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

"Wigan Fan". He's hardly going to say Moses is terrible.

Um have you actually read it TSJ? Its more of a why he should move vs why he should stay and then thoughts on him as a player.

No it wouldn't load for me.

GSC wrote:Adam Johnson was bought before the new owners came in iirc.

He wasn't.

According to reports in the Scottish Sun, Norwich have launched a £5m bid to sign Celtic LB Emilio Izaguirre

Not a bad player Olly, I think I put Norwich for relegation in my predictions but that was based on defence, Ruddy had the season of his life last year and kept you from being whitewashed a fair few times

If you strengthen the defence then I would proabbly consider my predictions because I know you can cause any team trouble on your day, but I just don't think you can stop them either

Now here's a player I'd love to have in front of Rooney for MUFC.

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/llorente-wont-renew-bilbao-contract/news/anzeigen_98643.html

Certainly looked a handful against us last season

I'd just like to see Rooney up top with Kagawa in behind him and two eitherside on the flanks. For rotation Rooney can always drop back into the Kagawa role if Hernandez/Welbeck/Macheda/Berbatov came into the team

It would be nice to have a Llorente or RVP in the squad but its a luxury more than a necessity

Guillem Balague on sky sports news saying Sahin has chosen Liverpool pending the loan negotiation between the two clubs

How many CMs does Rodger's want at the club? Gerrard, Lucas, Spearing, Adam, Allen, Henderson, Shelvey and possibley Sahin. Is he that determined to keep Downing out of the team that he's going 4-3-3?

Liverpool?

gazzyD wrote:Not a bad player Olly, I think I put Norwich for relegation in my predictions but that was based on defence, Ruddy had the season of his life last year and kept you from being whitewashed a fair few times

If you strengthen the defence then I would proabbly consider my predictions because I know you can cause any team trouble on your day, but I just don't think you can stop them either

I think that has been Hughton's aim, is to improve the defence in training and in players. Something tells me Lambert was more worried about the creative side of the game, then the defensive

Hughton improved our defence so much when he arrived, IIRC he hired a few new coaches to help with it. £5m would be a great price for Izaguirre, he's really highly rated.

Photoshopped picture. Wenger doesn't wear glasses!!

http://www.setanta.com/ie/Articles/2012/08/14/Wenger-agrees-to-RVP-sale/gnid-150638/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Note: That's a joke, I know he wears glasses

Teej wrote:Hughton improved our defence so much when he arrived, IIRC he hired a few new coaches to help with it. £5m would be a great price for Izaguirre, he's really highly rated.

I know Hughton has bought in his backroom staff from Birmingham, so hopefully he can help get our defence better, couldnt get any worse. I cant see the Izaguirre deal being more than just a rumor tbh

Arouna Kone has signed for Wigan from Levante on a three year deal, for a fee believed to be around 5 million euros. Very shrewd signing that, good player

Wigan need goals to survive again and 15 goals in La Liga last season, while being pacey and powerful looks a good addition to their squad and will suit the physical demands of the Premier League.

I think signing of the season has already been made with Michu.

I'll do article once the transfer window is shut on the best signings for each side.

Javier Garrido off to Norwich on loan

Didn't he use to play for Man City?

Yeah. Former U21 Spanish national too. Obviously didn't make the cut.

Said this though:

"I've been in England for two seasons and this was the match with more fanaticism than any other," Garrido told the Daily Mail.

Fanaticism? He must speak English better than most of us.

Song to Barca moving forwards

I know it's the Mirror but.... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/robin-van-persie-manchester-united-1261379

yeh i saw that juan. i do agree however, that as someone else alluded to earlier, i would prefer kagawa in behind rooney where he excelled for dortmund, with rooney playing right up top. i remember a few years back, when he was told by saf to play further up field and be that man in the six yard area for crosses. i believe that season was his best scoring season to date. i still think to have rvp on board is only a positive at the end of the day.

team i would like to see next season based on actual squad as of this moment:

de gea

rafael rio vidic evra

carrick scholes

valencia kagawa nani

rooney

IMO it's a luxury, not a necessity and we need more players but if Rooney gets injured we really do suffer. Hernandez and Welbeck can't handle being the main striker yet, Owen was never fit and we had some other Bulgarian guy but I don't know what happened to him.

Out of who we have so far I'd play:


Get another LB, Jones can stay at RB until January. Perhaps another CM and we are "sowted".

i agree, in fairness young has played very well pre-season, especially against barca and alves. i would have preferred to have kept fabio as he is a lb with fryers who has left hasn't he, as another back up. then bought debuchy as our 1st team right back with jones and rafael backing up.

I rate Young over Nani. Yes, Nani on his day is much better but he's the most inconsistent player I've seen.

