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Summer 2006 Transfer Window Fred

London_Calling

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The sleeping giants got a little closer to waking up this morning . . .

Tottenham agree fee for Berbatov:

Tottenham have agreed a fee of £10.9m for Bayer Leverkusen's Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov.

He has agreed personal terms and will sign on 1 July, subject to being granted a work permit.



- Thank God for that, I was worried we wouldn’t have a single Alice Band among forward line next season.

Sell Defoe for £8 mill to Liverpool, buy two more strikers and at least we've sorted in that department - just leaves the left side, the full backs and a yooffull central defender on the shopping list.

I don't like to exaggerate, but if Spurs don't spend £35 mill (NET of the fee for Defoe) this summer, I'm Thora Hird.

What about your lot ?
 
Good player this lad , i think spurs will be a real force this year one or to more signings will bring them what they lacked at the end of the year . Some good bulgarians at presnet , id go for the young lad in italy myself boinjov (spelling) he looks shit hot .
 
London_Calling said:
The sleeping giants got a little closer to waking up this morning . . .

Tottenham agree fee for Berbatov:

Tottenham have agreed a fee of £10.9m for Bayer Leverkusen's Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov.

He has agreed personal terms and will sign on 1 July, subject to being granted a work permit.



- Thank God for that, I was worried we wouldn’t have a single Alice Band among forward line next season.

Sell Defoe for £8 mill to Liverpool, buy two more strikers and at least we've sorted in that department - just leaves the left side, the full backs and a yooffull central defender on the shopping list.

I don't like to exaggerate, but if Spurs don't spend £35 mill (NET of the fee for Defoe) this summer, I'm Thora Hird.

What about your lot ?

bwahaha. sleeping giants?!?! you came fifth last year mate! would that not suggest you have woken up? and yeah, you need at least six other players, otherwise you'd only have 453 on your books.

and where do you get this money from? you seem to have an awful lot of it.
 
Shockingly shit signing. Rebrov comes to mind. I guess that's what you have to settle for (overpriced shite) when you don't make the Champions League.
 
Sell Defoe for £8 mill to Liverpool, buy two more strikers and at least we've sorted in that department - just leaves the left side, the full backs and a yooffull central defender on the shopping list.
Re. the left side, I want Downing. I really rate him. For left back we should get Reto Ziegler back off loan and he can slot in there. The right back rumours are pointing to Pascal Chimbonda, and I think we're OK for CBs with Davenport backing up Ledders and Daws.
 
West Ham are reported to have between 10 and 15 to spend... Luke Young is rumoured to be a done deal. Scaloni may also be signing. We need both for the campaign. I'd also like to see a move for Pennant (if we can sort his attitude out), a massive talent who would complement our midfield enormously, as well as a decent defensive midfielder. I'd love to see Tomas Gravesen at Upton Park. We don't really need any more strikers.
 
Pompey looking at

"12 million price tag" Andy Johnson :rolleyes:
More reasonable 4 million tagged Henri Camara
7 millon rated Nikola Zigic - wot is like Crouchy but more Koller beefy.
 
TheLostProphet said:
7 millon rated Nikola Zigic - wot is like Crouchy but more Koller beefy.

yeah, he was apparently one of our targets in the january window.

the problem was that he is "owned" by loads of different agents and I think they decided to wait until after the world cup, when they hope his value will "rocket". ;)
 
TaylorJohn said:
Shockingly shit signing. Rebrov comes to mind. I guess that's what you have to settle for (overpriced shite) when you don't make the Champions League.

You seen him play then? I'd be interested in hearing an opinion from someone who has...
 
nah rosicky is a fair bit cheaper than hleb and at least as good, if he gets a good first team run then £6/7m will seem cheap, in any case he'd play closer to farbregas' position than hleb's and i hope he doesn't end up as understudy for him. van der vaart is still only 23, he could still develop if he gets the fuck out of germany.

i wish arsenal would disclose their fees too.
 
siarc said:
nah rosicky is a fair bit cheaper than hleb and at least as good, if he gets a good first team run then £6/7m will seem cheap, in any case he'd play closer to farbregas' position than hleb's and i hope he doesn't end up as understudy for him. van der vaart is still only 23, he could still develop if he gets the fuck out of germany.

i wish arsenal would disclose their fees too.

