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

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

eh karlsenblogs are all very nice and sensible but for all we know derek might have grown up in awe of ... his dad talking about the legends of the liver bird, plus epl pizzazz and whatnot. would hardly be the first time a unwise decision to come to england was made and it doesnt really seem so beyond the realms of possiblity to imagine our mino might have stepped in to rectify

liverpool are also a known uppity ballache for agents since the moores days iirc

5/1 on dortmund for the bundesliga looks p dece (speaking as a nonbetter)

Let's see: Derek's 24, that makes him about seven when Dortmund had their annus mirabilis - so yeah, with that and eastern cultural regard for Germany it's just about feasible that he was getting swayed by that rather than hoping Collymore might still come good or whatever. I hope so anyway, and that he's not just Raiola's patsy.

idk yr either baked or palsied if u believe a fiba player will be more swayed by shankly, rush, jamie redknapp etc than joining the second best team in europe with a perfectly suited coaching setup/tactical scheme

torres was a rare instance of a player who seemed to buy into the mythos of the prospective club very heavily when he moved to liverpool,

he even had a ynwa tattoo while he was still at atleti

though more pertinently, liverpool/rafael benitez also happened be tactically and linguistically perfect for him

Personally hope Derek and this so called "raiola" go to hell in a handcart.

I'm about to nip out for an Armenian flag so I can burn it

and some straw for a Raiola effigy, I doubt Morrisons will have a dual Dutch/Italian banner

they'll be dancing in the streets of everyone's favourite azerbaijani exclave tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiJfZl6xnj4

http://i.imgur.com/fTbDFH1.jpg

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1492969/referee-beheaded-killing-player-brazil?cc=5739

behold the ne plus ultra of these sorts of stories

Having witnessed the incident, an outraged group of spectators turned on the referee. He was tied up, beaten, stoned and quartered. They then put his head on a stake and planted it in the middle of the pitch.

'these sorts of stories', wtf?

the sort of things that end up in the observer's said and done column. time was you would pick up the paper to read about sepp blatter's expenses and ggi becali calling dan petrescu a rapist and maybe there would be a linesman kicking a cat or whatever. now it's executions, lynchings and genocides every other week.

Remember when di Canio pushed the ref that time and he stumbled away a few steps then sort of fell over? Just as well the FA acted swiftly on that one.

dude with no head probably made less of a meal of it than alcock did tbf

reading it back now the bit klats quoted seems like a credible effort at imagining a graeme souness dugout fantasy

I was reading about barbaric execution methods only yesterday as it happens - this covers a fair range of them. Can only assume they lacked the implements for blowing from a gun or death by elephant or it'd be even more grotesque.

I didn't realise that death by a thousand cuts was actually a thing. One to avoid imo.

dude there's a Naked City album that you need to never see the cover of

wd quite like to see Joey Barton given that thing where you're strapped to the raft smeared in honey

I really hope you're still talking about executions

scaphism. it's worse than i remember it.

oh gnarly

tis joey tho tbf

oh you need the coup de grace though:

Cœlius Rhodiginus states that there existed among the Ancients a form of punishment known as “Cyphonismus" [...] “I note among certain people a regulation to the following effect—that any man who shall have insolently thrown contempt on the decrees of the law, shall be kept in fetters at the public place of execution for twenty days, naked and smeared over with honey and milk, to be food for bees and flies; and when these have done their work, he shall be dressed in women’s clothes and cast headlong down a cliff.”.

"NOOOOOOO!!! NOT THE WOMEN'S CLOTHES!!!!!!!!"

dude with no head probably made less of a meal of it than alcock did tbf

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United appeared to have lost out on Thiago after Barcelona offered the Spain international assurances that he would receive regular game time. But according to a highly placed source it is understood that the chances of Thiago choosing United have been greatly enhanced, with the 22-year-old set to receive much-improved terms on his current £30,000-a-week contract.

sick of this guy already tbh

being coached by phil neville is its own reward

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p65/joffyboy/FE590448-BD17-4531-B4DA-917C238C179C-8274-000004DAB799D3A9_zps22c8ff02.jpg

won't be as good as expendables 1 and 2.

what is that priest going to do with €670k

its a very good price for dortmund considering the exorbitant fees paid for willian fernandinho & txigrinski......no way they would have got that if akhmetov held the entire rights

nn where is that img from and does it come with a glossary

the woman would appear to be http://www.gov.am/en/gov-members/220/

this goes right to the top

and look there's clive owen in the bottom right

relieved when i realised it's the shit thiago united are signing.

would be nice if the latest alonso back to liverpool rumours had substance.

And the to chelsea rumours didnt....

Tho tbh im comin around on chelsea over the past year

to chelsea? jeez rafa's one thing but xabi? can't happen. wd obv take him back at anfield in a heartbeat.

Paulinho xabi sandro dembele would prob be crowded so imma let you have this one

fairly sure ancelotti would want to keep him for at least year and then maybe next year illarrameni is ready to take his xi place