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[Wilbur]

You should all be banned.

okay

 

[Wes]

@piersmorgan

"No, but happy to invigilate on your euthanasia RT@Lord_Sugar @piersmorgan Can you get to old trafford to invigilate on RVP medical tomorrow"

 

[dc89]

spurs can now pull their finger out and sign Adebayor so City can start dropping some bombs!

 

[nemesun]

Or he could do a Torres and just stop scoring goals for 6-months.

That would be lovely.

 

[Wilbur]

@piersmorgan

http://i.imgur.com/RftoI.gif[/IG][/QUOTE]

The best thing about this whole transfer is how hard Piers is taking it. I'll fucking love it if he scores the winner against them this season.

 

[Vivalaraza]

Speaking of FF...picking Rooney doesn't seem like a sure bet anymore. Hmm.

 

[Dibbz]

What is going on with Sahin? Can Arsenal get him with an option to buy or not?

 

[Wilbur]

Speaking of FF...picking Rooney doesn't seem like a sure bet anymore. Hmm.

I kept Valencia as my sole United player but may have to rethink it. Then again I also have Torres so may have to rethink that!

 

[Error]

@piersmorgan

Good news, Cashley @TheRealAC3 - we've finally found someone even more money-grabbing than you. @Persie_Official

Congratulatons @SamNasri19 - you're no longer the most loathsome ex Arsenal player in Britain.

oh he mad

 

[nemesun]

fifa friendlies just before a season start are completely ridiculous.

surely this stops for next year.

Hear, hear. especially right after the Olympics, emperor Blatter needs to get shafted asap.

 

[jtb]

What is going on with Sahin? Can Arsenal get him with an option to buy or not?

heading to Liverpool apparently. and Song's heading for Barca.

great day.

 

[Wilbur]

heading to Liverpool apparently. and Song's heading for Barca.

great day.

Song is most certainly not replacing Busquets.

 

[dc89]

BREAKING: Juventus have signed striker Fernando Llorente on a five-year deal for a fee of €35 million -JL

WHAT!!!

https://twitter.com/TransferNewsCen/status/235853498011488256

 

[Kyoufu]

BREAKING: Juventus have signed striker Fernando Llorente on a five-year deal for a fee of €35 million -JL

WHAT!!!

https://twitter.com/TransferNewsCen/status/235853498011488256

What. 35? No way.

 

[Wilbur]

BREAKING: Juventus have signed striker Fernando Llorente on a five-year deal for a fee of €35 million -JL

WHAT!!!

https://twitter.com/TransferNewsCen/status/235853498011488256

Nothing on either team's official website, but that's a fucking huge price.

 

[jtb]

Song is most certainly not replacing Busquets.

Of course not. But Keita needs replacing and you can never have enough midfielders at Barca...

 

[nemesun]

Speaking of FF...picking Rooney doesn't seem like a sure bet anymore. Hmm.

Thanks for the heads up, I need to swap him with Poldi. 3.5mil saved right there.

 

[Willkiller]

BREAKING: Juventus have signed striker Fernando Llorente on a five-year deal for a fee of €35 million -JL

WHAT!!!

https://twitter.com/TransferNewsCen/status/235853498011488256

Blimey, seems true too. It's all over twitter!

 

[Dibbz]

heading to Liverpool apparently. and Song's heading for Barca.

great day.

Wait. I'm assuming there is no option to buy then? Also Song to Braca is one of the dumbest moves. He'll be on the bench because busquets has DM on lock down.

 

[Error]

wow crazy week in transfers.

bilbao is fucked if those 2 leave, poor bielsa. I guess them tasting silverware but not winning really convince them to leave the club.

 

[Broder Salsa]

BREAKING: Juventus have signed striker Fernando Llorente on a five-year deal for a fee of €35 million -JL

WHAT!!!

https://twitter.com/TransferNewsCen/status/235853498011488256

What the fuck is Transfer Central TNC? 60 thousand followers isn't exactly impressive. I say fake as fuck.

 

[Dibbz]

BREAKING: Juventus have signed striker Fernando Llorente on a five-year deal for a fee of €35 million -JL

WHAT!!!

https://twitter.com/TransferNewsCen/status/235853498011488256

Why couldn't they take RVP???

 

[Wilbur]

Of course not. But Keita needs replacing and you can never have enough midfielders at Barca...

Salvadora quoted someone somewhere saying he's being brought in to replace Busquets. It would be odd to spend 15-20m to replace a bench player...

 

[FootballFan]

Gooners, Cazorla scored a great goal just like 15minutes ago for Spain.

Yaya Toure is a beast. A complete footballer

Fixed

Played centre-back in arguably the toughest games for Barca too(vs Chelsea in the Semis and ManUnited in the final) He did great there too. His range of talents and amount of positions he plays in is so good. City's season nearly crumbled when he left for the ACoN.

 

[dc89]

Yes I have

 

[nemesun]

BREAKING: Juventus have signed striker Fernando Llorente on a five-year deal for a fee of €35 million -JL

WHAT!!!

https://twitter.com/TransferNewsCen/status/235853498011488256

You must be aving larf! 35mill for Llorente and they weren't even willing to spend half of that on RvP....

 

[Ushojax]

BREAKING: Juventus have signed striker Fernando Llorente on a five-year deal for a fee of €35 million -JL

WHAT!!!

https://twitter.com/TransferNewsCen/status/235853498011488256

Another one bites the dust. If it's true. Seems an absurd fee for someone with 1 year on his contract.

 

[FootballFan]

Song is most certainly not replacing Busquets.