I'd be surprised if he starts that often, being 'as good as hleb' doesnt really inspire much, 3 goals and apparently no assists according to soccernet, even though he was highly unfortunate with injuries he never really looked like a £10m player, often flattering to decieve.

VdV may have pulled a boumsong or maybe no one else wanted him, there was a point where he could have named his club.

£7m, apparently, given dortmunds problems thats a bit too much for my tastes but I suppose if people know you've got the money....
 
atleti offered £6 for rosicky
and 'at least as good as hleb' isn't supposed to be damning with faint praise; hleb improved a lot through the last season and looked really good on a few occasions
 
I dare say athletico were trying to put the shit up independiente, if they can afford to be offering £10m+ for a 17 year old they could have gone the extra £1m if they were that fussed.

I thought hleb started really well then either injuries got to him or it was just a natural fade after wanting to make a good impression, if he stays injury free he may well improve his end product and justify his price tag.
 
Wouldnt surprise me, probably trying to convince Torres they're in the market for players similar to his supposed class, very freddie shepherd.
 
Take a Rothman's Football Yearbook, stick a pin in it. Whatever player that pin is pointing at, Liverpool will be linked with a move for him in the next few weeks.

We need a striker (maybe two if both Mori and Djib leave) and a right winger. With Aurellio and Palletta coming in our defence looks to have solidity and depth, the centre of midfield is one of the best in Europe anyway (Gerrard, Xabi and Momo) with maybe a young Hamman replacement needed this year or next and with Gonzalez and Kewell on the left we look ok there.

Players currently believed to be on their way are Craig Bellamy, Jermaine Pennant and Dirk Kuyt.
 
Apparently Wigan are holding out for £6m for Chimbonda, although Spurs have upped their bid to £5m say the Indie.
 
Bigdavalad said:
Take a Rothman's Football Yearbook, stick a pin in it. Whatever player that pin is pointing at, Liverpool will be linked with a move for him in the next few weeks.

We need a striker (maybe two if both Mori and Djib leave) and a right winger. With Aurellio and Palletta coming in our defence looks to have solidity and depth, the centre of midfield is one of the best in Europe anyway (Gerrard, Xabi and Momo) with maybe a young Hamman replacement needed this year or next and with Gonzalez and Kewell on the left we look ok there.

Players currently believed to be on their way are Craig Bellamy, Jermaine Pennant and Dirk Kuyt.

I bet they're loving the idea of bellamy on RAWK.
 
According to Academy sources, Liverpool have signed Adam Pepper.

Is this boy worth £5m?

At 11 years old, Adam Pepper is already being courted by Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal, and astronomical sums are being bandied about by football agents. But he's not the only one. Oliver Burkeman reports on sport's growing obsession with youth

Friday June 27, 2003
The Guardian

Life offers few better examples of the variety of approaches that it is possible to take to the job of parenting than the cases of Thomas Junta and Ronnie Pepper, two sports-mad dads who both had high hopes for their offspring. Junta - as anyone watching US television early last year could not fail to recall - disagreed so violently with the judgment of his school-age son's ice-hockey referee that he beat him to death immediately after the game, repeatedly slamming his head into the ground in front of the shocked players and prompting a new wave of fears in America over "sideline rage" attacks by obsessively ambitious parents.

Ronnie has been pursuing a somewhat different strategy with his son Adam, the 11-year-old football ace revealed this week to be the target of a battle between Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal and several other top clubs, all desperate to sign the young Liverpudlian. The difference presumably has much to do with why Thomas Junta is now serving a six-to-10-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter and Pepper, a youth worker from Kirkdale in Liverpool, isn't.

