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Perhaps not.
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Royston Drenthe has signed for Everton too.
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Originally Posted by Perry
Perhaps not.
:blink:
Royston Drenthe has signed for Everton too.
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Originally Posted by KESSLER
Orlando Sa has joined Fulham on loan. :unsure:
Almunia and Squillaci are still here
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Originally Posted by The Realist
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Or killed.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Highlight of the window?
Sawyer's Orange dress for me.
Apparently Nicklas Bendtner shun interest from Real Madrid & Barca to join Sunderland on loan..
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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Again, what's with all these clothes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fats
Arteta is a decent signing pretty talented, wished he was a little younger though.
Benayoun is rubbish, thank f*ck he's only on loan
Don't know much about Santos, seems pretty skillful though so should be entertaining, we'll see if he can defend as well.
Mertesacker, sack of sh*t
Dog Eater, bit disappointing would have preferred a goalscorer
Not too bad for a final day I guess, but we did lose Nasri and Cesc not sure this makes up for that.
next summer xavi talking about arteta's barca dna. :(
imo i think wenger has pulled it out the bag, we asked for big defenders, he gave us them, we asked for prem experience, he gave us that too. really really plleased with these signings
OK I'm up! well at work
and what do I see.......went to bed dreaming of Hazard and M'Vila
and woke up to Areta and Yossi (has he signed)
could have been worse......always go back to the last page I read before bed and by the sounds of it we had really fucked things up
we have not replaced Nasri and Cesc in quality wise individually but we could be looking at an overall more balanced team with more drive......it might not be too bad, not champion calibre but Wenger and the 20 have spent wisely/tight arsely again
dare we see what we have left over spent in Jan............a think the names I was dreaming about, Hazard will be cup tied and a striker because Bendtner and Shitmak(?) are off on loan.......Afobe's chance?
Basically we have have to hope RVP, and Theo can stay healthy, cause if either one of them get hurt, it's 5th/6th. Oh yeah we also have to hope that Ivory Coast and Cameroon don't make it pass the group stage of the ANC.:unsure:
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Originally Posted by Ach
Tevez's slightly better looking brother?Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Did we get Rossi and Shefki Kuqi before the deadline?
hearing that.....the striker situation was noy really addressed especially with that prima donna Bendtner going off to StokeQuote:
Originally Posted by hobson's choice
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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
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Originally Posted by Master Splinter
:the sound of a pin dropping:
Seems like an ok result given the circumstances. It was never going to be a full fix given the timeframe we managed to leave ourselves with. We could have bitten the bullet months ago and replaced Nasri and Fabregas but we didn't, stupidly.
We improved our defense through getting rid of Eboue and adding Jenkinson and Mertesacker. Clichy and Santos is probably a wash though maybe if Santos as actually more available and less injured it'll be an improvement.
Midfield we lost two wantaways who still need to be adequately replaced. Hopefully we can get a big player or two in January. Money's still there to be used. We were able to get two experienced PL attacking midfielders though. They add to the squad which is good because we were really short there. And it's handy that Benayoun is only a loan signing which means we can upgrade in January or next summer.
In attack we've improved. Gervinho is a nice little player for us. Oxlade-Chamberlain may also add something later on in the season. Bendtner the Magnificent is gone though we couldn't get rid of Chamakh. Rather like the cut of this Chu Park Young's gib. Time will tell.
Phase 1 complete and it seems ok.
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Fortunately for you lot, there is no WWLTW this Friday as we look back on a mad summer. Unfortunately for you lot, there is a WWLTW next Friday...
Stupidest decision since Nick Clegg decided to hook up with the Tories award
Arsene Wenger not spending until the last day
Now, MTW appreciates that it was a difficult summer for Arsenal with their two best players constantly being linked with and eventually moving away, but why on earth didn't the French boss, with all the money he had available to him even prior to their departures, plan ahead and bring in some top drawer signings before the season started?
It's a bit like throwing out all your premium meat from your fridge freezer and then sitting around doing nothing for a few days before suddenly realising you've got guests to feed for dinner in a couple of hours, then frantically dashing to the supermarket and taking whatever's on offer in the bargain bucket aisle.
Whichever spin you put on it, losing Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri and bringing in injury prone replacements hitting the tail end of their careers is a disaster, and it's one that could have been avoided had Wenger took his thumb out of his backside before the season started and signed Juan Mata when he was practically begging to join, and added a top-class centre-back and a dependable left-back. Maybe that sort of ambition may have actually persuaded one of the two stars to stay at the Emirates?
Then again, this is a man who has for several years persisted with such limp-wristed wasters like Tomas Rosicky, Johan Djourou and Manuel Almunia, so nobody can really be shocked at Wenger's galling procrastination.
