The Summer Transfer Thread

The_Kew_Tour

If Pele says good things about you then you're fecked.

Headshot

When you go motorised dish, you never go back.

Amirani

Obviously Goal.com articles should be taken with a mountain of salt, but De Rossi to Chelsea would be an interesting one: http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892/transfer-zone/2013/06/03/4022661/chelsea-open-talks-with-roma-to-sign-de-rossi

Winston Payne

Tancredi Palmeri ‏@tancredipalmeri 12m
Manchester United has contacted Fiorentina for Jovetic according to tomorrow Gazzetta edition

Juventus were quoted twenty five million earlier today, forget if it was euros or sterling.

Another rumour:
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Shakhtar Donetsk

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>Liverpool
£22M

In The Mirror, The Guardian and The Telegraph.

Amirani

Winston Payne wrote: »

Another rumour:
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Shakhtar Donetsk

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>Liverpool
£22M

In The Mirror, The Guardian and The Telegraph.

I'd be shocked if Rodgers was to spend so much on one player.

Marty McFly

Sterling they want 30 million euros for Jovetic.

Can see this one dragging on for a while Arsenal have been linked with him for months.

Andersonisgod

Corholio wrote: »

But you post like that with everything, anytime anyone says anything about Barcelona, you unleash a spiel that almost has to be put with footage in slow motion. He's quite a bit to go to even reach Ronaldos level, nevermind talking about Pele. There's been about 100 'new Peles'.

I have to admit I have lol'ed at your two replies to me, quite funny.

Maybe I am just a poetic person? I truly believe that this Barcelona team is the greatest team of its generation, containing some of the most gifted players of their generation and I wholeheartedly believe that they will go down in history as one of the great teams.

I think this one is different, I think he is a very special player and that he has the potential to be one of, if not thee, best player in the world.

Winston Payne

NiallSparky wrote: »

I'd be shocked if Rodgers was to spend so much on one player.

If Suarez goes, there's money to spend. I like the look of Mkhitaryan. He's another CAM though, so does that mean Coutinho is pushed into the frontline?

ricero

Winston Payne wrote: »

If Suarez goes, there's money to spend. I like the look of Mkhitaryan. He's another CAM though, so does that mean Coutinho is pushed into the frontline?

heard Rodgers was planning on going for him even before suarez said he wanted to leave. using the andy carroll money if he goes to west ham. is he any use ? only saw him against dortmund and chelsea and he looked decent

Winston Payne

ricero wrote: »

heard Rodgers was planning on going for him even before suarez said he wanted to leave. using the andy carroll money if he goes to west ham. is he any use ? only saw him against dortmund and chelsea and he looked decent

Excellent player technically. Short passing game and positional rotation is great. Only 23 too.

Amirani

Winston Payne wrote: »

Excellent player technically. Short passing game and positional rotation is great. Only 23 too.

I haven't seen much of him to be honest but he does seem like a Rodgers type of player.

Seaneh

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

If Pele says good things about you then you're fecked.

Exactly.
Anyone remember Leon Knight?

batistuta9

Andersonisgod wrote: »

The channels will be slowly fazed out. I think they finish up in July or August, so they definitely wont be showing any Premier League games next season.

Oat23 wrote: »

O/T BT info


I also was very disappointed to hear about the closure of ESPN's Europe/MENA operations. ESPN Classic was, well, class. ESPN America will also be going from around Europe AFAIK.

BT are going to have 3 channels, BT sport 1 & 2 and also an ESPN branded channel

BT bought ESPN's broadcast rights for the UK & Ireland - ESPN UK & ESPN America.
ESPN Classic isn't part of that deal though, think it's closing

so you should still get the american sports if you're into them

hufpc8w3adnk65

batistuta9 wrote: »

BT are going to have 3 channels, BT sport 1 & 2 and also an ESPN branded channel

BT bought ESPN's broadcast rights for the UK & Ireland - ESPN UK & ESPN America.
ESPN Classic isn't part of that deal though, think it's closing

so you should still get the american sports if you're into them

Will BT be free too air?

batistuta9

MrMac84 wrote: »

Will BT be free too air?

no, on SKY in the UK it's £12/15 HD i think
they've deals on if you sign to broadband/phone with them but they haven't that here

