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Summer transfer thread, AvB window wrap up pg 1527
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Thought that was United. Kagawa and Clyne supposedly their only targets beyond Hazard.
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
Alaric
Erik Edman
I agree, he has always done a decent job, when I've seen him ref....does look tubby though.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
TRANSFER GOSSIP
Saudi Sportswashing Machine will risk losing hot property striker Demba Ba, 26, this summer as they refuse to renegotiate the terms of his contract to remove a ?ú7m release clause.
Full story: Daily Telegraph
Chelsea have had a ?ú32.4m offer for exciting young Brazil midfielder Lucas Moura rejected according to Sao Paulo club president Juvenal Juvenico. "Lucas is a fantastic player with great qualities who is giving so much to the team," Juvenico said of the 19-year-old, capped 11 times by his country.
Saudi Sportswashing Machine striker Demba Ba
Demba Ba joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine in June 2011 after a stint at West Ham
Full story: Daily Mail
Manchester United are preparing a multi-million pound offer for sought-after Montpellier goalscorer Olivier Giroud. Sir Alex Ferguson wants to start negotiations with the Ligue 1 winners before Euro 2012, in case the 25-year-old's valuation soars afterwards.
Full story: caughtoffside.com
Emirates Marketing Project manager Roberto Mancini has dismissed speculation that the club are ready to offer strikers Carlos Tevez or Mario Balotelli as part of a deal to land 27-year-old AC Milan star Thiago Silva.
Full story: the Metro
Porto frontman Hulk, 25, wants to replace Didier Drogba as the spearhead of the Chelsea attack. Porto have demanded a minimum of ?ú38m for their talismanic striker, but Chelsea won't stretch far beyond ?ú30m.
Full story: Daily Express
Everton are already hunting a replacement for Leighton Baines, should the left-back head to Manchester United in the off-season. Manager David Moyes has identified French defender Aly Cissokho, 24, as a possible ?ú6m target.
Full story: talkSPORT
Holland captain Mark van Bommel has urged international team-mate Arjen Robben, 28, to seriously consider leaving Bayern Munich in the summer, after he was booed by Munich fans during their team's friendly against the Dutch. The unsettled former Chelsea winger could attract interest from Manchester United and Liverpool.
Full story: the Metro
AC Milan plan to speak to Liverpool in June about on-loan midfielder Alberto Aquilani. The Italian international, 27, has failed to play 25 full games for the Rossoneri, the figure that would have triggered an instant buy-out clause from the Reds.
Full story: insideFUTBOL
Manchester United are considering a move for Ezequiel Lavezzi, Napoli's Argentine forward. The 27-year-old has a ?ú25m buy-out clause in his contract.
Full story: Journal of Naples
Bolton are hopeful of tempting Arsenal teenager Ryo Miyaichi to spend another season at the Reebok as they bid to bounce straight back to the Premier League. The Gunners midfielder, 19, has an impressive season despite the Trotters' doomed relegation scrap.
Full story: the Bolton News
OTHER GOSSIP
After suggesting he may walk away from Chelsea in the summer, Spanish striker Fernando Torres has received assurances from the club that he will be the main attacker at Stamford Bridge next season.
Full story: the Guardian
Former England boss Fabio Capello, who quit that role in February, is not on the Liverpool owners' shortlist to fill the vacant managerial post at Anfeld.
Chelsea striker Fernando Torres
Striker Fernando Torres has demanded of Chelsea: I want them to tell me what is going to happen."
Full story: Liverpool Echo
Emirates Marketing Project lost ?ú197m last season, the biggest single-year loss by a football club in history. The Premier League's 20 clubs collectively made a loss of ?ú361m last year, after spending all of their record ?ú2.3bn income.
Full story: the Guardian
Former Bolton playmaker Jay Jay Okocha says he feels his time spent at the club, helping to establish the Trotters as a top-flight team, has been wasted. "All our efforts have been thrown away. It feels like all that work was wasted," he says.
Full story: the Bolton News
AND FINALLY
England captain Steven Gerrard has admitted that in the past the national team might have thought too much of themselves. "Maybe in the last two or three tournaments, as a group of players, we've maybe thought we were better than we were," he said.
"Sometimes we thought we only had to turn up with England because we had a lot of top players. But we just haven't performed, we haven't clicked, we haven't gelled."
Full story: Daily Mirror
Saudi Sportswashing Machine will risk losing hot property striker Demba Ba, 26, this summer as they refuse to renegotiate the terms of his contract to remove a ?ú7m release clause.
