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

He's the sweetest man when he's not drinking

nahh it's the same level of 'gloating' he applies to everything ever, don't flatter yourself thinking there was anything special in there for spurs. like:

The former Real Madrid manager was unable to resist one last dig at Tottenham. Asked whether he expected the deal to be completed without any complications, a mischievous grin spread across his face. "We have to do a medical," he said.

it were funny cos he was just beforehand talking about the importance of generally doing medicals in secret before transfers

from the BBC

Real Madrid have made two different offers for Gareth Bale and are waiting to see which one Tottenham Hotspur will accept for the Wales winger. The first offer is €100m (£86m) with structured payments over three to four years, which would surpass the world record fee Real paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo (£80m). The other is an up-front, one-off payment which will be closer to £70m. A player could also be thrown in as a makeweight in the second deal.

must be great to be told you're a makeweight

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how good even is this chap

Better than Karim El Ahmadi, I'll be bound

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its not as bad as when they used to be full of vermin like reocoker but villa still need a really skilled fitba player in midfield, especially at home, and idk if bacuna is that sort of player

for the counterattack playing a couple of runners/hacks and a calmer player like westwood is fine

typical villa scene, luna pauses 10 yards into opposite half, looks infield, sees nothing, sprints all the way into the corner and gets nothing

windsor d saying the same as my 18:53 post at exactly the same time

i prefer this thread, the great synoptic view of the whole febrile world of fitba, never close the transfer window

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JUST BUY SOMETHING YOU FUCKER

Chelsea have agreed a deal to sign Samuel Eto’o as part of the negotiations to acquire Willian for £30 million from Anzhi Makhachkala which will end their attempts to buy Wayne Rooney this summer.

The double signing could be announced later this week. The transfer of Eto’o, the 32-year-old former Inter Milan and Barcelona striker, is part of the agreement to sign Brazil midfielder Willian but Jose Mourinho does not want Eto’o’s involvement to become public until after Monday night’s Premier League game against Manchester United. Mourinho hopes that continuing the speculation over Chelsea’s interest in Rooney, who may start, will unsettle United.

from the Telegraph, therefore likely correct

Barring any phonecalls from jail, it looks like Spurs are signing Chiriches again.

Zidane wants to calm that frenzy surrounding the move by offering support to Bale - helping him to handle any pressure thrown his way.

'My door at Real Madrid will always be open for Gareth and during his first season he will need to use it. He was in the top three player in Europe last season, but he can reach even higher levels,' he added.

'He will get even better. We are looking at a guy who can be the best player in the world for the next four or five years.'

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French passer imo

Ancelotti responded with strong words for his fellow newcomer to Spain, reminding the Argentinian of the 57m they spent on recruiting Neymar.

'(Martino) hasn't been here long,' he said. 'He still doesn't understand how football in Europe works nor how his own club works.'

"If Mancini and I were still at Man City this year, Joe Hart wouldn't be there," Platt told Al Jazeera. "We made a decision to sign Asmir Begovic."

Hart's chronic dandruff issues make him unreliable imo

Lamela is meant to be in London today for talks. Spurs also rumoured to be interested in Hulk again.

Hulk would be a bad choice

mata to spurs bale to utd rooney to chelsea

i mean nobody believes this stuff but it's great entertainment like

Newcastle United director of football Joe Kinnear says their deal for QPR striker Loic Remy was solely his work.

Kinnear admitted to the Mirror: “I sanctioned the one-year loan deal for Loic Remy, and if it goes pear-shaped I will take responsibility for it.

“But if he scores goals and does well for us, Alan will be happy with our end of the deal; the player will be happy because he will come into contention for a World Cup place with France; and if both those things happen, Remy will go back to QPR as a World Cup player with a higher value than when he joined them, so everyone will come out of it well.”

no option to buy then joe? nice one

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Former Barça and Portugal star Deco has officially retired football.

stroppily walked off with it tucked under his arm

he was a superb player

mostly remember him for the Holland deathmatch

He was, but iirc he was mostly thought (here) of as pretty crap, or at least fairly ineffective.

only a lamentable mouthbreather could possibly think that

obligatory sour grapes post about the cheating diving cunt

even when he was at chelsea and 31 and injured and couldn't be bothered he still ran the show from time to time and scored a few sweet goals

your sour grapes are like blue nun to deco's cristal

Him & Boulahrouz chuckling ruefully over their red cards has become a fond memory, thought at the time the formless refereeing enraged me.

that was the best international football match played within my lifetime

he was a great footballer and a cheating whinging cnut too

the ghana/nigeria african cup of nations quarter final in accra in 2008 was the most riotous high level international fitba game i can remember

I still don't understand why those elite players' response to a card-happy ref was to ramp everything up to eleven, but in retrospect I'm glad they did.

because football players are from the lowest economic class and they lack the intelligence and cultivation to behave responsibly, have you not read a single geir post

tbh thats prob a direct dunphyism no?

just think what the future will be like when kinesthetic spectacle has reached the level achieved by the beatles within the sphere of music

Him & Boulahrouz chuckling ruefully over their red cards has become a fond memory

Wasn't it him and van Bronckhorst?

You know I think you're right *hangs head*

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rip you ledge, remember him this way, etc

oh man the whole game's up on youtube

90M Bale to be replaced by 30M Lamela, who's to be replaced by 12M Ljajic. Difference in talent massively dwarfed by difference in cost.