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

Nicklas Bendtner ‏@bendtnerb52 8h

So what we get drunk #so what we smoke weed #we are just having fun #thats how its supposed to be… http://instagram.com/p/auzmtIA_mG/

Nicklas Bendtner ‏@bendtnerb52 30m

They rap and talk about it all the time, but dont get it twisted, I dont agree on taking drugs. Stop wasting time with stupid articles!

sure darragh must be related to AC somehow

He'll be a major success and will prob end up sold at a profit in next 3-4 years.

he will in his hole.

wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't in the prem in 3/4 years.

He is magnificent

Who are talking about here, dm or ac?

He is such a future Fenerbahce player.

idk deems

can you think of a single player who has been a ~major success~ in the last decade while being as technically shit as carroll?

lee cattermole has surer close control and better shortrange passing

Srsly you ask me that

As if you dont know my answer, and know that i mean it sincerely

DJ Campbell scored as many goals as Big Andy did in that one season when people rated him.

are west ham one of the trad racist clubs like leeds milwall rangers etc

yes

weren't everton one of these for a time?

also yes

is there any club ilf would identify as non-racist though

everton and liverpool fans have highest number of arrests for racist offences

xpost St Pauli?

everton and liverpool fans have highest number of arrests for racist offences

source?

there was a home office(i think) list a few years ago of arrests etc

i googled, out of curiosity, and the only thing i could find was an indian paper saying chelsea had most racist arrests, from a home office report about 2011 or thereabouts.

Only 23 arrests for racist or indecent chanting in 11-12 so it's statistically insignificant, but still Chelsea.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118118/fbo-season-2011-121.pdf

Chelsea 5
Arsenal 3
Wigan 2
West Brom 2

i think this was aggregated over a few years because the numbers were a lot higher than that

still, congratulations chelsea

Chelsea fans were proper fucking cunts in the early 90s, definitely the worst in the Premieship. They probably still are, just a more moneyed kind of scumbag.

well, well at Arsenal being second most racist club

Grimsby tearing up the lower reaches while we're at it

a new low in transfer speculation. Still, i'm choosing to believe it

barcastuff ‏@barcastuff
Pictures: "See you in Manchester", presumably from De Gea, on Thiago's match ball yesterday

could be from Isco

De Gea's been tapping him up for ages though. It's definitely happening

tbh whenever i've seen him i've always thought "that is a davey moyes player"

Virgil van Dijk (born 8 July 1991) is a Dutch professional Fenian Hunskelper who plays as a tank for Celtic fc.

Looks like van Dijk is set for a medical with Celtic tomorrow. Anyone know any more than the wiki vandal?

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/68273000/jpg/_68273517_alan_pardew_getty.jpg

good to see the newcastle united version of rigoletto is coming along well

According to the Mirror, Llambias is meant to have resigned because Kinnear intervened in the free transfer he was organising for Douglas. Kinnear had never heard of him. They reckon Carr is going next.

Do you reckon Ashley just agreed to crash Newcastle as some kind of bet/Jack Donaghy manliness contest that he can't back out of now?

That Mirror story can't be right, that would be impossible dickishness surely? What are they going to do with the current squad though? If they couldn't get it together under suave Pardew and his relatively sophisticated regime, wth are they going to be like under this clown?

The current Newcastle squad > Pardew.

otm

Like I know he had problems with injuries and selling Demba Ba midway through but he is still a very limited and naive manager. Obviously Kinnear is a lumbering disaster but Pardew's impending martyrdom will be thoroughly undeserved.

Also, given their current playing staff, if Newcastle were going to bring in an ageing Director of Football with serious health problems it should probably have been Houllier.

obv Pardieu wd've been found out on his own terms but Kinnear seems so useless/crazy at this point i almost find myself getting angry on behalf of Toon fans. there shd be a law about owners being allowed to do this stuff to their club.

otm wtf is this

it does illustrate the idea that plenty of millionaire businessmen aren't savvy technicians who understand finance better than other people but just wankers who dropped lucky tho

Truth bomb. No other way to explain how e.g. Tony Fernandes gets played for a naive clown.

noodle vague otm x2

I think they probably understand their own markets very well but know fuck all about football. I don't think Fernandes is an idiot by any means.

Ashley just got lucky though, I mean "sell loads of cheap sportsware and sell out while they going's good" isn't exactly rocket science.

Find that Douglas story almost impossible to believe, but I dunno if that's just illustrating my own naivety about the way these things are done. Surely there are enough football people around the higher end of the club who know that signing a highly-thought of centre-back from FC Twente, mentioned as a potential Dutch international etc. hardly represents an Ali Dia move?

Kinda loving this story for its car crash potential, but I do feel sorry for the Newcastle fans. Who the fuck is this goon actually going to want to sign if all this is true?

Intrigued by the idea that Ashley has decided that he wants rid of Pards but doesn't want the hit to his wallet involved in actually sacking the guy. If so, I for one hope that AP hangs on in there for grim death, any problems Newcastle encounter this season are going to be blamed firmly on Kinnear and Ashley anyway.

Matt DC otm re: Pardew's martyrdom, this will be a hell of a boost to his standing with the fans following last season's performance. Ashley may want him out, but he's actually engineered a situation where Pards somehow looks like an unfairly marginalised figure mistreated by the owners. If Carr goes too then AP will be the only member of senior management left representing common sense and professionalism and sanity.

pards left west ham under a simlarily convenient cloud, iirc?

again, i don't buy that wrecking the club to the extent imaginable under kinnear's toddleresque pawing is in any way a preferable option to paying off the incumbent staff (all of whom seem to be performing as well as newcastle have any right to expect, with the exception of pardew, and even then hardly to a level worthy of apocalypse)

it's simply wtf, it's not even coherent enough for conspiracy.

and, again, reports frequently state that pards & co are on defined payoff in the event of sacking, not the 8 year terms under which they are contracted.

Might be as simple as Ashley being the sort of boss who rules by reshuffle and keeping underlings cut down to size, and puts faith in creative chaos to see everything right? Idk though, you'd think he'd remember that that failed epically just four years ago.

Maybe he enjoyed the Championship year and fancies pocketing the parachute payment and having another go?

creative chaos was mentioned v briefly in a ?guardian? piece on this the other day, like again fine if you have to shuffle out 300 words on a topic that you're not interested in, but look you can't buy it as applies to irl multimillion pound high-profile decisions, short of accepting that ashley is sectionable and/or an incredible cokehead