kris boyd will score the winning goal

Britney thread is clossing in on us

Hammers sign up Hungarian keeper
Robert Green
Robert Green is facing stiff competition as West Ham's number one keeper

West Ham have secured the services of Hungary Under-21 goalkeeper Peter Kurucz on a four-year deal from Ujpest FC for an undisclosed fee.

The 21-year-old has been on loan with the Hammers from the Budapest side since February.

Kurucz was named as a substitute in the senior squad for the first time at Everton last month.

Marek Stech, Adam Street, Deniz Mehmet and Kurucz are all behind Robert Green in the West Ham pecking order.

Rangers only seem good because of the SPL being PANTS!!!

Do no let that vile freaky BS britney thread takeover this thread... NEVER!!!!

QPR appoint Magilton as manager
Jim Magilton
Magilton was replaced as Ipswich manager by Roy Keane

Queens Park Rangers have appointed former Ipswich boss Jim Magilton as their new manager.

The 40-year-old former Northern Ireland international, who left Portman Road in April, has signed a two-year deal at Loftus Road.

He told the club's website: "I'm really looking to the challenge of managing this great football club.

"The board are highly ambitious but they are very realistic, I have huge ambitions to achieve though."

Magilton took Ipswich to 14th in the Championship table in his first season and eighth last term but was sacked in April after failing to secure a play-off spot.

The Tractor Boys finished the season in ninth place and 12 points off the play-off zone and Magilton was soon replaced by Roy Keane.

QPR took 11th spot in the Championship this season, five points behind Magilton's former club.

Magilton added: "Our aim is to keep progressing, year after year.

Stale' fear spurred Barry move
Gareth Barry
Barry played over 400 games for Villa, scoring 52 goals

England midfielder Gareth Barry has explained his £12m move from Aston Villa to Manchester City, saying he had a "massive fear of going stale".

In an open letter to Villa's fans published in the Birmingham Mail on Wednesday, Barry said: "I want the chance to explain my decision.

"I have a massive fear of going stale and falling into a comfort zone.

"After changing my mind lots of times I came to the decision that the time was right for me and the club to part."

The future of the 28-year-old has been a constant source of speculation over the past 12 months, with Liverpool pursuing the signature of the former Brighton trainee throughout the summer of 2008.

Barry stated his desire to join the Reds, but with Rafa Benitez unable to match Villa's valuation, then set at £18m, the England international announced that he would stay at Villa Park in August.

Not long to wait for the new season... Liverpool's season!

Just using a bit of common sense/assumption here but a couple of days ago rafa made a bid for Lavezzi, and lavezzi promptly came out to the press and said he wanted to stay and loved the club etc etc. If anything he seemed dismissive, meaning i very much doubt rafa would go back in for him as he only goes for players who are dedicated to the club. THEN man u made a bid for lavezzi, which i presume was turned down because lavezzi NOW says he wants to leave as he has been "disrespected" by the board (im assuming by rejecting the man u bid). Putting two and two together and probably getting three, my money is on lavezzi replacing tevez at old trafford, which wouldn't be bad for the red fiends as hes well larey and pretty silky as well to be fair. DUCKULA

Only a couple more deals at sheffield wednesday before the start of the season.

Ins
Ryan France from hull city –Free
Frédéric Nimani from Monaco – Loan

Outs
Arron Jameson – Ilkeston town – loan
Rocky Lekaj– Grimsby town – loan

TRANSFER RUMOURS

Kaka – 60m massive bidding war between chelsea and madrid

Tevez – Man City

Barry – Man city

Huddlestone – Wolves, Sunderland and others interested

G Johnson – Liverpool

Koumas – Coventry

Valencia – R madrid

Bassong – Arsenal

Duff – Man City

Bentley – Aston Villa

Owen – Everton/Villa

Ribery – Man City

Ronaldo will not be leaving

It sure will be interesting with these deals taking place plus lots more

One QPR fan said on sky sports news that QPR have loads of money... ??

Man Utd possible targets for transfers:

Looking back at the 08/09 season, SAF would probably be wise to look for a player in these positions:

RB – We need a decent rightback that can replace Gary Neville and letting Rafael grow maturely into his game.
MF – After reading the news on the recovery of Owen Hargreaves,it seems we may want to get ourselves equipped with a holding midfielder a.k.a the Keano's,Viera's type.Those who can pass the ball well too.
ST – the position in which is highly important in the case of a)ronaldo leaves b)teves leaves(seems like it). So after reading the long list of candidates rumoured,yes. . benzema for me would be a great signing though im not comfirming on any rumours here.

