The January Transfer Window Thread

[TAFKA Castroneves]

I hope you Arsenal guys will give us Ryan Smith now you've got Walcott

In my mind he's a much better player.

[9 to 5]

I hope you Arsenal guys will give us Ryan Smith now you've got Walcott

In my mind he's a much better player.

Some on here would say Walcott is better than Rooney.

[lanky316]

I hope you Arsenal guys will give us Ryan Smith now you've got Walcott

In my mind he's a much better player.

Some on here would say Walcott is better than Rooney.

[Guest muddatrucker]

No it wasn't, you just don't understand what hype means, apparently Rooney is just hype when he's proven Internationally and in the highest league, whilst Walcott isn't hype, when he's only played half a season in a lower division (which most people haven't had the chance to see) and is being judged by highlights and talkshow discussions, THAT is hype.

[fineintent]

Exactly.

I think Walcott's a good player, I've actually seen a bit of Championship football this season, but he cannot be compared to Rooney at all - when Rooney was 16 he was frightening the shit out of Premiership defenses. Hardly the same as playing the likes of Crewe Alexandra really.

[lanky316]

No it wasn't you, just don't understand what hype means, apparently Rooney is just hype when he's proven Internationally and in the highest league, whilst Walcott isn't hype, when he's only played half a season in a lower division (which most people haven't had the chance to see) and is being judged by highlights and talkshow discussions, THAT is hype.

[fineintent]

No it wasn't you, just don't understand what hype means, apparently Rooney is just hype when he's proven Internationally and in the highest league, whilst Walcott isn't hype, when he's only played half a season in a lower division (which most people haven't had the chance to see) and is being judged by highlights and talkshow discussions, THAT is hype.

yay for blindness \o/

AT THAT AGE - all Rooney had done was come off a bench and score a free kick and from then was hyped up to be the saviour of all English football. If you HONESTLY believe that Walcott has had that much hype you're just as delisional as you seem to think I am :ohwell:

[Guest muddatrucker]

You were saying how Rooney is JUST hype, Rooney has proven himself, fine he's overrated by some, but people have already formed opinions on Walcott from nothing, there have been 12 or some games (I doubt many have seen more than a 1/3 of those), highlight reals (which will never show the bad points) and football discussion shows (which is someone elses opinion, complete hype), thats not blindness thats me not blowing my load about how much better than Rooney he's going to be.

And we're the club that seems to be on the verge of signing him, you won't see me calling him the next big thing till we've seen enough to judge him.

[Summers]

On the verge? Signed.

5 up front, can rise to 12. Straight to Arsenal, no loaning back.

Edited January 20, 2006 by SummersIV

[Guest muddatrucker]

No official sources have confirmed the signing.

[Summers]

Sky Sports have.

They also mentioned an interview with Wenger on the Arsenal site about it.

They also said he'll still be wearing the 32 shirt.

And they read out a statement from Southampton.

Good enough?

[Guest muddatrucker]

I literally checked it and skysports before, wasn't there and now it is.

[Summers]

It was a sudden thing. It just appeared on Sky Sports News as I flicked it on.

[9 to 5]

Walcott has literally played a handful of games in a lower league than Rooney at the same age, who was scoring against teams like Arsenal who are one of the best teams in the league with a screamer. Walcott looks a good player but he is very much hype whist Rooney having made it at Premiership side at the same age was running wild over some of the best teams in the world. Hype, maybe but Rooney was proving and has proved himself. For all we know Walcott will turn into another Pennett who iirc was signed for alot whist young too.

[Lineker]

Al Al-Habsi, from Lyn, to Bolton, for free.

Graham Stack, from Arsenal, to Reading, for an undisclosed fee.

Ingi Hojsted, from B36 Torshavn, to Birmingham, for free.

John Welsh, from Liverpool, to Hull, in a part exchange deal.

Paul Anderson, from Hull, to Liverpool, in a part exchange deal.

Mark González, from Albacete, to Liverpool, for an undisclosed fee.

Paul Scharner, from Brann Bergen, to Wigan, for an undisclosed fee.

Roy Keane, from Manchester United, to Celtic, for free.

Tony Warner, from Cardiff City, to Fulham, for a nominal fee.

Tuomos Haapala, from MyPa, to Manchester City, for an undisclosed fee.

Yasser Hussein, released on a free transfer by Manchester City.

Laurent Robert, from Newcastle (was on loan at Portsmouth), to Benfica, for free.

Yaniv Katan, from Maccabi Haifa, to West Ham, for £100,000.

Simon Elliott, from Columbus Crew, to Fulham, for free.

Josemi, from Liverpool, to Villarreal, in a part exchange deal.

Jan Kromkamp, from Villarreal, to Liverpool, in a part exchange deal.

