Summer 2015 Transfer Window General Discussion

inforfun · 27-07-2015 10:56AM

I knew he hadnt played much for Barca in those 4,5 years.
31 appearances of which 16 in the first half season he was there.
Knee injury didnt help of course but didnt set the world on fire during his loan spells at Schalke and Olympiakos either.

And how the **** he got back in the Dutch squad only Hiddink knows.

CSF · 27-07-2015 12:08PM

ASOT wrote: »

Stokelona building a really decent squad.

Are they? When was Affelay last good?

LuckyLloyd · 27-07-2015 12:12PM

CSF wrote: »

Are they? When was Affelay last good?

Yeah, I think these players are at Stoke appropriately. But regular football and the relatively lower expectations may work for them all and allow them to click together.

Talib Fiasco · 27-07-2015 12:13PM

Afellay looked phenomenal when he was younger but injuries have ruined his career completely, he's pure glass. Moving to Barcelona didn't help either, completely wrong move especially for a winger. Hard to believe he's 29 now. Very decent signing for Stoke if they can keep him injury free.

CSF · 27-07-2015 12:17PM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Yeah, I think these players are at Stoke appropriately. But regular football and the relatively lower expectations may work for them all and allow them to click together.

I don't really see it in Stoke's squad in any case. They did well last season but are nothing special and could easily go the other way this season. Affelay is not the most inspiring signing there's been this summer by any stretch. I'd expect 9th-13th from them as usual.

ben.schlomo · 27-07-2015 12:18PM

At 29 and having had the injuries he has had then its difficult to see him doing much in a physical English league, if he gets going hes a decent shout for them though.

Francie Barrett · 27-07-2015 12:27PM

We were linked to Afellay quite often a few years back. In hindsight, it looks like we dodged a bullet. Could very well do a job for Stoke though.

Paully D · 27-07-2015 12:58PM

Given Hughes' superb record in the (free) low to mid price market, it'd be hard to back against Afellay ending up a successful signing.

inforfun · 27-07-2015 01:29PM

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

Afellay looked phenomenal when he was younger but injuries have ruined his career completely, he's pure glass. Moving to Barcelona didn't help either, completely wrong move especially for a winger. Hard to believe he's 29 now. Very decent signing for Stoke if they can keep him injury free.

Only had 1 serious injury, the knee that took way too long to get ok again.

He did look great at PSV where he played in midfield.
Only ended up on the wing for the Dutch national team but he isnt a winger. Dont think Barca bought him (payed 5 million while he was out of contract 6 months later) to play him on the wings.

Selling him did cost PSV the league title that year. That 5 million wasnt such smart business in the end.

Bounty Hunter · 27-07-2015 03:03PM

Finally confirmed, Villa sign Jordan Ayew for what is believed to be 9m

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4891745,00.html

klose · 27-07-2015 03:26PM

Watford confirming their tenth signing of the summer and theres already over a month left in the window, theyll be pretty much a team of strangers come september. Interesting to see how that goes.

Cookiemunster · 27-07-2015 03:30PM

klose wrote: »

Watford confirming their tenth signing of the summer and theres already over a month left in the window, theyll be pretty much a team of strangers come september. Interesting to see how that goes.

Apparently that brings them up to 22 non homegrown players. There's going to have to be a bit of a clear out pretty soon.

LuckyLloyd · 27-07-2015 05:16PM

klose wrote: »

Watford confirming their tenth signing of the summer and theres already over a month left in the window, theyll be pretty much a team of strangers come september. Interesting to see how that goes.

Relegation, that's how it will go.

Corholio · 27-07-2015 05:18PM

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Apparently that brings them up to 22 non homegrown players. There's going to have to be a bit of a clear out pretty soon.

In fairness they might as well try it that way, Burnley signed hardly no one, because of financual constraints, tried to use the team ethic and still got relegated. It can go well or go terrible really.

SantryRed · 27-07-2015 08:52PM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Relegation, that's how it will go.

Paully D · 27-07-2015 09:12PM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Relegation, that's how it will go.

Yep. Doing their best QPR impression it appears.

ShoulderChip · 27-07-2015 09:34PM

Francie Barrett wrote: »

We were linked to Afellay quite often a few years back. In hindsight, it looks like we dodged a bullet. Could very well do a job for Stoke though.

who the hell is 'we'?

Gavlor · 27-07-2015 09:57PM

ShoulderChip wrote: »

who the hell is 'we'?

