Big Premier League Signings II

First topic message reminder :

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 Only players who have moved from outside the PL will be included.



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Player	From	To	Fee
Santi Cazorla	Malaga (Spain)	Arsenal	£20.24m
Olivier Giroud	Montpellier (France)	Arsenal	£13.2m
Eden Hazard	Lille (France)	Chelsea	£35.2m
Shinji Kagawa	Borussia Dortmund (Germany)	Man Utd	£13.2m
Marko Marin	Werder Bremen (Germany)	Chelsea	£8.6m
Oscar	Internacional (Brazil)	Chelsea	£26.4m
Lukas Podolski	Cologne (Germany)	Arsenal	£11.4m
Jan Vertonghen	Ajax (Netherlands)	Tottenham	£7.5m
Aswad Thomas	Braintree Town (England)	Grimsby Town	Undisclosed

Any updates would be appreciated.

Other transfers that may/may not be interesting:

Alou Diarra - West Ham
Fabio Borini - Liverpool
Gylfi Sigurdsson - Spurs
Jay Rodriguez - Southampton
Markus Rosenberg - West Brom
Michu - Swansea
Nathaniel Clyne - Southampton
Nick Powell - Manchester United
Robert Snodgrass - Norwich
Romain Amalfitano - Newcastle
Ron Vlaar - Aston Villa
Steven Naismith - Everton

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

Adebayor reportedly deciding to stay at City rather than take 3m a year paycut at Spurs

John wrote:Plus one good season at Swansea puts you on the radar of every top club in the PL, just look at Sigurdsson now at Liverpool. I believe Kjaer would rather start a career in the Premier League than the Serie A.

Sigurdsson is at Tottenham.

yer sorry my mistake just realised but you get my point! (i was thinking about agger & kjaer for a moment so it distracted my train of thought)

It's Man City's fault for offering these players such ludicrous long term contracts and tells you all you need to know about Adebayor as a man. Who is Tottenham's main option to sign now as Adebayor's replacement?

Said above they had interest in Rondon, so I'd guess him. Not enamoured with Adebayor in any case. Certainly not for 180k pw

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A. EKOTTO- - -VERTONGHAN- -DAWSON- -WALKER - -

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Interesting side, still think it's not a top 4. Chelsea definitely improved more in the race for top 4

Well you could try and include Higuain in any Modric deal, Berbatov could be available.

not sure Vertonghens long term position is CB.

Will.I.An to Chelsea?

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/willian-reveals-upset-over-transfer/news/anzeigen_96866.html

*cough* financial fair play rules *cough*

100m from winning the CL

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:Adebayor reportedly deciding to stay at City rather than take 3m a year paycut at Spurs

That will put a spanner in the works of City trying to get RVP, the pair despise one another.

The first team vs reserve games in training could get fiesty.

Man City will loan him out again in a worst case scenario, though Spurs may not be keen.

AC Milan want Bendtner for 8m

Santi Cazorla to Arsenal being mentioned increasingly

Arsenal accept 20m bid from Juve for RVP

Source? If anything it doesn't surprise me that they will just look to offload to Juventus now and not face the risk of losing him to their biggest rivals in Manchester. It's getting quite late in July, so they will want the money so they can quickly reinvest.......makes sense. £20m is a great deal in my opinion, seeing as he's nearly 30.

Just one of my twitter sources. Has a decent record and makes sense to sell abroad

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:AC Milan want Bendtner for 8m

How the mighty have fallen. Bendtner is never a Milan player.

Utd are raising their offer for Moura to 32m

Arsenal have interest in Ganso

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:Arsenal have interest in Ganso

Do they not have an interest in what fails them every season? There defence?

Not until they dump Squallaci I suspect

3 PL teams have supposedly tabled bids for Ganso, one of them Arsenal.

I doubt it

Exactly what Arsenal don't need. They need a RB. No way Sagna will be the same after breaking his leg twice in a season

Spurs want Benzema

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11661/7926082/

Not like you also agreed a fee with Lille.

Couldn't be sour grapes could it?

