Summer 2013 Transfer Thread

[Ne Moe Imya]

After eyeing the Armenian and the Greek at the beginning of the window, that potential 'double swoop' is seriously underwhelming.

 

Have to agree with that.

 

Assuming Suarez, Downing, Coates and maybe a couple others are sold, and that we were always planning on ending up spending 20 million or so after sales, you'd think we'd have 70-80 million to spend. That should be enough for something like Draxler, Lamela and a decent CB.

 

Now, obviously, that will never happen, but I do think we should be setting our sights high rather than settling for Aspas and Muriel (or someone at that level) as a replacement for Suarez.

[thompsonsnose]

Have to agree with that.

 

Assuming Suarez, Downing, Coates and maybe a couple others are sold, and that we were always planning on ending up spending 20 million or so after sales, you'd think we'd have 70-80 million to spend. That should be enough for something like Draxler, Lamela and a decent CB.

 

Now, obviously, that will never happen, but I do think we should be setting our sights high rather than settling for Aspas and Muriel (or someone at that level) as a replacement for Suarez.

 

As long as they're just good enough to keep the Liverpool Reds in the Preeemier League, FSG don't give a fuck.

[Gym Beglin]

Why wouldDe Boer name check us like that?

 

You're an idiot if you cant connect the dots and see that Eriksen is a player we're chatting to people about.

[JermainePennant]

Am I the only one completely baffled by de Boers comments? I mean has he never seen us under Rodgers because we actually play the football he says we do not.

[Barrington Womble]

Why wouldDe Boer name check us like that?

 

You're an idiot if you cant connect the dots and see that Eriksen is a player we're chatting to people about.

 

Or optionally with 12 months left on his contract, de boer is trying to use our name to drum up more interest in a player he wants maximum value from

[therevivalist]

Irrelimendi for £34m?

 

A) well done, Suarez now costs £60m !@#$%^&*

B) cue the Xabi bid

 

Hefty fee for a DM I thought. I just hope we open our eyes and stand up for our interests. It must be on the urging of Madrid, not a day passes now without Suarez coming up with some crap trying to make a case for his transfer by heaping pressure on us. We must be firm, won't sell for a penny less than 50 mil. Secondly, we won't sell to a domesticl rival club. But my fear is we're going to relent as time goes by, which Madrid are exactly banking on.

[piscinin]

Depends when de Boer means by going back doesn't it?

What do you reckon?

Going back to the start of the season (intimating that we went more direct later in the season)? Or our 70s and 80s heyday?

I think the latter personally.

I don't think you could call Rafa possession football (although obviously at times it was) and certainly not Houllier. Evans perhaps though.

 

I don't know what his touchstone is, but find it interesting anyway. I keep reading about this possession football/swanseola we are playing and don't get it. It's just nice to know you are not alone.

[therevivalist]

 

See what you've just done therevivalist? You breakfast porridge packing !@#$%^&*. Censor this you twat. You've added another 200 self important posts of his before the weekend. Hope you are happy you gave him a platform.

 

I'm not sure about porridge but you don't seem to have much appetite for differing views on this forum, do you, our little tea pot dictator? And opinions are all self-important and if you don't like them, you don't have to read them. Censorship is for the tyrants and their ilk and has no place on this forum which is meant to promote conversation and debate conducted in a civil manner, which Jsims and myself have to tried to do.

[therevivalist]

Real Madrid fans who attended Illarramendi's presentation chanted: "We want (Gareth) Bale"

 

You would think that Isco and the new Xabi might suffice, those spoilt fans ain't messing about, somewhere on a Real Madrid forum they are moaning about the quality of their signings.

 

Impatient spoilt fans, can see seeds of their downfall.

[moof]

 

I don't know what his touchstone is' date=' but find it interesting anyway. I keep reading about this possession football/swanseola we are playing and don't get it. It's just nice to know you are not alone.[/quote']

 

Ok Mr football savant, what do you and de Boer know that the rest of us don't? Do we not actually keep possession of the ball, is it all an illusion?

[piscinin]

Ok Mr football savant, what do you and de Boer know that the rest of us don't? Do we not actually keep possession of the ball, is it all an illusion?

 

Are you genuinely puzzled about what De Boer might know about football that you don't?

[sh#t waffle]

Is it really beyond the realms of possibility that De Boer hasn't watched us under Rodgers, piscinin? You may not like Rodgers, but what do we play under him if it isn't the exact type of football that would suit a player like Eriksen?

[moof]

 

Are you genuinely puzzled about what De Boer might know about football that you don't?

 

I'm puzzled about what you know that everyone else doesn't.

[piscinin]

Is it really beyond the realms of possibility that De Boer hasn't watched us under Rodgers, piscinin? You may not like Rodgers, but what do we play under him if it isn't the exact type of football that would suit a player like Eriksen?

 

Is it beyond the realms of possibility that he has seen us and thought that a team that plays as vertical as we do wouldn't suit Eriksen?

[piscinin]

I'm puzzled about what you know that everyone else doesn't.

 

Well I don't know about everyone else, but as for you, I know possession football isn't a statistical measure, it's a philosophy.

[sh#t waffle]

Is it beyond the realms of possibility that he has seen us and thought that a team that plays as vertical as we do wouldn't suit Eriksen?

 

And yet it would suit the likes of Coutinho? Your starting position is that you don't like Rodgers and you're just making the quotes fit. Why would the manager of Ajax know the intricacies of how we play; it's not like we're rivals is it?

[moof]

 

Well I don't know about everyone else' date=' but as for you, I know possession football isn't a statistical measure, it's a philosophy.[/quote']

 

And we go against that philosophy?

[piscinin]

And yet it would suit the likes of Coutinho? Your starting position is that you don't like Rodgers and you're just making the quotes fit. Why would the manager of Ajax know the intricacies of how we play; it's not like we're rivals is it?

 

No my starting position was, I don't think this fella has what it takes to mould a possession based team a la Swansea out of the players he has, especially if he makes Gerrard the focal point of the midfield instead of Allen.

 

And I'm not shocked that a successful football manager is aware of the prevailing footballing style at the worlds leading clubs. I mean it's not like these teams are constantly studying each other in order to improve themselves by the 0.1% that will be the difference between winning and losing.

[TheHowieLama]

I know possession football isn't a statistical measure, it's a philosophy.

 

No it's not, it is an ideaology.

[piscinin]

No it's not, it is an ideaology.

 

Are you a scrapbooker by any chance?

[TheHowieLama]

Yes - I cut out recipes and paste them in a book. It's a way of life.

[piscinin]

Yes - I cut out recipes and paste them in a book. It's a way of life.

 

Well Tim Holtz has a new line of embellishments, check them out.

[TheHowieLama]

Well Tim Holtz has a new line of embellishments, check them out.

 

How do you know that?

[piscinin]

How do you know that?

 

You didn't get the press release?

[piscinin]

And we go against that philosophy?

 

Too vertical. Too quick in transition. Too stretched. Too long and too risky in pass selection to qualify as a possession based team for me.