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

Im genuinely of the belief that kinnear is off the meds

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4143/c3k1.jpg

Derek's very much in the Luis Figo/David Schwimmer mode. A good thing imo.

derek in would surely mean that ayre email about suarez was legit

most of the reporting around the derek stuff has said that he has been a target for a while and ideally is intended to play with suarez.

suarez derek coutinho
----- studge

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plus aspas, alberto, sterling, and downing and hendo on top whack and only just starting to look useful

looks way ott if suarez is to stay

Bit top-heavy innit?

Need a big squad to compete on one front

presumed derek was to replace gerrard's goals from midfield of yore, basically.

i agree with you, largely, but that is definitely how all the derek stuff i've read has framed it, that basically the money is in place and the desire to sign him predates any certainty of suarez leaving.

but yeah, how many amc/f players does a team need? presumably they're also going to buy a central defender, if these signings actually work out it could be a really good side next season, but i dunno, no doubt some other area of the team will be found to be shit.

liverpool is like a dodgy house, lucas will be found to be riddled with termites and there is rising damp at left and right back.

Owners sinking it all into decking and a new boat for the driveway.

some other area of the team will be found to be shit

profanity aside, this is pure nult

what's the etymology of "derek"? i get henrikh mkhitaryan isn't exactly catchy but i'm not seeing it. is it a thing or just here?

googling suggests just here

xp i dispute that, nult only uses "will" in his own weird way, not as a direct prediction of the future.

xp, He was listed as "Derek Mkhitaryan" in the ILF Awards 2012 voting results, possibly thanks to IK's spellchecker.

English names that are considered a bit naff these days seem to be popular on the continent

i see. carry on then.

http://ais.badische-zeitung.de/piece/00/8c/99/01/9214209.jpg

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/8096/m8v5.jpg

Good lord - also is it just me or is this somehow uneasily rude?

it has been noted, yes

Tahiti v Nigeria coming up in Confeds cup. Must admit I enjoyed Italy v Mexico yesterday.

Even assuming Spain take it easy, what is Tahiti v Spain actually going to look like?

omg the ultimate opportunity for Uruguay to be Uruguay

Spain played a friendly vs Haiti recently and it went 2-1. Tahiti probably < Haiti though.

is talksport bullshit y/n

http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/premier-league/transfer-rumours/130617/carlton-cole-could-reject-premier-league-move-mls-switch-199

y

acc to twitter kinnear has just delivered an all-time classic interview on talksport

including the words "yohan kebab"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuAVjLpU9cU&

ooh if i had a fire i'd be throwing another log on it as i press play on this.

hatem ben afree - derek lambayzee

shole amelobi

water off a duck's arse

"they say i havent had experience in buying and selling players. sure i have, i bought dean holdsworth for 50 grand and sold him for 3 million."

drunk or not? i'm thinking he sounds a bit loose.

magnificent midfield players... tayotee, ben afra, yohan kebabs [...] shola amamobi's still there, galtierrez is still there

"we finished 15th or 16th this season, 15th or 16th from bottom."

yeah kind of on the borderline i thought... could be one of those lucid drunks tbf

i'm transcribing that whole bravura finale btw, hold your horses everyone

this is so absurd and undermining that it might be inferred that nufc are trying to get pardew to leave and file a constructive dismissal claim which could be cheaper than firing him

considering they gave him an eight-year contract that could be true.

Q: What damages are available to an employee claiming constructive dismissal?

A: The compensation awarded for constructive dismissal is the same as that for unfair dismissal and an employee must have at least one year’s service in order to bring a claim. If the employee succeeds in his claim, he will be awarded a basic award (equivalent to a statutory redundancy payment) plus a compensatory award which is based upon his losses. The amount of the compensatory award will normally depend upon the employee’s salary and the length of time that he is out of work, subject to the employee’s duty to mitigate his loss by finding alternative employment. The statutory cap on the compensatory award is currently £60,600.

huh

"I heard that silly comment, 'what can I attract'. I can open the door... to any football manager in the world. Anyone. That's the difference. I can talk, I can pick up... I spent my whole life picking up the phone talking to Alex Ferguson. week in week out, 'what would you do, what would you do, what would you do'. I can pick the phone up at any time of the day and speak to Arsene Wenger. I can pick the phone up and talk to any manager in the league. ANY manager. In ALL divisions. So you know, I don't know what angle they've got, they wanna sit down and argue with me... some of them are just talking out their backside, a load of tosh. And I'm not accepting it. It's as simple as that. I've got more intelligence than them, that's for sure."

Kevin Keegan has been awarded £2m plus interest after an independent arbitration panel found that he was constructively dismissed by Newcastle United in September 2008.

In a judgment which has ramifications for English football, and particularly those clubs which employ a director of football, the panel declared that although it was not spelt out in Keegan's contract, managers have the right to have a final say on transfers.

The former England coach, who left Newcastle after the midfielder Ignacio González was signed on loan, against his will and as a favour to South American agents, had lodged a claim which amounted to £25m – £8.6m for the remainder of his contract and £16.5m for "stigma damages". Keegan said he "has found it and will continue to find it difficult, if not impossible, to obtain work again as a top-flight manager"

he kind of dismantles the initial denial of the claims that pardew is being sidelined when he starts talking about his own managerial stripes.

xpost.

so by the same ratio if they would pay off only about 1/4 of the remaining 6/7 years of his contract, which would be a sweet outcome for nufc

I like the idea of Kinnear being employed entirely to destroy things from the inside, he's there to a job Jeff

Also it's the only thing that really makes sense, inadvertently breaking everything and harassing other managers with drunken phone calls

Then having another heart attack when he's done

I can only think that managers aren't employees as such, but engaged under some variety of providing services. Certainly none of them are pissing about down the EAT for sixty grand, it's all yachts and buckets of diamonds for these guys.

hatem ben afree - derek lambayzee

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