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

Sneaky suspicion Kagawa with a proper manager potentially the best new player in the league next season.

Word is after Sanchez/Debuchy that DM and Giroud back up are the next priorities. Personally I'd be happy with Campbell and instead focusing on replacing Vermaelan/getting a 4th centre half but I guess Wenger thinks Kos/Merte are injury proof?

Is Walcott back for the start of the season or not?

Serie A fast becoming the resting place for aging full backs.

i have no idea tbh. its arsenal, an injury means you wont be seen or heard of for possibly another six years.

http://media4.fcbarcelona.com/media/asset_publics/resources/000/107/696/size_640x360/640x360_suarez_2_.v1405073954.jpg

€95 million apparently

So that's about £75m right? About what everyone figured was the buyout clause.

lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth on RAWK

really? oh well

I swear the lfc fans on here spend less time on rawk than the rest of you.

The fee seems fair enough, the team will be poorer without him but whatyagonnado we are to Barca as Southampton are to us.

Bojan to Stoke!?

OMG what next Pato to Leeds?

They'll be toothless in attack next year.

*Drudge sirens* TAL BEN HAIM *Drudge sirens*

hearty lol at the cobbled-together Suarez pic 'cos he's not allowed in stadiums, on pitches, to do keepie-uppies, etc

*weeps*

i never look at RAWK but am unable to resist a bad dental pun

75m seems OK to me tbh? cen fath eh grindeach na fiachla

should've paid in

bitcoin

amirite

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*Drudge sirens* TAL BEN HAIM *Drudge sirens*

Only player to have finished second in the league, lost the FA Cup final, the Champions League final and the League Cup final without having won any of them. If you get to the playoffs, don't let him anywhere near Wembley.

Unlikely, but I am enthused by the intensity with which we seem to be building our squad

I mean, we've just signed this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3hann_Berg_Gu%C3%B0mundsson

On 6 September 2013 Jóhann scored a hat-trick, the first person to do so for Iceland in 13 years, in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Switzerland, equalizing with the last goal of the match, a left-footed, curling shot from the edge of the 18-yard box in the 91st minute, with the match finishing 4-4.

That's some serious business-meaning

I happened to be watching that goal live. It's probably my favourite non-Liverpool moment of the season past.

moment not involving Moyes anyway

oh yeah, you said

decent match to have seen

It would've been Iceland-Brazil in the first match of the Parallel World Cup.

or possibly Iceland-Dubai, depending on Parallel FIFA

this bloke could have scored two in a 4-3 victory, and never signed for Charlton ever

the word 'permalink' has never felt so bitterly ironic

missed the flag eh

keylor navas to bayern seems like kind of a waste

also didn't know that the disparity was as big as this

Bayern's decision to let him go -- they didn't bow to his wage demands, arguing that he wasn't quite world-class -- has certainly looked less smart with every passing game. "It's a joke that Mario Götze makes nearly three times as much," Der Tagesspiegel noted. It's hard to disagree with that assessment. Bayern's cause has not been helped by the fact that Götze and Kroos share the same agent

So not only does Gotze get an insane amount more but Kroos knows that he does.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsW-P5CCMAEF_Nm.png

Graziano, the Sotonian ladies are gonna love ya

saints making their own kits this season? proper old skool

When someone that good looking also gets to be a footballer, that's all the proof we need that there's no god.

Are Juve really looking to replace Vidal with Paulinho?

obv there isn't one, remotely, at all, in the slightest, but would anyone like to suggest a theory for what madrid's grant tactical plan might be this summer cos this shit don't make no sense

--- modric kroos
ronaldo james bale
------ falcao

like uh wasnt this why you sold ozil

poor old isco/illarmendi/benzema/khedira

Then again Barca are wheeling out suarez/neymar/messi + busquets/iniesta/rakitic + a new goalie.
Central defence? Pfff it'll sort itself out....won't it...

i'm not a financial expert but i think psg may have slightly miscalculated the ffp budget if they buy di maria

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Too good for Newcastle.

wait, khedira to arsenal?

It is certainly doing the rounds. Big rumours has been 2/4 so far (Debuchy/Sanchez good; Balotelli/Aurier not so much), which is actually p good for Arsenal and shows we are getting serious. I'd fucking love Wenger to bring as much of the Germany squad in as possible and Khedira is one of the best midfielders in the world/one of my favourite players in the current game. Khedira-Ramsay-Ozil-Cazorla-Wilshere-Sanchez or whatever is quite tantalising.

Still need a DM maybe. Not sure Arteta/Flamini really cut it.

really interesting/exciting signing again if so

don't think a classical dm is strictly necessary these days but khedira has always played next to deep lying play dictators in schweini and alonso... not sure if that means an unexpectedly continuing prominent role for arteta or if kheds and ramsey are just going to have to figure it out for themselves

despite supporting a harry redknapp side i'm p amenable to the latter strategy if the players are intelligent enough, which khedira certainly is. tho i suppose you do also get a veron occasionally

heh just started enumerating some fundamental reservations about nu-arse even despite the signings still but i had to abort cos it was sounding too graeme souness

can the dutch lads tell me something about kolbeinn sigthorsson

seems to be some question marks over him, looks okay for 5m to me tho

It's a bargain if he stays fit and can recover his previous form. He had a horrendous injury in 2012 and didn't look that sharp last season but he's definitely good. The fee is decent.