ESPN wasn't free to air either.
It was only included as part of the sky sports pack here because of low uptake on it i think, it remained a separate subscription channel in the UK

hufpc8w3adnk65

batistuta9 wrote: »

no, on SKY in the UK it's £12/15 HD i think
they've deals on if you sign to broadband/phone with them but they haven't that here

ESPN wasn't free to air either.
It was only included as part of the sky sports pack here because of low uptake on it i think, it remained a separate subscription channel in the UK

So hopefully people don't sign up for it and they just add it too the sports pack on sky too

~Rebel~

Seaneh wrote: »

Exactly.
Anyone remember Leon Knight?

And El Hadji Diouf. One of the top 100 players of all time apparently.

batistuta9

MrMac84 wrote: »

So hopefully people don't sign up for it and they just add it too the sports pack on sky too

i don't that'll happen this time

hufpc8w3adnk65

Are they gettin PL games?

batistuta9

MrMac84 wrote: »

Are they gettin PL games?

BT?

yeah 38 games, 18 first pick
12:45 saturdays & midweeks/holidays (i think)

Jax Teller

~Rebel~ wrote: »

And El Hadji Diouf. One of the top 100 players of all time apparently.

Top 125 . FIFA 100 referred to the 100 year anniversary of Fifa .

Bounty Hunter

Jax Teller wrote: »

Top 125 . FIFA 100 referred to the 100 year anniversary of Fifa .

It was also supposed to be a top 100 (50 retired / 50 current) but Pele found it too hard to narrow his selection down to just 100 cos everyone is the best in Pele's eyes and instead they went with 125 including such luminaries as Diouf

Professional Griefer

Villa one of 5 clubs to bid for Belhanda.

Dickerty

NiallSparky wrote: »

I'd be shocked if Rodgers was to spend so much on one player.

I wouldn't, not for the right player. He spent good money on Allen, and medium on Borini, Coutinho and Sturridge. They did a great job sorting out the wage bill with removing Bellamy, Maxi, Dirk, Aurelio, Aqua, Cole, Doni and Carroll (and Carra). So we are in far better shape.

If we are to have serious claims for top 4, we need 3 big players - a CB to play with Agger (assume Papa), playmaker CM to support Stevie/Phil (assume Micky Hit), and I assume a replacement for Luis now as well (as yet unknown?). The other 8 starters are save IMO (Pepe, Jose, Agger, Glenjo, Lucas, Stevie, Phil, Danny) and the bench will include Toure, Kelly, Hendo, Allen, Aspas, Borini and a keeper (Shelvey, Sterling, Downing if not sold, Wisdom, Suso, Assaidi all in reserve).

The money taken in from Skrtel and Carroll on top of our usual pot will allow us to spend 50M+, so 20M on a playmaker is very fair...

Johner

Paully D wrote: »

Sunderland have a meeting on Wednesday with Ignacio Scocco's representatives.

I'd imagine wages would be tricky with this one considering he's an Al-Ain player, and he'll surely have interest from elsewhere.

30 goals in 40 games on loan at Newell's this season.

That would be an unreal signing for Sunderland if it happened. I'd be surprised if there isn't other interest, been very impressed with him.

Cypher_sounds

Professional Griefer wrote: »

Villa one of 5 clubs to bid for Belhanda.

Belhanda to Villa?? Please god no, he deserves so much better. Swap him with Valencia.

brianregan09

I'd have thought the big teams would have been in for Belhanda , Villa would be an amazing drop down

Chucky the tree

No big clubs seem to be interested in these ridiculously hyped players from France. Hazard is the only one who has moved to a big club that I can think of.

brianregan09

Thats because Newcastle signed all of them lol

Super-Rush

Apparently West Ham have had a £14.5 million bid rejected for Negredo.

Headshot

Spurs should be going for him tbh. Alot better than Ade any day of the week

Rekop dog

Chucky the tree wrote: »

No big clubs seem to be interested in these ridiculously hyped players from France. Hazard is the only one who has moved to a big club that I can think of.

Varane Niang Pogba..... All fantastic talents at big clubs now. Prob a case of highest bidder gets Zouma. There's no country with more promising youth players.

