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

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.

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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.

Swansea is a weird destination for Shelvey, would have expected a more foreigner-phobic manager/club to gravitate towards him as a youthful attacking option

negredo to city it seems

ooh i'm scared

Who is he? I can't tell the young Spanish apart any more. Only Isco for his cool name and Navas for his goatee and being fast, the others are just so many sleeperblokes.

pff goatee

jesus "sigh, sickening eyes" navas

― r|t|c, Monday, 20 May 2013 14:10 (1 month ago) Bookmark

How come I know exactly what you mean?

woop woop: Ryan Giggs appointed player-coach at Manchester United with immediate effect...

What does this even mean?

yoga classes idk

i've just watched a negredo video. turns out he - "the beast of vallecas" - is a relatively lumbering english big man in disguise thumping headers and booming mighty shots with a cannon left foot. the epl will surely cower before this fearsome splicing of dzeko and javi garcia

Negredo had been tipped to join Real Zaragoza or Hull City, but finally decided to sign a reported five-year deal with Sevilla for €15 million, with Real Madrid having an option to rebuy the player in the first two years.[7][8]

Thiago medical tomorrow apparently. Possibly. Maybe.

we're apparently trialling one Richard Wood, which sounds like the sort of name you'd love to have at school

I can't wait until tomorrow xp, I need new content now dammit. Never realised I needed football so much. Even GET INVOLVED is reduced to debating the Fifa World Rankings.

nm, imago's bringing it

we could discuss coventry playing at sixfields

feel we'd need both spiralli and passantino to really make a thing of that though

i went to sixfields a bunch of times over a couple of seasons when i had my "disillusioned with the premier$hip" phase, the pathos of which in 2013 is just about enough to make me jump off a bridge. it will be if nothing else a more suitable environment than that large, empty, echoing plastic bowl that they have been playing in. the pitch will be a treat come winter time i am sure.

Coventry's quite near Northampton, who knew? I was recently having a look at what Highfield Road is now, poignant stuff (i.e. completely unremarkable area, could really use a football ground)

"Liverpool agree fee for £25m Spurs playmaker target" - wtf kind of headline is this, givemesport.com?

would have been fun if northampton had gotten promoted

also, RS, is Dickwood any cop?

Dear IK, have some AFC Wimbledon news:

We've have signed Charlie Sheringham who will be shite, but have missed out on Ade Akinfenwa who would have been 'a handful' but has signed for Gillingham instead. We've signed a load of other players whose names escape me and Kevin Saint-Luce (who fled Cardiff after slapping a woman in a nightclub) has signed permanently following a loan period last season where he looked ahite but scored a few goals.

There is still talk of building a new stadium where the grehound track currently is but for the time being I look forward to sheltering within the corrugated splendor of our new stand (sposored by South Korea's PREMIER noodle manufacturer because New Malden has the densest population of South Koreans outside South Korea) and enjoying a season of boring mid-table cloggery.

Are New Malden's Koreans significantly represented at your games? I've eaten in the neighbourhood before - nice but kinda pricey was my impression.

What's the story with the dog track? I thought that was still a going concern? Have enjoyed a night out there on occasion fwiw - good fun, pretty reasonable fare, much better than the gee gees imo.

Not at all - I can only assume that the new stand is an attempt to draw them in through their love of noodles. It's certainly a more astute plan than trying to entice them with our wonderful football and fancy 4-where is everyone-2 formation.

The dog track's days are almost certainly numbered, and we have put forward a proposal for a 12,000 capacity stadium, presumably in conjunction with a supermarket or somesuch. It looked like it was definitley going ahead but it seems to have stalled recently. I'd say it was more likey to happen than not though.

(and Palace is the place to eat - not that expensive and really lovely)

This reminds me that a rolling in-ground catering thread was one of my first ideas for ILF - feel it's got more mileage than ever, what with recent talk of farmer's markets and such. Need to get it up & rolling in time for the new season, whenever that is.

Well I will be sure to send a report from my inaugural visit to the AFC carvery - £30 for 3 courses and a match ticket. I feel as though ILF would consider it a very 'real' venue for a League 2 meal.

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

can i just take the opportunity to bemoan this intolerable imposter's existence

Higuain's being reported as a three-year contract - isn't this unusually short?

just realism setting in

If we're doing a football catering thread, I'd like to contribute Middlesbrough left-back George Friend's review of the Riverside Restaurant http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/boro-full-back-george-friend-riverside-3670079

"if roast beef is ever on the menu, nine times out of 10 it will be my inevitable choice"

Toad, in the hole: rolling-you-home football catering thread

It could wait no longer

"We manage a lot of information about very good players," the Saints boss said. "One of them is Damiao, also Banega and also Wanyama."

who's managing ur finances you next joke you

uh @ saints boss not u rtc

What are West Brom thinking of, signing Anelka? He's like their opposite.

http://i.imgur.com/1bCvUDd.jpg

uh @ saints boss not u rtc

― dj hollingsworth vs dj perry (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 July 2013 22:48 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i was due an intervention tbh

<3 George Friend so much.

Is Pjanic worth the £20m being quoted in the papers?