Transfer Rumours The 2015 Summer Transfer Window Thread

Oh right sorry being a bit thick tbh
I must admit sky are getting on my tits lol with their constant going over the same old stuff every time, think they must just like de stabilising the smaller teams

 

Nail on head, Craig.

 

Its like they would actually prefer a less competitive league and thus a weaker product, just for likes of Man Utd and Spurs fans (are there actually that many spuds fans UK/globally?) to click on transfer gossip articles.

 

They play up spats real and imagined at the big clubs, too. It's just the nature of 24/7 reporting on a league in which actual games are only happening for a brief window every week...hard to have wall-to-wall coverage of "everything is basically fine".

 

And in a general sense, there is nothing the press likes more than conflict. Total war is best, but failing that, football clubs being destabilised is good for viewing / circulation figures as well.

 

Draxler going to Wolfsburg.
Hernandez close to joining West Ham.

 

Heard anything in regards to our mystery foreign player we may get, Beefy? I know you said Praet, but do you think we would be likely to get him? Thanks!

 

And for me, that's even more pernicious than would be a conspiracy against the smaller sides. SKY and their ilk aren't aiming to defend the established order or anything else...they're purely parasitic agents of chaos.

 

I'm quite glad we are potentially looking to sign another player

Maybe another central defender?

 

So with all the rumours I'm just gonna ask, is anything actually likely to happen tomorrow? Ins or outs. It would be nice to have a deadline day with Saints activity.

 

Tuesday is D-Day, what with tomorrow being a bank holiday.

I'm guessing all we'll be seeing over the next 48 hours is VVD in. Although I would like one more - either a full-back, a right-midfielder, or a striker.

 

Just heard that Celtic are signing a 21 year old CB tomorrow...

 

Ah right! Yeah I'd definitely like to see another attacking midfielder or at least another attacking presence.

 

Another one? Thought Blackett signed on loan the other day?

 

Schalke apparently looking at Praet

 

Yep...

 

You need 2 CBs to replace one Virgil.

Unless he doesn't sign...then he is dross.

 

This reply was funny.

 

Must admit, I do find their attitude very strange, although most of the football media take a similar line. Call me naive but wouldn't an elite league, where everyone was very capable of beating each other, be a better product to sell to supporters.? A kind of Football League Championship but on the present PL skill level. I'd buy that product.

There is a sense that with the new money coming in, the scenario I point to above could start to happen. Already, in the last few years, the smaller clubs have started to make inroads on the dominance of so-called glamour clubs. With the new money something might eventually break. A club like Saints or Swansea might nip in front of Spurs and/or Liverpool, or Everton might do a return. Glamour clubs are going to have to bust a gut to get players significantly better than those at smaller clubs. It's the law of diminishing returns in action. Once you get to a certain level the next significant leap comes at an astronomical price. Sometimes there simply isn't the player who is good enough out there because they're all in very good contracts and the clubs are saying no, we're financially fine and we don't need your mega money. It's at transitional times like this that smaller clubs can change the order, but they must be prepared to do so.