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

50 Shades Of Dench ‏@RalfyNine 28 May

Funniest Instagram account i follow has to be @sanchezwatt's. Some the pics he posts make my day xD
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I still believe in Rhain Davis

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2013/05/31/wolves-offer-the-boss-job-to-kenny-jackett/

harrumph

http://i.imgur.com/sBDZKY0.png

Last week the law was looking for Bogarde, this time they want Michael Laudrup to appear in court in August. Laudrup supposedly 'earned' 3 million on his own 1997 transfer that he kept back from the IRS. Ajax paid the IRS but now wants the 3 million back from Laudrup.

The search add says Laudrup has 'no known address or location' lol

faith in arjan de zeeuw's detective skills was proving somewhat optimistic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/30/adrian-mutu-adopt-baby-sewage-pipe

Has this been posted elsewhere yet? Hadn't noticed it. <3 this guy so much, wish he was still around

nice to see he's off the charlie

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLmGhlDCAAELTVy.jpg:large

#prayforsuarez

andy carroll your time has come

Aw man, absolutely gutted. How are we going to find someone else that good & that much fun?

Re: The English media and Suarez
Press are running amok in this country, not just sports journos.

Belligerent, sycophantic, and selfish. The sort who cried in the corner and wrote poetry on their own during the war while the real men fought and sung songs together. Phil McNulty and Henry Winter, two Grade A dipshits on the BBC gravy train, it's embarrassing to watch it unfold every day.

"My family have suffered and things got out of hand. My daughter and my wife have suffered. I'm not prepared to continue to put up with the English press."

lolz would that be the same wife who was reported as telling him to pack in the shenanigans the morning before he bit ivanovic

otm

I'm guessing that Suarez shirt wasn't burned following Poor Luis' ban for racially abusing a black footballer?

xxp nultic war poetry excerpts in 5...4...3...

Willhave Owen

alex pearce any good?

Never noticed him tbh, but I see he's another Scotland →Ireland turncoat, with the twist that he's actually neither.

slow, can't pass. other than that he's gr8

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/fb_news.php?storyid=32087

if anyone would perhaps like to gain a deeper understanding of hughes/stoke/qpr then this is the definitive piece btw

'It's about having a bit of fun and I don't see that with England. We were having the QPR team photo done and Anton Ferdinand looked at it and said, "Gaffer, no one could ever accuse you of being racist you've signed every black player going". The lads loved that, it's fun to be a part of my teams.'

Warnock is fed up with the waiting game at international level, with England's players coasting through matches and failing to generate excitement in the stands.

slow, can't pass. other than that he's gr8

What a day. Suarez out, this guy in, and Kolo Toure arriving tomorrow.

Falcao to Monaco confirmed, and somehow uniquely dispiriting

Liverpool are obliged to inform Suárez of any club prepared to activate a clause, believed to be in excess of £40m, that was included in the new four-year contract he signed last August. The clause will trigger negotiations should he wish to speak to that club, but not an automatic sale

I don't understand this. Offer £40m and Liverpool have to negotiate, but the negotiations don't actually have to achieve anything?

- 40m
- how about 400m
- no
- oh well soz luis, we tried

that probably doesnt mean any more than 'suarez would have to agree to'

im sceptical about this escape clause cuz british clubs seldom employ them

if liverpool refuses to sell him this summer, how will Suarez escalate next year? perhaps hair pulling?

The Graun reporting Liverpool want £50m for Suarez...I guess if they tried to sell Daniel Agger to Man City for £22m last year then that's about right...

julio cesar to arsenal seems persistent

does smack a bit of wenger false economy but i guess if valdes is to cost 8m or whatever it makes fair enough sense

ppl think he's brill cos of highlights and a superb month's spell before his brazil recall but there have been a good few truly woeful moments wrt command of area and claiming crosses, so much so that the fucking spaz rob green has even occasionally wandered back into one's thinking

obv a vast improvement to szczesny in terms of distribution but then so would be a four year old

“You always talk,” Robinho said. “It should be the manager who talks, not you.”

“If I’ve got something to say, I’ll f****** say it,” I said.

“Okay,” Robinho said, trying to bring the conversation to an end, “don’t talk to me again.”

“What are you on about?” I said. “You mean talk to you as in talking to you at all or talk to you after the game?”

“No, no, we are finished,” he said.

Whatever,” I said. “I’ll lose a lot of sleep over that.”

Click here for Bellamy's emotional reaction to pal Gary Speed's death

And here for "Mancini told me, 'Go home... for rest of the season'"

Robinho otm

OT, but tomorrow Dutch telly is airing a documentary w/ a reconstruction of the final and subsequent riots of the Feyenoord - Spurs 1974 EC final. It's deemed as the night Dutch football lost its "innocence", in that it was the first time hooliganism came to Holland.

I always knew our football culture was raped but didn't know it was Spurs who did it first.

Dutch link: http://nos.nl/artikel/507277-ats-de-gesloopte-finale.html

I've heard of that, I think. I might be wrong, but there're actually relatively few specific 'hooligans abroad' incidents that have notoriety here (at least not involving England). Heysel, plus one involving Spurs (presumably this is it), and Liverpool fans being attacked in Rome, that's about it.

Depends on your definition of 'abroad', but that ferry carrying Man Utd and West Ham fans that had to turn back to England was pretty notorious.

couldn't find the liga thread, but congrats to real sociedad for leapfrogging valencia into 4th on the last day of the season. i love Donostia!

negredo scored 4 against valencia, sevilla won 4-3

which means both negredo and soldado won't be in the CL next year, Levy sign them up!

yay, I have some Basque friends who are big Sociedad friends, I FEEL GOOD FOR YOU FRIENDS.

How reliable is the Daily Mirror when it comes to transfer news? Saying Stoke are interested in PSV's Pieters. Huge roflles that Pieters "tops Hughes wishlist". If true it will be a tough transfer window for Stoke fans.

Hoping the news is true btw.

well done sociedad

they will be unseeded so will probably face someone like milan in the preliminiary round and their manager montanier is going to rennes

rip sociedad

osasuna stayed up again. gora navarra

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLs_m2WCQAA4DMI.jpg

Valencia though, nothing goes right for Valencia

mourinho left chelsea 6 years ago? that's ruined my day that.

Surely you must have heard? Anyway, he's back now so don't fret.

Daniel Sturridge Jose Mourinho has gone to Chelsea

Did he only last two years at Inter? I actually thought he'd been gone longer.

feels like 4 at the most.