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*Official* English Football Season 2006-07

bugssy

bugssy

Cricketer Of The Year
Transfer Rumours

Arsenal are close to securing a season-long loan for Real Madrid's Julio Baptista, with Jose Reyes returning to Spain for a year. (Various)

Arsenal may also be about to sign the two finest young players in South America - Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez - from Corinthians. (The Times)

Tottenham will offer £5m for Liverpool's Harry Kewell and also wrap up a £5.25m deal for Wigan's Pascal Chimbonda. (The Sun)

Spurs will also sign Steed Malbranque from Fulham, with Wayne Routledge going the other way on loan. (Guardian)

While Martin Jol has made a last-ditch bid to swoop for Middlesbrough winger Stewart Downing. (Daily Mirror)

If they cannot sign Downing, Spurs may turn their attentions to Lyon's Hatem Ben Arfa. (Daily Mirror)

Ashley Cole has resigned himself to fact that his move from Arsenal to Chelsea will not go ahead. (Various)

Though Arsenal could still accept a £20m offer from the Blues. (Daily Mirror)

And if they don't, Chelsea could yet pull the plug on Robert Huth's £6m move to Middlesbrough. (Daily Mirror)

Meanwhile, Chelsea have been rebuffed by Juventus with a cheeky £8m bid for left-back Giorgio Chiellini. (Daily Express)

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger wants to wrap up a deal for 18-year-old Japanese striker Sho Ito. (Daily Mirror)

Blackburn boss Mark Hughes could sign Egyptian centre-back Wael Gomaa to cover for injured Ryan Nelsen. (Daily Mirror)

Manchester United have not given up hope of signing Owen Hargreaves from Bayern Munich. (Daily Mail)

Manchester City may try to sign Marcus Bent from Charlton after Birmingham's £2m bid to get him collapsed. (Daily Mail)

PSV Eindhoven have submitted an improved bid for Liverpool defender Jan Kronkamp. (Guardian)

Portsmouth are hoping to tie up deals for Ghanaian World Cup stars Stephen Appiah and Sulley Muntari. (Independent)

Harry Redknapp is also set to complete a deal for Croatian World Cup striker Niko Kranjcar. (Daily Mirror)

Roy Keane wants Blackburn defender Andy Todd to be his first signing as Sunderland manager. (Independent)

The Black Cats boss also wants to grab former Republic of Ireland colleagues Graham Kavanagh and David Connolly from Wigan. (Daily Mail)

As well as landing Man Utd reserve Liam Miller, Portsmouth defender Andy O'Brien and Blackburn midfielder Jonathan Douglas - all Irish. (Daily Mirror)

Keane is also credited with a deadline day bid for Celtic captain Neil Lennon (Sun)

And he is about to offer £1m for Celtic trio Ross Wallace, Stanislav Varga and Stephen Pearson (Express)

Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill is hoping to sign Barcelona striker Javier Saviola before the transfer window slams shut at midnight. (Independent)

But if O'Neill does not sign the Argentine, he could yet make a bid for Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe. (Independent)

Having signed Nicolas Anelka, Bolton have now set their sights on Paris St Germain winger Vikash Dhorasoo. (Daily Mirror)

Southampton boss George Burley wants to sign his old Derby playmaker Inigo Idiakez from the Rams. (Daily Mirror)

Liverpool are still hoping to sign Blackburn defender Lucas Neill but may have to up their bid to £4m. (Independent)

Brighton have accepted a bid from Sheffield United for livewire striker Colin Kazim-Richards. (Guardian)

Carlisle's Michael Bridges has handed in a transfer request in a bid to secure a move to Hull. (Daily Mail)

Plymouth boss Ian Holloway wants to boost his squad by signing Dutch defender Marcel Seip and young England striker Cherno Samba. (Independent)

Ipswich have sold striker Nicky Forster to Hull for £200,000 and will sign Crystal Palace frontman Jon Macken on loan. (Daily Star)

Celtic have had a £500,000 bid for New England Revolution midfielder Shalrie Joseph rejected by American Major League Soccer. (Daily Record)
 
Great Birtannia

Great Birtannia

U19 Captain
bugssy said:
Plymouth boss Ian Holloway wants to boost his squad by signing Dutch defender Marcel Seip and young England striker Cherno Samba. (Independent)
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Holloway is the ex-QPR boss with the wacky press conferences isn't he.

Cherno Samba turned into an absolute weapon on CM 01/02. He was right up there with Maxim Tsigalko.
 
Great Birtannia

Great Birtannia

U19 Captain
On Tevez and Mascherano, the MSI group that own Corinthians tried to buy out West Ham last year so it is a nice little sweetner for another takeover attempt.
 
marc71178

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Tim said:
Rossi is a great snare for Newcastle considering Man Utd didn't even want to loan him to the Baggies a few months ago.
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Not sure how many starts he'll get, and suggests Taggart has a forward signing to announce.
 
P

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Amazing transfer i dont quite know how West Ham have done it. It certainly makes things more interesting, they obviously wont be a challenge for the title but they should really be looking for a top 6 and possibly even top 4
 
TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Seems like the Tevez and Mascherano deal was offered to AS Milan and AS Roma last week who both rejected it because they were not giving insurances that both players will be around for a considerable amount of time. The deal was then touted to many Premiership clubs (Man Utd, Arsenal) and only West Ham and Portsmouth were interested, Arsenal were interested in Tevez (and were prepared to pay fifteen million) but did not agree with MSI guidelines.

Make of it that what you will.
 
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TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Matteh said:
Look at the post by TT Boy that he quoted...
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In my defence West Ham have not and will not confirm how much they actually paid, both players were initially released by Sport Club Corinthians Paulista who MSI run and who both players rights are owned by. It's plainly obvious that West Ham did not pay their reported transfer worth unless MSI will take over West Ham and as Great Birtannia said, this is just the sweetener. MSI did the same at Corinthians by bringing in Tevez and Mascherano.
 
Matteh

Matteh

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
TT Boy said:
In my defence West Ham have not and will not confirm how much they actually paid, both players were initially released by Sport Club Corinthians Paulista who MSI run and who both players rights are owned by. It's plainly obvious that West Ham did not pay their reported transfer worth unless MSI will take over West Ham and as Great Birtannia said, this is just the sweetener. MSI did the same at Corinthians by bringing in Tevez and Mascherano.
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I wasn't having a go at you, just pointing out to Smith why Marc posted that link.
But yeah the undisclosed information points to something else happening behind the scenes.
 
dontcloseyoureyes

dontcloseyoureyes

BARNES OUT
I know what post he quoted, he was posting that like he was the first to break the news and he got to be right again because he's so awesome etc. I just wanted to call him out.
 
TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
http://www.mediasportsinvestments.com/

‘Funding the future of football’

8-)
The New World Order.

Smaller clubs and West Ham fans should doubtlessly rejoice but if the deal is anything like Mark Viduka’s to Leeds, then West Ham could have some problems (in years to come) and the realistic prospect of no transfer resell.
 
Matteh

Matteh

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
TT Boy said:
That's old, from this morning. West Ham's website and MSI website (who links it to the Guardian) both state permanent moves.
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Ah k. Essentially if West Ham fail to make top half this season, there's something majorly wrong.
 
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