Football Rumours Archive February 18 2009
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LFC have an agreement for Keirrison de Souza Carneiro the latest Brazillian 'wonderkid' would already be at Anfield were it not for complications over his contract (Tevez, Mascherano stylie. The deal is now done and he will join in the Summer.
So bitter! FACT.
I heard it from one of my sources. . wenger id goin to swap eboue for athletico madrid's U17 star as a deal. .then arsena will rise. .
in wenger we trust. .
Firstly to all this Rangers take over nonsence. The truth is that David Murray had a good offer for the club earlier in the season and didn't accept it as the new would be owners wanted to sell off the Murray Park training complex. David Murray refused and so we are where we are which in truth is no closer to a new buyer. He has always said that the training facilities are a legacy he wants to stay. On the transfer front there is only one 1st team player they want rid of and it is Barry Ferguson because of all the same issues as last time when Le Guen was in charge. He thinks he runs the place so expect to see him leave come the summer. There was two bids from the premiership Newcastle & Sunderland) in the window but they were both loan moves and the Gers wanted the cash and rid of him for good.
When Leicester get promoted they will sign the following players:
David Martin On permanent Basis
David Connolly
Nathan Tyson
Adam le fondre
And Finally Simon Cox
To the 3 rumour makers of these:
Well nice to see others agree with me regarding Mascherano, a good player but theres no goals in him, sadly he'll be on his way in the summer as will Reina. I agree with the joe Hart rumour. Aguero and Villa look certain to join Liverpool, he was almost hugging Alonso in the pre match national anthem and he's type cast for Torres.
El Torro
Sergio Aguero will sign for Liverpool for 7m and Pepe Reina this deal will go through a couple of days after the transfer window opens
AC Milan are trying to tie up a few deals that will go through this summer as they are sick of being second fiddle to Inter Milan.
Chiellini 22m Juventus
Lahm 14m Bayern Munich
Sergio Ramos 26m Real Madrid
Robinho 26m Man City
Diego 18m Werder Bremen
Adebayor 25m Arsenal
De Rossi 17m Roma
Beckham 10m LA Galaxy
Petr Cech 16m Chelsea
Do you have any idea what your talking about? Liverpool signing Villa and Aguero, Valencia have put a 90 million euro price tag on his head and Aguero has a 60 million buyout clause, and u assume that because Villa hugged Alonso that means he's on his way 2 Liverpool? Then I suppose Franck Ribery is on his way 2 St Etiene after hugging Gomis.
And why would Atletico accept 7 million pounds + Reina for Aguero, Reina is good but not 53 million euros good, so please keep dreaming!
Can you really imagine 9 of the world's best players being recruited by AC Milan for just 174 million, Sergio Ramos alone has a buyout clause of 150 million euros and why would Man City sell Robinho 4 less than they bought him.
Oh!, and finally to the Newcastle men who said they would sign Valencia, Diaby, Vela and Gibbs, that's definetly not happening.
Newcastle United Rumours;;;
IN(Summer)
Achille Emana (Real Betis)
Stephane M'bia (Stade Rennais)
Michael Johnson (Manchester City)
Joe Harte (Manchester City)
Pablo Aimar (Benfica)
Abou Diaby (Arsenal)
Antonio Valencia (Wigan Athletic)
OUT (Summer)
Joey Barton (Bolton)
Mark Viduka (Queensland)
Michael Owen (Everton)
Claudio Cacapa (Santos)
Andy Carroll (Birmingham City)
I read this site everyday religiously and I've got to
admit there are some seriously good rumours here but
this is to the person who says liverpool will buy 4 or
5 of the following. . Then lists a huge array of
players, whom might I say match the values strangley
as what you can buy them for on football manager 2009.
I know this as I play the game quite a lot and I
baught most of the players you list for the same or
some very similar prices, so please don't list
outrageous things like that again because it is a
waste of time reading it. . People more newcastle
rumours please
Many thanks
Well nice to see others agree with me regarding Mascherano, a good player but theres no goals in him, sadly he'll be on his way in the summer as will Reina. I agree with the joe Hart rumour. Aguero and Villa look certain to join Liverpool, he was almost hugging Alonso in the pre match national anthem and he's type cast for Torres.
