Summer transfer thread 2012

[REDSCOUSER]

I wonder if a few of the clubs know that its unworkable and have just decided to ignore it. Either against some sort of trade / EU laws, or that there's huge loopholes they just won't be able to close with clubs able to claim sponsorship deals at many times the going rate from companies linked to their owners, like City did with their stadium sponsorship. Probably in the end FPP will hurt the smaller / more reasonable clubs who aren't able to pull such stunts.

While Platini doesn't even try to hide his biases, FIFA really are a joke whoever is in charge. As are most sports governing bodies. Boxing anyone? Formula 1?

Cant speak for Boxing or Formula 1 as I dont watch them Mike but FIFA is all about the money.
Without straying out of subject but if they really wanted a GB team instead of the 4 they would have forced it ages ago but they know they will lose on membership fees from 3 countries and we're talkin millions of $$$ here so they keep the 4 associations seperate. Thats just an example.
Platini is taking a leaf out of that by increasing the Euros to 24 teams fully knowing there will be some average teams like Latvia or Cyprus or Belarus making it but the money UEFA will get from sponsors and tv will be sufficient while quality will suffer in return. Shambles.

[cream]

United have apparently got Lucas Moura.

[Liverpool]

I wonder if a few of the clubs know that its unworkable and have just decided to ignore it. Either against some sort of trade / EU laws, or that there's huge loopholes they just won't be able to close with clubs able to claim sponsorship deals at many times the going rate from companies linked to their owners, like City did with their stadium sponsorship. Probably in the end FPP will hurt the smaller / more reasonable clubs who aren't able to pull such stunts.

While Platini doesn't even try to hide his biases, FIFA really are a joke whoever is in charge. As are most sports governing bodies. Boxing anyone? Formula 1?

its illegal but so is the current transfer system and a few other things, the eu have backed ffp so I cant see it getting challenged anytime soon

also club owners can still stick in a fair wedge £35m I think and pre 2010? contracts dont count towards it so if you just have 4-5 players that could be £20 million not counting towards it

[Shaggy]

Mancs reportedly paying £26m for Lucas Moura. So much for their ****in debt.

Let's hope he's wank.

[Reece]

I thought they'd already had a £29m bid rejected

[colin85]

Has to be bull****.

[Chazza]

Oliver Kay @OliverKayTimes

RT @DiscoMirror: Fergie on Moura: "We haven't reached agreement. We've shown interest. Until such time as agreement we can't say he's ours"

[RichC]

Hmmmm I am not convinced they'll get him UNLESS there is a sudden exodus of ****e players to places like QPR and other former players who are managing in the PL for £5M each.

[RichC]

quite an amusing round up of the transfers so far

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/football-sport/podolski-hazard-kagawa-borini-and-other-premier-league-new-boys-rated/

[RedReet]

quite an amusing round up of the transfers so far

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/footbal...ew-boys-rated/

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Cheers.

[RichC]

ahh **** sorry, it's not it's just football tbh

[Chazza]

Dirty mod

[RedReet]

Ha ha, don’t worry, when I eventually do get done for internet abuse there will be hundreds of these wee cunts flagged (obviously not all sexually explicit, ha ha)

[RichC]

I',ll paste the content in. It's quite funny!

Eden Hazard – Chelsea
His ego isn’t just big, it’s a free-form beast that expands to fill whatever space it happens to be in. Like gas. How that’ll go down at Chelsea where the humongous heads of John Terry, Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard rule like slightly demented dictators – think Hitler in his bunker circa 1945 – is anybody’s guess.

Still he did score 88.3 goals per game for Lille, and that’s some going even in a league where Joe Cole has managed to twiddle his feet in a manner bordering on useful. He’s also fast and skilful, and as Alan Hansen always says “it’s a defenders worse nightmare when someone’s running at you at pace” – this ignores the existence of any pace other than fast and Theo Walcott, but logic has never been the average MOTD pundit’s strong point.

The likelihood is Hazard’s overconfidence will work in his favour. Think of Chelsea’s best players and there’s something of the **** about them; that’s why poor, lovely Fernando Torres isn’t working out. He’d rather provide a group of ducklings safe passage across a quiet B-road than roast a girl who’s just vomited over the side of a hotel bed. Old Eden, you’d imagine, would rather do the latter.


However Arsenal won’t win anything and Podolski will be pursued feverishly by Manchester City until he finally gets bored of catching Roberto Mancini hiding in his garden, and leaves.

Lukas Podolski – Arsenal
It has been decided, there’s no need for debate, Lukas Podolski will succeed at Arsenal. He will prove to Theo Walcott you can pass to a teammate while running, he will score, he will smile, he will learn English within 24 minutes and prove more adept at using it than Shakespeare, he will be funny.

