Deadline Day: Bring Out The Transfer Gimp!

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"Chelsea considering cheeky £50 million bid for Andy Carroll"

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Al Jazira sign Sao Paulo star Fernandinho.

All you Al Jazira fans must be ecstatic!

Seaneh wrote: »

He's 31 in november so it's kinda steap, still impossible for Milan to replace him.

Could get Berbatov as a replacement for anything between £5M - £10M.

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I think his point stands!

Wasn't trying to dismiss his point.

Just putting forward a suggestion of a quality player who can be got on the cheap at the moment. Wages wouldn't be terribly high either.

DenMan wrote: »

Management related: Roy Keane would be interested in taking charge of Nottingham Forest if approached.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/soccer/agent-roy-would-be-interested-in-forest-post-559541.html

Please let it happen :pac:

MIlan have wiped close to 80 million off their wage bill this summer, coupled with the cash from ibra and thiago and the other sales they have/are making they will be in a much more healthy position going forward.

They were willing to let robinho go back to santos but wanted 10 and they only offered 4 and a keeper. The brazilian transfer window closes on the 20th so not sure if there will be time for another round of negotiations.

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

To be honest, the size of the clearout there is staggering - Milan will be a completely different entity this year.

A mess of their own making in ways; they just by and large let the squad age and when they did buy it was the likes of Van Bommel who wasn't exactly a new kid on the block at the time.

Tbh its a fantastic opportunity for Milan to completely rebuild the squad and set themselves up for the next few years; if they continue their successful raids on Serie A in Brazil and hoover up the young indigenous talent they'll be well placed domestically at least in the next decade or so.

Having said that, and I think its been mentioned, it is somewhat galling to see a club like Milan being raided for talent like that.

Seems like there's nothing for it these days but to become some Billionaires plaything if you wish to compete.

To keep this somewhat on topic; Carlos Vela is on the brink of joining Real Sociedad for circa £5m. Pity, thought he was going to be a big player for Arsenal initially, the club spent a huge amount of time on him re loans and permits.

GavRedKing wrote: »

PSG & Ibra will be laughing to a title this year. With the team there assembling they could go deep in the UCL also.

Disagree with this; CL is a curious beast, you can't really throw together a lot of expensive footballers and it just works - look at City last year. I'd be surprised if PSG get further than the round of 16.

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

To be honest, the size of the clearout there is staggering - Milan will be a completely different entity this year.

They had to do it though. Wage growth was far outstripping revenue growth, so it was only a matter of time until the whole deck of cards came down. It's better for Milan to take the reigns themselves now, rather than wait for the administrators to do it from Serie C/1 or where ever they would have ended up. Honestly though, I think Milan will be better for it. Ibra is obviously irreplaceable, Thiago Silva too. But the rest of the players (Van Bommel, Gattuso, Seedorf, Nesta, Zambrotta, etc.) were not justifying the money they were getting paid.

Seaneh wrote: »

Bit of massive step down in quality in fairness.

He's no where near good enough.

In fairness how many players could hold a candle to Ibra?

I reckon Serie A would suit Berbatov down to the ground in fact, I'd be willing to bet he'd eat it up there with the right service 20+ goals easily.