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

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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

Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti is a Chilean football manager and former footballer, who is the current manager of English Premier League side Manchester City. As a coach, he has managed teams mostly in Spain, Argentina and Chile.

Born: September 16, 1953 (age 59), Santiago, Chile
Nationality: 칠레
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Is Cisse really being frozen out at Newcastle for refusing to wear a Wonga-sponsored shirt? The papers say he has been barred from training with the team.

Oh you fucking clowns, Newcastle.

:D

What do we know about Fulham's impressively-moustached new owner then?

What else can Newcastle do? If he won't wear the shirt, he's not much use to them.

The new Fulham guy's supposed to have football/nfl synergies in mind, specifically moving the Jaguars to London. Quite how buying Fulham is supposed to achieve this I have no idea, the Cottage is hardly your typical nfl venue (top marks for 'quaint' I guess). West Ham might've made some kind of sense.

They could do what Sevilla did when Kanoute wouldn't wear gambling adverts on his shirt - take them off.

Xp

I didn't know about Kanoute. Did the whole team go without, or just him?

Cisse's been wearing adverts for moneylenders for the past two years anyway

Just Kanoute. They eventually found a compromise but he wore a plain shirt for quite a long time.

Advertising a bank offering 4% mortgages and advertising loan sharks offering 2670% rates isn't exactly the same thing.

That's true but there's a non-trivial distinction between what Wonga do and what Virgin Money does and depending on Cisse's own personal beliefs that may make all the difference.

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Stoked for Kinnear weighing in on this issue btw.

Oh shit yeah thats an aspect

I couldn't work out from the BT website whether I'm entitled to their new BT Sport channel, so I phoned them up. You are entitled if you get your telly or broadband from them, as I do, but you have to register. You might need to buy an updated set-top box, which they will check for you. You can get the channels free in HD if you register for BT Infinity (free so far as I can tell) but you have to do so before the start of August.

(Blank Headline Received)
Reuters, Sunday July 14 2013
BAYERN MUNICH AGREE TO BUY MIDFIELDER THIAGO ALCANTARA FROM BARCELONA - BARCELONA STATEMENT

Woo! Clicking on the mysterious blank headline pays off!

don't rly understand why barca seem to have been so keen to get rid of thiago. what do they do when xavi retires?

I don't think they could really stop him

apparently Utd and Benfica have agreed a fee for Garay though so that's...good

They could've started giving him game time, there're about eight midfield slots in that team.

Garay's good imo, you're doing alright there.

he's good but it's basically the last area of the team that needs strengthening

at least Moyes has actually stated on the record that we need some midfielders. He can't go back on that now

Feel like he's on borrowed time already. Pellegrini's in crisis too now. Wenger cruising.

Arsenal now offering £35m for Suarez. Why not go to forty? It's like they're afraid of succeeding.

Meanwhile Gerrard gets a new two-year deal. How does it work as players age? Do they get reduced wages, payments deferred for tax reasons, a pension pot or what? Surely he isn't getting paid more now than he was five years ago?

Four stages of brand/product development iirc

they want higuain and this gives them take it or leave it leverage vs madrid

yeah i'm sure madrid will be bricking it

they are pretending that they now want higuain again

its weak stuff from both sides

that is, perez &c are pretending

im sure arsenal would take suarez for maybe a couple more million than their last offer but i dont see liverpool accepting it or suarez caring enough about arsenal to force it

suarez wants madrid but its not clear how much they want him

madrid want 25m, wenger wants to pay 24.9m 76p, wenger waves 35m at an unobtainable player, can u guess what madrid say next?

He can't go back on that now

*hollow laugh*

window is getting really dull with all this suarez/rooney/higuain drivel.

Routledge strikes on Bony Swans bow

lovely headline.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/15/article-2363900-1AD158E2000005DC-898_634x359.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/15/article-2363900-1AD1516C000005DC-614_634x467.jpg

The first one is beautiful - the colours, the composition, everything.

http://i.imgur.com/BV1aFRx.jpg

Also there's a new life ambition, to have a portrait of oneself brandished thusly.

in all your mildly peeved glory as well

plus some devil horns, why not