** Official ** Summer 2010 Transfer Thread - Signings, Sightings and Rumor's in Here

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K1LLSW1TCH said:
Spurs look a bit short of forwards
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Keane, Crouch, Pavlechenko & Defoe looks decent to me, in fact you could make a case to say that their 4th choice striker is better than the 4th choice proffered by the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal.
 
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Scholes and Giggs are not "key players" to MU anymore, now that's not to say they aren't decent, just that their team isn't drastically weakened by leaving them out when everyone else is available.
 
"Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will instruct Wayne Rooney to rest after England's World Cup disaster and will not take him on the club's US tour.
Full story: Sunday Mirror"

Fergie announced ages ago that he wasn't taking any of the World Cup players on tour. So not really news then.
 
So why post it? :p

And just so we have some transfer rumours in the transfer rumours thread: Hodgson wants to sign Ashley Young, Hangelaand, Taylor (Newcastle) and Joe Cole says the Mirror :p
 
Daily Fail saying Torres is on the verge of joining Chelsea after his agent said he will be staying in the Premier League, but probably not Liverpool.

Anyone else hate scumbag agents?

I am also starting to dislike Football, it's being ruined by money and contracts now are simply not worth the paper they are written on.
 
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anticonscience said:
Daily Fail saying Torres is on the verge of joining Chelsea after his agent said he will be staying in the Premier League, but probably not Liverpool.

Anyone else hate scumbag agents?

I am also starting to dislike Football, it's being ruined by money and contracts now are simply not worth the paper they are written on.
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Sounds about right. New manager, agent sees this as an oportunity to get his player either a move to a team playing in the CL or a nice big pay raise :p

Hopefully he is coming to Arsenal ;)

Bendtner could teach him a few new tricks in being the "best player in the world" :p
 
Just reading a few of the blogs this morning and this cropped up which made me laugh.

Koscielny will sign at some point and that seems to be about the size of it. This morning's Mail says Sporting Braga have offered us their goalkeeper, Eduardo, who was pretty decent in the World Cup. For some reason they'd rather he joined us than Genoa. We can only speculate as to why. Either they don't like Genoa or they don't like us. Either way they're clearly bitter people and we should stay well away from them.
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Oh and I was just looking at the Emirates Cup fixtures which kicks off on the 31st of this month and it looks like Celtic, AC Milan and Lyon, so hopefully it won't be a joke like the last few have been.
 
Todays gos...

TRANSFER GOSSIP

Fernando Torres is on the verge of leaving Liverpool after his agent indicated the striker is bound for another Premier League club, with Chelsea at the front of the queue to sign the Spaniard.
Full story: Daily Mail

However, Bayern Munich and Germany striker Thomas Mueller is now Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti's number one summer transfer target. The 20-year-old has scored four goals at the World Cup to help his country into the semi-finals.
Full story: caughtoffside.com

Chelsea are set to snap up Portuguese attacking midfielder Raul Meireles for £15m. The Porto star, who impressed during the World Cup, is seen as the first stage in Ancelotti's midfield rebuilding programme after the departures of Michael Ballack and Joe Cole.
Full story: Daily Mirror

Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas has his heart set on playing for Barcelona next season, according to his Spain team-mate Gerard Pique.
Full story: Daily Mail

Arsenal have been approached about a deal for Sporting Braga's Portugal goalkeeper Eduardo, 27, who has a £3.4m buy-out clause in his contract.
Full Story: Daily Mail

Manchester City have been alarmed by Wolfsburg's £50m demands for Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko, leading the Eastlands outfit to inquire about a number of other forwards, including Inter Milan's Mario Balotelli, Palermo's Edinson Cavani, Mirko Vucinic of Roma and Real Madrid's Karim Benzema.
Full Story: Daily Mail

Meanwhile, Manchester City have taken a £1.25m loss on Valeri Bojinov after selling the striker for £4.5m to Parma. The Bulgarian signed for £5.75m from Juventus in 2007 but immediately suffered a serious knee injury.
Full story: Daily Mirror

Bolton are closing in on Real Madrid left-back Marcos Alonso after he rejected Benfica. Real striker Rodrigo Moreno is also Bolton-bound in a combined £5m deal.
Full story: the Sun