Most protracted saga
Cesc Fabregas (from Arsenal to Barcelona)
Praise be to the football gods that this move actually came off otherwise we'd have faced another year of Gerard Pique and Xavi reading out their love poems in press conferences while Cesc himself ummed and ahhed and pouted, and Gooners the world over moaned about a nasty team wanting the player they pinched as a kid.
Quote of the window (part I)
"Wages have gone crazy. It's gone beyond belief and made it really hard to compete for top players. If you want to be a top-four side, it's difficult because we can't pay those kind of wages."
If MTW was in Daniel Levy's shoes, it wouldn't even give Harry Redknapp a budget for a packed lunch because he'd probably blow it all on fatty snacks, much like he's splurged Spurs' coffers on mostly rubbish players since he took over.
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Envy | 'Arry eyes up Mancini's wallet and wonders how much he could waste with City's budget
Most confusing transfer
Joey Barton (from Newcastle to QPR)
One would have thought that when the best midfielder in England was available he would have had all the best clubs in Europe queuing up to sign him, especially when he was on a free.
Oh that's right, silly old MTW, it was only Barton himself that said he was the best midfielder in England and he is of course a bit of a liability, what with his tendency to jump on Twitter to slag his club off whenever things don't go as he wants them to.
Still though, he'd have been great for Arsenal, if only for the comedy value.
Best deadline day move
Raul Meireles (from Liverpool to Chelsea)
The Portuguese was treated pretty shabbily by the Reds this summer having not been given the wage increase that he was apparently deemed to have been owed (it was reported that his relatively paltry weekly wage would be increased if he was successful in his first season in Englishfootball) and then seen players of a lesser calibre on better money, in Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam, coming in and ousting him from the team.
While Chelsea's last-minute deal for him smacks of desperation on their part (if they really had wanted him as a priority they would have picked him up weeks ago) after crapping themselves by failing to sign Luka Modric, it's still a cracking move for club and player.
The Blues get a decent creative midfielder, while Meireles gets to play in the Champions League and must be on twice the salary he was on at Anfield, which'll keep him nice and happy when he's back on the bench when Michael Essien returns.
Quote of the window (part II)
"The weather, everything. It has nothing."
Carlos Tevez is asked what he dislikes about Manchester.
Best deadline day rumour
GOOD WINDOW
http://u.goal.com/140300/140399_thumb.jpgCesc Fabregas
"He's gone, he's gone, hallelujah he's gone!" is what MTW cried out while running naked through a public fountain when the midfielder finally got his move. Good luck and good riddance.
The Manchester clubs
Sergio Aguero, Samir Nasri, Ashley Young, Phil Jones and David de Gea amongst others have all rocked up in the city this summer. Fairly safe to say that unless Liverpool or Chelsea keep their form, the Premier League trophy will be staying up there come May.
Robbie Keane
Rubbish at Liverpool, rubbish at Tottenham, OK at Celtic (though Titus Bramble would look like Franz Beckenbauer in the SPL), rubbish at Tottenham again, rubbish at West Ham so where does he end up? LA Galaxy, of course, to look good in a rubbish league while earning a fortune and living the good life on the beach. Hats off.
Daniel Levy
Not only did he keep his promise of not letting Luka Modric leave, he also managed to get the best part of £20m from Stoke for the unwanted Wilson Palacios and Peter Crouch, while booting out Jermaine Jenas and Alan Hutton to Aston Villa.BAD WINDOW
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Everything had looked relatively rosy for David Moyes until deadline day, when Mikel Arteta was sold with no time to bring in a replacement and Jermaine Beckford who had looked handy last year was also given the boot, with only the ego of Royston Drenthe and the untested Denis Stracqualursi coming in.
Arsenal
Lose their two best players and replace them with Arteta and Yossi Benayoun, who are much older than the departed duo, are prone to injuries and have not performed anywhere near their best for almost two years. Oh, and no left-back and no holding midfielder has come in.
Carlos Tevez
Homesick since the day he left South America, the Argentine is going to have to stick it out at least until January after a move to Corinthians fell through while any other potential suitors were put off by City's entirely justified demands for a reported £40m fee.
Aston Villa
While Shay Given is a fine replacement for Brad Friedel, the brittle veteran Irishman has been handed a mammoth long-term deal, and star wingers Ashley Young and Stewart Downing have both gone with only Charles N'Zogbia coming in to replace them.
Andy Carroll (from Liverpool to Anzhi Machachkala)
It was reported late on Wednesday that the big-spending Russian side wanted to splash out over £40 million on the massive hairy lump masquerading as a top-class striker on Merseyside.
MTW would have loved to have seen that move go through, not only because big Andy partnering Samuel Eto'o up front would be hilarious but he'd be able to finally test himself in the Premier League of the boozing world having spent the last few years nailing Jagerbombs and pints of lagers in the pubs and clubs of the north-east.
