Todays Transfer Rumours

Shelvey really doesn't look like a right fit for a relegation battle. More of an luxury player who could thrive under Mark Hughes kind of guy.

Also, looks like Everton, West Ham and Newcastle are going to fight for Sam Byram signature.

Can't believe that someone like Grabban costs 8m pounds

Looks like we lost the battle to sign Sam Byram against West Ham - he looks like quality player in making, but because of Coleman at RB we can't realistically offer him starting XI chance. Hammers can.

Finally Naismith is officially sold to Norwich - 8m pounds is a nice price for hard working, but limited player with eye for goal who was signed for free.

If only Martinez would have guts to spend it on a new goalkeeper... Or someone would take McGeady and Gibson (especially former) from us as well.
Also, I remember discussion here about McGeady when we were signing him - he proved to be totally useless (as I expected) and now Premier League teams don't want him and he doesn't want to go down to Championship. Nominal fee or not, it was really a poor transfer.

Norwich is very active in January, but I don't know half of their signings and I am wondering if Neil will be able to use them properly without preseason.

I hope we don't give Spurs £14m for Townsend, it seems they won't negotiate at all, rejected £10m(also too much), rejected a loan, and it's £14m or nothing, for a player that their manager doesn't want. Bizarre stuff from Spurs, just sell the guy and let him get on with his career.

Byrum signs for West Ham.

Sounds like Gary Neville has finally sacrificed his credibility by trying to sign Jack Rodwell.

Kimbo wrote:I hope we don't give Spurs £14m for Townsend, it seems they won't negotiate at all, rejected £10m(also too much), rejected a loan, and it's £14m or nothing, for a player that their manager doesn't want. Bizarre stuff from Spurs, just sell the guy and let him get on with his career.

That's peak Daniel Levy right there. If he gets 14million for Townsend he deserves a knighthood. I'd prefer to just see him take 10million personally, let him get on with it. He's always appeared to have a good attitude and really wanted to succeed at Spurs. That fall out with our fitness coach was largely blown out of proportion and not in character. By all accounts he's been willingly playing with the u21s and exemplary attitude at training is further evidence he deserves to be allowed to get his career back on track without haggling over a few million.

West Ham interested in Turkey's Yilmaz.

Apparently Townsend is going to have a medical tomorrow at Newcastle. 12m pounds. Robbery.

Meanwhile, Villa are signing...an assistant manager from Rotherham. Hope he's got a few goals in him

stinger wrote:Apparently Townsend is going to have a medical tomorrow at Newcastle. 12m pounds. Robbery.

Joy of joys. We could do with a traditional winger for Mitrovic, i'm not sure if Townsend is the guy, and the fee is bullshit, but when you've fucked up royally and are going into February in the relegation zone you have to do stuff.

My ideal window would also involve McClaren("judge me on 12 games") leaving, a big CB coming in, Remy, a LB, and Colback being arrested by Mulder and Scully, how he is seen as an essential premier league midfielder is a true X File, I bet the smoking man is his agent. Shelvey is a good signing regardless of what people think of the fee, having a CM willing to pass forward is quite important.

stinger wrote:Apparently Townsend is going to have a medical tomorrow at Newcastle. 12m pounds. Robbery.

That's $500,000 more than we paid for Christian Eriksen. FFS Levy

It's £14m less than you paid for Soldado.

Fair play. You can have that one

Palace have signed Adebayor on a free.

Di Caniooooo! wrote:Palace have signed Adebayor on a free.

Put Pardew in charge of transfers they said, end up with Adebayor and Conor Wickham.

Could be clearing the way for Remy to come back though.

Wtf

Chelsea's Ramires joins Jiangsu Suning in £25m move
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35422217

Can't say I rated him as much as some.

Fulham offered Ross McCormack, who is 29, a 3 year contract, at the end of which he would automatically take on a non-playing role... at the age of 32. He responded by handing in a transfer request.

West Ham offered to take Yilmaz on loan, his club cheekily replied that they'd accept, if we loaned them Payet

Kimbo wrote:Wtf

Chelsea's Ramires joins Jiangsu Suning in £25m move
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35422217

Can't say I rated him as much as some.

Decent workhorse with eye for the goal, but at the same time one of the less technically gifted players from Brasil I ever watched on this level.

Shocking to see fee like this for him, especially when I could imagine teams in China looking more for leaders (goalscorer, CM playmaker, CB, all with big names as possible) from foreigners contingent. Or maybe they are just getting anyone who can be persuaded to go there.

Kimbo wrote:

stinger wrote:Apparently Townsend is going to have a medical tomorrow at Newcastle. 12m pounds. Robbery.

Joy of joys. We could do with a traditional winger for Mitrovic, i'm not sure if Townsend is the guy, and the fee is bullshit, but when you've fucked up royally and are going into February in the relegation zone you have to do stuff.

