January Transfers - Whats happening?

ahh lulu its christmas, give kimbo a break!

Jingle bellack wrote:ahh lulu its christmas, give kimbo a break!

He's rubbish at wumming anyway, i'm not bothered.

shazlx-mas wrote:

Jingle bellack wrote:

Chelsea were linked to V.D.Vaart the other day, with Grant apparently going to Germany to see him play, but didn't he pose in a Valencia shirt? So thats probably a load of Cr@p.

Hope you don't et VDV, he's too talented for an ugly team like Chelsea.

Doubt we'll get him anyway. I'm sure RVP and Robben have put a lot of Dutch players off joining the EPL, by being constantly injured.

debaubler wrote:villa are signing miguel and quaresma in an £8m double swoop. the sunday mirror said it, so it must be true.

Luis wrote:I just think Newcastle are doomed no matter who they bring in, they lack confidence and when a few players go missing, they lack general talent

This probably applies more to Poll actually. Newcastle just not that good, mostly due to their idiot manager.

Protheus wrote:

debaubler wrote:villa are signing miguel and quaresma in an £8m double swoop. the sunday mirror said it, so it must be true.

i dearly hope you are not casting aspersions on that bastion of truth, the sunday mirror. its word is gospel.

Iraqi
midfielder Nashat Akram has received an invitation for a trial with
Manchester City, according to a statement on the player's own official
website.
The 23-year-old midfielder, who was second runner-up in the
2007 Asian Player of the Year voting, will undergo a 10-day trial with
Sven-Goran Eriksson's side after receiving the green light from his Abu
Dhabi-based club Al Ain for the trial.
"After receiving an invitation to undergo a 10-day trial with
Manchester City, Al-Ain's administration has given the green light to
Nashat Akram to go ahead and travel to England," said the website of
the former Al Shabab player.
"Akram will be heading to England in the upcoming days," added the website.
Akram will be the second west Asian player to trial with
Manchester City this week as AFC Player of the Year and Saudi Arabia
skipper Yasser Al Qahtani travelled to Manchester last week to trial
with the team.

Tomorrow the window opens, and Berbatov has jsut said he wants to leave for a 'Big' Club.

I'd like to see us sign Anelka

Well Arsenal wont sign anyone, again.

at Berbatov!

Berbatov should stay until the end of the season as a matter of common decency. He was as $h!t as anyone at the start so should take some responsibility for our league position. Plus we've still got 3 cups to play for. If he leaves in the summer fair enough.

tigerthesmurf wrote:Well Arsenal wont sign anyone, again.

Wenger will be bringing in an experienced goalkeepr in the january transfer window.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is in pole position to sign Barnsley keeper Heinz Muller for £1m. (Various)

By his standards anyway.

Berbs to Man United.

Bent to West Ham

Ashton to Spurs.

Put your money on it. A "mate of mine" told me its happening. He's good friends with Frank. Kosher

Be stupid for Berbatov to leave in January like TS said. He'd be cuptied anyway.

Unfortunately, I can confirm that this story has some legs to it...I hope it doesn't happen. Would like Bent at West Ham, BUT DO NOT want to lose Ashton.

Sven has announced that we are working hard talking to agents about deals that would bring some 'really big name' players to City in deals that will cost 'lots of money'.

Id love to know who they are, hopefully Anelka or Berbatov (if Petrov and Bojinov can talk him round )

Parks lives wrote:Be stupid for Berbatov to leave in January like TS said. He'd be cuptied anyway.

Don't think he will be cuptied for the Champions League.

Don Fabio wrote:

Ashton to Spurs.

Nooooooooooooooo

I told you all when we were still on 606 that Ashton would end up a Spurs player.

I never lie

Blackburn boss Mark Hughes will not be taking any risks in the January transfer window.

