Big Premier League Signings

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Here is a list of all the "big movers" to the PL this season. The table contains the player's name, club moved from and to and fee for so we can scrutinise them

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Player	From	To	Fee
Kevin de Bruyne	Genk (Belgium)	Chelsea	£6.7m
Olivier Giroud	Montpellier (France)	Arsenal	£13.2m
Eden Hazard	Lille (France)	Chelsea	£35.2m
Shinji Kagawa	Borussia Dortmund (Germany)	Manchester United	£13.2m
Marko Marin	Werder Bremen (Germany)	Chelsea	£8.6m
Lukas Podolski	Cologne (Germany)	Arsenal	£11.4m
Jan Vertonghen	Ajax (Netherlands)	Spurs	£7.5m

Any updates would be appreciated.

Other transfers that may/may not be interesting:

Gylfi Sigurdsson - Spurs
Jacob Butterfield - Norwich
Nick Powell - Manchester United
Romain Amalfitano - Newcastle
Steven Naismith - Everton

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/premier-league/transferuebersicht/wettbewerb_GB1.html

All this talk over Pogba leaving. where has this actually been confirmed as all I can find is the fake Pogba account and then people reposting it. The main papers etc were duped by it and have since removed the links so they all go to dead pages.

Some news from the continent if you're interested.

Juve and Udinese in "advanced talks" in a deal to send Asamoah and Isla to Turin.

Niko Krancjar is headed to Dynamo Kiev.

Marvin Martin is set to move from Sochaux to Lille.

Pandev to Napoli for 7.5m euros

Jay Rodriguez to Southampton is close

Remember this 'Big Premier League' signings thread

Also TSC has gone for a week or two so he won't be able to update the table

MockingJay33 wrote:Some news from the continent if you're interested.

Juve and Udinese in "advanced talks" in a deal to send Asamoah and Isla to Turin.

Niko Krancjar is headed to Dynamo Kiev.

Marvin Martin is set to move from Sochaux to Lille.

Good replacement at a fraction of the cost of Hazard there for Lille.
Isla to Juve is a good move, excellent player who can play in various positions and he'll have his Chilean teammate Vidal to work with.

Yeah but If we stuck to that definition this topic would be pretty terrible.

Luka Modric is being reported in numerous papers to be on the verge of a move to Utd for an initial 25m and potentially reaching 30m

The Polish Coach has also stated today that Lewandowski has joined his former Dortmund team mate Kagawa in signing for Utd.

Could be a swap deal involving Berbatov for Lewandowski.

Not that keen on Modric but I'll give him a chance, gonna get fleeced by spurs again lol.

I wonder what this means for our strikers, with another being brought in.

I had a feeling about Lewandowski when I heard about Berba going the other way in return plus some cash.

Not sure why we need Luka, we got Kagawa, Carrick, Scholes, Cleverly. If we get him I mean the more the merrier but I think we need to be looking at a holding midfielder atm and a RB and LB.

Luka for me is the Premiership equivilant of Xavi, orchestrating the ebb and flow of the game from his deeper playmaker role, I think it would be a fantastic buy.
Lewandowski is a great goalscorer but I'm struggling to see when he'd get game time regularly with the change in system to accomodate Kagawa.

United are rather raping Dortmund aren't they!

Taxi for Hummels if that's the case!

Modric's form dipped with Spurs. He really wasn't very good over the last part of the season.

Levy will hold out for 40m plus again anyway.

Gregers wrote:United are rather raping Dortmund aren't they!

Dortmund are getting by United

Hero wrote:Luka for me is the Premiership equivilant of Xavi, orchestrating the ebb and flow of the game from his deeper playmaker role, I think it would be a fantastic buy.
Lewandowski is a great goalscorer but I'm struggling to see when he'd get game time regularly with the change in system to accomodate Kagawa.

I don't think Modric is any where near as good as Xavi though, I don't think he has the same vision, but maybe that will come. If you do sign Modric though, where is Kagawa going to be playing?

In the AM/SS role that he would have been playing anyway?

That does mean if you don't sign Modric, you have a gaping hole in central midfield, unless Scholes is expected to full it once again.

I would have thought the AM/SS position is one of United's strongest positions, with Rooney, Young, Nani all capable of playing there.

