals would have had to be permanent because Premier League regulations limit the numbers of loans between top-flight clubs to one per season.

QPR are only willing to return to the negotiating table if Levy is willing to grant them more room for manoeuvre.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2251973/Harry-Redknapp-Well-act-early-transfer-window-wait-Spurs-cast-offs.html

oh my sides

― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 January 2013 12:20 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i reckon levy actually read this and is now doing it for the revenge lolz

so butland to stoke means begovic is off to united/chelsea means chelsea sell courtois to get falcao

amirite

Begovic has said he won't be going anywhere but I dunno how much stock you can put in that.

Begovic can't be overly fastidious in making his choice.

As they say.

Begors can't be choosers

that was the joke

Was it? Is that his nickname a la Aggers, Johnners?

Damn, Begovic was in my fantasy team, he's no good to me sitting on the bench at Chelsea, although the way Stoke have been defending of late good riddance to him.

Also, how much money have Stoke spent over the last few seasons? Seems like it must add up to a fair amount, like Top 6 amounts.

7th highest net spenders since 2003, in fact:
http://transferleague.co.uk/league-tables/transfer-league-table-2003-to-date.html

you can't buy taste, obv

Stoke have failed in a bid for Marseille defender Rod Fanni, according to reports in France.

it just wouldnt be the window without him

butland done

ssn stoke reporter conspicuously stood with his back right up to a metal fence

lol, and who can blame him?

wearing a suit daubed in rentokil

Chris Samba will make more money between now and Tuesday morning than I've made in my entire adult life.

West Midlands rumour mill going bonkers with "Odemwingie is leaving" reports

i saw a working west midlands rumour mill at the black country museum

did you see the managerial merrygoround? very sad.

Knocked down to make way for a Yo-yo Club

@LAGalaxyInsider David Beckham to PSG for five months. During the time he won't receive money with his salary going to a children's charity. #BeckhaminParis

Odemwingie hasn't even been that good since his first season in the Premiership, I dunno who he thinks is going to come in for him. Unless he's got his eye on some kind of lolcontract at QPR or somewhere.

think that's exactly what he's got his eye on

yeah, he specifically stated he had an offer from QPR in his sad little statement

stated in his statement

so psyched for the Wolves fans response on TV tonight to today's excitement

yeah odemwingie is on 40k pw at wba and we're offering a raise

not sure even arry knows why we're after him, certainly no one else in the world has a fucking clue

BREAKING NEWS

dmac spotted on his couch in front of SSN

Sources linking Klata with a very tasty piece of salmon. Move rumoured shortly.

Salmon agrees 24-hour deal. "I just want to get out on the plate to be honest," he said. "I've enjoyed my time in the fridge, but it's time to move on."

Rumoured dream partnership with broccoli subject to delicate handling of notoriously tricky steamer

Salmon promised full disclosure of all the details in his forthcoming biography my story: from river to plate

just going to draw a line under this

________________________________________________________

how much is samba getting paid

should've gone for the squid for 'squid inks deal' hilarity

or rather what ludicrous amount will qprs administrators be handing around on titillatory can you believe this shit postit notes

Theyve got the sky canteen lad talkin about odemwingie he looks terrified

Samba 100k pw

p typical tbh, the one lone signing we've made since pfff idk forever where it ticks all the boxes in a necessary position and it has to be so horrifically, hideously, migraine-inducingly overpriced u can barely take any enjoyment

odemwingie is a very good player

has better than 1 in 4 this season as a winger and 10 epl goals last yr between cf and wings

hes only at wba cuz of the dispute with lokomotiv, could easily have been playing for a liverpool or valencia level team the last few yrs

Chris Baird supposedly going to WBA for £1m. Bargain :(

every dog has his glamorous day

Ulham sign a Furby.

http://cdn.blogs.babble.com/family-kitchen/files/2012/01/105.jpg

sky saying someone's met diame's release clause

odemwingie sitting around at loftus rd without wba's permission

what is hoilett doing these days?

also wasnt faurlin supposed to be your only reliable player

SSN reporting £9.2m bid for Hooper from Norwich. I'd bite their hands off.

rumor blowing up American twitterz about Villa swooping for "a promising player who has recently done well in MLS."