The Ewood Park boss has the opportunity to make changes to his squad from Tuesday, but admits he is no rush to spend.
Hughes believes that any player he brings in must already be
attuned to the pace of the Premier League, making business at this time
of year more difficult.
Mistakes


He told Sky Sports News: "January is a difficult period
to negotiate. You have to be really certain that the players that
you're going to bring in can hit the ground running and can improve
you.
"From our point of view, if we spend money then we can't afford
to make mistakes. More mistakes are made in January than possibly in
the summer window.
"We'll have a look at the situation and what presents itself. We
get lots of phone calls from agents at this time of year, some of them
aren't really worth pursuing or even taking the call on occasions.
"That's the time of the year that we're in and there's a lot of
nonsense flying around and speculation about players, so you have to
wade through that.
"If something presents itself and we can do it or we have the
ability to do something that will enable us to bring good quality into
the club we will always look at that."
Savage


Robbie Savage has been linked with a move away from Ewood Park,
but Hughes has again insisted the midfielder remains an important
member of his squad.
He added: "There's a lot of speculation. A number of clubs have
enquired about the situation. The situation is that Robbie is
contracted to Blackburn Rovers.
"At the moment he's not particularly happy because he's not an
automatic choice in the team, but that's the same for the vast majority
of players in my squad.
"At the moment he's not in the team, but he's very much a valued
member of the squad and if I feel he's the right player for certain
games, he will play."



What do you think would Hughes/Moyes be still good in the market if they had big money?(moyes had flops though like Simon DAvies for 4m , Hughes has ooijer but these are not big money flops).

Honourable C*nt wrote:I told you all when we were still on 606 that Ashton would end up a Spurs player.

I never lie

Oh don't take this the wrong way...Tottenham are going to try for Ashton by offering us Bent, That's as far as anything goes tbh...it's a question of what we say to that. I'm pretty sure the answer will be "fuck off" though

Dark Savante wrote:
What do you think would Hughes/Moyes be still good in the market if they had big money?(moyes had flops though like Simon DAvies for 4m , Hughes has ooijer but these are not big money flops).

moyes has spent big. yakubu + johnson = £20m. which is over the odds, but they've both been relatively effective - although inconsistent.

hughes has been good at picking up bargains - i think he'd struggle to attract big money players to blackburn and might end up just overspending on mediocre if he did have more money.

SkySports is linking us with a move for Momo Sissoko...can't see it being true tbh...I'm sure Juventus and others are interested. Would be great though .

Matthew Upson wrote:SkySports is linking us with a move for Momo Sissoko...can't see it being true tbh...I'm sure Juventus and others are interested. Would be great though .

Why , all three of Mullins, Noble and Parker are better than him.

Matthew Upson wrote:

Honourable C*nt wrote:I told you all when we were still on 606 that Ashton would end up a Spurs player.

I never lie

Oh don't take this the wrong way...Tottenham are going to try for Ashton by offering us Bent, That's as far as anything goes tbh...it's a question of what we say to that. I'm pretty sure the answer will be "fuck off" though

I'm on a bit of Wummery . How many strikers do you actually need ?

Zamora would definetly out at this rate, and you've played Boa Morte up front too. If you Brought Bent in You'd have to let at least 1 go. That's why the Ashton story has legs.

shazlx wrote:

Matthew Upson wrote:SkySports is linking us with a move for Momo Sissoko...can't see it being true tbh...I'm sure Juventus and others are interested. Would be great though .

Why , all three of Mullins, Noble and Parker are better than him.

Mullins

Most underrated DM in the Prem.

I think he is a better DM then Mullins but nothing else Mullins can probably attack/pass better.

Reading's Kevin Doyle is a surprise name on Chelsea's January shopping list, along with Bolton's Nicolas Anelka (Independent).


Why would they sign Reading's 3rd best striker

johan il quattordici wrote:

Parks lives wrote:Be stupid for Berbatov to leave in January like TS said. He'd be cuptied anyway.

Don't think he will be cuptied for the Champions League.

I think there is an exception in the rule these days...I remember it applied when we signed Cassano even though he'd played UEFA Cup with Roma earlier in the season.

He won't be cup-tied.

A few years ago we signed Abou Diaby who had played in the UEFA Cup with Auxerre, he could still play in the Champions League that season for Arsenal.