Summer 2015 Non-Spurs Transfers

Blackcanary said:

It's got an option to buy for next season for 8 million euros.

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225 said:

I see Sky Sports are now using Football Manager to rate transfers.

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...sky-sports-analyse-the-worlds-top-footballers



Next we'll have Neville and Carragher playing a game of FIFA with some analysis before a match

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225 said:

As per the 'other' thread, it wouldn't happen. It ended badly when they were at Barca together and Zlatan said some defining things on him in his book.

Edit: It was Ajax, not Barca

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225 said:

Is it an option, or one of those non-optional options (like Negredo)

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KILLA_SIN said:

Can you let us know what they were?

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We headed to a training camp in Portugal and, by that time Beenhakker had resigned as director and was replaced by Louis van Gaal. Van Gaal was a pompous ass. He was a little like Co Adriaanse. He wanted to be a dictator, without a hint of a gleam in his eye. As a player, he'd never stood out, but he was revered in the Netherlands because, as a manager, he'd won the Champions League with Ajax and received some medal from the government.

Van Gaal liked to talk about playing systems. He was one of those in the club who referred to the players as numbers. There was a lot of Five goes here and Six goes there, and I was glad when I could avoid him. In Portugal, I couldn't escape. I had to go in for a meeting with van Gaal and Koeman and listen to how they viewed my contribution in the first half of the season. It was like a performance review with grades, the kind of thing they loved at Ajax. I went into an office there and sat down in front of van Gaal and Ronald Koeman. Koeman smiled. Van Gaal looked sullen.

"Zlatan," said Koeman, "you've played brilliantly, but you're only getting an eight. You haven't worked hard enough at the back."

"Okay, fine," I said, wanting to leave.

I liked Koeman, but couldn't cope with van Gaal, and I thought, Great, an eight will do me. Can I have a break now?

"Do you know how to play in defence?" Van Gaal was sticking his oar in, and I could see that Koeman was getting annoyed too.

"I hope so," I replied.

Then van Gaal started to explain, and, believe me, I'd heard it all before. It was the same old stuff about how Nine—that is, me— defends to the right, while Ten goes to the left, and vice versa, and he drew a bunch of arrows and finished with a really harsh "Do you understand? Do you get all this?," and I took it as an attack.

"You can wake up any of the players at three in the morning," I said, "and ask them how to defend and they'll rattle it off in their sleep: Nine goes here and Ten goes there. We know that stuff, and we know you're the one who came up with it. But I've trained with van Basten, and he thinks otherwise."

"Excuse me?"

"Van Basten says Number Nine should save his strength for attacking and scoring goals, and, to tell the truth, now I don't know who I should listen to, van Basten – who's a legend – or van Gaal?" I said, putting special emphasis on the name van Gaal, as if he were some completely insignificant figure.

And what do you reckon? Was he happy?

He was fuming. Who should I listen to, a legend or van Gaal? "I've gotta go now," I said, and got out of there.

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Blackcanary said:

It's an optional option.

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Gbspurs said:

Chelsea really are a bunch of twats aren't they. How many attacking mids do they need. Even Oscar and Willian are safe from ending up in the scrap heap which is gutting considering how badly we wanted both.

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225 said:

For the context of a review (or something)

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KILLA_SIN said:

Keep hearing good things about the book, I should really read it.

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225 said:

£6.27 delivered on most sites

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KILLA_SIN said:

Its more the time factor I have loads of books which I 'intend' to read

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225 said:

I don't read much, but as per my thread on here (with my insomnia at the turn of the year) I read Guy Martin's autobio and loved it. Bought Ledley's and found it a bit of a struggle to get into - massive difference in the writing styles, let's say.

Anyway - Chelsea's Pedro role is becoming a little clearer: (from Sky Sports)

Chelsea forward Willian has been offered to Bayern Munich and PSG by his agent, according to German outlet TZ Online.

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carpediem991 said:

Wolfsburg pretty much confirmed de Bruyne is on his way to Manchester. Wow, at least pulls them out of the Saido-race. But it will be interesting for what player Wolfsburg is planning a panic move now. As a neutral fan I'd say Eriksen would fit perfectly there but as a Spurs fan with Levy in mind they can fuck off.

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ItsBoris said:

Where'd you see that?

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carpediem991 said:

Bundesliga Latest ‏@BL_Latest 7 Min.Vor 7 Minuten
WAZ | Kevin de Bruyne hat eine Entscheidung getroffen: Er habe sich dazu entschieden, den VfL Wolfsburg zu verlassen.

Klaus #Allofs: "Wir sind in Kontakt mit seinem Berater, wir wissen sehr gut Bescheid, was da kommen könnte." #WOB

WAZ is afaik a reliable source, saying de Bruyne decided to leave Wolfsburg.

Quote Allofs, manager of Wolfsburg: "We are talking to his agent, we pretty much know what this is leading to"

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KILLA_SIN said:

Keep hearing good things about the book, I should really read it.

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