Here's hoping they come back in for him in January, by which time he'll probably be an expert at knocking back neat vodka as he slips to fourth-choice striker at Anfield behind Luis Suarez, Dirk Kuyt and Craig Bellamy the ugliest trio since the Sugababes.
Most surprising signing
Owen Hargreaves (from the treatment table to Manchester City)
Possibly the most bizarre deal of all time went through on deadline day as the permanently injured former Manchester United man joined Roberto Mancini's band of mega-rich midfield merry men.
When asked about the deal, Joe Hart accurately summed up the thoughts of every football fan in the world by saying: "Is he? Wowsers! Where did that come from?!"
Quote of the window (part III)
"I don't want to fight and argue with Tottenham."
Luka Modric here being all nice and sensible a few days before handing in a transfer request and firing the opening shot in a war of words with the chairman.
Best web page not working
Mario Balotelli's Manchester City profile
On deadline day if you happened to search for the madcap Italian striker's page on the City website it would just display 'internal error' a more accurate and succinct summary of Balotelli's mental state you will never see.
Biggest transfer tease
Park Chu-Young (from Monaco to Arsenal, via Lille)
The South Korean striker had a deal lined up to join the Ligue 1 champions and was penciled in for a medical there, but when the club's directors went to meet him, they found his hotel room empty as he'd hopped on the Eurostar to sign for the Gunners.
He's the footballing equivalent of the girl you chat to all night long in the pub only to see her walk off with your more handsome mate. What a kick in the nuts, eh?
If MTW were Lille, it would have gone home, banged on some of The Smiths and cried into a pillow. Fortunately, MTW is not Lille.
Signing most likely to disappoint
Joe Cole (from Liverpool to Lille)
MTW applauds British players going abroad to ply their trade, and takes umbrage with the notion that any departure from English football is a 'step down', but fans of the French club best get used to the chunky midget getting injured, then returning to action, looking good for half a game before spending the rest of it with his hands on his hips, equal parts angry and confused at his body's failure to work.
Quote of the window (part IV)
"I believe for us it is important that the message we give out - for example you see about Fabregas leaving, Nasri leaving - if you give that message out you cannot pretend you are a big club."
- Arsene Wenger says Arsenal are not a big club.
Most annoying transfer protagonist
Neymar (Santos)
The Brazilian with the worst haircut in football has blurted out nonsense to fill the gossip columns all summer, saying he'd love to go to Chelsea, Barcelona or Real Madrid, and even got himself into a stupid spat about whether he's as good as Lionel Messi.
MTW is glad that it will not have to read another tedious story about that little prat wanting to move to Europe for another few months, and if this column does have to read something about that arrogant upstart wanting a transfer across the Atlantic between now and January then it will fly over to Santos and shave his moronic mullet off and give him a few slaps to the face for good measure.
Berk.
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The world's biggest mohawk | Now chop it off and zip up your lips, lad
Stupidest pursuit
Stoke City trying to loan Romelu Lukaku
The Potters were linked with a surprise temporary move for Chelsea's Belgian wonderkid only to realise that they couldn't pull it off because it's against Premier League rules for a player to move twice within a transfer window. Oops.
Best joker of the window
Roman Pavlyuchenko (Tottenham)
The clumsy Russian forward has been linked with the exit door since the minute he walked through the entrance at White Hart Lane, but somehow managed to stick around (probably as nobody wanted him because he's pants) this summer, effectively forcing Peter Crouch out of the club.
Top work, Roman.
Worst agent of the window
Whoever represents Scott Dann
The young defender had been linked with Arsenal (who have needed a centre-back for longer than Grant Holt has needed a gastric band fitted) and Liverpool throughout the summer, but wound up on deadline day swapping one lunatic asylum of a club run for another as he moved from Birmingham to Blackburn.
Biggest hypocrite and loud mouth joint award
Harry Redknapp (Tottenham)
When he isn't talking about other club's players, he's moaning about other clubs talking about his, and you can bet your bottom dollar that he'll be flapping his hole indignantly from out of his car to Sky Sports News, who spent the entire summer pitched up outside Spurs' training ground to catch 'Arry as he headed home (presumably stopping off at a McDonalds drive-in and a few speedcameras on his way to talk endlessly to them too).
Yet somehow Redknapp a shoo-in for the England job next summer has still got the weight of the media behind him despite his only first-team additions this summer being a goalkeeper who needs a zimmerframe, yet another centre-midfielder, and a car crash of a striker on loan.
And the media lapped him up after his side were hammered 5-1 by Manchester City at the weekend, with the manager pulling a trick straight out of the coward's book by deflecting attention away from his terrible tactics and onto Luka Modric, who he alleged was not in the right frame of mind to play (then don't pick him, you doofus).
