Deadline Day: Bring Out The Transfer Gimp!

Seaneh

Rekop dog wrote: »

Seaneh wrote: »

M'Baye Niang is officially a Milan player.

Good signing, hope he gets game time. Only 17!

Do you watch many Caen or France under 17 games?

seen him play about 4/5 times between Caen and France u21.

Rekop dog

Seaneh wrote: »

seen him play about 4/5 times between Caen and France u21.

The under 21 friendly against Latvia or the European qualifier against Portugal or both? You must have had to stream those. What had you watching, a scouting brief?

yabadabado

Rekop dog wrote: »

The under 21 friendly against Latvia or the European qualifier against Portugal or both? You must have had to stream those. What had you watching, a scouting brief?

I would guess he watched them because the player has been linked to Milan and I think Seaneh is a Milan supporter.

Dempsey

Roger Sterling wrote: »

I often wondered how yhey manage to do a proper medical when a player is signrd minutes before the transfer deadline? Do they do it atferwards?

Arsenal signed Arteta without doing a medical

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Arsenal-bought-Mikel-Arteta-for-10m-without-conducting-a-medical-claims-the-player-article808805.html

In his case, the player assumed liability if there was an issue with his fitness.

Jimmy Iovine

Rumours going around that Julio Cesar has agreed terms with QPR. No idea if it's true. Surely it can't be. I doubt Rob Green is too happy at the moment.

Rekop dog

yabadabado wrote: »

I would guess he watched them because the player has been linked to Milan and I think Seaneh is a Milan supporter.

That must be it lol. Tbh he's not the worst bs'er here by a long way so I shouldn't be picking on him, I'm a massive c*nt btw.

Roger Sterling

Rekop dog wrote: »

That must be it lol. Tbh he's not the worst bs'er here by a long way so I shouldn't be picking on him, I'm a massive c*nt btw.

I do suspect there are many prominent "experts" on here that let on that they watch far more football than they do and have been watching such players for years when in reality they've probably done a quick google search or played a few seasons of FM. Its hilarious when they let their guard slip and make a major blunder like not knowing a player's position or nationality despite claiming to nearlyy have been there when he player his first game at under-8 level.

(Not a dig at Seaneh btw.)

G.K.

Roger Sterling wrote: »

I do suspect there are many prominent "experts" on here that let on that they watch far more football than they do and have been watching such players for years when in reality they've probably done a quick google search or played a few seasons of FM. Its hilarious when they let their guard slip and make a major blunder like not knowing a player's position or nationality despite claiming to nearlyy have been there when he player his first game at under-8 level.

Hush, or someone'll find me out. *shifty-eyes*

Xavi6

Roger Sterling wrote: »

I do suspect there are many prominent "experts" on here that let on that they watch far more football than they do and have been watching such players for years when in reality they've probably done a quick google search or played a few seasons of FM.

There's a shitload of them in the forum.

invinciblePRSTV

It happens in real life too, I have a spurz workmate who insists he has seen all the Brazilians and Frenchman they are regularly linked with via contact with a mysterious uncle who lives in France and watching brazilian club games which are 6/7 hrs ahead of us.

Needless to say I humour his claims for later opportunities to wind him up on his bullshyt.

kryogen

Meh, some do watch plenty of leagues and some dont, why take anybody at face value on the net anyway? If you want to know something about a player and you figure your best shot at finding out about him is by asking on boards.ie then, well, you get the picture!

Oat23

Cesar will earn €2.5m a season at QPR according to some twitter people I follow. That's a good deal for them. I thought he'd get at least €4m out of them.

Tancredi Palmeri ‏@tancredipalmeri Until Julio Cesar won't agree with Inter his end of contract, won't be made official deal with QPR.But in London everything done:4yrs,2.5m€

I'd love to know why people assume the guys on here that know about football outside of England are bullshitters BTW. What reasons do you have to call them bullshitters? Nobody goes around here claiming to be a footballing expert, what the feckin point of posting up a load of stuff about a player claiming to know your stuff..It's the internet like.

Any examples on what Roger Sterling said, where someone claiming to know about a player got his position/nationality wrong. Never seen that happen?

Rekop dog

I mean nobody can possibly be an expert in every league, there's some very knowledgeable posters here but for me their credibility is somewhat tarnished by trying to keep up with a unrealistic and pretty transparent pretence of knowing everything and everyone. The best journos for me are the ones who specialize in specific areas, like Horncastle in Italy, Lowe in Spain, Vicary or Fryer on South American football ect, ones who have real in depth knowledge of the leagues they cover, mainly because they focus most of their attention on watching said leagues. I don't see any shame in saying I've never seen him play before and asking someone who I believe is in a better position to give an appraisal of the league in which the guy is playing.

That_Guy

So QPR have realised that Rob Green is shít then?

Nuri Sahin

Some of us like to keep up to date with football around the world be it through reading books, magazines, highlights, full games, betting and simply being well traveled. Then there is the internet as a whole with social media where you just have to search for the right people to follow.