El Torro
To "Iain The Know", I am someone high up in the structure at Ibrox, and also an ex player. I happen to know for a fact that craig levein will be going nowhere near the rangers job, as he feels he can split the old firm within the next two years at Dundee Utd. Also, about Ferguson, everyone here knows he is a merchant banker and is disrupting the team, but Walter seems to like him, so he's going nowhere. Another thing disrupting the harmony at the moment is the exclusion of the spanish youngster Aarón Niguez. The coaching staff can all see that he is one of the most skillful players at murray park but Walter's "No youth" policy is hampering his progress, and he wants to go back to Spain. JG WATP
To the fool that's gone on about rafa's facts you need to go back to school and sit a spelling test for eight year olds FACT! by the way aguero definitely coming to liverpool in the summer already said he wants to play for the most sucessful team in britain FACT! and finally old purple nose to retire at the end of the season he's relised he can't top liverpool so he's off to guide santa's sleigh FACT! Y.N.W.A
Re: arsenal team. The defence is a problem gallas and toure are getting old and dislike eachother. Both are good but its obvious they lack the aerial ability needed in the prem and gallas' mentality has seriously cost them. Full backs are pretty good. Their midfield is very weak compared to previous years and i mean weak literally they need a more physical presence in centre mid, diaby and song arent good enough yet. the wings are also a problem with 'sick note' rosicky and a useless eboue doing nothing for them and neither wilshere or ramsey are any where near first teamers, how many prem minutes have they got this season? Strikers are excellent but let down by the rest of the side. If wenger continues with his current policy arsenal will continue to slide down the table.
Liverpool are scouting Alberto Buena, an attacking mid from Real Madrids reserves. Does anyone think LFC would have had Saviola on loan had we not drawn Madrid in the cup?
David Moyes will have 25m to spend in the summer plus money from the sale of:
A Van Der Meyde 2m –Red Bull Slazburg
L.Saha– 4m
So will have– 31m and will try to sign:
S.Mbai– 5m – Rennes
J.Moutinho 16m – Sporting Lisbon
Jo– 7m
D.Bentley–(Loan for year)–1m option to buy(12m)
S.Castillo – 2m
Ivan Helguera– Free
With regards the comment about Sky Sports presenters, as long as there's more of Chloe Everton and Natalie Sawyer I don't mind how they get through the report just as long as they do. For top football presenters then you must count on Mark Bolton (Sky Sports La Liga coverage) and the dream duo on Setanta (James Richardson and Rebecca Lowe).
For the Rangers fan who asked if a take over/buy out was going to happen. Firstly I am not Scottish and have no interest in Scottish football so have nothing to gain from a wind up! I don`t even live in the UK anymore but the person I spoke to also lives abroad,not saying where though.
I have spoken with a very good friend of the Chairman and I know that he and several others in a consortium have had several attempts to buy him out, I asked him a couple days ago if he was involved in the latest rumours, he was surprised that I would ask him but he confirmed that not only was he involved but that the deal was done two weeks ago and that it is all hush hush for a while, he said it was going to be realeased to everyone later.
The following are not rumours, they are FACT.
1) Liverpool will get new shirt sponsor for next season, apparently MCcAIN and Findus who are both very impressed with the " chip" Rafa has on both shoulders.
2) The " spat" between Moyes and Rafa started after Moyes visited a Tapas bar and refused to give the fat waiter a tip, Moyes was not impressed with the waiters attitude at blaming everyone else for the poor performance.
3) Rafa does not want full control of the club, he just wants to be able to manage the Team, Hicks and Gillette feel this is too much for him and are ready to give him the executive box resturant kitchen supervisors job instead.
4) Rafa was scouting out in the North East, waiting for oil rig divers to come back to shore, he needs someone to replace Gerrard, if his " tiredness" continues, or the prison sentance kicks in before th end of the season.
ALL OF THESE ARE FACT FACT FACT.
When you look at the Arsenal squad once all players are fully fit, do we really need to do that much strengthening? We have 5 top class strikers in Adebayor, van Persie, Eduardo, Bendtner (takes some stick but scores some priceless goals) and Vela all battling for a regualer place in the starting strike duo, with Walcott and Arshavin also able to play the 'second striker' role if needed, and Jay Simpson set to return from his loan spell at West Brom as a very promising young striker. In defence, we have one of the best centre back pairings in the world in Gallas and Toure, who are now playing very well together, as well as Mikael Silvestre and Johan Djourou battling for their place, as well as Alex Song who can also play centre back if needed. We are very strong in the full back areas with Cilchy and Sagna easily two of the best, if not the best full backs in the prem, and we also have Armand Traore and Keiran Gibbs pushing Clichy for his place, with Eboue also able to play right back if needed. On the wings we are also very strong, with Nasri, Arshavin, Walcott, Eboue and Wilshere all fighting for their place out wide, with Diaby and Rosicky also able to play on the wings. The area in which most say we need to strengthen is midfield, however when you look at the options we have it is very promising. Fabregas along with one of Rosicky, Denilson, Diaby, Song or Ramsey would be a very strong centre mid pairing. Wenger has created a spectacular squad, and most tend to forget how many world superstars we have in the squad, as well as great depth in the squad and some great new young players comming through the reserves. I would not be dissapointed if Wenger did not make a single signing in the summer, as once all our long term injuries are back to full fitness it will be like having a new set of players. If anyone, I would like to see Alexandre Pato brought in from Milan, as he looks very promising. There should be no need to sell any players in the summer. Cesc will stay put until the end of his contract, Adebayor only signed a new four year deal last summer and is happy at the club so will not be leaving, Gallas is happy to see out his last two years at Arsenal, Toure is now happy at the club and no other players would even consider leaving. Our targets for the rest of the season should be to finish in fourth place in the league, at least get to the semi–finals of the Champions league and to win the FA Cup. We will be a new team next season and look more dangerous in the league and in the Champions league.
