January Transfer Window 2012/2013 Season Rumours/Signings

A fox in the box isn't what we need - it's certainly not a priority anyway. Unless we can sign an absolutely top class centre forward (not a fox in the box) then you'd have to be off your trolley to move Suarez out of the centre of a front 3.

We need cover in the central role of the front 3 but our priority has to be goals coring wide players.
 
Torres is shot.
Going back to Liverpool won't suddenly make him regain his pace, be able to control a ball again, take on a defender, make clever runs or, quite importantly, score.
Hopefully he does go back there.
 
Icm76 said:
Well he won't be going to Atletico as part exchange for Falcao, there's no way Falcao would move to Chelsea in January with no CL football.
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Is there any logic or reasoning behind that statement, or pure speculation based off the daft notion fans have that champs league football is all footballers care about at all.

Did Porto not qualify for the champs league when he left to go to a Europa cup team? Is he not at a club in the Europa cup, and moving to another one, that has more consistent champs league appearances in the past decade, that will pay him far more?
 
drunkenmaster said:
Is there any logic or reasoning behind that statement, or pure speculation based off the daft notion fans have that champs league football is all footballers care about at all.

Did Porto not qualify for the champs league when he left to go to a Europa cup team? Is he not at a club in the Europa cup, and moving to another one, that has more consistent champs league appearances in the past decade, that will pay him far more?
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Yep, CL nice way of saying I want more $$$$$
 
Purdy said:
Yep, CL nice way of saying I want more $$$$$
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As is saying "you don't have CL, I really wanted CL, team X has CL and have offered me an amount, how about you beat that".

Ultimately Chelsea will qualify for the champs league most seasons. There will be years Utd, Chelsea, City, Arsenal, and all the top teams in Europe have a bad year and go out in the group stages, thats football. Can you imagine how many players would never move beyond their first clubs if they only place they would leave for was a team that was certain to be in the champs league and be certain of making the knock out stages.

Barca play Messi central and upfront, no room for Falcao there, Real... possible for sure but Ronaldo is still there main man and Benzema/Higuain can bang them in, City have 3-4 top strikers, Chelsea would be somewhere he was the unquestioned number 1, the team most in need, one of the teams most capable of spending big and big wages on such a player.

How many players went to City and used the old "well I'm moving from a bigger more established team, this is quite a risk, you want to sign a big name to move up a lot, maybe you should pay me through the damn teeth for it.... then you get Yaya, Tevez, Silva and most of that team signing without CL football available.

Basically "I want CL football" is code for top footballers to say "I want a club that spends more on wages".

Some things people say, the "he'll never sign as they aren't in the champs league", the striker based "he misses so often", and a whole bunch of other crap that simply has no basis in reality. Top players, excellent players move to clubs without certain CL football constantly in every single transfer window, Falcao himself has moved away from CL football, and doesn't have CL football now. Striker wise, some people act like Messi has never missed a shot in his life, and anyone else missing 5 shots in a single game is suddenly the single biggest failure of a striker in history.
 
No1newts said:
Aren't Pool playing 433 now so you would want an attacking winger rather than a full on striker.
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According to BR its a 4-2-3-1 (no idea how mind you..). But yeah in a 4-3-3 with Suarez as the middle of the front 3 and Sterling on the 'wing' then we would need someone else in the Sterling/Suarez mould that can play in any of the front 3 positions.

Personally I think we need someone like Mata who can play as the furthest forward of the midfield 3 with Lucas (when back) and Allen as the other 2, or just play Suso/Shelvey there and get the mythical striking option as described above.

A fox in teh box isn't what we want though.
 
News sure to annoy some Spurs fans, Leandro Damiao would like to move to Chelsea to be reunited with Oscar: http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/918697-leandro-damiao-wants-oscar-reunion-at-chelsea
Oscar is a fantastic player, an absolute craque at Chelsea,' the 23-year-old told The Elastico.

I had an excellent relationship with him on the field at Internacional and it is true that I would like to be reunited with Oscar.
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However, Metro, Daily Star and others reporting this so consume with salt.

Falcao, Cavani and James Rodriguez on the radar as well: http://www.caughtoffside.com/2012/1...movich-prepares-to-fund-attacking-re-shuffle/ I hadn't seen the Rodriguez rumour before, but it makes sense, Roman does love handing over vast amounts of cash to Porto for players barely worth half what he pays.

Liverpool still want to buy Daniel Sturridge as well as Tom Ince: http://www.caughtoffside.com/2012/11/23/liverpool-close-in-on-18m-attack-pair/ but I'm beginning to wonder why they want Sturridge? If he's apparently not good enough to play ahead of Torres or even start ahead of some false nine experiment when Torres is finally dropped, why is he good enough for Liverpool? becuase he's English and Walcott allegedly isn't interested in Liverpool? http://football-talk.co.uk/70652/walcott-reluctant-to-join-liverpool/

Man Utd will try to buy in January? Mats Hummels and Lars Bender: http://football-talk.co.uk/70385/man-utd-transfer-news-fergie-eyes-50m-double-raid/
 
Sheffield Wednesday have signed Stoke City striker Mamady Sidibe and Manchester City full-back Jeremy Helan on one-month loan deals.

BBC Link.

Hopefully Wednesday can find some good results with a couple of fresh faces.
 
I expect the papers to start going bonkers now that Arsenal apparently have 30 million plus to spend in January :p

Still though, they're starting to reap the benefits of their structure, CL knockouts again (as if there was a doubt :p) and now 25 million a season extra from Emirates, plus next year I think they'll be looking to renew their kit deal so add in another 20 million a season from that and you're talking 40-50 million extra money available from 2014 onwards with little to no debt worth mentioning - not bad at all really.
 
Why would I care, we spend double what we used to on wages, and more on transfers, neither are reasons we aren't competitive. When the manager spends money on the wrong players, more money means more money on the wrong players, nothing else.

When the manager can't recognise a working defence to save his life, more money won't help, when the manager pushes the best players out of the club for no apparent reason and consistently starts the worst players, more money won't help.

Money isn't Arsenals problem it never has been, with Wenger in charge, it never will be. The problem is Wenger, we bottle every big game, tactically we're completely inept, fitness wise something IS wrong with our training, business wise offering the likes of Diaby and Rosicky new deals is beyond embarrassing... hargreaves cost far more than both put together.... did Utd cling to the desparate hope years of evidence would be wrong and he'd be fit again, no, they got rid of him, and City regret taking him on.
 
I think Drunkenmaster is actually Harry Redknapp in disguise and despite his time at Spurs he wants to be Arsenal manager. After all, his opinions are always right and they're obviously based on professional footballing history.
 
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