My ideal window would also involve McClaren("judge me on 12 games") leaving, a big CB coming in, Remy, a LB, and Colback being arrested by Mulder and Scully, how he is seen as an essential premier league midfielder is a true X File, I bet the smoking man is his agent. Shelvey is a good signing regardless of what people think of the fee, having a CM willing to pass forward is quite important.

Shelvey spraying passes out wide to Townsend to get in the box for Mitrovic is a good idea in theory.

If you want Townsend to supply decent service, play him on the left. Too selfish when on the right.

Good deal all round for Tottenham, Newcastle and the player IMO

Apparently we are poised to sign Oumar Niasse from Lokomotiv Moscow. Players from Russian Superleague (especially forwards) have poor records in Premier League, so spending 13.5m pounds on him looks like a huge, huge risk.

I also don't like the fact that we are getting a player from league with inflated transfer fees and wages.

We're getting one aswell, Doumbia, FM legend. The media also keep pushing this Berahino story, but not a single person thinks it's going to happen. I wish they would shut the f**k up because it's a bit embarrassing.

Deluded F*ck™ wrote:Shelvey spraying passes out wide to Townsend to get in the box for Mitrovic is a good idea in theory.

If you want Townsend to supply decent service, play him on the left. Too selfish when on the right.

Good deal all round for Tottenham, Newcastle and the player IMO

I'm sure he'll be on the left, we don't really have anyone there, Wijnaldum is there on paper but obviously spends his time more central. Plus our LB has been Dummett so all our play has to come down the right. I'm hoping we're going to sign this Argie Lucas Orban.

I don't really know how all these players are going to fit in, but if McClaren gets us relegated after spending £80m it might be the biggest failure in premier league history.

Doumbia at least has some CL experience (where he looked dangerous from what I saw, even if he was not profilic), plus has some experience playing for Ivory Coast as well. He seems to be a safer choice.

Sky sports claiming Newcastle have submitted a formal bid of 21 million for Berahino. Looks like they want both of them. Which is odd as they already have Mitrovic, Perez, Cisse and now Doumbia. They're doing a Liverpool trying to end the transfer window with 7 strikers it appears.

Isco Benny wrote:Sky sports claiming Newcastle have submitted a formal bid of 21 million for Berahino. Looks like they want both of them. Which is odd as they already have Mitrovic, Perez, Cisse and now Doumbia. They're doing a Liverpool trying to end the transfer window with 7 strikers it appears.

Cisse is injured, and beyond putrid shit. Perez is a strange one, he's our most talented footballer but doesn't really have a position, he's not a forward or a winger, he's possibly an AM, but then Wijnaldum has more end product. I also think Mitrovic needs to start even though he isn't scoring, his hold up play has been too important. I don't know what we're doing.

This Berahino stuff is bullshit, watch him go to Spurs while SSN jizz themselves over the drama, he's not coming here. It reminds me of when we were in for Rooney. I'm not sure he's even that good, I'd rather have a good CB and a LB.

Maybe we're doing our summer spending now because McClaren has fucked everything up, even though he claims we have been "tremendous".

Kimbo wrote:

Isco Benny wrote:Sky sports claiming Newcastle have submitted a formal bid of 21 million for Berahino. Looks like they want both of them. Which is odd as they already have Mitrovic, Perez, Cisse and now Doumbia. They're doing a Liverpool trying to end the transfer window with 7 strikers it appears.

Cisse is injured, and beyond putrid shit. Perez is a strange one, he's our most talented footballer but doesn't really have a position, he's not a forward or a winger, he's possibly an AM, but then Wijnaldum has more end product. I also think Mitrovic needs to start even though he isn't scoring, his hold up play has been too important. I don't know what we're doing.

This Berahino stuff is bullshit, watch him go to Spurs while SSN jizz themselves over the drama, he's not coming here. It reminds me of when we were in for Rooney. I'm not sure he's even that good, I'd rather have a good CB and a LB.

Maybe we're doing our summer spending now because McClaren has fucked everything up, even though he claims we have been "tremendous".

Peace appears to be an even bigger hard nosed c**t than Levy so would not surprise me if they accepted the bid to spite Levy. Whether Berahino is that desperate to get out of West Brom to join Newcastle at this time (given relegation risk plus the competition for places upfront) is another thing. There's no doubting Peace does not want to sell to levy/Spurs after the summer transfer debacle. Definitely leveraging this Newcastle bid and making it public so that we would have to match the offer at the very least and allow Berahino to go where he actually wants to go. I'm not sure we will do it though, not sure Pochettino is convinced we need him otherwise we'd have just done it by now just like we did with Son with minimal fuss.

Now there's talk of Stoke bidding for him. I bet he expected a high caliber of clubs to be in for him, he's like the average girl at the ball.

Can't believe how badly we've fucked up this transfer window. Ramirez signing aside.