Between Arsenal, City, Chelsea and Pool, anyway. Don't United has been involved.
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EPL 2011 Summer Transfers
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Between Arsenal, City, Chelsea and Pool, anyway. Don't United has been involved.
smokey
Honorary Master
Silvestre to Arsenal?
1. That was a couple of seasons ago.
2. That wasn't a transfer, that was a Trojan Horse.
/facepalm why by a player who always gets injured.Meireles is like made of glass... gonna go bench warm the injury list at Chelsea
smokey
Honorary Master
We'll manage his injuries better. He won't NEED to play every game like he did at Liverpool.
*knock on wood*
Stevie G
Banned
he will be used like benyaoun, play the odd game here and there. no wonder benyaoun wanted to go. because he is portoguese he will be played regurlay by chelsea's new manager
Stevie G
Banned
Well you guys bought Hargreaves and he did play the odd game
smokey
Honorary Master
Dude. You do realise that Yossi was out for six months? I mean seriously..
Your posts are so full of uninformed rubbish it‘s a wonder you believe what you write...
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smokey
Honorary Master
CorrectedShame if United bought players that Don't need to play every game
They did... squad players, youth. You don‘t actually think Jones would have started if Vidic/Ferdie had been available right?
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Smokey you cannot make that kind of comparison, Jones is 19, Meireles is what? 29?
You telling me you would pay 10-20 million for a bench warmer? Perhaps you can make comparison with Berbatov, but Berbatov has proven his worth here and there - the hatrick against pool, the 3 points that was needed to reach our 18th and 19th. Plus Berba didn't bench warm for half the season at the previous club
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smokey
Honorary Master
Squad players are squad players regardless of age mate. I personally think Meireles was brought in to wean the Chelsea team off of Lampard. Last it was "No Lampard = No Goals" practically, so he's not going to benchwarm, but he's not going to be a definite starter either. He is what AVB needed at this point in time to reconfigure the squad and at 10-15 million, I'm not gonna complain. Far better than the 40 million we were prepared to give for Modric. It also gives McEachran more room to shine. Win/win/win.
Who's to say Meireles won't prove his worth? The guy hasn't even played for Chelsea yet, plus I doubt he'll bench warm.
Stevie G
Banned
Good read if you interested
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/333390-EPL-2011-Summer-Transfers/page37
The Deadline Day Winners And Losers
Winners
Liverpool and Craig Bellamy
Too good to go waste, good enough to cover for Luis Suarez - a task that Andy Carroll is currently incapable of performing without requiring a direct change to Liverpool's developing fluid and flexible style of play. At no cost, Bellamy brings plenty of quality and plenty of equally-valuable quantity of cover because of his ability to play in a host of positions across the frontline.
Better still, in completing Liverpool's summer check-list - reserve goalkeeper, tick, new centre-half, tick, new left-back, tick, new midfielders, tick, third striker capable of playing in the first team, tick - re-signing Bellamy seals the deal on a summer which began with Liverpool in the sixth form and ends with them graduated into the elite again.
Owen Hargreaves
The early signs are encouraging. Never mind the rumours that the Manchester City medics were staggered at the level of Hargreaves' fitness, just consider the confidence Hargreaves displayed by waiting for a better offer until the very last minute instead of accepting a guaranteed future with West Brom. Evidently, he believes that not only can he return, but he can return big.
Losers
Arsenal
Too little, too late? No strategy, no foward plan? Yes to all, but at least Deadline Day's flurry showed Arsenal still possess enough ambition not to die on their arse. Moreover, if you can forgive a second bad pun, at least they stuck to their guns when they finally entered the market to do the business that ought to have been done months ago.
For all the talk of panic pervading at the Emirates - a suggestion endorsed by Everton's understandable bemusement bordering on anger that the Gunners returned with a bid for a player they hadn't mentioned during talks about Phil Jagielka - the established fact that they refused to match Mikel Arteta's £75,000-a-week Everton contract was admirably nerveless. The Gunners, by common report, were resolute and prepared to keep walking away until Arteta blinked first.
Yet Arsenal's refusal to pay a wage that even Everton accept is the going rate also serves to inspire two other less than admirable points. Firstly, it acts as a damning reminder that both Abou Diaby and Manuel Almunia - the goalkeeping equivalent of Winston Bogarde? - are still at the Emirates collecting a reputed £60k a week, and it's the generosity of that flawed collective wage-plan which explains why Arsenal have struggled so blindly to offload their deadwood this summer. Secondly, their relative and considerable wage austerity at the top of their ceiling remains the foremost reason why Arsenal cannot attract A-list talent and were reduced to haggling with paupers and collecting Chelsea cast-offs as the clock clicked towards 11pm.
