Summer transfer thread

[City64]

Barcelona announce the signing of Arda Turan . Err thought they were banned from transfer activity ??

[Dubciteh]

Surely we In driving seat for pogba now?

Although barca have a clause that the incoming president can force a cancellation,weird!

[Saul Goodman]

This Turan deal is weird.
Joining up with Barca in Jan '16...so i guess he'll be cup tied for most competitions.
How Barca have 40m euros is crazy

[I Just Blue Myself]

Barca are paying 34m euros + 7 in add-ons.

They also have an option to return him to Atletico until July 20 for around 30m euro, if the new president fancies a different toy.

All fucked in the head a bit, if you ask me.

[JamieMCFC]

Barcelona announce the signing of Arda Turan . Err thought they were banned from transfer activity ??

No they weren't. They can buy anyone they want but they can't play for them until January.

[blues2win]

They can't register a player till January so no possibility to loan out a purchase. What they can do is buy a player and not play him till January. Bartomeu tried and failed a sort of pre deal for Pogba and even put on a photo stunt with Juve but their bid was refused. Juve CEO says no deal for Pogba this summer whereas the President was more equivocal. Still an outside bet but a 100 million euro bid might be hard to turn down and City seem pretty determined to go the extra mile.

[PrezIke]

They should call it a registration ban, not a transfer ban. What a joke. Of course no one should be surprised regardless.

[Dubciteh]

This Turan deal is weird.
Joining up with Barca in Jan '16...so i guess he'll be cup tied for most competitions.
How Barca have 40m euros is crazy

he wont have played in any competitions so he wont be cup tied.

[Clowncrete]

They should call it a registration ban, not a transfer ban. What a joke. Of course no one should be surprised regardless.

It's much harder to put in an outright transfer ban, though. What prevents a club from talking to a player and agreeing to a transfer secretly?

[Sideshow Bob]

i have a feeling this window could be up there with that epic summer of 2012. rodwell, sinclair, garcia, maicon...wow what a feeling!!

[DoomMerchant]

i have a feeling this window could be up there with that epic summer of 2012. rodwell, sinclair, garcia, maicon...wow what a feeling!!

I think it's more like 2010 bro.

Cheers

[Hazy2]

Edin to Rome ?

[Original Dub]

But Tolm said.

I watched the human league song he posted all the way through, busily gathering up clues that were cleverly scattered throughout the song.

And everything pointed towards pogba signing at 5pm.

Fuck it, he can't be right ALL the time I suppose.

Maybe I read the clues wrong. I can only hope the next song isn't a deep or riddled with hidding meanings.
"Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar"...
What does it REALLY mean??!

[Beefymcfc]

But Tolm said.

I watched the human league song he posted all the way through, busily gathering up clues that were cleverly scattered throughout the song.

And everything pointed towards pogba signing at 5pm.

Fuck it, he can't be right ALL the time I suppose.

Maybe I read the clues wrong. I can only hope the next song isn't a deep or riddled with hidding meanings.
"Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar"...
What does it REALLY mean??!

WTFFF is that!

[ruralblue]

Edin to Rome ?

Have a nice holiday. When you edin home?

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

But Tolm said.

I watched the human league song he posted all the way through, busily gathering up clues that were cleverly scattered throughout the song.

And everything pointed towards pogba signing at 5pm.

Fuck it, he can't be right ALL the time I suppose.

Maybe I read the clues wrong. I can only hope the next song isn't a deep or riddled with hidding meanings.
"Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar"...
What does it REALLY mean??!

We may have to re-open Bletchley Park.

[dazby]

O'Dub, I think you are Tolmie. You seem to be the only one that gives a shit about him.

[twosips]

To be fair, Tolmie said an hour ago it was all kicking off re Sterling and expect some new movement tonight and an hour later EVERY national paper reports right now that he's going on strike and not flying out on tour. He called that well.

[Beefymcfc]

Does he write for the Star?

Nothing wrong with keeping people informed and if they want to believe it, so be it.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

They should call it a registration ban, not a transfer ban. What a joke. Of course no one should be surprised regardless.

It's much harder to put in an outright transfer ban, though. What prevents a club from talking to a player and agreeing to a transfer secretly?

Such a transfer would be feasible but, at the end of the day, there would still have to be some pretty imaginative book-keeping to mask the issue, if any amounts of money secretly changed hands.

I don't think it's an insurmountable problem though, for the likes of Barcelona, or their corrupt ilk.