January Transfer Window 2010/2011 Season Rumours/Signings

[DanH84]

doubt they could afford him these days. not without selling first.

 

[DanH84]

would be a decent signing for City but would force a massive change of shape.

Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson flew to France on Sunday to watch Rennes's £15m-rated midfielder Yann M'Vila as the Anfield club consider making a bid to sign the 20-year-old.
Full story: Daily Mail

Barcelona full-back Dani Alves would pursue a move to Chelsea over Manchester City if he fails to agree terms on a new contract at the Catalan giants.
Full story: IM Scouting

Chelsea are lining up a move for Palermo's Argentine attacking midfielder Javier Pastore as a long-term replacement for Frank Lampard.
Full story: Caughtoffside.com

Championship outfit Middlesbrough are ready to sell centre-half David Wheater and midfielder Gary O'Neil if Premier League clubs make moves for the pair in the January transfer window.
Full story: Daily Mirror

West Brom's out-of-favour Czech Republic striker Roman Bednar is wanted on loan by Hull City and may be prepared to leave the Baggies and the Premier League for a spell back in the Championship.
Full story: Daily Mirror

Estonia and Tom Tomsk goalkeeper Sergei Pareiko has moved to the top of Celtic's wanted list after Wojciech Szczesny pledged his future to Arsenal. (the Sun)

Celtic are weighing up a move for 19-year-old Australia striker Mathew Leckie, of Adelaide United. (the Sun)

Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell says striker Gustavo Reulas could join Celtic in the new year, heralding in a co-operation agreement with his Mexican club, Santos. (Various

 

[DanH84]

Bring him on for half hour or so when you need a bit of creativity. Seems a good signing to me.

 

[DanH84]

Far more potential than Akinfeev not as good at the moment as neuer or lloris but all the potential in the world. At a guess I'd say we'd ask Vds to stay on for a year and work beside him I these rumours were true. I'd be pleased though.

 

[DanH84]

or one, or none. no one knows!

 

[DanH84]

yeah mourinho got a ban and the club/players got fined iirc.

 

[DanH84]

Managing director Wolfgang Holzhauser confirmed the curious clause, saing: "It is an escape clause with a difference, because it only refers to one club. If United offer a certain amount, we have to let Rene go. He has always supported them, and he wanted to make sure the door was open, should they come calling. I know they have watched him quite a few times, so it may be difficult for us."

 

[DanH84]

are you talking about Enke?

 

[DanH84]

Should get Carroll for around 20 mill. Bargain.

He's light years ahead of most of the premier forwards already, and will only improve further given his age.

And Man Utd only have 2 forwards of any note, the rest are lightweight.

Good player but I don't think he'd suit us at the moment. There's other areas we need to strengthen (although unless someone special shows up I think summer is the right time for that).

 

[DanH84]

Hello nok.

 

[DanH84]

Id take Poulsen and Konchesky in a flash.

 

[DanH84]

Aren't Man Utd 800 million in the red ?

Not even half that

 

[DanH84]

I don't know, Young is a good player. Just villa are crap.

 

[DanH84]

I think Gibson will be gone by the summer at least. Definitely good enough for some clubs but we can do better.

 

[DanH84]

I wonder if he'll actually be back.

 

[DanH84]

I think he'd be a good player for some clubs but he's down the pecking order with us now. Probably my second choice rb (after rafael) at the moment though so I'd probably keep him until the summer.

 

[DanH84]

Does anyone know the specifics of the new rules coming in, can't play in Europa/Champs league unless you break even over 3 years, thats the general gist of it right?

But does that mean, starting next season City would be unable to actually qualify straight off, or it starts from next season so if they make a loss from the 2011-2012 season, to the 2013-2014 season, then the season after they wouldn't qualify for european competition unless they had averaged breaking even by then?

When I first heard about it I assumed it would just be some mental 200mil a year shirt deal from one of the owners companys to City, which would cover the wages.

Either way, wouldn't it make sense for them to, if they really wanted to, go absolutely nuts this transfer window, and replace every useless pile of poop with a 30-50mil super high quality player, assuming of course a massive loss this year wouldn't be counted towards the 3 year average.

Transfer values have to be amortized across the length of the contract so if you buy in this window even if you pay all your cash upfront it still shows on folllowing years account. Their biggest problem is their wage bill, at the moment it's over 100% of turnover. Even assuming a fairly dramatic rise of 50mill in sponsorship that would still leave them in trouble. They need to reduce numbers in their squad.

 

[DanH84]

As far as i know if we qualify for the champions league this year then were are there and our losses are not counted. However if we post big losses end of 11-12 season then we are not? anyways never in a million years would Sheikh Mansour have bought all these players if it meant we can't get in the champions league? So i am not worried about not being 'allowed' in.


Already started with RSC and Bridge. SWP should be following shortly and hopefully Mourinho comes through and takes Adebayor. That immediatly knocks off quite a bit. RSC/Bridge/SWP are roughly on the same 4m and Adebayor is on around 8m i think. So theres roughly 20m gone. Next season Kolo Toure/Given/Jo will also leave, Viera is also retiring so theres another 5m off. I am confident we can make the rules tbh

Probably, it does mean you can't replace them like for like though. The era of big spending is over.

 

[DanH84]

I see where you coming from but i have full faith in Sheikh and his 'advisors' know what to do and they will sort it out.
End of next season an incredible amount of wages are going to be gone i reckon,
Were talking Adebayor(140k)/RSC(80k)/Given(80k)/Lescott(90k)/Bridge(90k)/SWP(80k) all with a good chance of leaving.

Yep but there you go, you've signed Dzeko on around 150k or so I guess? so that's RSC and Given gone just to break even again, and you can't just break even, you have to reduce the wage bill. Similarly you're going to take a big hit on the transfer fees even having to send them out on season long loans again in the future, so while your amortization cost may reduce it will be at a rate not stacked in your favour as clubs know you need to get rid. You look at the big signing of Dzeko if we say 30million that's 6million a year over the next 5 years added. If you get rid of say Lescott and Given you won't get 30million for the two combined but you'll probably be ridding yourselves of around 6million a year amortization balancing out on a 2-1 basis but obviously they've been at the club for longer and were only going to be showing on the charge for another couple of years whereas Dzeko is a fresh 5 years just at the start of the recording period.

My thought is that, Man City need champions league this season and will pretty much cut right back on spending unless they can flog 2-3 players in order to fund one big buy to balance the charging.
I think UEFA might be pretty lenient if they see clubs making an effort to reduce their losses but they certainly won't accept it if you say: 'Hi, we want to get in, we've been working to reduce our spending loads. Oh we're just going to bid 50million for Bale here but yeah, we're definitely reducing our spending.'

 

[DanH84]

Adam certainly didn't look a 4m player tonight.