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

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

not ruling out lambo to villa just yet

a lot depends on dimatteo i spose, if he leaves chelsea he'll start august an epl manager tho

rangnick to west brom is the latest rumour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qOeuzeNfQ8

fyi while the 1327th go-around on rvi and rafa was happening, reading have seemingly got a lot lot richer today with their own crazy russian tycoon becoming an official 'fit and propa' owner.

I really liked the look of Rodriguez when I saw us play Burnley last year - very solid all-round striker, proper line-leading type. Old-head-on-young-shoulders sort of player. I'd reckon he's ready for the step up and would be a very good addition to our bunch.

That said... £7million for a guy with no top-flight experience is perhaps a sign to selling clubs that we might perhaps be there for the taking. Summer's gonna be interesting.

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interesting, but what does dave whelan think?

potential goal-scorers cost silly money shocker, gambling on paying over the odds for a possible 15-20 a season striker = hell go for it

whoops, I was battered last night and misposted.

Dave whelen strikes me as more xbox kinda guy.

Ledley King becomes a free agent next month but is set to be offered a new 12-month contract at Tottenham when he sits down for crunch talks this week.

Read that at "crutch talks" the first time.

20k per match imo

No wonder Ian Harte's so fucking slow!

It is uncertain, though, that they endured the agonies to which Harte subjects himself, wearing size six-and-a-half boots on his feet which are two sizes bigger. "I know I'll have problems when I'm older – and I am getting on before anybody says it," he said. "But it has always worked with tight boots to get the ball up and down and try and trouble 'keepers."

I'm surprised he can even jog!

iirc ronaldo is a size 9 and wears size 7 boots, which would explain his almost ian harte level free kick taking skills

So if he wore the right size boots he'd be even faster!?

he does have a weirdly ballerina-like running technique i guess

maybe if he wears proper shoes he'll turn into maurice greene with the technique of andy carroll

Depressing me today: that Kagawa-to-Utd is being covered entirely from the perspective of commercial possibilities in Asia

it's a valid concern

there is one school of thought [citation needed] that beckham's move to madrid was one of the worst sales ever (ever) cuz he repaid his fee so many times over with commercial endorsement shite etc

Yeah, I'm with you IK. I think the Guardian went with "austerity signing". As if Kagawa wasn't gonna y'know improve the team which is the point of signing someone.

can't someone design boots that fit for fk takers to wear?

I highly doubt Fergie has ever signed or will ever sign anyone on the basis of "shirt sales". Ok, maybe Dong Fangzhou...

park

come on guys, we all know kit deals are the measure of a club's achievement

Kit Deals, the rangy defensive mid from Trinidad and Tobago

Park is a fucking great player etc. He did a job for most of his time anyway

He also wasn't a signing from out of nowhere, I mean he'd been pretty good for PSV and had CL experience iirc

he's prob the best korean player ye could find, no doubt

it's a bit insulting to park who had been an important player for cl semifinalists psv to say that he was bought for commercial reasons

kagawa is a good signing at the price cuz he only has a year left on contract (srsly dortmund might have got him to longer than a 3yr contract)

but having signed him, his commercial value does become a thing

never thought of Park as a sop to Asian commercial interests, for one thing he seems too low key and for another he genuinely has been a solid utility guy who fits perfectly into Fergie's "mundane cogs in a brutally efficient machine" ethos

lol apposite but unrelated display name

even though Park is kind of a low-key guy he's still something of a god in Korea. But yeah, he's a total Fergie signing

Sure Kagawa's appeal is some sort of factor in going for him (most properly reflected in his price imo). But he's a good player too! The media's making like Utd have signed some sort of prodigiously efficient travelling salesman.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2012/5/30/1338376943545/Leighton-Baines-008.jpg

look at that fucking head

not my fault he's a typical fergie signing, tbh

is he still running his drownedinsound 2004 column on the everton website

"this week i have discovered an exciting new band called Northside"

randle mcmonkey

that small boot thing is insane, i had no idea

esp being like slippers the way they are these days anyway, ballerina otm

Rodgers to be confirmed in next day or so, seems pretty solid, BBC guys tweeting it.