There are some FM talkers here I'm sure, just like any football forum I suppose. Actually, someone here called me out on being one via PM despite me never having played the feckin' game!

GavRedKing

That_Guy wrote: »

So QPR have realised that Rob Green is shít then?

FM could have told them that. :pac:

That_Guy

GavRedKing wrote: »

FM could have told them that. :pac:

Nah. It's all about the FIFA ratings my man. My mate is forever harping on about players he's never seen actually play.

"Liverpool linked with Sahin. He's rated really highly in FIFA. He's gonna be amazing"

I kid you not.

Seaneh

Rekop dog wrote: »

The under 21 friendly against Latvia or the European qualifier against Portugal or both? You must have had to stream those. What had you watching, a scouting brief?

It was the qualifier against Latvia. I was in Peru, had a few days with nothing to do, it was about 8am and I checked oleoletv for streams, watched the highlights of the Ireland match from the day before first. I hadn't a clue who he was was actually watching to see is Yaya Sanogo would play (who I really only knew about from FM2011), turned out he wasn't even in the squad.

Only player I know at all was Saivet (also form fm2011) and he was on the bench.

But when you're in bed with the ****s for a few days and bored out of yur mind any football will do.

The commentators made a big deal about Niang being on the bench before the game and during it because he'd rejected a call up to the Senegal senior team a few weeks beforehand and he was only 16 and how he'd scored 3 goals at the end of the season before.
When he came on against Latvia on he played wide right and looked really quick but a bit nervous or something until he scored.

After that I watched them a few times in Ligue 1 after Christmas to see how he was getting on, seemed to play out wide every game I saw. Which I guess is normal at that age. I was really only watching him after xmass because of how good he was in FM and in the hope of maybe seeing Lenny Nangis (who I only know of from FM).


Funnily enough I watched more ligue 2 games than ligue 1 last season because I wanted to see how Marco Simone was getting on at Monaco (they were piss poor).

Nuri Sahin

That_Guy wrote: »

Nah. It's all about the FIFA ratings my man. My mate is forever harping on about players he's never seen actually play.

"Liverpool linked with Sahin. He's rated really highly in FIFA. He's gonna be amazing"

I kid you not.

I don't mind that as much as them type of people at least are admitting their knowledge of a player are based solely on a computer game. Worst are the frauds.

Kagawa to United was frustrating one from my POV considering the majority of my mates are United supporters. Many didn't know who Kagawa was until the German Cup Final v Bayern or around that time soon after, and yet now a few claim to have always known about him and rated him for years

Seaneh

yabadabado wrote: »

I would guess he watched them because the player has been linked to Milan and I think Seaneh is a Milan supporter.

Not really tbh, Milan are only linked to him since the start of the month.

Random luck at first and the FM is why I watched him play.


If I've never seen a player play I'll generally ask one of people (either here IRL) who know the league they play in if they are any good.
When Milan signed Bakaye Traoré I hadn't a clue if he was any use so asked the Ligue 1 lads and they told me he was a ball winning DM.

Same when Philipp Prosenik came on against Chelsea pre-season, I asked the Chelsea lads if he was any use and he hadn't been near the Milan first team before but played a few times for Chelsea reserves.

Seaneh

Other Milan news.

Bojan should sign on a one year loan by the end of the day.

Don't really know what to make of that one, wasn't great last season, seems to have stalled as a player in the last 2 and a half seasons.

Hopefully he can prove me wrong and be a good signing.

Oat23

Levy wants €18m for vdV according to multiple German sources. They also say Rafi has agreed to a return, only the fee is holding things up.

The clubs are too far apart and I don't see a deal getting done . I wonder would Levy drop the price if Spurs managed to land some of the players they are after, just to get him off the books?

DenMan

Affelay at Arsenal today according to reports. Has anybody heard this? Would be a great signing if true.

Knex*

That_Guy wrote: »

Nah. It's all about the FIFA ratings my man. My mate is forever harping on about players he's never seen actually play.

"Liverpool linked with Sahin. He's rated really highly in FIFA. He's gonna be amazing"

I kid you not.

FIFA ratings, where any decent player outside the PL and top Spanish teams is probably vastly underrated in comparison to their comparative equals in the PL.

It annoys me at times. Kagawa at 82 last year for example and I think Lewandowski started at 77. Come on ta fuck for God sake! :mad: :pac:

Copper_pipe

Last Sunday SSN said Man city had agreed a fee of 6.2m for Scott Sinclair

Today they say the two clubs were not able to agree a fee

Sgt Pepper 64

That_Guy wrote: »

Nah. It's all about the FIFA ratings my man. My mate is forever harping on about players he's never seen actually play.

"Liverpool linked with Sahin. He's rated really highly in FIFA. He's gonna be amazing"

I kid you not.

I dont know about you, but...........

FIFA, FM2012 and youtube highlights clips are my main source, along with GOAL.com, Daily Fail and Twitter

never actually been to a match or watched it on TV or anything

Copper_pipe

Julio cesar has arrived at Loftus road to discuss terms with QPR

Sgt Pepper 64

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Julio cesar has arrived at Loftus road to discuss terms with QPR

Even by their standards, he's a bit old - BC!

