Summer transfer talk and rumours

Mikeyt086

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Xavi6

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

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Manchester City Football Club - ruining threads as well as football

GLaDOS

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

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Man City have purchased this thread

Leprechaun77

Sheikh Xavi6 wrote: »

Manchester City Football Club - helping threads as well as football

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JPA

England striker Peter Crouch is locked in transfer talks with Sunderland after they agreed a £12m deal with Portsmouth, BBC Sport understands.

The 28-year-old is also a target for Fulham boss Roy Hodgson as he prepares to rake in £5m from the sale of Bobby Zamora to Hull City.

Fulham boss Hodgson may hold the trump card with Crouch reportedly keen to move to London.

But Sunderland boss Bruce hopes he can tempt Crouch with a lucrative package.

Portsmouth executive chairman Peter Storrie was unhappy with Crouch's recent criticism of the club having not yet appointed a permanent manager to take over from Paul Hart.

Storrie insisted that was not possible while a proposed takeover by United Arab Emirates businessman Sulaiman Al Fahim was still under discussion.

Al Fahim has now completed the process of due diligence and is now trying to agree a figure with Pompey owner Sacha Gaydamak.

Pompey are strange, so they're being taken over but still selling all their best players?

carlop

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/8151089.stm

This would be interesting to see! Vieri would be such a typical Allardyce signing.

I remember he hit a bit of form towards the end of his spell with Fiorentina but I don't really know how he got on last season. He was lethal in his prime.

Leprechaun77

Vieri was a true legend at Inter, but his career went downhill after 2005/2006 after a knee injury. He didn't get much game time and eventually ended up with Atalanta where he effectively played on a slaary made up of goal bonuses ( which didn't really happen). At 36, I can't imagine he has much left to offer. He'll probably end up in the MLS.

Mac Masters

carlop wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/8151089.stm

This would be interesting to see! Vieri would be such a typical Allardyce signing.

I remember he hit a bit of form towards the end of his spell with Fiorentina but I don't really know how he got on last season. He was lethal in his prime.

He was linked with Hull last season after they got promoted and that never materialised so I wouldn't hold my breath! These rumours with ancient greats crop up every year!

flahavaj

www.football365.com

Barcelona have reached an agreement with Inter Milan to sign Brazilian defender Maxwell for a fee which could rise to 5million euros (£4.2m).

Barca have signed Sylvinho's replacement.

Bob the Seducer

Maxwell was with Ajax before wasn't he? Any idea if he's played much for Inter since he went there? I'd forgotten all about him

HalloweenJack

That's a very good deal for Barca. I know Maxwell is back-up for Inter and doesn't get near the Brazil team but he is a very capable defender (and better attacker) and considering how ridculous transfers have been this summer, €5m is a good price for a player like him.

eZe^

That's a steal really, a better replacement for Sylvinho, competition for Abidal. Great buy for that price, nice to see some surprise dealings too, normally Barca shout about who they want to sign and then get bloody raped by the price. Kinda puts the Glen Johnson/ Dani Alves deals in perspective...

JPA

Lucio to sign for Inter Milan.

Mac Masters

HalloweenJack wrote: »

That's a very good deal for Barca. I know Maxwell is back-up for Inter and doesn't get near the Brazil team but he is a very capable defender (and better attacker) and considering how ridculous transfers have been this summer, €5m is a good price for a player like him.

I hardly think 33 games last season is "back-up", he's obviously not going to get near Brazil with all their real fast and class left backs! He is real good most notable for his wondergoal against Parma in 2007! Amazing it was! And at €5million, that's a steal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZcpDg_-zuA

Evil_Clown

More Inter - Barca activity, Ibra for Etoo swap deal in the pipeline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8155593.stm

Paparazzo

Strange, Eto'o and €40m for Ibrahimovic. Eto'o is a better player than ibrahimovich! They're both near enough the same age too.

rossie1977

Paparazzo wrote: »

Strange, Eto'o and €40m for Ibrahimovic. Eto'o is a better player than ibrahimovich! They're both near enough the same age too.

where did you hear it was eto'o and £35stg??

thats insane if true, inter must be laughing their a*s off at that deal if true

Paparazzo

rossie1977 wrote: »

where did you hear it was eto'o and £35stg??

thats insane if true, inter must be laughing their a*s off at that deal if true

Plus Hleb on loan! OK, it's goal.com which is The Sun of online football sites:
http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2009/07/17/1387285/barcelona-sign-ibrahimovic-from-inter-for-40m-plus-etoo

JPA

In fairness to the much maligned goal.com, they put up articles they source from elsewhere, they don't make stuff up.

carlop

With that amount of money added it's a good deal for Inter, but if it were a straight swap it would be a better deal for Barca.

