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

that's the slightly too angry response of someone who knows he's been a bit of a dimwit

Yeah yeah we get it you don't like Real Madrid

lol that wasn't the dimwit part m8

*looks at NN's post again*

A bit unwarranted there but that's your way I guess. All the same get ducked cuntyflaps

Predictive text, the great leveller

:D

Not enjoying watching this Football Manager Madrid squad, despite Kroos' luscious crosses.

the Old Trafford crowd are sarcastically cheering every Fellaini touch. Not pretty

and he scores the winner with the last kick of the game

have that you cunts

Shane Long to Southampton

12m

no beef tbh

oh yeah, Rooney is the new Utd captain

LVG out

LVG on some cowardly bullshit

Bruce on some bullshit bullshit

I don't know NN, wasn't Rooney pretty much misused and therefore scapegoated under Moyes? I for one think Roo is the anti-Christ, but he's looking fitter than ever. Making him captain, giving him confidence, is seemingly doing him very good.

So, £12m for Shane Long?

2011–2014 West Bromwich Albion 81 (19)
2014– Hull City 15 (4)

How much did Hull pay for him?

undisclosed but rumoured to be £6.5 million-ish. can't believe City have let him go for anything other than financial reasons which is small club mentality bullshit if so

Tottenham Hotspur open to offers for 11 players in desperate attempt to cut squad

Townsend, Lennon, Soldado, Dawson, Assou-Ekotto, Naughton, Chiriches, Sandro, Capoue, Chadli and Dembele all up for sale by north London club

Head coach Pochettino and chairman Daniel Levy want to bring the squad down to 25 and face a race against time to move players on.

Queens Park Rangers have targeted Townsend, but Spurs are also open to offers for former England international Lennon. It is unlikely both wingers will leave. Striker Loïc Remy could be offered to Tottenham as part of a QPR bid to sign Townsend, which may be tempting to Pochettino – particularly if he can offload Roberto Soldado. The Spaniard is part of Pochettino’s plans, but Spurs would consider selling him if they can line up a replacement.

Levy’s task is being made more difficult by the valuations he is putting on a number of Spurs’ unwanted players. He succeeded in negotiating a £10 million fee for Gylfi Sigurdsson to return to Swansea.

But Hull were put off 30-year-old captain Dawson because of his £6 million price tag and Swansea refused to pay a similar fee for Naughton. Levy wants around £15 million for Sandro, £13 million for Soldado and £10 million for Townsend and Lennon.

Zenit St Petersburg, where former Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas is in charge, are interested in Sandro.

nothing wrong with a goal ratio of one in four for a player of longs type at teams like wba imo

Hull not exactly overburdened with strikers

Don't really understand that, Long and Jelavic had the makings of a reasonable partnership for Hull.

Townsend, Lennon, Soldado, Dawson, Assou-Ekotto, Naughton, Chiriches, Sandro, Capoue, Chadli and Dembele all up for sale by north London club

That's a lot of players up for sale for a club who presumably are not going to sell their entire central midfield and most of their defence. But then again we get one of these stories every summer.

Van Gaal playing a 3-5-2 is likely to play to everyone's advantage, if only for putting to bed the purest fuckwittery that Rooney is a #10. He's always been at his best in a front two (or proper front three) rather than any point in a system with a lone striker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuwzrhAe6Ok

^^^ Bradley Wright-Phillips war dubs.

18 goals in 21 games this year for New York!

http://i.imgur.com/fq49aQQ.png

Luke Shaw out for a month...

Jeff Carlisle ‏@JeffreyCarlisle 22s

DeAndre Yedlin's move to Tottenham now official. Some confusion as to when though, end of 2014 or prior to 2015/16 season? #usmnt #mls

Prior to the 2015/16 season, pretty clear on the Spuds announcement.

yeah, I saw it just after reading the tweet

still think he's over-rated but we shall see

Spurs announcement says he's coming "ahead of" 2015/16 season; Sounders announcement says he stays with Seattle through 2014 MLS season, so it's ambiguous

I guess technically "ahead of" 2015/16 season could include a move in January or whatever

well this isn't very nice

Manchester United have received a boost in their pursuit of Sporting Lisbon full-back Marcos Rojo, with third party fund Doyen Sports attacking the club over their refusal to sell the player.

Doyen own 75 per cent of Rojo's rights and Sporting are contractually bound to pay the fund 75% of any rejected bid. United have so far tabled an offer worth a reported £16 million, which falls short of his £30m release clause, meaning Sporting will have to pay £12m if they continue to reject the Premier League club's advances.

