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

I was at Pomodoro Rosso on Saturday, the service was shocking. Think twice, Jackson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlflmSa4kC8

ya

I mean he's no Matty Burrows...

no, surely he's not. but a good un nonetheless

more impressed by lacazette from that tbrr

yeah, how could he miss really?

Okay, now there's a goal. I've got nothing but goodwill for Lyon this year.

Graeme Bailey ‏@GraemeBailey 3m
Norwich have now agreed terms for Celtic's Gary Hooper and we understand he will have medical there later today. QPR set to miss out.

Has Hooper agreed the move, or is that Celtic accepting QPR's bid and leaving room to fluch out Norwich or whoever?

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 15:41 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Norwich have been fluched.

Nothing more humiliating for a club than being reduced to fluchers. Even having your talent cherry-picked means you've got talent, and you might even pull the odd Nasri.

that grenier goal is sublime, bergkamp-esque dare i say

his movement to cushion it into the far corner requiring a counter-intuitive inverse spin...glorious

scored one of them last week tbh

ISAGFFSVMIC

Cardiff have agreed a fee for Etienne Capoue.

The Dutch fitness specialist Raymond Verheijen has criticised the training methods of David Moyes, who claimed to have "overtrained" Robin van Persie "to build up his fitness". Though Moyes may simply have meant that Van Persie had been worked hard in Manchester United training sessions, Verheijen, who has been employed with Wales, Barcelona, Chelsea and Manchester City, was unhappy.

Through his Twitter account, he observed that Van Persie had been withdrawn with muscle tightness in his thigh during United's friendly in Japan, inferring it to be a consequence of the fitness work he had done in the preceding days.

"The only way to solve this problem in Jurassic Park is to improve education of these dinosaur coaches, fitness clowns & scientific cowboys," he wrote. "All over the world in preseason you see the pattern overtraining-fatigue-injuries'. Always avoid accumulation of fatigue in pre-season."

And Verheijen was dubious as to football's ability to align with his recommendations. "As long as most dinosaurs are still in denial and ignore how things develop in other countries, nothing will ever change," he said. "Obviously, players like RVP should learn to protect themselves better against 'overtraining'."

http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ay_113841843.jpg

they do move in herds

That whole thing with the England team taking caffeine tablets then sleeping pills kinda showed how idiotic team specialists could be... if I was a player I'd be doing my hardest to copy whatever it is Ryan Giggs or Paolo Mandini did to keep going for so long without falling apart

re matt dc post, some interesting stuff/criticism on moyes pre-season training here (around Qs 3 and 4):
http://theexecutionersbong.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/physio-room-blog-everton-pre-season-uncovered/

Walter the tactic mastermind:

I suppose an example of this is under Walter Smith, the centre halves thigh muscles needed a lot more strength work to deal with the amount of long balls they needed to hoof up the pitch all season long!

nice dig at Saha

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/24/article-0-1AF94F7A000005DC-957_634x358.jpg

http://www.gianlucadimarzio.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/higuain-benitez-560x421.jpg

wtf

phaseofplay from rawk has written loads of great stuff on moyes but I guess none of you would be interested so pff your loss kids

tell me more about this phaseofplay fellow

There's probably a more suitable thread for this, but this'll do:
http://transparencyinsportblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/have-the-fbi-got-fifas-bribe-emails-and-offshore-bank-accounts/

Excellent. I thought you were giving phaseofplay the credit for a moment there.

The attempt to clean up Trinidad politics climaxes on Saturday,

Yeah, good luck with that. I'd be surprised if Warner won but stranger things have happened.

#bantz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VE0yYzvCQQ

xps I assumed that was you plugging your rawk persona, nm. That's quite persuasive stuff from the lad, it certainly sheds light on what went so wrong with Hosgson.

Though there's a lot of wishful thinking there too, only time will tell etc.

Fawaz AL Hasawi ‏@Fawaz_alhasawi 43m
I'm delighted to announce we have signed Jamie Mackie on a three year deal.#nffc

There's a deep, deep sorrow in that Owen clip, isn't there? At some point this season, him and Keegan will be on the same punditry sofa, and they'll just sit there, holding each other. Ever so tenderly. I'm gonna say Newcastle-Cardiff.

is craig bellamy still alive

Xp it'll be like a later scene from anne hall

Bernard looks set to leave AMG for £21m or so. Arsenal are favourites to sign him.

after they seal the suarez and higuain deals.

Zaha is going to be a lot of fun to watch this year (Utd losing again)

'...Suarez got the penalty last week. It was no penalty. Nobody touched him but he goes overboard. I can understand if they push the ball too far but when no-one touches him...'

I imagine the comedy value of Arsene Wenger buying Luis Suarez has already been mined on this thread but I haven't been paying attention tbh

Marca apparently bugging Levy's office now

Marca report that Bale met Levy for showdown talks last Wednesday in London, telling him: "You made me a promise. You promised me if we didn't qualify for the Champions League and a good offer turned up you'd listen to it.

"Well that offer has arrived and I want to play for Real Madrid. So keep your word and negotiate.

"I'm not interested in Manchester United or any other club. I only want to play for Real Madrid."

This is great:

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/can-you-trust-marca-a-list-of-the-spanish-newspapers-biggest-fails/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BQGgz-DCYAAr7hC.jpg

meanwhile, guess where jamie o'hara is

hmmn

rangers?

rangers rangers not 'rangers

lol roma indeed. osvaldo being linked with fulham, arsenal turning down roma's 6M bid for gervinho.

we've been in front against Betis twice, looking forward to a winless August :/