January Transfer Window

moody · 1 Feb 2008 at 10:07

schumi84 said:
That was a surprise seeing Defoe go, but sort of expected (if that makes sense). Teamtalk report that the fee was around £9m so that will cover the cost of Hutton arriving.

At least the manager has the right idea about strengthening the defence. Just hope Woodgate can stay fit, then we will have a very strong defence when Bale comes back: Bale, King, Woodgate and Gilberto at the back.

Very nice

A strong defence but these more chances of seen flying pigs then that defence playing on a regular basis

schumi84 · 1 Feb 2008 at 10:16

http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/0,16368,1784_3097962,00.html

I beg to differ about Gilberto, so my previous lineup still stands

5ingh · 1 Feb 2008 at 10:32

What!! I take that back then! Last I heard about him was that he had failed 2 medicals and it was all off

ScarySquirrel · 1 Feb 2008 at 10:38

I am really chuffed for Defoe. He should get regular games now and I reckon his scoring form will come.

schumi84 · 1 Feb 2008 at 10:38

I didnt think he was coming to Spurs either, due to the second of the medicals and Hertha had said that the deal was off. Wake up this morning, get to work and look at the website to see Gilberto arrive and Defoe leave.

All fun and games at Spurs as always.

One More Solo · 1 Feb 2008 at 10:50

Pompey have got a very decent strikeforce with Benjani staying and Defoe arriving.

BFCTom · 1 Feb 2008 at 11:13

One More Solo said:
Pompey have got a very decent strikeforce with Benjani staying and Defoe arriving.

Saying on SSN that the FA are investigating whether the Benjani deal actually went through it time, so there's clarification to be had yet.

Chong Warrior · 1 Feb 2008 at 12:32

schumi84 said:
That was a surprise seeing Defoe go, but sort of expected (if that makes sense). Teamtalk report that the fee was around £9m so that will cover the cost of Hutton arriving.

At least the manager has the right idea about strengthening the defence. Just hope Woodgate can stay fit, then we will have a very strong defence when Bale comes back: Bale, King, Woodgate and Gilberto at the back.

Very nice

Gilberto is more of a midfielder than a defender, he plays LM and also CM mainly. Also do you really think Spurs have just spent £9m on Hutton to leave him on the bench?

Hutton - Woodgate - King - Bale

Very attack minded full-backs, plenty of height there, bags of pace, ability to see a pass, confident on the ball, experienced. One of the most promising back lines I've ever seen at WHL

Ripper · 1 Feb 2008 at 12:36

There's every chance three of them will be playing tomorrow so we'll see!

Chong Warrior · 1 Feb 2008 at 12:46

Ripper said:
There's every chance three of them will be playing tomorrow so we'll see!

If those 3 play and Gilberto lines up in Bales place that will be 75% of our defence making their WHL debut and 2 of them making their full debuts :eek:

Baptism of fire!

Ripper · 1 Feb 2008 at 12:49

Aye should be a good game. Expecting us to nick it but I wouldn't be surprised if we only come away with a point. Hopefully Fergie won't do anything silly with team selection/formation (ie. West Ham/Bolton away).

Nzyme · 1 Feb 2008 at 13:00

AZ want Alves banned for the rest of the season

schumi84 · 1 Feb 2008 at 13:12

Chong Warrior said:
Gilberto is more of a midfielder than a defender, he plays LM and also CM mainly. Also do you really think Spurs have just spent £9m on Hutton to leave him on the bench?

Hutton - Woodgate - King - Bale

Very attack minded full-backs, plenty of height there, bags of pace, ability to see a pass, confident on the ball, experienced. One of the most promising back lines I've ever seen at WHL

Haha, sorry, my bad about that. Spot the deliberate mistake :rolleyes:

Should have included Hutton in there, as in the same lineup u have /\.

Hopefully the new blood to spurs can settle in quickly so we can get a few more clean sheets on the board.

NokkonWud · 1 Feb 2008 at 13:17

I want never gets.

"andy" · 1 Feb 2008 at 14:26

alves better be cleared by sunday , nice defence for him to debut against

"andy" · 1 Feb 2008 at 19:29

gibbo in the local paper saying we where after fred aswell but run out of time... that could have been something alreeeet

from the website of said paper :

“This is a massive signing for the club, it smashes our existing transfer record. It’s important that people recognise we didn’t just go for Alves, we also went for Fred and we would have brought him here too if we could have tied up a deal for him.

“If the right player comes along we will invest in the squad.

atpbx · 1 Feb 2008 at 20:13

On a side note, Wenger along with Houllier says he was "once close to signing Ronaldo".
Oh course you were Arsene, of course you were.........
http://www.sportinglife.com/footbal...soccer/08/02/01/SOCCER_Arsenal_Nightlead.html

BaZ87 · 1 Feb 2008 at 20:50

Yes they're just going to make it up, aren't they? :rolleyes:

atpbx · 2 Feb 2008 at 11:32

BaZ87 said:
Yes they're just going to make it up, aren't they?

Well, i just think its strange that now he has developed into a half decent player he comes out with it.
Oh yes, we were this close to signing him.

Wasnt saying it when he was blasting sitters into row Z and falling over a lot was he?

Gooner14 · 2 Feb 2008 at 11:33

It's old news? Wenger said about this ages ago. To quote arseblogger:

I thought this was a story everyone knew but it seems not. The story, as I understand it, is that we had agreed a fee of around £4.5m with Sporting Lisbon and the transfer was going through only for United to gazump us to the tune of £12.5m. Rather a lot, you have to say (considering they were willing to accept so much less from us), and it was one of the transfers that caused the Coolmore boys (Magnier and McManus) to ask questions of the way the club was being run when they had a significant shareholding in United. Make of that what you will. All water under the bridge now though.