** Summer Transfer Window 2011/12 Season Rumours/Signings **

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FrankJH said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...der-heads-United-City-line-Sergio-Aguero.html

It is the Daily Fail admittedly but even so

Utd really going for Sneijder (if he drops his wage demand) while City hope to sign both Auguerro from Athletico and Nasri
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There's definitely a growing momentum with the stories linking us with Sneijder, as for your link though I call BS. For one I suspect Nasri to sign for us and secondly I highly doubt Aguero would sign for City not when Real Madrid want him
 
Tom84 said:
There's definitely a growing momentum with the stories linking us with Sneijder, as for your link though I call BS. For one I suspect Nasri to sign for us and secondly I highly doubt Aguero would sign for City not when Real Madrid want him
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See I can't see Arsenal selling Nasri to Utd. City aren't as big a threat (yet)and we could get more money from them. I would be highly surprised if he went to you guys.

City or staying at Arsenal I think
 
bloodline76 said:
See I can't see Arsenal selling Nasri to Utd. City aren't as big a threat (yet)and we could get more money from them. I would be highly surprised if he went to you guys.

City or staying at Arsenal I think
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Surely City are more of a threat to Arsenal than United are?
 
Tom84 said:
Surely City are more of a threat to Arsenal than United are?
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Utd won the league. Despite the rumours that is still Arsenals target each season. We don't go into the season fighting for the third spot.

It would strengthen Utd more than it would City for him to go to you guys. Plus we will sell to the highest bidder.

I am still hoping he has a change of heart and resigns but looks unlikely now.
 
StewartMG said:
I've seen Gourcuff a few times and he is painfully overrated imo. Valbuena just looks like an angry little chav.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q0EDnRRgjc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVzzvMEG08&feature=related

he is a poor man's zidane, but he is still young at 24, i doubt he will get much better, but if you look at the above goal, it's a glimpse of zidane, he will never match zidane but reminds me of him quite a lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1clbqe96_iA

in the above video the way he plays a 1-2, 2 times in a row is immense but the penalty is awful, not quite the finished article but he shows great promise at times.
 
opethdisciple said:
Arsenal supporter here...

What im seeing is the formation of super clubs. Man City, Chelsea and Man U, feeding of the rest of the league, buying every one elses good players.

Arsenal needto abandon this excuse that they want to develope youngsters.... its a great idea, but the league is ruthless. Other teams do not care that you have debts, are building a new stadium, have a wage structure, need to speed within your means.

They will just smash and grab what they can, to make sure they are in the Champions league positions and or challenging for the league.

Arsenal need to change. Do what ever it takes to get back to the time when we had the class or Bergkamp, Henry, Viera, Pires, Petit, Overmars... etc...

To be honst with you, I think it takes the **** what Chelsea and Man City have done.

Both where like Spurs.... a very good mid range team, that never really made it in to the top 4 over the years. (City werent even mid range, they were bottom half) who basically over the last 5-10 years have spent lavishly pulling them self out of obscurity by shear cash alone (Like cheating on Championship manager with a crap team) they have benefited by paying huge cash to good players, and now that the likes of Arsenal may or may not get bought out, Fifa et all have changed the rules so that clubs will be denied access to the Champions league if they spend more than they generate amongst other rules.....

Problem is here, its too late already. Man City and Chelase have already spent their money and artificially put them selves at the top and now there is no time for any other clubs to catch up and do the same.

No justice, but I guess something must be done....
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tbh i reckon they should be allowed to do whatever they want, it's a free market and the laws of supply and demand should be made to work.

the teams are a business after all nowadays, but it seems like uefa and fifa want them to go back to their roots and become "clubs" again.

if some rich guy wants to buy a team and pour his money down the drain essentially, he should be allowed to. after all it helps the british economy. all the wages, etc are taxed, im sure transfer fee's must be taxed too, as is all this sponsorship and advertising, etc as well im guessing.

footballers wages are taxed at like 50% in this country, probably why sneijder wants £250K a week, essentially he will only be receiving £125K a week.

by stopping all of this overspending, and bringing wages back into normal lines, essentially means less taxes being paid. i'd rather sheikh mansour pouring millions into the UK rather than something else in another country.

its their money, they should be allowed to do whatever they want with it, you may not like it because your an arsenal fan, but if the shoe was on the other foot, you would be loving arsenal signing world class players every season and keeping hold of fabregas, nasri, etc.

sometimes its good to take a step back and look at the picture as a whole.
 
