*Transfer Window 2014/15 Season Rumours/Signings *AKA Man U fans listing every player under the Sun

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Probably all of them. None of them are over 30, though.

Only two of our players are now over 30 years old, huge change of events at Fulham!

Our lineup will probably be something similar to;

GK: Stockdale (28), Stekelenburg (31)
LB: Stafylidis (20), Voser (27)
CB: Burn (22), Amorebieta (29)
CB: Hutchinson (23), Burgess (18)
RB: Voser (27), Hoogland (29), Zverotic (27)
LM: Kacaniklic (22), Williams (18)
CM: Parker (33), Tunnicliffe (21), Vigen (19)
CM/AM: Eisfeld (21), David (21), Vigen (19)
RM: Chihi (26), Roberts (17), David (21)
CF: McCormack (27), Taggart (21)
CF: Woodrow (19), Dembele (18)

That's removing Mitroglou, Rodallega, Ruiz and Dejagah who will probably leave. Also rumours of Stekelenburg/Stockdale on the off as well with Curci from Roma coming in. Only loose rumours, though. Magath has said he wants to keep Ruiz, Dejagah and Mitroglou but can't see it happening. Would love to see McCormack/Mitroglou though!

Our whole pre-season has pretty much been using our youngsters, think it was like 85% were from our academy or something ridiculous.
 
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Burned_Alive said:
Strangely Aurier has signed for PSG on loan, wonder if this is how they'll get round FFP?
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Rumours of Di Maria on loan as well. :o

Just saw this though:

The communications office at PSG have just issued a note to RECALL their email announcing Serge Aurier on loan from Toulouse.​

Maybe there's a problem.

Or not :p -

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syke said:
Probably all of them. None of them are over 30, though.

Only two of our players are now over 30 years old, huge change of events at Fulham!

Our lineup will probably be something similar to;

GK: Stockdale (28), Stekelenburg (31)
LB: Stafylidis (20), Voser (27)
CB: Burn (22), Amorebieta (29)
CB: Hutchinson (23), Burgess (18)
RB: Voser (27), Hoogland (29), Zverotic (27)
LM: Kacaniklic (22), Williams (18)
CM: Parker (33), Tunnicliffe (21), Vigen (19)
CM/AM: Eisfeld (21), David (21), Vigen (19)
RM: Chihi (26), Roberts (17), David (21)
CF: McCormack (27), Taggart (21)
CF: Woodrow (19), Dembele (18)

That's removing Mitroglou, Rodallega, Ruiz and Dejagah who will probably leave. Also rumours of Stekelenburg/Stockdale on the off as well with Curci from Roma coming in. Only loose rumours, though. Magath has said he wants to keep Ruiz, Dejagah and Mitroglou but can't see it happening. Would love to see McCormack/Mitroglou though!

Our whole pre-season has pretty much been using our youngsters, think it was like 85% were from our academy or something ridiculous.
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Not looking bad.

Also, Curci :D:D:D:D
 
Andybtsn said:
Malteser, what's Viviani like for Roma?
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Leeds fan? :p

I like him, a lot, but he is still young. He never really established himself when on loan though, mainly due to injuries.

He was the captain of the primavera side (U21s) and he was quite good, one of the better ones. He won the U21 league and they always did well in the Coppa Italia (reaching the final stages). He played some matches for the Roma senior team under Luis Enrique 3 seasons ago, including a start against Juventus (the year where Juve won the first of 3 consecutive leagues). He played well, considering his age.

He then went on load to Padova and he was quite good but he didn't play frequently due to injuries. I think he scored just 2 goals from free kicks/long distance shots. Here is one of the goals


Last year he went on loan to Pescara in Serie B, and he didn't do too well. Pescara went through a difficult season and he only played a handful of appearances (again, injuries played a big part in his Pescara career). In January, he went to Latina where he played quite well. Latina managed to qualify to the final eight (promotion playoff) and I think they reaches the last 4, where they were eliminated. Viviani played a decent part in helping the team finish as high as they did, and I do think he has some niggling injuries though. He scored a few goals too.

People say that one of the reasons he didn't do well at Pescara was because he was unhappy due to personal issues, which were fixed when he moved in with his girlfriend. From what I understand (facebook posts and such) he seems like one of those players who only dates divas, and whose life will be highly gossiped/documented about in the italian media. Kind of like Buffon, Boriello etc. who go after Italian veline (girls who make a name for themselves just because they are nice). Not sure what happens if he goes to the UK, whether his gf will go with him and stuff.

He is a good player, who plays as a deep lying playmaker (midfield). You can compare him to Pirlo, obviously much younger and much less inexperienced. Prandelli used to call up some promising youngsters for training (kind of a learning experiance for the players) and he always gets called up. I think he is also the captain of the U20s. Some say he is the long term replacement of Pirlo (along with Verratti, who is much more established and well known). FIGC have just created a post regarding Viviani on their website, and they named him as one of the potential future stars (http://vivoazzurro.it/en/news/generazione-azzurra-federico-viviani/). He has very good free kicks. I can remember one of his free kicks for the primavera against Lazio


Top quality finish if you ask me.

