2014 Transfer Window Thread (Summer)

[Drew.]

The big one is coming this year

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bc2koCmIcAElTVL.jpg:large

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[Alf]

Hull City are gonna put in a 1m offer to Celtic for Samaras.

[Shaun]

forgot this opens today

looking forward to the 82 arsenal rumours

[Alf]

Just hope the all the (so called) big clubs keep their greedy fingers away from Barkley.

[Black Dagger]

-Hopefully we get some solid defense in-

I can't see us doing anything though, City hardly ever do in Jan, unless it's sending them packing, and Dzeko is pretty much here until the Summer and I can't see Garcia pissing off.

[Drew.]

Hopefully Lewandowski ends up at Madrid so we can get our hands on this man

http://blog.footballrascal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Alvaro-Morata-alvaro-morata-martin-32584858-428-365.jpeg

[Locke.]

Adam Morgan from Liverpool to Yeovil on a free.

Be interesting to see how he does, was brilliant for our youth and reserve team but didn't really look like he was good enough to ever be first team here. Wouldn't be surprised if he eventually ended up at one of the smaller clubs in the league though

[Marc]

Hi

[MTVN]

Heitinga has rejected us the bastard

Be amazing if we can get Ba back like some people are saying

[Novo]

you know it's bad when someone that struggles to make the Everton bench rejects you

[Chuck]

Berbatov to Arsenal, is it true omg

[MTVN]

you know it's bad when someone that struggles to make the Everton bench rejects you

His loss, no chance of making the World Cup as a bench warmer

[Drew.]

Berbatov to Arsenal, is it true omg

Morata or Pato please

[Nemo123]

Berbatov to Arsenal, is it true omg

Be a great signing.

[Nemo123]

Morata or Pato please


Or Potato even.

[Shaun]

I don't want Berbatov go away

edit: THEN AGAIN I suppose it's better than nothing

[Chuck]

If you had watched our league, you wouldn't want Pato, Drew :idc: I bet he could give Shaun a few nights of pleasure though

[Chuck]

Bendtner > Pato

[Drew.]

Pato managed like 50 goals in 110 league apps at Milan, he'd work under Wenger. (if he stayed fit)

[Locke.]

Heitinga has rejected us the bastard

Be amazing if we can get Ba back like some people are saying

I hear Jon Daly is available

[Shaun]

If you had watched our league, you wouldn't want Pato, Drew :idc: I bet he could give Shaun a few nights of pleasure though

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlxf0DBEM1qzlvmi.gif

[Black Dagger]

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/Alexandre-Pato-ac-milan.jpg

He looks a bit gormless, he'd probably try sticking it in your ear.

[Drew.]

thats a really old photo

[Chuck]

He's fit now actually. That silly Milan lab or something only destroys players. Take Pato and Pirlo as examples.

[Drew.]

He'd fit in here

[Novo]

I hear Jon Daly is available

they can have him but not Gingerbear, but he actually has a footballing brain so i doubt Big Sam would be interested

[Black Dagger]

http://cam111.com/uploadfile/newsphoto/2013/0112/8255205356.jpg

Okay I'll let him off :amazed:

[Shaun]

http://fastfoode.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/alexandre-pato-vogue-brasil-by-mario-testino-01.jpg

excuse u

[Drew.]

The Pato avatar will be returning once my short love for Bendter disappears

[Chuck]

http://s2.glbimg.com/9gnX2h5Uf26qg1ov2u9wWzyER_k=/0x0:690x609/690x609/s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2013/12/29/alexandrepato_ferias_instagram_690.jpg

[Chuck]

and how silly is that pic of him with straight hair

[Drew.]

Berbatov just uploaded this to his facebook

http://i.imgur.com/Dibj6JK.png

[Shaun]

:joker: subtle

[Drew.]

Not sure if it was him or his "team" that put it on

[Chuck]

but like... would he be the only striker that we would be signing?

*feels like a proper gunner saying "we"*

[Drew.]

Yup, would probably only be a temp signing until the end of the season though

[King Gizzard]

Heitinga on 60k :joker: He's awful

to think once he was one of the CB hot prospects and Barca wanted him

[King Gizzard]

and berbatov doesnt run his account apparently

[Drew.]

