Manchester United

In
Dimitar Berbatov

(Tottenham Hotspur) £30,600,000
Jonny Evans

(Sunderland) Return from loan
Manucho

(Panathinaikos) Return from loan

Out
Louis Saha

(Everton) Undisclosed
Gerard Pique

(Barcelona) £4,000,000
Mikael Silvestre

(Arsenal) £750,000
Chris Eagles

(Burnley) Undisclosed
Kieran Lee

(Oldham Athletic) Free
Dong Fangzhuo

(Released)
Danny Simpson

(Blackburn Rovers) Loan
Frazier Campbell

(Tottenham Hotspur) Loan

Middlesbrough

In
Didier Digard

(Paris St Germain) £4,000,000
Marvin Emnes

(Sparta Rotterdam) £3,200,000
Justin Hoyte

(Arsenal) £3,000,000

Out
Luke Young

(Aston Villa) £5,000,000
Lee Cattermole

(Wigan Athletic) £3,500,000
George Boateng

(Hull City) £1,000,000
Mark Schwarzer

(Fulham) Free
Fabio Rochemback

(Sporting Lisbon) Free
Gaizka Mendieta

(Released)
Lee Dong ****

(Released)

Newcastle United

In
Fabricio Coloccini

(Deportivo La Coruna) £10,000,000
Xisco

(Deportivo La Coruna) £7,000,000
Jonas Gutierrez

(Mallorca) Undisclosed
Sebastien Bassong

(Metz) £3,000,000
Danny Guthrie

(Liverpool) £2,000,000
Ignacio Gonzalez

(Valencia) Loan

Out
James Milner

(Aston Villa) £13,000,000
Emre Belezoglu

(Fenerbache) £4,300,000
David Rozenhal

(Lazio) £2,900,000 (permanent from loan)
Abdoulaye Faye

(Stoke City) £2,200,000
Stephen Carr

(Released)
Peter Ramage

(Queens Park Rangers) Free
James Troisi

(Released)