Swedish keeper Viktor Noring at Celtic Park for talks. Fits the model: early 20s but with plenty of 1st team experience and maybe breaking into national team. Zaluska's days numbered after shipping a few in his wee stint while Forrester was injured.

hoilett's done bugger all lately, injured himself for a month after 20 mins just when he got his chance vs chelsea, and since then swp's endeared himself to arry with alleged defensive work

i get the impression he's the sort that only does his best work with a clear mind and if he's not in the zone he gets all harried and ragged. really needs three or four starts in a row, will never impress as a supersub

letting faurlin go on loan is painful (especially for jenas ffs) but he's badly off form right now after being badly mismanaged by hughes on his return from injury (couple of weeks of full 90s minutes then scapegoated for being outmuscled by west ham). much as i don't like it i can see why arry doesnt have the time for him right now what with granero also in the building looking wishy washy

why MLS makes sense for clubs looking for value http://soccernet.espn.go.com/blog/_/name/espnfcunited/id/2920?cc=5901

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Jwtbcuf04

otm

Simon Dawkins? Anything to say about this guy dmac/matt?

so Odemwingie has just been haunting the QPR car park all day?

Are Everton really going to survive this window without losing Baines or Fellaini? Pleased for them.

Dawkins has been playing in MLS for San Jose for at least the past year.

pff, Bobby Z haunts the QPR car park every day

eating his lunch in his car iirc

so Odemwingie has just been haunting the QPR car park all day?

― Number None, Thursday, 31 January 2013 21:08 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

supposedly he just rocked up, gave an interview out his car window about how he reckons "we" can def stay up, and went in expecting it'll sort itself out at some point

in reality arry's probably just taking a leaf out of levy's big book of hardball

Simon Dawkins? Anything to say about this guy dmac/matt?

― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 31 January 2013 21:07 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

wtf this guy is 25? have literally never heard of him

IanJTaylor ‏@IJTaylor81
The club can confirm Peter Odemwingie has NOT entered Loftus Road at all this evening. @SkySportsNews issuing a retraction now. #QPR

LOL

Sky Sports News ‏@SkySportsNews
QPR refused Peter Odemwingie entry to Loftus Road after the striker tries to force his move through. #SSN

Look 'Arry I've got me boots with me just gimme a chance

Mino Raiola must be the best agent there is. He manages to get clubs to sign terrible players, again and again.

He make sure Manolev is going from PSV to Fulham today (obv with some help from Jol, but still). Manolev, a right back, is a tragic story: he has been butchered by pundits here for running forward like a chicken with his head cut off, and delivering the worst of cross passes (think balls flying out of the stadium). He became a cult-figure of some sorts, a bit like Jason 'Pineapple' Lee. Raiola managed to offload him at Fulham. That transfer deserves a prize of some sorts.

I do like him and always felt sorry for Manolev. If you don't mind a defender losing the ball near the goal on the other half, and three seconds later you are a goal behind, want to laugh at his hoooofballs, Manolev is your go to guy. Embrace him, England.

Is Dan Ashworth still running tings at WBA or has left already? Not sure he'd wanna lose face to a player mugging him off like this.

Stoke got their more photogenic fans out this time
http://i.imgur.com/3eEQCzJ.png

Damiao deal dead. See you all next time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7VKpT8zdsg

def looks like leeds united material

When United signed Berbatov he got on a plane to Manchester and Fergie pretty much met him at the airport and then handcuffed himself to him for the rest of the day. Think Harry's probably got a bit too much on for that level of dedicated with Odemwingie.

Also I was about to scoff about how a Spurs youth team product with zero appearances is not really what Villa need right now and then I realised he's 25 years old. Fucking hell.

Man, it's going to be really fucking annoying when Damiao signs for Chelsea in the summer.

still waiting for Liverpool to do something stupid tbh

Liverpool have probably had the best transfer window of anyone.

Seeing reports now that Levy isn't working on any alternatives to Damiao, so we'll be left with just Defoe and Adebayor until the summer. Hmmmm.

I thought Defoe was broken?

how is it possible that Spurs can't get a agree a deal for Damiao at the fourth (or whatever is is) time of asking. He's got to be a beard

Mind you, Liverpool have also said (or .BR has) that resigning Stevie Me in the summer s one of their priorities.

Former England defender Martin Keown on the Peter Odemwingie saga: "It stinks of a poor education - Odemwingie should have behaved better. He's a good player but can be replaced by West Brom. It's clear the move is all about the money for Odemwingie."

His poor education has led him to believe that increasing his wages is a bad thing.

how is it possible that Spurs can't get a agree a deal for Damiao at the fourth (or whatever is is) time of asking. He's got to be a beard

Failed Levy hardmanning.

resigning or re-signing? He's been really good recently in fairness, I'm more worried about shifting on the makeweights, and especially stopping Joe Allen from sliding into that category

odemwingie is the son of a doctor and can speak better english than keown, not sure if that criticism holds water

this is awe-inspiring

http://arsenalssillyseason.blogspot.co.uk/p/201213-winter-rumours.html

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never trust someone whose parents couldn't spell their chosen forename correctly

although bantonhunter didn't have many followers, each one of those went on to break a transfer story

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BB-LELCCMAEdOoj.jpg:large

Two prettiest things i ever saw in yellow, jenas gone and nat sawyer in that top

damn, Harry just consigned Odemwingie to the abyss

Thats the same as if he pulled the trigger himself

Haha yeah he's really thrown in him under the bus with that comment. Serves the silly cunt right, but "I feel sorry for the lad. Wires got crossed. Can't be done now" is basically just 'Arry backing away from the baying sanctimonious hordes - shaking his head, eyes wide and with his hands raised. werent me guv

You just know he was 100% down with the idea until West Brom got their lawyers involved.

