: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:04 am  

Utd today linkd with Douglas Costa for £21m and Dodo for £5m, the latter to come in February. Both young players from Brazil 18 & 17.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:09 am  

PAUL M wrote:

Utd today linkd with Douglas Costa for £21m and Dodo for £5m,

Thought he was extinct.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:14 am  

Enfield Exile wrote:

On the subject of u21s, if England had a creative player, or at least someone in midfield who could pass the pass, they would be the best team in the tournament by a country mile.

Tonight Serbia vs Sweden; Belarus vs Italy.

Pretty much Italy plus 1 other, to play England and Germany in the semis. Spain are out.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:18 am  

Mark wrote:

I'm sure you don;thave enough to spend £17 million on an pretty insignificant are of the team, of course it will turn out to be another amazing signing by Benitez, his theory that we spend more is really out the window now, even though it was utter shy'te before.

United + £80 million
Liverpool - £ 17 million

Pomey owe us money for Crouch so it won't be - £17M plus we have most of last summers kitty left.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:00 am  

Got to love the comment from Yaya Toure's agent about Mascherano to Barcelona. When asked if it would be a problem he apparently responded with "Only for the Argentine."

Paired with this: 9.44 Hull City Phil Brown has said he will present a financial package to Michael Owen within the next week. The Newcastle man looked non-plussed when quizzed over Hull's interest yesterday but as Brown says 'anything is possible in football'. Even a tan in January.

And the sky sports transfer centre is quite amusing today.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:04 am  

EXILEDHULLADGATESHEAD wrote:

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:17 am  

Wire_85 wrote:

Pomey owe us money for Crouch so it won't be - £17M plus we have most of last summers kitty left.

Why is the Crouch situation relevant to the Johnson fee? Will they not pay pay you for Crouch unless you buy Johnson?

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:35 am  

Cibaman wrote:

Why is the Crouch situation relevant to the Johnson fee? Will they not pay pay you for Crouch unless you buy Johnson?

No but they didnt pay the money all in one go for Crouch therefore they owe us money so by buying a player off them it would make sense instead of them paying us more we would pay say 3 - 4mil less on the deal and call it quits on the Crouch future payments.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:42 am  

Cibaman wrote:

Why is the Crouch situation relevant to the Johnson fee? Will they not pay pay you for Crouch unless you buy Johnson?

I think the Crouch fee would have been paid over the next two seasons, so instead of us having to wait to get that, we've cleared that off and given Pompey the rest for Johnson. If that money is coming straight out of this year's net budget, then it's only £10m net, I'm guessing.

As for your point Mark. I can't be bothered getting into the whole money and how much has been spent debate, there's so much that has to be taken into consideration. But Johnson is good and has potential to get better, it may seem inflated but when the top sides want to sign English players, they always have to pay more.

: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:44 am  

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2009/06/23/why-i-had-to-splash-out-on-glen-johnson-liverpool-fc-boss-rafa-benitez-100252-23949351/ Interesting read only one more signing to come in is how I read it going to be interesting to see who Chelsea and Man U buy mostly Man U due to there team already weaker than last seasons - Ronaldo and Tevez.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2009/06/23/why-i-had-to-splash-out-on-glen-johnson-liverpool-fc-boss-rafa-benitez-100252-23949351/ Interesting read only one more signing to come in is how I read it going to be interesting to see who Chelsea and Man U buy mostly Man U due to there team already weaker than last seasons - Ronaldo and Tevez.