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

"It really is quite sad and a kick in the teeth for Paul [Lambert]," Gregory told The Birmingham Mail.

"When Dwight [Yorke] told me he didn't want to play for Villa anymore I was like: "Whaaatttt?" Paul will feel the same, I'm sure."

so what do we think of Nacer Chadli?

He has looked good every time I've seen him. Could play either side in a 4-3-3.

AIN'T NO PARTY LIKE A CARLO NASH PARTY COS A CARLO NASH PARTY DONNNNNNNN'TTTT STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

I gather Wanyama's pretty good, but £12.5m seems awfully pricey?

I think that might just be the way we get business done now. £7m Rodriguez, £12m Ramirez... If we want them, then we tend to move in big. Sort of anti-Moneyball, in a way - we are very keen to let people know that we are Of Means.

think i remember another club like that

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now this is how you sign for monaco <3

yeah how did he turn chelsea or man city down

Kone, Alcaraz and Robles all at Everton now

victor moses next it seems

Never occurred to me that Parker might have World Cup hopes - feel I'm being a bit harsh on a current squad member tbh.

Bayern in for Alcantâra, how'd ya like that huh?

Strootman looks like he might be going to Roma. Maybe de Rossi is off to Chelsea after all.

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my eyes

it is weird that they put a schoolboy with progeria in the top right corner??

marian pahars appointed manager of latvia. aw cuet

bayern probably best off carrying on telling pep to stfu every time he has a transfer brainwave

Brentford have signed Javi Venta from Villareal (??!!?!?!!).

Not sure that a 37 year old who has never played outside Spain is what you need in league one.

Rooney looking even more like the protagonist from Bully than usual in that weird montage pic.

Is Moyes praying to the King of Thailand? Is that a normal thing to do?

comrades this is an outrage, i demand we cast out klata the unbeliever at once

Hey I know he's popular, my local Thai shop has a portrait of the dude behind the counter - but I don't bow to it when I'm buying my sacks of fragrant rice, is this some terrible faux pas?

Sky Italia saying Thiago to Bayern is a done deal. I feel so...humiliated

the gap between bayern and ynahtid isnt as big as dortmund and liverpool but its still pretty big

he loves guardiola and seems to think he can get into the spain xi summer, fairly optimistically

tempted to caveat this cuz sky italia havent always been completely reliable in the past

(next) summer

Dinnae worry about it lad, moyesy's probably sent fellaini a hopeful text msg already Xxxpost

deuce on the way out eh, ppl over here are pushing for everton

Not sure about that one tbh, although he doesn't quite fit into any system AVB plays, he's useful squad player and if I were Levy I'd want to be very sure about getting a quality striker in before letting another source of goals go.

He doesn't really strike me as a Martinez player.

I mean Utd missing out on big players is nothing new - Hazard and Moura last season, Ronaldinho back in the day - but i'd really gotten my hopes up for this one. An honest to god creative midfielder. Ah well, perhaps I can learn to love big Fell's flailing elbows

Would have Dempsey at villa park in a heartbeat tbh, especially if benteke's off

weimann is the new clint

was going to do a thread to find the least impressive player ever to have been cited in a 'the new ______' or 'the next ______'

"Ryan Shotton is the next Rory Delap"

I saw a kid walking round town in a Stoke shirt with SHOTTON on the back. Thought it was v admirable.

are you sure it wasnt ryan shotton

tempted to caveat this cuz sky italia havent always been completely reliable in the past

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yeah them and that tancredi palmeri cunt have been the bane of this summer

they seem to have an implausible level of knowledge of transfers not involving italian interests

i totally forgot shaqiri was at bayern, someone should rescue him

Piqua maybe

oh, deems

It was a long night

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Wilfried Bony has a nickname at Vitesse, he is known as “Daddy Cool”. Therefore his goal tune is Boney M’s “Daddy Cool”.

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'Last night there was an attempted kidnap of Bruma by Juve Leo (Sporting fans) at the hotel where he lives. We have registered a complaint (with the police), and we have been informed it was done at the behest of Sporting’s management.'

talksport's "belgian football expert" said Chadli has been playing in central midfield (he even said he could see Belgium lining up with Chadli Witsel Dembele as their midfield in the world cup) but most reports call him a winger. what is he?

by all accounts he's another one of those versatile attacking mids who can play anywhere across the front three, but I think he typically plays on the left. I've heard he's played a game or two at striker as well. He certainly seems big enough to play there or deeper in midfield. would love to have him at spurs on the cheap (entering the last year of his deal)

i'm watching exeter 0-0 qpr #yolo

we're fucking doomed obv