He is replacing Keita, not Busquets.

edit
35 mil for Llorente? Fuck that is a lot if true. Only has 1 year left on his contract, Barca got Afellay for 3 million when his contract only had a year left.(obviously Afellay isn't Llorente but you get my point)

 

[Yurt]

£27m, it's official.

Well, with his low salary, that's not too bad.

You must be aving larf! 35mill for Llorente and they weren't even willing to spend half of that on RvP....

Again, we offered 20m, and 7.5 something annually. That's pretty fucking mental on RVP. United can get away with it because they have Rooney,Kagawa and etc, we can't.

In the end, RVP said no. And no one blames him.

 

[jtb]

Wait. I'm assuming there is no option to buy then? Also Song to Braca is one of the dumbest moves. He'll be on the bench because busquets has DM on lock down.

highly doubt it. He won the Bundesliga and La Liga... can't imagine him being content with missing out on CL football during the prime of his career.

35m for Llorente seems high, but when you've got a world class team in every other position, why not pay a little extra for a class striker...

edit:

Salvadora quoted someone somewhere saying he's being brought in to replace Busquets. It would be odd to spend 15-20m to replace a bench player...

Twitter bullshit no doubt. The move is true, the reason is wrong, I'm sure. Keita played 26 league games according to wiki, so it'd certainly be more of a role for Song than say... Hleb had.

 

[dc89]

http://www.juventus.host22.com/fernando+llorente+juventus+eng+news+15agosto2012.html

Is that Juve's site Yurt?

 

[Error]

£27m, it's official.

Well, with his low salary, that's not too bad.

crazy

 

[kharma45]

That Irish radio DJ posting this on Twitter, seems to think this proves that he was right about RVP

 

[keit4]

http://www.juventus.host22.com/fernando+llorente+juventus+eng+news+15agosto2012.html

Is that Juve's site Yurt?

www.juventus.host22.com

It's not, the real one is www.juventus.com

 

[Wilbur]

He is replacing Keita, not Busquets.

I'm just going off what was quoted earlier, but it seems like an odd move. No youth DMs around?

 

[Phantast2k]

The former owner of Spurs has this to say:

Mordric,

that's why i said fit Schweini but yeah it's impossible to argue now who was more effective on defense, all i'm saying is that there's more to football than being "all over the pitch." But honestly i dont care, i guess i just dont like him / or his playstyle. I appreciate what he does, but i just dont think it's that effecive. But who am i? 'The only one' rates him very highly and that's all that matters.

Wait, who's "the only one"? Der Kaiser? I don't get it :/
By "all over the pitch" I mean that he did def and attack altogether. I didn't see a headless chicken, like you described him

(...)
Schweinsteiger, before last season injuries, was the best complete midfielder out there.


They're usually right in Bayern transfers. They announced the Shaqiri deal 2 days before Bayern made it official. Aren't they supposed to have very top insiders in Bayern?

Had to leave out the Kheds talk, because I'm also getting tired of it too.
09/10 was his only consistently good season and even then he didn't have heart. And you can't excuse everything with injuries, he's never had anything serious afaik (such as complex ligament rupture, etc.)
You're right. They're well informed on Bayern, they're basically like the extension of their PR department, lol
But they won't ever hesitate to break stories based on unproven sources/inadequate journalism. They're a piece of shit tabloid after all.

Halo sucks.

yes

 

[dc89]

Have we been Sporked?

 

[Kyoufu]

Llorente had a 35m release clause right?

 

[dschalter]

lol at the url.

 

[Vivalaraza]

That's a fake URL isnt it?

 

[Broder Salsa]

That's a fake URL isnt it?

Of course it is. Would Juve have their website hosted on a free host called http://host22.com/?

 

[Yurt]

That's a fake URL isnt it?

Obviously.

There's no official statement from Juve or Bilbao so let's wait.

 

[Wes]

Look at all these dominoes falling!

 

[Vivalaraza]

Of course it is. Would Juve have their website hosted on a free host called http://host22.com/?

It is Juventus after all.

They do whatever it takes to get ahead.

 

[dc89]

Sporked

 

[Yurt]

Of course it is. Would Juve have their website hosted on a free host called http://host22.com/?

If Marotta was running the website, yes.

 

[Willkiller]

That Irish radio DJ posting this on Twitter, seems to think this proves that he was right about RVP

https://p.twimg.com/A0XsvA9CMAAnfAv.jpg:large[IMG][/QUOTE]

I want to believe.

 

[Dibbz]

He is replacing Keita, not Busquets.

edit
35 mil for Llorente? Fuck that is a lot if true. Only has 1 year left on his contract, Barca got Afellay for 3 million when his contract only had a year left.(obviously Afellay isn't Llorente but you get my point)

And how many games did Keita play last season? Joining a club to be an option on the bench is dumb.

 

[fuenf]

Wait, who's "the only one"? Der Kaiser? I don't get it :/
By "all over the pitch" I mean that he did def and attack altogether. I didn't see a headless chicken, like you described him

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/s...jose-mourinho:-call-me-the-'only-one'?cc=5739

 

[fadetoblack]

That is such a fake URL. Please tell me you were joking, dc6969.

If it's true it's £27m = €35m and we've definitely over paid. But, again, IF it's true, I think overpaying is necessary. We've had tremendous difficulty signing a top player and we were bound to over pay.

But, I don't think it's true. Today is a bank holiday in Italy. No business would take place. At the earliest, the deal would take place tomorrow. And typically Italian papers would break the news first, to be honest.