Arsenal have the arrangement of their wage-plan substantially wrong. They pay too much for mediocrity, and aren't willing to pay enough on established class. Until they alter their stance, they'll never make it big again.
Chelsea
No Modric, no big deal. Or should that be no big deal with a question mark?
Meireles is solid enforcement of an area undermanned ever since Michael Essien's latest knee knack, and although he will not provide the fresh, quick legs required to rejuvenate a decaying squad, those legs may already be ready for the Stamford Bridge catwalk. Expect Meireles to be one of three full debutants next weekend, tasked with doing the hard yards behind the fancy feet of Daniel Sturridge and Juan Mata.
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/333390-EPL-2011-Summer-Transfers/page37
The Deadline Day Winners And Losers
Winners
Liverpool and Craig Bellamy
Too good to go waste, good enough to cover for Luis Suarez - a task that Andy Carroll is currently incapable of performing without requiring a direct change to Liverpool's developing fluid and flexible style of play. At no cost, Bellamy brings plenty of quality and plenty of equally-valuable quantity of cover because of his ability to play in a host of positions across the frontline.
Better still, in completing Liverpool's summer check-list - reserve goalkeeper, tick, new centre-half, tick, new left-back, tick, new midfielders, tick, third striker capable of playing in the first team, tick - re-signing Bellamy seals the deal on a summer which began with Liverpool in the sixth form and ends with them graduated into the elite again.
Owen Hargreaves
The early signs are encouraging. Never mind the rumours that the Manchester City medics were staggered at the level of Hargreaves' fitness, just consider the confidence Hargreaves displayed by waiting for a better offer until the very last minute instead of accepting a guaranteed future with West Brom. Evidently, he believes that not only can he return, but he can return big.
Losers
Arsenal
Too little, too late? No strategy, no foward plan? Yes to all, but at least Deadline Day's flurry showed Arsenal still possess enough ambition not to die on their arse. Moreover, if you can forgive a second bad pun, at least they stuck to their guns when they finally entered the market to do the business that ought to have been done months ago.
For all the talk of panic pervading at the Emirates - a suggestion endorsed by Everton's understandable bemusement bordering on anger that the Gunners returned with a bid for a player they hadn't mentioned during talks about Phil Jagielka - the established fact that they refused to match Mikel Arteta's £75,000-a-week Everton contract was admirably nerveless. The Gunners, by common report, were resolute and prepared to keep walking away until Arteta blinked first.
Yet Arsenal's refusal to pay a wage that even Everton accept is the going rate also serves to inspire two other less than admirable points. Firstly, it acts as a damning reminder that both Abou Diaby and Manuel Almunia - the goalkeeping equivalent of Winston Bogarde? - are still at the Emirates collecting a reputed £60k a week, and it's the generosity of that flawed collective wage-plan which explains why Arsenal have struggled so blindly to offload their deadwood this summer. Secondly, their relative and considerable wage austerity at the top of their ceiling remains the foremost reason why Arsenal cannot attract A-list talent and were reduced to haggling with paupers and collecting Chelsea cast-offs as the clock clicked towards 11pm.
Arsenal have the arrangement of their wage-plan substantially wrong. They pay too much for mediocrity, and aren't willing to pay enough on established class. Until they alter their stance, they'll never make it big again.
Chelsea
No Modric, no big deal. Or should that be no big deal with a question mark?
Meireles is solid enforcement of an area undermanned ever since Michael Essien's latest knee knack, and although he will not provide the fresh, quick legs required to rejuvenate a decaying squad, those legs may already be ready for the Stamford Bridge catwalk. Expect Meireles to be one of three full debutants next weekend, tasked with doing the hard yards behind the fancy feet of Daniel Sturridge and Juan Mata.
smokey
Honorary Master
I fail to see how we ended up losers on deadline day... we got Meireles for a fraction of the price of Modric and now Josh can develop in peace. Modric would have been a stumbling block to that development. This deadline day was great for Chelsea.
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I don't think Chelsea is a loser? I mean they signed that Lukakaka? Mata, Meireles (I think I've forgotten someone).
This from Craig Bellamy made me laugh:
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Calling that an interesting read is streching it a little. Mildly entertaining Liverpool fan fiction would be more like it.
We've signed others but put them on season long loan.