Their relatively new owner Massimo Ferrero is looking to make a mark.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
So Chelsea buying Salah this time last year was basically just to stop someone else getting him?
― pandemic, Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
liverpool, it seems. not sure why we were in such a frenzy to buy last january and this january when our need is obvious we just sneaked out a rodgers interview on new year's day saying we're not buying anyone until summer.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
We bought so many players in the summer, if we then buy players now to be ahead of those then it just confirms how much we fucked up in August. I mean we've bought how many CB's since Rodgers arrived??
― pandemic, Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
most expensive defence in history of english fitba, and second most expensive worldwide after psg
(lol bantz stupid trollstat)
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
I had completely forgotten about the existence of Scott Sinclair. Is Jack Rodwell doing anything at Sunderland?
― pandemic, Friday, 30 January 2015 08:23 (nine years ago) link
it's a fair point, not even trollstats. i am kinda hoping we've cobbled something together that works - sahko has looked a lot better of late and the return of lucas has helped as a stopgap. still shit from setpieces though. earlier this season i reckon it was the worst defence i've ever seen in professional sport. i don't mean that as hyperbole either.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Friday, 30 January 2015 08:30 (nine years ago) link
Ilori still our player officially as well I guess, even though I've never seen him in an LFC shirt iirc. Yeah Sakho has looked okay and haven't seen £20m Lovren for a while (thank God)
― pandemic, Friday, 30 January 2015 08:41 (nine years ago) link
danny ings rumoured heavily on twitter. why are we the fucking "buy british" football charity? tho tbh fucking anyone up front would be better than our four-goal collection of butter knives
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Friday, 30 January 2015 09:19 (nine years ago) link
yeah Ings in August is a head scratcher. That means we'll have Sturridge, Balotelli, Lambert (I think he's on a 2 year not a one), Borini and Origi all under contract come the summer I think.
6 CF's?? Obviously the effectiveness of all but Sturridge (who's often crocked) is questionable (considering Raheem is preferred ahead of all of them) but still seems excessive.
― pandemic, Friday, 30 January 2015 10:07 (nine years ago) link
We should be spending big money on a striker in the summer. Balotelli may be good with Sturridge back, but I doubt it and I wouldn't like to rely on it.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Friday, 30 January 2015 10:14 (nine years ago) link
I know we bloated our squad up for the demands of European football (LOL) but think we kinda needed the Suarez cash to buy a striker and a central midfielder, and p expensive already CL standard ready ones at that.
― pandemic, Friday, 30 January 2015 10:17 (nine years ago) link
yeah - should have signed bony, if we did actually have a chance of that.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Friday, 30 January 2015 10:25 (nine years ago) link
sorry everyone - continue with the non-lfc chat.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Friday, 30 January 2015 10:57 (nine years ago) link
Is there a more desperately unimaginative, unambitious and uninspiring a transfer than Pards bringing Shola Ameobi to Palace?
― Matt DC, Friday, 30 January 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link
there's some sort of ambition involved in giving an epl contract so someone who last played in the turkish second division
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Friday, 30 January 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
'At the moment he does not speak a word of English and that can cost you goals – but we are teaching him the important words...like offside,' said Wenger.
'I try to speak in Spanish with him, but he is more Portuguese-oriented because he didn’t play for a long time in Spain.'
― the prefects of the spirit world (nakhchivan), Saturday, 31 January 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Lennon on loan to hull now
this is fuckin bizarre
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 31 January 2015 09:26 (nine years ago) link
New West Brom boss Tony Pulis has given the club's 'fitness department' short shrift.
Pulis arrived the Hawthorns last month and quickly decided the players were not fit for football in the way he demands.
I am told the 'old school' boss quickly side-lined most of the complex fitness sessions and routines and instead had the squad 'running their balls off'.
I also hear that when he was confronted with some statistical data about a player from one of the backroom staff he tossed it away and then asked: 'Yeah but he can ******** head the ball.'