Also is you believe the rumours, they've bid £32m for a teenager from brazil

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:Also is you believe the rumours, they've bid £32m for a teenager from brazil

i dont believe for a second were bidding 32 million for lucas, alot of deals we do often include add ons like the rooney deal. we very rarely pay out right huge bids. anderson and nani deals were similar to this.

fee for Cazorla would be around 14m for Arsenal

Well they did throw £7 million to a 3rd division club on an unknown Bebe...

Scored last night.

Quality

Heskey would not have missed that tap-in!

Meh you take a gamble, can end up with Hernandez or a bebe.

Would be amazed if we had the cash touted for Lucas.

Potentially spending 60million and no centre midfielder recruited, it's crazy.

Ent wrote:Meh you take a gamble, can end up with Hernandez or a bebe.

Yeah, you could end up with a useless player with an awful first touch and terrible movement or Bebe.

Various sources on Twitter are reporting that the Moura offer from Utd has been accepted by Sao Paulo.

United have given up on him i think whatever Twitter says dont trust it at all.

TheBrahmaBull wrote:United have given up on him i think whatever Twitter says dont trust it at all.

Who do we believe. Bull or Twitter.

well last time you said they signed him olly and it was a twitter source but turned out wrong

Bull>>>Twitter

TheBrahmaBull wrote:well last time you said they signed him olly and it was a twitter source but turned out wrong

Bull>>>Twitter

When they sign Moura, I will refer you to this post. Numpty

Would really rather the Lucas money go to a proper cm, cdm and a left back and right back.

I'm not going to complain if we do get him but I do hope there's more funds for other areas we need to strengthen.

Santiago Carzola from Malaga to Arsenal.

azania wrote:Santiago Carzola from Malaga to Arsenal.

Again, exactly what Arsenal need

It is. An attacking midfielder. After Fab left, Arsenal missed his link play. Hopefully this guy can be the difference.

I'm one of those who thinks that RvP leaving could be a good thing for Arsenal. Walcot would be a bigger loss imo.

Surely Arsenal need to fix what fails them season in season out. The defence

azania wrote:It is. An attacking midfielder. After Fab left, Arsenal missed his link play. Hopefully this guy can be the difference.

I'm one of those who thinks that RvP leaving could be a good thing for Arsenal. Walcot would be a bigger loss imo.

Because Arteta, Wilshere, Ramsey, Rosicky, and Arshavin aren't enough....

surprised malaga are letting their star man go. Must be planning a big summer of spending if that's the case.

Crimey wrote:

azania wrote:It is. An attacking midfielder. After Fab left, Arsenal missed his link play. Hopefully this guy can be the difference.

I'm one of those who thinks that RvP leaving could be a good thing for Arsenal. Walcot would be a bigger loss imo.

Because Arteta, Wilshere, Ramsey, Rosicky, and Arshavin aren't enough....

Not good enough more like. Ramsey is more deep lying and who knows when he'll come back. Ramsey may not fulfil his potential (which is huge due to the nasty injury against the neanderthals of Stoke. Rosicky is good but not good enough and Arshavin will be sold. Arteta is not an attacking midfielder.

martyr wrote:surprised malaga are letting their star man go. Must be planning a big summer of spending if that's the case.

I don't know how, but Malaga has massive financial problems.

azania wrote:

martyr wrote:surprised malaga are letting their star man go. Must be planning a big summer of spending if that's the case.

I don't know how, but Malaga has massive financial problems.

Don't they have a Qatari rich man owner?

Olly wrote:Surely Arsenal need to fix what fails them season in season out. The defence

Their defence is ok when fully fit. Its the midfield that's been the problem. Giving the ball away and not winning it back as we used to do.

martyr wrote:surprised malaga are letting their star man go. Must be planning a big summer of spending if that's the case.

I heard Malaga were John-Flecked because they weren't paying players or taxes. That may or may not be true.

Edit: Here's something about wages.

http://www.marca.com/2012/07/19/en/football/spanish_football/1342684909.html?a=PR39d4dfbf84eb9eaa78b8dff9587b777c7&t=1342992351

Olly wrote:

azania wrote:

martyr wrote:surprised malaga are letting their star man go. Must be planning a big summer of spending if that's the case.

I don't know how, but Malaga has massive financial problems.

Don't they have a Qatari rich man owner?

That's what I thought, but apparently their chairman annoyed Barca and Real and now the consequences are being felt.