biggest actual transfer of the summer (2011) in world soccerball

Sturridge to Barca for 150 million Euro

huh. i just assumed he'd stay at city forever, never knew that was a rumour.

tevez probably

tevez, kun or pastore i reckon

good thread

aguero is pretty likely to leave

will be a lot but maybe less than he would a year or two back

that is, less than he would of, were he to of been sold

apart from tevez, cesc, neymar and maybe lukaku who's actually gonna spend the big bucks on any of these guys besides city and spurs?

cesc - to barca or real
kaka - to city, chelsea or milan
dani alves - see kaka
sneijder - city or utd
de gea - utd, bayern or arsenal
hazard - p much every club in the world
tevez - real, bayern or inter
neymar - see hazard
england's own scott parker - spurs or lol city bench
lukaku - see hazard
the collective journey men of hotspurs - sunderland
kun - chelsea, barca or utd?
pastore - city, arsenal or milan clubs
cavani - inter, juve or real? or just to napoli?
pato - chelsea or real
drogba - real or inter
vidic - real
benzema - arsenal or utd
berbatov - bayern or juve?
someone else
transfer fees die between now and june
no-one buys anyone
tbh once the fa investigate harry's latest bargain, it will end up costing everyone

noticed i missed neuer, gomez, the dortmund team, gourcuff and lol french transfers who end up at lyon

ok then i forgot chelsea

So... how bad is it that I saw Hazard and assumed someone had lobbed in Mickey Hazard for lols?

i don't know who that is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNGr9KUpPdI

SUAREZ

joke

It's really not xps - I take more of an interest in French footy than most here and I never ever end up watching Lille.

In fact, I now definitely know I've never seen him because I just gis'ed him and it turns out that contrary to my understanding he's white. I must've got him and Lukaku mixed up somehow.

i've watched him a handful of times in the past two years, mostly for belguim instead of lille and atm he is like aaron lennon but with actual footballing ability and brilliant technique.

i don't know who that is

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So... how bad is it that I saw Hazard and assumed someone had lobbed in Mickey Hazard for lols?

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i don't know who that is

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the ILF culture clash encapsulated

two tribes, and ne'er the twain shall meet

milan pick up both taiwo and mexes for free. seems sensible.
saw on twitter rafa honigstein said the idea of berba to bayern is "complete nonsense"

yes, just like the rest of ahh's feverish speculation

mexes is crap but can't argue with those two on a free. berlusconi will most likely probably manage some nefarious bargain ibrahimovic shenanigan for kaka to come back as well

basically once the dust settles on whatever happens this summer everyone will look to madrid and say "fuck, why didnt we pop over to germany and sign nuri sahin for like 5 mil"

£8.8m to be exact

still ridic

Llorente?

nobody else would get him for that tho

ppl like sahin just love to chance it at madrid

On 15 July 2010, Real Madrid confirmed the transfer of León, for €10 million.[8][9]

During the course of 2010–11, however, León appeared rarely for Real Madrid: after assuming he would start against AJ Auxerre in the Champions League in late September, he was immediately dropped from the list of 18 by coach José Mourinho.[14] Later, he was ridiculed in the press by his own manager when the latter justified his absence.[15]

Additionally, León was also not allowed to leave on loan in the winter transfer window, after renewed interest from Chelsea.[17] In March 2011, after the market had closed, Hércules CF tried to acquire the player in the same predicament, following Tote's severe knee injury, but Real Madrid refused again

exclusion of the summers likely biggest transfer of g bale outwards pure trolling i take it

xp león apparently played a game where he ignored mourinho's gameplan and just did what he felt like. unsurprisingly that sort of did for his madrid career.

not like he was ever going to do shit for madrid anyway

http://www.sportingpreview.com/prem_news/10110950.php?

"...however the absence of Champions League football at either venue is sure to hinder their chances."

lol i just forgot g bale

tbh i don't think he'll leave this summer

also feverish speculation? i only expect like 3 of these transfers to happen. i'm just bored of talking about utd.

Think Kun could generate the biggest cash offer potentially, but now that Chelsea have blown/invested £50 mill on Torres not sure who else has the money, although could be a tevez replacement at City I guess.

Most of this lot aren't going anywhere I reckon. Tevez to Real probably, although a ludicrous Kaka transfer to Man City where he flops and spend the second half of the season on the bench/at Galatasary on loan might be a possibility.

inter has shown a lot of interest in tevez, would not rule that out considering their failed season. juventus will probably try to buy every striker in the world just like last summer but this time it's said they will actually have a spending budget to match their ambitions, which theoretically could mean benzema (jose still hates him?) or kun (about time he moved?) i guess

Kakà back to Milan is the most inevitable move ever. Egomaniac Drogba reunited with egomaniac mentor Mourinho at god's own Real Madrid has a similar ordering-the-universe feel about it.

I most want to see who punts on Lukaku, and for how much. Mid-teen-millions to understudy Dzeko is the most underwhelming prospect I can imagine here.

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My vote is currently tormenting Once Caldas in the Libertadores quarterfinals. Love Robinho but I don't think he's ever been as direct or single-minded in attack as this kid looks to be already. It's as if C-Ron had skipped 2003-06 and gone straight to scoring mode. Not saying he'll be *that* good soon or ever, just that he's obviously not content stuck out on the left wing doing stepovers.

lukaku looks like spurs' best bet y/n in ilf's opinion?

Thought you had to have a selloff just to meet the bills now that the CL money's gone? Lukakus don't come cheap.

we need to selloff just to make sense of the squad, but we need to balance the quality of the first team too.

Doing it cost-neutral is possible imo, but money's there salted away from not being spent in jan if nothing else

On the other hand there are two of them. Check out this cute little guy, sure to be terrorizing Bundesliga defences by 2014

http://www.rsca.be/photodbase/articles/lukakuj.jpg

Anyway at 18 years 5 days old and with no experience outside the Belgian league Lukaku is the kind of luxury gamble only a Real Madrid or whoever can afford. I think Llorente or even Forlán would make more sense (imagine the latter would have to take a serious pay cut though).

llorente is a safer bet but would still be hugely expensive you'd have thought.

Demba ba it is

Dunno, are Bilbao known for driving a hard bargain? They only play Basques so they're not about to go on a buying spree.

Love Demba Ba, he deserved better than West Ham even before this latest fucking thing. He failed a medical at Stoke in the winter though, what was that about?

summer will tell i guess

Stoke medical = jumping as high as u can he must have failed on that count as there is no other iirc

Lukaku will work wherever he goes tbh.

Oh btw Pirlo has officially left Milan. Quote: "It's a consensual separation. Do I hope Milan will regret losing me? Yes."

Could be the bargain of the year if he gets healthy. Juve are favorites to sign him - Aquilani back to Liverpool maybe?

would love pirlo at arsenal.

For his actual play or for "leadership" / "knows how to win" / various intangibles?

sure that and he's pirlo

Wait, you've never heard of Mickey Fucking Hazard? The Le Tis of the 80s? Ish.

i graduated the 80s as a 1 year old.

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