Full story: Daily Telegraph
Chelsea have had a ?ú32.4m offer for exciting young Brazil midfielder Lucas Moura rejected according to Sao Paulo club president Juvenal Juvenico. "Lucas is a fantastic player with great qualities who is giving so much to the team," Juvenico said of the 19-year-old, capped 11 times by his country.
Saudi Sportswashing Machine striker Demba Ba
Demba Ba joined Saudi Sportswashing Machine in June 2011 after a stint at West Ham
Full story: Daily Mail
Manchester United are preparing a multi-million pound offer for sought-after Montpellier goalscorer Olivier Giroud. Sir Alex Ferguson wants to start negotiations with the Ligue 1 winners before Euro 2012, in case the 25-year-old's valuation soars afterwards.
Full story: caughtoffside.com
Emirates Marketing Project manager Roberto Mancini has dismissed speculation that the club are ready to offer strikers Carlos Tevez or Mario Balotelli as part of a deal to land 27-year-old AC Milan star Thiago Silva.
Full story: the Metro
Porto frontman Hulk, 25, wants to replace Didier Drogba as the spearhead of the Chelsea attack. Porto have demanded a minimum of ?ú38m for their talismanic striker, but Chelsea won't stretch far beyond ?ú30m.
Full story: Daily Express
Everton are already hunting a replacement for Leighton Baines, should the left-back head to Manchester United in the off-season. Manager David Moyes has identified French defender Aly Cissokho, 24, as a possible ?ú6m target.
Full story: talkSPORT
Holland captain Mark van Bommel has urged international team-mate Arjen Robben, 28, to seriously consider leaving Bayern Munich in the summer, after he was booed by Munich fans during their team's friendly against the Dutch. The unsettled former Chelsea winger could attract interest from Manchester United and Liverpool.
Full story: the Metro
AC Milan plan to speak to Liverpool in June about on-loan midfielder Alberto Aquilani. The Italian international, 27, has failed to play 25 full games for the Rossoneri, the figure that would have triggered an instant buy-out clause from the Reds.
Full story: insideFUTBOL
Manchester United are considering a move for Ezequiel Lavezzi, Napoli's Argentine forward. The 27-year-old has a ?ú25m buy-out clause in his contract.
Full story: Journal of Naples
Bolton are hopeful of tempting Arsenal teenager Ryo Miyaichi to spend another season at the Reebok as they bid to bounce straight back to the Premier League. The Gunners midfielder, 19, has an impressive season despite the Trotters' doomed relegation scrap.
Full story: the Bolton News
OTHER GOSSIP
After suggesting he may walk away from Chelsea in the summer, Spanish striker Fernando Torres has received assurances from the club that he will be the main attacker at Stamford Bridge next season.
Full story: the Guardian
Former England boss Fabio Capello, who quit that role in February, is not on the Liverpool owners' shortlist to fill the vacant managerial post at Anfeld.
Chelsea striker Fernando Torres
Striker Fernando Torres has demanded of Chelsea: I want them to tell me what is going to happen."
Full story: Liverpool Echo
Emirates Marketing Project lost ?ú197m last season, the biggest single-year loss by a football club in history. The Premier League's 20 clubs collectively made a loss of ?ú361m last year, after spending all of their record ?ú2.3bn income.
Full story: the Guardian
Former Bolton playmaker Jay Jay Okocha says he feels his time spent at the club, helping to establish the Trotters as a top-flight team, has been wasted. "All our efforts have been thrown away. It feels like all that work was wasted," he says.
Full story: the Bolton News
AND FINALLY
England captain Steven Gerrard has admitted that in the past the national team might have thought too much of themselves. "Maybe in the last two or three tournaments, as a group of players, we've maybe thought we were better than we were," he said.
"Sometimes we thought we only had to turn up with England because we had a lot of top players. But we just haven't performed, we haven't clicked, we haven't gelled."
Full story: Daily Mirror
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Serge Aurier
I'd take both. Would be good squad players if not first teamers at some stages of the season.
superspurs
Justin Edinburgh
Same here, sign the lad up, looks an utter beast and great on FM too.... So ticks all the boxes!
Mumorn
Vic Buckingham
Employing Luka Modric must be on a par with going out with Kelly Brook (other fit actresses/models are available).
To be fair, even high-profile beauties can't be as high maintenance as Modric is turning out to be for Tottenham.
Every summer, the same old thing: 'I have to leave for something better.'
