Summer Transfer Thread 2012

[Eljeficito]

Siggurdsson himself apparently just tweeted he knows where he'll be playing next season. Highly likely its Spurs i suspect

[Russ Atmosphere]

Siggurdsson himself apparently just tweeted he knows where he'll be playing next season. Highly likely its Spurs i suspect

 

Are footballers advised by their agents to play the attention seeker? It's obviously Spurs.

 

Actually forget this, nearly every post relating to some footballer in a transfer window is some nobber's fake account.

[Eljeficito]

Are footballers advised by their agents to play the attention seeker?

 

It does seem the increasing trend

[Trucker Paddy]

Siggurdsson himself apparently just tweeted he knows where he'll be playing next season. Highly likely its Spurs i suspect

 

That's a fake account

[A.V.B.]

Siggurdsson himself apparently just tweeted he knows where he'll be playing next season. Highly likely its Spurs i suspect

 

Ah well that being the case I say we go after someone like this kid then ...

 

[TheHitman]

That is unfair! It seems pretty obvious that we had agreed a deal with him, and it is him that has renaged. This isn't Barry, or Alves or Simao, this is someone who a month ago wasn't even a target.

 

Lets hope we repay them for Joe Cole!

 

I thought we agreed terms with Hoffenheim and still had to negotiate his wages. If we tried to offer him the same terms at Swansea it wouldn't surprise me if he never came. I think we can all agree he has the quality to go straight into the first team. Rodgers doubled his wages by moving to a bigger club, I'm sure the player thought that would be on the cards.

 

Now lets discount for a second that it is nothing to do with him hearing spurs plans and being impressed and looking at their record over the past 3 years. Weighing up the options and deciding that spurs are in a better position to finish higher up the table. Even if he did want an extra 20k per week that is one percent of the wage bill, if Rodgers wants him let's support him.

 

Oh I'd say Gylfi is more a replacement for VDV than Modric if he ends up there.

[Russ Atmosphere]

That's a fake account

 

Had already edited my post, uncanny intuition.

[Ne Moe Imya]

Isn't Sigurdsson a huge United fan? I remember reading somewhere that he once wished (as a teenager) that Anfield burned to the ground or something.

 

If it were me, and I had a chance to make a big move in English football as a 22 year old, and it were down to United and Spurs, if the offers were even close I'd choose Spurs. I know it should come down to footballing questions instead of sentiment, but there's a part of me that hates everything about that club and what it stands for so much that I would struggle to pull on the shirt.

 

Not saying I wouldn't put that aside for 70k a week, obviously, but if another club came in and offered me 80k I'd jump at it. I think Sigurdsson is probably thrilled to stay away from us, even though he obviously has a connection to Rodgers, and I won't fault him if he makes an emotional decision instead of a rational one. I would have liked him here (I think the rumoured 9 million is a bargain, given reasonable wages) but wouldn't be too upset to see him at Spurs. It's not as if he's the next Messi.

[Gym Beglin]

I'm not believing a word of it until Dave Whelan says.

[neopulian]

Not a dig but I don't know how people do it - hanging around a transfer thread in the golden age of disinformation. All that excitement, but the chance of something substantiates is so little while the chance to be disappointed is enormous.

 

It's good to have another hobby, isn't it?

[Major Tom]

Isn't Sigurdsson a huge United fan? I remember reading somewhere that he once wished (as a teenager) that Anfield burned to the ground or something.

 

 

It means fuck all really. Look at the boyhood Blues who have played for us. And the Reds that have played for the Mancs.

 

When it comes to choosing a career, I think players will put rivalries on the backburner and choose whatever is best for their career/wallet/lifestyle*

 

*delete where applicable.

[A.V.B.]

Ronnie Whelan was a boyhood United fan.

[JagSquared]

Transfer windows used to be fun. Completely shit these days.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Not a dig but I don't know how people do it - hanging around a transfer thread in the golden age of disinformation. All that excitement, but the chance of something substantiates is so little while the chance to be disappointed is enormous.

 

It's good to have another hobby, isn't it?

 

Suggesting everyone on the thread goes and gets a life is a tinsy-winsy dig isn't it?

[Code]

One of my Spurs supporting mates said on Facebook that there is a rumour the club will be sold, he said the rumour was to a sheik from Quatar, but for some reason such a deal sound starnge to me.

 

Anyone?

 

Shearer also said on Twitter Gylfi is going to one club only and that is us.

[BCM]

One of my Spurs supporting mates said on Facebook that there is a rumour the club will be sold, he said the rumour was to a sheik from Quatar, but for some reason such a deal sound starnge to me.

 

Anyone?

 

Shearer also said on Twitter Gylfi is going to one club only and that is us.

 

There have been whispers of them hawking the club round for a while. That Mike Jefferies (Did that anti G +H video) is 100% certain they where trying to sell around January/

[Guest ShoePiss]

There have been whispers of them hawking the club round for a while. That Mike Jefferies (Did that anti G +H video) is 100% certain they where trying to sell around January/

 

that Jefferies was also saying FSG were trying to sell the club in January. He also said Ayre was a dead man walking and Warrior would be a disaster, oh and he said Suarez would leave in January, if not the summer.

 

He says quite a lot.

[Lycan]

 

Shearer also said on Twitter Gylfi is going to one club only and that is us.

 

How would Alan Shearer now were Gylfi is goin to end up?

[Aldonose]

How would Alan Shearer now were Gylfi is goin to end up?

 

Yeah, just thinking that.

[Nathanzx]

that shearer twitter account is fake, the problem with silly season is people passing on info that is quite obviously bs

 

incidentally i am about to pass on info but unlike a lot of internet boneheads i have checked the validity of the source and it's pretty good

 

it's an icelandic-based source who posts rarely, only when he has something of worth to say on Reading Fc's hob-nob anyone forum - he is regarded as a dreaded itk and has been correct and accurate in his previous claims - he is not bullshitter, he just happens to have info on the icelandic scene which is obviously quite helpful with regard to sig

 

anyway he said this a few hours ago:

 

 

Re: SPECULATION - Gylfi on sale for £6m

Post IcelandicStokie, 26 Jun 2012 15:18

New information!!!!

 

1. Sadly I have been told Reading are out of the race to sign Sigurdsson. The club has been notified of this and has withdrawn from the race.

 

2. Gylfi has not agreed to join Spurs

 

3. Spurs have the best offer but Liverpool has a big appeal because of BR and could raise their offer this week.

 

Its down to Spurs and Liverpool now.

[Code]

How would Alan Shearer now were Gylfi is goin to end up?

 

BBC understands.

[piphomer]

We should have got VDV and we should absolutely get GS.

 

I'm sick of Spurs stealing top quality, cheap players from under our noses. If they can even do it without 'Arry, then I'm even sicker.

[Torvald Utne]

I'll just stick to reading the headlines on sporting life every morning to find out if we have signed someone. Too much bollocks floating around these days.

[Lycan]

BBC understands.

 

 

Im sorry am I missing something here? Are you saying Alan Shearer is a sports journo for the BBC aswell as a pundit?

Edited June 26, 2012 by Lycan

[Code]

Im sorry am I missing something here? Are you saying Alan Shearer is a sports journo for the BBC aswell as a pundit?

 

Connections mate, connections.