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

Imagine poor Luiz's face when he arrives at Arsenal and realises it's in Britain after all.

Luis, even.

Not real england tho

no, but hard;y any need for the owner to be tweeting something like that?

keeps fans happy. doesn't damage a deal you prob don't want to happen anyway.

I dont wanna balance something as ephemeral and objective as dignity vs keeping the fans happy but cmon

I really hope we don't sign Suarez.

― My god. Pure ideology. (ey), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 09:18 (9 minutes ago)

I assumed you'd be a Liverpool fan with a name like that

who are we to be criticising lazy zings, c'mon

Kinda think that Arsenal need this kind of a bitchslap really, remind them that for all that flashing of cash they're still a beta club.

Henry should start a Walcott-to-City rumour just to compound the insult.

He's right though, £40m isn't enough. It's also good because if the objective really was to force Real to front up, he'd be all eyes at Arsenal's (supposed) kitty.

What's the supposed gap in the Higuain negotiations btw? iirc it was about £3m? Because there's got to be a value on having your marquee signing in early so he can hit the ground running.

The Serie A club had already settled a £31.8 million fee with Madrid for the transfer of the Argentine, but image rights threatened to derail negotiations over personal terms.

However, those issues were resolved during negotiations on Tuesday and it is understood that Higuain will now pen a five-year, £140,000-per-week contract worth £36.4m in salary alone. The 25-year-old will more than double his comparatively modest £64,000-a-week wage at Real.

But the Gunners' attempts to finalise a deal with Madrid hit the buffers after the Liga runners-up resisted an improved £23.1m offer.

Who's that? Inter? Napoli? That's quite a jump, but aiui when Arsenal were pushing Real were holding out for 25/26. Unless they were just stalling for some non-misers to weigh in.

It's not the flashing of the cash that's the problem, it's doing it in the wrong places and with questionable reasoning

Don't get why they're persisting on bothering Liverpool about Suarez when there's any number of other decent/better options it seems like they could have got sorted already, players interested in coming from clubs open to selling.

Supposedly terms and everything was agreed with Higuain, but then Madrid said they wanted more money and Arsenal refused to budge? idk everything seems like bullshit around now, but that seems like a problem that could have been solved by throwing some more money at it rather than Suarez which just seems like a problem not worth solving anyway

I mean because it's a problem without a solution, cos they're never actually going to manage to sign him

xxp Napoli, flush with Cavani monies

I really hope we don't sign Suarez.

― My god. Pure ideology. (ey), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 09:18 (9 minutes ago)

I assumed you'd be a Liverpool fan with a name like that

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:30 AM (37 minutes ago)

:(

Agree with all that except fuck agreeing terms then rm asking for a ball more cash

Looking forward to Bony scoring 30 goals next season and initiating a ridiculous bidding war in the summer.

^^ this.

He already mastered the fine art of saying "I want to leave this club asap" every bloody week for half a year at Vitesse, annoying the shit out his employer. Should be good.

That's a point, I assumed Michu would be long sold by now but I've not even heard any interest.

xp's yeah I dunno how true that is, but the vagaries of all these transfer dealings make it seem like it's not worth being overly principled if it hobbles your team and you're gonna try and spend way more on players who you're never gonna sign anyway

idk I'm all for sticking it to real but it would feel better if it seemed like you have a team who could actually win something

I mean Arsenal would have been a lock for the capital1 cup with Higuain

Yeah michu remember him

Michu did kind of fade in the second half of last season.

Also most of the clubs who would throw money at Michu are pretty well-stocked in his position.

Pachi michu

vg

scintillating goal for liverpool there against melbourne's finest. amazing build-up.

this could be our year.

Heh

Talk of midric bein utd plan b is ridic

all this is suarez lark is further proof that wenger is clinically demented for real imho

arsenalzheimers

At some point you just have to admit that Man City and Chelsea are completely fucking you when it comes to wages and there's nothing you can do to compete. Man United have done fine largely because of Fergie and they're probably still able to comfortably outpay Arsenal if they want to.

― Matt DC, Monday, 22 August 2011 12:21 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is bollocks, isnt everyone's main beef with wenger not that he won't pay top whack for megastars but that he's seemingly ignored (/completely lost the knack with) polishing up midrange dudes

like if he'd signed a few vidal/inler/m'vila/martin/vertonghens and said we won't pay stupid money then they'd be genuinely competitive and no one would be grousing

― r|t|c, Monday, 22 August 2011 12:34 (1 year ago) Bookmark

modric is way less ridic a proposition than thiago or cesc?

ridic to have him as a plan b

aw, you still love him

Honestly have no idea why Arsenal are wasting their time on Suarez. He wants to go to Madrid. And hell, he's not even worth 40.000.001 imho.

what would you say Cavani is worth?

More than Suarez, for sure. 40-50m? Think PSG paid an inflated price for him tbh, just because they can.

Suarez scored 38 goals for Liverpool in 78 matches, which is pretty impressive. But I just don't see him getting any better. His assholeism will continue to get in the way, too.

Huh? Sunderland bought Cabral? Read he just equalized against Spurs. When did this happen?

Read somewhere that Ancelotti is a big fan of Modric so I wouldn't bet on Madrid selling him. He came good for them at the end of last season as well.

suarez coming on now. curious to see how he fares. he just shared a joke with one of the other subs - qed he's staying.

live updates as i have them.

borini has a deflected shot. the lfc coaching garb recognises the recent revival of camo in menswear.

agger, suarez, downing, coates, alberto, dundee, ferri, all coming on now.

Vagner Love has gone to partner Marius Niculae in the Shandong Luneng attack. They're rapidly becoming my favourite Asian club.

pvmic isnt a competition you know

He says himself

it should be