The time has surely come now for Tottenham to cut their losses and say enough.
There is no statement to be made by keeping a player whose first instinct at the end of the season is to bolt for the exit door.
Most Spurs fans get it with Modric. He is 26, he knows big(ger) clubs are in for him and he is only doing what most of us would do if the opportunity to improve our pay and working conditions presented itself to us.
Although Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy kept him at the club last summer, there has been no improvement in the Croatian's wages, which are said to be around ?ú40,000-a-week.
Luka Modric celebrates scoring for Tottenham with Gareth Bale
Modric knows he could treble - maybe even quadruple that at a club like Chelsea, Emirates Marketing Project, Manchester United or Real Madrid.
At all four clubs he would be playing alongside better players and he'd also have a chance of competing - at the very least - at the business end of a title race or the Champions League
All of which is the reason why resistance is now futile for Levy. This is Modric's big chance to move and he is going to take it. Yes, it will take a huge offer - probably in the region of ?ú40m to ?ú50m to prise him away but if an offer comes in that falls short of that valuation is the Spurs chairman really going to spend all summer haggling over it?
What Spurs don't want is to allow the negativity around Modric to run into next season.
After Everton spent their summer holidays fighting off Emirates Marketing Project (unsuccessfully) for Joleon Lescott in 2009 they went on to win just three out of their first 18 games of the subsequent campaign.
Last summer Arsene Wenger refused to accept Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas were on their way to Emirates Marketing Project and Barcelona respectively. Arsenal went on to suffer their worst start to a season in 58 years.
Spurs are currently poised to land, in 25-year-old Belgian Jan Vertonghen, a player so good that it will leave fans of rivals Arsenal scratching their heads as to why they didn't get him.
Loic Remy: wants a move to the Lane
Getty
Highly-rated striker Loic Remy has indicated he is not bothered about a lack of Champions League football and still wants to move to White Hart Lane.
Why allow the negativity around Modric to overshadow what looks set to be a double transfer coup?
Last summer I wrote this.
And my point still stands. Modric can't fly. He can't leap tall buildings in a single bound. He can't see through walls and he doesn't get you 20 goals in a season like a Scholes or a Lampard.
He is clearly a very good player. But it doesn't matter how good you are. If you are not committed to the club and you'd rather be someone else then you are a passenger and if Spurs want to get back into the Champions League then passengers are not what they need.
The number of exceptional games Modric has had this season has been in single figures. He may well go to a City, United, a Chelsea or Modric and suddenly be out of this world.
Luka Modric: not Superman
Let him do it. Spurs have sold big players before and survived. Liverpool sold Michael Owen and went on to win the European Cup while he caught splinters in his backside at Real Madrid.
Arsenal have surrendered big players, huge players, almost every other season since Arsene Wenger arrived. And yet they haven't failed to qualify for the Champions League yet.
Manchester United sold Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid three years ago. They have since won one title and narrowly missed out on another on goal difference.
Yes, you could argue Ronaldo's goals might have made that difference but the fact is, United have survived.
Big clubs survive losing big players. Those players, however, don't necessarily go on to bigger things. Ask Dimitar Berbatov at United.
Ask Fernando Torres at Chelsea. Ask even David Bentley at Spurs.
That's not to say you wouldn't wish Modric well if he were to get his big move. But most Spurs fans must surely be sick to the back teeth of it all and wish him gone.
The fact that Remy and Vergtonghen are keen to join and that Gareth Bale does not have the appetite to agitate for a move bodes well for Spurs fans.
Their top four Premier League finish is evidence that they are continuing to progress, even though that position was not enough to make it into the Champions League this season.
With the money they pull in for Luka Modric, they can go to another level.
They just need to get rid of the dead wood first.
To be fair, even high-profile beauties can't be as high maintenance as Modric is turning out to be for Tottenham.
Every summer, the same old thing: 'I have to leave for something better.'
The time has surely come now for Tottenham to cut their losses and say enough.
There is no statement to be made by keeping a player whose first instinct at the end of the season is to bolt for the exit door.
Most Spurs fans get it with Modric. He is 26, he knows big(ger) clubs are in for him and he is only doing what most of us would do if the opportunity to improve our pay and working conditions presented itself to us.
Although Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy kept him at the club last summer, there has been no improvement in the Croatian's wages, which are said to be around ?ú40,000-a-week.
