** Summer Transfer Window 2011/12 Season Rumours/Signings **

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Not sure if posted, from the papers today.

*Wes Brown is being lined up for a £3million move to Everton.
*Sir Alex Ferguson is keen on Real Madrid's Lassana Diarra as Manchester United look like missing out on Daniele De Rossi and Yann M'Vila.
*Arsene Wenger is to have his transfer kitty swelled to £60million by a property deal.
*Didier Drogba is wanted by cash-rich Spanish outfit Malaga.
*Manchester City are tracking Arsenal's Samir Nasri.
*Barcelona have made formal contact with Arsenal over Cesc Fabregas and are preparing to offer David Villa to Chelsea and Manchester City for £40million.
*Manchester City are ready to offer Carlos Tevez an escape route back to Argentina.
*Manchester City are throwing their Arab millions at Udinese in a last-gasp attempt to sign Alexis Sanchez.
*Chelsea last night launched a stunning £50million bid for Atletico Madrid goal machine Sergio Aguero after it was revealed he was close to joining Juventus.
*Barcelona hope to arrange a face-to-face meeting with Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gatzidis and manager Arsene Wenger in London this week to secure the transfer of Cesc Fabregas.
*Sir Alex Ferguson's rebuilding work will continue with the departure of defender Wes Brown to Everton.
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Villa would be a terrible signing despite being an obviously quality player. He hasnt pulled up any trees at Barca and he must be 29/30 now? Thats not the money anyone should be spending on a striker with no PL experience.
 
I think Villa has been outstanding at Barca this season, given he's played second fiddle to Messi this year in more of a left wing role. He had a barren patch towards the end of the season but still contributed to the team. I think they'd be mad to let him go though they obviously see Rossi as a suitable (and much younger) replacement.
 
What Levy needs to realise is that money isn't THAT usefull to us at the moment. My point is even City with unlimited funds struggled to attract players they really wanted without CL football. Only offering ludicrous sums of money like £200k per week could tempt some and even that didn't always work.

Now even if Spurs getting silly money for Modric, Bale & Sandro, lets say £100m+ for the lot... we still can't afford to compete with City, Chelsea or Utd so what use is that money really?

To attract players as good as Modric & Bale we'd have to pay astronomical fee's for those players aswell but the killer would be wages as we can't offer CL footy this year. Modric & Bale are on no more than about £80k a week each right now, which is cheap compared to what our rivals star players are all on.

Keep the team we have and a few shrewd buys to add some firepower upfront, concentrate on the Prem and I genuinely think we can finish 3rd or 4th next year. Heck if we have a good start to the season we could even challenge for the title... and I think I can say that without everyone falling over laughing and pointing... at least I think I can! :D
 
One More Solo said:
I think Villa has been outstanding at Barca this season, given he's played second fiddle to Messi this year in more of a left wing role. He had a barren patch towards the end of the season but still contributed to the team. I think they'd be mad to let him go though they obviously see Rossi as a suitable (and much younger) replacement.
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Im not saying he hasnt been good but as you say he hasnt played centrally this season and his game has suffered to an extent as a result. I dont really see why Barca would want rid of him though.

Even when he was at Valencia i thought he was a bad risk for an English club, not because i didnt rate him but because he would command a premium fee which would only reduce given his age and he had never played abroad so no-one would know how he would settle in another country. A year later i think these reasons are still just as valid to be wary of signing him.
 
Chong Warrior said:
What Levy needs to realise is that money isn't THAT usefull to us at the moment. My point is even City with unlimited funds struggled to attract players they really wanted without CL football. Only offering ludicrous sums of money like £200k per week could tempt some and even that didn't always work.

Now even if Spurs getting silly money for Modric, Bale & Sandro, lets say £100m+ for the lot... we still can't afford to compete with City, Chelsea or Utd so what use is that money really?

To attract players as good as Modric & Bale we'd have to pay astronomical fee's for those players aswell but the killer would be wages as we can't offer CL footy this year. Modric & Bale are on no more than about £80k a week each right now, which is cheap compared to what our rivals star players are all on.

Keep the team we have and a few shrewd buys to add some firepower upfront, concentrate on the Prem and I genuinely think we can finish 3rd or 4th next year. Heck if we have a good start to the season we could even challenge for the title... and I think I can say that without everyone falling over laughing and pointing... at least I think I can! :D
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The problem arises when players ask to leave though.

No matter how ambitious Spurs are and no matter how much money they have to spend it does become an issue of keeping an unhappy player. I think selling Modric wouldnt be an entirely bad thing but when the Chairman comes out and says "no sale, the matter is closed" it then goes beyond the player himself and is seen as a statement of intent for the whole club.

I dont see Spurs falling apart without Modric and given the creative players already at the club i dont even think replacing him is a massive issue. However the club will look daft if he is sold now after Levys comments.
 
Chong Warrior said:
Keep the team we have and a few shrewd buys to add some firepower upfront, concentrate on the Prem and I genuinely think we can finish 3rd or 4th next year. Heck if we have a good start to the season we could even challenge for the title... and I think I can say that without everyone falling over laughing and pointing... at least I think I can! :D
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Spurs won't win the title.

Who can spurs realistically overtake to get into the top 4 though? Not chelsea or man u. City will always outspend spurs and improve their squad more - which leaves arsenal as the only team spurs could beat...
 
AGD said:
Spurs won't win the title.

Who can spurs realistically overtake to get into the top 4 though? Not chelsea or man u. City will always outspend spurs and improve their squad more - which leaves arsenal as the only team spurs could beat...
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I don't think anyone in the Prem is all that at the moment. Last season any of the Top 6 could have beaten each other, what's changed so much in the past few weeks?
 
StewartMG said:
Why the **** would Barca sell Villa / why would he agree to moving?
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Apparently it's because of the relatively low transfer budget that Barcelona have in this window added to the fact they want to buy expensive players. Rossi, Sanchez and Fabregas. There's no way that they can afford that on the shoestring that they have. Personally I wouldn't sell David Villa for Rossi, even if Rossi has had a great season in the league it looks like a sideways move for me.

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That villa story was from the mirror, need I say more?
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Terrible sports "writers" in that paper. Slow news day? Ah just link a random player to Man City.
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
Apparently it's because of the relatively low transfer budget that Barcelona have in this window added to the fact they want to buy expensive players. Rossi, Sanchez and Fabregas. There's no way that they can afford that on the shoestring that they have. Personally I wouldn't sell David Villa for Rossi, even if Rossi has had a great season in the league it looks like a sideways move for me.
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Yup would agree with that. Rossi has the age advantage i guess though. If the Sanchez deal is done that would pretty much be their budget gone for the summer so any other deal would have to be balanced with sales. Although they have a great team they have a relatively small squad so its likely a recognised name would have to be shipped out to fund other deals.
 
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Sanchez to Barca is apparently a done deal according to various reports tweets.
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Interestingly it all seems to stem from canal14 (SP) which apparently a month or so again said we'd signed Pastore.... Probably not much sense getting all excited that we may still sign Sanchez but it seems the source isn't 100% credible
 
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