Therefore,here we wait anxiously for United to make their 1st signing of this summer.Who will it be?

**SUNDERLAND**

darren BENT
tom HUDDLESTONE
antonio VALENCIA
sylvan DISTIN

LFC rumours–
I want ot see Rafa trimming our squad right back and giving some promising youngsters a go.
Pacheco, spearing and Nemmeth in particular.
Sell Plessis (1.5m), Voronin (3m), arbeloa(p ex / 7m)Dossena (4m), Degan (1m), Leto (2m), Babel(p ex / 8m), p anderson (.6m). . .
Now that Barry has chosen to go to city, i think alonso'll stay put.
I can see arbeloa leaving after his bust up with carra, and his ommision from the squad last home game – he also complained of being homesick last year. Carra to cover right back with Johnson (10m).
Aguerro to arrive for arbeloa, and babel + around £16m. he'll give cover to torres and play inplace of riera when torres is fit.
No need for any cm, I'm bored of hearing people slag off Lucas. He's been made a scape goat for this season and has played well since christmas.
No need for full backs – insua and darby are both quality, and i'd be pleased to see dossena and degan both go to raise funds.
A johnson to come in and compete for the wings (6m) but other then that we're sorted.

****MUFC SUMMER TRANSFERS*****

OUTS

Tevez– Manchester city (money too good to turn down)
Nani– (If the offer i too good to refuse, if not expect a loan move)
Ronaldo– (Only if Madrid offer 70mill+Sneidjer)
Kuszack– { Wants to leave expect blackburn, wigan and celtic}

INS

Benzema– SAF sees him as best possible option for 25+ goals
Ribery– Only if Ronaldo leaves
Sneidjer– Part of Ronaldo deal if he Leaves.
Dodo– 6million done deal
Ljajic– Done Deal arrive in January

–––––––––––––REAL NEWS––––––––––––––
to all those liverpool fans who were sure you were getting gareth barry well how miss informed you were, or maybe you were making things up? either way you clearly know nothing about football. he has joined manchester city on a 4 year deal on £90,000 a week for a fee in the region of £12million.
players who will follow him to eastlands include:
tevez – £25 million
carvalho – £6 million
lescott – p.ex for dunne+jo
benzema (shock) – £27 million

that is it, they are not buying a whole new sqaud but qaulity in moderation.

liverpool will however make 3 signings after missing out on tevez and barry, these three will be:
glen johnson – £13 million
david silva – £26 million
ezquiel lavezzi – £19.5 million

SERGIO AGUERO IS NOT LEAVING DURING THIS WINDOW, and even if he was rafa cannot afford him!

a couple of other transfers i have news on is john obi mikel will be playing for inter next season, around 15 million should see that one through, and also deco will be playing at white heart lane next season, around 6 million for this one.

CR7 will stay at united and madrid will get ribery instead as there galactico signing, followed by imbrahimovic.

Cardiff City news

ALl the talk about Jason Scotland and Darren Prately coming to City is a load of rubbish. Also, Ryan Giggs will not be at Cardiff next season. These are the possible deals that may happen.

IN

David Cotteril – 1m
Jason Koumas – 2m
Victor Anichebe – loan
Ched Evans – loan
MArk Hudson – 400k
Andrew Surman – 600K

OUT

Joe Ledley – 6m
Roger Johnson – 3m ( only if a big team comes calling)
Steve McPhail – 300k
Miguel Comminges – loan
Jonathan Brown – loan

Tottenham News

Harry has enquired about Sneijder after Perez was elected, due to the fact he wants rid of the current squad and was quoted for 18m, although Bayern and Inter have shown interest.
I also know that Harry wants a new striker with both Pav and Bent departing. Suprisingly he wants to reunite the Berbatov/Keane partnership, with Berba looking to move on after his spell at United. He would be looking for Champions League football, but Harry feels the chance to return to a club that raised him, plus the option of first team football hard to refuse. If this fails, Pav will not leave.
Thirdly, Dario Srna is a possibility as he can play left back and despite winning the UEFA cup with Donetsk wants to play in te premier league. We have asked for a price and were quoted at 12m, although Harry would prefer to pay about 7/8m.
Expect Bent,Bentley,Jenas,Boateng,Zokora,Chimbonda and possibly Pav to leave to allow this level of spending.





