Transfer Talk/Gossip/Rumour Thread - Summer 2014 - Mod note in OP

Lucas Hood · 25-06-2014 04:27PM

Still a good signing for €15m.

Paully D · 25-06-2014 05:10PM

Jake Livermore has signed for Hull for a "club record fee", thought to be about £8m according to the BBC.

A ridiculous fee. How they seem to have escaped any criticism for it thus far is strange.

Lucas Hood · 25-06-2014 05:22PM

Liam Ridgwell signs for Portland Timber.

Nuri Sahin · 25-06-2014 06:46PM

According to Ramano, Fernando has joined Man City from Porto for... €15M

Paully D · 25-06-2014 08:05PM

Paully D wrote: »

Jake Livermore has signed for Hull for a "club record fee", thought to be about £8m according to the BBC.

A ridiculous fee. How they seem to have escaped any criticism for it thus far is strange.

They've now reportedly had an £8m bid for Robert Snodgrass accepted from Norwich. **** me :pac: Snodgrass and Livermore for £16m.

Mr.Prodston · 25-06-2014 08:23PM

Paully D wrote: »

They've now reportedly had an £8m bid for Robert Snodgrass accepted from Norwich. **** me :pac: Snodgrass and Livermore for £16m.

I thought Livermore did very well for them last year, and he's young enough still. I mean for Hull he's great player to have around. 8 is only slightly over the odds.

Snodgrass well he's very good when he's good and when he's not well yeah you can see where I'm going :pac: I like him though and I actually don't think it's too bad a bit of business for the pair. He'd be similar to Robbie Brady I guess so I wonder what that means for him?

26-06-2014 09:49AM

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

I don't work on guesswork on players I've watched.

Without the comparison to Lallana, I was saying the same thing about Herrera last summer too, perhaps I posted it on Boards, I certainly did elsewhere and I have Man U mates of mine who can back me up on that. Nice player, will add to the team, but not worth anywhere near the fee mentioned (12 months ago it was between 25-30M if I'm not mistaken). I've been nothing but consistent on the player. Different type of player, but had it been William Carvalho Man U signed instead, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.

All I did was merely compare styles and fees as a fan of football, entirely without an agenda as not many people have really have taken notice of him. You then decided to be miffed off for the sake of it and take it personally like it was some a dig at Herrera.

As for me trying to justify Lallana's purchase.. Did Liverpool sign him when I was asleep (EST over here)? I hope not, unless it's for 15M, even then I'd probably still edge towards scouring elsewhere, but that's just me. Even if I can understand why Liverpool (Rodgers) wants/wanted to sign him and I like him as a player. I wouldn't break the bank for Lallana when there is better, younger, more proven talent out there. Once again, 15M if the correct fee for Lallana with possibly add-ons taking it to 20M at a push (like Herrera!), I've said as much on Lallana numerous times in the Liverpool thread that the club had it spot on with their initial bid of 15M.

Same applies for Herrera, a player I've never wished Liverpool to sign whatsoever in fact and boy have I mentioned a fair amount of players I'd LOVE the club to sign.

So despite expanding on my thoughts which I expect to go amiss, I'll quote yesterday's post to keep you happy:

Correction there ^^

I said ' the potential Liverpool purchase of Lallana '

Try read the post clearly next time.

JPA · 26-06-2014 10:33AM

Paully D wrote: »

They've now reportedly had an £8m bid for Robert Snodgrass accepted from Norwich. **** me :pac: Snodgrass and Livermore for £16m.

Some craziness right there.

razorblunt · 26-06-2014 11:32AM

Paully D wrote: »

Jake Livermore has signed for Hull for a "club record fee", thought to be about £8m according to the BBC.

A ridiculous fee. How they seem to have escaped any criticism for it thus far is strange.

Shrewd by Levy, Hull talked themselves into the situation of badly needing him which probably inflated his price north.

barone · 26-06-2014 04:55PM

utd sign herrera

Nuri Sahin · 26-06-2014 05:00PM

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Correction there ^^

I said ' the potential Liverpool purchase of Lallana '

Try read the post clearly next time.

So that's your only response to my somewhat lengthy post? Unsurprising.