Luka Modric celebrates scoring for Tottenham with Gareth Bale
Modric knows he could treble - maybe even quadruple that at a club like Chelsea, Emirates Marketing Project, Manchester United or Real Madrid.
At all four clubs he would be playing alongside better players and he'd also have a chance of competing - at the very least - at the business end of a title race or the Champions League
All of which is the reason why resistance is now futile for Levy. This is Modric's big chance to move and he is going to take it. Yes, it will take a huge offer - probably in the region of ?ú40m to ?ú50m to prise him away but if an offer comes in that falls short of that valuation is the Spurs chairman really going to spend all summer haggling over it?
What Spurs don't want is to allow the negativity around Modric to run into next season.
After Everton spent their summer holidays fighting off Emirates Marketing Project (unsuccessfully) for Joleon Lescott in 2009 they went on to win just three out of their first 18 games of the subsequent campaign.
Last summer Arsene Wenger refused to accept Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas were on their way to Emirates Marketing Project and Barcelona respectively. Arsenal went on to suffer their worst start to a season in 58 years.
Spurs are currently poised to land, in 25-year-old Belgian Jan Vertonghen, a player so good that it will leave fans of rivals Arsenal scratching their heads as to why they didn't get him.
Loic Remy: wants a move to the Lane
Getty
Highly-rated striker Loic Remy has indicated he is not bothered about a lack of Champions League football and still wants to move to White Hart Lane.
Why allow the negativity around Modric to overshadow what looks set to be a double transfer coup?
Last summer I wrote this.
And my point still stands. Modric can't fly. He can't leap tall buildings in a single bound. He can't see through walls and he doesn't get you 20 goals in a season like a Scholes or a Lampard.
He is clearly a very good player. But it doesn't matter how good you are. If you are not committed to the club and you'd rather be someone else then you are a passenger and if Spurs want to get back into the Champions League then passengers are not what they need.
The number of exceptional games Modric has had this season has been in single figures. He may well go to a City, United, a Chelsea or Modric and suddenly be out of this world.
Luka Modric: not Superman
Let him do it. Spurs have sold big players before and survived. Liverpool sold Michael Owen and went on to win the European Cup while he caught splinters in his backside at Real Madrid.
Arsenal have surrendered big players, huge players, almost every other season since Arsene Wenger arrived. And yet they haven't failed to qualify for the Champions League yet.
Manchester United sold Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid three years ago. They have since won one title and narrowly missed out on another on goal difference.
Yes, you could argue Ronaldo's goals might have made that difference but the fact is, United have survived.
Big clubs survive losing big players. Those players, however, don't necessarily go on to bigger things. Ask Dimitar Berbatov at United.
Ask Fernando Torres at Chelsea. Ask even David Bentley at Spurs.
That's not to say you wouldn't wish Modric well if he were to get his big move. But most Spurs fans must surely be sick to the back teeth of it all and wish him gone.
The fact that Remy and Vergtonghen are keen to join and that Gareth Bale does not have the appetite to agitate for a move bodes well for Spurs fans.
Their top four Premier League finish is evidence that they are continuing to progress, even though that position was not enough to make it into the Champions League this season.
With the money they pull in for Luka Modric, they can go to another level.
They just need to get rid of the dead wood first.
Kalou might score a few goals here and there but he more than often always makes the wrong choice on the field, frustrating player. Bosingwa with Walker and Naughton would not be first choice, can't imagine he'd be happy with that. Neither would be cheap even though they are free agents.
No, thanks.
stinkfoot
Eidur Gudjohnsen
That's unreal! So City are responsible for 54.57% of the total loss in the whole league.
paxtonwolf
Tony Marchi
That's unreal! So City are responsible for 54.57% of the total loss in the whole league.
Its' ok. Apparantly they are doing it the right way
edgey-the-yid
Gheorge Popescu
@georgebann My sources have confirmed the Vert deal to be concluded by end of the weekend ! #skysportsmark -- Mark Klendjian MBE (@2drivemark)
#skysportsmark #thfc are considering a double swoop for #Blackpoolfc Thomas Ince and Matt Phillips #2forthefuture -- Mark Klendjian MBE (@2drivemark)
#skysportsmark #thfc are considering a double swoop for #Blackpoolfc Thomas Ince and Matt Phillips #2forthefuture -- Mark Klendjian MBE (@2drivemark)
edgey-the-yid
Gheorge Popescu
Yeah Ince also had a great game in the Playoff final and was bound to attract prem attention
All city fans can respond with regarding this is 'the media are against us it's a conspiracy blah blah'