Good, now i can still be hopefully of a propper long term signing

[BBfanUSA]

Wonder if we'll see Jermaine Defoe move to Toronto FC? They should do it now if true, since MLS Starts in March.

[King Gizzard]

Probably waiting to see if he has any chance under Sherwood or if any PL team wants him so he can have a chance to go to the WC. Will be at least February before that happens

[King Gizzard]

arsenal sign kenwyne jones

[Shaun]

aston villa in talks with maurice edu

[Locke.]

Mido
@midoahm

Liverpool is set to sign #Salah next week..He will get into the team straight away as Sterling will be sent out on loan to #swansea

#Salah is the perfect player for Liverpool as his pace and runs behind defenders will create space for Suarez and will give him time on ball

Mido the transfer expert

[Jesus.]

Salah, Suarez, and Coutinho would be as good as anything in the league.

Skrtel out and Papadopolous in as well, for a guaranteed title win.

[King Gizzard]

@SkyFootball Interesting transfer news regarding Luis Suarez coming up at 12pm..

[King Gizzard]

Big Nailsworth transfer news as Lee Hughes moves to Forest Green

[BBfanUSA]

aston villa in talks with maurice edu

He's being passed around like a blunt.

[Brother Leon]

This window will just be depressing again.

[Drew.]

Salah, Suarez, and Coutinho would be as good as anything in the league.

Skrtel out and Papadopolous in as well, for a guaranteed title win.

Salah is great, ripped teams apart in Europe over the last 2 seasons.. From what I've seen Skrtel has been you're best defender this season too

[Novo]

someone needs to make a bid for trippier

[Brother Leon]

Where is bbfan? Transfer threads aren't the same without the bigman.

[Drew.]

Rumour has it he is enjoying a nice curry catching up on the Eastenders omnibus

[MTVN]

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Great news

[Locke.]

Sounds like he will sign for Monaco from Anzhi and then be loaned out right away

Far too good for West Ham

[King Gizzard]

Better than Carroll

not sure about his attitude though

[MTVN]

He has apparently turned down Spurs and Liverpool to join us

[King Gizzard]

Massive Anzhi wages probably

[Locke.]

He has apparently turned down Spurs and Liverpool to join us

:joker:

[Shaun]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25590553

o

[Drew.]

Good

[Shaun]

the "restricted" bit tho

if he doesn't buy anyone :bored:

[King Gizzard]

Ozil was a one off tbh

[Drew.]

yeah we wont be doing anymore £15m + signings for a good while i imagine.. still, Pato and Morata are probably less than that.

[King Gizzard]

Griezmann and Thauvin are there for the taking

[Shaun]

still, Pato and Morata are probably less than that.

:suspect: what u smokin' bro

[Drew.]

Its official

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[Chuck]

Pato would cost you 15m Euros I think.

And there is absolutely no way the project to make Bundesliga bigger than the Premier League will succeed with Bayern buying their rival's players like that.

[Drew.]

:suspect: what u smokin' bro

I will be smoking a big fat cigar when one of those players arrives.

[Brother Leon]

Bayern building some sort of Dream Team. Comes down to Ronaldo preventing them from retaining the CL for the first time in history imo.

[Drew.]

I'd still fancy Madrid over them

[Chuck]

I like all players who snub boring La Liga.

[Drew.]

Honda finally arriving in Milan

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdKBEKDIgAAm4wG.jpg

[bbfan1991]

Julian Draxler and Robert Lewandowski to Bayern Munich then, how will they fit in those two next season with loads of players there already?

[Drew.]

Draxler!? dont do this to me, he must come to Arsenal

[bbfan1991]

Draxler!? dont do this to me, he must come to Arsenal

It's true, didn't you see it on Twitter on Friday. Lots of people were talking about it!

In terms of BVB they knew Lewa was going to Bayern eventually after losing Gotze to them, but it will be a blow if they lose Reus and Gundogan now too.

[Drew.]

Draxler has like a £40m clause, how can they afford both him and Gotze

[bbfan1991]

They've got good finances behind them and made a good profit after winning the Champions League.

[Drew.]

Thiago, Gotze, Draxler, Kroos.. FML, Only Bale and Ronaldo can stop them.

[bbfan1991]

Pep is going to have a right headache trying to fit them all in. I can see a few players eventually getting fed up with the lack of playing time though.

