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

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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

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

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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

― Number None, Thursday, 31 January 2013 22:51 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

harry was looking pretty consigned to the abyss himself

did this get posted earlier

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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