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Do Liverpool ban their scouts from travelling overseas or something?

Cabaye getting linked with West Ham and Palace. Surely Liverpool, SPurs, etc would be interested?

Firmino to Man Utd in a 13m deal is doing the rounds.

Bloody good price, I'd hope we're all over that if true.

Qwiss! wrote:

Cabaye getting linked with West Ham and Palace. Surely Liverpool, SPurs, etc would be interested?

Both desperately need a player like him in midfield. A midfielder who actually has intelligence to his game and who can help control things. 

If West Ham sign him and Bilic does well they could actually finish above one of those, especially Liverpool.

Sky sources understand Micah Richards is in advanced talks with Aston Villa over a move to Villa Park but he hasn't, as newspapers suggest, signed.

Nothing at all credible about Firmino to United bar a claim from a random brazilian journalist.

Sky germany only says that he will leave in a definitive sort of way but fee is much more than 13m.

Don't see United buying a new winger unless they offload a few. Young, Di Maria, Mata all play on the wing under Van Gaal and now Depay will too. They further have Valencia who did play RB also but would play at RM once they buy another specialist RB to supplement Rafael. Further potential wide players that could leave are Nani and Januzaj.

Sky germany: Roberto Firmino leaves the TSG in the summer. Destination unknown. The transfer fee was 30 million euros. #ssnhd

BREAKING: Sky sources: Manchester Utd interested in signing Tottenham's Harry Kane. #SSNHQ

:opti: :egg: 😆
PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN!

I would love to make our signings early like Liverpool. 3 players in June...that's great. But my god those are some shit/average players. Maybe they are saving up for something big later.

Sevilla have rejected a £9m bid from Southampton for Polish midfielder Grzegorz Krychowiak, according to ABC Sevilla.

I'd rather wait and sign the likes of Özil in the final seconds that secure the services of Llalana, Lambert, Ings in June.

If they replace Yaya, Nasri and Navas with Pogba, Sterling and De Bruyne ...

HomeSteak wrote:

I would love to make our signings early like Liverpool. 3 players in June...that's great. But my god those are some shit/average players. Maybe they are saving up for something big later.

Sevilla have rejected a £9m bid from Southampton for Polish midfielder Grzegorz Krychowiak, according to ABC Sevilla.

Liverpool spunked their Suarez warchest on mediocre players and have no CL football. The Milner tier is the highest they can go. You should not worry about them in the slighetst.

Krychowiak would be a very strong by from Southampton.,

I like Firminho. He is primarily a number 10 though, even if he can also play on either flank and at point. Has had two strong seasons in a row now, numbers wise, but I haven't actually seen a single game he has played this season.

Rucks wrote:

I like Firminho. He is primarily a number 10 though, even if he can also play on either flank and at point. Has had two strong seasons in a row now, numbers wise, but I haven't actually seen a single game he has played this season.

He interests me too. I think he can do a great job as our striker, which is a position he is playing for Brazil now.

City would beast it with this midfield and attack

-----------Aguero
Silva---Pogba--Sterling
-----Fernando-Yaya

Porto's president just confirmed Jackson Martinez will move to Milan after they activated his release clause of 35m euros.

Damn. Milan got cash.
One less striker for Arsenal fans to worry about.

Think he will be good for Milan, they look like they want to invest serious money in the team which is what they need. Rumours of Kongdobia and Ibra as well.

39m for a 28 and 3/4 year old player from the Portuguese league?

Well he is pretty much 29 if you go by Twitter!

Milan are in a dire situation, they can't be fussy with who they go for. As long as they can create the chances he will finish them.

Oh man, that age discussion was absolutely legendary today. Even made the Washington Post 😆

Jackson is the best a crap Milan side can do. We can do better.

Wonder if Citeh, ManU & CFC spend on BIG players if AW will respond?

Yeah of course Anzac, haven't you heard?
Apparently Ozil and Sanchez weren't one off opportunistic captures, AW has identified his targets and is going out to get them and will match City Chelsea and Utd pound for pound.

marv3llous wrote:

Oh man, that age discussion was absolutely legendary today. Even made the Washington Post 😆

Bah, they should come here if they want to see people arguing and dissecting minutiae.
The greatest minds of the middle ages who spent their lives debating how many angels could fit on the head of a pin would feel right at home here.

He was in Zone 14 and 3/4s, thats basically zone 15!!

Biggus wrote:
marv3llous wrote:

Oh man, that age discussion was absolutely legendary today. Even made the Washington Post 😆

Bah, they should come here if they want to see people arguing and dissecting minutiae.
The greatest minds of the middle ages who spent their lives debating how many angels could fit on the head of a pin would feel right at home here.

Think that might be underestimating the size of the yawning gap between the greatest minds of the middle ages and the minds of us Tolly people 🙂.
The Dunning-Kruger effect.

I wasn't comparing William of Ockam's rule: the unverifiable must not be multiplied unnecessarily (or the simplest explanation is probably right) to Y va Marquer's dictum: I'm tired I'm sick of this shit I'm out of here, but the processes are similar.

Ooooh getting touchy Biggus 😆
"I , vamork's dictum" would probably sound better.

Like the sound of that. 🙂

Borussia Dortmund have signed Swiss goalkeeper Roman Bürki (24) from SC Freiburg