He is just the kind of player Arsene Wenger introduces to greatness, a player who has experienced a few lows – he failed at Bayern Munich – but retains the talent that had everyone salivating when he scuttled onto the scene. However Arsenal won’t win anything and he will be pursued feverishly by Manchester City until he finally gets bored of catching Roberto Mancini hiding in his garden, and leaves.

Shinji Kagawa – Manchester United
Bar propping cynics might say: “This Japanese fella’s only ‘ere for the shirt sales. He won’t like it on a cold night at Stoke. The sashimi in Salford is dreadful,” which clearly underrates a player who propelled Borussia Dortmund to a league and cup double last season, forgets that Japan and Germany are no strangers to the cold, and, HELLO, there’s a Yo Shushi! at Manchester Piccadilly station. Food on conveyor belts – what more could he want?

At some point in the near future Kagawa could become a player that Manchester United’s parent club, Real Madrid, will want to pluck from their English academy and introduce to the big league. He can trick, dart and probe with a subtleness that Ashley cut-inside-and-cross Young would kill for if he wasn’t too busy scuttling around like a shocked crab. However whether that moment will dawn in the coming campaign is uncertain. After all at 23 he is but a pup and unlikely to command a regular first team place.

He won’t fill that Cristiano Ronaldo-shaped creative hole at Manchester United, but he isn’t another Diego Forlan or Kleberson either.


But even if Giroud is rubbish it won’t be Arsenal’s undoing. Their defence, which Wenger built using a balsa wood kit, and over reliance on Jack Wilshere, whose urchin-like fresh face hides the bone structure of a disintegrating 90-year-old man, might be though.

Olivier Giroud – Arsenal
Ah Olivier, imagine a smouldering Alan Shearer weaned on olive oil and foie gras. Imagine a man who could wrestle a bear before rustling up a coq au vin. Who could fell trees with his hands before gently massaging out the knots in your back. If he were a locker, and there’s no proof he isn’t, there’d be plenty of tools inside.

He possesses power, skill and the ability to put a finishing touch to Arsenal’s relentless football doodling. An attacking three of Podolski, Giroud and Robin van Persie would be an enticing prospect if Van Persie wasn’t about to leave, instead the new boys will have to make do with Tomas Rosicky whimpering around them.

Of course he could turn out to be rubbish. But even if he is it won’t be Arsenal’s undoing. Their defence, which Wenger built using a balsa wood kit, and over reliance on Jack Wilshere, whose urchin-like fresh face hides the bone structure of a disintegrating 90-year-old man, might be though.

Jan Vertonghen – Tottenham Hotspur
Word on the Lane is this Belgium has a closet full of football weapons. Capable of gliding out of defence one moment, and implanting his studs on an opponent’s shins the next. He’s dominant in the air, he’s young but experienced and, crucially, the former Ajax captain rarely suffers injuries.

But that’s all about to change. Merely sharing the same Dyson Airblade as Ledley King is enough to doom any defender’s career to a spiralling storm of debilitating joint problems. If he stays fit he might just be the signing that helps Spurs mount another top four raid. But he won’t.


Nobody is expecting that much from him and Luis Suarez will enjoy playing with someone who isn’t Andy Carroll.

Fabio Borini – Liverpool
Ok so he’s played in England before, but not in the Premier League, so he’s allowed. Well, ok, one minute for Chelsea, but shush.

This young Italian is Brendan Rodgers’ first buy and marks a new era at Liverpool, one which doesn’t involve a Kenny Dalglish transfer policy that hasn’t evolved since 1985. If project Rodgers succeeds, Borini probably will.

And he has several things in his favour. He didn’t cost Liverpool £35 million for a start. Nobody is expecting that much from him and Luis Suarez will enjoy playing with someone who isn’t Andy Carroll.

If you are unsure how Borini and Carroll differ this analogy might help: Imagine they both approach a locked door. Borini would first look for a key, then peer through the letterbox, trying to reach the handle, before – if none of that worked – picking the lock with his dextrous mini-Italian hands. Carroll, by contrast, would step back several paces, lower his head and charge. He’d repeat this 20, 30, 40 times. However many it took before either he died or the door shattered open, to reveal everybody else had found a way in hours ago.

[Kenneth]

Funny article.

The likelihood is Hazard’s overconfidence will work in his favour. Think of Chelsea’s best players and there’s something of the **** about them; that’s why poor, lovely Fernando Torres isn’t working out. He’d rather provide a group of ducklings safe passage across a quiet B-road than roast a girl who’s just vomited over the side of a hotel bed. Old Eden, you’d imagine, would rather do the latter.