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

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?

^^ It's the craziest "rumor" that everyone is suddenly saying. Hiddink would tear up the tiki taka football. But maybe they would want that since it's glory days are over? I find it highly unlikely.

Gerardo 'Tata' Martino new manager of Barca

Standard reporting that Liverpool are closing in on Soldado, I wasn't aware that was in the offing. How good is he?

Hiddinck has been surprisingly poor at Anzhi. May have jumped before he was pushed.

though he was the one doing the pushing?

Two games into the new season, one draw, one loss. Not great but to leave after two games? I do think he left on his own accord, with Meulensteen ready to take over. I think he's just seen enough there tbf.

Anzhi were nowhere near Zenit or CSKA last season, after spending huge amounts of money, and don't look any better now, having spent even more. Might have been of his own accord but he was under a hell of a lot of pressure.

Nothing would make me happier than for Abramovich to just hand him some pointlessly destabilising job at Chelsea.

Martino to Barca is fairly heartwarming given the current climate of the managerial carousel, where if you've got the experience you qualify for any going job automatically. Obvs this bonhomie does not extend to David Moyes, who I hope sinks Utd for the next 2 years at least, if not beyond

if soldado doesnt work out for us then idk

i know we're playing it cool and collectively relenting from starting the renaissance frescos fitba photo thread but srsly

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/68877000/jpg/_68877134_cameron_jerome.jpg

"cameron jerome criticises tony pulis regime" - 2013

Spurs are apparently "not far away" from meeting Soldado's £26m release clause, according to Valencia's president.

Bernard to Arsenal for £21m is an interesting rumour.

pennant as blithe seraphim xp

oh shit no that's ryan shotton

even better, really

Reports of a bale transfer request but pinch of salt yet

Marca's reporting it as a done deal fwiw (Bale, not Soldado)

marca so fwiw is not much

scoop! i have a friend who works at the tie rack at madrid-barajas and he saw bale and pérez having breakfast this morning in the airport nandos

Nandos do breakfasts???

lol spiralli

you still haven't given us the lowdown on everyone's favourite phallically-dubbed centre-back btw, or do you regard the custom of asking about a player signed from a lower division to be in bad or condescending taste

just that he's our only new signing and it'll soften the blow of having no money & potentially having to play all our matches at the priestfield in 3 years' time

They're really good at first but they go soggy quickly and you soon realise you've paid far too much.

oh shi

Just hearing from a mate that he knows a guy oddjobbing in spain (recession ;_;) and he gave a quote for taking down old soffits and doing up the flashing on a beautiful little country pile just outside madrid just yesterday......to gareth bale.

suspect info imo - my mate's a typist for real and he says there's no so many zeroes on the end of Bale's new contract that he never needs ask a price for anything again

imago - i don't know how many time you think i have seen the city play in the last 7 years... i can tell you that i have seen wood play live twice and he was the best cov player on the field both times albeit with very little competition. he has 'presence'. prevailing opinion with the couple of friends i have back home who still torture themselves regularly is that they were a little bit surprised as they thought/hoped he was just not quite good enough to attract notice.

well, apparently he left on a free, which i didn't even know. can't even get my second hand opinions right sadly. so here is a direct quote: "he was quite good, better than what we have". that, right there, is faint praise.

ty, realness is probably the #1 attribute of a good championship defender tbh. clint hill being the sublime archetype. and regarding the 'not quite good enough to attract notice' well that's our lingering hope now too

“I’ve always liked Karl,” said the QPR manager. “He’s a good sort, he’s a competitor. He looks like he wants to win.

“He’s captain of Wolves and whenever I came up against him he always had that attitude about him that he’s very determined. I think he is what we need at the club.

“He’s a bit of a leader on the pitch and he will be a big asset for us. He is having a medical and it should go through today.”

lol

Wolves' Karl Henry insists tackle that injured Bobby Zamora was fair
• 'I felt it was a good tackle,' says the Wolves captain
• Midfielder sends his sympathies to the Fulham striker

Karl Henry insists he did not intend to injure Fulham striker Bobby Zamora, whose right leg was broken in a tackle by the Wolves midfielder. Zamora, who also has ligament damage, will be out for as long as five to six months despite a successful operation.

fuck the world tbh

i grimaced when we signed derry and rbrqch but this really is something else

Just as well Bobby Z's not the sulking kind. Is he staying btw? The big league needs Bobby Z imo.

Oh, and another defeat for Man Utd. Moyes is acquiring an air of haplessness, rarely agl.

people say these pre-season friendlies don't mean anything but a string of defeats kind of does imo.

maybe two not a string yet. i'm just thinking back on liverpool losing loads of warm-ups before finishing seventh in 09/10

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/68896000/jpg/_68896447_163578688.jpg

stop. martino time.

no chance bobby's leaving, he's a top top lad, you know what you're going to get with him

Henry's reputation as a dirty player is a bit unfair. He's slow as fuck so he gets to the tackle late if he gets there at all but mostly he doesn't get there. also he panics if he's got possession and struggles to pick out a pass at 3 yards, and as a shield for the defence he's not up there with a sodden paper bag, but other than that he puts a shift in. kudos.

I'm more concerned with the quixotic nature of our transfer policy than another pre-season loss. It's all a bit...Arsenal

maybe two not a string yet. i'm just thinking back on liverpool losing loads of warm-ups before finishing seventh in 09/10

Given Liverpool have stayed at that level for four years now, I think it was due to more than an unfortunate set of pre-season friendly results