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

pretty stonking investment on illaramendi, although i guess his type don't really grow on trees and rmad have spent £25m on sergio ramos before and such

wonder what will become of jese

Is everyone familiar with this Illaramendi character but me?

just pretend, have you never done footchatz before

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11685/8820371/Transfer-News-Queens-Park-Rangers-contenders-to-sign-Javier-Saviola

now that's the good old fashioned summer guff we like to see, more plz

I'm trying to row back from global footy knowledge so's I can regain a sense of childlike wonder at the world cup. Banana shots, 3-5-2, pretty fans, it'll be corking.

I'll be seeking out non-league streams this season by way of preparation

at least it's Stoke up first day at any rate

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/1411/sghj.jpg

I can't take much more of this. I am literally at snapping point.

Snapping Point, OR 97396

he must have malfunctioned during this bit

"We're on with targets that we are chasing at this moment in time. At this moment in time and there are people we are actively chasing. At this moment in time we're happy with how things are going."

Chelsea are now slight favourites for the title (basically a three-way neck-and-neck with them edging it in a few places)

Liverpool ahead of Spurs for some reason too

http://imageshack.us/a/img571/4765/bij3.jpg

woop woop Fulham now this guy's toy, riots in Castelnau twice in one week

xp liverpool quite a few spots ahead of spurs in the league table atm

thatliverpooloptimismgraphthatpplpostallthetime.jpg

o you were doing an alphabet joke. i get it now, but stand by what i said.

that graph is a bit out this year, thanks to Derek, Luis's radio show, and getting Stoke first up

apparently we now want bernard instead of derek. good to see a british spine still important.

Nard and Rodgers back together, good times

once they sign another top striker, at last luis is free.

At his official presentation, Mkhitaryan said Dortmund’s recent success helped him make the decision.

“Liverpool have a great past,” he said. “But Borussia Dortmund has a great present.

“I made this decision with my heart.”

I want it noted that lfc have been getting it v easy so far itt

http://i.imgur.com/6XGpiB5.png

Four players available for all comers apparently, parker, livermore, thudd and ekotto.

Headscratch over ekotto, and tbh livermore/thudd have their uses in a squad game

v easy in what sense?

I'd say everyone has been getting it easy, not much has happened.

'I believe that the council made a decision that they did not want a hedge fund running Coventry City Football Club,' added Coventry's chief executive.

'For political reasons. This is a socialist council. They couldn't come to terms that there was an uber-capitalist - ie a hedge fund - running the club.

'I don't think that sat well with them. They they tried to wrestle control of the club away from SISU by pushing for, and getting, an administration order on the club.

'But it was such a foolhardy scheme that it was never going to work.

'It's easy to blame a hedge-fund. Secretive, money-making - all the usual straplines you'd see to describe a hedge-fund.'

Things you do for ILF: passing Livingston stadium earlier, I see they're about to kick off a friendly against Wolves. The sheer unlikelihood means that that's where I've been the past couple of hours. Risky choice for the boy's first game, but hopefully it won't stick.

Young Ince turning down Cardiff is interesting. The bits of Blackpool that aren't his dad must be raging.

Obv they werent big time cardy

let me be the first to say...Moyes out

What now

come on - it was the All Stars, nobody beats the All Stars

not just any All Stars either, but the Singha All Stars

seems his successor is already in place

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

I didn't realise the Shankly Shield was up for grabs today - might make Suarez think twice with any luck

so don't keep me in suspense, how bad were the Wolves?

Oh you were alright, you might've found your level. It's hard to tell from a friendly but you were comfortably better than Livingston. Sako looked good, busy and up for it, Elokobi as big and lumbering as ever, Davis scored with a decent hit. But I had a three-year-old with me, I didn't see much more than half of it.

Oddly though, flashscores tells me it was 2-1 to Wolves, but you were definitely 3-1 up when we left.

lol Express and Star says it was 2-1

well we've already beaten East Fife and Livingston under Kenny J, must be a lock to win the league this season

http://imageshack.us/a/img32/3032/pfyu.jpg

Here's the young 'un with your team bus, <3 that number plate.

sweet :D

Flashscores is the bookies' service afaict, if they're paying out on it it must be right. The third must've been chopped off and I didn't notice. Normally you'd get derision from the home fans for that (we went in with your lot of course - you had a good few hundred there for some reason) but tbh it wasn't a particularly needly encounter.

oh damn i forgot all about b.g elokobi. good man to be having back

assume this scots tour is purely for the purposes of easing griffiths in gently

btw the boy was at first apprehensive of the presence of, and subsequently disappointed by the absence of, actual wolves - I think three might be a touch young to expect anyone to get excited about football as such

Gorgeous George!

Still think Klata's posts on the ILF trolls thread are his finest work

It won't have escaped your notice that Charlton were rampant over St Mirren today - had I been in Paisley today you could've been benefiting from my wisdom instead

few, Gorgeous George was Shari_Vari's

you had Graz_Entertainment, at least

few? ffs, ffs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2362759/Gary-Hooper-set-sign-QPR.html

sigh mail why do you mock us so, is just reporting a bollocks rumour not enough now