Portsmouth

In
Peter Crouch

(Liverpool) £10,000,000
Younes Kaboul

(Tottenham Hotspur) £5,000,000
Jerome Thomas

(Charlton Athletic) Undisclosed
Glen Little

(Reading) Free
Omar Koroma

(No club) Free
Ben Sahar

(Chelsea) Loan
Armand Traore

(Arsenal) Loan
Nadir Belhadj

(Lens) Loan

Out
Sulley Muntari

(Inter Milan) £12,600,000
Pedro Mendes

(Rangers) £3,000,000
Linvoy Primus

(Charlton Athletic) Loan
Martin Cranie

(Charlton Athletic) Loan
Omar Koroma

(Norwich City) Loan
Milan Baros

(Lyon) Return from loan

Stoke City

In
Dave Kitson

(Reading) £5,500,000
Michael Tonge

(Sheffield United) £3,000,000
Seyi Olofinjana

(Wolverhampton Wanderers) £3,000,000
Danny Higginbotham

(Sunderland) £2,500,000
Abdoulaye Faye

(Newcastle United) £2,200,000
Ibrahima Sonko

(Reading) £2,000,000
Tom Soares

(Crystal Palace) £1,500,000
Andrew Davies

(Southampton) £1,500,000
Thomas Sorensen

(Aston Villa) Free
Amdy Faye

(Charlton Athletic) Loan

Out
Domonic Matteo

(Released)
Russell Hoult

(Released)
Marlon Broomes

(Blackpool) Free
Adam Garrett

(Released)
Jon Parkin

(Preston North End) Loan

Sunderland

In
Steed Malbranque

(Tottenham Hotspur) £8,000,000
Anton Ferdinand

(West Ham United) £8,000,000
Pascal Chimbonda

(Tottenham Hotspur) £6,000,000
George McCartney

(West Ham United) £4,500,000
Teemu Tainio

(Tottenham Hotspur) £4,000,000
El Hadji Diouf

(Bolton Wanderers) £2,500,000
David Healy

(Fulham) £1,500,000
David Meyler

(Cork City) Undisclosed
Nick Colgan

(Ipswich Town) Free
Djibril Cisse

(Marseille) Loan

Out
Danny Higginbotham

(Stoke City) £2,500,000
Dickson Etuhu

(Fulham) Undisclosed
Andy Cole

(Nottingham Forest) Free
Ian Harte

(Wolverhampton Wanderers) Free
Stephen Wright

(Released)
Stanislav Varga

(Released)
Greg Halford

(Sheffield United) Loan
Paul McShane

(Hull City) Loan
Roy O'Donovan

(Dundee United) Loan
Jonny Evans

(Manchester United) Return from loan

Tottenham Hotspur

In
Luka Modric

(Dinamo Zagreb) £16,500,000
David Bentley

(Blackburn Rovers) £15,000,000
Roman Pavlyuchenko

(Spartak Moscow) £14,000,000
Vedran Corluka

(Manchester City) £8,500,000
Giovani Dos Santos

(Barcelona) £7,900,000
Heurelho Gomes

(PSV Eindhoven) £7,100,000
John Bostock

(Crystal Palace) £700,000
Frazier Campbell

(Manchester United) Loan
Cesar Sanchez

(Real Zaragoza) Loan
Hossam Ghaly

(Derby County) Return from loan
Anthony Gardner

(Everton) Return from loan
Paul Stalteri

(Fulham) Return from loan

Out
Dimitar Berbatov

(Manchester United) £30,600,000
Robbie Keane

(Liverpool) £20,300,000
Steed Malbranque

(Sunderland) £8,000,000
Pascal Chimbonda

(Sunderland) £6,000,000
Younes Kaboul

(Portsmouth) £5,000,000
Teemu Tainio

(Sunderland) £4,000,000
Paul Robinson

(Blackburn Rovers) £3,500,000
Anthony Gardner

(Hull City) £2,500,000
Tommy Forecast

(Southampton) £500,000
Lee Young Pyo

(Borrussia Dortmund) Undisclosed
Radek Cerny

Queens Park Rangers (Free)
Thomas Peckhart

(Southampton) Loan
Troy Archibald-Henville

(Norwich City) Loan

West Bromwich Albion

In
Borja Valero

(Mallorca) £4,700,000
Scott Carson

(Liverpool) £4,000,000
Gianni Zuiverloon

(Heerenveen) £3,200,000
Luke Moore

(Aston Villa) £3,000,000 (permanent from loan)
Roman Bednar

(Heart of Midlothian) £2,500,000 (permanent from loan)
Abdoulaye Meite

(Bolton Wanderers) £2,000,000
Marek Cech

(FC Porto) £1,400,000
Jonas Olsson

(NEC) £800,000
Kim Do Heon

(Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma) £550,000 (permanent from loan)
Graham Dorrans

(Livingston) £150,000
Ryan Donk

(AZ Alkmaar) Loan

Out
Zoltan Gera

(Fulham) Free
Kevin Phillips

(Birmingham City) Free
Martin Albrechtsen

(Derby County) Free
Luke Steele

(Barnsley) Free (permanent from loan)
Tininho

(Leixoes) Free
Jared Hodgkiss

(Aberdeen) Loan
Bostjan Cesar

(Marseille) Return from loan

West Ham United

In
Valon Behrami

(Lazio) £5,000,000
Orn Eyjolffson

(HK Kopavogur) Undisclosed
Balint Banjer

(Liberty Arad) Undisclosed
Walter Lopez

(River Plate) Free
David Di Michele

(Torino) Loan
Herita Ilunga

(Toulouse) Loan
Jan Lastuvka

(Shakhtar Donetsk) Loan

Out
Anton Ferdinand

(Sunderland) £8,000,000
Bobby Zamora

(Fulham) £5,000,000
George McCartney

(Sunderland) £4,500,000
John Pantsil

(Fulham) £1,300,000
Fredrik Ljungberg

(Released)
Noberto Solano

(Released)
Richard Wright

(Ipswich Town) Undisclosed
Henri Camara

(Wigan Athletic) Return from loan

Wigan Athletic

In
Lee Cattermole

(Middlesbrough) £3,500,000
Oliver Kapo

(Birmingham City) £3,500,000
Daniel De Ridder

(Birmingham City) Free
Amr Zaki

(Zamalek) Loan
Maynor Figueroa

(Olimpia) Loan
Henri Camara

(West Ham United) Return from loan

Out
Andreas Granqvist

(Groningen) £600,000
Andy Webster

(Rangers) Undisclosed (Permanent from loan)
Julius Agahowha

(Kayserispor) Nominal
Carlo Nash

(Everton) Free
Salomon Olembe

(Kayserispor) Free
Josip Skoko

(Released)
Marlon King

(Hull City) Loan
Rachid Bouaouzan

(NEC) Loan
Antoine Sibierski

(Norwich City) Loan
Marcus Bent

(Charlton Athletic) Return from loan

 

Yeah, so starting this a little early this year, so we can use it for the summer rumour mill too.

