Done deals

Jesus wrote:

Cesc wrote:Bolton sign Grzegorz Rasiak from Southampton on loan until the end of the season.

Hardly the Anelka replacement that their fans were expecting.

Also Leo Fortune West has go out on loan to York ( I think )

Jesus wrote:

Cesc wrote:Bolton sign Grzegorz Rasiak from Southampton on loan until the end of the season.

Hardly the Anelka replacement that their fans were expecting.

TBH Bolton can't really expect to sign a player of Anelka's quality, Rasiak is a good championship player, lets see how he makes the step in the prem.

Also Leo Fortune West has go out on loan to York ( I think )

City have signed Felipe Caicedo for £5.2m ! He can play upfront or left wing, big things are expect of him. 19yr old Ecuadorian international.

Sgoater1 wrote:City have signed Felipe Caicedo for £5.2m ! He can play upfront or left wing, big things are expect of him. 19yr old Ecuadorian international.

Who did you sign him off?

Liverpool have signed Javier Mascherano on a long term contract.

@ Tweeds

Basle

The Mascherano fee is believed to be £18.6m.

Cesc wrote:The Mascherano fee is believed to be £18.6m.

Completely not worth it. You should have just brought Diarra.

Yeah we would have happly sold him for £17M

TM wrote:Yeah we would have happly sold him for £17M

Not your shitty Diarra.

Rozehnal is joining Lazio on loan for the rest of the season, which is a shocking move from our perspective. I cannot understand it, and wonder whether he has irritated Keegan somehow in the last week - I know Rozehnal supposedly commented just recently saying that, whilst he was happy at the club, he was concerned about his lack of games and with the way he was having to move about the pitch, particularly with the European Championships in mind. Still, Taylor has had a good season for us, but Rozehnal is for me our next best centre back, he and Taylor our most promising defensive partnership, and in the few games he has played in midfield, I think Rozehnal has showed promise there. He's the best footballing defender we have had for many years.

To be loaning a player out when we have failed to bring anyone in is ridiculous. And I'm not at all comfortable with Faye and Cacapa as the two centre backs vying to play alongside Taylor - neither are good enough in my opinion, neither are clever footballers. It being Lazio, is there any chance we might get Pandev before the end of the day? That's the only thing that would reconcile me.

Great news, he'll be an important part of out future

But he's going to Lazio, Luis. Or did you mean our mutual future, all as members of this board? You expect him to do well at Lazio and bring us all much joy from a general footballing perspective?

Mascherano.

Bashmachkin wrote:Rozehnal is joining Lazio on loan for the rest of the season, which is a shocking move from our perspective. I cannot understand it, and wonder whether he has irritated Keegan somehow in the last week - I know Rozehnal supposedly commented just recently saying that, whilst he was happy at the club, he was concerned about his lack of games and with the way he was having to move about the pitch, particularly with the European Championships in mind. Still, Taylor has had a good season for us, but Rozehnal is for me our next best centre back, he and Taylor our most promising defensive partnership, and in the few games he has played in midfield, I think Rozehnal has showed promise there. He's the best footballing defender we have had for many years.

To be loaning a player out when we have failed to bring anyone in is ridiculous. And I'm not at all comfortable with Faye and Cacapa as the two centre backs vying to play alongside Taylor - neither are good enough in my opinion, neither are clever footballers. It being Lazio, is there any chance we might get Pandev before the end of the day? That's the only thing that would reconcile me.

Surely this is part of some secret deal to bring Pandev to Newcastle in the summer.

I'm not too bothered tbh. Rozehnal is a very good footballer, but is the weakest defender i've ever seen and is totally unsuited the the premiership. I would rate him behind the other 3 and a long way behind Taylor and Faye who should be first choice. Beye and Faye are coming home now btw, Senegal are out.

Thanks for Rozehnal, im sure he'll be an improvement on Stendardo

Kimbo wrote:
Surely this is part of some secret deal to bring Pandev to Newcastle in the summer.

I'm not too bothered tbh. Rozehnal is a very good footballer, but is the weakest defender i've ever seen and is totally unsuited the the premiership. I would rate him behind the other 3 and a long way behind Taylor and Faye who should be first choice. Beye and Faye are coming home now btw, Senegal are out.

I don't know, I tend to take the view that a good player is a good player, and will ultimately be able to adapt to any league given time. I agree with you that Rozehnal isn't as strong as he needs to be in order to be a consistently effective Premier League defender. He also overplays at times, which is particularly dangerous in the defence. But I think, given his footballing ability, given the fact he seems an intelligent footballer and a sensible guy, we could and should have given him time and worked on these things more. He started the season well, was arguably one of our better players for the first four or five games, then tailed off. But he's shown more quality this season than most of our players, and made fewer mistakes than someone like Cacapa in the defence. I also think that Rozehnal communicates well when playing as a centre back.

I think Taylor is our best centre back by some margin. Faye is more solid than Rozehnal, more suited to the league as things stand, but he's not great on the ball, and to me he always looks like he has a mistake in him because he has the odd moment when he just seems to lose the plot, his eyes glaze over and he does something crazy. Cacapa doesn't strike me as a particularly intelligent footballer - his defensive instinct is good, but I don't think he reads games well and he is liable to get caught out.

I think it's remarkable that our decision after three games under a new manager, with a weak squad as it is, has been to get rid of Rozehnal. What about Smith, Barton, Butt, Owen, Enrique? Besides all of which, though I'm not happy with three centre backs for the rest of the season.

Tweedle wrote:

Sgoater1 wrote:City have signed Felipe Caicedo for £5.2m ! He can play upfront or left wing, big things are expect of him. 19yr old Ecuadorian international.

Who did you sign him off?

Basle.

BoBo Vieri wrote:Thanks for Rozehnal, im sure he'll be an improvement on Stendardo

forgot there was another laziele on the board.

shazlx wrote:

TM wrote:Yeah we would have happly sold him for £17M

Not your shitty Diarra.

So not the internationally recognised player who plays at the biggest club in the world, but the arrogant little tosspot who has won nothing in his career, proven nothing in his career, lasted less than 6 months at Arsenal and whose most notable contribution while he was there was to announce his desire to leave just before one of the biggest games of his club's season?


Oh. Right.

Liverpool have announced the sale of defender Lee Peltier to Yeovil Town.
The 20-year-old Academy graduate, who has four Liverpool appearances to his name, has been on loan at the League One outfit since the start of the season.

Meanwhile, contrary to reports elsewhere, the deal to complete Javier Mascherano's permanent move to Liverpool has yet to be finalised.

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N158670080131-1956.htm

Ishmael Miller has joined WBA on a perm deal worth around £1.5m plus sell on. I didn thtink he would come back, we have enough good young strikers with Bojinov, Sturidge, Evans, Etuhu and now Ciacedo.

I can't believe West Ham haven't brought atleast one new face in, considering we have such a long list of injured players.

David Rozehnal - what a great name for a Lazio Player !

He's going to have so much fun there I tell ya.

Defoe agree terms with Pompey and is waiting for Benjani to sign for us before completing his deal.

City sign Felipe Mancini from Inter on loan until the end of the season.

Well Gardner to Everton on loan confirmed aswell as Stalteri to Fulham on loan.

We have completed the signing of Gilberto from Hertha.

Defoe to Portsmouth...confounded really.

Gilberto(LB) to Spurs

Mark Noble wrote:I can't believe West Ham haven't brought atleast one new face in, considering we have such a long list of injured players.

Curbs had bids turned down for Kewell, Saha and Darren Anderton.