I was thinking of starting this the other day, but couldn't be arsed. The first significant transfer of the summer has happened, much to Kikó's dismay:
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I was thinking of starting this the other day, but couldn't be arsed. The first significant transfer of the summer has happened, much to Kikó's dismay:
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Ed Woodward :drool:
They also announced Mats Hummels for 35 million later in the day....
If Sanches has gone to Bayern, think that's clear confirmation that Mourinho isn't getting the United job anytime soon. (Both Mendes clients)
Ed!
One more year of King Louis.
Mourinho has literally nowhere to go, does he? Unless he fancies Everton.
Bayern wasting no time at all then. Dortmund must be getting sick of this going on.
I've come right round to another year of 'LvG'. It probably needs a load more transfer business to work (both in and out, such as removing the temptation to start Wayne Rooney every week), but fuck it, imagine the SCENES if he won the league.
A prediction would be for pedro to go back to barcelona.
Arfa solo goal against blackburn was nasty. He is technically very good, but did he have other issues.
31m euros for a defender with one year left on his contract. You cant really turn down those type of offers. Hummels will go straight into the b.munich first time, will he not.
Ancelotti once pep leaves
Pile onto Bayern winning the Champions' League next year. Seeing as it will be impossible for him to bomb the league like he traditionally does, it will be interesting to see how Das Boot Room respond to his laid back, best mate manner.
God I love the English media. Months of "UNITED AND BENFICA AGREE FOR WONDERKID" and nary a single mention of Bayern swooping in.
Edit: Plus it's not necessarily as if he said "oh I want to play Champions League football, let me pick Bayern." Mind you, when we drop points to WHam! today we're going to basically eliminate ourselves, but if he was even TRULY considering United surely he'd have waited to see what happened with our final position?
Another point, I wish I wasn't upset at the club for losing out on a player I've only seen youtube videos of. Modern football baby. :checkit:
United Twitter is SEETHING. I would be, but I've never actually seen him play.
Woodward to bid £15m for him once a week until August and then spend £40m on Darron Gibson.
How much of the failure of these two years, if you'd call it that, is down to Woodward/the board though? @Kikó
Because if van Gaal isn't responsible for all those would-be transfers never happening, then he's actually done alright with a sub-standard squad. (In terms of league placement and cups - the lack of entertainment is another matter.)
I also think it would be a strange time and perhaps a little unfair to get rid of him when the team has shown the most hope in these last few months. The front four are working well and if they can actually pull off one of those big transfers next year could be pretty good...
It's down to the board for their lack of coherent approach or clue and massive underinvestment across the club for a decade (but they bought Tony Martial mate??)
I think it's down to the manager our style of play and the utter boredom he's infested on us all. His choice to make full back subs every game, sell all the strikers, play Blind at centre back, play Fellaini and bring on that no hope from Wigan chasing a game twice. And then the Phil Jones corner...
You're a wrong un. Another year of tedium, life's too short.
How can a striker make such a pathetic attempt in a one-on-one like Carroll did there? And what were United's defenders doing? :cab:
Rong fred mate.
:moop:
I just saw Kiko and Lewis discussing Van Gaal and assumed.
I'll let you off this once.
Theo to West Ham doing the rounds. Rather keep Theo and sell Ox, but with his contract much closer Wenger will sell.
I reckon my post in the Euros thread has triggered that rumour.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...dja-nainggolan
Roma are right to reject that.
Never buy midfielders from Italy.
He's one hell of a midfielder, and a great Conte-type player. He'd be a great fit for Chelsea, in my opinion worth €40M, which is £31M, so Roma's asking price isn't anything unreasonable.
Renato Sanches is the most Bayern name ever. That's a pretty big fee, though.
Depends what formation he goes for. If he plays 4-4-2, then Fabregas-Nainggolan would be the starting pair, but I'm not sure if that's his plan. He was supposed to play 4-4-2 in his first Juve season but when he figured out he couldn't really leave Vidal out he switched to 3-5-2/4-3-3. In that case, Fabregas could play the playmaker role in between Nainggolan and someone else, possibly Matic.
Many have tried but nobody has ever successfully seen off John Obi Mikel, so I doubt this shit haircut will manage it.
Is he any better than Ramires was? If not, what's the point?
Buying from Italy is demented unless you're thinking of pure defenders. The odd dynamic player looks like God over there. Like Mo Salah. Over here everyone plays at a much higher tempo.
We've kicked off our recruitment plans by making a bid for Vermaelen. We're also apparently after Ousmane Dembele(a winger, yay!).
My personal shopping list has a Goalkeeper, Centre back(maybe 2 dependent on Sakho) a defensive left back to cover Moreno. A central midfielder who can pass and a winger.
Do we really need a central midfielder?
One that can actually pass, I'd say so. Although to be fair I guess we already bought Grujic(?) and he's due to come in.
Can is all we need. What a player he's going to be (and already is).
I'm already mentally prepared for him to fuck off back to Bayern once he becomes really good.
Dortmund have signed Ousmane Dembele.
It should be easier for Bayern to scout him now.
Probably don't need more central defenders once Matip joins from Schalke on a free.
The last thing Liverpool need is another central midfielder.
Fraser Forster and James Ward-Prowse have signed new deals with Southampton - five years for Forster, six for Ward-Prowse.
Can't see that anyone's mentioned it, but Ibrahimovich has confirmed he's leaving PSG.
Seems to be a lot of paper talk about him joining United, can't say I'm that keen.
Get him in. He's quality and nasty. Perfect.
Doesn't he love Mourinho, too?
If nothing else, 'Zlatan' would enable them to get rid of Wayne Rooney by allowing the club to hang their commercial operations on him. Go for it.
He's 34 though, is it really worth it for a year or two?
If he can score 25 a season, of course it is.
Can he though? He's been smashing goatherders in France for a PSG team who are better than the rest of the league to an embarrassing degree.
Not sure it's safe to assume he'll continue that level of scoring in England.
People said the same about Michael Owen, and he went on to be arguably United's greatest ever number seven.
Zlatan will still score at least 15 in the Prem - even playing for dross like Man Utd. Unfortunately for Man Utd their transfer committee involves Ed Woodward.
If you can bring Zlatan to your club, you do it. Success seems to follow wherever he goes too which is a bonus to him being good.
He wanted six hundred grand a week to stay at PSG, apparently. Anyone giving him that is a nutjob.
:sick:
I think it was pure salary, though I can't remember the exact wording clearly enough to be sure.
Jordan Rossiter is confirmed. Two hundred and fifty grand when Liverpool wanted eight million quid. :drool:
Have any of the lower league bods seen Matt Crooks play? I know he's a six and a half foot tall epileptic, which sounds like a hilarious disaster in the making.
He wants the £600k to go to England.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...d-aged-34.html
We're not paying that.
Wasn't his contract originally massively inflated to get around that lol seventy five per cent tax rate France brought in for a while?
What's all this about Joey Barton to Rangers?
West ham are signing FM legend havard nordtveit
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...onchengladbach
West Ham bid £25m for Matt Ritchie and Callum Wilson? Get in the fucking sea.
No idea who they are :cab:
It's nice to know that West Ham haven't let a foreign manager and a decent season go to their heads. Are there any other not very good English players they might fancy to take them backwards?
Wilson would be good up front. Ritchie they don't need.
It was probably triggered by his goal being included in potential goal of the season lists.
They'll be after that Southampton right back next. Cuco Martina? Scored a corker on Boxing Day.
All speculation
De Gea has a loophole inhis contract which could allow him to join real madrid for £40m within the next 30 days
http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/17/real-m...ne-15-5886887/
Nice link mate
Im not your mate
Why not?
We're all mates Sincere.
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Wrong fucking thread.
The rumours about our upcoming transfer business don't fill me with confidence. This year the side was built around young British players with plenty of energy, and Rossiter seems to add to that, but now we're being linked with Joey Barton, Graham Dorrans, and Niko Kranjcar. I'd rather we were understaffed than bought Joey fucking Barton.
Rodgers to Celtic? That's some fall.
http://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/bre...y-keane]/78577
'Brendan' is better than Celtic (Jesus I'm basically his biggest fan these days). He should go abroad.
I heard Barcelona were interested, once upon a time.
He would fall foul of your binman in a club blazer theory as soon as 'The Little Genius' insisted on seeing the envelopes.
He managed Swansea to a respectable finish and then rode Luis Suarez to second before we got routed in Europe the next year. He's alright, but he's just some lad walking around with a Powerpoint presentation and relying on saying "when I was at Liverpool" a lot.
Pool to sign some Polish lad from Empoli for £10M.
Vim?
I reckon he's a decent coach as well, but he just needs to keep the talking (BS) to a minimum and reign his ego in a bit (a lot). A European adventure might work for that seeing as managers are basically in charge of nothing in most other leagues beyond picking most of the starting XI.
It's not a very well traveled path though. Is it only really Schteve who has been anything other than a total failure? He just failed everywhere else instead.
Wet Sham had a 31m bid turned down for La Cazette. He's good but 31m ffs.
16 Vision. :drool:
That Reece Oxford must have guaranteed interest, otherwise lol at being such a big-headed twat.
You'd think so I'm sure I heard City were interested. He's barely been seen for months anyway he will probably turn out to be nothing.
Where is all this West Ham gossip coming from? Have I missed the transition to the Knees Up Mother Brown Broadcasting Corporation as the world news benchmark?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAnIOCIBFR4
He's a midget, mate.
Yeah Jack Sullivan always likes to run his mouth off on Twitter about transfers. The fucking nob.
Would benteke be a better option than lacazette**?
:unsure:
Rodgers would need to do something in Europe with Celtic to get any sort of recognition, which is tough because no good player will ever go to Scotland again.
Yes. I think West Ham providing £25 million for him rather than signing Lacazette would be a fantastic deal for Liverpool. In all honesty what in the actual fuck would they do with him and Andy Carroll up front that's got to be the least mobile strike force ever.
What they are going to do? Cross the ball!!! Cresswell will definitely go in my next season FPL team if that happens.
Benteke in claret will probably help him find his form again
Why is Arsenal after Granit Xhaka? They have so many midfielders, but desperately need a striker and a centre back above everything else IMO. Specially a centre back that is not Per Mertesacker or Gabriel Paulista.
The more midfielders they have the better as half of them will be injured for 30 league games a season anyway. They do need a badman striker. They might as well sell ozil if they dont get one because his vision is wasted. Go spend £40m on some prospect striker.
Does seem a bit strange considering Elneny has established himself quite well. Maybe we're going to fuck off all the twats and just play a midfield of pure shitkickers.
Maybe.
Arsenal have created a great legacy in my opinion. The level of consistency they shown for 10 years where other elite teams around them have done far better and far worse is to be respected. Saying that, i would prefer to see them destroy and rebuild after wenger. He needs to stand down sooner, rather than later.
Also, 'Granit Xhaka' what is this an episode of Star Trek? Get a sensible name you mong.
I'm surprised they aren't in for LaCazette. French? Check. Exactly the same as Giroud? Check.
How is he like Giroud in any way shape or form?
Slow, target man to a certain extent, good touch, good finisher.
Congrats on proving you've never actually seen him play.
Lacazette is small and rapid. Magic hasn't just proved he's never seen him play there, he's proved he's never actually heard of him before.
I watched Lyon destroy Monaco the other night you fat shit.
