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

from what I can tell based on the tweets that were RTed into my timeline, Arsenal Gent really likes his "haha Tottenham is full of poor people" "jokes". he's a dick.

"I didn't think in any moment about leaving QPR," Cesar, who made 26 appearances last season, was quoted by Globo Esporte at a press conference.

"Of course, if anything came up, as it happened, it was something to sit down and talk about with the club's chairman.

"But, in my head, things have gone back to normal.

"I don't think I'll have to do anything different due to the fact I am in the Championship. It's a strong competition in England with competitive teams.

"We play 46 games, eight more games than in the Premier League."

buzza lightyear

The issue of Thiago Alcântara also needs clearing up. In his case, it has been portrayed as him snubbing United for Bayern Munich when the truth is actually that Moyes decided he was not entirely comfortable going for the Barcelona player.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/04/manchester-united-ander-herrera-transfer-farce

fuckboy danny taylor does his masters bidding again

probably some of it is true but an entire article of barely palliated special pleading from the old trafford press office is not a good way to do things

now now, we all know he's a diehard nottm forest fan really

i cannot remember who i was listening to on the radio last night but they were suggesting that Moyes' rep for dithering over big transfers went back to Everton days and that the closer he got to a deal the more he started to flap about whether the player was right. looks like the lad's choked tbh.

1215: FOOTBALL
Charlton Athletic right-back Chris Solly, 22, has signed a new four-year contract with the Championship club.

That's full circle, we can lock this now

Ha otm

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/sep/05/harry-redknapp-played-fan-west-ham

nice story, nicely written.

Gah, you beat me to it - absolutely brilliant

yep

"I just hit it," he says with a shrug. "I hit it like nothing else. Know what I mean? I belted it." The ball whistled low, past the outstretched hand of the Oxford goalkeeper, and ran into the bottom corner of the goal. Steve says he wheeled away in celebration, arms extended, head bent with disbelief. On the side of the field, Redknapp turned around and looked briefly to the heavens.

"It was like time stopped still – it was the greatest moment of my life," says Steve. Somewhere in the crowd, Bazza and Chunk were losing their minds. Steve Davies had scored on his West Ham debut.

i lost it a little bit here, i gotta admit

That is absolutely great.

I know, I actually grinned at that bit.

I love the bit about the Steves and their Kellys.

Almost missed the kick-off! Pregnancy tsh.

Brings back the Joey Beauchamp memories too.

yeah that was good

I guess a film treatment would have to end with him beheading the linesman.

http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/7889/3dpp.jpg

Great pictures here - these are like the opposite of the @ArsenalGents of this world

Do you live near Highbury, IK?

The host was this guy, Geraint Hughes. He spent much of the early evening with his phone locked to his ear, speaking to club representatives in a slightly-too-loud manner that reminded me of when my mum used to pretend to call Father Christmas to tell him not to bother this year.

do vice writers get paid by the simile

No I don't - I'm not in London anymore and I only ever lived south of the river anyway. Up that way has always been impossibly exotic.

that pic is giving me weird nostalgia vibes

bootleg dani behr makes it seem as if they're announcing marc overmars or someone

jvc hauntology

bootleg n1ck gr1ffin in the middle too now I think about it

thats not actually mickey quinn tho right

actually geraint does have the contributory new labour prawn cocktail smarm going

http://i.imgur.com/uKHi8CZ.jpg

http://fullcount.weei.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/032310_wondertwins.jpg

http://dorkshelf.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/439066469_ca87df366b.jpg

spurs' seven signings
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUC7XxtCAAAaGC_.jpg:large
chadli is a bit of a man-mountain, eh?

yeah i wonder can he head it

his head looks like the only small part of him, tbh

shit, the more i look at that pic the truer that gets i gotta get out of this office

i hadnt really realised that eriksen is only a couple of months older than tom carroll (and is apparently just as feeble physically). wheel in the daily mail soapbox

he does look a bit cowering in that pic

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvsHo1qHpZc/URnU9QcVuCI/AAAAAAAACTI/9tay58iOpfE/s1600/Super+Mario+Bros_2.JPG

loooool

http://www.qpr.co.uk/cms_images/player/chevanton-61364-1076384_613x460.jpg

oh look it's ... javier chevanton. cool!

is there a thread for the League Cup? Giggs and Jones in midfield tonight. Should be a laugh

needs a title, quick

i'm going to miss the whole thing anyway. Dreading what I'll discover when I check the result

should make last year's thread a rolling one, imo. it only has 500 posts, last year's prem thread has over 10K

I'm going to miss the whole thing anyway. Dreading what I'll discover when I check the result: Capital One Cup 2013/14 thread

avb interview with l'equipe sounds worth a read

http://medias.lequipe.fr/img-photo-jpg/fr-ric-thiriez-reste-le-patron-de-la-lfp-en-poste-depuis-2002-il-a-r-u-unanimit-ce/1500000000194977/0:243,1499:998-665-335-70/0b4c7.jpg

I've just gone to l'Equipe and been confronted with this ridiculous hipster instead

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2007/12/14/419443-frederic-thiriez-president-de-la-lfp-et-chanteur-d-operette.html

Former paratrooper 3 e Regiment Marine Infantry Parachute 1 , it is an Officer of the National Order of Merit (2011), Knight of the Legion of Honour (2004). He participated in 1984, with Pierre Mazeaud , the French expedition that attempted escalation of Hidden Peak ( 8096 m ) in the Himalayas 1 and was a member of the Franco-German expedition to the Antarctic in 1989. He is the author of the report on the French polar research that led to the creation of the Polar Institute.

"Life is an absolutely fabulous thing, but it is too short, he sentence I am 55 years old and I feel I have barely lived There is a solution..: live several lives at the same time, what I've always done. A lawyer working life, a life in football, in music, in the mountain, too, because I do mountaineering. I have several lives like that, to enjoy life more. As André Gide had this obsession to miss something. "