I was about to ask you yesterday what you thought of Belfodil. I like him from limited viewings - but didn’t think he’d be rated anything like that price, I was more thinking of him for Celtic.
As that question is now invalid, can I ask you instead to find out if Emilio MacEachen of Parma has any Irish roots. Should we be making Trap aware of him?
[quote=“Rocko, post: 788632, member: 1”]I was about to ask you yesterday what you thought of Belfodil. I like him from limited viewings - but didn’t think he’d be rated anything like that price, I was more thinking of him for Celtic.
As that question is now invalid, can I ask you instead to find out if Emilio MacEachen of Parma has any Irish roots. Should we be making Trap aware of him?[/quote]
I would have thought he would have been more likely to have Scottish roots. One player who I would be keeping an eye out for next season with Parma is Alvaro Ampuero who is a 20 yr Peruvian left wing back. I saw him play live in one game last season - thin it have been with Parma played Milan and he was very impressive. He didn’t really break into the team but I’d expect him to this season.
Just seen a bit of Football Italia where Moratti confirms that this move is in the pipeline. Ridiculous stuff as far as I’m concerned.
Bayer Leverkusen have signed Giulio Donati according to the agent Puke has quoted for the Capello deal. He had a very impressive u-21 tournament for Italy so hopefully he can do well in the Bundesliga.
Inter have made some appalling decisions with regard to their youth players in the past.
Andy Carroll has completed his move to West Ham.
20 million and 100k a week. He might be a shit footballer but he must have a hell of an agent.
20 million, holy shit, Liverpool will be delighted with that amount. Thought it would have been between 10 and 15 million for him.
Where’d you see those figures
It was mentioned on radio this morning.
The transfer fee may have been in euro.
Apparently Juve had bid €20m and Marrone and Gabbiadini for Jovetic.
Good deal for both clubs.
Adam Szalai on his way from Mainz to Schalke for €8m.
Higuain to Arsenal is pretty much done but won’t be finalized until after Real appoint Ancelotti. Good signing in my uninformed view.
I concur with your uninformed view. Also represents a bit of ambition from Arsenal that has been sorely missing in recent years.
His goals to games ratio is excellent over an extended period of time. I give this the RTT approval as a good signing.
Schalke are building quite a decent side if they can hold onto the likes of Draxler & Papadopoulos
They’re also cleaning up at youth level. They had no replacement for Huntelaar when he was injured last season because they never replaced Raul. They’re certainly adding more quality though.
Last season’s top scorer in the Ligat Al, Eliran atar of Maccabi Tel Aviv has left the club and joined Stade de Reims who fnished 14th in Ligue Une lst year for around 2 million euro.
Its a strange one i think and comes on the back of Oscar Garcia quitting the club to go back to Barcelona at the end of the season.
The Cruyffs are reportedly seething that Atar wanted to leave with the CL qualifiers coming up next month, anyway itll be interetsing to see what Maccabi do with the money, Paolo Sousa arrived in town this week to take over as coach after Garcia quit
Thiago Alcantara to United seems to be edging closer. €18 million release clause apparently.
A good signing for United. Finally they seem to be addressing the problem they have had for years in the middle of the field.
Strange for Barca to be selling him but they evidently don’t rate him that highly.