Football The 2013 / 2014 Season Thread

[ileks]

It was a fake quote made up but an Arsenal fan.

He's often been quoted as saying he would only ever play for Barca or Arsenal.

 

[soze]

That would work if either club had wanted him.

 

[georgie]

We just Thank you for the Cornelius deal, haha

lol, there was something so dodgy about that whole thing.

 

[Raven]

Sagna to Man-City on a 3 year contract...bit of an odd one.

 

[megadave]

Last paycheck for an old, declining player.

 

[ileks]

Arsenal are going to have to pay £20m+ for anyone as good as Sagna. Rejecting his wage demands doesn't make much sense unless they have someone far better lined up.

 

[Vladamir]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27841486

Hopefully a sign of things to come with the corruption investigations

 

[soze]

Arsenal are going to have to pay £20m+ for anyone as good as Sagna. Rejecting his wage demands doesn't make much sense unless they have someone far better lined up.

My man at the Emirates said Sagna was offered £150k a week as early as last summer but he told the club it was time to go and he was not interested in signing again.

 

[ileks]

My man at the Emirates said Sagna was offered £150k a week as early as last summer but he told the club it was time to go and he was not interested in signing again.

Fair enough in that case. I really liked him as a player.

Apparently Arsenal have made £6m out of the Fabregas transfer. They also have the buy back option on Vela which is surely worth £20m+. They should spunk it all on Alves IMO.

 

[soze]

Fair enough in that case. I really liked him as a player.

Apparently Arsenal have made £6m out of the Fabregas transfer. They also have the buy back option on Vela which is surely worth £20m+. They should spunk it all on Alves IMO.

The president of the other club has said we have already exercised the £3.2m buy back clause. Probably just to send him back on loan and sell him again next year.

 

[soze]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...tigator-Michael-Garcia-over-35000-dinner.html
Is this the start of a corruption does not matter everyone was doing it defence. Its typical FIFA though.

 

[Olgaline]

Vermaelen to Man.U according to The Telegraph

 

[Olgaline]

And
Costa to Chelski for £28mill (cheap imo)

 

[Calaen]

Depends if he settles in!

 

[caLLous]

Dunno what you're talking about. Expensive strikers *always* hit the ground running in the prem.

 

[drhum]

I'm really looking forward on how far England will go. But I don't think they will take it this year though.

 

[gohan]

Dunno what you're talking about. Expensive strikers *always* hit the ground running in the prem.

haha to be fair they usually do unless it's for Chelsea Torres and Saurez for Liverpool, Aguero for city, Van Nistelrooy for united (going back a bit but they haven't bought anyone in for a lot since then) Remy for Newcastle.
other then the huge list of Chelsea striker flops (but they don't count cos they would buy a puppy for £30m is it could dribble a bit) only Robinho could be labeled an expensive foriegn flop.


If you want cheap flops though, look no futher than nearly every player Liverpool signed under Houllier and Benitez.

 

[caLLous]

Oh, good, I'm glad you didn't have Soldado on your list because that's who I was talking about.

 

[Calaen]

Shevchenko, Crespo, Kezman another few for Chelsea

 

[gohan]

Oh, good, I'm glad you didn't have Soldado on your list because that's who I was talking about.

Oh yeah fair one, he's so shit I forgot he existed.....

 

[Talivar]

Andy Carroll? ( Even though he came from a smaller PL team!)

 

[gohan]

Not talking PL-PL, just new to PL

 

[Bodhi]

Shevchenko, Crespo, Kezman another few for Chelsea

And Drogba, Anelka, Hasselbaink....wait am I doing this right?

 

[Raven]

Liverpool specialise in taking already proven strikers and breaking them.

(although have bucked that trend in the last 2 years)

 

[Calaen]

And Drogba, Anelka, Hasselbaink....wait am I doing this right?

Anelka was already tried in the PL

 

[Bodhi]

Anelka was already tried in the PL

And Crespo turned out to be decent, what's your point?

 

[megadave]

Shevchenko and Torres were so appalling and on such high wages though, both crippled us for years imo

 

[Vladamir]

Torres has got another 2 years on his deal hasn't he?

If he goes, and Ashley Cole doesn't sign another deal, that's about £600k a week cleared on the wage bill with Cole/Lampard/Torres/Luiz gone, mental.

 

[megadave]

We can only hope and dream of Torres leaving

Costa and Fabregas will be on a lot, also sounds like with got Felipe Luis from Atletico all but done (at a ridiculous price for a 28yo fullback imo, even if he was one of the best in the world last season) Probably see better contracts for Hazard, Courtous and a few others too.

Don't forget Eto'o's wages too. We're loaded this summer, could spend 150m and pass FFP, not sure we need much else though.

 

[Vladamir]

If those 3 come in, I'd say we are pretty much set for 2 or more in every position like 04 to 06