** ALL NEW (WITH RULES) Summer Transfer Window 2012/2013 Season Rumours/Signings **

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wedgie said:
It's going to be fun next summer because we'll have the gaps left by Giggs and Scholes to fill on top of whatever he fails to plug this summer.
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That'll depend on how involved each are come the end of this season tbh, Giggs wont leave to much of a gap unless he ends the season like he did in 10/11 and ends up being pivotal to our success for example (but given his performances for much of last season that seems unlikely), Scholes likewise.

Fergie's just trolling us all buy not signing a central midfielder now I reckon, he's just doing it for kicks it's been an area that's needed addressing for that long :D
 
Well if you look at the fact both made 30+ appearances over the last few seasons (obviously Scholes did less last season but still played 20 in half a season) then I'd say it was going to be a gap. Cleverley will hopefully step up but then we've pretty much lost Fletcher as well.
 
Loki said:
Word is he is still looking at a CM, LB and Forward but he needs to free the space up in the squad. If it's Kagawa and Powell then I won't be overly worried as long as Tom Cleverly and Anderson can keep relatively injury free.
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personally think if Anderson leaves and isnt replaced thats an improvement already lol

(on his day he can be great, however on the other days - which are far too numerous - he is a complete liability)

Totally agree about the importance of TC remaining fit though

Shamikebab said:
Cleverley will hopefully step up but then we've pretty much lost Fletcher as well.
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Given that Fletch only made 10 apps last season (8 league), its not that big a gap to fill

Hopefully a few of the youngsters - Tunnicliffe?Keane? - will be given a chance in some of the early games
 
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25 years, probably the most successful club manager ever and still, year in year out people question his strategies and targets in the transfer window. It amazes me.

Anyway, AV deserves the number 7 jersey more than most, I certainly wouldn't give it Nani if he had asked!
 
Tom84 said:
That'll depend on how involved each are come the end of this season tbh, Giggs wont leave to much of a gap unless he ends the season like he did in 10/11 and ends up being pivotal to our success for example (but given his performances for much of last season that seems unlikely), Scholes likewise.

Fergie's just trolling us all buy not signing a central midfielder now I reckon, he's just doing it for kicks it's been an area that's needed addressing for that long :D
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Yeah Giggs is ineffective enough that it shouldn't be much of an issue, but I think Scholes will be. Even at his age, without being able to play all games, he's still the one you'd look to when it really matters. Unless someone steps up to the plate this season we'll have the same problems we did last year.

Another Nani story in the Sun today, they reckon he's desperate to stay but he fears we want rid. If we are looking to move him on we're doing a pretty poor job of it, we won't get anywhere close to his true value if it becomes obvious we want him gone.
 
wedgie said:
Another Nani story in the Sun today, they reckon he's desperate to stay but he fears we want rid. If we are looking to move him on we're doing a pretty poor job of it, we won't get anywhere close to his true value if it becomes obvious we want him gone.
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Well that's great news on it's own (providing it isn't total BS)
 
Robbo said:
I don't know if you've seen this picture of him at Wimbledon from last week, but he doesn't exactly look the picture of health.

He's pretty thin anyway though so perhaps the comments I've seen are wrong.
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hmm have I missed a joke somehwere - that looks more like Fletcher to me rather than TC (not that I think you would joke about Fletcher's well known illness)
 
FrankJH said:
hmm have I missed a joke somehwere - that looks more like Fletcher to me rather than TC (not that I think you would joke about Fletcher's well known illness)
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TC?

There's no joke (obviously), I'd just seen that picture at various media sites and a lot of people thought he looked very ill.
 
Robbo said:
TC?

There's no joke (obviously), I'd just seen that picture at various media sites and a lot of people thought he looked very ill.
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the way Sham's quote read, followed by your post thought it was meant to be a pic of Tom Cleverley (your original post kind of reads as though both players arent healthy)

(plus then some wum mentioning a heroin addict):rolleyes:

He DOES look incredibly ill - but I guess it depends on what he looked like before (during the "peak" of his illness)
 
He doesn't look great, he's younger than me and looks about 35 there, his eyes in particular look drained.

I wouldn't write him off just yet, the body has an amazing capacity to recover, the question is can he recover and go back to competing at the highest level?

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Tom Cleverly?? Is this another FrankJH pearler? :p.
 
Saint said:
I think this is a great signing for us. It has to be a modric replacement, just can't see him staying now.

Could even be a VDV replacement :(
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Villas-Boas is prepared for Modric's exit, however, and has identified Moutinho as his main transfer target. The pair enjoyed a glorious season together at Porto in 2010-11 – when Villas-Boas led the club to the league title with an unbeaten record, the Portuguese Cup and the Europa League – and the midfielder, who enhanced his reputation at Euro 2012, is keen on a reunion with his former coach. "AVB is one of the best coaches I've worked with," the 25-year-old said recently. "I'd work with him again tomorrow."

United have also been linked with Moutinho and Levy would have to sanction a club-record fee for Spurs to sign the Portugal international. Porto value him at €35m (£28m) and even a compromise fee would dwarf the £16.75m Tottenham paid Dinamo Zagreb for Modric in 2008.

Tottenham stand to make a lucrative profit on Modric and have moved for the Hoffenheim midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson, who has rejected a £6.8m transfer to Swansea City and is stalling on a deal with Liverpool over personal terms. They also hope to complete the £9.5m signing of the Ajax defender Jan Vertonghen, despite problems over his release from the Amsterdam club, and the Internacional midfielder Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior. They also need to improve a strikeforce that currently amounts to Jermain Defoe. Emanuel Adebayor remains a target after his successful loan last season but his £170,000-a-week wages at Manchester City are beyond Spurs.

Villas-Boas, who has been scouting in Brazil this summer, admires the Internacional striker Leandro Damião and Spurs have a sporting partnership with the Brazilian club. Gonzalo Higuaín and Ricardo Carvalho could also be used in a player-plus-cash deal with Real Madrid for Modric.
 
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