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

well, partial wages. he can't be on less than cesar is, likely more

not rly in a great bargaining position when they have his replacement already

pepe, pepe, pepe

ahhhhhh, reina

https://twitter.com/search?q=pulis%20barcelona&src=typd

fuckinell pipe down about rawk. search for phaseofplay's posts, you lot might learn something ;)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jul/19/jose-mourinho-chelsea-godfather

It is David Moyes at Old Trafford who draws the focus, a manager awaiting his first major honour and tasked with succeeding Ferguson, one of the greatest managers of all time. "Before I won the first trophy I had not won anything, so everyone is the same," said Mourinho.

[...]

Wenger's Arsenal, in contrast, have not lifted a trophy since Mourinho's first year in English football and, yet, he still considers them a threat. "They have their philosophy, and for some reason they do it. For sure, their manager does really good in the job. If not they wouldn't keep him. They will sign some players for sure to improve the team, and the manager brings stability. If he signs a new contract it means everything is comfortable and the board and the team know where they want to go. I think they are contenders."

very nice work

"One of the most difficult things in the club is to create a victory culture, one where you walk through the front door and smell the success, smell the confidence, smell the self-esteem."

liverpool won't be smelling the self-esteem? (6.5/10)

melwood reeks of it i tell ya

think u are deceiving to flatter with that 6.5

Hope nilmar isn't branding me a rawktard there o_O Besides, his first name's Jose.

Top two possibly. If we start well. We dominate 95% of games. But with Aspas, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, and Thiago coming in - Goals will flow!

Ignoring the fact that Gerrard is a vastly superior athlete to the pair of them, and focusing on the technical aspect of his game, I can't believe you consider Xavi and Pirlo to be a 'tier' above Gerrard. Not sure what aspects of Xavi's game are better than Gerrards to be honest, the same goes for Pirlo, and if there are any they certainly don't belong in the 'tier' above.

I'm not to sure how many full matches you've seen of both Gerrard and Scholes during their peak years, but I suggest you refresh your memory. I would only consider Scholes to be marginally better than Xavi (can totally see why fans would prefer Xavi over Scholes, personal preference) but he's without doubt a better footballer than Pirlo. But Gerrard is a vastly superior footballer than all 3 of them, as technically there isn't much between them but Gerrards athleticism combined with that level of technical skill is very, very rare indeed.

hang on, you found some stupid opinions on the internet?

the web's honeymoon period is over now

this has been done before but rawk is categorically different to other fitba forums

& there are no other teams whose players get this sort of treatment on wikipedia (arsenal is closest)

football players with unaccountably lengthy wikipedia articles

so no i wasnt presuming or something or anyone else to be a rawktard

all teams have plenty of dumb fans.

not having a go or whatever but like, even if it could be proven to be true that one teams fans were more... stupid or whatever is being alleged, what would the point behind this be or how would this theory be justified?

call 'em what you like, nilmar, it's fair game & i don't post there. just referred to a goalie by his nickname.

doing a good job hiding ur butthurt here boys

ah hands up it's annoying not getting a transfer completed now if he's going to go. i doubt sending him on loan was what brendy envisaged when he signed mignolet.

you'll forgive my lack of empathy considering all this was occasioned by cesar suddenly electing to play the shittiest hand of contract poker ever

it's cool. actively hate the close season tbh.

not having a go or whatever but like, even if it could be proven to be true that one teams fans were more... stupid or whatever is being alleged, what would the point behind this be or how would this theory be justified?

― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Saturday, 20 July 2013 12:59 (1 hour ago)

the most stupid fitba fans are citeh types judging by manchester evening news comment boxes

stoic quietude is the way to go. unless you're texting mates in which case the more one-eyed and raging the better.

trust cout to cheer me up.

Wait, now the Rooney War has been won is there supposed to be some sort of consensus that Gerrard is and always was shit, or at least not top tier? Because o_O, you know.

not from me tbh

not technically as good as xavi, but that's hardly a brutal putdown for any player, and he always had a way with a cunt

Hard to have a proper opinion on Gerrard until he tries to grow a beard as majestic as Pirlo's

well he's made a start

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p480x480/1000414_634897613189765_493434751_n.jpg

he's defo loving the robin thicke look-a-like thing. "i do a bit, don't i?" he's thinking to himself.

Grizzled

i think it suits him and his status as an elder premier league statesman. i'm a beard advocate though.

yeah otm, mark of experience, parker is literally lost without one and can only turn right now ;_;

'blurred lines' is actually all about english pining for 4-4-2 iirc

sky should have a big red #STEVIE pop up every time yer man rifles a 50 yard pass into touch

Can't believe Scotty P hasn't auditioned a pencil moustache at some point

Belgium winger Nacer Chadli is in London to finalise his £7million move from FC Twente to Tottenham.

Chadli, who is 23 and can play on either flank, will join fellow Belgians Mousa Dembele and Jan Vertonghen if he agrees a five-year deal as expected.

The Twente wing man's versatility is sure to be a bonus for Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas, who likes to move talisman Gareth Bale around the pitch.

Back from a grand scorching holiday in Kernow.

Think Chadli is a good move from Spurs.

“We were in the Premier League and full of ambition under chairman Paul Duffen,” Brown told the Daily Star Sunday. “My chief scout Bob Shaw and assistant manager Brian Horton went to watch Cavani, who was available at Palermo.

“They recommended him and we offered £2.5 million. I remember the negotiations and it was a deal with a number of clauses in the contract. When it didn’t happen, we switched to Negredo, who at the time was at Real Madrid. That was going to be a loan for the season. We were going to pay £12 million, plus his wages, then Real were going to buy him back for £13 million, but Cavani eventually went to Napoli and Negredo signed for Seville.

“Why didn’t they come to Hull? The club was not big enough. In Negredo’s case, you were talking about going from Real Madrid to Hull City. But the important thing was that we were ahead of the game in terms of spotting these players. That’s where we were at at Hull City.”

serial fantasist shares improbable fantasy

"Negredo's fallen through, time to sign Jimmy Bullard"

negredo link is true but he wasn't really 'at' madrid, they just exercised their buy-back clause while he was at almeria and sold him on to sevilla

oh i'm sure it's all true, i just liked him piping up to say so cos that's where we were at at hull city

cavani signing is delusional, they might have offered £2.5m for him but in 2009 he had already scored 14 serie a goals the previous season so they might as well have offered paul mcshane

one might indeed suppose he's issued a come and get me plea to joe kinnear there

Hiddink out at Anzhi.

Is Kernow Cornwall?

Yes.

Hiddink to Barca then?