Maniche, from Dynamo Moscow, to Chelsea, on a season long loan.

Emmanuel Olisadebe, from Panathinaikos, to Portsmouth, for free.

Chris Sutton, from Celtic, to Birmingham, for free.

Albert Riera, from Espanyol, to Manchester City, on a season long loan.

Luke Chadwick, from West Ham, to Stoke, for £100,000.

David Jones, from Manchester United, to NEC, on a season long loan.

Nemanja Vidic, from Spartak Moscow, to Manchester United, for £7,000,000.

Benjani Mwaruwari, from Auxerre, to Portsmouth, for £4,100,000.

Jose Goncalves, from FC Thun, to Everton, on trial.

Emmanuel Sarki, from Chelsea, to Westerlo, on a season long loan.

Stefan Postma, from Aston Villa, to Wolves, for an undisclosed fee.

Danny Simpson, from Manchester United, to Antwerp, on a season long loan.

Chris Eagles, from Manchester United, to Watford, on a season long loan.

Mads Timm, from Manchester United, to Walsall, on a season long loan.

Abdulrahman Hussain, released on a free transfer by Manchester City.

Patrick Cregg, from Arsenal, to Falkirk, for an undisclosed fee.

Jan Kozak, from Artmedia Bratislava, to West Brom, on trial.

Badou Kere, from Charleroi, to West Brom, on trial.

David Bellion, from Manchester United, to Nice, on a season long loan.

Yoann Lachor, from Lens, to Newcastle, on trial.

Antti Niemi, from Southampton, to Fulham, for £1,000,000.

Patrice Evra, from Monaco, to Manchester United, for £5,500,000.

Steffen Iverson, from Valerenga, to Portsmouth, on trial.

Steven Watt, from Chelsea, to Swansea, on a free transfer.

Moses Ashikoi, from West Ham, to Rangers, for an undisclosed fee.

Michael Mancienne, signed a professional contract with Chelsea.

Matt Jansen, released on a free transfer by Blackburn.

David Martin, from MK Dons, to Liverpool, for an undisclosed fee.

Garry Flitcroft, from Blackburn, to Sheffield United, on a free transfer.

Jamie O'Hara, from Tottenham, to Chesterfield, on a 3 month loan.

Daniel Agger, from Bromdby, to Liverpool, for £5,800,000.

Pedro Mendes, Sean Davis, and Noe Pamarot, from Totenham, to Portsmouth, for £7,500,000.

Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, from Manchester United, to Antwerp, on a season long loan.

Martin Djetou, released on a free transfer by Bolton.

Abou Diaby, from Auxerre, to Arsenal, for an undisclosed fee.

Emmanuel Adebayor, from Monaco, to Arsenal, for an undisclosed fee.

Matt Jansen, signed by Bolton on a free transfer.

Walter Pandiani, from Birmingham, to Espanyol, for £1,020,000.

Riccardo Scimeca, from West Brom, to Cardiff City, for free.

Carl Robinson, from Sunderland, to Norwich, for £50,000.

Marcus Bent, from Everton, to Charlton Athletic, for £2,000,000.

David Thompson, from Blackburn, to Wigan, on a free transfer.

Neil Mellor, from Liverpool, to Wigan, on a season long loan.

Wayne Bridge, from Chelsea, to Fulham, on a season long loan.

Alan Stubbs, from Sunderland, to Everton, for an undisclosed fee.

David Fox, from Manchester United, to Blackpool, on a season long loan.

Theo Walcott, from Southampton, to Arsenal, for £5,000,000.

Konstantinos Chalkias, released on a free transfer by Portsmouth.

Matt Piper, released on a free transfer by Sunderland.

Reto Zigler, from Tottenham, to Wigan, on a season long loan.

Dean Ashton, from Norwich, to West Ham, for £7,000,000.

Tomas Repka, from West Ham, to Sparta Praha, for £480,300.

Jan Kozak, from Artmedia Bratislava, to West Brom, on a season long loan.

Edited January 24, 2006 by Messiah-Dice

[Guest muddatrucker]

Ok, since you're just copying and pasting something we could easily look at and speak about ourselves, why don't you stop it.

Edit the original post if needs be.

[ONO]

West Ham have signed Ashton for just over £7m.

What is he like? I haven't really studied him to be honest.

[fineintent]

He's a good player, strong and has a decent footballing brain - seems a logical successor to Sheringham. Did really well with Norwich in the top flight, he and Damien Francis nearly kept a very average team up. He'll do well, especially as Matt Etherington will give him a ton of service.

[TheArsenal]

He was probably Norwich's best player when they were in the Premiership last year.

[Lineker]

I heard that Lyon want Silvestre as a cover in defence.