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

Spurs reportedly close to signing Eric Dier from Sporting. idk whether he's much good or whether the novelty factor of a British kid getting a few games at a decent European club is getting the better of them.

Apparently he went to Everton on loan three years ago and I have no memory of that whatsoever. Presumably he didn't actually play.

Ryan Gauld went to Sporting earlier in the summer. Has signing British kids become a thing for them?

Dier's family lived in Portugal when they signed him (figures Spurs would buy the one british kid that doesn't count as homegrown). I think he would have only be 17 or so when he was at Everton.

Only transfer rumor worth a damn to my hometown club -- Jermaine Jones coming to Chicago for $3mil.

I saw that. Used to love him at Schalke.

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Germany just won the Euro U19's beating Portugal in the final 1-0. Oztunali looks a heck of a player, hope he gets some game time with Leverkusen this season.

Oh just wiki'd him and apparently he's Uwe Seeler's grandson!

Kimmich looked good too.

looks like Memo Ochoa is going to Malaga

huh it would seem we may be signing mauricio isla on loan for the season tomorrow

guess it's testament to the massive psychological damage that hughes wrought that i'm honestly kinda thinking i'd rather we just let danny simpson crack on with it

what are the best places for live st_reams? I had one I was using last year and completely forgot what it was called over the summer, this always happens. It had a really dumb name tho...

Getting quite excited for the new season, going to the community shield cos tickets were surprisingly cheap. Tho I guess it is just a glorified friendly, but nice to go back to Wembley first game after being there to see them win the cup, plus I'd never be able to afford them see someone like City at the Emirates. Hoping to see Alexis get a few minutes on the pitch! And Fat Frank, obvs

wiziwig.TV good site

streams: firstrow, livetv.sx

Re Lampard to City - what the mother fuck

Thanks for the streams!

btw yaya sanogo has just scored four goals against benfica

(joel campbell got one as well)

Easy! Easy!

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musacchio - spurs, 17m

shame the top 4 have regrouped cos this looks like prob the most competent spurs summer in history

Shit that's a lot of money. Supposedly can play rough and center back bit still.

*right*

Musacchio had a 35% sell-on clause from River Plate so Villareal were always going to hold out for a lot of money. For an excellent 23-year-old CB, it's not bad.

sunderland getting jack rodwell for a mere 10m

Oof, he must be actually crap now

lol this lascelles/darlow deal is some bullshit... being a forest fan must be the worst of all purgatories

chuffed with jordon mutch tho, took a while but finally the board are taking my advice

Musacchio deal might be off. Villareal only owns 35% of his economic rights with the rest split between River Plate and his agent and they apparently can't agree on compensation.

rip xavi

Tottenham have been dealt a late blow in their attempts to sign defender Mateo Musacchio after Villarreal raised their asking price to £39.6million.

lol

Seems to be River Plate demanding the €50m rather than Villareal. I suppose they own just as much of him though.

Rip Ricky Van Wolfenstein, on loan to St. Etienne.

Pepe Reina to Bayern Munchen

is anybody gonnae bother to sign valdes

valdes is knacked is he not

man neuer is going to alpha-dog the hell out of pepe, rip

i am amused and delighted that we have pulled off the isla loan

this is what's fun about qpr today tbh, like arry can be all "ere steve bruce was right all these cants are playing wing backs, let's get this chilean geezer off the telly" and so yknow, we did, cos we can somehow wangle that, rather than telling david meyler to do a job running up and down

of course it has led me to spend a while today musing on how the current rangers squad could elsewhere apply bielsaism, luckily gary medel is the chilean karl henry so that's sorted but unfortunately i came a cropper needing joey to perform the vidal role or adel to press anything other than a panini

is isla secretly crap though or what, i mean i could have seen lfc or utd doing with him

He's alright. Basically the Chilean John O'Shea

Biggest Dutch rumor today: Spurs wanting to splash £15m on Depay. Please let it not be so. God knows I don't ask ILF for much :(

Ech, I've just spent an hour's walk listening to the Anfield Wrap lamenting what's to be done with Pepe Reina, only to get in and see this news.

and would it have killed Ian Ayre to have made it a part-exchange deal ffs

I'll record you an hour long transfer talk podcast next time, if that's what you're too afraid to ask :)

xp

I would genuinely love to hear that! Mp3 to the usual address please.

Wow, £2.5m - I didn't expect us to be getting anything for him tbh. Would've been more than happy with £1m plus Neuer and Shaqiri.

I imagine the £2.5m goes straight into Pepe's pocket, but still

Will consider it IK :)

there couldn't be two swap deals in the same window, could there?
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How reliable is the mirror anyway? I've read the same thing, like 10m and Chadli our way? Miserable deal for us ffs

It would mean a huge salary cut for Chadli too, no idea why he'd be interested

Spurs in the lead for signing Deandre Yedlin according to the usa soccersphere.

Defour possibly going to PSV too.

Depay deal is going to be really exciting until LvG suddenly decides he fancies it and the whole thing falls apart.

We've been trying to get Defour for bloody ages now, not a done deal by any means. His rights are owned partly by Porto, investment company Doyen (which is getting a tighter grip on football with every passing year) and yet some other investment company. Very difficult to get three parties to agree on one deal.