The guy hu sed the roumour of wolves and that chris brunt is going to wolves its untrue roumour because he is going to rangers as part of a deal which send barry ferguson + 3 million to wba and brunt to rangers,
Other roumours about wba are

ins
simon cox
ashley barnes
marvin elliot
oscar trejo
mensuguez (permanent)

outs
craig beattie
jarod hodgekiss
pele
donk
fortune (hopefully not to wolves)

Celtic FC:–

IN
wijnaldum from feyenoord £1.5mil
Julio Arca from Boro £3.25mil
Jordi Gomez from Swansea £2.5mil
Marco Janko from Salzburg £2mil
Robert Huth from Boro £4mil
Shane Long/Kevin Doyle from Reading £3 / £5mil depending on which one is bid for. These are dependent on departures.

OUT
Naylor to Scunthorpe £100k
M Brown to Hamilton free
Donati to Palermo £1mil
J.V.o.H to P.S.V / FC Twente free
Samaras to Larissa/aris salonika £200k
Hutchinson to Leeds £150k
Hartley to Hearts free
Nakamura to Yokahoma free
Hinkel to Hertha Berlin £2.1mil

Arsenal rumours

Ade to leave arsenal accompanied by Gallas.

INss.
CF
Dzeko
Huntelaar

CB
B.Alves
Chillini
Hangeland
Albiol

DM
Cana
Sena
Melo
Veloso

This would sum it up for arsenal.Wenger would buy 1 of these for every position Striker to replace Ade CB to replace Gallas and a much needed DM.
And we won't be able to win CL with this squad but will win 1 trophy for sure and next season wenger would add 1 or max 2 players to go for every trophy.

Gooner till I die and Gooner after death

Man United may pursue a bid to sign 34 year old Brazilian Juninho after he was released from Lyon. United are considering offering him a 1 year deal with the possibility of a second year. Young Brazilian centre half Dodo is set to sign for United next season for a fee believed to be around £6m. Antonio Valencia will be targeted but not for anywhere near the £20m mark. United may bid as high as £15m and offer Wigan either Nani, Tosic or Campbell on loan as part of the deal. Adam Johnson is also being watched. With Carlos Tevez set to leave on June 30th, United are looking at strikers, but nobody who will break the bank. Sanli Tuncay from 'Boro may be targetted as he is a similar player to Tevez and would be available for near the £8m mark but United may also bid for Edin Dzeko because Real Madrid would not consider selling Huntelaar to Man Utd without asking for Ronaldo in some form of a deal. Douglas Costa may also be signed then loaned out to Sporting Lisbon for a year, with United getting first option on Joao Moutinho for next season to replace Juninho.

Breaking news from the emirates!!!!!

just heard from a reliable source that AW has contacted Everton about the availability of Marouane fellaini!!!!! everton value him at 22 mill. i personnaly think this would be an awesome buy as he is like a tank in midfield( finally replace viera) and he will get us some much needed goals from midfield!

hope this goes through, well worth 22 mill.
go for it wenger!

*ARSENAL*
ARSENE WILL BE GIVEN 30 mill to spend.
OUTS:
Lukasz Fabianski (CSKA)P.Ex
Manuel Almunia (Barcelona) 3 mill
William Gallas (Lyon) 4 mill
Phillipe Senderos (Wolfsburg) 6 mill
Mikael Silvestre (LA Galaxy) 500k
Abou Diaby (P.Ex)
Tomas Rosicky (Bayern Munich) 6 mill
Nacer Barazite (Burnley) 1 mill
Emmanuel Adebayor (AC Milan) 23 mill
INS:
Igor Akinfeev (CSKA) P.Ex
Carlos Kameni (Espanyol)FREE
Bruno Alves (Porto) 8 mill
Micah Richards (Man City) 6 mill
Raul Albiol (Valencia) 8 mill
Lorik Cana (Marseille) P.Ex
Junihno (Lyon) FREE

Doubt Ronaldo will leave Man Utd.