I remember his awesome header :y:

Just to wrap up the transfers so far

Owen to Newcastle
Jenas and Lee-Young Pyo to Tottenham
Reto Ziegler to Hamburg and Erik Edman apparently to Rennes
Reiziger to PSV and Joseph Desire-Job to Al Ittihad
Khizanishvili from Rangers to Blackburn
David Connolly to Wigan

Simao to Liverpool, Poom to Arsenal and apparently Robbie Keane to Everton are likely by the end of the day

All of this is now confirmed

Oh and if your after foreign tranfsers, I know that Miccoli and Karagounis have signed for Benfica

Fuck sake

Benfica have refused to sell Simao. So we make an offer, they accept it, he travels over here to have a medical, then they decide not to sell him. WANKERS.

Why the hell does Doink think Rooney's gone to Newcastle?

Is this something that everyone else seems to have missed?

No its more of a very bad joke which everyone has chosen to ignore

Some confusing shit with the Simao deal

http://skysports.planetfootball.com/...sp?hlid=303054

Apparently he's passed a medical and terms are agreed, we agreed a fee, Benfica accepted, then changed their minds, but there is still a chance.

Only Sky Sports News have said its dead in the water....so maybe still a chance

Francis Jeffers is in talks with Rangers. Damn that's desparate!

David Bentley has gone to Blackburn on loan.

Apparently the Fabrice Fernandes move to Bolton is back on as is Nobby Solano's move to Newcastle.

Reiziger has joined PSV, get in!

Simao ain't coming, Bonera probably won't

With the exception of Alonso, Benitez has been utter wank in the transfer market.

He left things too late.
Now we're goign to struggle at the back and we need a new lease up front.
Shame on him for thinking Sinama Pongolle can get the job. i always think you need 4 quality strikers and we have...well it's debatable.

Bolton haven't pulled out, there was a period where it didnt look like the deal wasnt going to go through, but according to the bolton evening news, its a done deal

SOLANOOOOOOOOOO ON HIS MOTHERFUCKING WAY.

Michael Ball has left Rangers for PSV and Maurice Ross has gone to Sheffield Wednesday.

DIAO'S GONE

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Actually, I should say "to Portsmouth on a year long loan"

I'm quite surprised nobody has made an offer for Nigel Quashie.

They'd get £2 mill on him now. Jesus, Leicester just got that for David Connelly!

It's official that Solano is back at Newcastle. James Milner went to Villa on 1 year loan.

You dickhead.

Solano is far, far, far better than Dyer on the right. 3rd highest assists in the Prem of all time should tell you something. Dyer's simply overrated.

Jenas is a highly average player, and I have no doubt that Newcastle practically ripped Spurs' hand off when they offered that much.

Your defence in general is pretty shit. You also have a lot of pretty boys now who will all get pissy under Souness - I guarantee you won't make Top 8. Your squad will be tearing eachother apart within two months.

Rasiak to Spurs....now I certainly didn't see that one coming

Fucking hell, they must have the biggest squad in the league....including Chelsea.

Sounds like someone's a bit bitter about losing Solano :(

Newcastle should make the top 8 no problem on paper and I think we will. Just depends how Souness manages them all.

And yeah that Rasiak deal came out of nowhere. Poor Derby - not going to come up now I think :(

In many ways it's a great deal for us. O'Leary stuck to his guns on the price which Shepherd said he wouldn't pay and he got it, £1.5 million for a 30+ player who would be off on a free in 11 months.

And we get Milner for a year - no doubt O'Leary will stroke him and tell him this is where he belongs. He'll grow into a good player and we'll sign him at the end of the season. Or he could do a Carlton Cole.

hahahaha have it Derby.

Pretty gutted about Connolly going because he was our only real goalscorer but it's a tidy profit and hopefully they stay up so we get the extra million, apparantely it was going to be rejected but Connolly himself asked to go and can't deny him a crack at the premiership.

We've made Elvis Hammond's loan deal permanent and signed Iain Hume, who's also pretty highly rated, though neither are prolific. Ah well, have to see how it goes.

West Brom signed Curtis Davies aswell for £3m, which, despite a fairly inflated fee, is a good signing.

To us Newcastle fans we sold him too cheap to you at 1.5m so we are just happy that he's back really for exactly the same price.