The main Man Utd problem is the FB position; aside from Evra you can argue none of them are real FB's. And even Evra is looking poor. I think Debuchy would be a good signing but Fergie's major strength is not bringing in too many egos at once. Nothing against Debuchy, I'd rather wait until January before I'd buy him.

but arent lille in europe, which would mean we can't play him if we get out of the group this time. looking forward to see how celeverly get's on. he was outstanding at the start of the season before he got injured.

also let's move to the utd thread if we're discussing utd in in depth as we are, that's what the threads for

Sorry, I got a little carried away.

Selling Rodwell was the best thing that could happen to Everton. They probably should of sold Baines for £15m when Man Utd came calling aswell and followed the likes of Newcastle United's policy of buying from abroad and getting replacement who are of equal ability for a fraction of the price. I know it's difficult but it can be achieved. Pienaar, Naismith & possibly Kevin Miralles for around £5m who scored 20 goals last season are very positive signings that should take Everton to that next level and help them avoid the poor and slow starts to their campaign.

- - - - - - -- - - - - -JELAVIC- - - - - - - -

MIRALLES- - - -- -PIENAAR - - - - - -OSMAN

- - - - NAISMITH - - - - -FELLIANI- - - -- - - -

BAINES - - JAGIELKA - - DISTIN - - - NEVILLE

- - - - - - - - - - -HOWARD - - - - - - - - - - -

what do you think Everton and Moyes can achieve this season?

Why would you play Naismith centre mid lol. He is a striker

I think everton are looking good going into next season. i would consider coleman going back to rb, he could still bomb forward as he does from the rw, but can also develop his defensive game more and everton, with baines and coleman at the back everton will be a serious threat going forward next season.

Olly wrote:Why would you play Naismith centre mid lol. He is a striker

no he's not he plays cam, but can also play cm more than comfortably.

I am pretty sure Steven Naismith has played striker or wing pretty much all his career. If he plays CM I will die of laughter

Moyes has used Naismith as a partner for Jelavic so far in pre-season. I think a midfield of Osman, Fellaini, Barkley and Pienaar would work well for Everton; Naismith/Mirallas just behind Jelavic. They're quite lacking in cover though I think.

yeh naismith is a cf/cam/winger i suppose. plus i know he's not the best midfield in the world but they also have darron gibson who can slot in beside feillani and offers something going forward.

Completely forgot about Gibson! They're midfield is looking strong, I just don't have much faith in Distin as a CB.

Naismith is never an out and out striker, will link up well in midfield or just behind jelavic and playing with Pienaar......really it doesnt matter does it. All i was showing is there probable team and just wanted to know what everyone thought everton could achieve this season. Glad they sold rodwell and generated some money because everything was just becoming stagnant at that club. needed fresh blood and the release of cahill is a sign of that.

rodwell hardly played anyway and although showed glimpses i'm glad for instance utd didn't sign him for that sort of money. they've done a great job at everton and its nice to see finally that there is finally some decent money for them to spend on players.

There is a young Chilean striker United have bought today for 4 million if you wanted to add that to your list. Beaten City to him (makes a change) apparently. Angelo Henriquez - had his medical today.

haven't heard much about him, with the striking options bloated at the moment, hopefully we can sell macheda and bring this guy in as 4th striker, or 5th if/when rvp signs, and then give him some useful minutes in carling cup games and fa cup maybe.

Henriquez is suppossed to be going back to Chile straight away for a season. The fact that City came in was irrelevant as we had a fee agreed with his club until 2014 to sign him and the agreement was in place until 2014 so the only hope City would have had would be if we refused to sign him

As for Rodwell I don't think it's that bad a price, especially when compared to the 25 million Everton wanted when we were interested heading into last summer. If United had have signed Rodwell for 12 million I would have been more than happy as that lad will be awesome

gazzyD wrote:As for Rodwell I don't think it's that bad a price, especially when compared to the 25 million Everton wanted when we were interested heading into last summer. If United had have signed Rodwell for 12 million I would have been more than happy as that lad will be awesome

Could be awesome. I think a few years ago it looked certain that he'd become a great midfielder, but I think over the last couple of years injuries and a lack of exposure to first team football because of this have really stunted his development. Moving to Manchester City could either be a godsend or the nail in the coffin, he needs to be playing week in week out to get back on track.

I think he's better than Barry, plus playing with better players (no disrespect to Everton), if he stays free of injuries I think he'll have a really good future ahead of him

Eww Darron Gibson

Vurnon Anita having a medical at Newcastle, thought to be a fee of around £6-7m. Our midfield is going to be so strong this year: Tiote, Anita and Cabaye all supporting HBA, Ba and Cisse