"We've momentum and we can't afford to lose it tbh"- The '13-'14 summer transfer window thread for PL and beyond

Deems made me do this.

Let's go.

aka "Chris Solly is going nowhere"

hey, we're all gonna make it about ourselves, right

I sure hope so!

who are PSV desperately clinging to/sniffing around

If we don't end up with one big proper signing this summer im gonna be sad. There hae been so many Higuain or Jovetic stories that... its gonna be like Darren Bent or someone innit... *sad face*

the flourishing of Jenkinson will be akin to a new signing

cmon I feel we haven't mentioned enough Charlton youth-team right-backs yet itt

Ugh... We're clutching at straws man. It was a disastrous season. Desperately clinging to Strootman (especially), Mertens, Toivonen and Lens, but fear all four will leave. Toivonen especially is likely to go to the PL. I've no idea who we are sniffing up atm, because there's no dough until we sell.

Adam Maher would be my dream signing, but he will likely go to fucking Ajax. If Wenger is paying attention: Maher is an examplary great Arsenal play. Steal him before Ajax does plz

xxxp

Sam, Adam Maher should be your big signing! He was born to play for Arsenal! Please send ✧.wen✧✧✧@arse✧✧✧.c✧.u✧ an email or something.

So where are all the ***star players*** of QPR going?

find it deliciously weird when someone not even tangentially british has a very british name

late-90s switzerland were kinda good for that

tbf tbf Maher is Irish probably (deems?)

Morrocan, but close enough

Well, Dutch, but Morrocan Dutch

wtf british name

no I mean the name

xp

So.... Andy Carroll... Ronan might want to weigh in here. What to do with the old sod?

12m to buy him

spurs and newcastle should get into that, and damn what nakh thinks of it

I can see Carroll being a Europa League legend w/ Spurs tbh - and I'm not trolling

jesus what a takedown

I hope that arsenal buy a player

who is unplayable

they could just keep arshavin tho

or the others

hi suedey

not lazing but clowning

― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, October 4, 2010 8:11 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

diaby 4 life

what have you done to me wenger

next year is his year, the year of complete diaby

like a new singing

can I get a shirt with a broken leg on the back

no but these will be available soon

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02556/celeb_2556649c.jpg

awesome new dn deems

AA+

a bit fuckin late mind!

You need my helping hand, it's ok

Can ILF resign boxall please?

never really left but flattered to be missed I guess!

of the QPR squad, suppose Arsenal could most use that midfielder rtc loved (Diakité?) but the one I really liked was Alejandro Faurlín. Didn't follow him in Serie A but if he came back from that injury fully, I thought he was a very good passing midfielder. Just as long as the awes Armand Traore doesn't return.

Whats going to go down with wigan's bigger names? Surely not beyond the realms of possibility that they talk a good-ish number into staying for a crack at europe and the hope of going straight back up. Money will obvs be an issue, but I don't think they have many players on bigotry

Bigotry = big money of course, fuck iPhones etc etc

now if only you were talking about liverpool

There'll be a big bunfight over Callum McManaman probably, no idea where will be the first stop on his inevitable route to becoming the new Adam Johnson.

Man city would be a start. Though perhaps moving to citeh won't be such a dead end for wingers now that Mancini has gone and they might actually be in with a chance of
getting played.

Mcmanaman feels like a vaguely Liverpool-ish sort of player, but they've got thing elsewhere that need fixing.

Kone and McCarthy have got to be on their way out of Wigan though. Kone would be fun at everton I reckon, though it won't happen

Liverpool would be quite amusing, as if having gone over a decade without any good young wingers they suddenly start trying to stockpile every single one that becomes available. But he'd probably actually develop in a sensible way under Rodgers, ditto under Laudrup. The worst case scenario would be Newcastle or West Ham or somewhere.

as if newcastle will sign him!

bit early for a mcmanaman bunfight, screams everton though especially if martinez goes there. maybe west ham, or fulham even. rodgers has wing forwards aplenty what with sterling, suso, ibe, sinclair etc and city will have bigger fish to fry with isco and jesus "sigh, sickening eyes" navas

figueroa, beausejour look a bit fulham too. spurs squad filler once but probably no longer

actually i think macca 2 could be quite good at liverpool cos they can still be diffident and he is lol fiesty but if there's only so much to spend it's certainly the least of priorities

Macca 2 an everton youth reject

i hadnt really realised that eriksen is only a couple of months older than tom carroll (and is apparently just as feeble physically). wheel in the daily mail soapbox

he does look a bit cowering in that pic

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvsHo1qHpZc/URnU9QcVuCI/AAAAAAAACTI/9tay58iOpfE/s1600/Super+Mario+Bros_2.JPG

loooool

http://www.qpr.co.uk/cms_images/player/chevanton-61364-1076384_613x460.jpg

oh look it's ... javier chevanton. cool!

is there a thread for the League Cup? Giggs and Jones in midfield tonight. Should be a laugh

needs a title, quick

i'm going to miss the whole thing anyway. Dreading what I'll discover when I check the result

should make last year's thread a rolling one, imo. it only has 500 posts, last year's prem thread has over 10K

I'm going to miss the whole thing anyway. Dreading what I'll discover when I check the result: Capital One Cup 2013/14 thread

avb interview with l'equipe sounds worth a read

http://medias.lequipe.fr/img-photo-jpg/fr-ric-thiriez-reste-le-patron-de-la-lfp-en-poste-depuis-2002-il-a-r-u-unanimit-ce/1500000000194977/0:243,1499:998-665-335-70/0b4c7.jpg

I've just gone to l'Equipe and been confronted with this ridiculous hipster instead

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2007/12/14/419443-frederic-thiriez-president-de-la-lfp-et-chanteur-d-operette.html

Former paratrooper 3 e Regiment Marine Infantry Parachute 1 , it is an Officer of the National Order of Merit (2011), Knight of the Legion of Honour (2004). He participated in 1984, with Pierre Mazeaud , the French expedition that attempted escalation of Hidden Peak ( 8096 m ) in the Himalayas 1 and was a member of the Franco-German expedition to the Antarctic in 1989. He is the author of the report on the French polar research that led to the creation of the Polar Institute.

