Southampton have agreed a £12million fee for Hull City striker Shane Long

Wayne Rooney named new Manchester United captain

Liverpool have agreed a £12million deal to sign Sevilla defender Alberto Moreno

Trabzonspor have agreed terms with Kolo Toure and will bring him to the club

Queens Park Rangers are closing in the signing of former Swansea midfielder Jonathan De Guzman.

Mensol

14536 Posts

August 13 2014 01:15 GMT

#1643

Dusan Tasic for £10.9m (25 years old)
Saphir Taider £0 (exchange with Osvaldo) (22 years old)
Fraser Forster £10m (26 years old)
Graziona Pellé for £8m (29 years old)
Florin Gardos for £6 (25 years old)
Bertnard loan from Chelsea (25 years old)
Shane Long for £12m (27 years old)
= £48m

So you get like five decent player for Lallana and Lovren haha.

Lallana - £25
Shaw - £30
Lovren £20
Chamber £16
Lambert £4.6m
= £95m

Seems like Koeman still have like £35-40m budget. He needs one more winger, LB, RB and one really good MF. Soton is going to be such a tough team under Koeman.

-----------------------------Forster
-transfer/Bertnard---Fonte/Yoshida--Gardos/Hooiveld----Clyne/transfer
-------------------Schniderlin//Wanayama
---------Taider/JWP/Cork--------transfer/Gaston Ramirez/JWP
---Tadic/Jay -------------------------- Tadic/transfer
----------------------Pellé/Shane

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

August 13 2014 01:27 GMT

#1644

12m for shane long LOL

Lovedrop

2629 Posts

August 13 2014 01:50 GMT

#1645

CANT WAIT FOR SATURDAY
FABCOSTA COMIN AT U
WAT U GON DEW

nitram

Canada5412 Posts

August 13 2014 02:05 GMT

#1646

Boruc >>> forster

MagickMan

Australia498 Posts

August 13 2014 04:11 GMT

#1647

Shane Long is quality but 12million.... Well done Hull.

Pande who will start, Cech or Courtois?

sharkie

Austria18713 Posts

August 13 2014 04:27 GMT

#1648

Was super cup a comfortable win for Real?

ViperPL

Poland1775 Posts

August 13 2014 05:46 GMT

#1649

I read reports about the Real - Sevilla game, and it was fairly comfortable win for the Madrid team. They were in control of the game, got two goals, despite Sevilla's keeper best efforts. Also, Krychowiak had a very good game, despite his team losing, which is great news!

That Rojo guy looked pretty good in Brasil, very active and eager to attack. If he goes to Man Utd I'm sure van Gaal will turn him into quality player

kyllinghest

Norway1607 Posts

August 13 2014 06:47 GMT

#1650

On August 13 2014 10:50 Lovedrop wrote:
CANT WAIT FOR SATURDAY
FABCOSTA COMIN AT U
WAT U GON DEW

I hate to be a buzzkill, but fabcosta plays on monday!

Kleinmuuhg

Vanuatu4091 Posts

August 13 2014 06:55 GMT

#1651

real looks so freaking scary its unbeliavable
and james hasnt even been integrated fully

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

August 13 2014 07:44 GMT

#1652

On August 13 2014 13:11 MagickMan wrote:
Shane Long is quality but 12million.... Well done Hull.

Pande who will start, Cech or Courtois?

He is just too good and young to keep anywhere near the bench. It is just crazy, maybe he will do a cup + champs league for Cech this season idk, but im pretty sure Courtios will play every league game unless injured.

Also the Super discussion was in champs league thread t.t

MapleLeafSirup

Germany950 Posts

August 13 2014 08:46 GMT

#1653

I won't hop on the Real Madrid hype train as of now.
Of course they are extremely good and should be even better than last season:
CR is at 100% again and Bale seems to have developed as well.
Also Kroos is better than Xabi Alonso in my opinion.

But:
Kroos+Modric are not the best central midfielders in terms of defense. Let's first see how that works out.
I might be the only one in the world but James Rodriguez looks so unbelievably overrated to me, it's not funny. Sure his WC performance was great, but how did he really stand out before the WC? I have never seen him play so I can only judge on his statistics and they are not great at all, neither for his former clubs nor in the national team. Di Maria on the other hand, was one of their key players last season and now he has to give his spot away to James?

James may prove me wrong and then you are free to quote and bash me

But until then, I won't be too scared of Madrid, at least not more than last season.