Lawrence1895

DenMan wrote: »

Affelay at Arsenal today according to reports. Has anybody heard this? Would be a great signing if true.

Was reported on 'Sport Bild' in Germany, too. But they only say, Arsenal was 'interested' in him

Copper_pipe

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Julio cesar has arrived at Loftus road to discuss terms with QPR

Even by their standards, he's a bit old - BC!

He's good in Fifa

Marty McFly

Lars1916 wrote: »

Was reported on 'Sport Bild' in Germany, too. But they only say, Arsenal was 'interested' in him

Cant see it happening, admitedly havent seen him play but from what ive read he brings an ego that doesnt match his skill on the pitch another Bendtner basically.

Plus position wise I dont think hes what we need.

DenMan

Lars1916 wrote: »

Was reported on 'Sport Bild' in Germany, too. But they only say, Arsenal was 'interested' in him

Wonder is this a real picture or has it been photoshopped!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=268535729922813&set=a.204792052963848.40481.199119396864447&type=1&theater

bren2001

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Even by their standards, he's a bit old - BC!

At the age of 32 (33 next week) he's not old at all by keeper standards. I feel like he has been around forever tho.

opr

I'd say it's as real as the Sahin pictures before he signed.

Opr

Leiva

Operation Keep Sahin .

Phase 2 complete

@BBCSport: New #LFC signing Nuri Sahin has not ruled out making his loan move from Real Madrid permanent. http://t.co/m8fNt8nl

Mr. Guappa

DenMan wrote: »

Wonder is this a real picture or has it been photoshopped!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=268535729922813&set=a.204792052963848.40481.199119396864447&type=1&theater

Google "Afellay thumbs up"

tok9

Leiva wrote: »

Operation Keep Sahin .

Phase 2 complete

I wouldn't get my hopes up too much from that. We'll see come the end of the season.

Marty McFly

Leiva wrote: »

Operation Keep Sahin .

Phase 2 complete

:pac: phase 2 complete? Of coarse hes going to say that, hes hardly going to turn around id say I dont want to be here, in fact ill play hard to re affirm my reputation as a great talent but as soon this season ends I want to return to Madrid or at least a Champions League club now is he.

opr

fwiw i think if Arsenal do have a genuine interest in Afellay he will certainly go to them but the reports are that Barcelona want to loan him out which I'm not sure Arsenal would have much interest in. Mundo Deportivo are reporting that Barce have agreements with Tottenham, Liverpool, and Schalke for a loan deal and the player will make the final choice.

Opr

opr

Marty McFly wrote: »

:pac: phase 2 complete? Of coarse hes going to say that, hes hardly going to turn around id say I dont want to be here, in fact ill play hard to re affirm my reputation as a great talent but as soon this season ends I want to return to Madrid or at least a Champions League club now is he.

Good of you to point out the obvious and miss completely that Leiva is having some fun.

Opr

Nuri Sahin

According to FFW, the Lyon correspondent for RMC radio just reported that Lyon has accepted a €13M + €2M bonus offer for Lloris. Didn't mention any club, but you'd imagine it's Spurs.

El Weirdo

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Julio cesar has arrived at Loftus road to discuss terms with QPR

Leiva

oooooouuu

folk really are cross today. :pac:

amiable

The Mirror are reporting that Man City are in for Theo Walcott now

Sgt Pepper 64

amiable wrote: »

The Mirror are reporting that Man City are in for Theo Walcott now

LOL, he's bit 'arry rednapp that Mancini!
Wandering around, knocking on doors with a big thick wad in his hand
"Who wants some of this then, eh?"

Trouble is, clubs now know that City are desperate for a deal and will price accordingly.

If he wants a winger, I know a certain frenchman is available!

amiable

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

LOL, he's bit 'arry rednapp that Mancini!
Wandering around, knocking on doors with a big thick wad in his hand
"Who wants some of this then, eh?"

Trouble is, clubs now know that City are desperate for a deal and will price accordingly.

If he wants a winger, I know a certain frenchman is available!

It's looking like you'll have to give him away

Leiva

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

LOL, he's bit 'arry rednapp that Mancini!
Wandering around, knocking on doors with a big thick wad in his hand
"Who wants some of this then, eh?"

Trouble is, clubs now know that City are desperate for a deal and will price accordingly.

If he wants a winger, I know a certain frenchman is available!

Yea it's weird cause last season they were slick in their transfers and dealings, but this seasons it's rumblings of disagreements and a sense of desperation.

machiavellianme

Leiva wrote: »

Yea it's weird cause lady season they were slick in their transfers and dealings, but this seasons it's rumblings of disagreements and a sense of desperation.

What is lady season? Have they merged EPL with WSL? Probably the only way Arsenal will win a trophy

Leiva

machiavellianme wrote: »

What is lady season? Have they merged EPL with WSL? Probably the only way Arsenal will win a trophy

Lol . now edited.

grohlisagod

Talk of Falcao joining Chelsea. Supposedly a done deal. Surely it's BS?