2009 football/soccer summer transfer rumors

[brian cushing]

IMO, there is no way Liverpool are gonna give up Masche now that Xabi is gone.

 

[jjgrt5]

Originally Posted by Brian Cushing

IMO, there is no way Liverpool are gonna give up Masche now that Xabi is gone.

I kinda agree with you... but mascherano is just as unhappy living in england as xabi was (various articles/interviews describe this). I think if mascheranoreally pushes the situation like xabi did Benitez will put a price on him and ship him of.

 

[xblaze23]

But the interested team, Barcelona for example would have to cough up near the asking price. A price I feel would be more than Xabi's. Thats something Idon't think Barcelona would do.

Alonso submitted the transfer request yet Liverpool remained firm with the asking price. They met about half way.

 

[airjordanseattle23]

1141 BST: Real Madrid say they have wrapped up their summer spending spree with the transfer of Xabi Alonso from Liverpool, ruling out a move for BayernMunich winger Franck Ribery or Valencia forward David Villa. (Associated Press)

1038 BST: Hull City will try and tempt Cardiff City with a £3.5m offer for striker Ross McCormack. (Wales Online)

1013 BST: Bayern Munich have dismissed speculation that striker Luca Toni is to join West Ham on loan.
Full story:The Sun

0928 BST: Bolton manager Gary Megson says he is prepared to listen to offers for defender Danny ****tu. (Bolton Evening News)

Keep an eye on the gossip column throughout the day for updates and breaking news during the transfer window.

http:// TRANSFER GOSSIP

Liverpool are expected to use some of the £30m they gained from the sale of Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid to make an £18m offer for Roma midfielderAlberto Aquilani.
Full story: TheIndependent

Standard Liege midfielder Steven Defour is also linked with a move to Anfield and his agent Paul Stefani says he would not turn down a move to Liverpool.
Full story: TheIndependent

Italian side AC Milan are preparing a £31m bid for Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas.
Full story: The Sun

Darren Bent's transfer to Sunderland has still not been completed, despite the Tottenham striker passing a medical on Monday. (Daily Star)

Sunderland, meanwhile, are set to sign Lyon defender John Mensah on a season-long loan deal.
Full story: The Sun

The Black Cats are also keeping tabs on Tottenham centre-back Michael Dawson.
Full story: The Sun

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has failed with a £5.5m bid for Sevilla centre-back Federico Fazio.
Full story: The Sun

Wenger says he will wait to sign Bordeaux's Marouane Chamakh on a free transfer next season, rather than improve his £6m offer for the striker thissummer. (Daily Mirror)

Tottenham hope to sign Blackburn defender Christopher Samba for £10m to help ease their defensive crisis.
Full story: The Sun

Manchester United will use their friendly with Valencia to run the rule over midfielder David Silva and forward David Villa. (Daily Star)

Stoke City want to take injury-prone Everton striker James Vaughan on loan.
Fullstory: Daily Mail

Hull are set to sign Villarreal striker Jozy Altidore and have agreed a £3m deal for Stoke midfielder Seyi Olofinjana. (Daily Mail)

Burnley are in talks with Independiente winger Fernando Guerrero. (Daily Mail)

South African midfielder Kagiso Dikgacoi claims he has secured a move to Fulham from Golden Arrows after impressing on trial at Craven Cottage.
Full story: TheIndependent

Kilmarnock manager Jim Jefferies has told Hamilton Accies they must make a substantial offer for midfielder Craig Bryson. (Various)

Hamilton have been busy making offers for Killie's Bryson, Motherwell's Jamie Murphy and Inverness midfielder Dougie Imrie - all of whichhave been rejected. (Scottish Daily Express)

Aberdeen manager Mark McGhee is ready to sell one of his top players to raise cash to bolster his squad. (Various)

Watford have joined Romanian side Unirea Uriziceni in the chase for Morton Jim McAlister. (Scottish Daily Express)

Southampton are interested in signing former Birmingham defender Radhi Jaidi. (Daily Mirror)

Ipswich are set to sign Watford striker Tamas Priskin in a £1.2m deal. (Daily Mirror)

Bristol City have told striker Lee Trundle that he is surplus to requirements at Ashton Gate. (Daily Mirror)

http:// OTHER GOSSIP

Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has agreed a new three-year contract at the club worth over £100,000 a week.
Full story: TheSun

Newcastle defender Sebastien Bassong has been fined two weeks wages for refusing to travel to play in a friendly at Dundee United, adding to speculation hemay be about to leave for Tottenham.
Full storyaily Mail

Crystal Palace have been banned from signing players due to a dispute over unpaid bonuses and signing-on fees from last season.
Full story: DailyMail

http:// AND FINALLY

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has written off Liverpool's title chances, claiming he has more chance of achieving a hole in one ingolf.
Full story: TheSun

Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham is being considered for a goodwill ambassador's role at former club Manchester United when he hangs up hisboots.
Full story: The Sun

