which club made the best transfers in this summer

the most famous for the german league

schalke
metzelder
jurado
raul
huntellar
nicolas plestan

bremen
arnautovic
silvestre
wesley


ballack [leverkusen]
camoranesi, degen [stuttgart]


wolfsburg
diego
kajer


bremen looks good, if silvestre delivers, they have now a bunch of very good footballers which suit there style great

Atletico and valencia in spain for me

genoa did best in italy

Ballack > All, therefore Leverkusen wins easy

Lecce and WBA.

Both were favourites to go down but effectively ensured their top flight status with the signings of Chevanton and Tchoyi respectively.

Milan... just played poker and waited until the clubs got desperat. But I dont envy the task of trying to control all those egos!

Definetly Milan, we have been waiting for a summer like this for around 5 years, we finally have a strong and competitive squad, maybe a left back would make this perfect but we have good options there and with new competition players like Zambrotta are expected to give more than they did last year.

Out of the list I like what Wolfsburg did, they signed two excellent players, Kjaer is one for the future and he is suitbale for the German league, Diego is a good player to link up with that formidable attack of Dzeko and Grafite although I wonder what will happen to Misimovic.

In Spain, as usual, Mourinho gets what he wants and he knows what the team needs so they had a good transfer campaign, although im sure many of the new signigns will be thrown away by next year but that is typical of Mourinho.

so milan have a defence and midfield with an average age of 45 and easily the laziest strikeforce ever put together and people think they are going to do well?!
The bigger teams will pick them off with ease as ronnie, robby and big nose stand on the halfway line waiting for the ball.

Lordanger wrote:so milan have a defence and midfield with an average age of 45 and easily the laziest strikeforce ever put together and people think they are going to do well?!
The bigger teams will pick them off with ease as ronnie, robby and big nose stand on the halfway line waiting for the ball.

There is truth in that last bit... hopefully we wil see a lot of that

But that said, Milan did make much more of an attempt to reduce their average age this summer:

Papa 22
Boateng 23
Amelia 28
Montelongo 22
Robinho 26
Ibra 28

Plus a whole lot of younsters (Filkor, Fossati, etc) and some maturing primavera players (Oduamadi, Strasser) to add to the not too old members already in their squad - Pato, Abate, Antonini, Flamini, Onyewu, Bonera, etc

If you consider all that, its no longer as old a squad as most people think... their average age has dropped (even tho their average nose has got longer ).

A front 4 of Ronaldinho, Robinho, Ibrahimovic and Pato Banton doesn't exactly scream workrate, but stick Flamini in behind and you're laughing.

have my doubts that a classical playmaker works in the EPL

but good player

Kroos wrote:have my doubts that a classical playmaker works in the EPL

but good player

Who, Flamini?

no van der vaart

ups i posted this in the wrong topic^^

pirlo flamini
pato ronaldinho robinho
zlatan

or something like that?

poor old flamini, running for six is it? still good luck to them, it should be fun!

Schalke's signings look like signings for signings sake.

Lordanger wrote: pirlo flamini
pato ronaldinho robinho
zlatan

or something like that?

poor old flamini, running for six is it? still good luck to them, it should be fun!

At least they will be able to keep the ball for a while

Liverpool adopt the opposite approach

Select the runners with the least amount of ball keeping ability possible

It should be great fun to watch Milan. Ibra will have to up his game to even make that side

Cardiff signing Craig Bellamy is my deal of the window.

People will overlook Man City I expect, but regardless of the prices paid they have strengthened immeasurably and with quality players the right age.