"The Championship is not an option" - I Love Football off-season and transfer speculation thread 2012

yeah... not so much deaf ears as basic simplistic truism that isn't worth acknowledgment

missed all the xps, sorry folks

truism that's tested at arsenal a lot more than's usual, tbf to upto11

i knew i'd stayed out of this thread for a reason.

awww

xp to onimo- not sure that spurs haven't just peaked for a while tbh

Yeah I think so too, I also feel that Man U are in the last throes of holding onto any kind of supremacy over the league, and not just because of City. Chelsea will surely improve. Everything from 2nd-5th up for grabs.

yeah this next year matters

it'll be city v united again far as i can see

arse/spurs/chels may be a bit closer to them but still squabbling amongst themselves ultimately

wenger's arsenal getting relegated after they lost anelka to real shows that they can't just sell their star.

wenger's arsenal getting relegated after they lost anelka to real petit and overmars to barca shows that they can't just sell their star(s).

wenger's arsenal getting relegated after they lost anelka to real petit and overmars to barca adams, keown, dixon and parlour to retirement shows that they can't just sell/lose their star(s).

wenger's arsenal getting relegated after they lost anelka to real petit and overmars to barca adams, keown, dixon and parlour to retirement pires, ljungberg and campbell to their last go around big paychecks shows that they can't just sell/lose their star(s).

wenger's arsenal getting relegated after they lost anelka to real petit and overmars to barca adams, keown, dixon and parlour to retirement pires, ljungberg and campbell to their last go around big paychecks henry to barcelona shows that they can't just sell/lose their star(s).

wenger's arsenal getting relegated after they lost anelka to real petit and overmars to barca adams, keown, dixon and parlour to retirement pires, ljungberg and campbell to their last go around big paychecks henry to barcelona ade and toure to city shows that they can't just sell/lose their star(s).

wenger's arsenal getting relegated after they lost anelka to real petit and overmars to barca adams, keown, dixon and parlour to retirement pires, ljungberg and campbell to their last go around big paychecks henry to barcelona ade and toure to city cesc and nasri in one summer shows that they can't just sell/lose their star(s).

omg arsenal fans are so fucking stupid

how could it be utd?

how?

i mean i know i said this last year and every year since 2003 but how could utd possibly finish in the top four next season with that squad of chumps?

like everyone else is just aggressively opinionated about stuff but this lot don't even understand the question xp

stupid because i am bored of this 'omg but where will they be if they sell rvp' thing? they'll be in the same place, in that good/mediocre/underperforming way they have been since the last year in highbury.

fergie zombie horde man idk. good vibe about kagawa if that happens too

top four would only be mediocrity if wenger ever bought eleven first team players at once- as is, it's v good considering he has a crop rotation approach.

Southampton in for Jay Rodriguez at £7m. I've never seen him play tbh.

I love the yearly predictions of Utd's demise. Bring it on

Yeah, I'm gonna give this up. I'm still staggered that they amassed 89 points last season. My anticipation of their demise will go no farther than predicting that they get 6 pts fewer next season.

I think their squad looks weak at the back (fitness, age, availabilty) and at the front, Rooney aside (Owen and Berbz being replaced by people who get games and score goals might help - or getting more out of Wee Pea).

Don't really see us getting a striker what with Berbatov barely getting a game this season. I can see Will Keane being promoted from the reserves, if only for Carling Cup games and the like. Kagawa coming in (Guardian reporting that a fee has been agreed) mixes things up at the front too. I'm happy enough with the defence although a left-back is needed for sure

SEVEN MILLION!!

SEVEN!!

i did like the look of rodriguez but that's twice what he's worth at most

fockin loco mayne

it does seem a bit steep, but it sounds like there were a couple of bigger clubs sniffing around him too so perhaps that pushed our offer up. he's a good signing anyway and we will definitely have the best strikeforce in the championship 2013-14 season.

does anyone know shit about him?

guessing he is one of those fairly quick champo winger/forwards who dribbles by kicking the ball about 10 yards ahead and runs after it

Odds slashed on Rodgers for LFC now, he's meeting the Swansea chairman for talks this afternoon apparently.

He could have at least brought Sigurdsson with him!

Yes, they were awesome. The way Adam has turned into the most likeable character is pretty amazing

― Number None, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 13:59 (6 minutes ago) Permalink

couldnae resist :(

bit of a stretch

sigurdsson will be good or shit next year, do we think?

nice epitaph for dalglish's liverpool imo

sigurdsson clearly has talent, good sense and a peerless work ethic

hoffenheim selling him for 7m is kinda like ba on a free

sigurdsson will be good or shit next year, do we think?

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:11 (3 minutes ago)

if rogers is manager or they get a manager who plays similar tactics, he'll be really good imo.

if rogers goes and they get a steady defending-is-all-important type, i think he'll get lost in the shuffle.

ohh, rodgers is new lfc manager. or he's been given permisison to talk to them. depending on who you believe. hi brendan.

Certainly would please me more than Martinez.

i'm torn. i've spent the last few days gazing at pics of bobby and watching interviews, so sure was i that it would be him. he's just so lovely isn't he.

definitely more keen on rodgers.

brendan does have an excellent selection of checked shirts. it's a tough one for sure.

Rodgers is better imo. I'm really uneasy, but then I criticise big clubs for not looking downwards when appointing, so I'll bury it for now.

Is it van Gaal-Rodgers, or just Rodgers?

very interesting appointment, i wish all parties well

u&k q re dof tho

i'n't language wonderful?

no idea if it's van gaal or txiki begiristain.

pep segura from the academy supposedly having more of a say in 1st tema matters too, but no-one seems to know for sure. could still be bobby. who knows? dave whelan probably knows.

any sign of hiddink?

can't see him cause the money in the way

i'm torn. i've spent the last few days gazing at pics of bobby and watching interviews, so sure was i that it would be him. he's just so lovely isn't he.

― Chris, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:23 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

austerity measures biting hard, time was when people would wash your brain for you

bobby to villa then? oh oh oh, or..., bobby to swansea? hmm, i wonder.

villa shurely

hughton to wba

dimatteo to swansea

good managerial possibiities next year imo, so long monkey heid