2013 Football/Soccer Transfer Market
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Simon Mignolet going through medical at Melwood after Sunderland accept a £10 million bid from Liverpool.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...ool-transfers-simon-mignolet-expected-1990932
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...ool-transfers-simon-mignolet-expected-1990932
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Actually your original statement was that he'd never scored a dozen goals in the top flight. You've since modified that to mean in one season and, since that was wrong too, are now pretending it's for a single club.
Of course if your posts weren't so hard to read - and littered with factual inaccuracies despite demanding:
of others - you'd not be corrected so often...
Fun fact - in that season he scored 13 goals in 26 appearances in the league for Newcastle and Liverpool. In the same season, £25m man Wayne Rooney managed just 11 in 28 appearances.
Worth every penny.
Also, dig up.
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Lurking this thread is hilarious, seems that hockey and soccer both suffer from the same thing - people blatantly disregarding hard stats because of intangible qualities and vague arguments.
Not to mention the constantly moving goalposts/weird sticking points.
Not to mention the constantly moving goalposts/weird sticking points.
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As a Utd fan the Tiago deal is already feeling like the Lucas thing all over again
On more positive news Ronaldo plans to meet with "United Officials" he must be coming then.
As for the Cavani thing lmao more lazy journalism.
On more positive news Ronaldo plans to meet with "United Officials" he must be coming then. As for the Cavani thing lmao more lazy journalism.
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Why not?
They went directly head to head that season - Rooney in a title-winning side and Carroll in a pair of mid-to-low table teams. Carroll both outscored Rooney on raw scoring and per game - 13 to 11 and 50% to 39%. Manchester United scored a third more goals than Liverpool, but Rooney was only on the end of 14% of them while Carroll was on the end of 19%, making Carroll a more effective striker for his club too - though neither was the club's top scorer. Carroll was the joint second top-scoring English player - Rooney wasn't. Both scored hat-tricks - Carroll in August and Rooney six months later in April. Oh, and for their country, Carroll managed a scoring rate of 50% while Rooney only managed 40%.
And Carroll didn't serve a two match suspension for swearing into a camera live on TV during that season either - making him less of a liability.
Desperate for what?you must have been desperate
You're the one who made a silly claim that you've had to modify twice to get near to accurate. I'm merely pointing out how silly that claim is by showing that, during the season Carroll did exactly what you said he's never done, he was a more effective striker than the spud-faced darling of the habitual glory seeker Wayne "The Tantrum" Rooney.
And both are utter morons I wouldn't draft into a pub team.
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250k a week I wouldn't mind being that moron.
And a pretty average footballing moron at that.
And a pretty average footballing moron at that.
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It's one of the big problems with English players - massive transfer fees and salaries for pretty middling talent (or at least talent of middling consistency). It's little wonder the top leagues get swamped with cheaper foreign players who can at least stop a ball.
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Too think a player like Gareth Bale is practically on half the money of the cabbage head. For me in todays climate the only British player in the PL worthy of a 200k week pay cheque, and he isn't.............yet.
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This +1. In that year Saf made him a regular false 9 forward. He was mostly seen in buildups of attacks, when it came to counters, acting as constructor, 1-2s and oftenly free roaming the flanks. Similar role that benzema played this year.
It's worth mentioning that he played behind Berbatov / Hernandez for most of that season, reflected in the number of assists; 11 (4th overall in the PL).
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ESPN reports that Jozy Altidore is headed to Sunderland. I honestly wasn't expecting him to leave Alkmaar, but I hope he can continue to uphold some form. If he could score 10 goals this year I'd be very impressed.
Maybe a hat trick tonight against Guatemala would be a good celebratory measure... 💡
Maybe a hat trick tonight against Guatemala would be a good celebratory measure... 💡
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Bayern looking to move in on Lewandoski next season to get him on a free
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I've heard it has to do with his owners wanting him to go to Dortmund(sounds like one of those 3rd party situations) and so didn't come to the table, even though money was not an issue for Liverpool. They might want to keep a bit of ownership of the player, rather than sell him completely, which he would have to do since it's banned by the FA.
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I keep hearing that they're holding out on Dortmund as well.
The highest Dortmumd was said to have offered was £25 million, but Shakhtar seem to be trying to bait both Liverpool and Dortmund into making a £30 million offer. This article says that Dortmund and Shakhtar had a £25 million agreement, but Shakhtar then denied ever having agreed to the fee with Dortmund, meanwhile Liverpool, who've had a pretty messy transfer window already, matched the £25 million. Shakhtar then responded by saying they never wanted less than £30 million anways.
The whole situation with Mkhitaryan is a complete mess, with no sources having a complete story. And anyways, Liverpool should have actually begun negotiations with Shakhtar weeks ago.
The highest Dortmumd was said to have offered was £25 million, but Shakhtar seem to be trying to bait both Liverpool and Dortmund into making a £30 million offer. This article says that Dortmund and Shakhtar had a £25 million agreement, but Shakhtar then denied ever having agreed to the fee with Dortmund, meanwhile Liverpool, who've had a pretty messy transfer window already, matched the £25 million. Shakhtar then responded by saying they never wanted less than £30 million anways.
The whole situation with Mkhitaryan is a complete mess, with no sources having a complete story. And anyways, Liverpool should have actually begun negotiations with Shakhtar weeks ago.
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Liverpool have turned down a 30million pound bid for Suarez from....Arsenal
🤬 Wenger, you been smoking your socks son? Pony up another 5 for Higuain instead!
I doubt they had any intention of buying him, since Liverpool would not sell to them anyway, it's just a stunt to show they are going to spend big money again. Now I wonder if the Higuain bid was really genuine or whether they are trying to bluff Madrid into accepting their offer for Higuain by feigning interest in somebody else.
