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

off their rockers quite frankly

yeah i commented on that on the Express and Star. i'd've snatched their hands off for 3 and a half mill.

Sako's dimwittedness is probably not a significant handicap in League 1 but we're paying him Premier League wages.

when are we gonna lock this thread down btw?

i'm just reading the other comments, amazed at all the righteous thumbs ups

i know most fans are idiots, but most of our fans are idiots

Walthamstow Wolf
September 3, 2013 10:31 am
I think M&M are making a financial calculation based on the inability of League One defenders to cope with Sako.

he gets overmarked cos pace but eventually somebody's going to realise that every time he gets to the touchline he crosses it to row Z

Genseric Kusunga [FC Basel - Oldham] Free

nice

i saw that name come up on Sky last night and thought "fucking hell, straight Visigoth"

Tokelo Rantie [Malmo - Bournemouth] Undisclosed

and him

While I find the Guardian's interactive wheel basically unusable, the entry for 'unknown' among the selling clubs is quite intriguing

Didn't notice that Kozak had gone to Villa for £7m. Surprised that they didn't want to use that money to strengthen elsewhere.

kinda psyched for the start of the paint pot cup campaign tonight but it probly doesn't need its own thread

benteke kozak helenius

pass and move it's the lambo groove

Gill blowing the Ronaldinho deal is the gold standard here.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 10:58 (1 hour ago)

that was kenyon and ronaldinho was never going to go to manchester as his brother/agent said publicly a couple years later

Yeah you're right, didn't know about the second bit though.

Still impressed by the Ozil signing. We need an appreciation thread for him iirc. Just look at these figures guys:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTPP4d8CAAAkMR6.jpg

they play different positions so it's not a great comparison

It's not a great comparison, but it's a telling one nonetheless.

I think CR7 will suffer missing out on all these assists.

Iniesta is a better player than Ozil, that comparison doesn't tell you anything.

ozil's statistics are great because he can destroy 80% of teams, iniesta can run the show vs anyone

for arsenal, cazorla/ozil/walcott should be an excellent attacking midfield, an orthodox #10, a lateral playmaker on one side and a lightning fast finisher on the other

Nakh, would you have had Isco in the RM team ahead of Ozil this season?

cazorla is such a great player, he played that inside left sort of role vs malaga, able to stay infield like against tottenham during a possession game but also lethal nearer to the goal

if madrid were run as a football team rather than a marketing carousel with nationalist aspirations then they wouldn't have forced him out

he was their second best player for three years, isco might develop into a player with more sangfroid in the important games where ozil drifted

for the time being he is unlikely to be as productive as ozil, but his fast start and the hype about having a new spanish star is enough for him to be the beloved one

"I was certain...that I would stay at Real Madrid," Ozil said in an interview published on the German soccer federation's website (www.dfb.de) on Tuesday.
"Then I realised that I didn't have the confidence of the coach and the officials after all," added the 24-year-old of Turkish origin.
"I am a player who needs that confidence and I saw that I would have that at Arsenal and that is why I am going there."

once his mental fortitude became open to question that's when arsene knew

Not sure I've ever seen a piece on Özil that doesn't contain the words 'Turkish origin'

it's tough to place it, tbh, btwn 'worth posting to ilx everything is racist thread' and 'look he plays for germany, and yknow, football fans might struggle'

kinda like how every article about the Herrera deal mentions that the men were wearing "dark suits"

let's go to qpr is one of my favorite tweets ever, football-related or not. bye bye benny, i think you're ok.

I was wondering why BAE would take what seems like such an unnecessary drop but maybe he likes Harry and maybe he likes London and I suppose he doesn't really care about footballing success so

does he even know what the champo is

Hard to believe someone wouldn't have taken him, his price tag and wages can't be prohibitively expensive. Fulham can't go on playing John Arne Riise forever.

Although thinking about it I'm not sure BAE ever really played under Jol.

riise is going to be one of those ex-bankrupts like friedel who keep on playing until their arthritic ankles seize up

never close this thread, i just don't want to end the traaaaansfer break yall

~ transfer break forever ~

look at my shit signings

✓

Graham Hunter: "Ozil's father & reps, held on, and held on for Man United to come in for him. They waited, it didn't happen."

Toby Fair ‏@TopTopPundit 2 Sep

If QPR sign Niko Kranjčar and Redknapp remembers to get his Niko Kranjčar card stamped, he qualifies for a free Niko Kranjčar.

BBC's coverage of the Johnson's Paint Trophy is shameful tbh

never close this thread, i just don't want to end the traaaaansfer break yall

~ transfer break forever ~
― So hot in Herrenvolk (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, September 3, 2013 4:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

respec knuckz

and there we go, thrashed Walsall on penalties, the cup dream is alive

LOCK THREAD

we had momentum

what part of 'and beyond' do you not understand swygart

nilmar otm tbh, i'm ~feeling~ this thread still

how bout we abandon the epl thread and just leave it for weekly partisan liveblog chuntering and motd haws

Aye, we should keep this for the ILF cognoscenti and let the part-timers have the ILX thread.

http://www.fenerbahce.org/pic_lib/2007-11-01_g14.jpg