Boxers from the travelling community obviously.

Nice username by the way, you'll fit in well here!

Buford T. Justice XIX · 27-07-2015 10:15PM

ShoulderChip wrote: »

who the hell is 'we'?

'We' is Liverpool;)

27-07-2015 10:18PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

'We' is Liverpool;)

Tra La La La La

Harry Palmr · 27-07-2015 10:41PM

At the rate of attrition Spurs will have sold/loaned all their "Bale bounty" transfers by Sept 1st!

29/08/13 C. Eriksen Ajax € 12M
29/08/13 E. Lamela Roma € 30M loan to Porto with option to buy mooted this evening
29/08/13 V. Chiricheş Steaua € 8.5M Napoli deal being talked of
14/08/13 E. Capoue Toulouse € 11M SOLD
04/08/13 Soldado Valencia € 30M
25/07/13 N. Chadli Twente € 6.5M
05/07/13 Paulinho Corinthians € 20M SOLD

garra · 27-07-2015 10:51PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

At the rate of attrition Spurs will have sold/loaned all their "Bale bounty" transfers by Sept 1st!

29/08/13 C. Eriksen Ajax € 12M
29/08/13 E. Lamela Roma € 30M loan to Porto with option to buy mooted this evening
29/08/13 V. Chiricheş Steaua € 8.5M Napoli deal being talked of
14/08/13 E. Capoue Toulouse € 11M SOLD
04/08/13 Soldado Valencia € 30M
25/07/13 N. Chadli Twente € 6.5M
05/07/13 Paulinho Corinthians € 20M SOLD

Of the Suarez money, Liverpool look like selling Lambert & Balotelli.. meanwhile Lovren, Markovic and Llama (approx stg67m worth of talent) look more like average squad players than anything special tbh

EuropeanSon · 27-07-2015 10:57PM

garra wrote: »

Of the Suarez money, Liverpool look like selling Lambert & Balotelli.. meanwhile Lovren, Markovic and Llama (approx stg67m worth of talent) look more like average squad players than anything special tbh

Very defensive there.

Both clubs blew their money, one wasting their money on poor players doesn't excuse the other one being equally wasteful.

Oat23 · 27-07-2015 11:23PM

I remember when Levy used to be a god around here and twitter. Then he went and spent £100m on sh*te and never recovered his reputation.

Yer man at United seems to be the 2015 version of Daniel Levy from what I've seen. Everyone is talking about the wonderful job a man with an infinite budget is doing.

Harry Palmr · 27-07-2015 11:25PM

Ed Woodward, is in the happy position of not needing to be the equaliser of the Utd books.

/I'll get me coat.

MightyMandarin · 28-07-2015 12:05AM

Woodward has the easiest job of all CEO's in the PL with a seemingly bottomless pit of money at his disposal. He's bought good players, but United haven't bought any bargains in the past 2 years, and a lot of the players he bought last summer still have to prove their worth (Blind, Shaw, Rojo for example). Di Maria is also a big blackspot on his reputation.

MightyMandarin · 28-07-2015 12:06AM

garra wrote: »

Of the Suarez money, Liverpool look like selling Lambert & Balotelli.. meanwhile Lovren, Markovic and Llama (approx stg67m worth of talent) look more like average squad players than anything special tbh

Wait, which one are we talking about here?
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28-07-2015 12:09AM

MightyMandarin wrote: »

Woodward has the easiest job of all CEO's in the PL with a seemingly bottomless pit of money at his disposal. He's bought good players, but United haven't bought any bargains in the past 2 years, and a lot of the players he bought last summer still have to prove their worth (Blind, Shaw, Rojo for example). Di Maria is also a big blackspot on his reputation.

there are several teams in the premier league that seemingly have a bottomless pit of money at there disposal.

MightyMandarin · 28-07-2015 12:15AM

Gabriela Some Phlegm wrote: »

there are several teams in the premier league that seemingly have a bottomless pit of money at there disposal.

In the past 2 years, no. Chelsea have reigned in their net spend a lot and City haven't spent a whole lot by their standards. United are doing now what Chelsea did in 2004/2005, and what City did before.

28-07-2015 12:22AM

MightyMandarin wrote: »

In the past 2 years, no. Chelsea have reigned in their net spend a lot and City haven't spent a whole lot by their standards. United are doing now what Chelsea did in 2004/2005, and what City did before.

does it matter if they didn't spend it in the last 2 years if those players are still on the team?

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