QPR: IF you want Taabart he will cost TEN MILLION POUNDS.
PSG: Here’s £13.5 million.
QPR: Um, ok.
SSN reporting that bids of GBP£10m have been received for Shane Long. :blink:
Bolton the latest side to be linked with Robbie Keane
A couple from todays Indo
- Doyle to Arsenal for £12m
- O’Shea to complete move to Sunderland for £3m
I await Tinnions reaction to this news.
O’Shea is worth far more than £3million.
But he’s experienced, foreign as regards the English Premier League goes and is proven at that level so £3m seems reasonable.
If he was young, English and completely unproven then he’d logically go for at least 4 times that.
Palermo president says Pastore is 90% likely to leave and will probably go to either Real Madrid or Malaga!
Is there anything to this Kevin Doyle to Arsenal story?
Clichy’s move to Manchester City has been formally completed. He said himself when Adebayor left Arsenal for Manchester City in 2009 that anyone who ends up there is motivated by money. :blink:
As good a thing as any to be motivated in life by 
Nasri is still being pursued by Manchester United and Arsenal are ready to deal for GBP£25m according to tomorrow’s London Independent.
Also features Paul Scholes calling Arsenal ‘pointless’.
Zamparini is a clown. He has a new story for the papers regarding Pastore everyday, presumably to keep his name in the paper and his stock high. Maybe he thinks that if he says it often enough somebody will bite the bait and stump up €50m. I like Pastore but he’s only worth half of that at most. He should stay in Italy anyway, his game is much more suited to there than the high tempo Spanish and English leagues.
Carlos Tevez has issued a statement saying he wants to leave Manchester City.
He’s messed up in the head that lad.
Doesn’t he take career advice from his infant daughter or something? I wonder where he’ll end up?
Sean St.Ledger has gone to Leicester. Very good move for him. Sven tends to organise his defence well so hopefully will work out.
Find it a bit bizarre than United are willing to sell JOS. He has had some injuries of late but still a solid defender. Not an organiser though, he needs to be directed on the pitch.
Much and all that Id love to see Kevin Doyle move to Arsenal, that move would be as bizarre as McLeish to Villa.
Keane to Bolton would be a good move for him, he would work well off Kevin Davies and be the main man there.
Villa forums have it that Foster will move to Villa if McLeish can persuade the Bham goalkeeping coach to come aswell. Id prefer Given.
Would score more goals elsewhere thats for sure, somewhere he’s not used as a battering ram for example.
He Scores Goals and Works Hard: What’s Not to Like About Kevin Doyle?
Kevin Doyle may not be viewed as a “glamorous” signing by the majority of Arsenal fans but he’s probably just what Arsene Wenger needs as he bids to rebuild the Gunners.
Wenger is understood to have placed Wolves striker Doyle high on his summer wish-list and supporters are already claiming that he’s not fit to wear the shirt.
Indeed, the levels of vitriol have been so severe that Doyle’s name has even been trending on social networking site Twitter.
His ratio of goals has always been used as a stick to beat him with but the Republic of Ireland international’s unwavering commitment and selfless attitude should make him the perfect fit for Arsenal and their new strategy.
Can you imagine Doyle going AWOL on a Tuesday night at, say, the Reebok Stadium, as the likes of Andrey Arshavin and Marouane Chamakh did time and time again last season?
Arshavin’s performances away from the Emirates last season stank and he could easily have been auditioning for the lead role in a remake of Chuck Norris classic ‘Missing In Action’.
Doyle would never be found wanting and his style of play would allow his team-mates, particularly the likes of Theo Walcott and Robin van Persie, to thrive even more.
It is difficult to understand why Arsenal fans are getting so irate about a possible move for Doyle. From a PR point of view, sure, it might not be sending out a message that Wenger is desperate to end his agonising trophy drought.
But for years Wenger has been implored to buy British players and ditch his policy of signing fancy-dan foreigners who struggle to cope with 38 Premier League games, not to mention all the other matches Arsenal are required to play in the season.
So it is a case of double standards or football snobbery? Or that Doyle isn’t actually that good after all, despite the fact he has admirers all over Europe?
Doyle has certainly been admired by Wenger for a long time, ever since the Arsenal manager raved about him while co-commentating on French TV for Ireland’s World Cup play-off against France.
Wenger will have great difficulty convincing Wolves to part with Doyle, however. Wolves are desperate to convince the 27-year-old, halfway through a four-year contract, to sign a new improved deal.
Figures of £12-£15 million have already been mooted as the going rate to sign Doyle and Mick McCarthy would have major problems trying to replace him.
Doyle epitomises everything about Wolves and their lung-busting work ethic, playing a substantial part in helping them secure survival two seasons running.
But if Wenger does come calling, and all the suggestions are that he will, then Doyle has the opportunity of a lifetime.
Man City are getting into this transfer window a bit now, rumoured to be trying to hijack Juve’s bid for Kun Aguero, in an attempt to appease Tevez, or at least, replace him.
Tevez be crazy.
More bad news for Arsenal fans as Ricky Alvarez looks set to sign for Inter.
Where’s that article on Doyle from MBB?
Nice to see Doyle is British now.