[Drew.]

Yeah well if one of their star players does ever get fed up then hopefully they'll send them our way.

[Drew.]

http://www.sambafoot.com/datas/pictures/informations/2013-03/big/info_1364066967.jpg

[BBfanUSA]

AZ Player Aron Johansson set to make a move to Stoke City rumoredly. Another American too.

[Drew.]

Luuk De Jong to Newcastle looking likely

[Brother Leon]

I hate Pep. Guy inherits GOAT teams for fun it seems FFS. Lucky bastard lol

[Locke.]

West Ham have signed Wolves defender Roger Johnson on loan until the end of the season.

Just the signing Matthew was hoping for I'm sure

[MTVN]

lol I'm happy enough with it if it means we don't have to play two full backs at centre back anymore, he's basically just gonna be out 4th choice centre back till the others get fit

[Novo]

looks like Everton are going to get Andrew Robertson from dundee utd, another great attack minded fullback

[King Gizzard]

Looks like it's a matter of if not when with Wes Hoolahan to Villa, hardly inspiring but oh well

[Novo]

Lambert wants a creative player and the best he can come up with is Hoolahan, not saying he isn't good or anything i think he is a decent player on his day but Villa can and should be looking at better, and isn't Hoolahan getting on a bit now?

[King Gizzard]

31, I suppose for how cheap he'll be he'll do the job it's just really uninspiring seeing as we were linked with Steven Defour the other day and he wanted to come

[King Gizzard]

Apparently Draxler was at Arsenal's training ground today :suspect: Doubt that one

[Novo]

" Crystal Palace boss Tony Pulis is plotting an ambitious loan bid for Chelsea striker Demba Ba, 28. "

Pulis has officially lost the plot

[Drew.]

Former Queens Park Rangers striker Jay Bothroyd is joining Thailand side Muanthong United.

How on earth did he ever get an England cap

[Locke.]

Feels good spending this window knowing that Spurs aren't in the position to hijack every single one of our transfer targets anymore, Salah will be joining the much better team

https://24.media.tumblr.com/8f7d1dca95dc7a4fabd865dc1e3aa625/tumblr_mww6mfiIoP1r9edlso1_500.jpg

[Drew.]

Think it's time for Wenger to step in and hijack Salah from you now Walcott is injured

[Locke.]

"Come and link up with me at Arsenal Mo!?"

https://24.media.tumblr.com/c84790b09f0614466752b10dd73015ad/tumblr_mxyxiywmhw1t8j80bo1_500.jpg

"Alright there lad fancy joining us over them ***** up in London?"

http://i.imgur.com/hqKUMfB.jpg

"I've made up my mind"

http://i.imgur.com/En5FiKH.png?1

[Drew.]

"Up in London" I will give you a geography lesson later David

[Locke.]

Don't be jealous that Mo Mo has chosen us over you now

[Drew.]

Wenger and Draxler are drinking tea and eating croissants as we speak

[Locke.]

Hearing rumours of Draxler to Olympiakos

[Drew.]

Hearing rumours of Wenger re calling Joel back from his loan to screw over their season

[Locke.]

They would just move Saviola out wide if that happened.

A front three of Saviola-Mitroglou-Weiss destroying Europe

[Drew.]

I have a feeling we will sign Ben Arfa

[Shaun]

Wondering if Arsene's ever looked into signing Loic Remy... wouldn't be much of a fee I imagine. Not sure if he'd be a great signing though. Also I guess we'd have to wait until the end of the season to get him.

[Black Dagger]

Messi is definitely coming to City..

Txiki is just sorting out the final paperwork now.

[Brother Leon]

So we have 100m to spend this window....where did I hear that before? :joker:

[Novo]

Arsenal and City are after Virgil Van Dijk

[Novo]

Wondering if Arsene's ever looked into signing Loic Remy... wouldn't be much of a fee I imagine. Not sure if he'd be a great signing though. Also I guess we'd have to wait until the end of the season to get him.

16 Mil price tag for Remy, Newcastle don't seem in a hurry to buy him at the minute

[Drew.]

