Jan transfer window

Burial.

Na lad he's going to United innit

Dirty Dingus McGee

Burial. wrote: »

Na lad he's going to United innit

After Kevin Strootman of course.

Trigger

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

After Kevin Strootman of course.

Dont forget Nico Gaitan

Brock Turnpike

astradave wrote: »

Sneijder next to head to China, 2 offers submitted according to the link.

https://twitter.com/football_oranje/status/816327379303993344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Saw some wag posting on Twitter today: 'Unnamed Chinese Club have a great chance of winning the league this year if they pull off all these signings'

Trigger

No Idea who this fella is

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNewsHQ/status/816400607036706816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

That signing came forth outta nowhere.

Trigger

Not January but Inter and Bayern looking to buy Verrati in the summer

https://twitter.com/DiMarzio/status/816420383960207360

The Talking Bread

Can see Veratti at Chelsea next Summer for some reason. Conte obviously knows him and he would fit in well in that team.

Ulysses Gaze

astradave wrote: »

Not January but Inter and Bayern looking to buy Verrati in the summer

https://twitter.com/DiMarzio/status/816420383960207360

Can see Juve making a bid for him as well.

Trigger

West ham fail with a 6m bid for defoe according to Sky sports

Johner

astradave wrote: »

West ham fail with a 6m bid for defoe according to Sky sports

He's worth about £50 million to Sunderland, if he leaves they are definitely getting relegated.

GavRedKing

Johner wrote: »

He's worth about £50 million to Sunderland, if he leaves they are definitely getting relegated.

Ya thats it, hes got 11 of there 19 goals.

Without him theyre points total is probably in single figures, as long as he doenst press for a move, they wont sell him, theyed be stupid.

rob316

They are screwed if they sell him, he has 11 goals already this season.

dr.kenneth noisewater

astradave wrote: »

West ham fail with a 6m bid for defoe according to Sky sports

Would be a good signing for WH and I'm sure he'd love to London. Sunderland are doomed if he leaves and I think Moyes would walk if they did sell him

DrumSteve

dr.kenneth noisewater wrote: »

Would be a good signing for WH and I'm sure he'd love to London. Sunderland are doomed if he leaves and I think Moyes would walk if they did sell him

I reckon he can still get that move at the end of the season.

Being 34 now is not the same as being 34 (in football terms at least) 10 years ago.

Trigger

I hope they quote them 50m

https://twitter.com/SkyKaveh/status/816649684592840704

eagle eye

yabadabado wrote: »

He's not even making the bench now,its fairly obvious Jose doesnt have him in his plans.He has something 10 minutes of playing time in the league so far.
I dont think an injury to either of those players will make much difference to his situation other than getting promoted to the bench.

Is he much more than a good solid player ?Looked good at Southampton but hasnt made the step up required at United at all.

Sorry my bad, I don't have twitter at work and presumed we were talking about Schweinsteiger.

Trigger

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNewsHQ/status/816725394250407936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

West ham be like:

Ferris_Bueller

Thought Brentford would have accepted a bid of ten million for him, unless they fancy themselves for promotion (9 points off the play offs atm) then I think it would be wise to sell him this window. He may never have such a hot streak again and I would think a club is more likely to pay over the odds in January.

Lucas Hood

Jose Fonte has handed in a transfer request.

MD1990

Fonte would be a good signing for any top 4 club. Big loss for Southampton if he leaves.

Osmosis Jones

Southampton always find great players, but losing Fonte this month and most likely van Dijk in the summer will be tough for them.

domrush

Koeman should push for him

rob316

MD1990 wrote: »

Fonte would be a good signing for any top 4 club. Big loss for Southampton if he leaves.

Welcome to Liverpool :pac:

Probably United bound though, good experienced player for Jose.

Agent Coulson

Everton sign Ademola Lookman from Carlton for £11m

Leicester sign Wilfred Ndidi from Genk for £15m.

eh i dunno

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Everton sign Ademola Lookman from Carlton for £11m

Leicester sign Wilfred Ndidi from Genk for £15m.

7.5m for Lookman is what I heard.

Agent Coulson

eh i dunno wrote: »

7.5m for Lookman is what I heard.

Well the BBC are say £11m

Agent Coulson

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Well the BBC are say £11m

Look man, we'll go with that so...

A Dub in Glasgo

Celtic close to signing Kouassi Eboue from FC Krasnodar for about £2.8m

Celtic will also reject West Ham bid of £20m for Moussa Dembele

Trigger

West ham are looking increasingly desperate to sign a striker.. every club is going to look at that and be able hold out for an extra couple of million.

If the info is coming from themselves, which it seems to be as their has been multiple bids reported to different teams, it's a very stupid way to do business and they will end up paying even more over the odds

Cantona's Collars

Jon Obi Mikel is headed to China. He announced it this morning.

Liam McPoyle

zerks wrote: »

Jon Obi Mikel is headed to China. He announced it this morning.

Greatest transfer in our history.

Never played a game for us and we got almost £17,000,000 for him.

Best of all is that he turned out to be pretty much a bag of shyte.

Pete Moss

Rod Munch wrote: »

Greatest transfer in our history.

