Transfer Window Movers and Shakers

PHB

Good signing for Sunderland. With Reid and Richardson they quite a bit of creativity up front.

Good signing for Portsmouth, Defoe is a good player. Odd about the whole Benjami situation, not really sure whats going on there, but I'd say that they must make it at a bit of a profit.

Good signing for City. Need another striker, and a bit of pace up front would do well, especially with Elano and Petrov able to play those through balls.

All in all, transfer window wise, City have done well, Spurs have done very well.

Bounty Hunter

bolton sign rasiak on loan from southapton.

and that ecuadorian lad costs city £5.2

eirebhoy

Reid is just was Sunderland need. A bit of class in central midfield.

MrJoeSoap

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

bolton sign rasiak on loan from southapton.

Ah so thats what the Saints website meant by this...

emc2

PHB wrote: »

Good signing for Portsmouth, Defoe is a good player. Odd about the whole Benjami situation, not really sure whats going on there, but I'd say that they must make it at a bit of a profit.
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I think Harry was afraid he might have to buy Benjami fish and chips for life, so he got rid of him.

Xavi6

We've finally got rid of Dabo Shipped him back to Lazio.

kaisersose77

PHB wrote: »

Good signing for Portsmouth, Defoe is a good player.

Defoe's a good player now eh? He must have being amazing in training these last 2 months

http://forum.sparky-s.com/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54539897&postcount=4607

PHB wrote:

Defoe is a terrible player, just terrible. Nowhere near United standard, he's like 50 miles away from it. There are 3 strikers at Tottenham alone I'd rather to Defoe.

Peyton Manning

kaisersose77 wrote: »

Defoe's a good player now eh? He must have being amazing in training these last 2 months

http://forum.sparky-s.com/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54539897&postcount=4607

Owch, burn!

~Rebel~

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Ah so thats what the Saints website meant by this...

christ im retarded today. was clicking on the "enter saintsfc.tv" thing on the splash screen trying to get to the main page for ages before i realised a) that what you were talking about WAS the splash screen, and b) that it was in fact a screen capture.

MrJoeSoap

~Rebel~ wrote: »

christ im retarded today. was clicking on the "enter saintsfc.tv" thing on the splash screen trying to get to the main page for ages before i realised a) that what you were talking about WAS the splash screen, and b) that it was in fact a screen capture.

Hahaha, priceless.

Bounty Hunter

18.6m Mascherano deal done

PHB

Terrible in relation to anything close to United standards. Good for Portsmouth

Melion

PHB wrote: »

Terrible in relation to anything close to United standards. Good for Portsmouth

Who?

Melion

Just looked back, forget i asked

~Rebel~

Bounty Hunter wrote:

18.6m Mascherano deal done

We haven't signed Masch yet.

From the official site;
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N158670080131-1956.htm

Meanwhile, contrary to reports elsewhere, the deal to complete Javier Mascherano's permanent move to Liverpool has yet to be finalised.

mike65

Still 170 mins to go!

I can't get in the Saints offy site?

Miek.

~Rebel~

mike65 wrote:

Still 170 mins to go!

I can't get in the Saints offy site?

Miek.

Make the same stupid mistake as me?

~Rebel~ wrote:

christ im retarded today. was clicking on the "enter saintsfc.tv" thing on the splash screen trying to get to the main page for ages before i realised a) that what you were talking about WAS the splash screen, and b) that it was in fact a screen capture.

MrJoeSoap

mike65 wrote: »

Still 170 mins to go!

I can't get in the Saints offy site?

Miek.

Rofl! You're all as bad as each other!

mike65

Mike.

mike65

Hold on to your hats

2151: "My mate is hanging round Anfield now and he just texted me claiming he has just seen Ricardo Quaresma get out of a taxi and get ushered into Anfield! He's not likely to make this up so massive coup for Liverpool if they pull it off."
maverickcristianoVII on 606

Right.

Mike.

PHB

I love these rumours

Could anyone here really pick Quaresma out of a crowd :P It's a classic sign when they say, 'He didn't make this up' :P

MrJoeSoap

My mates cousin drives a bus in the suburbs of Southampton and has just picked up Alexandre Pato from the airport and dropped him at St. Marys.

Stalteri has just signed on loan for Fulham.

Mitch Connor

PHB wrote: »

I love these rumours

Could anyone here really pick Quaresma out of a crowd :P It's a classic sign when they say, 'He didn't make this up' :P

plus, you'd imagine the club would send a car for him rather than make him get a taxi.

Xavi6

PHB wrote: »

I love these rumours

Could anyone here really pick Quaresma out of a crowd :P It's a classic sign when they say, 'He didn't make this up' :P

Eh hell yeah. He's second on my list of heroes after Xavi. I'd know him in a second. My god he better not go to pool

Pighead

And Gilberto the left back for Spurs. Thats a good couple of days work for the Spurs defence.

mike65

2208: BREAKING NEWS - EVERTON in/TOTTENHAM out
Talk about a story that has come out of leftfield - this one's a belter. One-time England call-up Anthony Gardner has left the Lane to join Everton on loan until the end of the season. That is a brilliant deadline day move. Thoughts, Everton fans?

Mike.

PHB

That's not too bad for Spurs at all. Looks like Ramos sees Bales future in the midfield, or at least wants to provide some competition.

--Hutton--Woodgate--King--Gilberto--

--Lennon--Jenas----X---Malbranque---

---

Berbatov--Keane

---

That X for the rest of the season be Huddlestone/Tiago/Boetang/O'Hara.
I tell ya, Tiago really could have made a difference to that Spurs team.

Melion

PHB wrote: »

That's not too bad for Spurs at all. Looks like Ramos sees Bales future in the midfield, or at least wants to provide some competition.