Doyen have confirmed that they will vigorously pursue that figure, whilst also threatening the Portuguese outfit with legal action if no payment is made.

“(Sporting are) making mindless demands as a condition of releasing the player,” they said in a statement.

“If Sporting want to keep Rojo they must compensate the fund under the terms and deadlines set forth by the contract. If necessary we will not hesitate to use every legal resource at our disposal to fully defend our rights and interests.”

Sporting have since cancelled their contract with Doyen, announcing they have terminated the agreement with “just cause.”

ban agents

Sporting are contractually bound to pay the fund 75% of any rejected bid

i don't even

on a once off basis I guess?

Which is kind of fair enough if you own 75% of the player.

xp yeah, paid within a fortnight

apparently the mangala deal (another doyen client) is the first where an investment fund have negotiated directly with the buyer

like shazza sez i don't really see the scandal

http://www.insideworldfootball.com/matt-scott/13267-matt-scott-player-trades-boost-third-party-balance-sheets

According to regulatory filings from the stockmarket-listed Portuguese club, on 14 December 2011 Doyen bought 33.33% of Mangala's "economic rights" for about €2.65m. It turned out Mangala was not even aware that Robi Plus had also bought an additional 10% of the player's rights. Porto has never made clear what Robi Plus paid for its share of Mangala.

"We are financial products. A football club is like a factory, and we are its outputs. You have to be realistic."

Javi Martinez out for six months

Tony Pulis is considering his future at Crystal Palace and could leave the club before the season has even started.

Pulis was in talks with the Palace board on Thursday afternoon with his position as manager appearing increasingly uncertain, with sources suggesting his brief tenure could even be over by mutual consent in the next 24 hours.

croydon local saying its because parish is signing zaha over tone's head (also other general transfer frustration)

think i saw something the other week that the players have gone on media strike cos they wanted a bigger bonus for staying up?

The Advertiser also understands Pulis is frustrated that his chairman is putting too much attention on a move for Zaha, rather than sealing a £3million deal for Southampton midfielder Jack Cork.

Read more: http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/EXCLUSIVE-Crystal-Palace-boss-Tony-Pulis-chairman/story-22734055-detail/story.html#ixzz3ANhiNXlT

tbf this is classic palace after bruce and freedman

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvAa9lXIgAAYJHO.png

Oh man, Koeman has some atrocious handshake technique here. 2014/15 Golden Boot Shane Long can clearly shake hands all over the park no questions asked, but Ronnie's just giving him pure lettuce. Oyy.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvAskrFIcAEosrc.png

That's better.

Dare I say it... we're starting to look OK now, innit? Solid recruitment in our weakest positions, still hanging on to Schneiderlin, and when ranked against some of our business over the past five years the Long deal honestly isn't that terrible value (Forren, Mayuka, Osvaldo...) - he'll play, he'll run about, he probably won't score that many but he'll put in the work so others do. Hopefully.

i think he's a really good signing but prob 4m of it was hull knowing ye'd cash and needed to buy someone, anyone

id have much higher hopes for him if he was only slotting in to a team not half-gutted tbf

looks like Koeman had his hand ready for a chivalrous kiss rather than a shake

there's woody harrelson in long imo

Tbh our MO in the transfer market post-takeover has never been about finding value so much as wading in and spending whatever it takes to get the players we want. Not pleased with the idea we'll settle for £3m for Cork, tho - he's only 25, and if Schneiderlin goes he should be the one stepping in. Also, his middle names are Frank and Porteous. That kind of class does not sell for 1/7th of Dejan Lovren.

Forster
Clyne Fonte Gardos Bertrand
Schneiderlin Wanyama
Long Ward-Prowse Tadic
Pelle

Assuming Schneiderlin stays, obv, but Steven Davis will play more or less anywhere, Ramirez can, in theory, slot right in to the three, Rodriguez will be fit again one day, Gallagher's pretty promising... yeah, we'll be OK.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Unitedology/status/496411354086252545/photo/1

               forster
     clyne fonte gardos bertrand
      ward-prowse wanyama taider
          long pelle tadic

tsk got xposted doing this

no way morgan stays imo. can't really understand why cork's for sale, continuity if nothing else

Oliver Kay ‏@OliverKayTimes 17s
Tony Pulis has left Crystal Palace following disagreements over transfer policy. Official confirmation shortly. What a blow to #CPFC.

4 months holiday then save Leicester from the drop

Sherwood excitedly dusts off his gilet in anticipation