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

Barcelona are considering sending Thiago Alcantara, David Villa and a small sum of cash to Old Trafford to help lure Wayne Rooney to Spain. The Catalan giants are keen to strengthen their forward line despite already adding Neymar to the ranks this month.

what like a fiver?

They should just buy BAE a Panini sticker album ahead of the next World Cup.

Kone to Everton and Mario Gomez to Fiorentina are now confirmed afaict.

summer blog i would shamelessly enjoy xp

make it happen vice graun

bet mario g looks gorge in purple

29yo kone for 5m i would find mad underwhelming/ominous if i were an everton fan

i forgot fiorentina arent in the cl this year

impressive signing really, spurs could have had some of that

In 2007, at the age of 15, he was sentenced to 11 weeks in a young offenders institute after being convicted of participating in street robbery in Muswell Hill, London.

On 27 August 2011 he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a man in Newcastle city centre leaving the victim unconscious in the street, but was found not guilty of this in trial in October 2012.[15]

In October 2011 he was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Newcastle's Cathedral Square. The charge came only days after Ranger had been reinstated to Newcastle United's first-team training after a three-month exile in the club's reserves.[16] In March 2012 he was convicted of being drunk and disorderly and was given a six-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £135 costs.[17] Prior to this, in May 2011 Ranger was questioned by Newcastle after posing with a replica gun in a photograph.[18] The gun was later handed in.[19]

In March 2012, he was fined by The FA for making homophobic comments on social networking website Twitter.[20] Later in the month he was arrested once more, this time for breaching terms of his bail whilst awaiting trial on four assault charges.[17]

In the early hours of 23 September 2012, police were called to a house in Enfield, north London after reports of a disturbance. The front door of the property was badly damaged and Ranger was arrested at the scene and later charged with criminal damage.[21] The charge against Ranger was dropped in November 2012 after the court accepted his explanation that he had damaged the door after fearing his girlfriend was being kidnapped.[22]

On 25 January 2013, Ranger was arrested on suspicion of rape in a Newcastle hotel room.[23]

On 14 March 2013, Ranger was— arrested on suspicion of assault.[24]

On 08 July 2013, Ranger was charged with rape in connection with an alleged incident at a hotel in the Jesmond area of the city in January.[25]

They're gonna have to come up with at least 20 quid + Thiago now

Barcelona have confirmed they have reached an agreement with Atletico Madrid over the transfer of forward David Villa.

The Spain international moves to the Vicente Calderon in a deal worth an estimated maximum of £4.4 million, with £2.6m being paid if Villa remains an Atletico player during the 2014-15 and 2015-16 campaigns.

The Catalan giants will also retain 50% from any future transfer involving the former Valencia striker.

Barca want Rooney in swap deal that could see United net Thiago ...
Daily Mail-14 minutes ago
Barcelona are considering sending Thiago Alcantara, David Villa and a small sum of cash to Old Trafford to help lure Wayne Rooney to Spain.

BREAKING NEWS: Barcelona agree deal with Atletico Madrid for ...
Goal.com-12 minutes ago
... agreement with Atletico Madrid over the transfer of forward David Villa.

Fuckit

when haggling goes rong

speaking of which, come on levy whack 25m on the table for higuain. be worth it just for the bantz

isnt damiao off to napoli as well

somewhere in the world right now benteke's agent is getting a semi

i shouldnt laugh really, levy's only going to take it out on arry now

wait what villa's gone for 4.3m???

Ah ffs my eyes

I suspect Villa never seriously considered leaving Spain

No id agree, the fee proves it wasnt a money issue

Leandro otoh i want or its levy out time

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lolll i'm crying at this

£17m for Gomez? Values are all over the place this summer.

can someone explain this chelsea pursuit of john ruddy to me cos idk

i'd just assumed they were just trying to pinch him on the cheap but this reported improved bid is supposedly £7m??

The Football League has 'reluctantly' approved an application for Coventry City to play at Northampton Town's Sixfields Stadium. Coventry will play its home matches at Sixfields for an initial period of three seasons.

must have taken real courage to throw that reluctantly in there

fucken sixfields groundsman better get a payrise

Kone tweet obviously gotta inspire new Prem threadtitle. OFFICIALLY AN IMPOSSIBILITY FOR 'LIVERPOOL' is my offering

vg, the early running is made

Benteke hands in a transfer request, hasn't traveled with Villa to Germany

that'll be chelsea having had a word then

Aie, commiserations villa lads.

i was just thinking what Chelsea lack is a big, young belgian #9

who performed well for a midlands based team last season.

7m john ruddy would indicate it's time to abandon the good ship common sense

this will probably be another instance of an epl team getting pissy and indignant about a player prepared to burn bridges to force a move, having bought the player in similar circumstances

john ruddy transfer probably because abramovich was browsing through the squad xls and felt ross turnbull didnt have quite the rough trade realness he wanted in his league cup goalkeeper

The Frenchman began his professional career with Monaco in 2000, spending two years there before joining Lille.

He announced he had returned to the club with a message on his official Twitter account, which said: 'I am very happy to have returned to France and Monaco, where it all began for me.'

Abidal, who was unveiled at the Stade Louis II stadium, is the latest of a growing list of notable captures by the French principality club this summer, which includes Radamel Falcao, James Rodriguez, Ricardo Carvalho, Jeremy Toulalan and Joao Moutinho.

Derek to Dortmund confirmed. Mixed signals about Suarez. West Ham interested in Downing.

I was going to say that's still a net positive, but it's just not.

At it is tbf

Not looking like Suarez has loads of options.

Ericksen is being linked with Liverpool now but i'd think there'd be CL teams interested.

Looks like it might be the Bale tactic of softening him up one year to swoop the next. I was so assuming he'd be gone that I forgot that if he does stay, he'll be out 'til October anyway.

not convinced by eriksen really

neither were dortmund apparently

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not sure i like the look of this new mike leigh trailer

lol Nev with his shirt tucked in

butt looks like shearer after a few years of poor health.

it ends in gnev's teletubby house

gnev is in tears that becks doesnt acknowledge his ripped jeans. it all comes out

pnev the former butt of jokes is now quite together and professional, no one knows how to act least of all nicky butt who is covered in the taxi driver's blood he glassed on the way in an inexplicably outburst of fury. he sits shaking and glaring

scholsey is dead having mistakenly drunk an mcat laced cup of tea intended by the rest of lads as nasty bants to take becks down a peg

giggsy as a result feels his first ever emotion, shame at shagging the lifeless scholesy's missus

they place the little ginger body in the house's great inbuilt recycling contraption and vow never to speak of this night again

becks smiles blankly through it all

you have to hand it to becks looking at that. he got out while he could.

Giggs is kidding himself hanging about with that lot. He's like Bill Wyman with the Stones.

hope somebody's picking up Scholesy's kids

Beckham's top button is really annoying me