Wonder if Arsene has been looking at Griezmann.. Would solve a lot of our problems and is probably a realistic fee

[King Gizzard]

Arsenal and City are after Virgil Van Dijk

If this is a serious, every time I have watched Celtic he looks a step above the SPL

[Novo]

easily their best player this season along with Commons

[King Gizzard]

could probably play every position for Celtic and be their best player, not sure top club level yet though

[Novo]

not sure about up front after that sitter he missed against Barca in the CL from a couple of yards out, he best stick to the back.

[King Gizzard]

Defoe and Michael Bradley have signed for Toronto

[Drew.]

Bit strange that.. Defoe would do a good job at any mid table side.

[King Gizzard]

Bradley is the more shocking one, thought he was doing well at Roma, USMNT fans will be annoyed

[Drew.]

Yeah he was, I watched him when he played a month or so ago and he was doing a good job.

[BBfanUSA]

Defoe and Michael Bradley have signed for Toronto

Wow, Twitter's been talking about Defoe for the last few days, but Bradley has come out of nowhere. I'm shocked. It's good for the MLS though.

I'm a bit annoyed as to why he's doing this now and not after the world cup though, Maybe they'll loan him somewhere too.

(That's two big USMNT names to MLS in the last year or so, Clint Dempsey to Seattle was huge a few months back)

[BBfanUSA]

Bradley's deal is a 6 year 1 million American Dollar deal.
https://twitter.com/TotalMLS/status/421281736324952064

[King Gizzard]

thought he'd be on better wages than that in Europe, that's like a relegation threatened team in the PL sort of wage

[King Gizzard]

Belfodil and Traore to West Ham

if they pull that off then that is crazy good business, think both of them are arguably better than Carroll

[MTVN]

I bet something will go wrong, Traore's work permit thing is the sort of thing that'll get dragged out for the whole window

[Drew.]

Lacina Traore?

[BBfanUSA]

thought he'd be on better wages than that in Europe, that's like a relegation threatened team in the PL sort of wage

Yeah I think that's for sure the wrong price. And thats a would be a waste of DP slot.

His agent confirmed the move on Italian radio.

[Novo]

Zaha spotted at Villa Park

[BBfanUSA]

Wow, AS Roma bought Bradley for 3 Million Euro and sold him for 7 1/2 Million Euro a Year and a half later,

The Deal for Bradley is 10 million USD.

Update: I'm seeing that He's in the US right now, going to the USMNT training camp with some other MLS based USMNT players for the World Cup then join TFC's Training Camp in Feb to prepare for the MLS Season to start in March

Defoe will stay with Tottenham until March which then he'll join Toronto.

[Locke.]

Some big transfer news coming in from the second best league in the world

Having signed Lee Cook, Mikael Dahlberg & Dennis Souza, Lawrie Sanchez is now moving for Darren Ambrose in his bid to keep Apollon in the SL

Samaras also expected to move from Celtic this window

[Novo]

Not surprised Samaras is off he has been frozen out the team all lately, he's always had love/Hate relationship with the fans

[Locke.]

The Greek footy twitter account aren't happy with me

[BBfanUSA]

The Greek footy twitter account aren't happy with me

:laugh: what did you do?

[Drew.]

Hull have announced they have agreed a fee with Everton for Jelavic

[Novo]

surely they can't play Jelavic and Sagbo together

[Drew.]

Anythings better than Danny Graham

[King Gizzard]

5-8m..apparently..not even worth half that never was

[Novo]

he will be a better player at hull i think, slower paced football then Everton so he can get away with saving energy and just playing off the last man most of the game which is what he is great at

[Novo]

still can't see him and Sagbo playing together though, somethings got to give

[Drew.]

Aiden McGeady being unveiled to the Everton fans at Goodison Park

[Drew.]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdzxHMqIcAAy4Hy.jpg

[BBfanUSA]

Press Conference at 10 AM my time (Central time zone)

[King Gizzard]

Chelsea selling De Bruyne for 20m..he's a great player but that's a great deal for them

and they're buying back Matic from Benfica for roughly the same price, it's quite funny though because Benfica bought 5 or Serbians just to keep Matic happy, even his brother who now plays for their B side Lol

[King Gizzard]

and through all those who I speak to who watch a bit of Portugese football they say he could be the difference between them winning or losing the title, he's that good now

[BBfanUSA]

The Toronto FC Press Conference is for Defoe and Micheal Bradley. They're both there and in the flesh. It's a bloody Big Deal as Toronto FC is calling it.