EDIT: Was I watching the wrong player? :D
I wasn't really watching it, I was dying from the cold/hangover after my meltdown watching BTS Europe.
As the semi final proved.
Aye. Lukaku is to be avoided, especially for the kind of money Everton would want.
He'll be a good replacement for Zlatan. Even Benteke could destroy it for PSG, tbf.
Sessegnon and Anichebe are leaving WBA on frees, but James Morrison is in discussions over a new deal.
Harry Kane's mouth looks even more deformed than usual in his Golden Boot winner's photo.
http://i.imgur.com/CWSjg7l.jpg
It's like one of those pictures with the features turned upside down.
Hang on, Steed Malbranque still plays for Lyon?
That's a great shout. :D
The Sun reckon United have come up with the brilliant face-saving wheeze of making 'LvG' Director of Football. That might not be such a bad idea, since Jose Mourinho is crap at transfers if he is crap at anything, so whenever he wants to buy a shit left-back in January 'LvG' could say no mate play somebody from the youth team, and then Alex Ferguson would have to get involved, and then the entire North West would be consumed in an ego event.
I hate to imitate diljeet, but this made me chortle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkFK2EO7UMA
We're closing in on the signings of Loris Karius and Ben Chilwell, which would be much needed competition for 2 positions.
How fucking uninspiring.
Karius has appeared on BT a couple of times this year and looked excellent. He should immediately replace Ming rather than providing competition for him.
If so(I've not seen anything of Karius myself) then it still seems strange to hand Mings a 5 year deal a few months back. Unless we're just trying to get the most money we can for him.
Arsene buying a player before the window opens!
http://i.imgur.com/Ufbr5ej.gif
Thirty million on a midfielder when they have seven billion of those already? You should believe him.
Brendan's gone to Celtic (and possibly forgone £10m of our finest pounds if rumours are to be believed).
That's his career down the toilet.
Karius can fill the shit hair void that Moreno will leave.
I don't know anything about Granit Xhaka, but if he was really worth that much Bayern would have bought him.
Xhaka done deal with the official photoshoot etc. No news of fee though. As mentioned a box to box player CM is the last position we need filling - prob mean Ramsey be shifted back to the right then :face:
Rumoured Wenger is in Italy to sign Morata for £50mill. Good player, but he's not a great finisher and for that amount I rather keep Giroud.
Would they be buying off Juventus or Madrid? I forget if they still have their buy back clause.
I'd buy Morata if I were Arsenal. It stops the boring 'is Giroud(good) enough?" debate that goes in circles. Gives the fans what they want(I don't see many better strikers being available).
Giroud has had four years now. He isnt the world class striker arsenal want and he isnt going to drop 30 goals. Go spend ridiculous money on some young some-what proven potential hungry striker (morata, lukaku, some brazilian) or go get zlatan.
And probably put another buy-back clause in there.
Ah, fair enough. I imagined it more like the Fabregas situation.
Although, he could just say no to Madrid and either stay at Juve or make 'better' money from any transfer.
Giroud is too good for Arsenal, the ungrateful cunts.
Time for United to give Jose a proven striker that he can really build a relationship with and trust.
Quick, buy Lukaku :henn0rz:
Hasn't Mourinho always had a hard on for Rooney? He'll be back upfront, particularly after leading the line at the Euros :cool:
So United is signing Zlatan then? :Sherlock:
Am I out of the loop these days, or is that a thoroughly uninspiring list of transfer targets?
Mendes, Mendes, Mendes.
It's no doubt half balls (why would they be after another left-back?), but I don't even know who these people are. Fucking John Stones as well.
Have you forgotten our collapse that occurred when Coq was injured? Elnenny may be a relatively deep lying player but most certainly isn't a real ball winner. Xakha has a real Vieira quality about his ability to win the ball and look to immediately get it forward, albeit he lacks the ability to simply drive upfield himself in the way Paddy once did.
Who the fuck is Mendes?
22 year old german goalkeeper is in liverpool for a medical
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport...nears-11371934
Wenger has a stadium built in his honour
http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/22/arsena...r-him-5898567/
Naldo is off to schalke
http://www.espnfc.co.uk/story/287305...united-reports
Higuain to PSG?
http://www.90min.com/posts/3239778-n...meets-with-psg
Nice to see Garay linked again. We missed him last year.
The only thing we're being linked with is our previous owners using their investors money to run the club, from Iran (who were under sanctions at the time LOL) and then paying them back with money from season ticket income etc.
Brendan on his way to Celtic. Oh how I've missed you Brendan.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjJWMNtWgAAwkd5.jpg:large
His head looks enormous in that picture, which now I think about it makes perfect sense.
Love his red/white/blue look.
Zlatan + Rashford in a 4-4-2 :drool:
Karl Robinson of relegated MKD has turned us down. :D
Yes. Part of the reason he turned it down was Cellino turning up an hour late for the meeting. :face:
Woodgate has been released by 'Boro.
His career is such a shame, you have to wonder what we'd have been like with a fully fit Woodgate and Ledley King all these years.
Why would you take a job at Leeds? It's so obviously a train wreck of a club run by a mad wanker. It's not like the money can be great either.
Various reports of a Gundogan deal to man city almost done
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....dogan-11377195
Zlatan rumours of £250,000 weekly salary to come over the course of his 12-month contract. He would also be offered an option to sign for a second year as part of the initial agreement, taking his potential total earnings over two years to £34m
http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/24/manche...hours-5901087/
Vardy is available to other champions league clubs for £20m
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...er-news-gossip
Gokhan Tore in west ham deal
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...is-agreed.html
Karius has had his medical and is set to sign in the next few days. He'll cost between £4m and £5m.
We're after Mahmoud Dahoud, but with Xhaka on his way to London I doubt he'll be allowed to leave. I'm not even sure he'd want to leave Champions League football for us. We supposedly have Zielinski essentially signed, with him already having interviews while in a Liverpool shirt and speaking of looking forward to playing with Coutinho.
The Gotze situation has hit a stalemate. We've offered to make him our top earner (£150k p/w+) but he says he's looking forward to Bayerns new season.
We're going to need a new defence almost completely. Toures' contract expires this summer, Skrtel is set to join Besiktas and Sakho will find out next week how long his ban is. Jose Enrique has left already and Bogdan is surely out the door. We're currently being linked to every Bundesliga centre back under the sun so we'll see where that goes.
If Madrid have taught us anything, which they probably haven't, wouldn't somebody like 'Zlatan' more than make up his wages with shirt sales? Pissing 'Memphis' was the third best selling shirt in the world last summer, and how many Vine loops had he had at the time?
I saw a kid in full United kit (including socks) the other day and he'd gone 'Memphis' on the back. What is it about him? Nani was far better at the same thing and never got such adulation.
I'll be interested to see what Klopp does with Markovic and Balotelli. Don't think Mario has a chance considering Benteke seems to be out of the door, but I'd like to see Klopp give Markovic a season. He seems like the kind of player Reus started off as before Klopp made him good. We've got Serbian title-winning Grujic coming in and Matip from Schalke too.
What's Balotelli up to these days?
Joey Barton has signed. Hopefully he's good enough to justify the distaste I feel for having that wanker anywhere near my club.
Reus was fucking amazing before Klopp got his hands on him, so I'm not sure how he made him good.
@John Unlikeable as ever but still a good player. He was in the PFA Championship team of the year and the managers' top 15 Championship players.
Crotone have offered to make Balotelli their captain if he'll take the big paycut to join them.
He also had a penalty saved.
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...re-id526798664
He did score 2 in 3 cup games too.
Both goals came against Alesandria Calcio (one in each leg) who are a Lega Pro side.
Burnley's player of the year too, but have you seen the highlight reel they put out to celebrate his season? :D
Karius is official.
http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/firs...n-loris-karius
There are lots of papers claiming that United will want Nemanja Matic (although their valuation seems a bit low unless the new bloke has told them he wants rid). Him and Morgan Schneiderlin either side of Wayne Rooney is what dreams are made of.
I'm quietly confident about our business so far this summer, no doubt signalling relegation is in order for next year.
Liverpool signings have always been the missing piece of the puzzle, ever since Harry Kewell was the missing piece of the puzzle.
Aye. 22 year old unknown goalkeeper. It's all falling into place.
You're fucking obsessed.
Less shit than Ming will do, although I guess this means Danny Ward is no good. Good plan bringing him back from loan.
Ming to push on and become a great. :drool:
He'll probably be alright, in about 5 years. Ming that is. Signing young 'keepers is a bit of a mugs game. Hmmm.
Yeah that De Gea has been wank.
Think that was implied, Gray.
Those headers back to the keeper were magnificent. :D
He was for a bit. And he was what? £20m? There are always exceptions. I'll see you Dave Gayer and raise you Howard, Freidel and, I dunno, James. All signed too young, all sacked off, all went on to be stalwarts. Probably the best goalkeeper signing in English football in the last however many years was Van Der Sar (for the various teams he played for). There's always some jobbing stalwart available if you look hard enough (I've no idea who they would be these days).
Van der Sar won the Champions League when he was six, mind.
"Jose Mourinho and Manchester United have agreed terms on a three-year contract worth £45m"
hahahahahahah. How has Ed Woodward managed to fuck these negotiations so bad. You're the only club he wants to manage, you're one of the biggest clubs in the world yet he has you paying him 4 million quid not to work for a few months and then you hand him a 15 million a year deal BEFORE sponsorship and image rights.
Madness or incompetence. One of the two.
And another for the lol books
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ci7oqKcUoAMCgMD.jpg
Where's the lol? Did you expect someone other than the aging foreign superstars to be the ones getting all the money?
It's lol that Red Bulls fucked NYCFC 7-0 away from home the other but that's not in there.
Is what Mourinho is getting par for other top managers these days?
The club want him and also have about eleventy bajillion quid on the way so I would think he could ask for a solid gold dugout and get it.
Viktor Fischer is on the way to Middlesbrough for a medical, according to Sky (although they don't say whether that's SKY SOURCES or nicked from somewhere else)
£3.8m is the fee. He was pretty highly rated recently, wasn't he? Can't say I know enough about him to say whether he's any good or not.
'Pep' is apparently getting fifteen million a year, so that must be the going rate.
Arsenal have agreed a deal for Xhaka.
Interestingly, his brother decided to represent albania at international level. I wasnt aware of that. They meet in the group stages at the euros.
Hearing Mascherano to Juve is close.
Wasn't Paul Clement on 3m a year as RM assistant?
I know I could probably look this up but don't they have a salary cap or something in the MLS?
Rafa's staying on? Jesus :D
They're ready to buy actual centre backs.
They won't sell him, but it would make sense if (as reported ages ago) they were shitting it about their wage bill.
Now Gazzetta are running with Alves on a free to Juve. :D
Probably loves the Chinese selection in Newcastle, the pie
Steve Evans has returned to work as normal...whilst Cellino is trying to hunt out his replacement pretty publicly.. :face:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36382637
Everything that is wrong with football in a single article. Disgusting.
I want a Mourinho blazer.
:D/:sick:Quote:
"Look at the value of the deals that have been done for Mourinho to date. What would be the value of a Jose Mourinho watch?
Talk is Alves to move to Juve.
Hector Bellerin to Barca rumour begins!
