2013 Summer Transfer Thread

[stokeriño]

There are two other ways you can take the "only target" thing.

1) It doesn't mean anything, rather he's keeping our our interests secret as we usually would (aka "shut up and leave us alone, media types").

2) It's to underline to both United and Rooney himself that we're serious about the transfer, which might convince Rooney to push things along or some such. Or at the very least boost his ego (you know, more so).

[Dan]

Or he is Chelsea's only target?

[Nerf]

Or he is the only person they're targeting right now.

[stokeriño]

Or he is Chelsea's only target?

OTHER ways, Dan. I said OTHER!

[Bobfoc]

The best thing to come out of this story for me was when I was at the gym today, and the live BBC News subtitles on one of the televisions translated "Jose Mourinho" as "Joe's a marine, yo".

[Hobo]

Bild have reported that Liverpool have bid €14 for Kyriakos Papadopoulos.

[Rich]

€14 is a very reasonable price, man Greece has hit hard times!

[Matt]

Edit: also Things That Anger And Confuse Wayne Rooney

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Sky Sports are reporting that Maicon has left Man City and joined Roma.

[MDK]

Maicon-gratulations to him

[Kaney]

I hope his good fortune maicon-tinue.

[MDK]

And I hope that you Maicon-tribute as awesomely as you normally do

[Kaney]

He Maicon-sider upping his game at his new club.

[Baddar]

Here's Maicon-tribution.

[MDK]

I have to go, Maicon-tact lense has fallen on the floor

[Kaney]

Here's Maicon-tribution.

Don't just use the same pun already used, Maicon-tempt for you is endless :\

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Maicon.

[MDK]

Maicon-tempt, you have it

[stokeriño]

We're seriously retreading on old material now.

And in that vein...()...here's another bunch of Very Obviously Targeted At Someone In Particular quotes from Mourinho in today's Kuala Lumpur press conference:

"Normally for a player to go from the national team, a player to be selected for his country, normally, the player must be a first choice player in the club, he must play very regular with the club and I think that's the big motivation if they are thinking about the World Cup.

"So any player that wants to go to the World Cup if they are a second choice in their club, they are in trouble. This is a crucial year for that and probably many national team coaches are worried because they want their players to play regular in their teams.

"So I think this is like a combination. You must play for me, to play for you. You must play for you, to play for me. So I think they have to share this situations."

[TCO]

He's right though. Mike Williamson needs to play every week this close to the World Cup