[Drew.]

Dont think i've ever seen Matic play.. well i have watched Benfica in the past couple of years but cant remember seeing him.

Saw the Defoe press conference, he seems really up for it and he's still in sharp form, can see him being a big success over in the MLS

[Drew.]

Jonás Gutiérrez joins Norwich from Newcastle on loan until the end of the season

[BBfanUSA]

The MLS Should have a interesting season when it starts. Toronto was near the bottom last year. Wonder where there will end up?

[Drew.]

are they likely to sign anyone else?

[BBfanUSA]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bd3_Iw9CYAEVhHQ.jpg

I don't think TFC will, They might go over the Cap limit that the MLS has in place to help with Parity (Bradley and Defoe don't go against it, They're both probably Designated Players, which don't count against the cap limit. A Team is allowed only 3. I think they signed some Brazilian Free Agent as a DP eariler in the window)

[Drew.]

The MLS will be full of ageing players soon from Europe.. i expect quite a few players who are in their 30s over here to end up in America soon.. especially Lampard.

[Brother Leon]

Toronto is a cool place to live. If I was near the end of my career I would deffo consider it. Surprised Defoe went for it though.

[King Gizzard]

they're going to give each team one more DP slot soon aren't they

[BBfanUSA]

Not really yet, there's going to be 3 teams coming in in the next three years and working on a fourth team by 2020. Given that NYCFC is owned mainly by Manchester City, I bet first year they will fill those three spots with big names in 2015.

[bbfan1991]

Grant Holt joining Aston Villa on loan from Wigan apparently.

[King Gizzard]

****ing joke

[bbfan1991]

United need to sign a Midfielder in this window now Anderson has joined Fiorentina on loan with an option of a permanent deal as we're short in terms of options.

[King Gizzard]

Matic medical at Chelsea tomorrow

[King Gizzard]

Holtby going back to Schalke

[Drew.]

For real?? They've just signed Sidney Sam too.. Room for Draxler to leave.

[King Gizzard]

Sam's at the end of the season isn't it? and I'd assume Levy would want assurances that Draxler wouldn't then be sold to Arsenal

[Drew.]

Not sure when Sam is.. Just saw it on twitter the other day. Pretty sure Draxler has a clause so if its met then they have no choice?

[bbfan1991]

I personally think that Julian Draxler will still end up at Bayern Munich tbh.

[Brother Leon]

Draxler will go Dortmund or Bayern. He's not going to the Prem at least. Not yet anyway.

[Drew.]

Nah.. Kroos, Muller, Ribery, Robben, Gotze, Shaqiri... they dont need anymore.

[bbfan1991]

Nah.. Kroos, Muller, Ribery, Robben, Gotze, Shaqiri... they dont need anymore.

That won't stop them like it won't with PSG or Monaco.

[bbfan1991]

Draxler will go Dortmund or Bayern. He's not going to the Prem at least. Not yet anyway.

He won't go to Dortmund, they are Schalke's fierce rivals. But you look at Gotze and Lewandowski joining Bayern from Dortmund and realise that stuff doesn't matter anymore.

[Drew.]

That won't stop them like it won't with PSG or Monaco.

Yeah but Bayern really don't need him and i cant see them buying him, And if hes got any sense he'd join a club hes guaranteed a starting spot at.

[bbfan1991]

Yeah but Bayern really don't need him and i cant see them buying him, And if hes got any sense he'd join a club hes guaranteed a starting spot at.

True, but they are a power club in his homeland and the lure might be too much.

[MTVN]

Sounds like Traore's work permit hearing went well, could sign either today or tomorrow

[BBfanUSA]

Juan Ageldo signed with Stoke but since they are having problems with getting a work permit for the American. He's being loaned out for now. Belgian side for now

[Drew.]

This is going to be Higuain all over again isn't it, Draxler has been over my twitter all day. Apparently Wenger is going to make a move for him.

http://i.imgur.com/G77sgh7.png

[Shaun]

dunno if Higuain is that big a Union J fan really

edit: read past the Higuain mention next time, Shaun

[Drew.]

Michael Bradley's agent on Toronto deal: His 6-year, $40 million contract + $10 million transfer = $50 million commitment.

What a waste.