In Arsene We Trust
Sergio Aguero will sign for Liverpool for 7m and Pepe Reina this deal will go through a couple of days after the transfer window opens
To all Liverpool fans!! Aguero is not coming to you he has stated numerous times in the Spanish press that he is very happy at athletico plus his buy out clause is in excess of £65m, quite simply you can not afford that. David Villa has also told spanish reporters that he has no desire to join Torres at Liverpool and the recent sale of Keane to Tottenham after only 6 months didnt impress him (check out spanish football website gol), in a rough translation he sees Liverpool going through transitinoal period and he would want any unrest or change affecting his football. The good news on merseyside is that Owen will be a free agent in the summer and rumours in Spain are that he is eyeing up a move back to Merseyside. Real Madrid are seeking a compensation pay out as they had percentage of next sale clause in the Newcastle contract but of course is going free so no money is changing hands, his temp agent at Real Madrid has told the certain papers that he reguarly speaks with Owen and he has told of his desire to finish his career with Liverpool. Only other news is that Carew is being eyed up by Seville, as a rumoured agreement between themselves and city for Kanoute has already been agreed.
Chelsea will look to make big changes to their squad in the summer. However with the club being in huge debt, they will happily clear out the dead weight (over 30's) in order to bring in some new, younger talent.
Going out will be:
–Didier Drogba – Inter/AC Milan(£16m)
–Michael Ballack – Inter/Bayern Munich(£14.5m)
–Deco – Inter(£10)
–Ricardo Carvalho – Inter/Porto(£8m)
Abramovic only wants to keep positive, younger players at Chelsea who can win trophies, players like Anelka, Lampard, Terry, Cech and Bosingwa. Alex could be promoted into the first choice centre back duo alongside Terry once Carvalho is sold.
Players Abramovic will look to bring in are:
–Robinho (Man City) – £35m
–Ricardo Quaresma (permenant deal from Inter) – swap deal with Deco going the other way.
In Arsene We Trust
Sunderland Summer (IN’s)
Bent
Downing
Bentley
Johnson
Richards
Sunderland Summer (OUT’s)
Prica
Ward
McShane
Colgan
Stokes
Liverpool are chasing a winger and a striker.
Striker will be one of: Aguero, Tevez or Villa.
Winger will be Navez from Sevilla
These are Rafas top two priorities.
However, depending on transfer departures, he may look at signing a right back and a central midfielder.
Cesc fabregas gonna leave arsenal in summer coz they arent as successful as he thought they wud be, and go to barca to replace xavi, who is going to man utd. fegie rates him very highly. hargraeves and nani to leave in the summer. if tevez goes to madrid, man utd to go for benzema
Firstly i like to plead with all the villa fans to stop dreaming, getting above their station thinkings their a top 4 team, your not. you just having a good season.
Liverpool will sign:
1 of each
STK David Villa, Sergio Kun Aguero, Henry(cheap)
GK Yohann Pelé,
LB Glen Johnson
RW Jesus Navas.
OUT
Reina(sadly due to family reasons) Degan, Voronin, Babel, Dossena, lucas and Cavelieri,Benayoun
YNWA.
Newcastle united
Behind closed doors there is a lot of unrest on tyneside, i have been informed by a high places source that the following will happen:
–The club is still up for sale, but the public must not know about it, when mike ashley went to training the other day when it snowed he announced it to first team players.
– Bassong is out of contract in the summer.
– Steve Bruce will become manager once the sale of the club goes through.
– Owen isn't intrested in the club and has agreed to join man city.
in the know!