Meanwhile, Beckham and his wife Victoria are in negotiations to buy a £10m luxury home in Chelsea, sparking rumours of a move to the west Londonclub.
Full story: The Sun

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is being haunted by a vacuum cleaner that keeps turning itself on.
Full story: Daily Star

Northampton's players will turn out for free on the opening day of the season with their wages being split between the club's eightnominated charities. (Daily Star)

It has been revealed that Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez suffered his recent heel problem after slipping in the shower. Tevez is in danger of missingthe start of the season.
Full story: The Guardian

 

[keepie uppie]

Originally Posted by AirJordanSeattle23

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is being haunted by a vacuum cleaner that keeps turning itself on.
Full story: Daily Star

...the hell?

 

[airjordanseattle23]

Originally Posted by Keepie Uppie

Originally Posted by AirJordanSeattle23

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is being haunted by a vacuum cleaner that keeps turning itself on.
Full story: Daily Star

...the hell?

exactly what i was thinking.i can picture him waking up in the night and cursing.."colleen..its that bloody vacuum again!!"

anyone else going to the seattle vs barca friendly tonight?

 

[Sinner]

^ Lol... where do they come up with that stuff!? hairdryers and vacuums...

I'll try to listen to the barca vs seadogs game online... Flying chickens in a barnyard...

 

[lu cash]

On another note...

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[h4]PRIMERA DIVISIÓN DE ARGENTINA[/h4] [h1]Argentina footie season suspended due to debts[/h1]
Reuters

August 5, 2009

The kickoff to the Argentine domestic football season was put on hold indefinitely on Wednesday, while the game's national governing body sought a solution to clubs' massive debts.

Bussed-in protesters also attacked the Argentina Football Association (AFA) headquarters, smashing windows and demanding the resignation of AFA president Julio Grondona.

"The executive committee of the AFA resolved unanimously tonight (Tuesday) that the championships in all categories should not start on the scheduled dates," a statement from the AFA said.

The first division Apertura championship, which is played between August and December in the first half of the season, had been scheduled to kick off on Friday, August 14.

Argentine teams' participation in the Copa Sudamericana, the continent's equivalent of the Europa League which starts this week, would not be affected, nor would Diego Maradona's national team who have a friendly against Russia in Moscow next week.

The statement said the AFA needed to search for a proper and well-founded solution to the problem of clubs' debts.

Grondona, also world body FIFA's senior vice-president, held talks with the government's chief tax officer, Ricardo Echegaray, and Sergio Marchi, secretary general of the players' union, Futbolistas Argentinos Agremiados (FAA) to try to resolve the debt issue.

While leaving the talks, Grondona said an increase in fees for television rights to matches would help ease clubs' debts.

"For me the solution is for the AFA to receive more money from the revenue of the television (rights)," he said.

A few hours after the talks, Grondona was the target of a demonstration outside his offices.

The AFA headquarters in central Buenos Aires were attacked by about 100 people who arrived in two buses, threw stones at the building breaking windows, and shouted insults at Grondona.

They painted "Julio Grondona thief" on the wall and handed out leaflets saying "Grondona, liar and traitor ... resign now" before police dispersed the demonstrators, who did not appear to have allegiance with any football club or organisation.

Some of Argentina's biggest and most successful clubs are among the major debtors, including former South American champions River Plate, Racing Club and Independiente.

Sources close to the tax authorities say clubs owe the government 300m Argentine pesos (£46.37m), on top of debts to the AFA and, to a lesser extent, their own players.

On Monday, the AFA asked that the fee TV companies pay for match rights for this season be revised up to 720m pesos from the 268m pesos originally agreed.

Local media reported that the TV companies were considering a counter-proposal that included a contract extension with the AFA from the present 2014 expiry date to 2020 and advance payments to clubs to cover their current debts.

Marchi said some well-run clubs, notably newly-crowned South American champions Estudiantes and Argentine Clausura title winners Velez Sarsfield, were paying for mistakes made by directors of poorly run clubs.

"I hope the AFA follows it's own rules and sanctions those (directors) who don't meet their obligations," Marchi said.

"The (Argentine) game is poorly commercialised, it's obsolete ... There are problems of infrastructure, the bathrooms of some clubs look like Kosovo," he told reporters.

Being Argentinian la Primera Division is the league Ifollow most and it's a shame that things have gotten so out of hand. It's also a shame that clubs like Boca, Velez, and Estudiantes have to pay for themistakes of debt-ridden clubs like River, Independiente, Racing, and my beloved San Lorenzo. I hope this can all get resolved quickly before more fans becomerestless and more violence occurs. I just want to watch some futbol.

 

[xblaze23]

Corriere dello Sport reports Milan have signed Klaas Jan Huntelaar for 15m.