[Shaun]

Draxler isn't a forward is he :suspect:

[Drew.]

Playing on the left side of midfield at the moment.. will grow into a centre forward probably.

[Drew.]

Chelsea confirm the signing of Matic from Benfica

[BBfanUSA]

Michael Bradley's agent on Toronto deal: His 6-year, $40 million contract + $10 million transfer = $50 million commitment.

What a waste.

Actually that's huge amount for an MLS Side.

That's almost as big as the new TV Deal they're working on in the US with ESPN and Fox Sports (70 million for English Rights in the US, which is about triple than it was in the past.)

[Jesus.]

Manchester United transfer news: Paul Pogba rejects possibility of return from Juventus

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/transfer-news-paul-pogba-rejects-possibility-of-manchester-united-return-9060035.html

One to cheer up LK:

Juventus midfielder rejects potential move due to bitterness at treatment by Sir Alex Ferguson

[King Gizzard]

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[King Gizzard]

From the 9th league in the football ladder to the 2nd in 5 months. Amazing

[Shaun]

lolley indeed

[Drew.]

Xavi to New York Red Bulls apparently after the World Cup

[Brother Leon]

Southampton are ****ed. Shame man. They built a likable team, but now it seems anyoen half decent will gone by the summer at the latest anyway.


EDIT: Shaw will 100% be Chelsea. Not sure about Llanana tbh. Throw a bid at Wanyama and Morgan. Can't be much worse than what we have in midfield now.

[Drew.]

Ward-Prowse and Shaw will be interesting.. massive potentials which could get destroyed if they end up becoming bench jobbers at some top 6 sides.

[Drew.]

Although Ward-Prowse isn't yet top 6 standard, Shaw is though

[Shaun]

Southampton must have a pretty good youth academy... Walcott, Bale, the Ox, Lallana... Shearer and Le Tissier in the past... :o

[Drew.]

Best in the country imo

[Brother Leon]

Shaw will be starting for Chelsea soon if he does go there.

[Locke.]

Was hoping we might go for Shaw because we desperately need two new starting full backs.. then I saw he is valued at £30m. I will make do with Cissokho.

[Locke.]

Bertrand has joined Villa on loan

Wonder what left back we'll be getting linked with all the time now instead

[MTVN]

Thomas Ince to Monaco :huh:

[King Gizzard]

Thank God we don't have to play Luna or Bennett anymore

apart from that Arsenal goal Luna has been terrible lol

[King Gizzard]

Ji has signed a pre contract with Borussia Dortmund :joker: Joining them in the summer

[MTVN]

Not exactly set the league alight at Sunderland :huh:

[Locke.]

West Ham have shown their interested for 35-year old Daniel van Buyten from Bayern Munich http://cdn.thisisbigbrother.com/smilies/huh.gif

35 year old http://cdn.thisisbigbrother.com/smilies/huh.gif Bayern Munich to West Ham http://cdn.thisisbigbrother.com/smilies/huh.gif

[MTVN]

Why would we want him when we have Roger Johnson :huh:

[King Gizzard]

Alberto Moreno in talks with Madrid

[BBfanUSA]

Alberto Moreno in talks with Madrid

Real or Athletico?

[King Gizzard]

Real, Atletico just get called Atletico Lol

[King Gizzard]

Means Coentrao to United probably

[BBfanUSA]

Real, Atletico just get called Atletico Lol

Oh god :laugh: I'm still a noob

[MTVN]

Shock horror Traore's definitely not coming

[Drew.]

He's on his way to Everton now

[BBfanUSA]

^ Yep NBC Sports is reporting it, Season Long Loan I think

[MTVN]

They'll need to go through the work permit process again cos the one he got was only to play for us I think

Poor form from both him and Everton tbh :idc:

[Drew.]

There's a picture of him up north already on twitter

[Drew.]

Vucinic (loan probably) to Arsenal seems quite likely.

[King Gizzard]

meh

[Shaun]

meh [2]

to be honest I don't really see a massive need to buy/get new players right now... but I'd probably kick myself in March if Giroud and Podolski went sick/injured again. Might as well play it safe I guess, but Vucinic doesn't excite me.

[King Gizzard]

he isn't really what you need, I'd even have Morata on loan over that. Vucinic isn't that prolific

[Drew.]

meh x100.