Ysellian

Netherlands9029 Posts

August 13 2014 12:26 GMT

#1654

phew got my fantasy squad ready just in time! Hopefully I won't forget about it like I did a couple times last season.

ViperPL

Poland1775 Posts

August 13 2014 12:33 GMT

#1655

Real looks like the strongest team in the world in terms of offensive capabilities, but their defensive side looks average at best. I'd say their best defensive tactic is just keeping possesion of the ball, limiting the time opponents have to use it, which might be hard in later stages of Champions League.

Regarding Rodriguez I think it was only natural for Real to overpay for the biggest star of WC, especially when he wasn't even needed on their super stacked roster. If he gels in with rest of the players though, and with Ancelotti's management, he should be a real superstar.

Got one question for you guys also, what site would you reccomend for football news, updates, info about teams, transfers etc.? Cause I'm using some polish site, which is good enough, but I'd prefer great international one available out there.

3point14

Germany890 Posts

August 13 2014 12:36 GMT

#1656

Dortmund vs Bayern, german supercup today

time for Dortmund to get to know our new striker Lewi

edit: at 6pm in Germany

Ysellian

Netherlands9029 Posts

August 13 2014 12:37 GMT

#1657

^ I use teamliquid for my international football needs

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

August 13 2014 12:38 GMT

#1658

On August 13 2014 21:37 Ysellian wrote:
^ I use teamliquid for my international football needs

Yeah use Team Liquid or if you must defer or im not here to post the biggest news and updates, try Sky Sports.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

August 13 2014 12:46 GMT

#1659

Super Cups!

Community Shield
Manchester City 0-3 Arsenal

Cazorla 22min

Ramsey 43min

Giroud 62min

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
Benfica vs Rio Ave
Benfica Win 3-2 on Penalties

DFL-Super Cup
Borussia Dortmund vs FC Bayern

Supercopa de España
Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid
1st Leg
2nd Leg

Supercoppa Italiana
Juventus vs Napoli

Trophée des Champions
Paris-Saint Germain 2-0 Guingamp

Ibrahimovic 8min & 20min (pen)

Johan Cruijff Shield
Ajax 0-1 PEC Zwolle

Nijland 54min

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

August 13 2014 13:13 GMT

#1660

The Court of Arbitration for Sport is to announce its decision on Luis Suarez's appeal at 2pm on Thursday.

Transfer News

Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola has sought to bring an end to the ongoing speculation linking him with Borussia Dortmund playmaker Marco Reus by announcing that he already has more than enough attack-minded quality at his disposal.

We already have eight strikers. I do not need new players. I am pleased
with this squad.

AC Milan have announced the signing of Colombia international Pablo Armero on loan from Udinese

Hamburg chairman Dietmar Beiersdorfer has ruled out the sale of Rafael van der Vaart this summer

According to reports in Spain, Fiorentina have given Barcelona a deadline of 20 August to make an acceptable offer for Juan Cuadrado

Celta Vigo winger Nolito has been linked with a move to Everton after netting a pre-season hat-trick against the Toffees

Marouane Fellaini scored a late winner for Manchester United against Valencia last night but his future remains the subject of speculation and there are reports in Italy today that Napoli are closing in on a deal for the Belgian midfielder

Reports in Italy continue to suggest that Roma defender Mehdi Benatia remains on the radar of Chelsea. The 27-year-old had been tipped to join Manchester City before Eliaquim Mangala’s switch from Porto, and La Gazzetta dello Sport says that Chelsea could now be set to step up their interest

Everton are closing in on the loan signing of Christian Atsu from Chelsea.

Artur Boruc has been tipped to leave Southampton following the arrival of Fraser Forster, who Ronald Koeman has confirmed will be the club's No.1 goalkeeper

Bundesliga 2 side FSV Frankfurt are set to launch a bid for in-demand Inverness striker Billy McKay

It emerged yesterday that Elche midfielder Carlos Sanchez may be a target for Aston Villa, and reports in Spain now say that he is to fly in for a medical this morning and sign a three-year contract

Liverpool defender Martin Kelly is close to joining Crystal Palace, according to Sky sources.

Metz have accused West Ham United of a ‘lack of respect’ regarding the Premier League club’s interest in striker Diafra Sakho

The Times reports that Samuel Eto’o has turned down Liverpool’s initial contract offer but hopes to receive an improved deal. Everton are also said to have expressed an interest in the former Chelsea striker.

Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka confirmed he is aiming to sign Chelsea duo Patrick Bamford and George Saville on loan.