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

Not too gutted about the Shaw and Lallana deals, cos being brutal, that's good money for them. We're obviously a far weaker side without them both (especially Lallana), so we'll need to spend wisely and hope the next batch of young 'uns are ready to step up in their absence. Looking at our squad page, I've no idea what our front line will look like come August, other than that Sam Gallagher's probably in there somewhere. Dani Osvaldo and Emmanuel Mayuka aren't listed on the site, even though they're officially still our players; I don't imagine Osvaldo's sticking around much longer, but maybe Koeman will think he can get something out of Mayuka?

do you think they'll put their foot down wrt lovren and schneiderlin's grumbles now then

also why no contracts yet for fonte and cork

wasnt really into cork before but he started to look p good i thought

wow, moses odubajo to brentford for a million. great signing

Lallana £25m? It's like Dalglish and Commoli never left.

10m premium def

good few days for soton

If the £10m premium was diverted to Swygart as appreciation for his Wisdom Of Gaffers thread I'd be okay with that.
Maybe.

psyched for the Odubajo signing. Seems like a nice lad n all.

25m for Lallana is ridic. Good business for Bournemouth as well I expect.

indeed, 6m or thereabouts headed their way

southampton being linked with ings now too so perhaps more still to come

Over here lots of rumors that Koeman will take striker Pellè with him to Soton.

he's nearly eightè by now, he'll never cut it

Had two great seasons at Feyenoord, think with a bit of luck he can have two more good seasons.

workmate of mine has just seen Jake Livermore in Argos apparently

not transfer deadline day no credibility

Ben Davies talk is greatly encouraging

good use of livermore cash, imo

but i'll think of this every time his name is mentioned.
http://cdn.bendavis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/logo-120.png

always love when this type of story shows up

Manchester United were offered Colombia’s James Rodríguez for £5m
Attacker touted to Old Trafford but Bebé signed instead

OTM

along the same lines, the progression of Pogba's career brings me great joy

spurs also linked with Esteban Cambiasso, who's wiki page has already been updated to call him a former footballer.

no notion of his being required. unless we do the unthinkable and sell Sandro or bentaleb

Manchester United were offered Colombia’s James Rodríguez for £5m
Attacker touted to Old Trafford but Bebé signed instead

― mizzell, Monday, 30 June 2014 16:31 (5 hours ago)

the trouble with this is that everyone in the entire world with a spare £5m could have transacted with his agent, it's not the same as for example when houllier was tracking cristiano ronaldo but wasn't prepared to pay £12m

there's an argument that richer clubs should automatically offer 20% more than what porto offer for a player given that they have by far the best scouts in latin america, but it's not some cheapshit comparison with bebé (who incidentally is looking something like a £7m player now and is still 23)

Rakitic on Suarez: "To have the character and strength to apologise in front of the world shows what a noble person he is."

lol at what stage tho is that trolling suarez

Eredivisie sale again for the PL:

Dusan Tadic (Twente) off to Soton
Siem de Jong (Ajax) off to Newcastle

Pelle to Soton is a done deal

dude screams flop so hard (looks cumbersome, pushing 30, two good seasons, in holland) that he'll probably end up a success

Really hit or miss tbh. Was a huge flop at AZ, left for Italy where he also didn't play well. Koeman was scorned for buying him at Feyenoord but got him scoring loads of goals.

how much would it take to get depay out of psv?

http://www.statsbomb.com/2014/07/who-should-liverpool-buy-to-replace-luis-suarez/

i'm hearing that sanchez doesn't want to move to pool, and also apparently balotelli is being linked? that seems nutty

PSV gave him a price tag around £17m iirc, last week, knowing he'll be desired and probably (sadly) unable to keep after this WC.

xp

Can't see Alexis at LFC. Just give us our £80m thanks very much.

Wouldn't be surprised if Depay goes to ManU though. It's been years since I've seen Van Gaal and a young player click this good. When you see the two together in training these days, Van Gaal is being highly affectionate about him, constantly joking and working with him.

depay would be p cool, as would the powercube

Is there a thread where we discuss the inflated pricing in the PL for UK players btw? The amounts paid for Shaw, Carroll, Lallana in mind, it's bizarre.

Or is PSV just stupid should they just ask 30m for Depay? I mean, Shaw's good and all, but twice Depay? Never.

livermore, snodgrass, dawson, £20m

Those too. Bonkers.

There's some kind of logic in that not everyone coming into the epl can adapt so you pay a premium for those already here, but tbh it's not like it's hard to cite an expensive flop if you really must.

Brb on the phone with Eindhoven telling PSV director Brands to ask 50m for Depay

Liverpool should just keep Suarez imo. Maybe take Sanchez too.

Ok, I can kind of see that IK. But a national transfer like Carroll's and him flopping so hard is just... Damn.

The thing is you'd probably still be saying that even if £15m to West Ham was his only transfer

Did I miss the bit where Barcelona are allowed to buy players again? I was away for a bit so it's quite possible I did.

I think the ban was lifted pending their appeal

bet Suarez gets his ban lifted/reduced if he goes there

flop must stop

bet Suarez gets his ban lifted/reduced if he goes there

― Number None, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 2:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was thinking the same thing tbh

Barca offering £70m, they can gtf

item has a bit of "wear and tear" so to speak