Milner I feel will become a good player, you're right. At the moment though I don't think he's got much going for him apart from his good energy. His finishing and final ball are all pretty poor. Thing is hes only 19 so plenty of time to learn.

We only ended up with Rockyourback & Jimmy Bad Hair (Rocembach (sp) & Xavier) which was a bit dissapointing but we have options now which im sure Mclaren will have to consider due to downings injury.

We could play 3 up top and 3 centre mid of Rocky, Boatang & Parlour or we could stick with Morrison on right & put young johnson on the left of even put French Franck on the left with pogetetz at left back, we could even put Morrison on the left and bring mendieta back in on the right.

However mclaren will prob go for no creativity of Doriva on the left, Parlour on the right with Rocky & Boatang in the centre.

I think we will struggle this season. Lower mid table finish is what im thinking at the moment.

Oh yeah, i saw a load of links about him but did Hugo Viana actually go anywhere on loan?

He's a pretty handy player really, would give Newcastle some good depth.

He's gone off to Valencia for the rest of the season.

The Newcastle fans really loved him but at the end of the day he was shit for us - lazy and just didn't adjust to the Premiership. I have no doubt he will go on to do good things elsewhere though. Plus like all his comments since haven't really endeared him any further with us.

That's the one, i remember seeing that now.

Another foreign transfer that went through was Sergio Ramos from Sevilla to Real Madrid for £18m, their first Spanish signing for 5 years. Ronaldinho has extended his contract at Barcelona aswell :love:

Wtf apparently Luke Young is going to start the England game. Pretty low standards to be an England right back these days. Never thought i'd say this but Gary Neville will be missed :(.

So the transfer window is shut, all teams are left with what they have until january at least. Lets move on from the transfer gossip and take into acc what is happening now.

IT'S INTERNATIONAL WEEKEND PEOPLE !!!!!!

So the rumour is that Sven will play a 4-5-1 formation against wales with Rooney spearheading the attack on his own !

Is this wise, Rooney likes to drop off so we could end up playing 4-6-0. I say give defoe his chance, he is doing well at the moment and he could prove to be the difference between the sides.

Opinions, thoughts on how you think england/ your country will do in their qualifiers.

damn it you got in before me with the internationals :mad:

anyway, :wtf: Luke young? id prefer to see Carragher (I havent seen or heard team yet btw) there but think he may start at centre back. If not id like to see hargreeves maybe start there.

To be fair Luke Young has been pretty good for Charlton, did well against Boro. I'd rather have him than Glen Johnson, and the only alternative was Phil Neville. Defoe should have started too, what's the betting that we'll be back to 4-4-2 on Wednesday when Owen's back?

Carragher will start in the centre, Doink, as John Terry is out.

We really should win comfortably, Wales have only got a handful of premiership players and Bellamy is missing. Scotland-Italy should be alright too but i hope Rab Douglas doesn't play, even though he's been alright apart from his debut for us :$

England will win both games comfortably I reckon. I wasn't so much complaining at Luke Young being chosen I just think its sad that he's Englands second choice right back. Johnson shouldn't be picked for a while.

Definite return to 442 on Wednesday.

My only worry over Luke young is lack of experience at International level, having seen the expected team I think we should do allright. Glen Johnson shouldnt be anywhere near the england squad IMO. Whats wrong with Danny Mills, from what ive seen and heard he is playing quite well at City!

epected line up is:
.......................................Robinson................

..............Young.........Carragher.......Ferdinand........A.Cole...

..Wright-Phillips...Beckham.......Lampard.....Gerrard......J.Cole..

..........................................Rooney....................

Like I say just concerned over the experience on the right, not the quality of player and am worried we might be a bit limited in attack as Rooney & J.Cole both tend to wonder (not in a bad way as usually pick up good positions but put of position & if Rooney does that then who is ahead of him?)

Actually people are expecting Beckham to play deeper than the other 4. England should win even if they had Peter Crouch at Right back.

PS i fucking hate Danny Mills

Play Matty Fryatt at the back :shifty:

fuck it why not...... :shifty:

Colin Cooper for an England recall :D

Super Super Cooper Super Super Cooper

Come on Sven Why not you were only looking at him the other season because of his form. The only reason he didnt get called up was because of his age.

Sven is an Ageist Bastard !

A good performance against Italy will satisfy me.