Can you and Vim fuck off with this 'talk is' and 'I'm hearing that' you pair of absolute tits.
Do you want me to link an article? How good's your Italian?
There's a Google translate button in any good browser. He should figure it out.
How good is your English? As you'd be 'reading that' not 'hearing that'. You little fascist twat.
:harold:
Edgy. Anyway, Di Marzio is generally the most reliable reporter for transfer news, he says Mascherano agreed terms with Juve, but the clubs haven't reached a deal yet.
Magic in Magic form :drool:
Sky Sports is the TV equivalent of this thread.
No, it's not really a rumour thread, it's more for confirmed or nailed on signings. Piss off to Twitter if you want to immerse yourself in made up shite.
This bloke reckons that 'Zlatan' could sell enough club-branded shite to make up for missing out on the Champions' League. Mental.
Anyone would think that there is more to football than selling shirts and strategic noodle partnerships.
They're wrong.
Probably that plus the fact he's so young. Or was at least. Di Matteo missed out on taking us up by a hair and Robinson came in with Ince and killed the team. Eventually he takes us up but after 6 years at the club (5 as manager) improving on DiMatteo by less than a point per season despite having Alli, and then takes us back down without any fight at all.
What he is great at is developing young players (though these are usually on loan so someone else benefits) but tactically he has no plan B and he was completely found out last year.
Even though gotze claims he is happy in munich. The CEO is surpised he wants to stay and is retty much telling him to leave
http://www.espnfc.com/story/2880627/...ol-speculation
Straight out of FM, r.madrid could meet morata's buy out clause and then immedatly sell him on to arsenal for £38m
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...placement.html
Barcelona after deportivo defender
http://www.sport-english.com/en/news...edical-5157136
Lukaku has confirmed he wants to leave everton
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...-leave-everton
Zlatan on a free just to move shirts would be the most Woodward deal imaginable.
Does Gotze have the lurgy?
Unless he has gone to shit warming the bench, I would have expected somebody better than Liverpool to have been in for Mario Goatse. That isn't even a cheap lol at Liverpool either. Wasn't he fucking mega at Dortmund?
Yes, he was the subject of all the hipster cunts on Twitter especially in 2014 iirc.
Zlatan would be great. He's still a fantastic player.
He would be great, a humongous contract with no motivation and injuries which would seal my relegation theory. :drool:
He was brilliant for a kid and the expectation was that he'd kick on, but he's basically still the same player he was at about nineteen. It's not even a result of not playing either, he'd played plenty for Bayern before last season.
After he'd gone to Bayern then?
I think this is why he hasn't moved yet. I think he's waiting for a better team to come in. I'd have expected someone like Tottenham or United to be in for him. Maybe even a return to Dortmund.
I think the deal is dead for us though. If it was going to happen, it probably would have by now.
Twitter can't be that far behind. Hipsters made him persona non grata the moment it was announced he was leaving Dortmund.
Nice to see Arsenal fulfilling there feeder club duties for another summer.
If Arsenal sell Bellerin this year they are fucking insane. Vermaelen, OK, sure. Henry kind of made sense because of his age (though in hindsight probably not). Fabregas not so much (but in hindsight maybe yes). Bellerin just doesn't make any sense at all. Arsenal would never find a better right-back in the first place probably, and that's not counting the potential Bellerin has to improve.
When in doubt:
:face:Quote:
Liverpool have turned their attentions to Southampton's £25m-rated winger Sadio Mane, 24, after Mario Gotze said he would prefer to stay at Bayern Munich.
My United fan mate has a proper bone-on for Mane. I wonder how he'd take to seeing him sign for Liverpool. :baz:
You would think transfer fees are going to get ridiculous, especially between Premiership clubs. £60m for Willian doesn't seem crazy in that context.
Is bellerin really that good to be holding on too? He signed a long term contract at the start of the season so im sure they could request a decent transfer fee for him. Bellerin being part of the famous barcelona youth academy is an added bonus for him to move back home. If alves does indeed move on, would he go straight into the barcelona first team?
League One manager no.2 has turned us down. :D
I'd take Mane in a heartbeat.
I admit to not watching him often, but he seems like a player who blows hot and cold. You'll get teams linked to him after he scores a hattrick, then the story goes cold after 3 months without a goal.
Yeah, I think he is. For being so young and relying so much on his speed, he does have a great tackle going. He's not great at markling or in the box, obviously, but with the way Arsenal (and Barca would) play, he's quite a perfect fit, and he can only improve.
Ron Robert Zieler is on the way to Leicester for transfer talks, according to Hannover's website.
Probably because our back up last season was 103 year old Mark Schwarzer. The lad Zieler looks to have good pedigree so pleased with that.
Blind and Mata could be sold under mourinhio
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...-a7057126.html
West Ham launch £16m raid for AC Milan striker Carlos Bacca
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...h-striker.html
Lichtsteiner to chelsea to join conte
http://www.tribalfootball.com/articl...helsea-4131818
Blind :(
I don't think Blind would be missed all that much, altough he might be useful to have around as utility player. Herrera (also named in the article) I would be sad to see go. Schweinsteiger is the most likely to leave I think and I can't say that he'll be missed at all.
I know he's not 'Mourinho player', but it really is a bit daft how much he seems to hate him. He's clearly very good.
I'd be gutted to see Herrera go.
Blind is meh, but you need squad players. If we sell him then we'll end up spending just as much on someone just as meh to replace him, seems pointless.
I was thinking what midfielders we'd actually be left with if we sold all that lot; I'd forgotten schneiderlin even existed.
Skrtel on the move to Middlesbrough
http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/01/middle...krtel-5916869/
Lacazette to spurs with swap for Son
http://www.itv.com/news/2016-06-01/t...of-spurs-move/
Bayern rejected £50m for alaba
http://en.as.com/en/2016/05/31/footb...75_227940.html
I miss ITKiko.
Looks like Gundogan to City is all but done.
Boro will no doubt get all the United loanees now. Chelsea should have thought that through before they sacked Mourinho. We have about 135 players to offload.
Is he still packing a Mert belly too?
Isn't Laporte injured too? Put money on them losing their qualifier.
Ilkay Gundogan's signed for Manchester City. Four year deal, £21m for him according to Sky.
Great signing if he can get fit again. Big if, though.
TTH broke that news last week. The whole transfer has the smell of sahin about it.
Is that how they announced it? Jesus. They should go back to coaching new signings to claim that everyone in Manchester supports City if that's how they're going to behave.
Garry Monk is the new Leeds manager.
Their sixth manager since Jack Wilshere last played ninety minutes. :harold:
Garry Monk. :cool:
Easily the highest calibre manager we've had since this cunt took over.
Surprised he couldn't do better
His experience of managing in the Championship makes it an obvious appointment.
How'd they get him? That's going to be an interesting one.
Delighted with Monk.
Villa getting Di Matteo & Clarke is a great move, I really think they'll walk to the title next season.
I think Newcastle have a much better chance of walking it.
Is Gun Dog Ann any good? That seems fairly cheap if he is. What is it with Dortmund players and injuries though? So many of them seem absolute cripples.
Bit happier with Di Matteo with Clarke on the books.
Knowing Villa's luck it'll end up being Dominic Matteo.
He has had two pretty serious injuries in the past few seasons. Doesnt matter when you get them.
I think I read a few weeks ago that Mkhitaryan's contract is out next summer too, so if that's their policy and he fancies a change, he might be on the move this summer.
I reckon he'll replace Coutinho when he moves to PSG
They're all coming to Newcastle. As is Zlatan. Oberhausen can make him a King but we can give him a castle.
Koeman close to joining everton
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...er-news-gossip
Benteke a chelsea target
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...istian-8106219
PSG interested in coutinho
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport...ho-no-11421331
West hams £15m offer for bacca has been rejected
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...ac-milan-agent
We'll need Hummels, as Steven Taylor is leaving when his contract expires this summer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36409771
Really surprised at that. Is Schmeichel leaving or being benched? Zieler is too good to sit on the bench at Leicester.
Schmeichel is pretty average if we're being honest. His kicking is non league standard.
Kicking. Theres a reason to be an average goalkeeper.
Arsenal should be all over Hummels, he's like a good version of Per Mertesacker.
Think Sincere just mastered sarcasm there.
Was getting worried Taylor would get another contract, so that's good news. If Coloccini stops with the foreplay and makes the move to Argentina then there's a huge chunk of the wage bill freed up and a desperate need to recruit, which is the best position for the club to be in, really.
Finally a new defence :drool:
So long as they have most bases covered between them, I'm happy. Apparently we're getting an absolute fucker of a fitness coach from Inter too. Couldn't usually give a flying one about that, but it's a priority as the squad was blatently unfit last season. Taking the piss unfit. Especially that shithouse of an 'Erdington lad' up top.
Ricardo Rodriguez to Arsenal hotting up!
in an interview with Swiss newspaper Tagesanzieger, said staying at Wolfsburg is ‘not impossible but unrealistic’
Tagesanzieger asked: You share a room with Granit Xhaka in the national team. Is it a possibility to play at the same club in the near future?
Rodriguez: (smirks) That would be exciting, yes, especially because the room arrangement at Arsenal would be fixed as well.
Has a £19mill release clause too.
Monreal has been great for Arsenal but he is 30 so Rodriguez for £19m would be a step up for sure.
Is Gibbs just a complete waste of time now then?
I know it's his entire gimmick, but can the new board do something about that sort of bab from 'jeet?
If you just reimagine him as some kind of AI Chatbot who occasionally posts Twitter highlights, it makes a lot more sense
err
I bet he'd be shit.
http://www.skysports.com/football/transfer-deals
Here you go - You'll never need to visit this thread again if you are after done deals .
Giroud is miles better.
Think everyone's being a bit harsh on ol' jeet here. He's just bringing you the hot tips.
Will that weird little lookalike twat have to follow Jamie Vardy to London?
That's why I asked. Talk about getting carried away.
I saw that he had been banned for, in his words, 'nothing'.
That's a little more than nothing, it's proper mental.
It was the six month career break that got me. Have some dignity, lad.
It's a shame things have gone sour between him and Vardy. You could have had his postman job.
I could mediate.
What the fuck is going on.
Vardy is an absolutely terrible fit for Arsenal in so many ways.
Oh well. Guess Shinji will have to fire us to European glory.
Jack's mate though innit. Doubt there's enough coke in London to satisfy both of them.
He would have loved it in the old George Graham\ Tuesday Club days :D
We're not really a counter attacking team, needs to have good link-up play which is why Theo has done shit for us - Theo on the otherhand would be great for Leicester
That's why Arsene was at the England game.
Marc Bartra has signed for Borussia Dortmund. 8m release clause.
Vardy to Arsenal doesn't make a lot of sense. I could see him at Liverpool though.
I could see Okazaki at Liverpool. :cool: I hope he's playing somewhere regularly next season.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36450106
Well, there you go.
All aboard the Yinited train. Kiko, get me an away ticket for next year bbz x
Nice of Arsenal to distract him before the Euros. :panda:
Seems like such an un-Wenger buy.
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...16-sky-sources
Gonna cost so much :drool:
Vardy to Arsenal is a nonsense, unless they're going to sell all their other Englishmen and so are desperate for homegrown players for the quota.
How will the knitted scarf brigade cope with a confirmed racist pulling on the famous red and white? It's like Nigel Farage joining Boyzone.
