January Transfer Window 2010/2011 Season Rumours/Signings

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Eh up Goon, I stole that for my Facebook status, hope you don't mind sweet pea x

I stole it from F365 so it's no bother ;)

I promise from this day forth to read through 76 pages of pure engrossing and deep understanding knowledge of the game we refer to as "footy" before posting again in future... just in case it's been posted before. Please accept my unreserved apologies ;)

If you do reply to this post, please give me 72 hours to reply... just incase...

Too right. Get to it, oh and it's 57 pages.:p
 
You should. It's like Zonal Marking back there. We're all inverted pyramids and false number nines and withdrawn central wingers. It'll blow your mind.

Not just crass jokes about Liverpool and over-excitable Man City fans. Oh no.
 
Oh yeah, reading a story on Spurs today, I'd utterly forgotten about the massive Beckham debacle aswell. "he's coming, he's not, he'll help us get a 80k seater stadium, no he'll train with us, he'll play in a training game and may well still join us, for 4 days, before he's due back to Galaxy, nope can't even sort that".

Spurs for maybe too many years has been focused on expanding the depth rather than actually improving the quality of the first team, Pienaar, Parker, Beckham, Neville, Sandro, etc, etc. Harry loves a big squad, but laughably, refuses to use it. He complained the other day they lost to Fulham because they were tired, then why are you using the same players for pretty much every game, Bale gets injured and Niko who's excellent and knows the team still doesn't play, but Pienaar who isn't up to speed with the team does play.


Also, seriously, are Spurs fans happy King keeps getting new contracts? At least Rosicky is back to fitness(though rubbish) and didn't have a history of injury, you could be spending however much a week on a CB who isn't consistantly injured?
 
Also, seriously, are Spurs fans happy King keeps getting new contracts? At least Rosicky is back to fitness(though rubbish) and didn't have a history of injury, you could be spending however much a week on a CB who isn't consistantly injured?

I've raised this point but about woodgate and Dyer, they have a history of long injury lay offs and not being world beaters when they are fit, yet teams snap them up on the hope they will have one freak injury free season of averageness.

Same with Owen at United, oh look, we will get him on a free on pay per play, oh look, pointless because he has been injured for 3/4 of the time he has been there.

If ANYBODY signs or resigns Hargreaves at the end of the season, the manager should be instantly fired.
 
Yup, Dyer was a stupid signing, at least if you get one of these players, a hugely reduced fee or something then maybe it could be worth it. Ljunberg ended up injured and not playing a lot but thats not really his fault, he was a great player and managed to play a lot through his career, that was more bad luck. But Dyer, King, both Owen's, and a few others you'd be mad to buy or keep giving new contracts.

THough I did wonder if King was on WAY less than the other defenders due to his injury issues. Hargreaves can't get a new contract, or Fergie's actually gone senile. ickle Owen, what actual deal is he on, I can't imagine he would have stayed that long to play so little if he was only getting paid for appearances. Is he on a say 20k a week and then 50k a week on weeks he plays/makes the bench or something. You'd think if he was on nothing but 50-60k per performance, with the lack of performances he'd have left by now.
 
If Hargreaves was able to train and appeared fit I'd take him at Leeds next season.

If we could get even 10-15 games out of him it'd have a positive impact. It'd have to be pay-as-you-play.
 
I've raised this point but about woodgate and Dyer, they have a history of long injury lay offs and not being world beaters when they are fit, yet teams snap them up on the hope they will have one freak injury free season of averageness.

Same with Owen at United, oh look, we will get him on a free on pay per play, oh look, pointless because he has been injured for 3/4 of the time he has been there.

If ANYBODY signs or resigns Hargreaves at the end of the season, the manager should be instantly fired.

Just to see him scoring against City in the last second of the game was worth signing Owen (given he was on a free and isnt being payed that much) let alone the CC goal and a few others (not to mention his hat-trick away from home in the CL)

Not worth re-signing admittedly but a decent experiment for a short period

Rumours of a pay as you play deal at Utd for Hargreaves - doubt it somehow but the rumour is about. Really feel for him, but the team need someone in urgently in that role.
 