[King Gizzard]

probably be used sparingly like Viviano (don't think he's even played yet?)

[Drew.]

he hasnt :joker:

I really want Morata, it's not going to happen though

[Brother Leon]

http://images.sodahead.com/blogs/000386731/waiting_xlarge.gif

[Locke.]

Bid will be made for Salah this week

[Locke.]

Ilori officially joins Granada on loan until the end of the season. First game is against Real Madrid on sunday, a nice easy clean sheet for him.

[Drew.]

Guarín was all set to be swapped with Vučinić before Inter called the deal off and now Guarin is refusing to leave Juve's offices

[Drew.]

Odemwingie part 2

[King Gizzard]

Mata to United..37m Lol

Tbf Chelsea probably don't see United as a rival now so they would do it

Believe it when I see it though fam.

[Locke.]

Doesn't really make any sense from a Chelsea point of view. Well, apart from money, but they're hardly in need of it

[Brother Leon]

Never happening.

[BBfanUSA]

Blackpool Defender Bradley Orr is rumored to go to Toronto FC on a season long loan according to BBC Sport

[King Gizzard]

you've already denied it, which means theres something in it

[King Gizzard]

(mata)

[Brother Leon]

Only way this even possibly happens is if Rooney goes there tbh. If somehow it happens though then we should **** Kagawa off to Dortmund with cash for Gundo and I would jizz.

[Drew.]

Guillem Balague has said negotiations between Utd and Chelsea for Mata have started..

[Shaun]

don't really know what to make of that transfer tbh

[King Gizzard]

I just had a feeling that there was something in Mata to United. and some guy I know who I respect last night said he thought it'd happen too. Remember that handshake between Abramovic and Gill/Fergie at the weekend? Lol

[Drew.]

Monaco striker Lacina Traore's expected move to Everton is a major step closer after the club obtained a work permit

[Brother Leon]

Ballague....the guy knows as much as us really :laugh:

[BBfanUSA]

Monaco striker Lacina Traore's expected move to Everton is a major step closer after the club obtained a work permit

He's only getting loaned right?

[King Gizzard]

yeah

[King Gizzard]

He's like a non-goofy younger prolific peter crouch

[Brother Leon]

Everton going in with these loans :laugh:

[King Gizzard]

Bit weird though seeing as he'll be second to Lukaku and you will still be strikerless going into next season

[BBfanUSA]

Bit weird though seeing as he'll be second to Lukaku and you will still be strikerless going into next season

I know I got excited thinking that we will have a great striker in case we qualify for Euro Competition and then I saw that he doesn't have any starts for Monaco.

[Locke.]

He only just signed for them last week

[King Gizzard]

they signed him with a view to loaning him out straight away, experience I guess

[BBfanUSA]

Now I remember reading something like that.

[King Gizzard]

Pretty sure Anzhi signed him for 17-18m a while ago as well, wonder how much Monaco paid

[King Gizzard]

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/lacina-traore/transfers/spieler_69006.html

Anzhi really are stupid aren't they

[King Gizzard]

That sites really good for whenever a fee is ''undisclosed''

[BBfanUSA]

The Independent is saying that United wants Mata for 40 Million

[MTVN]

I don't get Anzhi at all, why have they just pulled the plug on all those massive ambitions they had

[King Gizzard]

Their owner was involved in some crude oil thing and his stocks dramatically dropped or something and he got scared

there was a good bbc page on it actually, it might still be on there

[King Gizzard]

they've gotten rid of all the players just about I think, and are rooted to the bottom of the table

[King Gizzard]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23603167

[Chuck]

they've gotten rid of all the players just about I think, and are rooted to the bottom of the table

Greedy bastard Jucilei didn't come back. :"(

[Brother Leon]

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These sudden "leaks" are all too weird to me right now.

[King Gizzard]

Did Jucilei go to Al Gharafa or some **** ?

[MTVN]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23603167

Hmm interesting, it must have been mainly the company worries that provoked it, can't believe they'd take such a dramatic step just cos their season hadn't started well and the manager had some personal problems when he'd only been in the job 16 days

Bet they're all feeling a lot more pessimistic now than when this was written as well lol

And even with a budget of £32-£45m, they can certainly compete for the Russian league's European places