He'll sign a five year contract on massive wages and proceed to be dogshit, won't he?
I've always said they'd come to regret pricing out all the racists.
You should try going to Chelsea instead. 35,000 Harold Shands and 10,000 Koreans. Brings a tear to the eye.
Hi, @Lofty.
I'm coming round to the idea of Ibrahimovic. Get one good year out of him, give Rashford another year to develop and then 'Zlatan' retires and doesn't limit his opportunities.
Inb4 Falcao v2.
They're signing Messi next year, so...
Doesn't he evade his tax with a rival to Jorge Mendes?
You might get Ham-es, I suppose.
Jordan fucking Amavi. I'm going to top myself.
Not sure why Arsenal are going for Vardy when Kante is there. Seems like a much better fit.
Kante at this stage would be even more mental.
Kante is too small - having Huth and Morgan behind him complements him.
Liverpool offered to pay Vardy higher wages but that min fee is only available to clubs who have qualified for the CL :D
Vardy to arsenal is a weird one. Saying that, vardy will probably reject them. At this point, its a step down to consistency.
Vardy will do really well at Arsenal. He is great at timing a run, he finishes well and he is fast as fuck. He'll be on the end of a fair few through balls there. Kante ending up there wouldn't surprise me either and I rate him that highly that I'm pretty sure that if any of the big clubs signs him they'll win the league. Special player. He'll be player of the Euros too. Everything is a bit quiet on Mahrez at the moment but I imagine Vardy leaving will see all those three gone by the end of the summer.
Shame, but we still have a solid base, a good scouting system and a quality manager. Some Leicester fans are having a right meltdown. I don't really know what they expected would happen. I'm a bit surprised that Vardy is off but surely nobody thought we were going to stick around challenging for trophies forever.
Yes thanks :D
That's another Jeet victory.
We saw against Portugal how Vardy does against teams that park the bus. Arsenal face that every week. He'd be lucky to get double figures.
He's a hoof it long and chase it player.
Who?
Amavi's a player. Brilliant delivery. I was hoping no one had noticed and we'd get a season in the Championship out of him.
Villarreal's Ivorian CB.
I don't know anything about Eric Bailly (Google reckons 'Pep' wanted him), but if it means not spending even more money on John Stones then yeah brilliant mate what a signing.
He was Gabriel's replacement :D
:D :D :D
Fuck off you royal cunt.
Wahey! John Stones. I've always rated him.Quote:
Sky Sports News HQ understands United are not the only club trying to sign Bailly, with Manchester City, Barcelona, and Paris St Germain all also in talks with the La Liga club.
Arsenal will pay over £29MILLION for Jamie Vardy, claims Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...-jamie-8115790
It'll be a shame to see Vardy (and all of Leceister's 'stars') jump ship before they have their chance to play in the Champions League, but if you're someone like Vardy you can't really turn down £120k a week for 4 years. He could be the new Ian Wright.
He's making a decision today apparently. Can't really see why he's leave Leicester if they're offering him similar money.
Der Untergang. :drool:
No chance we'd match the £130k that Arsenal are offering but we have offered 'improved' terms. He's gone imo.
If he doesn't sign it will be even more embarrassing than the Suarez saga.
I can see why he'd leave Leicester. He thinks they've peaked and he may never see the likes of it again. I suspect there's a lot of guys thinking that way but they're probably more inclined to see the Leicester journey through.
He's apparently decided to stay at Leicester. Might end up being best for all concerned.
Vardy has changed his Twitter account pic to Leicester's next season's new shirt!
You should work for Sky Sports News, mate.
Top reporting.
Brian Swanson will be shitting himself.
Will people stop giving diljeet stick? He post useful snippets that I would otherwise not know about.
Sincere's posts are very similar (and just as useful) in this thread by nobody snarls at him.
Stick to Sky Sports News guys where they get their scout reports from Football Manager.....
Get on BBC. They have a 'Football Manager Expert' for deadline day.
Yeah the 'jeet stick is unjustified. Just an easy target.
99% of the time he's basically a spambot but for football crap and shit jokes rather than Ugg boots. He clearly doesn't care, why should anybody else?
Stick him on the ignore list if his posting offends you.
It doesn't offend me. I tend to skim his posts and not encourage him but don't fret about him getting abuse he doesn't even give a shit about.
Dry your eyes.
Reg sticking up for spam bots is ironic, given he's basically a binary version of Phil McNulty. Fucking shithead.
I'm fine thanks, you're the one who seems pissed.
edit- another bizarre attack from Magic. Again - use the ignore button if I'm that awful.
A row tonight, Magic?
Hah. :D
John Carver is now manager of Omonoia Nicosia, with Nikos Dabizas technical director.
Jesus
Walcott.
:D
Surely this is the year?
Where Walcott gets ditched...
Walcott should be moved on at this point. He has had ten years and he has only managed to get into double figure of league goals once. Sell him, give oxlade that RM slot and buy some young striker.
There's talk of West Ham being prepared to pay £25m. :clap:
I should be more reticent with the Arsenal lolling, seeing as we'll probably end up buying Gibbs and Walcott for grossly inflated fees before sealing a late summer £50m swoop for Vardy.
:face:
Kante linked with chelsea
http://www.espnfc.co.uk/blog/transfe...f-psg-interest
Man city agree to sign some young ukgrainian zinchenko
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....r-ufa-11437262
Leicester enquire about Konoplyanka
http://www.tribalfootball.com/articl...lyanka-4132864
Leicester prepare bid for deeney
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...y-contract-ne/
Sissoko eyeing arsenal move
http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/07/moussa...heart-5928760/
Crystal palace want townsend
https://www.theguardian.com/football...release-clause
Good post. Thanks for sharing. :thbup:
Is Hirving Lozano (what a shit name) any good, Pepe?
I don't know. Sunday was the first time I've ever watched him play. I don't really watch football anymore.
Looked like most Mexican attackers: Skillful yet largely useless. He did generate plenty of danger on this match, mind.
Vardy is delaying his decision until after the Euros.
That will do. Wasn't 'Zlatan' meant to be announcing his move today? I've been tweeting United all afternoon in broken English, but they're ignoring me.
Apparently 'Zlatan's' 'bomb' today is about his clothing line rather than for whom he'll be kicked footballs next season.
How long is Koeman's contract at Everton? They've had to pay £5m as compensation, and also £7m per year for...?
Fucking ridiculous. He was also getting paid nearly £4m at Southampton for fuck's sake.
Makes a mere £6m per year for Moyes look a pretty shrewd bit of business, really. :cool:
I'm not sure why he's agreed to move, unless it's purely for money. With Southampton in Europe next year it just seems odd.
Well he's doubling his wages. There's your answer.
He's been guaranteed £120m to spend on players without taking into account whatever Lukaku moves for which probably helps too.
Even with the MASSIVE TV DEAL, how will they get that one past 'FFP'?
Who could they even buy for that kind of money? They'll end up doing something like 30 million for Berahino if that is true.
He can just buy 5 Southampton players for £120m.
Fool proof.
Bam's back!
The BBC have confirmed Bailly.
Is he actually any good? Not that we don't need a centre-half.
Gundogan and Aubameyang in the same week :drool:
That Eric Bailly lad has passed his medical with Man Utd as well.
I was getting a bit sad about the prospect of losing Vardy, Mahrez and Kante in the past few days but Dortmund get rinsed every single year the poor cunts.
Guardiola should have just managed Dortmund and saved himself the time.
Hope Bailly is good and doesn't end up like Phil Jones, always on ice.
Damn, I know absolutely nothing about Abuameymenagangnagyeang but I'd decided I wanted him at United.
Seeing as they need half a new squad, spending fifty million quid (or more) on a striker seems a bit pointless.
I thought he could play on the right, where we desperately need someone.
It might still happen, I prefer the Ox over Walcott so you can have Walcott.
Ox can piss off, least Theo had some form at the start of the season.
:drool:
Jeet. :cool:
r/soccer reckon he's a don so you can go fuck yourselves.
City will be frightening going forward if they land Spiderman.
I really thought those repeated replays were building up to Torres missing that. Disappoint.
Isn't centre forward just about the lowest possible priority for City?
Mirror reporting Tottenham in talks to sign £12million Almaar striker Vincent Janssen. Dutch international has been in London
Dutch international has been sounds like a proper Tottenham signing.
City need someone who can compete with Aguero as he's a complete cripple and Bony is a sack of shit.
£30m for mane
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...-sadio-8136675
Asamoah to juventus with conte
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...ansfer-8135317
Former bremen and german goalkeeper signs a contract with WWE
http://www.skysports.com/wwe/news/14...iese-joins-wwe
Skrtel to turkey
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/f...artin-11433717
United have now officially signed Bailly for around £30 million. Can't say I know if he's worth that as I've never seen him play, but getting someone supposedly good to play with Smalling in the centre seems like a good move as I don't think Blind is al that great as first choice.
Mourinho out!
Bailly's alright (seen him with Ivory Coast and Villarreal) but I'm not sure he's ever put a consistently top, top season together. Probably a Mourinho favourite in the making, though, with his physicality and versatility.
In a world where even shithouse Premier League clubs are raking in £250m a season, I guess £7m for a manager who might not be a muppet is good business.
Bailly will probably get stuck at left back because Jose doesn't trust Shaw to do his defensive duties.
Bay-ee (apparently) is going to be quality.
FICC.
Sorry, FCd'IC.
We absolutely love Saints. Bertrand while we're at it.
What happened to phil jones? Will the ivorian be backup to him?
Next Mangala!
With Mangala I simply can't get past wanting to replace his a's with e's.
Is that a regurgitated story because I swear he first joined them years ago.
Think that was a pre-development contract before.
Hugo Knox is the stage name of a wrestler who was a keeper at Barrow AFC. Imagine them having a keeper grudge match, ending with Knox power bombing Wiese through the top of a cage in a Hell in a Cell match while the crowd sings '10 German Bombers'.
These Paul Pogba stories are encouraging for those of us with nothing to do this summer. Ten weeks of checking Twitter and being disappointed. You beauty.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....chong-11444395
Wonderkids :drool:
That hair :drool:
Running riot :drool:
http://akacdn.transfermarkt.de/image...?lm=1461950868
This photo :drool:
Man city linked with laporte
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....nsfer-11445496
Chelsea linked with batshuayi
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...shuayi-8144995
West ham and liverpool want vermaelen
http://talksport.com/football/liverp...omas-vermaelen
Wolves sign lonergan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36483241
Pjanic to Juve for €30M. Absolute steal. A Marchisio, Khedira, Pogba, Pjanic diamond could be one of the best midfields we've ever had.
Skysports reporting that man utd didnt have any type of buyback or sell-on clause in the pogba deal. Im sure pogba left on a free transfer so im not sure if those clauses even qualify.
There's no clause on Pogba, he is just going to go (or stay) where he wants.
Daniel agger age 31, has retired from football
http://www.football365.com/news/form...-agger-retires
He effectively retired about 5 years ago.
I love that many of those Vermaelan stories have him billed as "€63m Barca Star!". Erm, clickbait.
I thought Pessoto was a pasta.
No idiot, that's ciabatta.
Is he still in Palermo?
You want the food thread, mate.
HAHAHAHAHA.
Now I get it.
Glass houses and all that.