Paully D · 26-06-2014 05:16PM

@SkySports_Keith
Robert Snodgrass currently having a medical at Hull City after Norwich accepted a bid that we understand to be £7m for the Scotland winger.

26-06-2014 05:26PM

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

So that's your only response to my somewhat lengthy post? Unsurprising.

Nope not my only response so apologies for not responding to that. Fair point.

To note: I don't work on guesswork on players I've watched either. I have been watching him since Moyes had him scouted and I rate him.

Think we can park it there.

ctrl-alt-delete · 26-06-2014 05:47PM

Paully D wrote: »

@SkySports_Keith
Robert Snodgrass currently having a medical at Hull City after Norwich accepted a bid that we understand to be £7m for the Scotland winger.

Hull spending big again.

Paully D · 26-06-2014 06:20PM

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Hull spending big again.

Yep, but it's barely recognised for some reason.

I'm going off topic a bit now, but Bruce also appeared in many Manger of the Year shortlists last season too. I found that strange considering they smashed their transfer record twice, spent over £25m and only finished 16th, just 4 points off relegation. I guess a lot of it is down to getting to the cup final, but I think their run to same was the easiest in recent memory.

With Europe to come this season, if they get through to the group stages of that then they could be in for a long campaign.

MD1990 · 26-06-2014 06:31PM

So Utd have spent
27m - Fellaini
37m - Mata
29m - Herrara
30m approx - Shaw
Put Rooney on 300k & given Nani & Valencia new contracts.

123m on those players in madness imo. They better hope they make the CL.

Rayne Wooney · 26-06-2014 06:35PM

There's probably another 50-100 million going to be spent this summer

MD1990 · 26-06-2014 07:05PM

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

There's probably another 50-100 million going to be spent this summer

i doubt it. They'll need to find teams willing to pay for Young,Nani, Cleverly & Fellaini. Valencia signing a new deal was strange too. Looks like Man Utd won't be signing many attacking players.

26-06-2014 07:08PM

Paully D wrote: »

Yep, but it's barely recognised for some reason.

I'm going off topic a bit now, but Bruce also appeared in many Manger of the Year shortlists last season too. I found that strange considering they smashed their transfer record twice, spent over £25m and only finished 16th, just 4 points off relegation. I guess a lot of it is down to getting to the cup final, but I think their run to same was the easiest in recent memory.

With Europe to come this season, if they get through to the group stages of that then they could be in for a long campaign.

They were safe with about 10 games to go, their form dropped in the run in but any team outside the top 8 who are safe that early and get to a cup final will be delighted with their season.

Professional Griefer · 26-06-2014 07:09PM

MD1990 wrote: »

i doubt it. They'll need to find teams willing to pay for Young,Nani, Cleverly & Fellaini. Valencia signing a new deal was strange too. Looks like Man Utd won't be signing many attacking players.

Please tell us more, we're dying to find out whats happening at the club!!

Paully D · 26-06-2014 07:22PM

AdamD wrote: »

They were safe with about 10 games to go, their form dropped in the run in but any team outside the top 8 who are safe that early and get to a cup final will be delighted with their season.

They weren't actually mathematically safe until gameweek 36.

They went on a run of 1 win in 8 to end the season (including 6 defeats) which had them still in with a chance of going down until the beginning of May. They won a whopping total of 4 games in the Premier League between January 1st and the last day of the season, which was the 2nd worst run of form during the second half of the league at 0.74 points per game, behind only Cardiff.

mike65 · 27-06-2014 11:31AM

http://www.juvefc.com/juve-edge-closer-to-signing-juan-iturbe/

Iturbe to Juve looks like happening, hope so as they have been strongly linked with Alexis Sanchez

Lukker- · 27-06-2014 11:34AM

Paully D wrote: »

They weren't actually mathematically safe until gameweek 36.

They went on a run of 1 win in 8 to end the season (including 6 defeats) which had them still in with a chance of going down until the beginning of May. They won a whopping total of 4 games in the Premier League between January 1st and the last day of the season, which was the 2nd worst run of form during the second half of the league at 0.74 points per game, behind only Cardiff.

They had the cup run distracting them. Their league form was pretty terrible when they went on that. They never really looked like going down though IMO.