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

xp classic footy use of 'ironically' there

Actually I meant Cullis, I've never heard of Buckley. Wasn't Cullis known as 'the sergeant major' or have I just made that up?

They used to slice off bits of monkey balls and surgically attach them to yr own balls to give a testosterone boost. I can't for the life of me remember where i was reading about this.

Surgically attach? My god.

jeez i heard they were injected

Cullis might've been called that, i don't recall. he was def a PT instructor during the war and legends of his dictatorialness as Wolves manager abound

dad tells a story of a player being summoned to the office, Cullis is writing something with his head down. "I've had an offer from Walsall, so I'm moving you on" says Cullis. "I don't want to go to Walsall boss" replies the player. Still never looking up Cullis says "I would if I were you". Interview ends.

Ladies and gentlemen, i give you Serge Voronoff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Voronoff

He moved on to transplanting the testicles of executed criminals into millionaires, but, when demand outstripped supply, he turned to using monkey testicle tissue instead

I've got a list of things to do when I'm a millionaire, and that's not on it

Nowadays he'd be the owner of a Premiership club of course

Bollocks

That was his currency

Chicago surgeon Max Thorek, for whom the Thorek Hospital and Medical Center is named, recalled that soon, "fashionable dinner parties and cracker barrel confabs, as well as sedate gatherings of the medical élite, were alive with the whisper - 'Monkey Glands'."

uh

http://www.joe.ie/football/football-news/man-utd-website-confirms-lewandowski-transferbefore-quickly-taking-it-down/

fake

surely

else they have some pretty crappy copywriters

probably. Briefly enlivened my afternoon though

signed this bloke anyway
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BMfF99qCQAABv1P.jpg

10/06/2013 14:38, Report by Adam Marshall

Rooney salutes Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade

The forward today praised the 'divine purpose' of the paramilitary faction during a conference call with the Singaporean Mister Potato PR team. 'There's no doubt they are one of the main threats to Zionist hegemony in the region.'

More: United agree Varela deal | Robin ready for new era

Pls to continue

the work of wasters no less

Mark Froggatt ‏@Mark_Froggatt 8m

There's a forged "Reds confirm Lewandowski capture" image doing the rounds on Twitter. It's the work of wasters, please ignore it.

okay Mark Froggatt i will do what you tell me

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6008/picture2m.png

It's got a lovely ring to it, can we incorporate it into ilf discourse henceforth please?

Dr. Mark E. Froggatt, Ph.D. has been the Chief Technology Officer of Luna Innovations Inc. since September 2005

Under 21s have had 19 shots off target and are losing 1-0 to Israel.

villa signing some fun-looking unknowns this summer

when i read young 6ft 5 danish striker i initially thought it was that andreas cornelius chap, guess they just must grow on trees over there what with bendtner and all

find it deliciously weird when someone not even tangentially british has a very british name

― bleeding like a stoke pig (imago), Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:51 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Braithwaite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper_Sloth

now there's a name

i played Football Manager as AGF one time, remember him well

Pace 3

Player of the season in the Danish Superliga eh? Benteke out then lol

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22857567

RIP Big Man - Heaven needed a useless chubster

After impressing as a 17-year-old with Zamalek, the striker moved to Gent in Belgium where he won the 2001 Ebony Shoe - the award given to the best player of African origin in the local league.

hope they had a proper ceremony for this with tribal drumming and facepaint.

My favourite Mido quote was probably when someone asked him what he would have done if he hadn't become a footballer and he said something like "nothing, my family is very rich". Nice to see that he actually managed to combine the two for much of his career.

think we've lolled/o_Oed at titles of various European awards for black players before

Would love it, love it, if the award given for best player of European origin was the Ivory Shoe

finally a display name that merits removing my beloved ellipsis.

really shd be Shamrock Heid imo

Shamrock Robbie Keane's ass

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22877408

Anyone but Messi...

Good career move, his image needs a bit of roughening up round the edges. Now Theo needs to be caught importing bootleg cigarettes or something.

http://i.imgur.com/mwZ5SPc.jpg

Years of hard touring during the wild days of the new romantics have taken their toll on Shearer. Gone is the bouffant hairdo and ruffled shirt - these days he earns a living as a barber in Folkestone, admitting that he's seldom recognised by fans.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BMkQaSjCcAA7QoF.jpg:large

no idea if this is real but it's fun to retweet it apparently. People will be IA at IA for his FUIUD approach to LS.

If true otm

avb's being royally tapped up by psg atm

Rightly so.

if they got 40m for suarez and can ditch carroll for 15m, added to whatever the budget originally was, they'd have a serious warchest for rodgers to squander invest in quality young talent. that'd be a huge amount of cash, in the right hands you'd have to say they could set the squad up for a few seasons to come. crucial summer.

this is a bit of a shock
http://www.independent.ie/business/media/rte-axes-its-premier-league-show-to-save-station-13m-a-year-29341140.html