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Does Odemwingie need a place to stay tonight?

Urby, Enoh and Manolev all sign for Fulham today. Interesting. Looking forward to see how Bryan and Enoh play together in midfield. Bryan Enoh. Geddit?

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damn, Harry just consigned Odemwingie to the abyss

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harry was looking pretty consigned to the abyss himself

did this get posted earlier

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8230/8434165378_c6350e19ec_o.gif

hand on shoulder ugh

Beckham will donate all PSG wages to children's charity
David Beckham will give away the money he will earn from his five-month PSG contract to a good cause

what a fucking cunt

Arsene Wenger moved to ease his left-back crisis on Thursday night with a shock £6million swoop for Nacho Monreal.

The 26-year-old arrived in London to complete his move to the Emirates Stadium after Gunners officials finalised the deal with Malaga officials in the afternoon.

Sportsmail revealed how Wenger would make a move for a new left-back on transfer deadline day after Kieran Gibbs was ruled out for three weeks with a thigh injury.

yeah im sure wenger bought a player to replace someone who is missing three games rather than because he finally worked out kieran gibbs is a drooling imbecile

play jenko at lb imho

h for 'hilares, bro'

nacho m was at least siemlich boss at osasuna no?

TheReturnOfKK

01 February 2013 12:05am

Honestly I don't think Carroll was so bad. Had Kenny stayed he would still be at LFC and probably successful too.

As for the doubters, he did make Terry dance in the FA Cup Final.

this is awe-inspiring

http://arsenalssillyseason.blogspot.co.uk/p/201213-winter-rumours.html

The best thing about this is that the guy they did sign doesn't appear until the deal was done.

inter replace Coutingo with the highly rated Mateo Kovacic

Transfer window failing to live up to the hype yet again

Thing is, all transfer windows in this country are forever doomed to be measured up to those two absurd final days - the Torres / Carroll madness in January, and that amazing few hours in summer 2008 when City got bought out and snaffled up Robinho from nowhere, and Fergie absconded with Berba. Both of those days kinda felt like paradigm shifts to me at the time but in actual fact they were probably just anomalies. Only need to look at how each of those deals worked out to see why really. Even Berbatov for £30 mil looks pretty steep these days but I don't think it felt so at the time.

it was considered way over the odds at the time

Eh, maybe it was just my perception of the market, what with some of the other mad fees getting paid that day. I was 16 and I wasn't quite so interested in foosball at the time. Too busy learning to smoke and scratching Smiths lyrics into my arm with a fountain pen iirc

Nah when United signed Berbatov he was a 20+ goal a season striker three seasons running and all the rhetoric was around him being the missing piece of the jigsaw with Rooney and Ronaldo. It looks steep in hindsight because he never quite worked out for them in the way everyone expected, although he still had a ratio of almost one in two for them.

nope, the reaction from Utd fans was extremely skeptical. And there were a lot of complaints about the price

£30m'd get you almost anyone nowadays though, there's been considerable deflation going on for a while now

Yeah I was more talking about the media reaction than the fans reaction, although the United fans I do know where pretty excited when they signed him.

xp though Anzhi have paid £30m to Shakhtar for Willian, I guess prices are still holding up in some places. Seems a silly move what with Shakhtar still being in the Champions League and Willian being coveted elsewhere and all

Not sure anyone else would have paid £30m for him and getting Taison in for £12m seems a decent move.

Liverpool are compiling a dossier on the fitness issues that have plagued Daniel Sturridge’s career after it emerged he has injured his left thigh nine times.

The England striker is faced with another six week lay-off after he broke down in training on Monday. It is the second time this season Sturridge has injured the muscle, but Liverpool’s medical staff are now processing his history from previous clubs in an attempt to get to the bottom of it.

Sturridge is set to meet manager Brendan Rodgers on Friday to discuss the situation and the prospect of an operation cannot be ruled out. Rodgers said: ‘It was in a session and quite an innocuous action. He did it when he just flicked the ball. It wasn’t a shot or anything that looked serious. But obviously he felt the pain and then when the medical team told me the next day after the scan, it was disappointing.

this would be the third extremely quick talismanic liverpool centre forward with a liability to muscular injuries that they have burned out in a decade

also 'it emerged' = someone took a screenshot of his injury on transfermarkt or suchlike and sent it around twitter

injury history