Kagawa was never going to dropping back to a CM position, the lad averages 1 tackle a game, he'd be a fish out of water back there.

Man Utd are being heavily linked to Unvirsidad de Chile's 18 year old striker Angelo Henriques.

Southampton have confirmed the signing of Jay Rodriguez from Burnley for £7 million.

Manchester city are being reported as being ready to make an offer for Real Madrid & France striker Karim Benzema

You need some sleep son haha.

Anyway that Man Utd striker from Chile is for 3m.

Madrid would only do that deal in exchange for Aguero I imagine.

Depends if City offer stupid money. Real might sell him for £75 million

Not sure City can anymore. New rules are going to limit them somewhat.

Madrid have a long standing interest in Aguero.

£75 million would help the spanish banks out tho

I'm really not sure how the new regulations will affect city (and other big spenders), there are probably ways around it

Like £500 million sponsorship deals...

They still don't have the income beyond that to balance out I suspect. They won't be poor, but they'll probably have to rein in their spending somewhat. The massive wage bill is the big problem.

Thiago Silva to PSG for oodles of cash. Wow, most expensive defender ever then?

its was £45m right?

Arsenal are leading the chase to sign striker Olivier Giroud, according to his club (Montpellier).

Schalke are thought to be after Salmon Kalou & Rafael Van De Vart, as there main summer signings.

And nothing to do with this thread but something i found intresting, Rangers are in talks with Gatteuso about returning to the club from Milan.

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Man Utd confirm signing of Crewe youngster Nick Powell for an undisclosed fee on a four year deal.

Any more of these signings going up on the OP?

League 3 player??

Thought this was for "BIG signings"..

Hero wrote:Any more of these signings going up on the OP?

Anything actually been confirmed? I stuck Powell up but Shinji hasn't been confirmed with that work permit dealy. Possible for you to edit it in my absence? TM doesn't even work on this laptop

Arsenal are close to signing Giroud for 12m

Does anyone know much about Giroud?

I'm trying to figure out whether to be excited as we've bolstered our attacking options and maybe given ourselves another goalscorer or that I shouldn't be too excited as it could be the same as Chamack (who I liked and looked very good when he 1st started but faded way too much and didn't give us the edge we needed).

Like Peter Crouch. Surprisingly good with his feet. Wouldn't count on him getting any more than 10-15 goals a season though.

I won't be surprised to see him flop like Chamakh though, especially if Van Persie stays. I doubt Wenger will play with two up top.

According to the bbc article theres plans to play 3 upfront - podolski,rvp,giroud.

Though how true that is i dont know

Smirnoffpriest wrote:According to the bbc article theres plans to play 3 upfront - podolski,rvp,giroud.

Though how true that is i dont know

Don't see how that would work?? RVP and Giroud are not wide men. Also would leave them horribly exposed in the full back area

dutch total football philosphoy Olly

mystiroakey wrote:dutch total football philosphoy Olly

Look how well that is working for them

RVP can play off the wing coming inside.

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:RVP can play off the wing coming inside.

Why would you move a guy who has just scored 30 goals in the Prem this past season from the main striker role out to the wing?? That would be like the dumbest move ever in my eyes

I never said it was I just said he can.

I cannot see Van Persie, Giroud, Podolski front free. If anything, Giroud is going to replace Chamakh if Van Persie stays and Van Persie if he goes.

If I was and Arsenal fan and we were signing strikers I would just be a little bit worried about RVP leaving.

At the en of the day this prob doesn't mean much in terms of RVP. Chamakh out the door followed by Bendtner leaves Arsenal short up front

I agree Graeme - this signing gives us more options up front - which we didn't have last season and suffered for.

Personally I can't see ur playing a front 3 of Podolski, RVP and Giroud as even though we do play a 4,3,3/4,5,1 we have Gervinho, Walcott, Rosicky & Chamberline who play wide as well - and we do try and use Walcott/Chamberlines pace to make defences wary.

I think this statement was said as we're just in the process of signing Giroud, we've already signed Podolski and Wenger doesn't see any point in telling them they'll be fighting it out for the same space or being back up to RVP, as it will just demotivate them

Reports coming out of Italy, have Chelsea making a move for Stevan Jovetic from Fiorentina.