Rino is coming home though. :D

They do indeed, at least according to the paper I read today. Spurs have 34. Meanwhile Chelsea have 25. Not sure if that makes them 2nd biggest but Spurs are definitely top.

Could have got tickets for the Wales/England game tomorrow, but didn't bother. It would have been like walking into a battle field. :o I hope we do alright tomorrow, tough ask though obviously, but nobody expects us to do anything, so let's just go for it.

Actually, think about it, Chelsea just have strength in depth. We've got a pretty huge squad full of shit players.

No where near mate, as per skysports.com here is their official squad amonuts as of today :

Tottenham - 35 members in squad.

Charlton - 33
Liverpool - 33
Sunderland - 33

Chelsea - 32
Man U - 32
Middlesbrough - 32

Portsmouth - 31

Everton - 30
Fulham - 30

Blackburn - 29

Newcastle - 28

Aston Villa - 27
Birmingham - 27
West Ham - 27

West Brom - 26
Wigan - 26

Arsenal - 24
Man City - 24

Bolton - 23


:lol: Fulham have Dave Beasant registered as a player according to this.

Solskjaer suffers new injury blow

Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has suffered a new setback in his bid to recover from a knee injury. The 32-year-old Norwegian last played for United in the FA Cup Final win against Millwall in May 2004.

Swedish knee specialist Lars Petersson said: "He has picked up a tear inside his knee. It is a very recent injury." Petersson operated on Solskjaer last year, and added: "I thought he might be back in October but it is impossible to set a date now."

And asked whether he was totally confident Solskjaer will come back at all at the top-level, Petersson added: "No. I am never 100% sure in these cases."

A spokesperson for Manchester United said the club would not comment on the report.

Well that was a fucking atrocious game/performance.

yeah, god how does sven keep getting away with it

Nah, England could have scored more goals if they'd wanted to.

lol yes with Joe Cole playing in the middle instead of the left and taking off our best attacker after an hour and Lampard and Gerrard running into the same areas. Easy :yes:

LMAO go on Kenny :cool:

:love: :love: :love: :love:

Come On Scotland

WANK

Taxi for Vieri :$

Gotta be pleased with the draw, shame we couldn't hold on for the win, but with a performance like that I'm optimistic for a result on Wednesday.....you never know.

As for Ireland, Switzerland and Israel drew, which is a great result

Brilliant result. Means our destiny is still well in our own hands. We have are two biggest rivals both still to play at home which is a big bonus at this stage. Ireland are very hard to play at home, and neither the Swiss nor France will fancy going to Lansdowne Road with this much at stake.

Any points on Wednesday will be superb. A loss wouldn't be a total disaster, but a win would almost guarantee our progress. A draw would change very little, except mean that the final game with the Swiss would effectively be a decider.

Mixture of anticipation and worry about Wednesday. France are a troubled side right now, but so talented that they could turn it on and blow us away.

France actually have a second string out against the Faroes tonight. The big wankers.

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA


WORLD CUP QUALIFIER

Are they still ahead of england in the world rankings or whatever?

I didn't even know there were World Rankings to be honest.

BUT IF THERE ARE USA IS #1

Jesus christ there's been an overreaction to the England game. Looking through the News of the World and Terry Venables was the only person not to label it a disaster, fact was i felt we were pretty comfortable for the most part and aside from a few nervy moments near the end and the Hartson header (top class save though) England controlled the game.

Masters final today, come on Leicester :cool:

It wasn't a disaster per se but people expect better against not even a full-strength Wales side.

I'll wait and see what happens against NI when in theory we should be full strength before any great sense of panic sets in.

Never thought I'd see a day where I'd be pissed that Scotland didn't beat Italy. Walter Smith has done fucking wonders just motivating the team. Kenny Miller looks like a different player now. What Glenn Hoddle did with him worked.

I had 7/1 Kenny Miller to get the first goal and 11/1 Scotland to win 1-0 :(

The great thing is he's working that hard every game for us, even though he hasn't scored in the league yet (he will). To be honest I'm a tiny bit worried he's just doing it to put himself on the market (his contract is up this year) but we'll just have to wait and see.

He is still on the transfer list ain't he?