Jose Mourinho will not become Chelsea manager in the summer. He will go one more season after this one with Inter, then once he has won Serie A 2 seasons in a row at Inter (as he did the premier league with Chelsea), he will go and manage in Spain, probarbly at Real Madrid. He will win La Liga, and then return to Chelsea. Mourinho has made it clear that he wants to win the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A before the end of his managerial career, and being as he is soon to win Serie A and has already won the Premier league twice, Spain would seem his likely destination when he is finished with Inter. He will then return to the Bridge and end his career with Chelsea. With Carlo Ancelotti having snubbed Chelsea, expect Chelsea to look to Rijkaard and Mancini in the summer to fill the permenant managers role.
In Arsene We Trust
Liverpool have signed miguel veloso!!!
i am the guy who said liverpool already signed six player who all will be revealed in the transfer window and i just found out about veloso. .it was supposed to happen in jan but lisbon asked 2 keep him till the the summer because they could not find a replacement in so short a time.
so liverpool have signed.
aguero
lennon
veloso
also mascharano will be leavin 4 athletico madrid as part as the aguero deal. not alonso as i said earlier
lastly liverpool are in advanced talks wit man city's johonson. .cud be the 7th signing. .ill keep u posted as soon as i get news on that and also the three other players. .1 is italian from wat i hear
redreport
Unattached defender ivan helguera will sign for walsall fc on £5,000 a week!!!!!!
AC Milan are trying to tie up a few deals that will go through this summer as they are sick of being second fiddle to Inter Milan.
Chiellini 22m Juventus
Lahm 14m Bayern Munich
Sergio Ramos 26m Real Madrid
Robinho 26m Man City
Diego 18m Werder Bremen
Adebayor 25m Arsenal
De Rossi 17m Roma
Beckham 10m LA Galaxy
Petr Cech 16m Chelsea
My mates dad workes with newcastle as at sport pysychologyst. newcastle will bring in:
–gibbs from arsnal to replace z'ogbia
–johnston from man city
–geovanni from spurs for pace down the left
–vela or bent to replace a departing owen
leaving:
–duff to celtic (to slow)
–viduca to australia most likly victory
–owen who ever wants him.
%100. mate put his life on it
Heard from a close contact at Everton (very high up!) that Moyes will be off at the end of the season as he will be joining ManU for SAF last season in charge. Sorry Bluenoses but he's going!
Terrance Brown is buying back West Ham United.
Expect the deal to become public knowledge shortly.
Glad to see the rumours about boruc aren't true
Anyway, after seeing a dire old firm game, celtic are looking to replace gordon strachan with david moyes / roy keane. moyes will bring tim cahill and rodwell with him. keanes first signing would be damien duff
Watch this space
Well played boruc on old firm day.
AD5
I'm the guy that said i must of imagined all that TV money and i dunno what you lot are complaining about cos the English leagues get gifted more money than any other league in the world. If your clubs are spending £5million on players they can't afford, that is just bad management i'm afraid. We don't have no 'umbrella–payments' in Scotland like you overprivilaged whiners do, so to hear you all complain about how little cash you have when you get gifted millions each season makes me sick. The stupid money in your league is pricing every other country out of the transfer market – perhaps a salary cap is the answer? But what you must realise is that media cash is vital to the running of a football club and to hark back to a time when money wasn't important, would be pre–WW2. Unless you are talking about jumpers–for–goalposts in the EPL, i would suggest you undertake a course in business studies. Television money & sponsorship funds football as much as gate receipts do and to deny this is DELLUDED AND SERIOUSLY DERRANGED. Yeah, sorry about the Boruc story everyone – must of been some kind of legal injunction there, unless half of Glasgow were lying to me (again).