Inter revolve around Ibrahimovic and he plays a role in the team that Eto'o isn't capable of doing.

Paparazzo

JPA wrote: »

In fairness to the much maligned goal.com, they put up articles they source from elsewhere, they don't make stuff up.

Yeah, but they always have attention grabing headlines without one quote

Max Power1

It was reported on SSN this morning, and as a straight swap deal too.

Great deal for Barca if it is!

Unearthly

Paparazzo wrote: »

Strange, Eto'o and €40m for Ibrahimovic. Eto'o is a better player than ibrahimovich! They're both near enough the same age too.

Would be an awful piece of transfer business by Barca imo.

Dancor

Eto > Ibra all day. Madness on Barca's behalf.

ShoulderChip

Ibra > Eto'o in my opinion.

Dancor

ShoulderChip wrote: »

Ibra > Eto'o in my opinion.

+40 million?

ShoulderChip

probably not no, but its not my money.

Dave!

So Adebayor has signed for City

What do we make of that?

AFAIK these are City's strikers now

Adebayor
Santa Cruz
Robinho
Bellamy
Tevez
Benjani
Bojinov
Caicedo
Evans
Jo (loaned out to the Toffees)

Some more of those will have to be loaned out or let go, or there will be alot of discontent in the dressing room !

Paul Tergat

Wiki is saying that 'Evans signed for Ipswich Town on 19 July 2009 for £2 million'. Didnt know this, thought it was Sheff Utd who would be signing him.


I expect Bellamy, Caceido and Benjani to leave this window tbh and Bojinov will probably be gone soon enough too.

Bounty Hunter

Dave! wrote: »

AFAIK these are City's strikers now

Adebayor
Santa Cruz
Robinho
Bellamy
Tevez
Benjani
Bojinov
Caicedo
Evans
Jo (loaned out to the Toffees)

Some more of those will have to be loaned out or let go, or there will be alot of discontent in the dressing room !

Someone should buy Bojinov imo, he looked like a quality striker and despite his injuries is still really highly regarded but will get no game time this season tbh he is 5/6th choice striker (5th if Robinho is only considerd a winger).

Hull should buy Benjani imo cos hed be cheap and also isnt going to get a game at City and could still do a job especially at that level where they are currently struggling to get a striker to sign on.

Caicedo has been strongly linked to Sporting Lisbon and Ched Evans most recently to Sheff Utd.

if all that happened they would be left with:

Adebayor
Santa Cruz
Robinho
Bellamy
Tevez
Jo (out on loan)

SpAcEd OuT

Anyone else think Juventus have done brilliantly under the radar??

Felipe Melo
Diego
Cannavaro

3 very strong signings.

dor83

SpAcEd OuT wrote: »

Anyone else think Juventus have done brilliantly under the radar??

Felipe Melo
Diego
Cannavaro

3 very strong signings.

Melo is a good signing and Diego is a great signing. They shouldn't have taken Cannavaro back at all, big mistake, they should have went for somebody like Santacroce. I still think Inter will win the league this year, even without Ibra.

ShoulderChip

SpAcEd OuT wrote: »

Anyone else think Juventus have done brilliantly under the radar??

Felipe Melo
Diego
Cannavaro

3 very strong signings.

YES,

the first two are terrific signings, the two players United should have got, if they had their heads screwed on IMO

Pro. F

Going to Barca would be the perfect move for Ibrahimovic. His style is just what they want.
And we'd all finally be able to see if he's good enough to step up and do it on the big stage.
A straight swap for Eto'o would surely be the only reasonable deal, except that Eto'o is in the last year of his contract.. I don't really know how that should effect it though..