 

[rockforlight]

lu cash :
I think Argentine football is the most attractive in the world. I love it. Can you link to forums or blogs that I can follow everything that there is to knowabout Futbol Argentino ?

Btw, what do you think of "El Cholo" Simeone as the coach of your cash-strapped club?

 

[carlos tevez]

Jozy Altidore has joined Hull on loan.

Arsenal made a bid for Sevilla CB Federico Fazio

Liverpool signed Aquillani

 

[zizou]

go jozy!

he may be better off in england than spain.

and i guess it was inevitable that pool signed aquilani. great player. just needs to stay healthy.

 

[lu cash]

Originally Posted by rockforlight

lu cash :
I think Argentine football is the most attractive in the world. I love it. Can you link to forums or blogs that I can follow everything that there is to know about Futbol Argentino ?

Btw, what do you think of "El Cholo" Simeone as the coach of your cash-strapped club?

Yea to be honest I don't think there is as much passion and love for football anywhere else in the world, football isn't a sport inArgentina it's a way of life. The main source of news for football in Argentina is www.ole.com.ar, if you want to find forums every club has their ownofficial forum I suggest you just search, for example San Lorenzo's main message board is www.mundoazulgrana.com.ar. This is all assuming you know how toread spanish of course, if you don't I honestly can't help you bro.

And on the topic of San Lorenzo I like what Simeone is doing, he has a great track record already winning championships with Estudiantes and then River. Wehad discipline problems before he got here and I think he has helped motivate the players to actually want to play for the club. He has said he wants to builda team that the fans can associate with so he has demanded we keep our key players and sell the ones who weren't performing, replacing them with newplayers like Kily Gonzalez, Felix Orode (played on Nigeria's youth national team), and goalie Migliore (ex-Racing player). Unfortunately what San Lorenzo and variousother clubs have been doing is what is causing the indefinite suspension of Argentine football, and that is spending money that the club doesn't have.

 

[trunks206]

Originally Posted by AirJordanSeattle23

Originally Posted by Keepie Uppie

Originally Posted by AirJordanSeattle23

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is being haunted by a vacuum cleaner that keeps turning itself on.
Full story: Daily Star

...the hell?

exactly what i was thinking.i can picture him waking up in the night and cursing.."colleen..its that bloody vacuum again!!"

anyone else going to the seattle vs barca friendly tonight?

Yup, thankfully the weather cleared up. I'm in section 340.
What about you?

 

[i3]

Finally Milan signed someone.. Huntelaar should do well with Pato and Ronaldinho.

Although nothing is official, it still could be Fabiano or even Dzeko (word going around Milan forums lol)

Pirlo is staying too. Now Milan needs to seal the deal with Hernanes, Di Silvestri and Ledesma...

btw..

 

[airjordanseattle23]

Originally Posted by trunks206

Originally Posted by AirJordanSeattle23

Originally Posted by Keepie Uppie

Originally Posted by AirJordanSeattle23

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is being haunted by a vacuum cleaner that keeps turning itself on.
Full story: Daily Star

...the hell?

exactly what i was thinking.i can picture him waking up in the night and cursing.."colleen..its that bloody vacuum again!!"

anyone else going to the seattle vs barca friendly tonight?

Yup, thankfully the weather cleared up. I'm in section 340.
What about you?

328 or 329

 

[airjordanseattle23]

anyone notice there has been no talk of zarate this summer? although he didn't have an impressive season at lazio always thought dude was talented.

 

[wizards23]

^Ronaldinho looks fit (pause) hope he has a good season. He's always been one of my favorite players.

 

[smokey1212]

Nice Jozy!

 

[lu cash]

Originally Posted by wizards23

^Ronaldinho looks fit (pause) hope he has a good season. He's always been one of my favorite players.

I heard he has been rigorously training all off-season to once again become the best player in the world like he was circa 2005, let's see howthat goes.

 

[elevenairs]

yea Jozy!

btw a Tevez away is as good as copped...sickest jersey i've seen for 09/10

Originally Posted by Phil Le0tard0

 

[carlos tevez]

Those Man City jerseys look pretty clean.

 

[rockforlight]

That's good for Jozy that he's now going to get some good burn (I hope) on an English team.I was actually in Hull in May to see Morrissey. DAMN!

All I can think of is the lyrics to this Smiths gem:
"The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down... "

Hull was rated #1 as the worst city in England

At least we know that Jozy will be concentrating on his football, and not on the Hull nightlife

 

[socluis90]

Can someone who follows Argentine football tell me how many damn teams play in the Buenos Aires area.

Off the top of my head, Huracan, Racing, Boca, San Lorenzo, River and I'm sure I missed some.

Why the hell are there so many teams in one city?

 

[airjordanseattle23]

Took the wrong bus from fw to Seattle the slower one aka the 174 instead of the 194. That said I missed messi score a brace. got there for the second half andbarca had pretty muc subbed in their b. Team. No messi Albee henry xavi etc. o well haha