2015 january transfer window

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.

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?

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.

Bizarre especially considering that I'm not sure Wolfsburg even need him. Better not take game time away from Max Arnold.

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

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."

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

zaha back to palace permanently... for £3m

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.

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

Juventus sign Matri on loan from AC Milan

lol italy, never change

wasn't matri a Juve player like 2 seasons ago?

ya

Mina Rzouki @Minarzouki · 17m
Pirlo 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 · 19m
Pirlo 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"

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

can see osvaldo rocking up at loftus road now after this matri thing

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.

lol

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."

i don't see what he's getting at there. metaphor too complicated.

he does have the face of an unscrupulous abattoir technician tbf

There's a face he has on him after a particularly galling Swansea defeat where you can just see him standing there, staring furiously into the distance, covered in blood.

I have decided to stay With Swansea. I wanted to share this With you before the end of the transferts Windows. It's the best choice for me.

— Bafétimbi Gomis (@BafGomis) February 2, 2015

Even if i was sad before Because i didn't play a lot. Now everything is différent.I believe in this team and his project.

— Bafétimbi Gomis (@BafGomis) February 2, 2015

I have spoken With the coach and I have his confident and he have mine. I am lucky to play and live to Swansea.

— Bafétimbi Gomis (@BafGomis) February 2, 2015

Gaffer is standing behind Me with meat Cleaver. please Help

— Bafétimbi Gomis (@BafGomis) February 2, 2015

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, February 2, 2015 4:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Posts w/ striking imagery. Love this quote immensely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iPh7X7X6So

http://www.stenhousemuirfc.com/images/uploads/tekkers002.jpg

N'Doye's pretty good but idk if he'll keep Hull up.

Hull aren't great but their recent form is better than that of several other teams, Sunderland and Villa in particular are tanking it right now. Then again Leicester and Burnley are better than quite a few relegation favourites from previous years, and Rangers are, well, Rangers, so who the fuck knows.

sunderland lost two away and one home game vs top six teams by one goal margins then beat burnley

There's an element of wishful thinking there admittedly, I would dearly love Sunderland to go down by this point.

Leicester have the worst form over the last ten games but only picked up two points less than Everton. The form table for the same period has a gap of four points between 11th and 20th.

Hull looked absolutely abysmal vs Newcastle.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B86T_XQCMAE1id3.jpg

the romance of the cup

sooo, Andy Kellett joining Man U on loan from Bolton. That's a strange one isn't it? I'm guessing they realised they were short of u21 players at the last minute or smthg?

this is the best squad hull have ever had, not that that is saying much but fine work by steve bruce nonetheless

N'Doye's pretty good but idk if he'll keep Hull up.

― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 08:39 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

n'doyency aid

fine work by steve bruce nonetheless

Do you mean for assembling it in the first place or for getting it to underperform on a weekly basis for so long?

the latter, the few good players he has cost plenty of for a team like hull so not like he deserves much credit for that, and they are playing shit anyway

£8m for livermore

Diame – who was also hunted by Crystal Palace – eventually opted for the Tigers and ClaretandHugh claims a Hammers source told it: “With a year left we weren’t going to stand in his way – that wouldn’t have been right.

“With what we were doing in the market, the deal for Diame fitted our situation and my understanding is that he got a hefty increase from Hull of around £10k.”

The players he has are EPL average to just-below-average in almost every position, their upper level is probably roughly where Stoke are now. Probably below that given Stoke have had more talent at their disposal this season.

probably a bit below stoke but enough for 13th/15th sort of level
he's spent a fuck of a lot more money than hughes has though

Hatem Ben Arfa has denied he plans to retire from football at the age of 27 after he was refused international clearance to play for Nice.

Ben Arfa signed an 18-month deal with the French club after Newcastle terminated his contract but was denied clearance having already appeared in competitive games for two teams – Newcastle and Hull – this season.

Nice contested the ruling on the basis that Ben Arfa had only represented Newcastle’s reserve team – but Fifa regulations regard “under-21 professional development league” matches as competitive fixtures.

Chelsea have sold Thorgan Hazard to Borussia Monchengladbach for a staggering mark-up of 1500 per cent on the fee they paid for him two-and-half-years ago, according to reports.

Hazard, the 21-year-old younger brother of Blues star Eden, moved to the Bundesliga side at the start of the season on loan but with his Chelsea deal expiring in the summer, he will now stay until 2020.

Reports suggest Monchengladbach have paid €8m to make his move permanent. That's an incredible 1500 per cent increase on the €500,000 fee they paid in July 2012. The increase is all the more remarkable due to the fact Hazard spent just 37 days at Stamford Bridge, never played for the senior team and played just once for the Under-21s.

Gladbach's sporting director Max Eberl said: "Thorgan has shown what a great talent he is over the past few months. We are delighted we have managed to sign him, and that he has decided to play for Borussia over the next few years."

A Chelsea statement read: "Thorgan Hazard has today signed for Borussia Monchengladbach, with Chelsea having the right to exercise a future buy-back option.

"Chelsea Football Club wishes Thorgan well for the future and will continue to monitor his progress."

thorgan donation is a viable option for russians with liquidity problems

this is obviously abramovich just giving them bags of cash to pay back to Chelsea for kids to dupe ffp rite

schalke exercise option to buy nastasic

city transfers look poor on their own terms (£40m for mangala, £30m for bony) especially given ffp and how much better chelsea are managing that

and even more so given the begiristan strategy of trying to harmonize an ersatz barcelona style and to stop looking so provincial and inept in europe