Hadn't heard about that Pjanic transfer coming. So him and possibly Nainggolan off. Could see Roma slipping down to 5th/6th, they'd have a hard time replacing both of them.
Good. Fuck them.
United re-signing Nani would be my favourite transfer ever.
Nainggolan is so important for Roma. He's a bigger loss than Pjanic if he does end up leaving.
The Bundesliga has renewed its TV deal and essentially doubled the previous one. It's I think about £1.3bn less than The Premier League(No sponsor needed), but their top flight has less teams. So it's not quite as big a gap as the price tag looks, but they still are a little way behind.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/...linkname=sport
£15m+ bid rejected for Troy Deeney. What times we live in.
Ed Chamberlain of Monday Night Football has transferred to ITV as their (Horse) Racing Presenter when they get the rights on 1st January 2017, with David Jones of Saturday Night Football moving to the Monday show.
Biggest transfer thus far.
I don't know what is more funnier, Leicester City bidding £20M for Troy Deeney or Watford turning it down?? I'm sure the guy is about 38 years old.
You're thinking of Lloyd Doyley.
Eran Zahavi being linked.
Could go very Afonso Alves.
Stones rejects barcelona
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ster-City.html
Colin Kazim-Richards moves to brazil
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36495544
Azpilicueta a target for barca
http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/09/chelse...arget-5933661/
Pelle linked with a move to everton
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/foo...-Gossip-Latest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBM8M21S5Kg
What the fuck are they up to?
Twitter sez that Dave Gayer is in some trouble regarding a rape case that involves a few other Spain players. Isco and Muniain are the others implicated.
Could all be just Twitter rumours though.
Watford have made a bid for Berahino
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...brom-strikeror
A few places reported just after it came out that the police investigated the claims already and found no evidence.
Edit: https://mobile.twitter.com/RafaelH11...87612917383168
Had a chat with a friend of mine who is very well connected with the club about the whole Koeman situation and its hilarious. I won't write too much about the finer details as it's probably a bit boring.
The club and Koeman verbally agreed a new three year deal at the end of the season. Agreed that Wanyama, Mane and Pelle would be sold. They also worked out how much would be available for transfers to replace those players and improve the rest of the squad. Koeman goes on holiday and leaves his agent to finalise the finer details.
While on holiday Everton contact Koemans agent and they let him know they're interested. The agent turns down Everton and tells them how Koeman is going to sign a new deal when back from his holiday.
Everton hire another agent to tap up Koeman. When Koeman here's about the offer he sacks his old agent and takes on the new one.
Koeman goes into see the club with his new agent and the Everton deal of 6m p/a and tells the club he wants a bigger pay rise than agreed and ambition (in terms of money to spend) to match Everton and there offer.
Saints call his bluff, either sign the deal now or go to Everton. There will be no negotiations. Behind the scenes the board aren't completely happy with Koeman as the brand of football and pathway for young players to get into the first team isn't up to the standard they expect.
Koeman very angry, doesn't want to join Everton (wants Arsenal or Barca) and now feels he has no choice. Said he'd happily see out the last year of his contract and the club refuse. Either sign the deal or go to Everton.
Saints want Everton to agree a 12 month period where they won't sign any of our players, Everton refuse and it's currently at a stalemate. Southampton happy to stick him on gardening leave for the next 12 months than give in to Everton.
If all that's true then Everton look a bit cuntish* and Koeman looks both a cunt and a mug.
* Though this may be standard behaviour for clubs, I dunno.
Unai Emery has left Sevilla. Everton should be dropping their bollock for him.
He's going to PSG. Sampaoli is taking over at Sevilla.
That should be great fun.
Tony hibbert and leon osman are no longer being employed by everton
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...y-Hibbert.html
Veratti to man utd
https://www.theguardian.com/football...chester-united
Roma turn to Wijnaldum
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...er-News-Gossip
West ham ready new £32m for lacazette
http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2016/06/13...alexandre-lac/
Redmond linked with southampton
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...ansfer-8175129
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36490662
Jaap :cool:
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...nited-transfer
Looks like this might finally be progressing,
Bet they've paid loads for a sign on fee for him, but a good signing for 'free'
Who?
890 followers? Lawl. Football level = conference north.
Bit insensitive to announce that so soon after Orlando.
Vote LEAVE.
lol.
Those things are always, always fake.
:D
Ether.
Fuck. :D
:D
Did a google and can't find a single reference to it outside Boruc doing a variety of BLASTING/AIMING DIGS/TAKING SWIPES so it's a dead cert for a fake.
edit: One I saw the other day
Yeah I bet he said that.
Magic. :D
Funniest thing you've ever done magic.
Word on the street is that PSG have bid €30m for FM wonderkid Gabriel Barbosa. Santos thought to want closer to €35m.
He doesn't even have to be good in that setup.
Chelsea open Mandanda talks
http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/15/chelse...nsfer-5945145/
Barcelona agree deal for umtiti
http://www.90min.com/posts/3331011-b...-samuel-umtiti
Chelsea have £32m bid for gomes rejected
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/foo...-Gossip-Latest
Swap between Berahino and Sakho
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...r-swap-8193382
Nani agrees inter deal
http://talksport.com/football/inter-...i-160614199608
Cheers Jeet.
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The St Pauli manager couldn't make it to the unveiling of their new signing for whatever reason, so they just stuck a mask of his face on someone and had him stand there instead.
That's brilliant. :D
Fuck me??? :D
:D
Superb.
The new signing is clearly thinking, 'I've made a huge mistake'.
Is Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Henry Michaels) better and less pathetically light-weight than 'Shinji' was when United signed him?
Gaitain to athletico
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...l-forward.html
Nampalys Mendy close to leicester
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/le...ail/story.html
Sad that Benfica have lost Gaitan but let's see if he can kick on in Spain. The guy is extremely talented.
Are you not so ITK any more ITKiko?
Keeks is too busy activating almonds to be ankle deep in ITKs
It's the summer, enjoy yourself ffs.
Do you think the mail is trying to hint something? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...nst-Wales.html
Chewing tobacco :sick:
And again http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...es-impact.html
Wired.
The state of those articles. :sick:
Mkhtiasdfrnaisnasdfbasdfnnasjn's agent has said he wants to join Utd, apparently.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....eymar-11488246
That'll be Neymar signing a new contract within a couple of weeks.
I think TTH could do a better job writing transfer gossip. Mark Kerr to Spurs has a better chance of happening.
I think Neymar moving is more likely than some of the other rumours, because of the court case around the transfer and all that shit.
I bet we would(ward) pay the mental fee as well.
It has litterally no chance of happening.
He'll go wherever his agent tells him to so it's a question of how much money you have to throw at him to make it happen.
Wanyama to Spurs is on for £11m, apparently.
It's absolute rubbish.
Fuck all chance of Neymar leaving, never mind leaving for United.
We've signed some Nigerian kid and given him Kanu's number. If he's half as entertaining than I'll be a happy man.
:rotate:
You'll get there Spikey.
I litterally wont
For all Wanyamas faults I'll be sad to see him go. On form he's an absolute boss in the middle. Not sure he will suit the Spurs style. But he's a massive upgrade on Bentaleb, Mason and Caroll so worth the risk, especially at 11m.
Hopefully we sell him before the new manager comes in and likewise Mane if he's leaving. I think it's a lot easier for a manager if those sort of things are sorted before they arrive.
This Neymar business is taking the piss isn't it?
I think the agent has released the story. I suspect foul play.
£24m bid for Troy Deeney turned down. What times we live in.
24 fucking Million?!
They want £32m. Don't we all?
Fucking hell.
Oh and it was £25m actually.
That is the sort of signing you make (albeit not for that much) if you finish sixteenth but have ambitions of thirteenth.
He'd be a really good fit for us and I think would be successful especially if we kept Vardy. But I was thinking in the £10-15m price range with the English tax.
£32,000,000!!
I'd like him at the club. Perfect foil for Vardy. But that's a bit much, for fuck's sake.
I'd like Leicester to complete the old school back to basics lineup. Deeney is too flashy, Andy Carroll or Akinfenwa would do the job. Get rid of Mahrez and bring in Darren Anderton.
Splash that TV, bookies and Champions League money. Unless Vardy goes.
I didn't realise Abbayangaman was 27, assumed he was younger than that.
It doesn't normally look like that, it lives under much greater pressure.
Like this ... I think.
http://i.imgur.com/utG43uS.png
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36571877
Vardy to reject Arsenal :cool:
Good. Was a bit concerned that we might be sitting back waiting for a response after the Euros and doing fuck all else in the meantime.
At least now we can crack on with signing Deeney.
He's staying at Watford. We're going toe-to-toe for Andre Gray. Start the bidding at £20m
They're less dense than water so they can float around at the bottom of the sea floor picking up scraps. However, when they get out of the water...
http://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2...crop-smart.jpg
The Blobfish. :cool: I did a presentation on them in 5th grade.
See sense and sign Papiss Cisse, please.
You can have him for free, on account of the fact he's fucking shite.
Mata to Everton? :Sherlock:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36575117
Wanyama to Spurs for 11M? Seems like a bit of a bargain, even if (I assume...?) his contract must be up in a year.
Is he actually any good?
It's worth finding out for £11m, they can always sell him for twice that to West Ham or Liverpool in a year or two.
£11m is nice. Prefer clubs to spend money on established premier league players than some player from overseas. He is sitll only 24 somehow.
Then again, not sure where he fits into their midfield when they have Eric Dier. Rotation I suppose, CL and all.
Bentaleb is still round.
Him too. Not sure if he's any good though.
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...is-a-done-deal
Dem "Football Whispers" ratings :drool:
End of civilisation stuff, that. Is that what people need to pass their time? And they say we are busier than ever. Lies.
The SSN app is absolutely filled with shite like that.
The talented Bordeaux youngster dropped a huge that he's about to join Manchester United by following the club and stars such as Wayne Rooney, Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford on Instagram.
:harold:
Someone make a Mark Kerr instagram and follow Spurs.
If he's half the player Gabriel Obertan was then they're onto a winner. Speaking of United greats, if/when Madrid sign Paul Pogba, who do they shuffle on? Even if they chuck Isco into the deal (wasn't that rumoured before?) you would expect one of their bigger name midfielders to want to leave. I don't know whether United would need Toni Kroos now that Wayne Rooney is the best deep-lying midfielder in the game, but 'Harmez' would suit the MARQUEE SIGNING agenda.
Hamez is a Mendes man so I would have thought it was nailed on.
Did he turn out to be any good, Hamez?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...-skipper-troy/
Pure banter from the champs
The joint third most expensve English player of all time? Fuck me.
Disgraceful.
£30m for a 27 year old uncapped striker. It's fucking mental.
He should be worth more to us than Leicester are willing to pay but it really seems as though 30m will be bid and the signs are it will be accepted.
He has a true connection with the fans that isn't seen very often anymore so I hope we reject it. That 30m won't go near my back pocket so who gives a fuck? I'd rather watch the players I like.
Post TV deal, you shouldn't be surprised by seeing ridiculous numbers pass between English teams.
Apparently, Burnley have rejected an £11.5m bid from Leicester for Michael Keane :face:
Eye watering stuff. The collapse must be closing in.
Any chance of a bid for Fellaini?
He's not English. We are readying a £45m bid for Cameron Borthwick-Jackson though
Gabby Agbonlahor's a player.
