2013 Summer Transfer Thread

[Ant]

£38m for a 28 year old midfielder. Bit obscene even for City.

If this allows us to re-sign Milner on the cheap(ish) though i'm all for it.

You're so optimistic about every transfer that has nothing to do with Villa.

After the past four seasons, optimism is a Villa fans best friend at the moment.

[brenchill]

£38 for Fernandinho? Bit steep but you're always going to be paying a premium to Shaktar simply because they do not need to sell. Props to the guy for jumping to the PL.

[Ant]

Bargain.

[Berober]

Thought the tweets said accepted?

I read it was rejected but expected to make a higher offer...

[Cheeky Hughes]

Fernandinho and Navas? Very good start. If this means Pellegrini is going to be implementing wing play more often with Navas/Nasri/Milner/someone else, I'm all for it.

[If_You_Wanna_Be_The_Man]

Didn't realise how many appearances Denilson had made for Arsenal

[TCO]

£38mil for a player who's 28 and has only made 11 appearances for the national team. That really doesn't add up.

Seems very large fees for players who'll both be 2 years into their contracts.

[Rafael]

Fernandinho is truly class, he doesn't get shots in the national team because he's unappreciated by the media.

[Crybaby Bunting]

Indeed, £38m is absolutely ridiculous and City are total idiots for spending that much money on him.

Except only one paper is reporting it as more than £25m, so either it's a typo or they're adding in the cost of his contract too which makes absolutely no sense other than to ridicule City for overspending.

[Gazz]

Scott Sinclair is now so far down the Manchester City pecking order he's technically in Preston.

[Lineker]

With all the news and rumours flying around today, I bet Lineker has been refreshing the EWB page all day long, preying for it to come back so he could post about it.

I was out for most of the day! Had a lovely barbecue (yes with plenty of pork) in the evening.

With that said...

Stekelenburg to Fulham is done, 'Arry wants to bring Wayne Bridge to QPR and has threatened to quit if he doesn't get full control over transfers, Jay Tabb has joined Ipswich from Reading, Robert Lewandowski has confirmed that he wants to leave Dortmund to join his 'dream club', Ribery has signed a new long-term Bayern contract, Aiden McGeady wants to quit Spartak Moscow and move to the Premier League, Celtic are considering signing Richard Dunne, Andrey Arshavin, Denilson and Sebastien Squillaci will leave Arsenal at the end of June when their contracts expire, West Ham have signed goalkeeper Adrian on a free transfer from Real Betis, and Johnny Russell is having a medical at Derby.

[brenchill]

Wayne Bridge? So more of the same from QPR then. Can't they just try and be a normal football team?

[Colly]

In fairness Bridge is a top player at that level.

[Lineker]

Yeah he had a great season at Brighton tbf.

[stokeriño]

His City contract is finally expiring, isn't it?

So long as he fits his wage demands to match, it would be a fair enough deal. Still a hilariously typical Redknapp and/or QPR purchase though.

[Nerf]

Liverpool linked with Carlos Tevez this morning. Where do they even think of these things :|

[Baddar]

Sky say £34m for Fernandinho.

[stokeriño]

I swear that quoted transfer fees used to be less confusing, years back... These days, not only do you have the classic "quoting euro price as pounds" piece of journalistic laziness (just this morning we have the Daily Mail quoting £20m for Schurrle), but recently some have started adding the salary cost for the full length of agreed contract on top. I've seen so many different figures suggested for the Fernandinho deal that I've given up trying to guess what's what.

I know that somewhere in their minds will be the logic of BIG NUMBERS = BIG READERSHIP, but it's still bloody stupid.

[Lineker]

On Schurrle, Rudi Voller has this morning denied that he concluded a deal with Chelsea.

[stokeriño]

I wouldn't expect any official confirmation on anything until *at least* Mourinho's press conference next Monday anyway.