West Ham are ready to pip Espanyol for Mexico winger Pablo Barrera in a £3m deal and are also keen on signing Aston Villa midfielder Steve Sidwell.
Full Story: Daily Mail

West Ham boss Avram Grant is also set to beat Fulham and West Brom to the signature of Lyon's Ivory Coast striker Frederic Piquionne, 31, who played for Grant while on loan at Portsmouth last season.
Full Story: the Sun

Stoke boss Tony Pulis has offered Cardiff £2m plus winger Michael Tonge in his bid to sign midfielder Joe Ledley, 23.
Full Story: the Sun

However, Celtic are also in talks with Joe Ledley about a move from Cardiff to Scotland, with the midfielder likely to make a decision on his future this week.
Full Story: Daily Record

Celtic have launched a bid to sign Mexico winger Pablo Barrera, who wants to leave Universidad Nacional in his homeland, and the 23-year-old was in Glasgow last week for talks after his side were knocked out of the World Cup. (the Sun)

Guinea full-back Ibrahima Camara will join Celtic on trial from French club Le Mans with a view to a permanent contract later this week along with Vojvodina and Montenegro midfielder Slaven Stjepanovic. (Daily Express)

Rangers are on the trail of £2m-rated West Brom winger Chris Brunt. (Daily Express)

Celtic and Rangers could battle it out with French, Greek and Spanish clubs to land 27-year-old Swedish striker Markus Rosenberg, who is out-of-contract with Werder Bremen. (Daily Express)

Wigan manager Roberto Martinez is hoping to sign German full-back Lenny Sowah, 17, from Portsmouth.
Full Story: Daily Mail

Wigan Athletic are closing in on the signature of Hamilton Academical midfielder James McArthur. (Various)

Newcastle United and Bolton Wanderers are chasing released Celtic left-back Lee Naylor. (Daily Record)

Italy's 2006 World Cup-winning captain Fabio Cannavaro will join new Al Ahli coach David O'Leary in Dubai after signing a two-year deal with the club.
Full Story: Daily Mail

OTHER GOSSIP

Fulham are planning to make a formal approach to the agent of former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson to find out whether the Swede, who coached Ivory Coast at the World Cup, would be interested in replacing Roy Hodgson at Craven Cottage. (Daily Star)

However, former Fulham midfielder Lee Clark, currently the manager at Huddersfield, is the favourite for the Craven Cottage post as he heads a shortlist of three, which also includes Mark Hughes and Alan Curbishley.
Full Story: Daily Mirror

Former Shrewsbury boss Paul Simpson is in contention to take over as coach of the Libya national side. (Daily Mail)

AND FINALLY

Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe says the simple excuse for England's poor showing at the World Cup was that boss Fabio Capello was "unlucky".
Full story: the Sun
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Chelsea seem to be linked with everybody under the sun again.

I'm a little upset with Fergie doing his usual "the transfer market is over priced" malarky again this summer. The amount of good players that are (rumoured) to be going for between £15m-£20m is pretty surprising.

We don't need to try and find the next big thing in football, and then find out they're no good... so put them on loan or sell them a season later.

Our buying power and mentality seems to be aimed at the above average players at the moment. I know we've never really gone out and bought megastars in the past, but it's still worrying.
 
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Chelsea seem to be linked with everybody under the sun again.

I'm a little upset with Fergie doing his usual "the transfer market is over priced" malarky again this summer. The amount of good players that are (rumoured) to be going for between £15m-£20m is pretty surprising.

We don't need to try and find the next big thing in football, and then find out they're no good... so put them on loan or sell them a season later.

Our buying power and mentality seems to be aimed at the above average players at the moment. I know we've never really gone out and bought megastars in the past, but it's still worrying.
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I would consider buying Ferdinand, Rooney and Berb as big spending. Even Carrick and Veron despite them not all doing well.
 
how was capello unlucky?

he took some terrible players and put them onto the pitch in a bad situation where they would add nothing.. and thats exactly what they did.

to me thats bad management...

playing rooney despite his apparent lack of form was also terrible. watch spain, torres is completely the match of rooney and spain had no probs chopping him at half time. and they dd NOT bring a heskey on, or even someone nearly as terrible as heskey.
 
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