Personally, I'm hoping for a good summer. I just want class players to arrive, otherwise don't bother and just have crap English ones. No more Jimmy Kebes please, Coppell.

 

The "big" rumours today are Daniel Van Buyten to Aston Villa and Mehdi Nafti to Wigan.

Van Buyten I wouldn't mind. He looked great in England before he got hurt when he was at Man City and although he isn't doing that great in Munich, he did well at Hamburg and I think he suits the English game. Good enough to get a pass for a mid table side for me. Although it would make me question what happens with Curtis Davies.

Nafti is shit and should be sold to an MLS team ASAP.

 

Maybe you should have two threads, one is the rumour mill, which will only have the players name, present club and "rumoured" club and the other is the real transfer, then we can see how good the newspapers are getting it wrong.

 

That sounds like a lot of work I can't be bothered to do.

 

Na, discussion is far more conducive to one thread.

Van Buyten would be a good move if he can stay injury prone. He was good as you say, with Man City.

I'm interested to see what happens with us over the summer. We have an awful lot of dead wood on high wages who are going to be extremely hard to shift.

 

Here is my list of people I hope feck off in the summer.

Emmanuel Eboue (though if he went to play RB for someone mid table I'd maybe be okay with that)
Patrick Berger (thanks but too old)
Thomas Sorensen (A bit useless now)
Medhi Nafti (Shit)
Rahdi Jaidi (Super shit)
Franck Quedrue (Okay but his time has come)
Rafael Schmitz (Rubbish)
Richard Kingson (WTF?)
Zurab Khizanishvili (Distinctly average)
Stephane Henchoz (Way past it)
Bruno Berner (Rubbish)
Abdoulaye Méïté (Doesn't want to play and isn't good when he does)
Mikel Alonso (Wank, I can only assume they picked him up because he's related to someone good)
Ricardo Vaz Té (Abysmal)
Tamir Cohen (Average)
Daniel Braaten (Comical watching this guy even run)
Grzegorz Rasiak (Please stop giving this guy prem chances)
Claudio Pizarro (Plays in reverse gear nowadays)
Andy Van Der Meyde (go drink and gamble yourself to death somewhere else)
Thomas Gravesen (Dunno what happened to him in Spain but he's shit now)
Phillipe Christenval (How did he manage to play for Barca?)
Simon Elliott (Shit)
Andriy Voronin (Average)
Charles Itandje (WTF?)
Emile Mpenza (Does nothing but run hopelessly)
Sun Jihai (Used to like him, wank now)
Dong Fangzhuo (Unless Utd really need that shirt money)
Lee Dong-**** (Dunno what anyone saw in this guy)
Claudio Cacapa (Terrible)
Useless De La Cruz (Never been good in England but managed to stay a while)
Jimmy Kebe (Who?)
Benoît Assou-Ekotto (How is he still at Spurs?)
Ricardo Rocha (Not suited to the prem at all)
Jonathan Spector (Shit)
Antoine Sibierski (Lucky but rubbish)
Julius Agahowha (Dunno what happened here but he's been abysmal, redefined the word infact)
Rachid Bouaouzan (Dunno what the point in him is)

Everyone else may have another year. Plenty I wouldn't be sad to see go, though.

 

Rob you heartless git, Useless has been good for us when call on and well Jimmy has played 2 games.

Coppell loves the obscure signings and more often then not they are a success.

 

Imo, Coppell's transfer record since he got promotion has been pretty poor. Which is weird, because his record before you went up was excellent. All your most important players are ones you had before for me and only Bikey and Rosenior look like decent signings (though I wouldn't say either have been good).

 

True, I would also add Matejovsky aswell.

The issue we have is that we have a set structure with what we can offer players, which is smart as we don't want to bankrupt the club but restraining as we want to sustain a decent Premiership team and because of this we won't be going for the players that are requesting 25k+ a week in wages which for that step up in quality is what we would need to fork out.