--Hutton--Woodgate--King--Gilberto--

--Lennon--Jenas----X---Malbranque---

---

Berbatov--Keane

---

That X for the rest of the season be Huddlestone/Tiago/Boetang/O'Hara.
I tell ya, Tiago really could have made a difference to that Spurs team.

Did boateng not go to Villa today?

Pighead

Melion wrote: »

Did boateng not go to Villa today?

Nope, pretty sure he hasn't. Heres the official moves thus far.

PREMIER LEAGUE TRANSFER TRACKER:
In: Bolton (Rasiak), Derby (Carroll, Stubbs), Everton (Gardner), Fulham (Kallio, Litmanen, Stalteri), Sunderland (Reid), Wigan (Hagen), Tottenham (Gilberto)
Out: Arsenal (Gibbs, Randall), Bolton (Wilhelmsson, Michalik), Chelsea (Grant), Derby (Bywater), Everton (Stubbs), Fulham (Cook, Davis), Man City (Dabo, Miller), Middlesbrough (M Bates), Newcastle (Rozenhal), Reading (Henry, Pearce), Sunderland (Halford), Tottenham (Stalteri, Gardner)

herbieflowers

What about Zokora PHB?

PHB

I find it hard to consider Zokora a player But yes, no I forgot him, I don't think he's a particuarly fantastic player though, nowhere near Tiagos levels.

MrJoeSoap

PHB wrote: »

I find it hard to consider Zokora a player But yes, no I forgot him, I don't think he's a particuarly fantastic player though, nowhere near Tiagos levels.

Have Spurs actually signed him? Last I heard he was off to Juve.

estebancambias

****, Chelsea got rid of Grant...he was doing so well.

MrJoeSoap

estebancambias wrote: »

****, Chelsea got rid of Grant...he was doing so well.

Go on...

mike65

The thick plotens

2224: "Outside Anfield, I can confirm Quaresma rumour to be true, if that wasn't him leaving he's got a cracking good lookalike!"
Ash, Liverpool, via text

In and out in 34 mins

Mike.

herbieflowers

PHB wrote: »

I find it hard to consider Zokora a player But yes, no I forgot him, I don't think he's a particuarly fantastic player though, nowhere near Tiagos levels.

Really? I think Tiago is vastly overrated, not saying that Zokora is amazing or nothing...

WhiteWashMan

mike65 wrote: »

2208: BREAKING NEWS - EVERTON in/TOTTENHAM out
Talk about a story that has come out of leftfield - this one's a belter. One-time England call-up Anthony Gardner has left the Lane to join Everton on loan until the end of the season. That is a brilliant deadline day move. Thoughts, Everton fans?

Mike.

thats not brilliant, thats amazing. Not only did we get rid of gardner, but watch everton tumble down the league now with that charletan of a defender!

herbieflowers

haha! If Spurs can get a solid defensive unit, which their signings in the window should provide, I can see them being a very tough side to beat, may even push for a CL place...

An Citeog

herbieflowers wrote: »

haha! If Spurs can get a solid defensive unit, which their signings in the window should provide, I can see them being a very tough side to beat, may even push for a CL place...

Can you really see King and Woodgate actually staying fit? Really good players when they're fit, but that has been a rarity in the past few seasons.

herbieflowers

No, I can't.

LuckyLloyd

This thread is weird.

GBX

mike65 wrote: »

The thick plotens



In and out in 34 mins

Mike.

Yeah ... we shall see... Maybe the cabbie kept the meter running

LuckyLloyd

Actually, how does this transfer business work? How is it still possible to complete deals at 11pm? Are league registration offices kept open till 12am? Or do the clubs just have public notaries sitting around incase something goes down? Seems odd to me.

MrJoeSoap

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Actually, how does this transfer business work? How is it still possible to complete deals at 11pm? Are league registration offices kept open till 12am? Or do the clubs just have public notaries sitting around just incase? Seems odd to me.

Ah who cares, its good fun!

mike65

The actual paperwork can be completed after midnight once all parties have agreed the deal and notified the FA/League I think.


Mike.

Mitch Connor

mike65 wrote: »

The actual paperwork can be completed after midnight once all parties have agreed the deal and notified the FA/League I think.

Mike.

the documents have to be signed and sorted by the clubs, and be in the poossesion of the FA before midnight - they can be processed tomorrow, but they need to be submitted to the FA before the deadline.

mike65

Remember the fuss over Ashley Cole? Wasn't that "announced" at about 1 am or something?

here it is http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:FZP25_tBDkIJ:news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/5235160.stm

Madness/nonsense now in overdrive

2254: "I've just heard from my mate who lives in Anfield and he said Quaresma is not there. However, he did say that he thinks he saw Pablo Aimar."
bigbrenriley on 606

Good work. But I'm intrigued to know, how do you manage to buy/rent a place IN Anfield? Sounds tremendous - does it come with a box?

2250: "Rumour mill going haywire up here that Peter Crouch is on his way to Toon."
Craig Cornforth, Newcastle, via text

Mike.

LuckyLloyd

Tauren wrote: »

the documents have to be signed and sorted by the clubs, and be in the poossesion of the FA before midnight - they can be processed tomorrow, but they need to be submitted to the FA before the deadline.

So if you're in Anfield now, how do you get hard copies of contracts down to the league offices in (I assume) London before 12am?

GBX

As far as I know there faxed/emailed and hard copies followed after.

mike65

Telex

Seriously though I think they accept faxed copies.

News just in

2258: MANCHESTER CITY in/INTER MILAN out
Filippo Mancini, 17, son of Inter coach Roberto, has completed his loan move to the City of Manchester Stadium

Mike.