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

Suarez - no
Rooney - yes
Bale - next year for less money
Lescailles-Mendy - yes

all will be anti-climactic obviously

next year for 75m would be fine by me if he gives us another season like last

I don't think Rooney's happening. Certainly not at the prices Chelsea are currently offering. It just doesn't make sense for Utd on any level

theres a bit of a backlash in the madrid press/fan goldfish bowl about paying a world record fee for a player who will still be #2 to ronaldo

so theres a chance it doesnt happen but more because perez has covered his back with the 'a lot of money' comments and can at least show he tried to get him

if it doesnt happen then suarez becomes an option, tactically he could be very useful for ancelotti because he can play any of the forward positions

Atsu to spurs for 1m?

Atsu sounds likely. Halilovic might be on again.

Norwich and Sunderland are apparently fighting over Quagliarella.

Oh how the average have fallen

Surprised one of the mid-range PL teams haven't bid the £5m Celtic are being asked for Finnbogason.

it's like how 'natural goalscorers' in the afonso alves vein fail to transfer to higher leagues because their 'instinct' reflected the naivete of the opposition, whereas a player like thierry henry with an unremarkable scoring record can become great because his exceptional physical and technical skills were not contingent in the same way.

― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 12 May 2013 00:16 (3 months ago)

lower epl sides should always look for athletic / technical upside rather than finisher types like boselli or bianchi

Hernandez?

hes one of the fastest forwards in the epl

Confirmed: Arsenal were in the stadium on Saturday scouting Bakkali.

;_;

lbi m8 every big team scouts every big prospect

I know m8, thanks for consolation. It's just that if any club in the world will buy a 17 year old it would be Arsenal (Wenger)

he wishes

he can buy every 17 yr old in the world except for the one everyone else wants

U r lifting some mighty heavy spirits

Artur Petrosyan ‏@arturpetrosyan
Eto'o prefers Chelsea to Inter. Mourinho being the main factor. Now it's up to Abramovich to decıde ıf he wants to pay hım €20m a year.

Artur Petrosyan ‏@arturpetrosyan
Seems like he'll have to resign himself to agreeing to get just €10m per year.

for a 32 year old

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes the scouting system is the most advanced in world football - better than previous clubs Real Madrid, Porto and Inter Milan.

Thousands of players are constantly under assessment by the club's network of scouts all over the world.

Chelsea will only consider a player if scouts score them 90 per cent or more in various areas of their game.

It's the reason Radamel Falcao was overlooked by Chelsea when his 'movement outside box' fell short of the magical 90 per cent minimum. But Andre Schurrle was deemed to be a good signing by the Bridge hierarchy.

http://i.imgur.com/OLGt29U.jpg

"dude srsly, don't buy that Bugatti, it's not even got any cupholders!"

...for a player who will still be #2 to ronaldo

Only if United sign Ronaldo *and* Bale

Market isnt moving backwards.

Wolverhampton Wanderers have completed the signing of Barcelona B youngster Albert Torras.

The 17-year-old central midfielder is manager Kenny Jackett's second signing of the summer after he secured the services of Sam Ricketts from Bolton Wanderers on a free transfer.

i've written to Kenny and told him he can have me however he wants me

I thought this was an interesting aside in the guardian preview:

Since Ferguson made the claim in early May, the farrago has descended beyond the point where it could be addressed by United, admitting what they accept privately: that Rooney never made any demand to depart during the meeting with the 71-year-old in the former manager's office. No public statement confirming this has been forthcoming because of the difficulties for United in questioning Ferguson, British football's most successful manager

Yeah I wondered about that too. So are we meant to assume that fergie has engineered this debacle? It would seem to be SAF that rooney has the problem with. Revenge is a dish best served ice cold.

It was as much the suggestion that: (a) nobody at OT has the nerve to tell the truth without his approval; and (b) he's not coöperating

It's maybe more likely that they cannot prove he said he wanted to leave, which he clearly does.

even the grave is no bar to Fergie's evil influence. Poor Wayne

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41198000/jpg/_41198171_waynerooney_203.jpg

Quite the reunion going on at West Ham - Downing confirmed now.

some rumblings about barton going there too

Southampton fans might have been slightly uneasy after critical comments by the former Kilmarnock manager, Kenny Shiels, about the 22-year-old Kenyan after his move. "Any time we played Celtic I would tell our lads not to worry about him being on the ball because he doesn't keep it very well," he said. "Lennon deserves a knighthood for getting someone to pay £12.5m. We found that when you gave Wanyama space he didn't have the natural instincts to know what to do with the ball. We'd press players like Joe Ledley and Charlie Mulgrew but we dropped off Wanyama and most of the time we got the ball back from him."

Kenny Shiels is generally full of shite but I think on balance I agree with him there. Wanyama does lots of things very well but his distribution is often terrible.

some rumors that Parker is also on the way out at Spurs, but not to QPR, sounds like he could end up at West Ham too

http://i.imgur.com/k7FAk2Q.jpg

xp interest from watford supposedly

oh look

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/queens-park-rangers/10240232/QPR-to-sign-Scott-Parker-from-Spurs-in-next-48-hours.html

Redknapp said: "We're hopeful of getting Scotty signed soon. He's a great lad and will be a really good signing for us."

Parker / Henry / Barton three man midfield would be a sight to behold.

yes i'm very excited

whither esteban?

parker's gone for a medical, that lovely daughter of his drove him down, he's stitting down at reception now having a nice cup of tea, the nurses have given him a blanket and everything

granero took his lifetime destined place alongside karl on saturday, made his customary ineffective and borderline petulant contribution, bottled a tackle that led to us conceding, got the hook for swp who done alright. won't be seeing him again

i thought sociedad were in for granero?
tough choice, lining up with henry or moving to san sebastian and playing in the champions league

Would like to read extracts from Granero's diaries in which he discusses his departure from Madrid and his time at QPR. I wonder what he's made of Redknapp.

disabuse yourselves of fancy notions and take him for what he is, a gap year student called stephen barn

you loved him, at first