This is the reason why the Chairman has basically been trying to get a buyer the moment we reached the Premiership as he doesn't want to pay stupid money.

 

Rumour: Ghaly possibly back to Feyenoord :howler: :yuck:

 

Yeah, he can piss off too, only reason I didn't list him is because Derby are already relegated. I'll swap him with Abou Treika for Egyptians over here.

 

Ghaly's only on loan though so he'll be back to us :wallbang:

We'll gladly swap him for Treika.

 

From France like usually severals players should cross the channel : i think some EPL club will snap Källström and Mensah. Maybe Briand...

 

Kallstrom has been quite heavily linked with Everton recently. Though I'm not really sure where he fits into their team, with Cahill and Arteta taking the attacking spots. He's better than Osman, but I don't know if he'd play that position especially well.

Mensah has been linked with Reading again and also Portsmouth, Portsmouth rumour would make sense.

Not heard anything about Briand.

Other Ligue 1 players linked are...

Babafembi Gomis (Newcastle)
A bunch of kids (Arsenal)
Djibril Cisse (Vast majority of midtable clubs)
Samir Nasri (Newcasle and Liverpool)
Johan Elmander (Bolton last, but lots of teams would be in for him, style suits England)
Karim Benzema (Man Utd)

That's about it at the moment, even though at least 10 players from France always make the move. Should pick up nearer the time. We need our annual Govou and Mendy links.

 

Yeah, Matejovsky has been good so far, oversight on my part.

And yeah, I realise you have a limited budget. But it doesn't explain to me why he was able to find good players when you were in the championship, players who've been able to make the step up to the premiership with little problem and once you get promoted, he suddenly signs a bunch of muppets.

Honestly, with his current record just hope noone leaves. Shorey or Doyle going would be a massive problem if he replaces them with some random African player from the reserves of Lille.

But to be fair, apparently he's trying to get Jozy Altidore, which I think would be a good signing, even if it might take patience.

 

Aboutreika is probably too slow and weak for the Prem.

 

I don't think he's slow. Depends how you set the team up.

Striker wise, I tend to think the ones most likely to fail horribly are tall strikers who are good in the air in leagues where you don't get nailed in the back everytime the ball is in the air and build up a reputation for being good aerial players who would be suited as a result. Morientes, Borgetti and Bianchi all fit that for me. More built aerial specialists like Elmander would be okay as people like Carew are.

But I don't think Abou Treika really fits that description anyway, he's more of a Santa Cruz type all rounder, imo. I mean Santa Cruz, not that quick, not that strong, lots of goals.

 

I am not just talking about slow physically, which he is, but a slow footballer. He takes too much time on the ball, likes to walk with the ball and take touches. Loads of games will pass him by just like they are doing now with Nery Castillo. Although Castillo has the ability to adapt his game, I dont think the Aboutreika does.

 

Rafa has said that deals have already been agreed for 3 players, 1 first team(starter) and 2 youngsters.

 

Bit of speculation the 1st teamer is Palacios.

 

From Croatia the news about Modric going to the EPL is still alive, but there is also interest for Danijel Pranjic (Heerenveen) from Tottenham

 

Palacio is about as good as his hairstyle. :wallbang: Can just see it now, we're going to end up with Rodrigo Palacio and David Bentley.

 

I thought the first teamer was supposed to be Rafinha? Palacios might be interesting, better striker than what Liverpool have at the moment, I would say.

Bentley is quality, imo. The difference between him and Kuyt in that system would be immense.

 

I doubt we've got a deal wrapped up with Rafinha, what with the German League still going, Schalke still in the Champions League and several other clubs interested. I hope we get him though, that would be at least one good signing.

I'd even rather have Lennon then Bentley and I don't like Lennon. It's a shame we can't merge the two players, put Lennon's pace and dribbling ability into Bentley then we're talking.

 

Bentley has goals and assists in him, which is what you need in that position, for me. But we discussed this on the Liverpool forum and I know we don't agree on him.

 

I don't want a slow winger, I want someone who's going to run at people and open up space for the likes of Torres and Gerrard.

Anyway I'm going to stop bashing Bentley because I'm 90% sure we'll sign him in which case I hope we keep Crouch.