Wouldn't it be worth a better shot to overspend (relatively) on a larger group of young academy players? I realize that real life football isn't FM but I really struggle to understand the logic.
Or even upgrade facilities? Then I just saw they offered 10m+ to Burnley for Michael Keane. Even more surprising, Burnley said no!
Am I just behind on the times?
Demand for top English (or homegrown) players exceeds supply, especially now they all have to have 8 homegrown players or whatever it is. For that reason, prices will be sky high.
And why should they be? A team that's good now is always better than a team that's good in two years. No point in buying a bunch of youngsters and then having to sell them because they're bored of losing while you wait for them to become good.
I must be worth a few mill at current market rates.
I really wonder if Real actually intends to sell off Morata again. I rate him higher than Benzema at the moment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36591829
Confirmed he's going back.
Does he have much choice? They had a buy-back clause which I assume also has some sort of contract clause for him.
Maz is thinking of slavery.
I fucking hope my last employer doesn't force me to go back, anyway. :uhoh:
Hopefully they keep him and benzema is moved on or becomes backup
We've signed a Swede for £2 million.
What could go wrong.
Fucking beautiful.
Vardy signs a 4 year deal with Leicester.
Vardy rejects approach from Arsenal. Lols.
Missed that West Ham signed Feghouli :drool:
Griezmann has signed an extension too.
Arsenal twitter is so funny. They react to the news with 'Great, this will free us up to spend big on a striker.' Have they not lived through the last decade?
We're gonna win the league
You're Leicester, don't be so silly.
Not a chance Leis'cester can win the league.
West ham make €35m bid for Batshuayi
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/foo...rexit-Juventus
Arsenal stlye not right for vardy
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...er-sky-sources
Hull want FEC on loan
http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/23/hull-c...jones-5963081/
Shirley linked with dortmund
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/footb...h-replacement/
Saw WHAM! were in for Lacazette?
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...ss-News-Gossip
The last thing West Ham need is another plodding Andy Caroll-esque striker.
Southampton have signed Nathan Redmond from Norwich for about £10m. That seems to have come from relatively out of nowhere and happened fast.
I guess than means Mane is ours. We should have just bought Southampton ffs.
We've been after Redmond for a couple of years now. I've never been overly impressed, hoping that's because he's always played for poor teams who have been on the back foot during games.
Pretty sure the Mane deal will go through at some point. We want 40m and Liverpool want to pay 25/30m, I assume we will agree to 30m with some addons at some point in the next few weeks.
We're apparently after some Lille winger/striker as the Mane replacement. Think his name was Boufal.
Think Redmond would have done well in the Championship, so happy with that, though most people in Norwich have been saying they want him to go, as the Murphy's can easily replace him.
Dwight Gale stories are going around again for Newcastle, really hoping that happens.
Heard some tings concerning Pjaca. Let it be.
Subotic has announced he's leaving Dortmund. Go get him Jurgen.
Clyne is the only one who's going to remain in that back line. Hopefully.
Apparently Mkhitaryan to United is a done deal (according to 'Di Marzio' who seems to be considered reliable).
Embolo has signed for Schalke.
I like that a lot if it comes through.
:( would have been ideal at Arsenal.
The video :D
Proper small time.
Not sure why RB Leipzig is in there too.
Holy shit that video is loud.
Jorge Mendes must be seething about that fat bloke taking United's money out of his pocket. Hopefully he can talk Paul Pogba round as well. Not because he is necessarily worth ninety million, but breaking the transfer record without even being able to offer Champions League would be the end of Arsenal and Liverpool Twitter.
We're apparently handing Southampton another £30M for Mane.
We'd have been better buying the club a couple of years ago, for fuck sake.
Don't Liverpool have enough inconsistent attacking midfield dribble merchants?
It seems not.
£30m for Mane will be well worth those ten games a season where he's any good.
Make that five when there's an African Cup of Nations on.
Considering how much Liverpool would want for Coutinho that's probably a fair analysis (and price).
Liverpool are such a lol club. After trying to improve on 2nd by buying the entirety of the club that finished 8th, they are now raidimg the same club in an attempt to claim 6th. Brilliant.
Liverpool should stick to raiding the Bundesliga for people
Raoul, mate, we've just voted to leave the EU. These lads know they'll be deported. Get with the programme.
Smart business to spend £30m on a Senegalese player then.
Get someone like Draxler or Sane for less than Mane, man
Sane's been being touted at £40m hasn't he?
What's £10m between friends?
signing a player like that? of course it's a huge deal for us
these are all clubs who offered embolo more money and yet he still signed for us instead of any of them
the video is a bit cringey, but it's gotta be said that schalke is still an "e.V. (eingetragener Verein [registered association]) and not yet a "company" (?) like bayern or dortmund (or any of the other listed clubs)
it's pretty much the identity of the club right now, a team not being owned by shareholders against companies
I for one can't wait till we turn into one because it's just delaying the inevitable
Didn't realise this Mane deal was almost BBC official. Lordy.
Man utd agree £26.5m fee for taz
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...advanced-stage
Mane having a medical today to complete a £34 million transfer to Liverpool.
What a waste of money. When will we learn...
34 million?
Le monde, c'est ą nous.
Between £34m and £36m. That is excessive if you ask me, even if it is for gucci mane.
It's almost like you don't get value buying from a top half team who are absolutely minted.
Hopefully that's the last of the outgoings now and I'm sure we've been tracking replacements for Wanyama and Mane for some time. I think Redmond was an addition to the squad rather than a direct replacement for Mane.
I can't even begin putting a team together for Liverpool. Sturridge, Origi, Ings, Benteke up top. Coutinho, Firmino, Lallana, Ibe, Mane, Markovic behind. Bloated as hell. :cab:
Forgot about Ings. He'd fit in well with the Champions if we can't stretch to £65m for Deeneh
He's up to £80m now.
Goals from midfield = priceless.
Crystal Palace bidding £30m for Michy Batshuayi :|
Everyone is wedged :drool:
https://www.theguardian.com/football...-marseille-bid
They've also bid for Andros Townsend.
Wenger waiting for the Pound to shoot back up before spending.
ESPN reporting Gabriel Barbosa has a £18mill release clause
Holy shit. Mandanda, Townsend, AND Batshuayi
:happycry:
Leave Townsend alone, please.
Townsend :(
He absolutely should have been playing at the Euros.
Hulk is off to china in a £43m deal. £12m per year in salary
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...pg-for-163457m
Draxler linked with man utd
http://www.espnfc.co.uk/blog/transfe...nited-overhaul
Has there ever been a bigger mercenary in football than Hulk?
Asamoah Gyan.
Mane has gone, Saints announced it as our biggest ever sale so must be more than 32m which we got for Shaw.
£34m rising to £36m according to the BBC. Madness.
Newcastle signing some Belgian keeper, so Krul is off, I guess to Everton or Palace.
In hindsight the club should have picked Forster over Krul when it came to it.
I really dislike the Mane signing. Though given that suddenly West Ham and Palace can bid £32m for players, I don't feel so bad about the price paid.
Why aren't these clubs using their money to buy from abroad instead of paying inflated prices to other Premier League teams (who hike the prices up because of the new TV deal)? It seems like the money is burning a hole in their pockets and they're carelessly throwing it around for the sake of it.
Because buying Premier League-proven players is the way forward. Just look at Liverpool.
You could equally say look at Newcastle.
Draxler did look great, but would be surprising if we went for him as well as Michael Targaryen.
Maybe Dortmund are playing hard ball, or maybe we want Draxler on the right and Micky Taragon 'in the hole'.
In for Hatem Ben Arfa :drool:
Pfffft, this side of the channel he's a fat chancer.
But then Martial can't play on the right. :harold:
Martial plays on the left. I don't understand the joke.
Dembele who was linked with everyone has joined celtic
http://www.celticfc.net/news/10776
Higuain is not renewing his napoli contract. It runs out in 2018 when he is 30
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...agent-confirms
Zabaleta linked with roma
http://www.espnfc.co.uk/story/290406...o-roma-reports
Crystal palce looking to meet andros townsend release caluse
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...cision-8304894
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...tenham-Enquiry
Sounds legit. This as well:
:DQuote:
However, hypothetically, the Gunners would need deep pockets to sign the former MK Dons man who is said to be valued in excess of £100million.
As if that twat is worth that sort of money.
He's coming off the back of an impressive Euro 2016.
That type of money is for players who are going to be on the shortlist for the ballon d'or. Cant see that happening with mr alii.
Arsenal trying to take Dele Alli off Levy's hands would make the Brexit negotiations look a piece of piss.
When you're a pretty big club and part of this silly new tv deal, and haven't quite got the status to attract many/any better players than Alli, you might as well say he's worth a billion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36663346
Zlatan pretty much done.
:harold:
In talks to sign Pogba too or is that shite? Just how much money can they keep on hemorrhaging?
The GDP of Tonga.
Our attacking options look pretty dirty for next season if the Mkhi transfer comes through as well.
Just a case of where you hide Rooney to do the least damage until he fucks off.
Rooney to Galatasaray, Celtic, Hangzhou Greentown, or the Carson City Rock'n'rollers.
I think the twitter chit-chat is that Raiola wants to have all three of Mkhi (sorry for being jeet but that name is a nightmare), Ibrahimovic and Pogba at the same club but I can't see why Pogba would end up here.
Juve don't need to sell.
Don't see why Pogba would want to leave
If he did, I don't see why it would be to come to a team not even in the Champions League.
And considering Crystal Palace are throwing £30ms around since the TV deal, I think with that and our latest feminine hygiene product sponsorship deal the money pot is pretty infinite.
The albino is coming over for a medical :cool:
I know anther player who has that Raiola chap as his agent if he's looking to get them all to the same club . . .
I've already got my 'If "LvG" had had these players...' posts drafted for next season.
Newcastle, having spent 20odd million on Townsend and Shelvey are about to spunk another 20odd million on Gayle and Ritchie. :sick:
We've spunked all our transfer budget on some Swedish bloke (2m in installments). Fuck me.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....y-13m-11542436
I would like to see that happen just for the State of the Game articles it would provoke.
How can a 14 year old be contracted to Valencia in the first place? Isn't that illegal?
So Skrtel has called Klopp a dickhead on social media. Blames it on having his mate being in charge of his social media profiles.
I sense a sale coming on...
If we got £5 mill for him I'd take it. Really need to off some of our strikers and bring in some defenders.
I thought Skrtel was off already?
We should be seeing Hulk being sold to China for £45 fucking million and ringing round begging.
If possible bin off Skrtel, Illori, Balotelli, Allen, Bogdan, Ibe(if he's not fancied). We could make £20-30m there. Send the house for Subotic and maybe get another on loan to cover a Sakho ban. Keep Markovic and Bentekkers. I feel they both have something to offer.
Find a left back. I was told we had bids accepted for Hector and were close on Chilwell. I'm hoping it's just the Euros holding the former up. All we need to do then is find a left winger or maybe convert Moreno. A passing midfielder would be great, but not really in great demand.
You could make what? It's not accountancy. Everyone is loaded. You can spend as much as you like.
http://en.as.com/en/2016/06/29/footb...20_640027.html
Not that many will mind but this has been doing the rounds on numerous Spanish papers. I'm clutching at straws here but it would be something else for it to happen.
