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

wonder if michu to napoli (on loan) means that callejon will now go to atleti?

Philipp Lahm has announced his retirement from international football

Looks like Gylfi is off to Palace, which seems like a sensible move.

Pirlo to Spurs rumours starting again, too.

bet he'll be well up for poch's triple training seshes

Gylfi really doesn't strike me as a Tony Pulis type.

yeah, can't think how a dead ball expert might fit into his plans

His dead ball expertise is overstated btw, he had a couple of amazing free kicks for us but not that many. Admittedly we didn't really have the players to get on the end of them properly.

i admit it's possible spurs may have ruined him

Schneiderlin follows Spurs on twitter, that's a binding contract right

now unfollowed

tense stuff #ff

Brown Ideye to WBA for £10m.

Not overly convinced but he's ok.

Brown Ideye Girl

would imagine fourteen million quid for borini is an acceptable price to pandemic

and 7m for assaidi? when did daniel levy take over

Rumors have it Nigel de Jong and Stefan de Vrij close to signing with MU.

Brown Ideye Girl

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, July 18, 2014 10:52 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You must have been posting this the minute I was posting 'brown ideye girls' to the fantasy league team names thread, was toying with going with it for the forthcoming season but maybe it's just too obvious. 14m for borini/8m for remy would be fantastic, if hardly inspiring, business.

Dunno. I'm not that original usually so that seems about right. Still think it's a winner though :-/

not entirely sure what remy's gonna do there but congrats to liverpool on their big old pile of players i guess

Everyone spent last season going on about the lack of squad depth so why is addressing that suddenly a head scratcher?

So many players. Sigh. Hopefully LFC sign half a dozen more and I can quit this whole Prem lark

morata to juventus £16m. RM academy produces a whole lot of talented players almost none of whom end up regulars for the first team.

James in Madrid. €81m

€36m profit for Monaco in a year isn't bad.

Half of Shakhtar's South American contingent are refusing to go back to Donetsk after their friendly in France this weekend. Could be a few to pick up on the cheap, though Bernard isn't one of them.

Even by the standards of footballers david bentley is a delusional fool.

Not the relevant thread but just wanted it noted.

to some extent sure, and unable to articulate his pain, but not entirely wrong either

nobody will remember messi or ronaldo because they have a team of marketers behind them not like gascoigne and cantona. just shoot this fuck already.

and jimmy bullard him too.

Don't forget charismatic mavericks like Paul Scholes.

Brazil are bringing Dunga back. V. progressive

probably just popping back to pick up his qpr money off cesar

davies + vorm for siggy + 5m seems like the rare balanced and mutually beneficial swapsie

looks like caulker's in the bag. archetypal dopey brit strapping stopper imo but best of genre for the money i guess? arry sez he wants ave a go playing three at the back this season, i look fwd to my impending cerebral aneurysm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtJFZErIAAEA0OT.jpg

#bantz

as everyone is doubtless gagging for more choice excerpts from your favourites on tour:

Michael (Doughty) and Karl (Henry) enjoyed a game of chess - which Charlie dubbed as 'weird' - whilst Danny Simpson and co. locked horns on Mario Kart wireless on the DS.

A 90 minute bus journey to the hotel followed, before the squad enjoyed a quick bite to eat prior to checking into their rooms for some much-needed rest and relaxation.

But not before Messrs Granero and Henry turned their hand to playing some piano in the hotel foyer ... more of that tomorrow.

oh lol borini sez no

well played fabio :)

i am not buying this "Karl Henry, renaissance man" shit

you've obviously not read his poetry

Bebe has gone to Benfica

I wish him well but idk how well that's going to turn out for Benfica.

Reckon Henry was lukkin 2 pick sum tips off Jody Craddock

The unexpected star of the World Cup finals, Colombia’s James Rodríguez, has signed for Real Madrid for a reported £63m.

The 23-year-old follows the signing of another key midfielder from the World Cup, Germany’s Toni Kroos who joined for a bargain £20m, and will be given the No10 shirt which was last worn by Mesut Özil.

He passed a medical in the Spanish capital on Tuesday morning and has agreed a six-year deal at the Bernabéu. Real Madrid will present him to the fans in their stadium at 7pm BST.

The announcement had been expected this week but had been delayed as Real and Monaco struggled over the small print in the €80m deal with Monaco’s owner Dmitry Rybolovlev holding out for €85m, according to L’Equipe.

Monaco were keen to sign Diego López in part exchange but the goalkeeper did not want to leave. Real are expected to sign the Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas for £8m as their No1 after the European champions agreed to meet the release clause in his contract at Levante

Have Atleti signed a keeper yet?

yeah, Oblak from Benfica

thx

i was hoping lopez or casillas would arrive to troll RM. Really intrigued to see what Simeone does with 'em next season considering his team has been somewhat gutted.

http://i60.tinypic.com/33f6syf.jpg

Aw yeah, I'm made up about Borini; I was flicking through some classic World Cup pictures just now and realised I totally see him when I look at Ghiggia in the snap above. Hopefully he stays now and gets the chance to do a Henderson.

btw For future reference I've set up the Fantasy Football leagues for 2014/15:

• 297097-79958 for the regular Serie ILF
• 297097-79972 for the ILF Zingari head-to-head league

Stoke City FC ‏@stokecity 30m
#WelcomeBojan #BienvenidoBojan

Arnautovic / Diouf / Odemwingie / Bojan will be interesting.

Could free up Crouch to reunite with Redknapp.

lol I was actually going to compare Bebe to Bojan earlier, in the sense of prolonged unmerited careers at top clubs. Might be a decent thread idea even.