"We've momentum and we can't afford to lose it tbh"- The '13-'14 summer transfer window thread for PL and beyond

xp haha yeah i immediately assumed he was at the decks when i first caught sight of the article photo

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what the fuck happened to chicharito's face

We have 4 years to prepare for his departure if that is the situation. The modric fiasco was we kept him for a year and he performed well.

Doesnt matter how many teams would pay 50m if there's more than 0, and there is.

17m bale gamble is worth taking what with bigger tv deal plus if successful champs league revenue (and ability to attract better quality of replacement) at the end of it. "time to plan" should really already be in hand tho

funnily enough i watched 'out of the past' after motd on sunday and the deaf kid was uncannily chicharito imo

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xp haha yeah i immediately assumed he was at the decks when i first caught sight of the article photo

one of those german house djs who also likes the smiths and skateboarding.

I guess i dont believe in a 60m player remaining at a club where naughton plays lb on occasion, where if our main striker scores 4 league goals in a season we start warming up clint dempsey, who is also btw our second choice rw, etc etc.

Give that outlook, three 20m players across lw and attack seem a better option.

Rodgers believes Coutinho can have a greater influence next season when he has adjusted to the physical demands of the Premier League. He added: "He has genuine man strength. He's 20 years of age but he's not a boy."

"seeking genuine man strength" would have been a great thread title.

Foreign deodorant slogan

throw it on the pile of other ignored great thread titles tbh

Give that outlook, three 20m players across lw and attack seem a better option.

― my name is louis and i'm an acoleuthic (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 11:26 (7 minutes ago)

ya in theory, sure. but it rarely seems to work out like that and in any case there should be enough money there now to still build usefully around him

name the three players btw (i was thinking of starting a "you are the dof" thread but couldnae be bovd)

Levy's main failing has been inability to plan for the departure of big players, or at least he's tended to leave replacements to the last minute, and bungled several deals as a result (Damiao, Moutinho being the big ones). As I've said before we won't sell him even if he doesn't sign, this is just to head off a summer of speculation and minimise pissing and whining.

tbf those two deals have been legit nightmarish by all accounts

I can see that outlook, but i dont agree that the cause is an inability to plan. Levy just pushes the deal too far. That wont change in another year, i mean damiao and moutinho have been 'just missed out on a deal' targets for three years now!

Capel would seem a decent lw candidate, damiao moutinho ya sure, and id prob make a cheeky bid at swansea's other spanish player

Tbf i acknowledge that there's no terrible hardship in the bale issue, but on a long term contract there sees little point inthrowing cash at him and also giving him an out next year.

Would happily take Pablo H, maybe Scott Sinclair as well although City are presumably paying him ludicrous money to never play.

James mccarthy?

Someone gimme an idea of what he'd do for us. More positive than parker but surely not a priority.

There'll be plenty of teams in for McCarthy, I can see him ending up at Liverpool more than anywhere.

Theoretically it would allow us to offload Livermore and put us in a position where we could listen to offers for Huddlestone and Parker. The chances of both Sandro and Parker being injured at the same time are relatively high I think. But I reckon he'll go elsewhere.

I still think livermore is a valid option, no reason to offload homegrown squad cover on low wages

Steve Davis just gone 2/1 favourite with Sky to get the Wolves job

Pulis gone from Stoke.

He can't argue. Saw this this morning in the Guardian's flops of the season noms:

Tony Pulis
This season Stoke were supposed to make a great leap forward. Or was that last season? Pulis has been promising for a while that he would add a new dimension to his team's play, adding a little more unpredictability to their admirable ruggedness. But you get the feeling that he never really meant it or just couldn't bring himself to loosen up enough to create or attack, especially away, where Stoke were routinely contemptibly negative. To have a greater net spend on transfers than anyone other than Chelsea and Manchester City over the past five years and end up with a right flank manned by Andy Wilkinson and Ryan Shotton is to confess to an extraordinarily limited vision.

That last sentence.

£18m on Crouch and Palacios together is some hardcore pissing away of money but part of the reason that net spend is so high is that Stoke apparently never sell anyone. Players just leave at the end of their contract or just disappear into the massed ranks.

old players are ground up and used as feed for emerging youngsters

It's an old horse-rearing trick Mickey Owen brought with him. Pulis was right about him making a lasting impact at the club.

pulis was fired after a burger labelled etherington was found to have traces of crouch

The emerging youngsters are then corralled, razor blades tied to their ankles in a Bet365-sponsored event, until one emerges alone from the bloody mist. He is then subject to a Shawcrossing, whereupon the cycle begins again.

He'll be in at Cardiff or Palace or someone during their inevitable mid-season panic next year. Unless he's going for the Madrid job or something.

Gutting for Man United to have jumped the gun and gone for Moyes.

Good work itt

Wenger's now been in situ more than a decade longer than anyone else

Actually, who is second? I can't get beyond three(?) years for Pardew.

Chris Powell is closing in on the top ten for fuck's sake

I know they ran it a bit close on survival this year but I kind of feel finishing 11th-14th every year since entering the league should keep you in a Stoke job.

It would be interesting to see what a Martinez type would do with a club like Stoke but I can't help feeling there's one more job for Martin O'Neill and this is it.

Tisdale would appear to be within 10 years of Wenger, if you're extending it to the League like I just did

58 English football league clubs have had their current manager in post for less than a year.

It would be interesting to see what a Martinez type would do with a club like Stoke but I can't help feeling there's one more job for Martin O'Neill and this is it

I'm hearing rumours of Phil Neville in to replace him.

Phil Neville is third favourite at the moment, behind Di Matteo and Hughes.

fter three years of discussions and negotiations, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber announced on Tuesday that English Premier League powerhouse Manchester City FC and Major League Baseball's legendary New York Yankees have teamed up to acquire MLS's 20th expansion club.

The new team will be named New York City Football Club (NYCFC) and is expected to begin play in 2015.

smh

I mean NYC already has one horrendous corporate branded team that can't fill its 200 million dollar stadium... I know! Let's bring in oil $ and the fucking Yankees.

Man City are a shell of a club now, I see no comic potential in this whatsoever. Even the name is somehow boring.

rip guy who ran on the field during the derby, you were your last gasp

marcelo bielsa to stoke 100/1 on betvictor, lump on lads

Those odds are way better than the actual chance of it happening tbh

hughes and stoke is nearly too evil to comprehend

seems rude not to go for di matteo though

poyet would have so much work to do he'd be crazy to take it