If Klopp has any sense he'll build the team around Allen.
Couldn't give a fuck how much a player costs, particularly as you can be sure it's money that won't see the club go under. Signing players in positions the club needs to recruit in, purely for footballing reasons, rather than with a hope to sell for profit in a couple of years is exactly what the club hasn't been doing for years and has suffered for it. Townsend has been the best signing for years and he's only been there two minutes.
Give me this shit over saving £4million by buying some French cunt.
Mane? Our record on 30 million plus transfers is not great at the minute we are 0 from 2. I suppose at least he fits the system unlike Benteke.
Didn't think we'd do any business prior to the Euros ending. Progress. And, I'll say it now so it can embarrass me later: Sissoko's getting no takers.
Someone will want him, but it will end up being West Brom rather than the Arsenal move he's pining for. He might as well go home.
Has Coloccini fucked off yet?
Gayle to Newcastle almost done. Sounds a pretty good deal to me.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...-close-signingQuote:
Newcastle have agreed to pay £8.5m up front with another £1m due if Gayle scores 20 goals and another £1m should they achieve promotion. A portion of that fee will be payable to Peterborough due to the existence of a sell-on clause.
Somebody should get Puncheon if he's still going to be out of favour. I'd like him at Brighton.
Apparently that signing is bad news for some guy called Emmanuel Riviere.
Never heard of him.
Really hope Newcastle smash the championship and win it by a record points total.
https://www.instagram.com/iamzlatanibrahimovic/
Just about the least surprising confirmation going, but there it is.
In much more exciting news we've announced our next batch of under 18 scholars. I think Dujon Sterling takes some beating as a name, but there's also Martell Taylor-Crossdale (of Dorne, presumably), Tariq Uwakwe and the obligatory George McEachran.
Solving English football's ills on our own.
Strong rumours Coloccini is gone. :drool:
Haven't felt this positive about the club for ages.
It's nice having a manager who knows what he's doing isn't it?
Ibrahimovic has somehow been a bigger pest with this Man Utd move than Hazard was when he went to Chelsea, and that wanker called a press conference to let everyone know when the press conference at which he'd announce his decision would be.
Hopefully the chinless prick flops hopelessly and retires a broken man.
Mourinho and Ibrahimovic as part of the same team.
Probably not actually as bad as Ferguson and Keane but I grew up with them there.
We're not buying Zlatan, it's more an investment to secure the title seeing as he always wins one.
Well really it's nice having a manager that's allowed to bring in his own players and not have to fit a profit making policy.
That said, it was Pardew who identified Obertan as a key signing, he then wanted Adebayor and Bendtner, so err yeah, it is nice having a manager who knows what he's doing.
Cabella away for £7m. I'd like to break even on some of these Frenchmen but that might require a miracle.
Southampton have signed Kieran Freeman from ourselves. He was training with Man Utd for a year or two so it's a surprise.
Pogba? https://www.theguardian.com/football...chester-united
Zlatan
Martial, Micky, Mata
Pogba, Schneiderlin
Shaw, Bailly, Smalling, Darmian
De Gea
That midfield and attack would be mighty. Mou is presumably gonna sign at least one more defender.
'Micky' on the right, Mata in the bin, and Rooney wrecking everything.
Darmian is likely off, no?
"Micky" will have to do. Dumping Mata twice would be too cruel, surely? I suppose Rooney will be squeezed in somewhere, how silly.
He'll save chucking Rooney for next summer as a STATEMENT if/when they don't win anything next season.
'Mou'. :sick:
Imagine it in a James Richardson voice.
If you don't like James then there's no dealing with you.
Pokerface alias confirmed.
Mou, ronnie and benz :drool:
Man City have signed Nolito, which means basically nothing to me having never seen him play.
Rooney should be a top, top Mourinho player. If he doesn't thrive under him, he really is finished.
Hahaha Palace have just signed Townsend. :harold:
What's so funny about that? Good player for a club at that level.
Pardew will probably play him at left back or something though.
Well he'd don it in the championship wouldn't he.
A lot of people seem to be forgetting that Samuel Ameobi has returned from his loan where they found out he can only play for about an hour at a time because of his asthma.
We're fine.
Just googled Townsend and discovered he's only 24. Fucking hell.
Watford have rejected a £37m offer for ighalo. These china man are playing no games with this money laundering strategy.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...-shanghai-sipg
Juventus approach for sanchez has been rejected
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/foo...dez-Man-United
Matt ritchie on the way to newcastle
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36680014
That's Sven's team. I can only imagine the sort of dreamy sums he is on. What a man.
I wouldn't mind bringing Chicharito in, I think he could do well in Italy.
Also, we've apparently agreed a loan for Benatia, with the move becoming permanent after a year for €18M.
The Bayern/Juventus Pact of Steel provides again.
He'd be even better in Zambia.
Shteve Mandanda to Palace.
He was convinced after Cabaye told him there's a chippy next to Selhurst.
I've just been looking through a list of transfers to see what I'd missed. Surprises I had:
Granit Xhaka cost £34 million? The guy's Swiss ffs.
Wanyama to Spurs? lol
Redmond to Southampton for the same fee as the above? lol
Newcastle have spent £22 million on English strikers today? fucking lol
Also, our 'First Team Squad' as presented by wikipedia currently numbers 53 players, not including the 9 out on loan.
We've signed Kyle Bartley on a season long loan. Monk likes him but he's hardly featured for Swansea. Still, anyone is better than Bellusci.
Fucking hell
I reckon he'll be ace.
The chonks will love that shit.
Hopefully he'll be monumentally shit.
Has he ever played well in England/against an English team before?
I suppose against England.
He donned Arsenal once didn't he? Rashford can start the big games anyway. :cool:
I presume he'll have calmed down a bit with age, but you could never trust him to stay on the pitch for ninety minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAc-G3Z5ht4
Look at the clock.
Whilst I did edit in the caveat, playing well against England doesn't really put you much above League 1 level. Championship at a push.
That would have been amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ZmJYkWLNc
What a fucking hero he was.
He's actually still alive at 61 (close to a modern day record for a wrestler) and fighting.
TTH meet lads?Quote:
On August 12, 2016, following a war of words on Twitter, Vader will make his debut for Revolution Pro Wrestling at Uprising 2016, facing Will Ospreay at York Hall, Bethnal Green, UK.
He can't still be doing that moonsault, can he?
Look how fucking cheap that fat sod's entrance video is. It has those dead pixels you used to get in the intro to Road Rash.
Sven. :D
This is delightful. Palace offering £25 mill (maybe more) for Benteke.
http://www.skysports.com/share/10331098
Jesus Christ. :sick:
Bite their damn hands off!
In all seriousness, despite my objections to him before we signed him, I'd like to keep him now. However I don't think we can be seen to turn down an offer like that.
The most interesting thing to me is that Palace are throwing £30 odd million bids about for fun. I'd love to know how much the big money clubs have to spend.
The French and Dutch leagues are going to become feeders for our mid-table.
The fee is pretty lol for a midtable club, but Benteke would be great at Palace. Haven't they been putting up with Connor Wickham for the last year?
No one likes a self-congratulatory wanker.
Christ I remember the Mark Kerr thing appearing on SSN. What scenes. :drool:
Also I'd have Wickham in a heartbeat.
Palace to declare bankruptcy in January, then.
Remember when Simon Jordan was the most embarrassing owner around? That probably illustrates the changes over the past decade better than anything else.
We've also had a £12.5m bid accepted for James Tomkins.
American owners pumping in the dolla
The very same.
Zlatan's going to be a rich man's Berbatov.
Going to be sad to see Mata inevitably be sold.
Palace have bid £25m for Benteke. It's astonishing how freely clubs are throwing around cash so early in the window.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36689057
The shame of it.
I'll be exclusively breaking the Zlatan transfer for my next post.
The Armenian has signed.
So what exactly is a Mkhitaryan? I've barely seen him play.
Also I assume the Pogba stuff is lies for contract-wrangling?
He'll play down the right. He had a ridiculous season last year but loved a good bottle job in previous years.
Poor Dortmund and Reus.
Everton have reportedly agreed to sign Belgium midfielder Axel Witsel from Zenit St Petersburg. £100k-per-week. (Source: Squawka)
Prick Mkhitaryan, meant to sign for us....
I'm amazed we're close to breaking even on Benteke - we've rejected £25m so I imagine it'll go up a couple of million yet. He's not very good.
Unless injuries cripple them again, and provided they can get something out of 'Memphis' and the like, United look to be a couple more moves (in and out) away from having a pretty handy squad.
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That should be simple with a future Ballon d'Or winner already in the squad.
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...the-ballon-dor
I checked the date on that presuming it'd be last year (which would still be silly of course).
Oh Mario.
Yeah, I was thinking it would have been about 5 years ago.
Right, Smiffy. Which one of those is you?
He might be right on Coutinho.
Balo and Sturridge off the bench. :drool: :face:
Last two seem fair enough. I don't know anything about Bailly, but if Matip was going on a free and we got him with little competition then I'm a bit worried.
Is karuis an alias for miglonet?
Mignolet with shit hair.
Imagine if Mignolet subscribed to the "Belgian Shit Hair" club at the Euros. That's Karius.
In other Liverpool news. The Zielinski deal looks to be off. Udinese have rejected our £12m bid but accepted the same amount from Napoli. Looks like that interview of him in the Liverpool shirt may have pissed them off.
Marca reckon PSG have signed Krychowiak for twenty two million, half his release clause. If that's true, and it's not just some mates rates nonsense for Emery, what the fuck was everyone else up to? He's shit hot and that's a bargain.
How long before Ben Arfa gets loaned to Palace?
Then why isn't Cabaye still there?
The Pardew pull.
http://www.lcfc.com/news/article/201...y-3165564.aspxQuote:
Leicester City Agree Deal To Sign Nampalys Mendy
@Lee
Apparently we were looking at him last year but went for Kante instead. Which suggests the latter is, unsurprisingly, off.
Quite happy with our business so far.
Is he instead of Kante?
EDIT: Seems I waited 20 mins before replying. Soz.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36698980
Batshuayi confirmed for Chelsea.
Doesn't seem that similar to Kante in style from what I see and read. He is small, black and French though.
Kante is still going just don't really think the Mendy deal has anything to do with it. Think we'll nab Mario Lemina to replace Kante.
Ahmed Musa on his way from CSKA as well for £16m. PACE.
I don't see Lemina leaving, unless we get Kanté himself.
Might be a bit of a swap deal on the cards. I just hope Kante goes abroad - don't want to see him at another English club
That is an odd one. It's too much to pay for a bench player, and if you are spending that much for an immediate impact then you might as well spend more and get a top, top player. Unless they have run out of loaned players to sell and are finally feeling the 'FFP' pinch.
Remember when Loic Remy was going on to greater things? Chelsea loves to kill our ex strikers.
Why are you so sure he's off?
Who's the married PL star that's been having an affair with a trannie for 2 years then?
I had no idea Liverpool had signed any of the players they've signed. Not sure how I feel about Sane but the rest will be good, and we've got Super Lazar Markovic back on loan.
Mkhitaryan is the kind of player who will score worldies when it doesn't matter but bottle the big games, which suggests he really should have gone to Arsenal instead.
