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

Messi, Beckham, Cruijff, Best, Pele, Ronaldo, Beckenbauer, Cafu, Banks, Maldini, Hansen to Farnborough

Poor Elvis Hammond. I'd say it's the final indignity but I'm sure he has a few left in him.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/14/article-2393941-1B4C3738000005DC-809_634x516.jpg

"I find it hard to believe that's the way the balls came out of the bag, that's for sure," said the Scot. "I hope it's not because Manchester United won the league quite comfortably last year [that] the fixtures have been made much more difficult."

It begins. 'The fixtures have become much more difficult' is my opening bid for new season thread title btw.

yeah not bad

sthing with fergie as duncan, rooney as macduff, moyes as macbeth but is it quite right

Etienne Capoue came from Tolouse but is here to win the Premier League 2013/2014

"Is this D. Agger I see before me?" - anticipating Utd's fifth-place finish

haa

"Luis doesn't think this year is our year"

That article starts with him saying it's the hardest start for 20 years. Seems churlish to complain after two decades of having it easier.

xxxp

"Hughton's afraid of the big bad van Wolfswinkel"

Another miserable old Scot would have told Moyes titles are won at the end of the season. Here's their run-in:

West Ham A
Villa H
Newcastle A
Hull H
Everton A
Norwich H
Sunderland H
Southampton A

Can't believe the balls came out of the bag like that.

by towelofpulis

Thursday, August 15 2013, 4:06PM

“Begovic vic vic
He's our man between the sticks
Begovic vic vic
He's a God made out of bricks
In our box,
He's the boss,
And we'll never see a loss,
With our star,
We'll go far,
And he **** on Van Der Sar!

Credit to whoever made that up too!”

Anzhi fire sale begins in earnest, sold three players to Dynamo Moscow, including Kokorin who they just bought six weeks ago... from Dynamo Moscow

So what was the point of that then? They didn't even have a proper crack at the title. Blasted potash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgWFL0jP0Qc

i thought sociedad were in for granero?

This seems to have been agreed now.

Osvaldo to Spurs is being reported as agreed too.

Bloody hell, are they intending to buy a centre back at any point in this transfer window? Surely this is all being done with a big money move for Bale in mind, unless Joe Lewis is just feeling generous this year

Hold on, is that the Roma fella who specialises in the spectacular? Between you you North Londoners are ruining my favourite Italian club.

Just relocating it

Gervinho to follow I hope

Cissokho in at Liverpool Football Club (on loan). What's he like?

someone start the goddamn premiership thread

this year, on ILF, please. ridiculous ILE shenanigans belong to history now. do we not aim to be the most progressive football discussion board

We still need someone to come up with a title. I'm never topping that D.Agger one; in fact I'm considering retiring from ILF altogether.

And get your fantasy teams in forthwith ffs, less than 24 hours to go.

currently we are discussing transfers, in the transfer thread

i am sympathetic to an ilf move tbh, ile is no longer something to seek association with

need a title though

luis suarez won't be checking the small print - epl 2013 etc

4,000,001 things i hate about you
4,000,001: a race odyssey

luis suarez is contractually obliged to GET INVOLVED

*scrunches paper up, throws in basket*

oh wait that's four and not forty, eh u get the gist

4,000,001: a race odyssey

thirty-six million out, but lol

damn you slow connection xxxxxxxxp by now

i usually let the lads at coutts deal with that stuff for me you see

"Nobody knows Gareth's state of mind because he doesn't speak," he said. "The only thing we see is the player arriving in and out of the training ground. But it's fine. Ideally we'd like him to stay here. This is where his future is.

"He is very far off regarding fitness compared to the others. He hasn't played since our first friendly of the summer so the pre-season has gone by without him being involved, so for Crystal Palace on Sunday, Tbilisi on Thursday and for Swansea next weekend, he won't threaten a comeback.

"We will have to see how he returns from Wales and if the pain in his foot has stopped troubling his progress to return to first-team training."

oh ho is this a lil shade of mourinho i detect

Cissokho in at Liverpool Football Club (on loan). What's he like?

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 16 August 2013 12:50 (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

Porto left back Aly Cissokho has blasted Milan over his failed move to San Siro, claiming there is nothing wrong with his teeth, and that the Rossoneri called off the move due to monetary reasons.

Milan announced that they had signed the Frenchman last month, but then the transfer collapsed after the Italians claimed that they had found a problem with Cissokho’s teeth during his medical.

“I am fine and have no problem with my teeth, they are as perfect as always,” Cissokho roared in La Gazzetta dello Sport.

nult is answering questions on the beeb liveblog, think i'll GET COMFORTABLE

ah, the george boyd eye test failure precedent xp

Tigers, tigers, burning with desire to prove that Jenas, Caulker, Bentley, Thudd would've won the Premiership 2013/14

i know i'm an old fogey but i feel like Liverpool shd be in there somehow

^^ agreed

Matt DC wrote this on thread "We've momentum and we can't afford to lose it tbh"- The '13-'14 summer transfer window thread for PL and beyond on board I Love Football on 02-Aug-2013

Maybe we should just go the whole hog and entitle next season's EPL thread 'GET INVOLVED - will Man United win the Premiership 2013/14?'

^^^change to Liverpool and we have our winner IMO

yeah tbf it's all well and good getting a little zingducer in early doors but we've to look at it all year after that

Luis Suarez found a hole in the fence: Premiership 2013/14

agree no man utd refs under any circs whatsoever (even if it is a goodun)

that 'module' one was torture

Unless you're swinging behind my peals-before-swine, GET INVOLVED has my vote

Peals? The sound of the Sow Bells.

Ricky don't lose Roy Hodgson's number

just popped up. damnit. should be for the england thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhV17a3yVYk

let's get ourselves in the mood shall we