"and can slot in at right-back if required" - close season transfer banter 2014

#WengerOut tbqh

Arsenal fans hating Barca is some real daddy issues shit

this is simply terrible :(

also, fuck Barca.

― ey, Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:19 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

#WengerOut tbqh

― ey, Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:19 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'Sadly,' doesn't cover this

travesty ffs

to think we might have covered his fee by selling Chelsea paulinho too

i personally dont really mind this. the only issue i have is how a team of exciting players like hazard, oscar, cesc etc. is managed by such a fucking curmudgeon as jose who'll have them playing boring shit again next season

that's otm

paulinho would a suited him, like

cesc wanted out of arsenal for like 2 years and then has been a barca player for 3. former players move on.

no man I totally get it. you and Tomas are happy now, and that's ..... that's fine, yknow, he's a he's a good guy, yknow, in his own way

ha, rosicky was like my fav player of last season, so yea

nah he's VG but the injuries innit

David Bentley has retired

"No regrets, I've enjoyed every moment of it with a smile on my face," he said. "The game's changed a lot. It's different. When I first started it was enjoyment.

"Now it's a little bit robotic, the social media side of things... it's made it boring.

"It made it calculated. To sign another three or four years into that... it's not really an option for me. It's gone a little bit sour for me."

fuckim

Unconnected, of course, to the fact that he couldn't get into the first team at Rostov or Blackburn Rovers any more. Has a player ever fallen off so dramatically? He was overpriced when Spurs bought him but he was still fairly good.

every other fucker we ever bought?

Fair point.

Sagna's signed for City

£150,000 a week

Alan Irvine has been appointed the new West Bromwich Albion head coach, the club has announced.

He previously managed Preston North End, from November 2007 to December 2009, and Sheffield Wednesday, from January 2010 to February 2011.

Former Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood had been the favourite for role following Pepe Mel's departure in May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCe6e23yIT8

Sherwood wants better offers for coaches Chris Ramsey and Les Ferdinand.

Sherwood, 45, has told West Brom chairman Jeremy Peace he will not take the job without the duo onboard.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/0109f14bc9feba11b6c84ab7fb966746/tumblr_mhthemPaPW1qj56zwo4_250.gif

I would love to know if anywhere was offering odds on this. Least likely top-flight appointment since... Kinnear, maybe?

Scotland 4-6-0 dot jpg

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/west-bromwich-albion-who-alan-7269315

The interesting thing about Alan Irvine is that he isn't actually Alan Irvine, his real name is James.

He is a qualified insurance broker.

He is 55-years-old.

Sample quote from a 110 page thread on a Baggies message-board "I actually feel physically sick".

relief of not getting Sherwood

Express and Star comments are pretty hilarious

now i have no idea if Irvine is gonna make a job of this but

why do pig-ignorant so-called fans bleat on and on about "big name" managers when what means 96 percent of the time is some hack cunt who's well known cos of all the jobs he's fucked up in the past? how can people spend hundreds a year watching their team home and away and still have the thought process of a fucken beached guppy. i got no beef with Baggies fans normally but fuck em all, every other idiot fucken Roy of the Rovers fan, just try 3 hysteria-less minutes of reflection every once in a while and get your fucken heads out of TV punditland

and the usual bleating about "cheap options", if you had more than 5000 fans maybe you'd have a point but why not ask Portsmouth or Leeds fans what they think about the magic power of throwing money at shit

i hope Irvine reads all the fan comments then sinks the fuckers on purpose just to confirm their worst suspicions

lads we are not making enough of 50m luiz

What's Steve Clarke doing? He wasn't shit as a manager, was he?

West Brom's problem last year was recruitment, and the manager has nothing to do with that. Chief Exec./DoF since the one dude upped and joined the FA has got away with murder. Anelka? Really? Sell Shane Long in Jan?

otm

Vermaelen to Utd? Signing someone not good enough for Arsenal First 11 not the most inspiring start to the summer for Utd. Then again considering what they have at CB atm.

Wenger's call on who is better than sanogo/diaby etc not necessarily law

Dunno, I reckon Kos and Mertesacker are the best two CB's at Arsenal.

a bit worried about us just losing a bunch of players. i really hope this doesnt come back to being like a couple years ago where we bought like 8 players in the final week of august, of which only merte and arteta turned out decent cos everyone else had been taken already

Someone please give Sherwood a job. "I know my worth and I just want to wait for the right opportunity. I am sure it will come along.”

just found out Birmingham have a youth player called Raekwon McFarlane

Barcelona midfielder Xavi has agreed a pre-contract agreement with Qatar side Al Arabi, according to the club’s coach Dan Petrescu.

yah he looked done this season. Makes losing alcantara look all the more moronic

Just got Rakitic though.

older and had to pay money for him

Another unexpected appointment, it looks like Leeds Utd are appointing former Forest Green manager Dave Hockaday. He was sacked by Forest Green, but I don't know what kind of budget he was operating under. Obviously all the Leeds fans are up in arms because they are so fucking massive etc. I think most of them assumed Cellino would be going for some big name charlie.

so who's the jerome anderson to cellino's venkys here

i mean it'd be p cool to think dude just really threw himself into researching underappreciated academy coaches and non-league tactitians but

needs to give willie mackay a call

xxp
I reckon Cellino is such a megalomaniac it will be him. It is looking like they will be a selling club in this window before they start buying. First thing it made me think of was Briatore barking orders at the bench via his lackey in 5 year plan. Cellino has got a nondescript greyman who will do as he says and take the blame if it goes wrong. He might be a bloody good coach but his record doesn't suggest that.

sky were reporting they rejected £5m from fulham for mccormack this week

He signed a four year contract extension in 2013 so they aren't under pressure to sell him yet, but he agitated for a move in January and lot of people are starting to think that Cellino isn't as loaded as he acts.