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

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

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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.”