Non LFC Deadline Day Stuff

[Roboklopp]

Graun taking the piss:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/aug/31/transfer-deadline-day-sky-sports-news

Love this comment below:

When Redknapp stops at traffic lights, he tells the windscreen washer that he likes Diarra and Modric is not for sale. The windscreen washer says, I only wanted to clean your windscreen. Redknapp haggles until the lights turn green.

[Neil Young]

[Corndog]

Jenas joined Villa and Gyan never left Sunderland!

my bad with jenas, but i heard reports gyan went to besiktas on loan?

[Exiled_red]

Here is what the other top 6 sides did over the summer, figures from the daily fail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/art...11-summer.html

Utd

In
David De Gea (Atletico Madrid, £17.8m),
Phil Jones (Blackburn, £16.5m),
Ashley Young (Aston Villa, £16m).

Out
Gabriel Obertan (Newcastle, £3.25m),
Wes Brown (Sunderland, £1m), J
John O'Shea (Sunderland, undisclosed),
Owen Hargreaves (Manchester City, free),
Paul Scholes (retired),
Edwin van der Sar (retired),
Bebe (Besiktas, loan),
Ritchie de Laet (Norwich, loan).

City

In
Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid, £38m),
Samir Nasri (Arsenal, £24m),
Gael Clichy (Arsenal, £7m),
Stefan Savic (Partizan Belgrade, £6m),
Costel Pantilimon (Poli Timisoara, undisclosed),
Owen Hargreaves (Manchester United, free).

Out
Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich, £10m),
Shay Given (Aston Villa, £3.5m),
Felipe Caicedo (Levante, £880,000),
Jo (Internacional, undisclosed),
Shaleum Logan (Brentford, free),
Javan Vidal (released),
Patrick Vieira (retired),
Abdisalam Ibrahim (NEC Nijmegen, loan),
Michael Johnson (Leicester, loan),
Ben Mee (Burnley, loan),
Ryan McGivern (Bristol City, loan),
Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham, loan),
Dedryck Boyata (Bolton, loan),
Roque Santa Cruz (Real Betis, loan),
Vladimir Weiss (Espanyol, loan),
John Guidetti (Feyenoord, loan),
Shaun Wright-Phillips (QPR, undisclosed),
Craig Bellamy (Liverpool, free).

Chelsea

In
Juan Mata (Valencia, £29m),
Romelu Lukaku (Anderlecht, £20m),
Thibaud Courtois (Genk, £5m),
Oriol Romeu (Barcelona, £4.4m),
Lucas Piazon (Sao Paulo, undisclosed),
Ulises Davila (Chivas Guadalajara, undisclosed),
Raul Meireles (Liverpool, undisclosed)

Out
Michael Mancienne (Hamburg, £3m),
Slobodan Rajkovic (Hamburg, £1.8m),
Yury Zhirkov (Anzhi, undisclosed),
Nemanja Matic (Benfica, undisclosed),
Fabio Borini (Parma, undisclosed),
Michael Woods (released),
Thibaud Courtois (Atletico Madrid, loan),
Jeffrey Bruma (Hamburg, loan),
Ulises Davila (Vitesse Arnhem, loan),
Patrick van Aanholt (Wigan, loan),
Gael Kakuta (Bolton, loan),
Yossi Benayoun (Arsenal, loan).

Arsenal

In
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Southampton, £11m),
Gervinho (Lille £10.7m),
Chu Young Park (Monaco, £3m),
Carl Jenkinson (Charlton, £1m),
Joel Campbell (Deportivo Sarpissa,undisclosed),
Per Mertesacker (Werder Bremen, undisclosed),
Andre Santos (Fenerbahce, £6.2m),
Yossi Benayoun (Chelsea, loan),
Mikel Arteta (Everton, £10m).

Out
Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona, £35m),
Samir Nasri (Manchester City, £24m),
Gael Clichy (Manchester City, £7m),
Emmanuel Eboue (Galatasaray, £3m),
Armand Traore (QPR, undisclosed), J
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (Ipswich, undisclosed),
Mark Randall (Chesterfield, free),
Tom Cruise (released),
Denilson (Sao Paulo, loan),
Wellington (Levante, loan),
Carlos Vela (Real Sociedad, loan),
Pedro Botelho (Rayo Vallecano, loan),
Henri Lansbury (West Ham, loan),
Joel Campbell (Lorient, loan),
Nicklas Bendtner (Sunderland, loan).