"Life is an absolutely fabulous thing, but it is too short, he sentence I am 55 years old and I feel I have barely lived There is a solution..: live several lives at the same time, what I've always done. A lawyer working life, a life in football, in music, in the mountain, too, because I do mountaineering. I have several lives like that, to enjoy life more. As André Gide had this obsession to miss something. "

Richards was a director of companies involved in engineering, telecommunications and water and waste treatment, several of which entered administrative receivership or were dissolved.[2]

This guy is the greatest guy.

Gide's The Immoralist was a good read. Didn't inspire me to lead several lives though.

self help gide

I don't think I'd be comfortable with the EPL looking for the English Frederic Thiriez because they'd only end up appointing Stephen Fry or Piers Morgan.

To relate that type of mindset to what's going on at United now - my sense is that what Moyes is trying to do is almost give some players the opportunity to play themselves out of the club. That's my instinct - you look back at the cataclysmic performance, or non-performance, that Ashley Young gave in the Derby. It looked that he didn't have a future. I was also, like many, amazed that he played Anderson. He just simply is not a Manchester United player.

http://thebusbybabe.sbnation.com/2013/10/4/4797762/david-moyes-manchester-united-scouting-staff-management-style

"not a manchester united player"
About 36,200 results (0.33 seconds)
"not a liverpool player"
About 536,000 results (0.28 seconds)
"not a west bromwich albion player"
1 result (0.20 seconds)

"not a liverpool player" konchesky
About 133,000 results (0.30 seconds)

"not a liverpool player" poulsen
About 175,000 results (0.28 seconds)

"not a liverpool player" mkhitaryan
About 5,050 results (0.16 seconds)

Really great interview, that. He was on Second Captains a while back, all the stuff about Moyes's secret room is really interesting.

Like, his record in the transfer market at Everton wasn't flawless was it? Not that he didn't make some great signings.

Nothin like flawless, just that he spent very little on a lot if good players, and tended to keep them around. The dozens he spent nothing on and didnt make it could be moved on no fuss. The few big signings that didnt work could be balanced maybe against the guys he developed. But id not say his transfer record was better than good.

Yeah that's an excellent piece.

Yeah I'd agree with that Darragh. I'm only being harsh on him in the context of trying to rate this system he seems to have.

Like, his record in the transfer market at Everton wasn't flawless was it? Not that he didn't make some great signings.

I think that could be applied to most good to average managers.

Yeah probably fair. Fergie had a pretty great record, high-profile flops and all but so many amazing purchases.

his notable weakness was strikers, plenty wasted on shit like beattie, johnson, beckford, and an inability to prolong the form of yakubu and jelavic

and that was ferguson's notable strength through the years with a very small number of exceptions like new batistuta dong fangzhuo

owen being typically complaisant towards the imbecile hart

He currently rotates with Pablo Zabaleta in competition for the right-back berth at the Etihad, but has made just two appearances this season - including a surprise start in the 3-1 loss against Bayern Munich.

Richards is happy competing with the Argentinian, and is paid around £65,000 a week. However, Newcastle could offer a significant financial incentive to move to St. James' Park.

Such a Newcastle player.

slightly disturbing that ashley/kinnear will offer a significant financial incentive to someone already on £65k and who has hardly played for 18 months

i think it would be best for him if he could be played as a cb though, too cumbersome for fullback

yanga-mbiwa seems to be the rancid marrow in their january window abel and cole clearance box too

hey I use them ruining my punk as fuck cred there I guess

how did you cook your yoann gouffran

in a coloccini bigirimana with a fine red marveau

Pardew went on: ‘You're talking about a high level (Premier League).

‘We've got fantastic players at our football club and is he better than the ones we've got?

‘I was a bit like ‘hmm, not sure’. I think (Andre Villas-Boas) was a little bit like that as well.

‘But fair play to the lad, he's come into Tottenham's team and done terrific and now he’s made that extra step which is great for England and Spurs in particular.

‘He brings a 'nothing to lose' character to the pitch.

‘He was a massive bonus the other night.’

Turan has now committed to the club until 2017, and has spoken of his personal joy at remaining with Atletico, where he says he feels part of a family at the club.

“I am delighted to have signed a contract extension with Atletico Madrid. I feel like I’m part of a family here,” he said.

However, his agent has hinted that the Premier League is still on the agenda for Turan, whose signing of a new contract has seen his buy-0ut clause with the club rise to over £30m, which may be a ploy simply to make more money out of his sale if top English clubs come calling for the Turkish international again.

“Arsenal and Liverpool? A destination in the Premier League would be to the liking of the player and I can confirm there are clubs interested, like the two mentioned,” his agent said.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/borussia-dortmund-have-given-mats-hummels-permission-to-sign-for-barcelona-next-summer-for-e35m

they selling pique or just collecting slack fuckers now

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Frank_Arnesen.jpg

here is a picture of ninth rolling stone frank arnesen

deems who is your favourite defensive midfielder ever

The next one. Always the next one.

“Mario wants to leave Milan in January,” Mino Raiola told The National.

“I don’t know where he will go, but we will look at different options.

“Chelsea is an option, but there have been no real offers and I cannot say anything.”