Winston Payne

Headshot wrote: »

Spurs should be going for him tbh. Alot better than Ade any day of the week

Slow as a wet week though. I don't think he'd adapt to the Premier League. Soldado on the other hand...

Headshot

Winston Payne wrote: »

Slow as a wet week though. I don't think he'd adapt to the Premier League. Soldado on the other hand...

idk about him, he has these seconds of madness and doesnt do much for the team besides of course being a good goal scorer

Negredo for me does more for the team than Soldado would

Francie Barrett

Still can't get over Navas moving to Man City. Surely he'll be back at Sevilla by Christmas?

Winston Payne

Shakhtar have confirmed two deals today:

Lucas Fernando
Gremio

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>Shakhtar Donetsk

Wellington Nem
Fluminese

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>Shakhtar Donetsk


Shakhtar have paid an initial €15M potentially rising to €20M between them. I don't know if Lucas Fernando is a deep or attacking midfielder yet. Potentially a replacement for either Fernandinho or Mkhitaryan.

Talib Fiasco

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Still can't get over Navas moving to Man City. Surely he'll be back at Sevilla by Christmas?

Sevilla aren't in the Champions League next season as far as I know...

Francie Barrett

TheComeUp wrote: »

Sevilla aren't in the Champions League next season as far as I know...

It's the homesickness thing I am on about. Apparently he had to be taken home by his brother and father from a training camp that was only a few hours away from his home in Sevilla. Surely he won't be able to hacking living in dreary Manchester full-time?

Johner

Francie Barrett wrote: »

It's the homesickness thing I am on about. Apparently he had to be taken home by his brother and father from a training camp that was only a few hours away from his home in Sevilla. Surely he won't be able to hacking living in dreary Manchester full-time?

He's over it.

Headshot

i doubt you can ever be over somthing like that

He will never spend this amount of time away from home before

Rekop dog

If I was West Ham owners and had a bit of money to splash about the first thing I'd do would be to give Big Sam his marching orders.

CSF

Rekop dog wrote: »

If I was West Ham owners and had a bit of money to splash about the first thing I'd do would be to give Big Sam his marching orders.

Why? He has done well there where those before him have done poorly.

Super-Rush

Rekop dog wrote: »

If I was West Ham owners and had a bit of money to splash about the first thing I'd do would be to give Big Sam his marching orders.

Really?

He's done well there or am i missing something?

kryogen

Johner wrote: »

He's over it.

We will see about that I guess

Talib Fiasco

Francie Barrett wrote: »

It's the homesickness thing I am on about. Apparently he had to be taken home by his brother and father from a training camp that was only a few hours away from his home in Sevilla. Surely he won't be able to hacking living in dreary Manchester full-time?

Yeah I knew that, was just playing :P

But yeah apparently he is over it.... He has spent a decent amount of time away from home with Spain and indeed Sevilla in recent years as well but yeah for sure this is a whole new level. I don't think City would be foolish enough to allow something like that happen to him or even sign a guy who won't cope. Navas has reassured everyone that he's over that and is willing to move so what more can you say? He was supposed to sign for Chelsea/Arsenal/United years back but he made it know that he suffers from homesickness and it put it to bed. Why would he say different now if he wasn't over it? Navas isn't too naive to deny it just for the sake of a big move.

I'm sure the Spanish crew at City will be good for him and it's not like City would be too stubborn to get some professionals in if needs be. He's a married man now and I think he has a kid as well so they'll be a big help to him when settling in. I'm pretty confident he'll be fine... Those incidents happened a good few years ago, he seems to have matured a lot since then.

JPA

Didn't Navas used to hate away games even?
I hope he succeeds.

SoulTrader

Super-Rush wrote: »

Apparently West Ham have had a £14.5 million bid rejected for Negredo.

Suarez breathes a sigh of relief.

CSF

SoulTrader wrote: »

Suarez breathes a sigh of relief.

I don't get it

G.K.

I think it's supposed to be a joke regarding the similarity of the spelling of Negredo to another word which referrs to the colour of people's skin.

Bad joke though. If anything, it'll be Terry breathing a sight of relief, given that it's a London club who were in for him. ;P

CSF

Oh, I see. Maybe it'd have been funnier if I'd got it immediately.