He is one of the better players produced by the Roma primavera. Personally, I can see him becoming a top player wearing the Roma colors (kind of like Totti, De Rossi and Florenzi) but it's too early too judge. I want him to go to a place where he will get as much game time as possible because at his age, he really needs it. Moving to England will either be a learning experience for the guy, or a huge fail (laziness, new language, etc.). Personally, I would have preferred if he remained at an Italian club (Latina again for example) as the chance to fail will be smaller, but if it is successful, his period at Leeds would have thought him much more than any experience at any Italian club would have.

All the stuff I said has been taken from the top of my brain and might not be fully correct. I only looked for the videos and the article. I like the player, hence why I know quite a bit about him :p

EDIT: Regarding Curci, well, let's put it this way. I think wherever he went, the team got relegated (except Roma). He is not a bad keeper by any means, but he is not and will never be a top quality keeper. He is somewhat complacent at times which could lead him to let in some crappy goals, but when he is on form he is quite good. The few appearances he had for Roma (some years ago though) showed that he is a decent player but nothing more (although he was a starter!!!). He is relatively young though, I think he is in his mid/high 20s.
 
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Robbo said:
Rumours of Di Maria on loan as well. :o

Just saw this though:

The communications office at PSG have just issued a note to RECALL their email announcing Serge Aurier on loan from Toulouse.​

Maybe there's a problem.

Or not :p -

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I believe that was in the email that was recalled. Could be wrong.
 
Besic is in Liverpool!

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Henen trained at FF today and just needs the contract signing. He's already said his goodbyes to Anderlecht.


cm1179 said:
davies is a spurs player. not sure where this leaves rose, fryers or BAE

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In the bin, they're all ****. Good news for Neil Taylor and Wales though. :)
 
cm1179 said:
davies is a spurs player. not sure where this leaves rose, fryers or BAE

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BAE was the only LB who could be good enough to justify his position at Spurs. He has had the quenelle thing, age has damaged his speed and he occasionally drops clangers.

Davies and BAE should be retained with rose dumped and Fryers concentrating on CB.
 
Im really not sure what we'd do with Vidal (I dont know much about him tbh), but doesnt seem to fit the profile of player we're looking for. I would expect any mention of interest in him from Liverpool is probably to drive bids up from other clubs.
 
We are delighted to announce that we have reached agreement with Swansea City for the transfers of Ben Davies and Michel Vorm.
Deal for Swansea duo agreed
Davies joins us on a five-year contract, while Vorm has signed a four-year deal with the Club.
The transfers will also see Gylfi Sigurdsson return to the Welsh club where he spent time on loan in 2012 and we wish him well for the future.
Left back Davies earned his first professional contract with Swansea in 2011 and has gone on to excel in their First Team, winning their Young Player of the Year accolade the past two seasons.
His impressive club form has also earned him 10 caps for Wales and he made a total of 91 appearances for the Swans, including starting their League Cup Final win against Bradford City in 2013.
Dutch goalkeeper Vorm moved to the Liberty Stadium in August 2011 and firmly established himself as first choice in their debut season in the Premier League, which saw him pick up Supporters' Player of the Year, Players' Player and the Away Player awards at their end of season awards.
In total, he made 97 appearances for Swansea and was also part of the Netherlands' World Cup squad this summer in Brazil.
 
cm1179 said:
expect spurs to go to £25m for griezmann
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Rumours suggesting Griezman to be lined up as a replacement for Rodriguez at Monaco, which makes sense as they'll be looking for someone like that and he was amongst France's most effective players in the world cup, changed games when he came on, highly rated and really just a very good player already who has time to improve further.

Spurs had a better shot if they offered 20-25mil a while ago before other clubs did their business. Griezman while good is a bit of a risk for a bigger price with most bigger CL teams looking for more proven replacements for say Giroud, Suarez, Rodriguez, etc. Other clubs might not be willing to spend 20-25mil yet while still hoping to spend that money on bigger names.

The longer it goes the more clubs have missed out on bigger targets, the more likely to move on to second choices like Griezman.
 
Burned_Alive said:
Im really not sure what we'd do with Vidal (I dont know much about him tbh), but doesnt seem to fit the profile of player we're looking for. I would expect any mention of interest in him from Liverpool is probably to drive bids up from other clubs.
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You don't know what you'd do with a world class midfielder.... hint, play him in midfield. Lucas was always massively over rated, Gerrard is declining, still not convinced Henderson is anything more than a headless chicken running around a lot. Vidal is better than any central mid you have, comfortably, in any role, defensive, attacking.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Rumours suggesting Griezman to be lined up as a replacement for Rodriguez at Monaco,
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talk is that we will go to £25m but we'll hit a ceiling and either get gazumped on wages or non cl football from another club and it could be a case of levy knowing this and giving it the 'well, i tried'

we've got rid of sig, not that i'd class him as dead wood but there's more to go imo; rose, dawson, naughton, maybe even lennon would be better moved on to free up funds.
 
drunkenmaster said:
You don't know what you'd do with a world class midfielder.... hint, play him in midfield. Lucas was always massively over rated, Gerrard is declining, still not convinced Henderson is anything more than a headless chicken running around a lot. Vidal is better than any central mid you have, comfortably, in any role, defensive, attacking.
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Exactly why I wrote what I wrote (I dont know much about him). Central midfield doesnt seem to be a position we're lacking in and so far all targets seem to be more of the attacking midfielder profile, rather than a versatile central midfielder. Other targets we've been linked with appear to be far more prolific goalscorers (Sanchez for one), which is why it seems a bit of the blue.
 
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