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

I think the fact that it isn't a saga and nobody cares might count against it

Also that it only appeared in the daily mail

i thought i read about it in the telegraph

Quoting the Mail tho

what saga?

ozil accused of assault by a photographer. No action taken because of lack of independent witness. 2 of the investigating officers treated to Mezut's private box at the Emirates for an Arsenal game soon after.

nothing suspicious there at all.

assault *with a car* too

what would nicklas bendtner say

ps this saga happened in february, the daily mail basically have a hate campaign (for web hits) against ozil, waited til world cup - think the final? - to publish article etc etc

HE'S NICKIN' A LIVING!

Neil Ashton that is, Ozil's doing just fine imo

haha ashton

also fact is wasn't picked up by hardly any other news outlets pretty suspicious too

ridic long range goal just now by pjanic for roma v man u from 10 yards inside his own half

If only it had been Rooney, we could've called 2014/15 off

http://gfycat.com/FlusteredCircularGrebe

the Rooney and Mata goals were pretty good too in fairness.

Feel like LVG was sending out a message with that second-half team. Kagawa and Lingard in midfield, Ashley Young at wing-back, and Nani up front.

oh yeah and hooking Cleverley after making him captain and saying he would definitely play 90 minutes

lingard was good the couple of times I saw him at brighton but he does look a bit lightweight for united

Louis van Gaal hailed the footballing intelligence of Wayne Rooney after the Manchester United forward scored two goals and made another for Juan Mata in a 3-2 win against Roma.

"The pass of Rooney to Mata -- it was unbelievable, that pass," Van Gaal said. "He did it with his brain and Mata was running with his brain at the right moment."

https://vine.co/v/M0X7Au3qq22

lewa so nice

:O :D :O

vG sure knows how to give his players a psychic cuddle eh?

tedious protracted nature of that transfer kinda made me forget that like oh ok yeah btw everyone bayern signed probably the best 9 in the world

Gone

Lallana 25m
Luke Shaw 27m
Lambert 4m

On Way

Chambers 16m
Schneiderlin ~20m
Rodriguez? 15m?
Lovren ~20m

if they replace them with youth players an go down it's still a total rinsing of a stupid market imo

Remy fails medical, move off. This was a thing for a while when he was rumoured to be heading for Spurs, iirc?

you know may i should know this as a physician but what exactly does it mean when a player fails their medical? like, how can they fail at one place and then go on to play elsewhere? what's being evaluated?

i don't know exactly what's evaluated but the reasons players can fail a medical but then go on somewhere else are because different transfer fees/wage deals might be at stake and some managers/clubs may be more willing/needing to take a gamble on a player with potential for future injuries than others

And then there's the tale of Tim Matavz, who was supposed to be transferred from PSV to Rubin Kazan last winter. It was a done deal until Kazan changed their mind while Matavz was already undergoing a medical. So what do you do then? Just say the player failed his medical, not saying how or why exactly, and send the player back. (Matavz took this up with FIFA)

i wondered about that yeah, god knows i've had enough last second changes of heart in Football Manager

Remy has a (non-metaphorical) heart defect of some kind

George Boyd was due to sign for Forest last year but they pulled out of the deal a couple of hours before the deadline due to an "inconclusive vision test"

i presume medicals have repercussions re: insurance premiums and such too

Tony Fernandes @tonyfernandes · 20m
It's Fifa Time.

that is an actual really real tweet btw

i do love my stupid club sometimes

anyway this is obv a fkn excellent development

charlie austin failed his hull medical too for a dodgy shoulder, no worries for us tho he just kept scoring til it was hanging off

nobody's perfect

john hartson failed the weigh-in at spurs before the medical

so if the reports about remy's release clause are correct, arsenal can still have him for 8.5m, everton and spurs for 11m, and everyone else for 15m

conflicting rumours about whether arse ever wanted him or if they just wouldnt meet his wage demands (which presumably he would lower now out of tearful desperation)

i mean if we have to sign valbuena just to keep him happy then shit man i guess we'll just have to put up with it

Glad to see Torres hasn't lost it http://bit.ly/1tQbAvf

surely this now proves without doubt the drogba juju hex theory

gdamn, that lewandowski goal

Lovren will join up with the squad on their US tour.

He said: "After I played at Anfield last season, I said to myself: 'One day I hope I'll be able to play here for Liverpool'."

Griezmann to Atleti.

ya...woulda been nice

so both utd and bayern will be playing 3-4-3 this season. Might be fun.

although considering Bayern have the best 2 full backs in the world going to a 3 CB line up might be considered wilfully perverse.

Rafael has gone back to England with a groin injury so it's Valencia at wing-back for the foreseeable. Gulp

As it stands this is really not a United squad well set up for 3-4-3.

Have they even got 3 CB's anymore? I'm not counting Smalling.

like spurs, I have it'd down as a team of very few straight write-offs given a reasonably logical and clear plan of management idk its hard to say

it'd utd

Michael Keane is the fourth CB at the moment. I'm 90% sure there will be another coming in