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

If PSV defend their 2-0 lead tonight, we will draw either Zenit, AC Milan, Arsenal, Schalke or Lyon.

We still need a CL thread.. Will start one after Fridays draw

capoué was playing cb last time i saw toulouse

Have you got a title yet, dammit?

No :'-(

theyll probably buy a fast recovery cb like if not actually vladdy c and capoué will be 4th choice cb until kaboul returns

One Liverpool player will be on dis ting: Champions League 2013/14

no dogs, no irish, no spurs

anyone who watches a lot of ligue 1 got an opinion on Capoue?

Ok, we cruised past Zulte Waregem w 0-3.

Not sure what team I hope we draw. Arsenal and Lyon for the ILX massive. Though of the five, Lyon might actually be the least strong, too?

Where are the Frenchies anyway?

United inevitably settling for Fellaini with the weary pragmatism of a plain bride in a Victorian novel.

Bride of Frankenstein.

I dunno, haven't seen them for a while; we're a few good men down and the new season almost upon us.

You don't want Arsenal, they have the knack of cruising through qualifiers. Milan stormed home last season, both Schalke and Lyon were a bit wobbly iirc. What's happened with Zenit, did I read that Hulk has left?

Hulk was threatening to quit Russia because he doesn't like the referees / disciplinary system. He's just sulking because he got suspended for pushing one. Zenit won their qualifier 5-0 this evening.

hulk is shit

Gareth Bale's dream move to Real Madrid is almost complete, with the Spurs star possibly moving for as much as a world-record £105million.

Real only want to pay £100m for Bale, but Perez wants to get his man no matter what and is aware Spurs want more.

you just couldnt resist could you levy

not difficult to fuck over a cunt when the cunt isnt spending his own cash

stolen blood money, falangist conquistador bastards, fascism lives etc

£105m, plus £1 in two 50p pieces on general franco's eyes

Real only want to pay £100m for Bale

ffs this is one pitiful sentence

and not a penny more oh alright then

guys I did a "who should your premiership team be?" thing today and I got Southampton, how should I feel about that?

pretty relieved

they play some of the best football in the league, they've got relatively likeable owners, a progressive manager and swygart supports them. what more cudja want

alvaro morata and dani carvajal just set fire to a building full of trade unionists and arranged their corpses to say HALA MADRID for the ensuing flashmob

southampton 'are being linked' to ever banega, who really ought to be playing in the champions league

relatively likeable owners who perpetuated the harshest sacking in recent football history, may I add...although the ends have possibly justified in this case

ah, we've all forgotten about that

Southampton - good choice. We have, what, two Saints already; but they're a decent club, good history of flair, cracking record with the young talent, used to have a great ground, finished second in I'm guessing 1983? Have had a massive lull in recent years but have bounced back, though are a bit spendthrift of late. No local derbies for the foreseeable future, that's the other downside.

if sergio ramos had been born 70 years before he was he'd have a fucking skull on his mantelpiece

I want to say 1984, I'm really regretting not going for 1984.

lovely saints with their ruthless chief exec, sell-out shirts and dead man's cash funding ott bids for fancy players. warms the fucking cockles alright

also bournemouth might be going up klata, given their thoroughly convincing* defeat of an excellent* charlton last week

*cough

oh you can stuff your cuddly tony fernandes thataway rtc

Is Bournemouth near Southampton then? Never had the pleasure.

Saints going down maybe more likely tbh, hampshire's got form.

very happy mcclean is going to wigan to join macarthur, mccarthy, macmanaman, and maloney and add to the wonderful phonetic pileup in midfield

reading - soton wouldn't exactly be a local derby but it would be ridden with pathos (although adkins has already faced soton since joining reading so not AS pathos-ridden as that time)

and hampshire does border berkshire so

wigan should absolutely fucking destroy the championship obv

an epl side should match £2m for mcclean

Curses, it was 1984. Southampton only three points behind champions Liverpool. Liverpool, who won the league that year.

And the European Cup.

£2m for a one trick pony and complete bell end, seen worse deals i suppose

Luis Suarez's contract does not have a clause obliging Liverpool to sell him for a fee in excess of £40m, says players' union chief Gordon Taylor.
"If there is a minimum offer of £40m then the parties will discuss things but it does not say the club has to sell," said Taylor, boss of the Professional Footballers' Association.
"There is a 'good faith' clause in relation to serious discussions, but I can't say it is a cast-iron buy-out clause."

you have yes oh xp klata damn you

apparently we're so totally over adel that we're signing assaidi now. me likey

Get it right up ye Suarez and imago

relatively likeable owners who perpetuated the harshest sacking in recent football history, may I add...although the ends have possibly justified in this case

theyve not really but he isnt as irritating yet

Assaidi would run riot in the Championship imo.

suarez must be fucked if he can't even get gordon taylor onside

if thats correct then suarez' agents/lawyers must be retarded