Never played a game for us and we got almost £17,000,000 for him.

Best of all is that he turned out to be pretty much a bag of shyte.

I wouldn't go so far as to call him that. Fair enough, he was no Makélélé or Essien, but he was hardly Ali Dia either.

He probably would've worked out as a better transfer for United than some other players bought in the same era, like Liam Miller, Kleberson or Djemba-Djemba.

Lukker-

Pete Moss wrote: »

He probably would've worked out as a better transfer for United than some other players bought in the same era, like Liam Miller, Kleberson or Djemba-Djemba.

Those names don't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath.

eagle eye

Rod Munch wrote: »

Greatest transfer in our history.

Never played a game for us and we got almost £17,000,000 for him.

Best of all is that he turned out to be pretty much a bag of shyte.

Seroiusly? He was considered for a couple of years to be one of the best defensive midfielders in the game. He played over 250 games for Chelsea including their Champion's league final win where he had a great game.

Lovely Bloke

Bag of shyte? That's some serious bitterness.

Blazer

I'd love to know how much a week he's on.

Johner

eagle eye wrote: »

Seroiusly? He was considered for a couple of years to be one of the best defensive midfielders in the game. He played over 250 games for Chelsea including their Champion's league final win where he had a great game.

Was closer to 400 apps.

Blazer wrote: »

I'd love to know how much a week he's on.

Reports of around 140k, he was on around 85k at Chelsea.

yabadabado

Rod Munch wrote: »

Greatest transfer in our history.

Never played a game for us and we got almost £17,000,000 for him.

Best of all is that he turned out to be pretty much a bag of shyte.

He was no superstar but it's safe to say he would have played a huge number of games for United if he had stayed.A very good squad player for Chelsea and he would have been a better option than some of the players who got games for United in the same period.

Chancer3001

Alan smith defensive mid

Rafael centre mid

John o shea

Liam miller

Djemba

Kieron richardson


Mikel would have played 100s of games for United

Lukker-

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Alan smith defensive mid

Rafael centre mid

John o shea

Liam miller

Djemba

Kieron richardson


Mikel would have played 100s of games for United

He'd probably still be at the club and playing regularly with Mourinho in charge now.

inforfun

Adel Taarabt to Genoa
Elvis Manu on loan to Go Ahead Eagles.

CantGetNoSleep

Lukker- wrote: »

He'd probably still be at the club and playing regularly with Mourinho in charge now.

Or they would have played Rafael and a 46 year old Paul Scholes ahead of him, sold him for 500k and bought him back for 180 times that

rwbug

https://twitter.com/PhilipHarmeling/status/817388192160681984

Johner

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNewsHQ/status/817401923368316930

Some insulting bids this window from West Ham.

ERG89

West Ham failed with a £3m bid to sign Snodgrass. Assume it's Sigurdsson next in a spree of attempting to take the only good players away from relegation candidates.

Andersonisgod

rwbug wrote: »

https://twitter.com/PhilipHarmeling/status/817388192160681984

There's positives and negatives to this deal. The first, and most obvious, is that it's the clearest indication yet of just how poorly Guardiola feels City's recruitment has been. That he must bring in a player, with no prior PL experience on loan, despite the money City have spent on centre backs in recent years, is both shocking and damning. Otamendi is a loose cannon, Stones is not the finished product, Kompany isn't to be relied upon, Mangala was surely more of a favour to the agent than a properly researched recruit, Kolarov is woeful no matter where he plays. The positives are that at least Badstuber knows Guardiola, he knows what Guardiola demands of his centre backs. The downside is no English experience, and he really is not the quickest player but mentally he is sharp.

With any luck this might mean never seeing Kolarov at centre back again.

Trigger

Andersonisgod wrote: »

There's positives and negatives to this deal. The first, and most obvious, is that it's the clearest indication yet of just how poorly Guardiola feels City's recruitment has been. That he must bring in a player, with no prior PL experience on loan, despite the money City have spent on centre backs in recent years, is both shocking and damning. Otamendi is a loose cannon, Stones is not the finished product, Kompany isn't to be relied upon, Mangala was surely more of a favour to the agent than a properly researched recruit, Kolarov is woeful no matter where he plays. The positives are that at least Badstuber knows Guardiola, he knows what Guardiola demands of his centre backs. The downside is no English experience, and he really is not the quickest player but mentally he is sharp.

With any luck this might mean never seeing Kolarov at centre back again.

And yet he has probably still played more games than badstuber in the last 4 years

rwbug

astradave wrote: »

And yet he has probably still played more games than badstuber in the last 4 years

Yip - Badstuber has 28 appearances in 3 1/2 years.

Andersonisgod

astradave wrote: »

And yet he has probably still played more games than badstuber in the last 4 years

That's true, I'm not particularly advocating for the transfer, simply saying that I can see the positives and negatives of the deal. On one hand he's a defender with no Premier League experience, whose pace is limited and whose injury record is an obvious cause for concern. On the plus side he's an intelligent player who is already accustomed to working within the Guardiola framework so won't need time to adjust to that. He might also be useful for Pep to use as an example for players like Stone and Otamendi to follow.