Done deals

Come on Benji sign on the dotted line !

Big deals still expected to be completed:

Benjani to Man City (£8m)
Defoe to Portsmouth (£9m)
Alves to Middlesbrough (£12m)

I wonder if there will be any surprise signings over the next hour.

there's whispers about us and chimbonda.

ALVES TO BORO, CONFIRMED

Cock Brownmum wrote:

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.

I'd rather Anderton than Kuyt

I really hope we can get Benjani, he will be a great signing. i think he would link up really well with Elano and Petrov.

newcastle inaction...perplexing?

surely a significant reason for getting rid of sam when they did was to allow the new boss to use the transfer window. are they just writing off this season completely?


benjani would be good for city. if they'd him ahead of vassell the last few weeks i'm sure they'd be a few points better off.

debaser wrote:there's whispers about us and chimbonda.

Be a good signing seeing as Mellberg is leaving.

Afonso Alves signs for Boro.

Around £12 million!!!

Crouching Tiger wrote:Afonso Alves signs for Boro.

Around £12 million!!!

Heerenveen and Middlesbrough signed, AZ is fighting it : they claim to have the rights to the player (and are threatening to appeal to FIFA)

....so it's still not a completely done deal

Really dull day for west ham supporters, when has a transfer window been this slow for us?

It's up on the Middlesbrough website:
http://www.mfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,1~1230553,00.html

Good enough for me. Can't wait to see him in action.

liverpoolfc.tv

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.

Cesc wrote:It's up on the Middlesbrough website:
http://www.mfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,1~1230553,00.html

Good enough for me. Can't wait to see him in action.

Quote from that site :

However, he must now await international clearance from the Dutch FA before making his debut for Boro.

The Dutch FA still has to make a ruling on the AZ claim, they've already said the burden of proof is on Alves.

Will probably take 4 weeks to conclude and at the moment it looks like it will go AZ's way....

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah i cant take this anymore, hurry up Benjani and sign.

0000 GMT: THE TRANSFER WINDOW HAS CLOSED


Reaaaally reaaaaally dull transfer window for us.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess its done we have got him !

there may be more to come that the media aren't aware of yet, not worth sitting up all night to see if we sign JLS.

Defoe to Portsmouth is an utter utter waste.

Glad to see the Alves deal finally done and dusted

borocooper wrote:Glad to see the Alves deal finally done and dusted

he scores in Holland so he's bound to be a success here

debaser wrote:newcastle inaction...perplexing?

surely a significant reason for getting rid of sam when they did was to allow the new boss to use the transfer window. are they just writing off this season completely?

I think we are writing this season off, in that we are perhaps too far behind already to realistically push for Europe - we are 13 points off 7th place, in what seems like a reasonably strong league, with you, City and Everton all doing well. That's fair enough. The main thing is simply ensuring that we don't go down, though I also think it's important to finish the season as well as possible in order to instill belief for next season, and perhaps to make us as attractive as we can be to potential summer signings.

In this respect, I would have liked someone in during this window. It was always going to be difficult to get people in, because Keegan has only had two weeks in which to search, we have had a few games in that time, and we have players away in the African Nations. It sounds like we have been close to several targets. We wanted Woodgate; we bid for Barnes; there's a Czech guy, Lubos Kalouda, who we apparently went after but couldn't sort a deal in time for the deadline; some Brazilian defender at Levante was supposedly on his way only for that to faulter; Pandev seemed a possibility. Obviously it's fruitless to go after players no better than what we have, and I'm sure we will spend and change things about in the summer, but to invigorate our season I would have liked someone in.

Rai = cunt wrote:

borocooper wrote:Glad to see the Alves deal finally done and dusted

he scores in Holland so he's bound to be a success here

Its a risk we needed to take

Aaaaaaaagh sky are fucking doing my head in now saying no confirmation !

It might be a long hour or so for you. If he does sign, do you think it will be too late to stake a claim in the squad for Saturday?

Strikers always seem to do well in their first appearances.

Heard an interesting rumour that Bentley has signed for Newcastle with Milner and £5m to Blackburn, that would be an interesting deal.

Cesc wrote:It might be a long hour or so for you. If he does sign, do you think it will be too late to stake a claim in the squad for Saturday?

Strikers always seem to do well in their first appearances.

Yeah if he has signed then id expect him to start on Sat, hope he can run Senderos into the ground.

Official - Jermain Defoe signs for Portsmouth:
http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/index.php?cms_ref=news

Is it a good deal for Pompey ? how many would he score for Pompey in a full season playing every week ?

Noooooooooooooooooooo f@ck F@ck f@ck F@ck ! The deal for Benjani didnt go through, im so gutted.