Summer 2013 Transfer Rumour Thread - Mk4

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Joe Steinberg said:
I'll be watching it too. I think Dynamo have made very ambitious signings, but I'm concerned with the mentality of some of the players. I saw a rumour that Belhanda wanted to leave, less than 24 hours after signing! Also Brown Ideye is a massively selfish striker who might still score plenty of goals against the poorer teams in the league but could hold them back a bit.

Unless Shakhtar do make a big move for a proven AMC, they'll be playing quite a young side and hoping for them to fulfil their potential. I still think they've got a decent amount more class in their side than Dynamo, but not enough to improve on their last Champions League campaign, and I suspect that's what the board are aiming for.
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Indeed I think Shakhtar will still maintain dominance. Interesting the difference in their approach, the Ukrainian league not being a huge draw to players, Shakhtar go for young talented players with high prices that put off other teams and give them good wages for their age and experience, giving them some very talented footballers who can improve themselves and the side significance. The problem of course being that they will almost inevitably be looking towards greener pastures once they really 'break through'. Dynamo seem to be trying to take more proven players again with prices that may have been slightly off-putting to other teams and apparently on fairly high wages, and a few seemingly having questions over their heads. Fascinating to see how the Ukranian league and the Russian league along with it will progress in coming years, there is certainly money present at the top and more and more quality players, but they still have an up-hill battle to coax players into enlisting and the quality at the bottom is still very poor.
 
AL. said:
West Ham apparently. Although it could be West Brom, Everton, us or most likely another season at City with a new boss.
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Or the fact that he broke up with his missus, if every bleeding article on the Daily Mail sidebar is correct.
 
fatletiss said:
Anyone read any reports about WBA's pre-season games. Allegedly Anelka has looked very sharp and scored a few too.
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Pre-season is pre-season, undoubtedly a very talented footballer but I think he'll start strong and start to fade as the season goes on.
 
Downthe36 said:
Pre-season is pre-season, undoubtedly a very talented footballer but I think he'll start strong and start to fade as the season goes on.
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I agree, which is why I mentioned it (just realised wrong thread too), particularly if we are correct as we are up first! He is a good footballer and a wiley old fox. Interesting early test for Lovren.
 
AL. said:
Apparently I don't have a clue. I've been told that is correct according to my sources who understand he could stay or leave City in this window.

(I haven't got a bloody clue....)
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I was just pulling your leg as it was "he's off to West Ham, or maybe WBA, or Everton or us or Stoke or Fulham ...or...

:-)
 
fatletiss said:
I was just pulling your leg as it was "he's off to West Ham, or maybe WBA, or Everton or us or Stoke or Fulham ...or...

:-)
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I know you were. It's funny reading through all these 'ITK' people's tweets. They all say different things and use all these 'cop out' phrases like:

- My source says.....
- I understand.....
- Strong possibility
- Wide of the mark
- Agent talk
- In the next 48 hours

Pathetic saddos really.
 
fatletiss said:
I do believe that although we are in a position of new to the Prem and looking to genuinely improve our squad, there is an element of this article that applies to us.
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Yeah the teams mentioned here have essentially "complete" squads which they are looking to augment, whereas with signings like Lovren we are patching holes to an extent that they don't have to.

The bit that applies to us is the mention of Falcao and Robinho being marquee signings that say "we've arrived" and I think Ramirez was that last season (albeit to a much lesser extent) and it seems in Osvaldo, Damiao et al we are looking for another one from perhaps a more impressive level.
 
He's going bloody everywhere. It'll probably end up being a massive co-ownership deal between Arsenal, Liverpool, Porto, Dortmund and Shakhtar and they'll each get him for about 2 months of the season.
 
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