Give it a rest, Redknapp.
The 'not a good thing to do in hindsight' award
Phil Gartside (Bolton)
The Trotters' top brass has been giving it the big one for months saying that prized asset Gary Cahill would not be sold for less than £17m amid strong interest from Arsenal and Tottenham, yet the England defender still remains at the Reebok and with his contract running out at the end of the season he's likely to leave for pittance in January or nothing at all next summer.
Smart stuff from the cash-strapped club.
Best Manchester United retirement home
Sunderland
If you've reached the end of your career at Old Trafford, or simply been a failure there, then just give Steve Bruce a ring and he'll sort you out good and proper with a nice contract. Over 30? No worries, he'll still give you a four-year deal on mega money, just ask Wes Brown and John O'Shea.
Dharmesh Sheth is famous
He has an imposter on Twitter
The real one doesnt even have a Twitter account
Imposter :pal:
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Arsenal
Lose their two best players and replace them with Arteta and Yossi Benayoun, who are much older than the departed duo, are prone to injuries and have not performed anywhere near their best for almost two years. Oh, and no left-back and no holding midfielder has come in.
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Originally Posted by Master Splinter
Think we might get Cahill in January to consolidate 6th.Quote:
Tottenham have already approached Bolton over fresh talks in January over the potential transfer of defender Gary Cahill in a bid to beat bitter rivals Arsenal to the punch when the race for the England international's signature begins again. Full story: MetroArsenal failed in their attempts to sign Borussia Dortmund midfielder Mario Gotze for £35m on transfer deadline day, according to reports in Germany. Full story: TalkSport
not sure if this has been posted yet...
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Gunners made loan enquiry for French ace
Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas claims that Arsenal made a late bid for Yoann Gourcuff before deadline day.
The Frenchman was just one of the players chased by the Gunners in the final days of the transfer window as Arsenal searched for replacements for Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas.
Gourcuff, who is currently recovering from injury, is regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in France and is thought to be a long-term target of Arsene Wenger's.
Lyon rejected Arsenal's enquiry for Gourcuff with the player having a big part to play at Stade Gerland.
"I got a call on the penultimate day of the transfer window from Gilles Grimandi asking for a loan," Aulas told RMC Sport.
"We believe in re-establishing Yoann. He has been operated upon. He has just resumed training.
"We have chosen Gourcuff, like last year. It was hard last season. Hopefully he will demonstrate his capabilities this term."
Gourcuff scored three goals in 27 Ligue 1 appearances last season for Lyon but is currently ruled out through injury.
nice to see we were at least trying to bring in some big names, hopefully we'll make a deal stick for one of them in jan
the injury stuff kind of says it all. . .we need players ready to go in as of our next game. . .not players still looking for match fitnessQuote:
Originally Posted by The Wengerbabies
before he moved to Milan thought he would have been good not so convinced now
I reckon too we will be in for players in Jan another push for Cahill or for him we wait till he runs down his contract ala we did for Shitmak
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Originally Posted by Asthmatic Kitty
That would have been like Barca asking us if they could have Cesc on loan.
Gourcuff's been shite for a while.
I actually prefer Arteta.
Was worth a shot tbh. Remi Garde is a Wenger protegee. Also I think they're reverting to a 4-4-2 so Gourcuff could be benched.
Too damn right, I'm pretty fricking happy with Arteta and Benayoun, I like both players and they offer us what we need, add in a giant German and decent cover up front (possibly, I'm remaining optimistic after everything I've heard about Park though), with all of those have top level experience and we've actually turned an interminably shite summer into a reasonably good transfer window.
I believe our expectations were successfully managed down, mind you. If we'd have been presented with these names a month back (rather than in the last few days when it looked like we might end up with nothing) I think the reactions may have been different.Isn't this more a case of being relieved rather than impressed? Even so, if the newcomers can teach our little pansies how to put up a fight then that'll be good enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darth Vela
I dunno, I'd have wanted Arteta here regardless, I know he's coming back from injury but he's looked good the last few times I've seen him and was a class act before that. I'd have liked Benayoun on a permanent deal but he has guile, creativity, goal threat and Premiership experience so I'm happy with that.
Ofc, I'd have liked a big signing, someone like Mata or Hazard with a little bit of the 'wow factor' but we needed creativity and experience and we got creativity and experience, that's pretty good in my eyes.
NB: Don't think this completely makes up for the shambles of the summer, we fucked up and whoever was in charge should be either fired or forced to sit through every one of our matches from the end of last season on a loop, until his contract expires.
Arteta can take a pel too.
As can Germans.
Ju and Arteta will hopefully become our set-piece coaches too.
We will be linked with M'vila or another CM again in jan or summer as Yossi is only on loan. I don't think our buisness is done we need to keep building.