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

If you have a manager who has already threatened to leave if he doesn't get his own way, and would probably jump ship when the first reasonably sized PL club offered him a job, having a fairly capable back-up plan already in place isn't necessarily a bad idea.

"we're massive underdogs int we"

mclaren could do a job as steve cotterill's assistant i suppose

Have we discussed this yet? Gallagher and Cascarino's vaguely panicked flapping at being given an off-script shot of perspective is a joy to watch.

"Okay Matthew, so he's bought Chelsea with stolen money as political protection from his partner in crime but what about the football eh?"

That's beautiful and entirely otm. It's nice to finally hear someone saying it on a sports programme.

I like the bit when Cascarino very nearly goes "I just don't really care" and then starts backpedaling.

:D

Brilliant.

"Matthew! Back to the original question! OJ Simpson - good or bad in Naked Gun?"

July 2 (Reuters) - Stoke City have signed Spain under-21 defender Marc Muniesa from Barcelona on a free transfer, the Premier League club said on Tuesday.
Muniesa has agreed a four-year contract with the English club who finished 13th last season before appointing Mark Hughes as their manager in May to replace Tony Pulis.
"I'm very excited about moving to England to play for Stoke City and will do everything I can to help the club," the 21-year-old said on his new club's website (www.stokecityfc.com).
"My season only finished a fortnight ago when the European (under-21) championships ended, but I can't wait to get started for Stoke."

Thiago to follow presumably

in Madrid, Isco thinks about what he's done

I really hope that Hughes spends his entire transfer budget on talented passing mid-tier La Liga players and then runs out of money and has to play them awkwardly alongside Ryan Shotton and Steven Nzonzi.

"Paulinho é como um Lampard negro" - Riquelme

harsh

TBL is born

a terrible beauty

villa edging closer

Pointing the finger: Baines and Kane pose for the camera with celebrity hairdresser Adee Phelan (centre)

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892/transfer-zone/2013/07/03/4089632/arsenal-struggle-to-agree-higuain-fee-with-real-madrid

gree hee hee

"Take £21m or else"
"or else what?"
"or else ... we sign Darren Bent"

6m for the shelv doesnt seem v swansea. kinda feeling it though

europa league will mean hella rotation i spose so maybe he won't notice he's there to be michu's understudy

Delighted with £6m tbh. I do like him, especially his snarliness, but there's a fair bit of English premium in that fee.

Speaking of which, I was looking up young Ince after I mentioned him the other day, only to find that Liverpool already abandoned their interest when they signed Coutinho instead.

comic sans? Is there no end to their evil?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BOPvmc2CEAIPndn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dq1G37D.jpg

diiiiiiiiiiiiiiie

you better have some supersonic retort lined up r|t|c coz the evidence for hating rmad uber alles is kinda there

at least Casillas looks embarrassed with that purple monstrosity

isnt it more meant to be like that flamenco brushstroke writing the tourist board use

comic sans lorenzo sanz who cares

did we discuss the £60 tickets bournemouth are selling for their forthcoming friendly match against these abject bastards

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1430000/images/_1430517_newshirt300.jpg

nothing beats marching on sport with a firing squad of galacticos wearing these tbh

apparently skrtel has a better shots to goal ratio than shelvey. decent player, if he played for anyone else i wouldn't be able to stand him. he told fergie to do one though, which was kinda funny.

Spanish giants pick Dorset club for their first pipe-opener

wtf graun

were u all aware of this locution because i was not

xp to myself. bit harsh. he's better than decent. one guy on rawk who's a coach (some great posters on there so stfu) reckons there's something about the way he walks that may point to an issue with cartilage around the hip, or the hip socket, which may be a reason for his lack of speed, and he doesn't have enough redeeming features in other aspects of his game to make up for it. good player, but maybe not good enough for a club with top 4 aspirations.

apparently we'd get about £375,000 as a sell-on, which is probably enough for a decent L2 starlet (or someone's wages)

trickle-down eh

This is one of the Ferg's finest moments tbf
http://i.minus.com/ibeLNKNH94tSky.gif

Yeah I'll give him that one. It's a lovely sequence all round.

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2013/07/02/american-exports-sunderland-table-official-offer-az-alkmaar-usmnt-striker-jo

only 'merican making news this summer afaik

not sure how i feel about jozy to sunderland. i like him scoring lots of goals in the netherlands. hope it works out if he moves.

I'm inclined to think he'd tank there, no idea what his contract situation is like at AZ though

How is he personality-wise? I feel like a certain meekness is required to thrive under Di Canio.

Sky Bet ‏@SkyBet 52m
BREAKING! We've suspended the betting on Scott Parker joining #QPR after a string of heavy bets! #THFC

Former England captain mate, nothing to sniff at. Lol just remembered the game (or was it just a half) when gazza bazza got the armband. Or was that just a nightmare?

jozy's attitude seems better than it was 3-4 years ago, that $10m xfer out of MLS got his head swole for a while but then he got left out of the national team while he sucked it up across spain/england/turkey

of course 30+ goals in a season could've brought that back

xp my body's saying let's go but my heart is saying no tbh

Man, Nov 23 is getting even funkier. May have to roll out my 2003 Parker shirt with safety-pinned W/P + N/R substitutions

Do I hear ILF awayday?

I'm sure there's a player in Shelvey somewhere but he seems to be a bit thick and gung ho and shooting from everywhere so doubt he suits a Rodgers Liverpool. On that basis Swansea poss not ideal either but good luck to him.