Transfer Deadline Day, Sep 2014

[Lord Camomile]

Come on, it needs its own thread

Haven't been keeping in touch with things, and just logged on to find Falcao is heading to Man Utd. Arsenal and Chelsea needed strikers, but good ol' Man Utd got him! Presumably they've discovered Rooney is an excellent CB?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Honestly, how are you going to fit RVP, Rooney and Falcao into the same lineup I suppose Rooney playing behind t'other two?

Hope Hernandez has a good time at Madrid, though you've got to think he's not going to be a first choice striker there either...

In other news, Ben Arfa has turned down a loan move to Birmingham. Shocking.

 

[The39thStep]

Chelsea don't need a striker

 

[Lord Camomile]

Chelsea don't need a striker

I did question that after I posted it, but if Costa gets injured, then you've got the 30+ Drogba and Schurrle, who is good but not an out-and-out striker.

There are goals from elsewhere in the team, obviously, but I'm sure I heard you were in the hunt for Falcao? Maybe it was Man City.

 

[inva]

I did question that after I posted it, but if Costa gets injured, then you've got the 30+ Drogba and Schurrle, who is good but not an out-and-out striker.

and Remy

 

[Lord Camomile]

Oh yeah

 

[stavros]

I did question that after I posted it, but if Costa gets injured, then you've got the 30+ Drogba and Schurrle, who is good but not an out-and-out striker.

They could call Patrick Bamford back from loan. But they won't. I just hope he has the sense to leave properly, because he won't get a game at Stamford Bridge under the policy of the last ten years, yet he looks quite useful.

 

[agricola]

The Tom Cleverley action figure gets an early viewing outside Finch Farm.

 

[tommers]

Somebody at Everton put a dildo in the sky reporter's ear. That's the highlight.

 

[SarfLondoner]

Sky sports news is like a perverts paradise with cameramen and reporters hiding behind trees and dustbins to get a sneaky snap of a player getting into his car.Blokes sitting in a studio salivating over how many millions have been spent, Strange stuff.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Somebody else just shouted "big dick right in the pussy" during a live link. Bravo.

 

[ffsear]

Think sky sports are going to have to have a re-think about deadline day next time.

 

[gabi]

Was trying to follow it on Sky here in HK. God knows how those anchors can keep looking so shiny and excited by the news that someone nobody has ever heard of is moving from one shit club to another. It actually put me to sleep still with 7.5 Hours to go!!

Awful job.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Premier League clubs spend record £835m on transfers in summer window

Manchester United led the way, with a record for an English club of £150m spent, as the Premier League clubs displayed the spending power of their huge domestic TV deal.

The business advisory firm Deloitte said the total was almost double the sum spent by clubs in Spain’s La Liga this summer.

The £835m is also more than £200m more than the previous record of £630m, also by Premier League clubs in 2013, and the net spend was £410m – £350m to overseas clubs and £60m to Football League clubs.

So British clubs have spent almost twice as much as the nearest other league, and over three-quarters of that has gone overseas. Well, let's see how that all plays out...