It's a horrible injury but you have to laugh at the bizarre nature of it all. Go to a joke tax haven club and miss the world cup due to an injury in a match against an amateur side.
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It's a horrible injury but you have to laugh at the bizarre nature of it all. Go to a joke tax haven club and miss the world cup due to an injury in a match against an amateur side.
Shanks D Zoro
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I've read £16. joke club was a rebuttal to how Feorax originally posted, not intended as a full analysis of Chelsea's dealings.
Steverulez
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Wasn't the issue that Wenger refused to stump up the money for his release clause? Which was about £4m or so less than we paid? He then signed a new deal and we decided we wanted him and paid what Valencia wanted.
Shanks D Zoro
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You do know that most bids take place because clubs already know that a player wants to come. We didn't bid because we knew he didn't want to sign.
There was never any interest on his part to come to us.
Yeah, the release clause expired on July 31st or whatever and of course, Wenger wouldn't pull the trigger on the buy because everyone was too busy dicking around on the Cesc/Nasri transfers and he couldn't buy before he sold someone. By the time one left, possible replacements had already been bought and we ended up selling Nasri too anyways. Fucking disaster of a summer.
We didn't bid because of the release clause situation; Wenger didn't know whether Cesc or Nasri would leave so he refused to buy a replacement before either left. Stupid stupid stupid.
His only demand was CL football, as far as I know. We could provide that, Liverpool, Spurs couldn't which is why we nearly had him and why Chelsea eventually got him.
Chelsea offered Basel's asking price for a player in contract that they had no reason to sell. If we weren't prepared to do that then we should have walked away and focused our efforts on more important issues.
After the Suarez debacle in the summer, we should know this better than anyone. We can't just do a Jedi mind trick and say "you should sell us this player who is contracted long term to you for a fee we specify", because the answer will rightly be "get fucked".
28 first team players signed since 2010/11, 2 players signed with no prior reporting.
8 first team players signed since Jan 2013 (first use of the transfer committee) no players signed without prior reporting.
Odds are 1 in 14 at best, practically nothing if considered from the birth of our current transfer committee.
GHG
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He actually was. Wenger still keeps in touch with his dad. He was at the Emirates last summer before we bought Ozil.
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/f...in-the-directors-box-at-the-emirates-tonight/
Chelsea refused to do business with us obviously.
Shanks D Zoro
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http://www.*****************/sport/football/article-2029102/Juan-Mata-snubs-Spurs-Arsenal-win-trophies-Chelsea.html
he never wanted to come, we could have activated his release clause but he would still have turned us down.
Clubs dont bid for players unless they are sure that the player wants to come. It is why we made an official bid for Suarez because we knew he wanted to come last summer.
edit: The mirror is banned?
Fairly stupid if true. Everton are doing more business than Liverpool in this window for god's sake, not spending in January can be a huge mistake. We failed to act in Harry's last two seasons and it all went tits up.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Dangerous game. Your squad is so thin. If you do get in to Europe next year you're gunna have to spend fuck loads.
chalkitdown1
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Just saw on the news, Falcao is out of the world cup 
People here in Colombia are devastated.
http://mundial.golcaracol.com/selec...rior-cruzado-falcao-garcia-se-pierde-915-nota
People here in Colombia are devastated.http://mundial.golcaracol.com/selec...rior-cruzado-falcao-garcia-se-pierde-915-nota
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...ws/mohamed-salah-chelsea-liverpool-fc-6556063
From what I have read, Liverpool had a deal agreed at the lower end of the figure. Chelsea came in and offered pretty much double what Liverpool valued him at. Liverpool worked hard to bring Basel down to their asking price and seemingly agreed until another club came in with a ridiculous offer. A generally effective use of time, if you ask me.
And again, you are ignoring, the 'unknown unknowns'. 2What you see is all there is", as Kahenman put it
It seems like because of the Falcao injury, Monaco won't loan them Traore since he'll be expected to play now. Not sure McGeady is going to be a huge difference maker.
Agreed though that LFC need to make a move or two still.
