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

That really doesn't seem credible given what we know of Levy and Pochettino. ESPN going with Spurs offloading Soldado and Adebayor to generate cash for a Lukaku bid.

more obvious therefore less trustworthy tbfh

Crystal Palace have completed the signing of goalkeeper Chris Kettings on a free transfer.

"I'm delighted because this is a massive club," said Kettings, who was released by Blackpool at the end of last season.

it's ok to get your agent to fill in while you're on holiday

hey, we're signing Herrera again :)

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Does Gomis to Swansea mean they're going to sell Bony?

p much ida said

would you take him at spurs?

y

Jesus y

gomis who'd always said he refused the offers lyon had on the table for him cos he wanted to go to a big club...

wants to get PAID. Don't blame him.

yeah i know. it just pains me every time i see a player leave a big(-ish) french club qualified for european competition to play for some mid-table EPL team who can pay him that much more.
tbh in the case of gomis i really liked the player and can only hope that he'll do well wherever he goes (well swansea i guess)

However, speaking to beIN Sport last night, the Arsenal manager denied the AC Milan man was on his summer shopping list. Asked by Ruud Gullit if he was a player he was hoping to add to the Arsenal squad, Wenger said, “No. No, that’s pure invention. We cannot believe absolutely everything that is on internet or is in newspapers.
“Sometimes it’s created by agents or by press who needs news. But in that case, it’s not true.”

can swansea really pay that much more?

it feels like basically any team can pay more than lyon right now!
i saw some one on a forum (so you know maybe not the best source of info) saying he'd be paid 95k/wk which sounds extremely high to me but i'm not really aware of how much players are paid in the EPL. 95k/wk would make him the best paid player in france (not counting the crazy PSG/Monaco salaries of course), or at least in that range.

also, he's coming on a free meaning swansea don't have to pay lyon but can give him a nice signing bonus - which, again, lyon cannot and would not want to pay

id be very surprised if the highest paid player at swansea is on more than 50K + bonuses

yeah i thought that was very high too for a club like swansea. as i said, based on info from some forum so not very reliable. googling all of this brings up an article saying swansea are not willing to smash their wage structure to offer 80K (i think the 95k might have been in €) which would be double the current highest salary.

Michu gets £30k a week but their bonuses are higher than average for a PL club - not that many players would have earned them last season.

fvck me £8m for livermore

and the arch levy-denier garda is nowhere to be seen

The sweet prince is leaving :(

rtc if he signs for your boys there will be mayhem

Samaras to Everton is my favourite rumour of the day.

I kinda love Samara's

Livermore is decent value at 8m, same as was caulker at 12. won't lose money on them

Samaras and McGeady being equally productive on opposite wings would be enough to cost Martinez his job.

(and rightly so!)

Has Rio signed for QPR yet?

The sweet prince is leaving :(

rtc if he signs for your boys there will be mayhem

― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:02 Bookmark

lol is this poyet? v much doubt our staff have ever heard of him

besides why settle for a sweet prince when you can have a real british realness queen signing on the dotted line for another annus mirabilis

rio not offish but reported widely enough for it to be so

ferdinand hill dunne three at the back high pressing, who's ready

avb I'd say

Jesus I hadn't thought about that prick in a while

Pochettino out!

just practicing.

like i say tho against my better judgement i'm not really that mad at having rio around i guess... plus maybe he can entice ravel

rumours of hangeland provoke the true fury

lol xp

Can any la liga watchers please tell me what signing Marcos Tebar means for Brentford? Obviously I want to be excited but I thought the same when we signed Javi Venta last summer and that was a waste of time. Our overseas signings are always shit.

Also fuck birmingham for stealing Clayton Donaldson and leaving us with no strikers, but kinda lol if he is their idea of a decent acquisition.

preparing for League 1 early, obv

Lol Lee Clark's "revolution". He is building a League 1 dream team with Zigic's wage.

Hull City have had a bid in excess of £6m for Robert Snodgrass accepted by Norwich City

feel like Bruce is gonna quietly (or not) blow it this season

Also after Dawson, so probably.

yay

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Is he an attacking or defensive midfielder?

afaik he mostly played at #10 for Bilbao last season but can play deeper (and obviously will for Utd)

does like a tackle though

Was gonna say, lots of 10s at MU already (Kagawa, Mata, Rooney). And if Van Gaal really wants Strootman, it's getting rather full on the midfield.

Still think Van Gaal and Rooney are like the worst match of manager and player ever. Wonder if he'll stay.

Fellaini, Cleverley, Fletcher, and Anderson all need to be get rid off though. And Carrick only has a year or so left in him

Shaw has passed a medical as well apparently

good signings if so.

Robert Snodgrass looks like Mulligan from Mulligan & O'Hare

― Joe Kay, Saturday, 9 November 2013 22:57 Bookmark

probably the most otm thing in last season's prem thread fwiw

Suarez' lawyer might have just leaked something important:

Balbi said that he will meet with legal representatives from the Merseyside club on Friday.

"Tomorrow we will meet in Barcelona with Liverpool's lawyers," he said.

Balbi also claimed Pere Guardiola, the agent brother of former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola, will also be present at the meeting - something which will fuel claims Suarez could be set to move to the Nou Camp this summer.

isn't Pere Guardiola Suarez's agent though?