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

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?

i've no idea but happy when i googled that it's spurs he's linked with so i can claim "pjanic in the streets of london" first.

As if, that one's been doing the rounds for donkeys im afraid

20m seems a lil steep but rumour says the sun copy team will throw in at least 5 of that

prove it.

ooh so close:

"pjanic in the streets of london"
2 results (0.19 seconds)

on the other hand:

"pjanic on the streets of london"
About 8,050 results (0.28 seconds)

"pjanic attack"

About 219 results (0.27 seconds)

under-the-radar swoop:

"pjanic on the streets of carlisle"
1 result (0.21 seconds)

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2013/07/05/kenny-jackett-no-way-back-for-wolves-karl-henry/

Kenny J doing everything in his power to make me love him

Do you think Johnson and O'Hara will be easy to shift?

Besiktas interested in Adebayor apparently. Please god please.

xp

I think they'll be very difficult to shift, but Jackett is sticking to his guns in saying that they won't be involved. Nobody is gonna offer the same money that our "big 4" are on, so somewhere down the line they'll need to be paid off or subsidized to go elsewhere. i think - i hope - Jackett knows that involving Johnson, Ward or Henry in the squad would equal serious fan mutiny. O'Hara is a better player than any of them, but nowhere near as good as he thinks he is and with a fan rep that he's successfully poisoned this year.

the big suspicion is that Moxey will try to squeeze unrealistic offers for them and leave the club lumbered, but we'll see. at least Jackett is making all the right noises at the moment.

god help us all the day moneyball is printed in turkish

so cool klats discovered pjanic sounds like panic

...

these tor kristian carlsen reports in the guardian are excellent, nice that they find someone within fitba to write those things

he identifies why mkhiitaryan is so valuable and why it would be a surprise if an established cl team doesnt buy him....hoping he becomes a gotze replacement

meanwhile dortmund bought aubemayang, benfica bought markovic and a load of serbs and someone finally bought denisov but alas its anzhi

so cool klats discovered pjanic sounds like panic

― Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, July 5, 2013 12:13 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahem, i think you'll find...

Anzhi also bought Kokorin for 19m Euro yesterday.

@BBCSport David Moyes: "All I can do is do what David Moyes has done before. I'll continue the traditions of the club."

Moyes will be Moyes.

It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world

lol xp

what petition do i sign to ensure pepe goes to city

http://i.imgur.com/z2KHiiq.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pi5TaGi.jpg

Mkhitaryan is signing for Dortmund. Deserves to go to a CL team. Pleased it's them.

It was a beautiful dream, sniff

Bent in.

The ECHO understands the size of the fee was never an issue with Liverpool happy to meet Shakhtar’s asking price.

Relations between Anfield officials and the Ukrainian club have been good throughout a long-running saga, but the Reds were repeatedly left frustrated by their dealings with agent Mino Raiola.

As a result they were never able to hold formal talks with the prolific 24-year-old about a move to Anfield.

Dortmund have found Raiola more accommodating and Mkhitaryan is now expected to pen a five-year deal with the Bundesliga outfit.

fucking Mino Raiola, what a cunt

seriously where does that guy get off

do u think liverpool not buying him is attributable to raiola?

The Echo's not just making it up

can't think why he'd treat brendan like a jehovah's witness at his door

Dortmund have found Raiola more accommodating is prima facie absurd

there's never been any public statements from anyone that liverpool could get him, maybe they could pay the fee but dortmund have similar means and otherwise are far more desireable to the player

Raiola's got it in for Liverpool, we never had a chance if he's been involved. He's a Roma fan who's never got over the 1984 European Cup final.

I feel sorry for his client tbh

not just that they have a much better team and will be playing in the champions league for the forseeable future, but that he is (in theory) exquisitely suited to klopp's system, more so than gotze perhaps even if not so talented

mkhitaryan has better attributes for klopp though: he is faster, more efficient in transitions, ferocious work ethic, quite possibly more likely to pick up the goalscoring slack while the centre forward position is under review

Him and Aubameyang between them are potentially a hell of a coup for Dortmund

i would like to see liverpool buy a player with similar directness ahead of gerrard/lucas/allen/whoever but someone they could feasibly attract in their current state ie not someone who has scored the highest number of goals in a single ukrainian league season while playing in midfield

aubemayang looks a lot like a younger torres to me.....hernandez type speed and finishing but tall and strong enough to play #9 alone

he hasn't done anything exceptional yet hence the midrange fee, but the upside potential is there