Yeah, at his own request. Hoddle said he hadn't had time to talk with him about it, not sure if that's true or not. Sunderland tried to get him on the cheap :nono: so he's still here. I wouldn't be *totally* surprised to see someone try again in January but I guess it depends on how we're doing/if we can get anyone in to replace (I wouldn't be comfortable relying on Cort, Ganea, Ndah and Clarke for half a season)

Sorry MMM :(

I wouldn't panic if we only win that 1-0 personally, the win's all that matters. Only downside of the Wales game was the missed chances, but they didn't prove costly and with the players available they're not going to miss too many. Brazil looked frightfully good last night though (won 5-0 to qualify), but they finished in the final qualifying position during qualifying for the 2002 world cup and won it.

The legend that is Pep Guardiola could be going to Wigan which is pretty gay, could help them stay up and get us the extra million for Connolly though, so it's alright :o and Leicester won the British Masters :love:

Speaking of that Brazil game:

Claridge: "Who’s that Brazilian who plays in midfield and looks like Juninho?"

Burton: "I’m not sure."

Claridge: "He plays in midfield. And he looks like Juninho."

Burton: "Um...I’m really not sure who you mean."

Claridge: "The Brazilian who plays for Barcelona in midfield and he looks a bit like Juninho."

Burton: "Ah...I think I know who you mean. I think you mean Deco."

Claridge: "That’s him."

Burton: "Except that he plays for Portugal."

Claridge: "I keep thinking he’s called Dido or Dada, or something."

Quality coverage right there.

Oh and there's also this gem:

"Thank God it's only on match days we have to go into Middlesbrough" - Emmanuel Pogatetz

News of the world mate, so i wouldnt believe a word that was written, I still check teletext to make sure the scores they put in the paper are correct!

Southern press, they have visited middlesbrough about the same amount of times channel 5 have paid for a commentator to actually attend a game and not watch it from the studio.

Anyway, WTF would he know what middlesbrough looks like, has he got some sort of super glasses that allow him to see through the smog ? :shifty:

Are you casting doubt on the journalistic integrity of the Scr...News of the World? For shame :nono:

Lol theres a classic quote from Nemeth about Boro too:

"Middlesbrough is very bad. It is not a very nice town and there are a lot of factories"

:D We don't call em the smoggies for nothing. Oh and not 5th worst place to live in the country too ;).

:lol:

Oh and before everyone asks the Nemeth quote was in The Guardian so :p

And Claridge wonders why he never lasted a month in charge of Millwall

Deco technically is Brazillian, Claridge is the man :'(

Bravo is class now it's got the original Football Italia back though.

GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGOAL

Your right, Middlesbrough is not the 5th worst place to live in the country, You will prob find billingham on that list which is about 5 miles away, but not middlesbrough (well not in the top 5 anyway).

Anyway, you'd think all these footballers would know that we are an industrial town by now as everytime we are on the telly, its not like the camera's dont pan out and show the beautiful countryside around us do they, no they show the smoking towers at british steel and the ICI plant.

(just a point to put out, the 'smoke' coming out of british steel is usually steam due to the fact they are cooling towers for the steel made, whereas the big flames and thick black smoke coming out of ICI is prob darngerous and poinesous - but thats not the point, we have other views they could show to). :shifty:

Predictions for tomorrow:

England 2 - 0 NI

gerrard and Rooney to score.

Kenny Fucking Miller :cool:

And Kenny's going off injured.....but a hero

2-0 :love:

He'd better not be fucking injured, we go to Luton on Saturday :mad: :'(

He got a whack in the back, he should be fine

Couldn't do it any other way could they, concede a goal in the 89th minute and then have to hold on.....

BUT They did it.... and if we win our last 2 games and Norway lose one of theirs, we'll get a playoff place

Fuck's sake Rob Edwards has gone off as well. And Ince won't be back :mad:

lol they could make an entire Platoon segment out of the Ireland-France game. Jeez.

i love rooney so much :'(

Wow this is a borefest but holy shit at the entire stadium bouncing up and down.

LOL ENGLAND LOSING

HAHAHA

lol mate, Arsenal 4 lyfe. OI OI OI

Troy Don't tell ma I was here. ;)

lol Owen Hargreaves - thats way attacking

Wtf has Hargreaves ever done in an England shirt apart from be slow, mope around and give the ball away.

How bad does it make Wales look though? ;)

Still, nothing can be said really. Incompetence of the highest order. Are you worried yet Wengerland :nono:

Meh I don't really care about that, we had our day not so long ago against Italy, and we're a developing team now. I just feel embarrassed over England. :lol: