Transfer tittle-tattle

[Shaggy]

Higuain, Dzeko, Tevez, Adebayor and Bellamy up front.

[-V-]

Gago's ****. Hope they get him.

Cannot imagine Higuain leaving Madrid to move to a europa league team

[Ben_Itez]

Dont forget 17 million pound man Roque Santa Cruz

[Shaggy]

Dont forget 17 million pound man Roque Santa Cruz

[Craig_H]

Santa Cruz is one of the biggest flops and most overrated players out there.

If you look at his goalscoring record over the course of his career, i think he's only had one season where he's actually scored more than about 10 goals.

In fact, here are his stats:

99-00 - 6 goals in 43 games
00-01 - 5 goals in 25 games
01-02 - 8 goals in 33 games
02-03 - 6 goals in 16 games
03-04 - 6 goals in 36 games
04-05 - 0 goals in 4 games
05-06 - 4 goals in 13 games
06-07 - 3 goals in 33 games
07-08 - 20 goals in 40 games
08-09 - 4 goals in 18 games
09-10 - 3 goals in 19 games

75 club goals in 280 games Pure ****. £17m

[Fernandinho]

would he be worth a shout as back up to torres for like 8-10 mil or can we get somebody better for that money..?

[Bender]

Skysports now saying City in talks with Madrid to sign Higuain and Gago.


If only we had our own sheik.

Manchester City have launched a daring swoop for David Silva and three other La Liga stars.

City chief executive Garry Cook met Valencia president Manuel Llorente in Spain last night to discuss Silva after earlier holding talks with Real Madrid about Gonzalo Higuain, Rafael van der Vaart and Fernando Gago.

How many players do they want to sign

[little dave hedgehog]

all. easiest way to win.

[MrMichael]

Yep, they're definitely trying to buy everyone.

Manchester City prepare double bid for Yaya Toure and Zlatan Ibrahimovic - but Barcelona demand £60m

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1282121/Manchester-City-prepare-double-bid-Yaya-Toure-Zlatan-Ibrahimovic--Barcelona-demand-60m.html

[Fernandinho]

60 mil is cheap! they should make them throw in Ireland too!

[doogle]

Everton sign former Leeds striker Jermaine Beckford

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/e/everton/8714418.stm

Everton have signed Jermaine Beckford on a four-year deal after the striker's contract at Leeds was cancelled early.

The 26-year-old had been linked with a number of clubs after his 31 goals helped Leeds gain promotion to the Championship in the 2009/10 season.

He put in a transfer request in January but when a £1.5m bid from Newcastle was rejected soon after, he came off the list before linked to Everton.

"I want to test myself at the highest level," said Beckford.

And the forward indicated that the influence of Toffees manager David Moyes played a major part in his decision to move to Goodison Park.

"I've been impressed a lot by him [Moyes]," stated Beckford. "He seems like the type of guy who will sit down and tell you where you're going wrong, what you're doing right and what you might need to work on.

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"It is a club I can learn from and it can help me develop into a better player. Fingers crossed, I can be really involved in taking this club where it wants to be."

Beckford, who began his career as a youngster at Chelsea, joined Leeds from non-League Wealdstone in March 2006 but initially struggled for first-team football and was loaned out to Carlisle and Scunthorpe during the 2006/07 campaign.

However, when the Yorkshire club were relegated from the Championship to League One, Beckford became a first-choice up front, notching 20 goals.

The Londoner followed that up with a huge 34-goal haul in 2008/09 before he bounced back from the disappointment of losing a play-off semi-final to Millwall with a near repeat goal tally this year.

And although one of those 31 goals came at Old Trafford - the winning strike in the 1-0 FA Cup third round victory against Manchester United in January - Beckford expects the step up in class to the Premier League to be a major challenge.

"I am excited by it," he added "It's going to be a test, I know that, but I am looking forward to it."

[Tatterdemalion]

We all knew that some crap prem team would buy him, and let's be honest, we all knew it would be everton.

[Exiled_red]

[Craig_H]

What does it mean by 'his contract was cancelled early' ?

Everton got him for free?

Decent business, if they did. I can see him scoring goals for them. And if he fails, they'll easily be able to sell him to some Championship side for a couple of million profit.

[dww]

What does it mean by 'his contract was cancelled early' ?

Everton got him for free?

Decent business, if they did. I can see him scoring goals for them. And if he fails, they'll easily be able to sell him to some Championship side for a couple of million profit.

I think his contract ran until the end of the month and Leeds canceled it early. Presumably some sort of money saving deal or tax dodge was worked out that benefited everyone . So, yes, they did get him for free.