Hxc said:
Yaya Toure is world class, imo. It's an outrage he got dumped out of the Barca first XI
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Barca are retards with more money than sense though. Yaya is good, is Busquets any better? Not in my opinion. The same with Eto'o and Ibrahimovic, Barca should have kept Ibra he's a magnificent player.
 
Yaya Toure was one of those disruptive forces in the Barca dressingroom from the 'Etoo era' , they just couldn't afford to remove him quicker due to no replacement at the time (Busquets wasn't the player he is now, they tried Keita for a while but he severely dropped form after a run of approx. 10 good games)

Afaik, Ronaldinho, Etoo and Yaya caused major rift's in the dressing room.
 
Barca bought Ibrahimovic for something crazy like €70 million then dumped him what, 1 or 2 seasons later? It's crazy. Maybe he was a jerk in the dressing room or something. I can't believe his record though, I think it's 8 league wins in a row in 3 different countries, wherever he goes his team wins the league. :p
 
you could also make a case for david silva and adebayor.

adebayor got regular games and goals for real madrid who have spent well over £250 million on players in the past couple of seasons.

silva playing for current world cup winning team and getting goals for them also.

sure they signed a lot of semi-decent players but they are starting to get more quality in as well. if they manage to get a few of their targets, aguero, pastore, nasri, etc and tighten up their defence and start playing in a proper system, they might be real contenders this year.

it's amazing all these billionaire's start flocking to the UK and then these new rules come in, FIFA and UEFA must really hate england.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
you could also make a case for david silva and adebayor.

adebayor got regular games and goals for real madrid who have spent well over £250 million on players in the past couple of seasons.

silva playing for current world cup winning team and getting goals for them also.

sure they signed a lot of semi-decent players but they are starting to get more quality in as well. if they manage to get a few of their targets, aguero, pastore, nasri, etc and tighten up their defence and start playing in a proper system, they might be real contenders this year.

it's amazing all these billionaire's start flocking to the UK and then these new rules come in, FIFA and UEFA must really hate england.
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The President hates England :p
 
Tom84 said:
There's definitely a growing momentum with the stories linking us with Sneijder, as for your link though I call BS. For one I suspect Nasri to sign for us and secondly I highly doubt Aguero would sign for City not when Real Madrid want him
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I have no idea where anyone is heading - just posting a link is all :)

I have a funny fealing that Nasri wont end up at OT though

As for Aguero - from his point of view he has chances of winning titles if he goes to City (less chance at RM, and a bigger fight for him to get into the team potentially - rather than replace City's No1 striker who openly wants to leave)

Not suggesting Im right at all - but surely the above is a valid pont of view. Without considering the money angle.......
 
I know this is from the Fail and not directly transfer related, but I would be a bit surprised if there wasn't some truth in it and ultimately it will determine transfers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...s-want-Manchester-Citys-400m-deal-vetoed.html

Europe's leading clubs will petition UEFA to block Manchester City's new £400million endorsement deal.
They want City's ground and shirt sponsorship contract with Etihad Airlines outlawed because they believe it has been artificially inflated in an attempt to balance the books.

Opposition clubs have been emboldened by the fact the contract is a world record, outstripping even the remarkable £18m-a-year stadium naming rights deal the New Yorks Mets, a much-more established sports brand, have with Citibank.
The fact that Etihad was set up by the Emir of Abu Dhabi, Sheik Khalifa, who is the brother of City's owner, Sheik Mansour, has also fuelled their suspicions.
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There isn't a lot they can do surely... if they wanted to they could have done it for an even stupider amount of money but I suppose they've tried to keep it realistic.
 
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