***Transfer Rumours Thread*** [ALL RUMOUR TOPICS MERGED]

[johnny crossan]

Fifteen Staying: Hart, Boateng, Richards, Zabaleta, Kolarov, Kolo, Kompany, Barry, De Jong, Yaya, Milner, AJ, Silva, Balotelli

Eleven Going: Given, Wright-Phillips, Bridge, Lescott, Logan, Vieira, Jo, Adebayor, Santa Cruz, Weiss, Tevez

Nine Coming: Dzeko, Luiz, Pastore, Henderson, Petrovitch, Carroll, + ???

One Returning: Nedum

odds please?

[Douglas Higginbottom]

[Scatman]

[johnny crossan]

[johnny crossan]

What about Petrovitch? Watched him last night for Partizan - everybody is after him they said so -sign him up!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radosav_Petrovi%C4%87

[BmoreBlue]

i would hope we'd buy three or four players total between january and summer 2011 - nine players is way too much turnover for a team as good as we are

[johnny crossan]

4-4-2 has us bidding for £35m for Suarez (I can see Ted's eyes bulging from here!)
Balo, Suarez and Carroll -what a strike force - talk about Three Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest!!

[Beeks]

[PeterParker]

http://www.joe.ie/football/football-new ... m-007978-1?

[Beefymcfc]

[PeterParker]

The Bosnians call him "Machinegun" or kalashnikov, because of his scoring appetite :))

[superkev8705]

[johnny crossan]

[john@staustell]

[PeterParker]

http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/20 ... 00-million?

According to reports, Manchester City are lining up a €100 million bid to bring Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta to Eastlands.

Iniesta finished an almost perfect season last time around by scoring the winning goal for Spain in the World Cup in South Africa and he is now in contention for winning the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

"Iniesta has had a great year and has come through the Barcelona youth system, but this does not mean that the Catalan club do not consider a good offer," a representative of Manchester City was quoted as saying by Marca.

Barcelona's financial situation is no secret and such large offers for any player may be considered by Blaugrana officials.

Bollcks or... ? Beside de Barcelona problem, Silva can be an important factor for Iniesta to come here (they were team mates at all Spain low teams. U21,U19, etc)

[Beeks]

No way Iniesta is happening...a transfer like thast would rock the foundations of football and people would have to start taking us seriously...not gonna happen

[PeterParker]

I think the player isn`t interested, but what about the club? I read that Barcelona have some financial problems and maybe by selling him they will restore the balance. But i don`t think the owner will go that far and force him out, than again ? They selled Figo to their alltime rivals.

[jono1978]

What a buy that would be. Please be true.

[Beeks]

Tuesday night, Yahoo! Sports came out with a story talking about the probable sale of Barcelona star midfielder Andrés Iniesta either this coming winter market or during the summer. This was supposedly a move in which current president Sandro Rosell would be forced into due to the heavy amount of debt that is burdening the club according to ¨a club source ¨.

There was speculation that based on the €100 million price tag, the only team able to buy him would be Manchester City. This final tidbit was the only thing that was true about the article. Even the figures of the controversial jersey deal with The Qatar Foundation were incorrect.

Well, I can confirm that this is not true.

What seemed weird was that the Madrid press never got ahold of this news and splattered it on the front page of their dailies. The news came from an American outlet.

Although Sandro Rosell’s top priority is to bring down that debt, he is also interested in maintaining a team that is highly competitive especially with Real Madrid breathing down their necks. By selling the potential Ballon D’Or winner and the hero in Spain’s World Cup title, that would completely defeat the purpose of what Rosell is trying to do. Who knows, that would be the last straw for Barca fans with the new president.

In the event that were to happen, the first thing that would be done would be to censure Rosell. That would definitely not be the the former marketing guru would like to spend te remaining five-and-a-half plus years in charge of a club that he grew up supporting.

In addition to political suicide, it could also have terrible consequences on the football side. Pep Guardiola has said time and time again that Iniesta is one of his most important players. Pep has a great influence in which players have to stay and which players go. I don’t Tampering with this midstream could spell disaster for any team, especially a team that has the chemistry that Barca have.

Would the team afford to have Iniesta leave and have place Seydou Keita or even Sergio Busquets from a tactical perspective?

According to Catalan daily Sport writer, Xavier Ortuño, this article has no foundation. “News about possible transfers and their potential interests are published on a daily basis and come from the most unexpected places,”said Ortuño.”You can figure out where they originate from rather quickly. When the time a player has to renew his contract nears, the agent always wants others to talk about his client in order to have leverage with numbers.”

This all arises from the current economic situation of the club. “A club comes out and says that their economic situation is not the best and in a matter of hours news of offers for one of their star players begin to surface,” said Ortuño. “Sound familiar?”

More importantly, for the sake of refuting this article, I contacted FC Barcelona and spoke to to International Press Secretary, José Miguel Terés and there was absolutely no base to this story. They should be coming shortly with a statement refuting this speculated transaction.

So Barca fans, breathe easy as Spain’s favorite son will remain at the club that has seen him grow for quite a few years.

[Wooders]

we've got more chance of signing ghandi