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Sunday, 1 February 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
<3 that guy
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 1 February 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8xzpg7CYAE2Ncm.png
― No-Neck Blue's Banned - Craig Bellamy (nakhchivan), Sunday, 1 February 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
RMDE at Pulis's apparent first move as West Brom manager being to drop their best creative outlet in Sessegnon. Luxury player, won't put a shift in I suppose.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
every time i've seen sessegnon on highlights he looks p special, a sad epl waste
this season when wba same to loftus road he was an absolute terror, our young modern technical left back yun suk young was having the proverbial torrid old time until going off with injury
on comes clint hill, humiliation in store for the old warhorse, and the very first thing he does is smash sessegnon to the ground for a 30-70 and then keeps kicking him as he lays prone before striding off without a look back. it's the purest most jawdroppingly violent thing i've seen in football for years but the ref, astonishingly, gives nothing whatsoever and sessegnon while remaining on the pitch for the duration is not seen from again as we come back from two down to win
there was no moral to this story
― r|t|c, Sunday, 1 February 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
hills and adebayors are like our gristly experimental psychology version of zidanes and pavons p much
― r|t|c, Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
sky are reporting that stoke are making a move for him
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Monday, 2 February 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link
Christ its like watching alligators fight over yr leg
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 2 February 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
p tedious deadline day.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 February 2015 13:34 (nine years ago) link
little old heartwarming family club charmers bournemouth whacking down £5m for demarai gray from brum, not fucking about are they
bold of brum to reject
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link
the schurrle money is completely bonkers, do abramovich's goons run people over in volkswagens or something
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
meanwhile hamburg sign marcelo diaz from basle for 2m euro
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
how much did schurrle go for? £20m+? Find it astonishing they would get more than they paid for him since he's probably a lesser player now than when he arrived at Chelsea. Then again I was surprised how much they got for another player they didn't want, De Bruyne, who turned out to be worth every single Euro Wolfsburg paid for him.
― pandemic, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
hamburg are so strange, think they signed old man olic this january as well.
Really don't get why Wolfsburg don't play a bit more hardball with Chelsea considering there seems to beno other suitors and Chelsea seem p desperate to get Cuadrado in?
― pandemic, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
might be bollocks but
According to Bild, the basic transfer fee for the player is €32 million (a club record fee for Wolfsburg), amd all the amounts they will need to pay as add-ons total up to €66 million. This includes a salary of €6 million per year to be paid up to 2019, €5 million in bonuses and €2 million to be paid to Schurrle’s consultant.
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
Bizarre especially considering that I'm not sure Wolfsburg even need him. Better not take game time away from Max Arnold.
― pandemic, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
pandz have u seen much of tin jedvaj this season? was p surprised roma let him go on a permanent deal given his rep, tho they do seem to have countless other irons in the fire
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking is confident the club will be able to hold on to star player Kevin De Bruyne for the foreseeable future. De Bruyne has a contract with Wolfsburg until June 2019.
"I do not have any fear that De Bruyne will leave the club," Hecking told Doppelpass. "There are only eight teams in Europe that are a step up from Wolfsburg."
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Leverkusen? Still with the teenage acne? If he's the one I'm thinking of he's an attacking full back. Yeah, liked what I've seen, out of maybe half a dozen full games I've caught he's had one nightmare (although he also scored strangely enough iirc) and a couple of stormers. New Lev boss all about the high press and that suits him as he's p dynamic. Not the greatest passer but comfortable enough on the ball and happy enough to seek give and goes on the edge of the oppo box.
xp
― pandemic, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
zaha back to palace permanently... for £3m
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
what did fergie pay? £12m? £15m?
Just looked up Jedvaj on whoscored, didn't realise he's played some CB this season, never seen him play in the middle.
― pandemic, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
milan sign antonelli to go with cerci, destro, suso and mr saddest-hair-of-all-time gabriel paletta
i like it. actually kind of a shame they're not way better and less shambolic, would be cool if they were like the scavenger rebuke to modern football excess
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
Juventus sign Matri on loan from AC Milan
lol italy, never change
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
wasn't matri a Juve player like 2 seasons ago?
― pandemic, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
ya
Mina Rzouki @Minarzouki · 17mPirlo is a huge fan of Matri who he labels as a hypochondriac. Player didn't work out for Milan. Back at Juve, he balances team's psychology
Mina Rzouki @Minarzouki · 19mPirlo on Matri: "If I was President, a guy like him would be right at the top of my wish list. He comes with a billion dollar guarantee"
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
spurs gazumping for dele alli, 5m
brentford signing the v highly rated jack o'connell because qpr don't look like dicks enough already and being surpassed by the bees is what needs to happen in life apparently
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
can see osvaldo rocking up at loftus road now after this matri thing
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
There are sensational reports that Samuel Eto’o could be set to tear up his Sampdoria contract, just six days after signing.
The former Everton striker is believed to have walked out of training today, refusing to take part in a double training session.
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
lol
― pandemic, Monday, 2 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Swansea City manager Garry Monk has likened the January transfer window to a cattle market.
"Everyone's selling all their cows, overpricing their cows. Some of them are bad."
― r|t|c, Monday, 2 February 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
i don't see what he's getting at there. metaphor too complicated.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Monday, 2 February 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link