2015 january transfer window

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