"He's not in it for the money, and he doesn't want it all to happen too early for the lad," says the Peppers' agent, Peter McIntosh. And so, despite being on the receiving end of an awesome display of Premiership flattery - birthday cards from Ryan Giggs, a personal visit from Michael Owen, a pair of David Beckham's boots, and shin pads that formerly graced the legs of Ruud Van Nistelrooy - Adam remains defiantly unsigned.

If this admirably level-headed and protective approach to sporting parenthood seems increasingly rare, it is also increasingly essential. With economic competition, in football especially, unprecedentedly intense, the professional players of tomorrow are being hunted, and deluged with enticements, younger than ever before.

"It's a trend we've been seeing for a couple of years now," says Phil Smith, the football agent who represents, among many others, Arsenal's Freddie Ljungberg and Southampton's James Beattie. "You're put in the direction of good young players, and some of them have already been, how shall we say, got at. It's mainly newer agents, trying to get into the game - they can't get anywhere near established players so they do a bit of research and chance their arm ... Sometimes the parents are hoodwinked. Their backgrounds - they don't often come from an advantaged background, so they haven't necessarily got a family lawyer, for example."

But even Ronnie's protectiveness can only go so far. "I've stopped taking Adam to games now, because I just get pestered by agents and club officials all the time - they talk through the match," he said in the only interview he gave, to a national tabloid, before retreating into silence. "You can't blame the clubs," McIntosh says. "He's a good player, and if you had a star player like Beckham and suddenly he's got a pair of Beckham's boots - you can see why they do it. It's understandable."

Clubs and teams in many sports seem to be aiming younger, agents say, not least because the skyrocketing sums involved in buying fully-fledged players makes it a wiser use of resources to sign the most promising ones as early as possible, and much more cheaply. "When we signed up [the Everton player] Wayne Rooney," McIntosh says, "we waited. We knew him since before he was 14 but we wanted to let him come through in his own time, so he was 15 when he came to us." But that was then. At just 11, Adam is, McIntosh says, "very, very unusual ... but that's what's happening."

Ronnie's philosophy has much to do with the fact that he was himself a star player for Everton's boys team - a promising early career that didn't culminate in professional superstardom, despite the hype surrounding him at the time. "Ronnie was a real good footballer himself, and he's seen how it broke his heart and he doesn't want it to happen to his son," McIntosh says. "And they're a very close-knit family. They wouldn't want him going to Ajax" - the Dutch team also rumoured to have expressed an interest in Adam. "No money in the world could take him away from them."

Eric Hall, the flamboyant football agent not known for keeping his opinions to himself, has already been naming numbers in Adam's case, suggesting that he should be insured for between £1m and £5m, based on his likely astronomical earnings in the near future. "I'm not sure that does Adam any favours to talk about money like that," McIntosh insists, despite his obvious financial stake in the prodigy's success. "I've got grandchildren of my own, and I wouldn't want anyone thinking, oh, Adam's going to be making me £20,000 in a couple of years' time."

Things are already at a rather more hysterical stage in the US, where a 14-year-old soccer player, Freddy Adu, has already received a $1m marketing contract from Nike. "He's already wanted by clubs as far away as Italy," says Smith.

Taking matters to a more absurd extreme, there is the case of Mark Walker, a three-year-old who was caught on home video shooting 18 basketball hoops in a row - using a hoop 8ft off the ground, just 2ft lower than the pros. The size of his advertising deal with Reebok is undisclosed, but his ambition is certainly not. "It's a God-given talent," he told reporters, immodestly declaring himself "the future of basketball".

Adam Pepper seems unlikely to be making any equivalent statements any time soon. "I don't know what all the fuss is about," he has said, and it is a testament to Ronnie's approach to his son's vast talent that, McIntosh says, "all this stuff just goes completely over Adam's head. He could be playing against Beckham, he could be playing against his mate in the street. It's all the same to him."

bitters and mancs, are, quote "well pissed off."
 
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