Bubs101

dor83 wrote: »

Melo is a good signing and Diego is a great signing. They shouldn't have taken Cannavaro back at all, big mistake, they should have went for somebody like Santacroce. I still think Inter will win the league this year, even without Ibra.

Think playing alongside as great a defender as Cannavaro could help Chiellini though. As for Mello and Diego, fantastic but we need full backs.

Also haven't been paying too much attention but did we sell Criscito to Genoa or is he coming back? Could use him.

dor83

Bubs101 wrote: »

Think playing alongside as great a defender as Cannavaro could help Chiellini though. As for Mello and Diego, fantastic but we need full backs.

Also haven't been paying too much attention but did we sell Criscito to Genoa or is he coming back? Could use him.

I just don't think he is good enough to play for a top team anymore and can understand why the Ultras aren't happy with him rejoining, he did walk out when Juve needed him most.

As far as I know they sold 50% of Criscito to Genoa and he will play there next season, I honestly don't completely understand how they work out who a player plays for when they are owned by two different clubs.

Morf

dor83 wrote: »

I just don't think he is good enough to play for a top team anymore and can understand why the Ultras aren't happy with him rejoining, he did walk out when Juve needed him most.

As far as I know they sold 50% of Criscito to Genoa and he will play there next season, I honestly don't completely understand how they work out who a player plays for when they are owned by two different clubs.

Nuts to the ultras. They're never happy. They want him to stay there when they're in Serie B when he can make 3/4 times what he makes in Italy at Madrid. Ultras are the lowest of the low, thugs and hooligans. How anybody could glamorise them or give a stuff what they think puzzles me.

Bubs101

dor83 wrote: »

As far as I know they sold 50% of Criscito to Genoa and he will play there next season, I honestly don't completely understand how they work out who a player plays for when they are owned by two different clubs.

Judging by Champo rules it's worked out in the contract (normally the ****ter club gets him, like a loan but with more incentive to develop his talent) and then they either bid for his contract after a subscribed period of time (1 or 2 years) or try and buy him before

JPA

Sky Sports News understands Hull City have agreed a fee with Reading for Stephen Hunt and the midfielder has settled personal terms.

The Republic of Ireland ace has been linked with a number of Premier League sides and he is reportedly eager to secure a switch back to the top flight.

Reading boss Brendan Rodgers has admitted Hunt could be set to leave the Madejski Stadium before the end of the transfer window and Hull now appear in pole position.

Tigers manager Phil Brown has made no secret of the fact that he wants to increase his squad's goal threat and the attack-minded 28-year-old could add guile.

Hunt is understood to have left the Republic's training base to hold further talks, but he is set to return in time for Wednesday's pre-season friendly with Australia.

Hull have already missed out deals for Bobby Zamora, Daryl Murphy and Fraizer Campbell this summer after agreeing fees.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5483955,00.html

mike65

Hull? Jebus are things that bad a Reading?

Eire-Dearg

WTF Steve, Hull?

JPA

That's his level IMO.

Bounty Hunter

JPA wrote: »

That's his level IMO.

hes not a worldbeater but i woulda expected him to go to a more established premiership team like a Blackburn or Bolton

JPA

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

hes not a worldbeater but i woulda expected him to go to a more established premiership team like a Blackburn or Bolton

Ya, Maybe you are right but he is just such a limited player.

orourkeda

JPA wrote: »

Ya, Maybe you are right but he is just such a limited player.

He's not a premiershp player. Reading was more his level

Bounty Hunter

orourkeda wrote: »

He's not a premiershp player. Reading was more his level

that may be true next season but this season Hull would beg to differ with you

CHD

He loves relegation battles obv.

Eire-Dearg

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

hes not a worldbeater but i woulda expected him to go to a more established premiership team like a Blackburn or Bolton

Wasn't he close to a move to Everton at one stage?

DM_7

mike65 wrote: »

Hull? Jebus are things that bad a Reading?

Its a good move for reading. The old parachute payments are drying up at this stage and Hunt would be one of the higher paid players.

Not sure its a good move for Hunt.

Bounty Hunter

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Wasn't he close to a move to Everton at one stage?

he was and for more money but it seems his stock has fallen since then