Spurs

In
Brad Friedel (Aston Villa, free),
Cristian Ceballos (Barcelona, free),
Souleymane Coulibaly (Siena, undisclosed),
Emmanuel Adebayor (Man City, loan),
Yago Falque (Juventus, loan),
Scott Parker (West Ham, £5m)

Out
Peter Crouch (Stoke, £10m),
Wilson Palacios, Stoke, £8m),
Jamie O'Hara (Wolves, £5m),
Robbie Keane (LA Galaxy £1.8m),
Alan Hutton (Aston Villa, undisclosed),
Jonathan Woodgate (Stoke, free),
Kyle Naughton (Norwich, loan),
Steven Caulker (Swansea, loan),
Bongani Khumalo (Reading, loan),
Ryan Mason (Doncaster, loan),
Jonathan Obika (Yeovil, loan),
David Bentley (West Ham, loan),
Jermaine Jenas (Aston Villa, loan).

So from that we're looking at net spends for the top clubs of

Man City ~£60m
Chelsea ~£55m
Man Utd ~£40m
Liverpool ~£35m
Spurs ~ £20m profit
Arsenal ~-£25m profit

I think for what we've done this summer we've spent well But for all the paper talk of us being big spenders the other clubs have spent alot more.

While they both made profits in the window, I think the Spurs and Arsenal squads have suffered for it in terms of quality. Hopefully we will have the stronger squad and be able to finish above both of them this year. If we get CL football next year and the owners back us in the market again we really could be right up there next year

[Daniel 7]

Arsenal's out list looks like a clearing out when a new manager takes over, there are mainstays of the squad gone there. Never realised Eboue had gone. What is the deal with Vela? I thought he was supposed to be decent? Surely he should have made a breakthrough there now. You'd have thought with the exodus there would be space for him. Maybe he's a bit Pacheco.

[Craig_H]

SWP on joining QPR: "It should be a good laugh."

[Craig_H]

Graun taking the piss:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/aug/31/transfer-deadline-day-sky-sports-news

Love this comment below:

When Redknapp stops at traffic lights, he tells the windscreen washer that he likes Diarra and Modric is not for sale. The windscreen washer says, I only wanted to clean your windscreen. Redknapp haggles until the lights turn green.

"People all across Europe are watching Sky Sports News today," a Sky reporter ejaculated at one point

[Craig_H]

The Redknapp window interview has become such a deadline-day institution that it seemed almost a little staged, a little knowing. So expertly was Redknapp's head framed – window fully scrolled down, relaxed in open-necked shirt – that you half-expected him to start plugging a fitness DVD or leaping up to perform his latest single. "That won't happen. One million per cent," he pronounced on the Luka Modric saga, offering instead the lesser riches of "uvver bits 'n' pieces".

[RoadEnd]

"Wenger's kids" is a bit of a myth really.

I also think Arsenal have had the same transfer window experience we had last year. Masher left us in the lurch and we signed a load of mediocrity.

Hopefully, that means they end up finishing 7th.

[Mostar]

So from that we're looking at net spends for the top clubs of

Man City ~£60m
Chelsea ~£55m
Man Utd ~£40m
Liverpool ~£35m
Spurs ~ £20m profit
Arsenal ~-£25m profit

I think for what we've done this summer we've spent well But for all the paper talk of us being big spenders the other clubs have spent alot more.

While they both made profits in the window, I think the Spurs and Arsenal squads have suffered for it in terms of quality. Hopefully we will have the stronger squad and be able to finish above both of them this year. If we get CL football next year and the owners back us in the market again we really could be right up there next year

Chavs are actually the biggest spenders as their net spending doesn't include Raul fee of £12m.

With that they spent in excess of £65m just this window..

[Craig_H]

Must be a nice feeling for chelsea fans to see their club not spunk all (or most of) their summer spending all on just one donkey. They've bought a few this time.

[Exiled_red]

Chavs are actually the biggest spenders as their net spending doesn't include Raul fee of £12m.

With that they spent in excess of £65m just this window..

They also have a couple of undisclosed sales as well

[Chazza]

They also have a couple of undisclosed sales as well

Think they got about 18m for Zhirkov?

[Leyton388]

I can't beleive Spurs turned down £40m for Modric are they ****ing nuts?

[Kenneth]

Yes, they are.