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

Cementing their nonentity status before they dump us out on our arses, like a latterday Artmedia Bratislava :-(

We got Milan. We're the underdog, want revenge for 2005, Serie A doesn't even start till after the first leg and we're playing at home first. Awesome draw.

big black cloud over Scotland; bright sunshine & birds singing in the Netherlands

Arsenal / Fener will be fun.

Lol IK

My pessimism does my head in. Wins against Man Utd, Milan and Barcelona are forgotten more quickly than defeats to Artmedia.

They beat BATE Borisov, ranked one place above Celtic, in their first qualifier.

BATE have been pretty terrible this season so it's not a huge sign that Celtic should be worried.

i'd been wondering if shakhter karagandy werent the football club that most sound like some guy's name

Rubin Kazan is quite namey

also Basel

Nate Borisov do quite well themselves, were it not for the capitals

lol autocorrect!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Sassuolo_Calcio

btw just on the subj of unknown clubs idk if i'd ever heard of these guys until this week. cool kit

In sure I've seen green-and-black stripes here, but can't for the life of me remember who

Evian Thonon Gaillard could be a professor of economics at a minor French university.

Sky is reporting that Duvan Zapata is going to QPR for £6.4m, about £3m more than they initially offered.

xp I want to say Blyth Spartans or someone minor from up that way

note to self: Karagandy manager otm

“It’s difficult to say who against I want to play. All five teams are better than us. Celtic is different story, they are apart from the others. That team played in the Champions League last season and got through to the knock out round. They beat Barcelona. They beat Spartak Moscow away and at home.

(though a wee bit of me feels the need to point out that the team that played last year has lost its entire spine - Wilson/Wanyama/Hooper - and is nothing like the same team)

Now would be a good time to Arsenal to sign some players, just like every other day

http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Coventry-away-shirt-2010.jpg

The longer this goes on the funnier it gets.

(xpost - Arsenal, not Coventry)

Celtic's 2006-07 change strip was green and black stripes

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Celtic/images/celtic_2006-2007-change-n.gif

quoted an image link there for you

xpost arsenal should buy all of fenerbahce's best players before the first leg, they're in need of a pirate like meireles

I mean what's the point of having all this supposed cash if you're gonna be a dick about it, fill your squad out a bit

According to the BBC, Arsenal seem to have not bothered bidding for Higuain, after agreeing personal terms, because they were so sure they could activate Suarez' release clause.

John Henry has claimed that Suarez now won't be sold under any circumstances as it's too late to buy anyone new.

Looking forward to the bit where Wenger signs Stephen Pienaar and Demba Ba and tries to pretend this was the plan all along.

Possibility of Karagandy moving their game to Astana's plastic pitch. FFS.

(is it no about time we had a CL thread?)

I mean Arsenal have sold what, 8 players? Who all needed to go but replacing them with nothing is also a bit worrying

I'm so mad at arsenal about Higuain if that shit is true, they are morons of the highest order

Anyway it's all primed for Bendtner to make the impact we know he can this season

Best striker in the world

Honestly would have preferred Higuain to Suarez anyway, in terms of what the team needs etc

xps LBI's been dragging his heels about starting the CL thread, but there's got to be real lols somewhere in this: "We got Milan. We're the underdog, want revenge for 2005, Serie A doesn't even start till after the first leg and we're playing at home first. Awesome draw."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Shakhter_Karagandy

No. Position Player
12 GK Charles Green
16 GK Sergey Tkachuk
23 MF Akhat Zholshorin
24 DF Arman Sakhimov
25 FW Toktar Zhangylyshbai
27 MF Borat Sagdiyev
28 DF Marat Rakishev
7 FW Paddy McCourt
29 FW Gary Hooper
33 DF Vladlen Antoshhuk
37 DF Craig Whyte
38 DF Aleksandr Nuikin
39 DF Aleksandr Matyshev
40 MF Anton Olenich
42 MF Victor Wanyama
43 DF Dmitry Moiseev
44 MF Paul Gascoigne
47 MF Aslanbek Arshkenov
49 DF Artyom Yeletski
99 MF Erlan Turashbaev
43 MF Nursultan Tuliagby
72 MF Boltok the Rapist
54 FW Derek Riordan

Seriously, why have you never been linked with Gomis?

blackburn rovers fc

I really like the earnest school blazer badge there.

25 FW Toktar Zhangylyshbai

This dude's my entry for 'guy who sounds most like a club'

i was looking for William Pescod F.C. for clubs/names. found out that in addition to blackburn, s. africa has a real madrid, vasco da gama, and milano utd

Vasco da Gama is pretty much unbeatable there, yeah

I really like the earnest school blazer badge there.

― Matt DC, Friday, 9 August 2013 12:22 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

not entirely sure i'd send my child to a school with that motto

oh ffs Sterling arrested & charged again

wonder if they'll get any witnesses this time

http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/ay_115913665.jpg

http://www.101greatgoals.com/wp-content/gallery/gimages/screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-11-59-07.png

That's a nice lawn. Poor Jay, he was okay for us within his skill set.

Professional Footballers' Association chief Gordon Taylor says it will be "practically impossible" for Luis Suarez to leave Liverpool this month.

"With the transfer window expiring, the difficulties of not only selling him to a competitor but also replacing him makes it practically impossible," Taylor said.

Heh heh heh. How come this is the one guy he won't go in to bat for?

I can't fathom it either dude

That is going to be one dislikable forward line this season. At least Studge seems to be a nice dude underneath the sulky demeanour.

Kelvin Wilson has officially returned from Celtic to Forest citing personal reasons for leaving.

Always leave them with a song

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/68844000/jpg/_68844540_pa-11266396.jpg