Official January 2013 Transfer Update Thread

[greasedupdeafguy]

Pato from AC Milan to Corinthians is official, £12million.

Robinho to Santos move has broken down though, but there are other Brazilian clubs interested.

Why are AC Milan hacking up their squad? You would think that if they want to get into the Champions league places for next season, they are going to have to spend heavily this January. They are simply not as good as Napoli, Lazio, or Inter at the moment.

Like a lot of Italian teams they can't afford player wages.

Patos legs are fucked 12 million is a great deal for Milan.

 

[NipHolmes]

Pato from AC Milan to Corinthians is official, £12million.

Robinho to Santos move has broken down though, but there are other Brazilian clubs interested.

Why are AC Milan hacking up their squad? You would think that if they want to get into the Champions league places for next season, they are going to have to spend heavily this January. They are simply not as good as Napoli, Lazio, or Inter at the moment.

Regarding our Holtby signing - I'm really excited but a little disappointed not to have him immediately. He's definitely better than anyone else we have in the attacking midfield position.

It's going to be an interesting transfer window for us I think, from what I've heard AVB would be happy with just Moutinho, that's the player he really, really wants. Levy is worried that he may be overpaying with the fee Porto are asking for, and he is interested in Erikson who would be cheaper. Priorities are a new striker and Modric replacement, hopefully we can get both of them then we should be in good shape for a top 4 spot.

Demaio and Holtby. Theyve just signed Holtby.

 

[GHoddle]

Demaio and Holtby. Theyve just signed Holtby.

I don't think Holtby is the Modric replacement. No matter who we sign AVB will want Moutinho, he is desperate to sign him it's just a matter of whether Levy will pay up.

Damaio I think the ship maybe has sailed, we've been trying to sign him in every transfer window since 2010 and never hammered out an agreement with Inter, so I don't see it happening.

 

[Sunny Coast Blue]

Ronaldo + Cash for Aguero, is it happening yet? Need to get one of the Manchester girls into his pad pronto. Forza Manchester girls.

 

[MCFC-alan88]

Why are AC Milan hacking up their squad? You would think that if they want to get into the Champions league places for next season, they are going to have to spend heavily this January. They are simply not as good as Napoli, Lazio, or Inter at the moment.

Like a lot of Italian teams they can't afford player wages.

Patos legs are fucked 12 million is a great deal for Milan.

His legs are well and truly gone, it's a shame, he could have been some player.

 

[luckyadeel78]

CAVANI is his way to city ... good news (45 M) excellent replacement for Mario, we need yaya and lescott replacement as well, my opinion right player to replace is celtic wyanmbay.

 

[BlueDejong]

CAVANI is his way to city ... good news (45 M) excellent replacement for Mario, we need yaya and lescott replacement as well, my opinion right player to replace is celtic wyanmbay.

please, get out here

 

[Alex - City Matters]

I think Ivan Perisic to Wolfsburg from BVB for 7.5 million euros, is more or less a done deal.

 

[Rocket-footed kolarov]

What?

Harry Kane, John Bostock, Tom Carroll, Townsend, Falque and Danny Rose who despite looking a good LB has been sent to Sunderland with Kyle Naughton deputising for BAE instead.

The way you worded "He will fit in very nicely at spurs they seem to have an army or young players in their squad who have slim chances of making the first team" to me made it sound like you think having young players is a bad thing. Do you not have young players at City?

I fully don't get what your point is. Danny Rose wouldn't have been happy sitting on the bench therefore is out on loan getting regular football, seemingly improving his reputation game by game, 1m looks a bargain as if he does leave us it'll be for 7/8m, good business. One of the three academy products in your list s working his way in to the Norwich team after a bad injury, the other two have done well when called upon for our 1st team, as has Falque. Bostock is a nightmare but it goes to show that sometimes buying potential can go either way, but if we hadn't have bought him and he went on to become the player he could have been we would have been outbid if we did attempt to sign him, hence why we often go down the young player for smaller fee route/developing from the academy route.

My point was what is the point of having young players in your squad who are not good enough to step up to the level required, Townsend and Kane don't strike me as anymore than championship level players, Tom Carroll might be a good player for you but he is no Wilshire, Falque will probably turn out to be like Giovani Dos Santos waste of a squad number but even then not as good as him.

Naughton is basically surplus to requirements now, he offers almost exactly the same as Walker but is obviously not as good as him and is over a year older so they won't be competing for the RB spot. He would be best moving back to a club of Norwich's level, Stoke could do with a RB.The deal for the Kyles worked out quite nicely for you but a combined fee of £9mil could of been easily wasted as it happens you have got a return of a very good right back but Zabaleta and Clichy two established FBs cost £12 mil combined.

Spurs have a habit of buying players from the lower leagues but very rarely do you get longevity with them Huddlestone and Dawson both look past it and injury prone.For a Club that likes to shout about how well run you are you seem to have as many players as City sitting on their contracts or on "exile loans" and unlike us you were n't throwing out lucrative contracts to injury prone has beens.

Spurs seem to be no better than City when it comes to actually producing players from their academy; one genuinely good player once in a while steps up to the plate, Caulker seems to be your latest example but you should of got shot of townsend a while ago because he is effective in the championship but useless in the PL.

 

[MSP]

I think Ivan Perisic to Wolfsburg from BVB for 7.5 million euros, is more or less a done deal.

Wow, when the f will we make such deals. They paid him 5-6 millions, he barely played there and they make profit on him. WTF