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

£16m for a cb who no more impressive than curtis davies was when o'neill bought him & some doubtless slow as shit 6'4 danish turd

North and South Ferriby are a wee bit further up the estuary tbh

mind you at least they're real, unlike the woman he rescued that time

'This is a little bit strange, not so German' Lewandowski told newspapers in his native Poland. 'We are acting normally, and Borussia’s management is not.'

'I always give it my all. That they keep me is not fair.'

polemiczny
"polemic" in Polish

Watching from the sidelines are Bale's former club Southampton, who are in line to pocket 2.5% of any transfer fee.

But that pales in comparison to the 15% sell-on they are believed to have agreed at the time of his 2007 move to White Hart Lane.

Southampton waived that clause at a time when they were in financial difficulty, instead receiving around £1.5m and goalkeeper Tommy Forecast, and now stand to earn just £2m as opposed to £13m if Real sign Bale.

they waived it in late 2010 when bale was already being valued by levy at over £40m

this is probably a strategy from epl sides when buying from the champo or below, or from badly run clubs abroad......lower the upfront fee in return for conditional or delayed payments in the knowldedge that they are likely to accept a smaller lump sum when they get into financial difficulties a few months later

Of all the dumb moves we made over the past decade, the Forecast deal still seems like the dumbest by some distance.

Big Tommy Forecast. He is tall, and on a positive note let's assume he will grow into the role after first-day nerves. Shall we help those scrabbling hicks, or is that scribbling hacks, at the GET with those handy synonyms: foresee, foretell, forewarn, prognosticate, guess... how apposite. He spent half the game licking his lips and sipping water like a nervous laboratory rat hyped up on a diet of salt 'n' shake crisps and Fanta. He came, he stayed, he flapped, he flipped, he caught, he was overwrought and spread happiness among the travelling Creweites. His first contribution was to let a cross squish through his hands and he didn't make a save of any sort until way, way into the second half, when a shot hit his legs. He was noticeably less woeful when stood in front of the away supporters.

I really should start reading Cod Almighty again.

Tommy Forecast. Tommy. Forecast... I just... I mean it's so unlikely.

I always feel that way about Steve Heighway

Really? I've never had a problem with that, in fact I always thought it apt as he flew down his personal highway, the left wing.

tv show abt swansea on bbc1 now

Nice one, I put bbc1 on to watch that but had to turn off when there was 'a question of sport' special on and would've forgotten.

Tottenham Hotspur are prepared to sell Gareth Bale to Real Madrid and they will tell the Spanish club that the prospect of a deal would increase if the striker Alvaro Morata were included as a makeweight.
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They have put forward the left-back Fábio Coentrão and the winger Angel di María, whose values they have variously factored into the potential package, but Tottenham maintain that the deal will be on their terms, meaning that they choose any makeweights and the one that they want is Morata.

Is any of this actually real? I haven't even seen a bid confirmed yet, I don't think.

The same story has just been rewritten in a slightly different way every day for the last week, although the Morata bit is new.

Something weird going down around the Soldado transfer, Valencia reportedly have an issue with the agent.

Nah sounds like the agent issue has been wrapped up now too, and he's been left off Valencia's official squad for their US tour

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

jeez u think about maybe finally going to sleep and then oh look everton are playing juventus at four in the morning

come on you're not watching mls all stars vs roma?

Everton 1-1 Juventus goes to penalties. A fan ran onto the field and took a PK that Howard saved. Asamaoah hit his better after the chuckles

@SpursOfficial
We are delighted to announce that we have reached agreement with Valencia for the transfer of Roberto Soldado subject to medical. #THFC

seems pricey but i guess it's ok this summer

do kinda wonder where spurs might be if they'd been similarly willing to splash out on previous occasions

Levy doesn't seem to place any value on acting quickly. See also the various stadium sagas (not sure the new one is even yet off the drawing board?). Sensible enough from a business pov I guess, not sure how great from pov of a supporter. Maybe not so bad - it's tolerable if more slapdash at Liverpool, you get kind of used to a narrow band of possible outcomes.

I love that Ancelotti expression xxxxp

It prompted me to go GISing for classic Ancelotti faces and I found this

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1vrbrZwM01qfxktpo1_1280.jpg

from the excellent http://interleaning.tumblr.com/

I want that shirt

£104.5m agreed

Is AS much more reliable than Marca?

damn look at that roma shirt. amazing.

http://www.asromashirt.it/images/1970_1980/pouchain_busto.jpg

Man that badge is awesome! Amazing shirt

xp i keep trying to ebay that one you posted on the footshirts thread with the wolves down the sleeves. pretty rare

Is there anyone left for Arsenal to sign? Not that they need anyone

perhaps we should all just while away the time with a carlo imagebomb thread

my roma shirt is slowly disintegrating in a box in a coventry garage as we type. tell my parents i said you could have it.

A little surprised that Gomis never gets linked with Arsenal tbh

He doesn't have enough quality

There's no value in the transfer window

The squad they have is ready to challenge this season

Sagna can fill in at centre back

*cries*

http://www.qpr.co.uk/cms_images/gallery/0364-959870_478x359.jpg

Oh, I like that. Poor lad's still stuck in the old ways of holding up scarves and so forth.

like a candle on our welcome to the champo cake made of shit, soon to be puffed out by knee knack

whos that

Charlie Austin

Did he not fail a medical at Hull last month?

Any idea what the undisclosed fee was r|t|c?

Celtic were allegedly after him but it seems promising Championship strikers are now out of our league.

i wouldnt have expected us to have the good sense and nous to wangle anything lower than the £4m hull agreed

desperate men praying for a miracle at the shrine of demba ba

bobby and aj will stay fit though i'm sure