Transfer News, Rumours and Bollocks Thread

[Niall_Quinn]

We've fucked up the transfer window, that's already been done and gone over with a fine-tooth shit-comb so we can either look at the guys we've brought in (if anything happens ofc...) and hope for the best or sit around bitching for hours on end about how shitty everything is, actually we can do both but I'd prefer to do the former a little more.

I'm for bitching for hours about how shitty things are.

[Darth Vela]

Park will be forced to return to asia in 2 years time for military services - tweeter

I'm sure our lawyers will find a loophole, wealthy people don't have to abide by laws.

[AKBapologist]

And we were never in for benzema. Neither the club nor the player wanted to move. Best we could have done this season would have been falco who ended up moving to ac Madrid for £39mill.

[Unai Tea]

I wonder why there was no interest, presumably, in Forlan.

He's older but essentially a true goal scorer. Maybe he wouldn't fit in with a higher paced game?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Park will be forced to return to asia in 2 years time for military services - tweeter

I already mentioned this. And players in their national side are exempt.

[Unai Tea]

I already mentioned this. And players in their national side are exempt.

At least he'll be motivated!

[Niall_Quinn]

It's easy to assume we can just make a transfer for any old striker we like. There's no 'striker tree' out there and I don't think there are that many opportunities out there to get a really top class striker. People talk about Benzema as if the only thing missing is us handing over £25m. Maybe we are trying to work a deal for somebody else, maybe we aren't. Bottom line is we had an opportunity to sign a useful player in a position of significant need for depth. Let's say we didn't get Young (assuming we actually do) and we just hoped to get a different player. What happens if we then didn't get that 'super awesome striker who's not necessarily that availble'? Throw in the obligatory Van Persie injury and we have Chamakh leading the line. Has he taken his tail from out between his legs yet or is he still cowering in the corner somewhere?

Young would be a bird in the hand. The jury is out whether there's also 2 birds in the bush or not. Daft to allow us to remain so weak in numbers/experience up front.

Strikers do fall from the trees, in fact.

Kaiserslautern striker injured in fall from tree

June 21, 2011 — KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany (AP) — Bundesliga club Kaiserslautern says striker Adam Nemec will be out of action for three months as he recovers from injuries sustained when he fell out of a cherry tree.

Kaiserslautern said Tuesday that the 25-year-old Slovak fractured two vertebrae and his collarbone as well as suffering concussion. He will undergo an operation on the collarbone injury. The club said Nemec suffered the injuries in his garden on Monday evening.

http://www.mail.com/int/sports/socce...fall-tree.html

[Edinburgh Gooner]

Strikers do fall from the trees, in fact.



http://www.mail.com/int/sports/socce...fall-tree.html

[Unai Tea]

Strikers do fall from the trees, in fact.



http://www.mail.com/int/sports/socce...fall-tree.html

Yes. Well. That was clearly an eejit who happens to be a striker falling out of the stupid tree rather than a striker being plucked from the striker tree.

[Niall_Quinn]

Yes. Well. That was clearly an eejit who happens to be a striker falling out of the stupid tree rather than a striker being plucked from the striker tree.

An injured eejit - must get!