The Summer Transfer Window Thread 2014/15

[stokeriño]

There ya go, super knowledgeable scout Nerf has spoken.

Fuck. Is it too late to get them to pull out of the deal? If we mention Nerf by name it should be enough...

[TCO]

We're so rubbish. Not unveiled the new home kit yet, so he's holding last years with name and no number, which odds are is the same shirt Luuk was holding in January.

Wasn't last season's home kit only revealed a couple of days prior to the first game? Silly.

Happy to see any sort of signing and by all accounts it's not a bad one. I really hope he's much better than his brother though.

[Rafael]

Yay! The good De Jong! So out of nowhere.

[Rafael]

http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/02/arsenal-sign-12m-mathieu-debuchy-and-will-confirm-transfer-after-world-cup-4783479/

[The Lusophone]

Yay! The good De Jong! So out of nowhere.

Newcastle signed Nigel?

[METALMAN]

Basically Diego Costa's got this massive move after one really good season and a whole host of average ones? Who is to say he isn't just La Liga's answer to James Beattie?

Oh God. Imagine how much James Beattie would have gone for nowadays. Southampton, you know. And he'd still be better value than Luke Shaw or Adam Lallana.

[Rafael]

Yay! The good De Jong! So out of nowhere.

Newcastle signed Nigel?

Out of the brothers.

[Jimmy]

Think of the money Ipswich could've got for Marcus Stewart and let's not even start on Kevin Phillips.

[Jimmy]

Southampton have made a formal bid for Feyenoord's Graziano Pellè. (Source: Sky Sports)

Poor Lars.

[9 to 5]

Think of the money Ipswich could've got for Marcus Stewart and let's not even start on Kevin Phillips.

Or Jordan Rhodes.....

[Nerf]

Basically Diego Costa's got this massive move after one really good season and a whole host of average ones? Who is to say he isn't just La Liga's answer to James Beattie?

Oh God. Imagine how much James Beattie would have gone for nowadays. Southampton, you know. And he'd still be better value than Luke Shaw or Adam Lallana.

The one season that he has been given the freedom to play his natural game and not shunted out wide to accommodate Falcao, you mean?

Plus, y'know, buying Atletico's star striker is NEVER a bad idea, history suggests.

Edited July 2, 2014 by Nerf

[Gazz]

Yay! The good De Jong! So out of nowhere.

We signed the crap Amalfitano so we had to balance it out eventually.

[brenchill]

No joke on nothing, Luke Shaw £30m is ridiculous. Why do you need an expensive LB? He's just a LB.

[TCO]

£12mil for Debuchy isn't a bad return. Doubling an investment on a 29 year old fullback isn't the worst thing in the world. Santon goes to right back now and let Haidara or Dummett fight for the left side if a replacement can't be found.

I'd be fighting to get Ricardo Rodriguez if I were any big club, so good and so young. You could easily get him for half the price of Luke Shaw.

[Gazz]

No joke on nothing, Luke Shaw £30m is ridiculous. Why do you need an expensive LB? He's just a LB.

Why is a LB any less important than any other position?

[9 to 5]

With Shaw, 30m is clearly a fuckton of money but if it works out, that is one position of your team sorted for the next 15 years which is a sound investment.

[Thrilla]

Exactly, if he is United's left back for the next decade that is only £3 million a year, which is a fair investment.

[brenchill]

No joke on nothing, Luke Shaw £30m is ridiculous. Why do you need an expensive LB? He's just a LB.

Why is a LB any less important than any other position?

A LB is less important than a ST because he scores the goals to win football matches.

[9 to 5]

But if you don't concede, you can't lose.

Strikers get the headlines, but defenders do far more the work.

[METALMAN]

Basically Diego Costa's got this massive move after one really good season and a whole host of average ones? Who is to say he isn't just La Liga's answer to James Beattie?

Oh God. Imagine how much James Beattie would have gone for nowadays. Southampton, you know. And he'd still be better value than Luke Shaw or Adam Lallana.

The one season that he has been given the freedom to play his natural game and not shunted out wide to accommodate Falcao, you mean?

Plus, y'know, buying Atletico's star striker is NEVER a bad idea, history suggests.

Three players that are NOT Diego Costa did well, so obviously Diego Costa will do well? You really do display the most inane logic sometimes.