He said that after signing with Chelsea; he obviously wasn't going to talk shit about his new club by saying he wished he signed with Arsenal instead. No one would ever say they signed with ANY club because of the money, they'll talk about the "project" or some bullshit like that. We didn't bid because Barcelona dragged their feet for months and months on the Cesc issue (while having no problem buying Sanchez), because Wenger claimed he would not sell both Nasri/Cesc, etc.
Do you still support Real or just Juve?
Steverulez
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I've just noticed he sort of looks like Mata (well, he has a beard) perhaps if they just put Mata's shirt on him the fans won't notice?
Swiss journo says the deal is done pending medical.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Nice.
I missed that Napoli officially signed Jorginho. Very good signing. Javi Garcia has actually been pretty capable this year when played as a DM, but Napoli were apparently interested in taking him off our hands although I'd imagine that's no longer the case. Saw Lazio may be interested of they lose Hernanes.
Shanks D Zoro
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Kiraly
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Hope they have to sell Messi to Real Madrid to pay their fines and Ancelotti keeps Messi on the bench every single match.
Chelsea put it up on their page. For some reason they always announce with that bit about medical and personal terms still being required.. guess they're anxious to beat the press!
http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3634770/title/salah-transfer-agreed
Gareth Bale
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Bit unfair to criticise Liverpool. It's hardly a level playing field. In this situation I don't think they can just increase their offer by €5 million in one day like Chelsea.
GHG
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Shanks D Zoro
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Are you talking about Barca or Real here???
I think you still owe Arsenal money for Anelka
Shanks D Zoro
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They are like the anti-Arsenal. it takes fucking forever to get an official confirmation about a player being signed.
Steverulez
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Yeh that was where I originally saw it. As you said we always say medical/personal terms. I doubt they'd announce it without personal terms being done anyway, aren't most personal terms done before the transfer fee is agreed between the clubs anyway, haha.
Don't think it's unfair. They've had about a month to wrap up the negotiations and failed to do so. This is not West Brom or some club who has limited funds and is constantly on the brink. Pay what's necessary and get the guy in. If it means paying a few million more than you want, so be it.
Like in almost every single club in La Liga. At least we get to decide who will be the president.
caroll and downing killed the owners trust in spending money on a awesome signing
LabouredSubterfuge
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There's still time Liver-bros.
The_Hitcher89
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Jesus, setting up a Legal & General account is a pain in the arse. Guy I spoke to on the phone seemed nice though 
£10m?! Fuck off FSG and Ayre
£10m?! Fuck off FSG and Ayre
Steverulez
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We're being linked with Shaw, Zouma, Diego Costa and Guarin before the end of the window and Barkley as a summer deal.
Zouma £11m, might be left where he is until the end of the season though. Shaw could be a similar loan back but we don't think Southampton will sell and he'd still be expensive anyway (and therefore I can't see us letting him stay at Southampton if we did manage a deal) and Guarin could be as little as £8m, which would be funny as we offered £13m before we signed Matic and they wanted £15m...
Diego Costa seems like press talk because we want a striker, wouldn't be surprised if we asked Athletico for a price just to see what they would want. Cant see it going through at all though especially as his release clause isn't active in January.
Ba was going to Transzonspor for £7m (which would mean we break even on the deal, good for FFP apparently) but when Torres got injured it got stopped, if we signed someone else then we might then let him go.
Essien looking likely to join AC Milan on loan, although other places say we're considering paying him off to get him out.
Zouma £11m, might be left where he is until the end of the season though. Shaw could be a similar loan back but we don't think Southampton will sell and he'd still be expensive anyway (and therefore I can't see us letting him stay at Southampton if we did manage a deal) and Guarin could be as little as £8m, which would be funny as we offered £13m before we signed Matic and they wanted £15m...
Diego Costa seems like press talk because we want a striker, wouldn't be surprised if we asked Athletico for a price just to see what they would want. Cant see it going through at all though especially as his release clause isn't active in January.
Ba was going to Transzonspor for £7m (which would mean we break even on the deal, good for FFP apparently) but when Torres got injured it got stopped, if we signed someone else then we might then let him go.
Essien looking likely to join AC Milan on loan, although other places say we're considering paying him off to get him out.
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