Oh yeah, reading a story on Spurs today, I'd utterly forgotten about the massive Beckham debacle aswell. "he's coming, he's not, he'll help us get a 80k seater stadium, no he'll train with us, he'll play in a training game and may well still join us, for 4 days, before he's due back to Galaxy, nope can't even sort that".

Spurs for maybe too many years has been focused on expanding the depth rather than actually improving the quality of the first team, Pienaar, Parker, Beckham, Neville, Sandro, etc, etc. Harry loves a big squad, but laughably, refuses to use it. He complained the other day they lost to Fulham because they were tired, then why are you using the same players for pretty much every game, Bale gets injured and Niko who's excellent and knows the team still doesn't play, but Pienaar who isn't up to speed with the team does play.


Also, seriously, are Spurs fans happy King keeps getting new contracts? At least Rosicky is back to fitness(though rubbish) and didn't have a history of injury, you could be spending however much a week on a CB who isn't consistantly injured?

:rolleyes:

1: You can comment on our squad depth when you don't bemoan your lack of cover with every injury.

2: Pienaar played two games, and was dropped for his poor performance.

3: Kranjcar is struggling for fitness.

4: There's no better man I'd have paid £100k a week than King. He's said to already be on a deal to reflect his current fitness. As is Woodgate, who was fantastic for us until an unfortunate long term injury which can happen to any player at any time.
 
:rolleyes:

1: You can comment on our squad depth when you don't bemoan your lack of cover with every injury.

2: Pienaar played two games, and was dropped for his poor performance.

3: Kranjcar is struggling for fitness.

4: There's no better man I'd have paid £100k a week than King. He's said to already be on a deal to reflect his current fitness. As is Woodgate, who was fantastic for us until an unfortunate long term injury which can happen to any player at any time.

Errm, I don't bemoan the lack of squad depth, I bemoan the lack of quality in the players Wenger chooses to start and consistantly for years suggest we have better players in depth and have had the strongest squad of the top 4 for years, and entirely misused it.

Pienaar played for two games then was dropped due to sucking balls, does that not prove my point, and tied in with 3, wouldn't Krancjar be fitter if he was used more, thus would have more easily stepped in before Pienaar, and shock horror, if he was used more often maybe, Bale would have been less tired, rested a little more and potentially not injured :o


Theres no better man than King, who has several games where he's utterly rubbish, a certain thrashing by Arsenal where RVP turned him easily Cesc ran won the ball from the retake and ran without any hint of pressure from King to score straight after? He's also had other shocking performances, you'd pay him 100k a week.

Anyway I came back to comment on that loyal King who you would pay so much, his recovery has been put back at least a week after he lost his passport so couldn't make it to Germany for his surgery, opps. That would only be another 100k if you had your way.

Anyway, I did ask(i think, cba'd to check back) if they were on reduced cash deals as if they were on what general top 5 CB's were on while never playing it would be shocking really.

Either way, what seems pretty damn obvious to most people is, 2 worse cb's with an established, in form partnership who the team is used to relying on, know how each other play are a much better option than 2 cb's who can't be relied on at all.

Just look at England, they became practiced for a pair of players that couldn't be relied on, first Rio(at that point hadn't he not played more than 3 games in a row for 18 months or something) then King, rather than practicing for months with all the friendlies using the two most likely to be fit players.
 
I eagerly await our like a new signing in the summer of Lukas Fabianski. :cool:

We've needed another keeper for some time now. Be good to get a new one in the... oh.
 
I've raised this point but about woodgate and Dyer, they have a history of long injury lay offs and not being world beaters when they are fit, yet teams snap them up on the hope they will have one freak injury free season of averageness.

Same with Owen at United, oh look, we will get him on a free on pay per play, oh look, pointless because he has been injured for 3/4 of the time he has been there.

Just a comment on this - how much influence do you think Owen has on the development of players like Hernandez, and even Rooney and Berbatov? Owen is an experienced striker with world class off the ball movement and a great eye for goal - anyone training with him is going to be picking up these little things. I'm sure he's a fantastic influence on the youngsters in training and in and around the club in general.
 
As much as I hate the transfer windows at times, it does allow teams and fans just to concentrate on the football. Can you imagine year round speculation regarding your top players being made offers? It would just get too annoying and players would have more excuses for not being focused on the tasks at hand.
 
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