Sunderland summer transfer targets;
Glen Johnson – Portstmouth
Stewart Downing – Middlesbrough
Darren Bent – Tottenham
Micah Richards – Manchester City
Tom Huddlestone – Tottenham
Sadly Pepe Reina will be leaving Liverpool for Athletico Madrid but its not all that bad for Liverpool because Sergio Aguero will be part of that deal Reina + 8m then Rafa will concentrate on bringing a goalie he is after Joe Hart of Man City if he can't get him expect a shock deal for Brad Jones of Middlesborgh they will be the only incomings at Liverpool however a mass of players will be leaving Degan will join West Ham , Pennant will join Real Betis for free , Benayoun and Intange(spelling) will both join Newcastle and Dossena could join Napoli. Very good source
Liverpool to sign four or five of the following come the summer, depending on how many leave maybe more:
Sergio Aguero – upwards of at least £20m
Glen Johnson – £10m
David Villa – £30m (fee could go up or down depending on Valencias situation and/or Barcelona)
Elano – £12m
Kuba – £7m
Jesus Navas – £10–15m
Carlos Tevez – £30m (If Man Utd decide not to make it permanent)
Aislan – £8m
Diego (of Werder Bremen) – £18m
Ashley Young – £25m
Gareth Barry – £20m
Robinho – £30m (If Mark Hughes is still there and Man City don't improve)
Gareth Bale – £5m
Miralem Pjanic – £15m
Keirrison – £6m
Andres Iniesta – £18m
Fred – Free
David Silva – £25m
Micheal Owen – Free
Rafinha – £12m
Raul Albiol – £15m (Only if Agger ends up leaving)
Giorgio Chiellini – £13m (Again only if Agger leaves or if both Aurelio and Dossena leave)
Bojan Krkic – £15m (If Barcelona get Villa and keep Eto'o)
Thierry Henry – £10m (Again if Barcelona get Villa and keep Eto'o)
The most likely of these seems to be Elano, Aguero, Johnson and Kuba, but depending on what happens in the remainder of the season and if Liverpool are indeed taken over/invested into they may pursue some of their top end targets such as David Villa and Iniesta.
Heard on the local radio station that Blackburn were keen on Australian youngster Mitch Nichols.
Everton news
moyes will have at least 18m pound to spend in the transfer window
here are his targets
darren bent 5m
geovanni 2.5m
k richardson 5m
l young 2.5m
Terry Venables will be the next manager of Portsmouth FC Get to the bookies quick. Dan.
Frank Foster moving from Arbroath to Raith Rovers for 100,000
Crespo to either Everton or Wigan in the summer, could start as loan deal with possibility of being signed in the Jan window.
Tyneside youngster Lewis Petterson has been attracting a lot of interest from Newcastle after an impressive season so far at Yeovil.
Liverpool looking to sign Napoli youngster Fausto Pelusi, Rafa sees the young Italian as a real prospect for the future, expecting a fee in the region of 600,000
Rangers skipper Barry Ferguson is to join up with former 'Gers boss Alex McLeish at Birmingham City in the Summer. .the fee has still to be agreed, but it is thought to be in the region of £1.5m.
Should Rangers fail to win the SPL, then Craig Levein currently at Dundee Utd., will take over as Manager, bringing in his own backroom staff, with Walter Smith, Ally McCoist, and Kenny McDowall all moving on
"Iain the Know".
Liverpool may move to sign Michael Ballack and Fred on frees if they do not get a big budget this summer. It would mean Lucas gets the possibility of being loaned out for the season to another premiership or a la liga side and find regular football. It would mean the same for David N'gog as well – a chance for regular football out on loan, preferably in the premiership.
Expect new contracts for Adrian Patulea and Lee Beevors at Lincoln, also Moses Swaibu (ex Palace) on trial til end of season.
Expect the arrival of one Sergio Aguerro at Anfield this summer. Going the other way will be two from Arbeloa, Alonso, Reina, Aurelio and cash. In addition, expect Hyypia to retire to a coaching position and Carragher to move to Hyypia's position on the bench. Milly Insua will be given Left–Back ahead of Aurelio, and either Ramos or Micah Johnson at Right Back with Darby and Carra as cover. The two first choice Central Defenders will be Agger (for his flair and attacking potential) and Skrtel for his solidity and resolute tackling. Look towards the end of this season. Once Liverpool are assured of a top three spot and cannot win the Prem, the changes will start. Gerrard will replace Alonso in a deeper midfield position where he can dictate the play more, and the attacking mid/support striker role will be Aguerro.
Portsmouth Football Club at a key point in their history. Current owner set to sell to one of two consortiums. One is Middle Eastern based and wants end of season deal, other is European and led by ex Spurs and Celtic player, Ramon Vega. Ramon's group wish to take control before end of March with a variable price based on Premier or Championship next season. If Ramon successful, Sven will be appointed manager. Current owner prepared to secure Sven ahead of March if agreement to sell reached. If Sven appointed, star players including Johnson, Krancjar, James, etc will stay next season, if not all are planned to be sold. The club has covered all debt via sales in last year or so (Muntari, Mendez, Benjani, Defoe, Diarra, etc) so are in better shape than newspapers suggest. Key requirement of RV's consortium is outline permission from the local council to erect a 35,000 capacity stadiium (with option for future expansion to 45,000) at location on edge of city. View of the consortium is that considering the scale of population in the South of England and the lack of other top flight clubs, the potential for growth in crowds is unlike any other.