We haven't signed Sané, have we? :cab: Other than Mané, who I assume is the player you're actually talking about, it's competition for Mignolet and a potential first choice centre back. Not much to write home about, really. I think we need a properly good midfielder to go alongside Can.
Yeah, I've confused. Sane's the one who plays for the German national team that I've never heard of.
Seem to be quite a lot of rumours that Mata to Everton is all but done.
Fuck me, don't get my hopes up like that @Spoonsky
Sane is about one of the best prospects left that haven't been signed yet. The kind of buy that would get me excited for the coming season. As is, I'm not even following 'the graph' and moving straight to a 'there's always next year' stance.
I should be revising, but I've made about 20 attempts to sit down with a book today and have absolutely no concentration span.
Just have to hope what I already know is enough for these exams. I've done literally no revision.
*heads back to browsing new on r/soccer*
Twenty million is a pretty shitty fee. What is the point of Peter Lim if he isn't willing to launder loads of his money on transfers like this?
We've got so much money it barely seems worth the effort playing hard ball on incoming fees.
Yeah, but that will barely cover Pogba's signing fee.
We'll pay him a lifetime supply of noodles.
Does signing him mean Costa is getting his return ticket to Atletico's rehabilitation centre? Or sold off to China for eleventy billion?
He wants to go back to Atletico.
conte will be going 352 with chelsea...
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...y-mexican-club
This is like a football manager transfer window.
Buying everyone simply can't go wrong.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36703847
Another one for @Lee.
I know they'll probably lose a couple of players, but it must be cool as a Leicester fan to see them actually trying to push on.
As far as counter-attacking wingers go, there are few more exciting to watch than him. Probably next to useless if opposition crowd the box though.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/art...ton-Villa.html
Fucking hell, Sunderland. He might just be the biggest chancer in football.
James in advanced talk with PSG - They are buying everyone!
Matuidi has apparently been given permission to fly to Manchester to finalise a deal.
EVERYONE WILL SIGN.
Matuidi seems like a Mourinho kind of player so that rumour makes sense. I'd be happy with getting him.
It's the IRL version of you fining a player two weeks wages every week to get him to fuck off
http://imgur.com/YZQzScg.png
I thought bringing out a set of branded kitchen knives was absolutely correctly representing the club? Dutch freak.
I guess if he leaves, he can duck the fines?
FM prodigy, john bostock has signed with with french lique 2 team, lens
Juventus turn down £38m for bonucci
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...o-Bonucci.html
Barcelona resign dennus suarez
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36711278
Liverpool make offer for croatian coric
http://www.thisisanfield.com/2016/07...-coric-report/
Van peris linked with leicester
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/footb...ons-leicester/
van Persie would be the worst signing ever for Leicester. The guy can't move so would completely break their team.
Reddit are saying Van Persie is going to Middlesborough.
You tryin' to steal my job mate?
nice nip jose
Is there a reason Klopp is chasing every midfielder ever?
We've re-signed Glenn Murray which is good, and Fleetwood Town's second choice right back which is probably a bit less good.
I thought Bloom might splash £10m or something on a striker after another playoff loss, but looks like Murray will be our main man.
For fuck sake lad, there's no need to tell everyone. Joe Allen will be like a new signing and next year will be our year. Adhere to the fucking graph.
We're favourites to sign Will Grigg, it seems. The song would be fun, but is he actually any good? Playing second fiddle to The Ulster Gazelle in the national side would suggest not.
129 million euros for Pogba to Yiniteddddd
https://www.theguardian.com/football...a-as-new-coach
Bielsa football in Serie A? Could be interesting. Not sure Lazio's squad is the most suited to him.
The Pogba HYPE is about to go off, and you're stressing about Marcelo Bielsa. This is why you have to meditate.
It's something that's actually happened. If Pogba to United actually happens then that'll be more exciting.
Hopefully he and a couple other of the best players come to the Prem.
Yep, on fire.
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He'd probably do alright in the Scottish league, but then it's about League One level these days.
According to David Sullivan, West Ham have been offered Tevez and even offered him £150k p/w. He wants £250k p/w so they've said no for now.
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...rn-to-west-ham
Obviously the money is mental, but he's kept himself seriously fit, he'd still a good player.
The under 26 policy is well and truly over. Newcastle signing Gamez, the oldest player they've signed since Shefki Kuqi :cool: Going to end up with a better team in the Championship than we just had in the Premier League.
Di Marzio (who's been spot on with all our transfers so far this summer) saying we have an agreement with Pogba in principle and are going to offer Juve €120m.
So that's about £120m in todays terms.
Lol at Juve only making a 119.2m profit on him.
It's a proper two fingers up at Fergie , first the man he's tried to block until now gets in (Mourinho) then Giggseh is binned and finally one of the worst managerial mess ups comes back to the club - for a world record fee no less.
I've just read someone make the point that United will have Euros bought before the pound bombed, so the recent exchange rate doesn't actually mean that much to them in terms of the fee.
Is that how it works?
And then you'll finish 5th again, and he'll lol his way through another single malt breakfast.
Stop it :(
It's not been this fun to be a United fan for a while.
At a time when you're not playing any football? Says it all really.
Not sure if Juve will accept the offer. They'll probably talk to Pogba to see if he requests a move.
We've accepted £15m from Bournemouth for Ibe.
A shame, but he really went backwards after a good start. He'll shine under Howe. Taz will be distraught.
£15million. Fucking hell.
£15m is amazing value for liverpool. Surprised if he moved though given he is english youth and all that. Give him another season at liverpool and three goals later he is worth £25m
£15 million? :lol: You'd take 5. I wonder are we putting a buy back clause in.
We seem to be getting our money back for Benteke, so it would appear 'the market' has finally gone mental.
Everyone is loaded now, so it's a seller's market. Any Prem-to-Prem transfer will be £10 million+ regardless of the player, unless it's an end of contract situation.
Imagine the money Ferguson could have made selling his crap to Sunderland and Villa these days.
This pogba £100m deal is all over SSN now in yellow
Lots of Icelandic players being linked with moves after the Euros.
Jóhann Berg Gušmundsson -> Burnley
Aron Gunnarsson -> Bologna
Ari Skślason -> Lokeren
Ragnar Siguršsson -> Tottenham/Liverpool
Birkir Bjarnason -> Roma
Kolbeinn Sigžórsson - Marseille (lol)
Roma clearly after a looker for when Got to retires.
Bikir and his luscious hair are a good replacement.
I had a good lol after coming across Louis Moult's wikipedia page the other day:
http://i.imgur.com/ZYVNl3f.png
Vardy went from the Conference North to the Premiership in three years. There are some good players down there.
We're signing Oguchi Onyewu as well it would seem, after he was vaguely impressive against some American hobbyists last night. I'm sure he played a season for free because he'd been paid for a whole season when he was injured. Perfect attitude, get him in.
lol at Victor Valdes signing for Middlesbrough. He would still be thieving a living at Barcelona (if not as first choice, then certainly on the bench) if he hadn't refused to sign that contract.
Gooch :cool:
He was shit.
Leicester apparently all but signed FM wonderkid, Luan. He plays for Gremio for now.
Oguchi Onyewu is still alive? :cab:
Liverpool should sign the fuck out of that Hector lad playing for Germany.
He's just turned thirty four. Latest is that we've left him in the US anyway and won't be offering him a deal, so that one lived and died quickly.
He filled 'Zlatan' in.
Cracked his ribs. I'd have given him a contract just for that. With all the videos of Zlatan booting people in the head over the years he should probably have taken a few more tankings.
Bielsa has quit Lazio after two days :cab:
Absolutely mad that bloke.
He's going to take the England job isn't he...
And now Bournemouth are signing a fucking LEEDS player for £10million. We'll look back at this window as the one which tipped English football over the edge.
Norwich want £20m for Robbie Brady. Dark days truly.
If Juventus get wind of this sort of shit they're going to want a billion.
Takeover documents have been sent to the FA according the official site. We're getting taken over by a god damn billionaire. :drool:.
Subotic linked with middlesbrough
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/sport/f...ading-11584571
Santon close to joining sunderland
https://www.theguardian.com/football...internazionale
Man city are ready to increase failed bid for bonucci
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...ci-sky-sources
Klopp interested in Blaszczykowski
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...-a7126456.html
Dortmund want Arda turan from barcelona
http://www.90min.com/posts/3423099-b...ikh-mkhitaryan
Get yo filthy hands off Bonucci.
Pelle off to china for £125,000k per week
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...0-week-8379124
£15m apparently. Though a lot of that will be made up of pointless add ons.
There's no way he'll be replaced with a player of even a fraction of his ability.
Signing a new player every half an hour. Some lanky fucker who's just been released by Celtic and a kid who seems to think FIFA Street is real life football have both been signed for the reserve team.
Isaac Hayden the next signing for the first team. Never seen him play, but Tiote is the only player in the squad you'd fancy as a proper defensive midfielder, so once again it's a player in a position that we've needed to recruit in for ages.
Grant Hanley will probably sign in a few days too.
Proper revamping of the squad :drool:
Rafa is such a geezer.
Hopefully you lads win the title with about 350 points.
I hope they come 18th and Rafa finishes the season at Swindon.
The Championship is made for 'Rafa' to fail, playing ten games a week against unpredictable bollocks, but surely anyone could get Newcastle back up.
He'll probably have four full backs on the field as they shit their way to a brutal 0-0 at home against a promoted team, but who cares. It's Rafa.
They'll win the league with a record points total
They should bring Nile Ranger back.
Was he ever found after disappearing from Blackpool?
When all the lolling at Newcastle fans starts when they're 9th in February, I hope we remember it was you lot talking up their chances.
It's a slog of a league and it's an inexperienced squad, I don't think it will be as simple as you lot seem to. I'm just looking forward to watching players who actually give a fuck.
He's at Southend on a trial.
It's the Lord Benitez - he should really be steamrolling most of the teams in that league, assuming the players are motivated. You'd imagine they would be, given they should by rights be playing for the likes of Phil "Phil Brown" Brown at that level.
Sanchez wants out.....
Apparently Juve are interested in getting Sanchez, which would be amazing.
Cisse has gone to China.
Everyone said the clear out wouldn't happen and we'd be stuck with all the jokers. :cool:
Marveaux, Obertan, Taylor, Coloccini and Cisse gone so far. That's about £230,000 off the wage bill and they're all pure shit.
He really is taking a scythe through the squad isn't he?
News is Pogba is still to be convinced. Number two choice is Matuidi if he bottles it.
I hope they settle for someone like Sissoko.
My favourite is r. Madrid
Jackson Martinez wants to leave China after 5months, scoring only 3 goals. Hoping for Seria A move
Bradford have activated the £1 (yes, one pound) release clause in the contract of Blackpool 'keeper Colin Doyle. (Source: Sky Sports :D
Dont you have to walk around china in a hazmat suit, gas mask and a stethoscope, just to survive?
All the clubs should just leave them in China and chortle at their plight at every opportunity. Idiots.
Agreed, same with those clowns that go to Russia.
Petrov played 45 minutes for us today :cool:
If he plays in the league this season I'm going to actually cry.
Reporting that Mourinho is going to move on Blackett and Varela. I was hoping Varela would come good but if hes going to give Fosu-Mensah a go it will be worth it.
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...11-sky-sources
Real have pulled out of the race for Pogba.
World record bid. He should make quite an impression in the Europa League group stages.