Window of transfers 2007!

Is anyone going in for Brian McBride? I can see Everton or Newcastle or someone benefiting from having him in the squad.

If Robbie Keane was fit, I think he might have gone to Villa.

How good is this Bale wonderkid?

His record is excellent - top scorer in the SPL despite playing for a team in the bottom half. 13 goals in 17 games. Looks a natural finisher and has a bit of pace.
Not much of a centre half though :-P

-- Onimo drank ALL the wine! (gerry.wat...) (webmail), December 29th, 2006 6:17 PM. (nu_onimo) (later)

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It's worth bearing in mind though that 6 of his goals came against Dunfermline who remain shite and Dundee Utd who were shite at the time.
-- Onimo drank ALL the wine! (gerry.wat...) (webmail), December 29th, 2006 6:18 PM. (nu_onimo) (later)

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Anthony Stokes has scored a fair few goals (one against us that took Falkirk to penalties against us in the CIS Cup), and got Neil Lennon sent off last week. Don't suppose he's endearing himself to the Celtic support much. He looks a pretty good player. Then again, so did Derek Riordan, so again, I'm not convinced Celtic need him or that he'll be great if he gets there.

xpost!

-- ailsa_xx (ailsa.watson@...) (webmail), December 29th, 2006 6:21 PM. (ailsa_xx) (later)

Summary: looks alright, but not convinced he's anything special. (this was written before Derek Riordan decided to get good a day later and keep his place in the team after six months of scratching his arse on the bench or in the stand)

I'm wondering if someone will make a mega-bid for Aaron Lennon or whether they'll wait til the summer.

I hope we make a mega-bid for Ledley.

How long is Hargreaves crocked for?

Celtic have Steven Pressley. Rangers supposed to be unveiling Andy Webster today. A couple of weeks ago I was having a conversation with someone (possibly Onimo, probably my brother) about how that would show how Celtic had come on, when we sign the younger talented one and Rangers would ignore him and go in all guns blazing for the past-it old haddie. Got *that* one wrong, didn't we?

Shevchenko farmed off on loan. Please.

My mate (who's a Southampton fan) raves about him (not in the musical sense).

Chelsea now look badly in need of wide players

I thought they had them, they were just choosing not to use them.

lampardisfatjoke.doc

I hope Pearce is considering a move for Robbie Keane. I don't think he's ever failed to score against us.

Not really. Cole crocked, and Robben almost always selected when fit. SWP played a lot recently and is terrible.

Robben is injured, Joe Cole is out for ages and it looks like SWP has gone to pot over all that time on the bench. Doesn't leave many options.

Bring back Pat Nevin.

Wot no Villa signings?

at least one assist (swooping cross) for Drogba over the festive period

then of course he fell over

what about if they loaned him to exeter and he scored like 40 goals, wouldn't you still have to pay out? does the bet specify goals scored for chelsea?

Jesper Gronkjaer - 5/3
Mario Melchiot - 5/1
Mario Stanic - 10/1
Gianfranco Zola - 50/1
Winston Bogarde - 500/1

Dude for a second after reading that I sat there worrying about whether it might actually happen. Then I realised what I was doing.

Spurs to offload some of their large number of midfielders? Matt?

Murphy, Davids, Ziegler? Routledge to make Pompey switch permanent?

Routledge I think might still be in the long-term picture but I haven't seen enough of him to tell whether he should've been called back from Fulham when Lennon got injured.

I have had enough Exeter City Bizarro for the time being thank you very much, and am quite happy for now with the (hopefully rewarding) gring of Exeter City sane-and-responsiblo.

Change of manager, some exotically named chap from Eastern Europe arrives, dressing room not a happy place apparently. String of draws, turning into a string of losses.

However, they do seem to have signed a bunch of players and they've just got Colin Lee back again as Asst Manager so maybe they'll pull it around. It does look bad and everyone involved is giving the impression of hating everyone else involved.

I feel sorry for them and hope they stay up, or at least get a Trust in place fast enough to be a safety net if everything goes wrong.

I was reading about a classic incident where they demanded their keeper (Abbey) move to TQ, despite only having a few months left on his contract. Keeper says he will, but only if they give him a new, 18 month deal. They say: no. Abbey's contract terminated by mutual consent, but he plays another game. TQ are 2-0 down with 20 minutes to go, and Kubik uses his final substitution to replace Abbey with their only other keeper, who's a young 'un. Explains that they were going to get nowt from the game anyway so they might as well give their new first team keeper some experience! This reminds me so much of the goings on at ECFC a few years back, I could cry.

DISCLAIMER: all of the above has been gleaned from gossip and interweb innuendo.

I have heard their new keeper (Horsell?) is actually pretty decent. They'll need him to be.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/torquay_united/6240243.stm

"Kubik has admitted some players are not happy with something at Plainmoor.

""In the last couple of weeks I have had some talks with the players," Kubik told BBC Radio Devon.

""But they have not given me any idea of whether we at the club are doing anything wrong but there is something here that is not right.""