Winter Transfer Rumours

Villarreal trying to hijack Betis' move for Oliveria.

Would be a good buy IMO. Llorente is always out with niggling injuries, Rossi dips in and out of form, Nihat is also injured. Altidore is pants.

a good move for both parties

Numancia have signed Raul Bravo!

TM wrote:Villarreal trying to hijack Betis' move for Oliveria.

Would be a good buy IMO. Llorente is always out with niggling injuries, Rossi dips in and out of form, Nihat is also injured. Altidore is pants.

He would be a great striker for them and the perfect replacement for Forlan. Have some of the same qualities and while Nihat/Rossi are quick small strikers Olivera has the physical advantage and has more impact.

Chevanton would be best for Villarreal - it would be a match made in heaven.

He has the technique they require but also gives them an explosiveness that they miss.

I think he suits a narrow team too and if he takes them regularly his set pieces are unbelievably good.

I wish it would happen

Julien Faubert Thought Real Madrid Move Was A Joke
The Frenchman has admitted he was surprised to receive a call from Real Madrid.

Real Madrid’s newest signing Julien Faubert has admitted that when he was first contacted by the club with a view to signing for Los Merengues, he thought it was a prank.

The 25-year-old has moved from West Ham United to Madrid in a loan deal until the end of the season, in one of the more unexpected switches of the transfer window.

The Frenchman passed a medical in Spain on Friday and will be presented to the media on Monday, with Real also having the option to sign the player on a permanent basis should the deal prove successful.

However, speaking to L’Equipe, the former Hammer has admitted that the proposed transfer also came as a shock to him.

"I got a phone call from a Real Madrid recruiter. I wasn't very polite to him. I thought I was being made fun of, that it was a joke," he explained, "I had just found out that contacts with Lyon and Newcastle had fallen through. I wasn't feeling good."

Faubert joined West Ham from Bordeaux in 2007 but struggled with injury which ruled him out of the majority of his first season at the club before falling out of favour with new manager Gianfranco Zola.

The midfielder has admitted that he is ready for the challenge at Real and will fight for his place in the team. He said: "It´s up to me to fight, to show that I can get in the team."

Faubert also revealed his relief at leaving Upton Park and is clearly hoping his future lies in Madrid, rather than East London.

"I couldn't see a way out [of West Ham]," he continued, "I thought I would be staying at West Ham, suffering mentally."

Mijatovic, gets players so bad they don't even believe it.

Super Madrid wrote:Julien Faubert Thought Real Madrid Move Was A Joke
The Frenchman has admitted he was surprised to receive a call from Real Madrid.

Real Madrid’s newest signing Julien Faubert has admitted that when he was first contacted by the club with a view to signing for Los Merengues, he thought it was a prank.

The 25-year-old has moved from West Ham United to Madrid in a loan deal until the end of the season, in one of the more unexpected switches of the transfer window.

The Frenchman passed a medical in Spain on Friday and will be presented to the media on Monday, with Real also having the option to sign the player on a permanent basis should the deal prove successful.

However, speaking to L’Equipe, the former Hammer has admitted that the proposed transfer also came as a shock to him.

"I got a phone call from a Real Madrid recruiter. I wasn't very polite to him. I thought I was being made fun of, that it was a joke," he explained, "I had just found out that contacts with Lyon and Newcastle had fallen through. I wasn't feeling good."

Faubert joined West Ham from Bordeaux in 2007 but struggled with injury which ruled him out of the majority of his first season at the club before falling out of favour with new manager Gianfranco Zola.

The midfielder has admitted that he is ready for the challenge at Real and will fight for his place in the team. He said: "It´s up to me to fight, to show that I can get in the team."

Faubert also revealed his relief at leaving Upton Park and is clearly hoping his future lies in Madrid, rather than East London.

"I couldn't see a way out [of West Ham]," he continued, "I thought I would be staying at West Ham, suffering mentally."

Mijatovic, gets players so bad they don't even believe it.

I know this is most likely just a made up rumour from the imaginative minds at goal.com, but I so hope this is true and that something like this works out. Crespo+Burdisso will be small sacrifices for the services of Milito.

It will be great to have a inform striker at Inter to partner Ibra... just in case Adriano does not work out.

Report: Inter In Last-Ditch Attempt To Sign Genoa Ace Milito
Press reports in the Boot claim the Nerazzurri have tabled an improved bid to prize El Principe away from Marassi before the Italian transfer market closes tomorrow. According to FcInterNews.it, Inter are still keen on bringing Genoa striker Diego Milito to the San Siro and they hope to complete the transfer in the current window to include the Argentine in the list for the second phase of the Champions League.

It is suggested that the Via Durini officials are ready to put on the table a vast sum of money plus the rights to Argentine central defender Nicolas Burdisso and forward Hernan Crespo. The Beneamata were heavily linked with Milito at the start of last month, but their advances were firmly rejected by Genoa patron Enrico Preziosi, who insisted he would never part company with his prized asset mid-season after splashing out to re-sign him from Real Zaragoza last summer.

Milito has been in superb form for the Rossoblù this term and is currently in second place in the Capocannoniere chart with 14 goals to his name, despite struggling with injury problems and missing several games last month.

Apparently Fulham have made a bid for Negredo...interesting, he's a decent player and has the physique and style to succeed in the Premiership, but I don't know if he's ready for such a move yet. Almeria will be in trouble though, he's their main goalscorer so they'll probably have to use most or all of the fee to get in a replacement.

bluenine wrote:I know this is most likely just a made up rumour from the imaginative minds at goal.com, but I so hope this is true and that something like this works out. Crespo+Burdisso will be small sacrifices for the services of Milito.

It will be great to have a inform striker at Inter to partner Ibra... just in case Adriano does not work out.

Report: Inter In Last-Ditch Attempt To Sign Genoa Ace Milito
Press reports in the Boot claim the Nerazzurri have tabled an improved bid to prize El Principe away from Marassi before the Italian transfer market closes tomorrow. According to FcInterNews.it, Inter are still keen on bringing Genoa striker Diego Milito to the San Siro and they hope to complete the transfer in the current window to include the Argentine in the list for the second phase of the Champions League.

It is suggested that the Via Durini officials are ready to put on the table a vast sum of money plus the rights to Argentine central defender Nicolas Burdisso and forward Hernan Crespo. The Beneamata were heavily linked with Milito at the start of last month, but their advances were firmly rejected by Genoa patron Enrico Preziosi, who insisted he would never part company with his prized asset mid-season after splashing out to re-sign him from Real Zaragoza last summer.

Milito has been in superb form for the Rossoblù this term and is currently in second place in the Capocannoniere chart with 14 goals to his name, despite struggling with injury problems and missing several games last month.

IMO, Burdisso is the inform striker to partner Ibra

kas wrote:Apparently Fulham have made a bid for Negredo...interesting, he's a decent player and has the physique and style to succeed in the Premiership, but I don't know if he's ready for such a move yet. Almeria will be in trouble though, he's their main goalscorer so they'll probably have to use most or all of the fee to get in a replacement.

Rumour was we were in for Caicedo but that was dependent on man city getting Cruz

Looks like Sergio Tejera has returned from England. Mallorca signed the midfielder player from Chelsea just a couple of years after the player left Espanyol to go abroad.