Transfer Deadline Day

Portsmouth spend £400,000 on Bournemouth defender Eddie Howe and Preston sign Gareth Ainsworth on loan from Wimbledon.

Meanwhile, Aston Villa striker Dion Dublin is poised to join Millwall's push for the Division One play-offs.

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Eddie Howe (B'mouth to Portsm'th) £400,000 Jason Jarrett (Bury to Wigan) £75,000 Willie Falconer (St J'stone to Grimsby) Free Kevin Gallacher (U/A to Sheff W) Free Andy Thomson (Bristol R to Wycombe) Free Wayne Carlisle (C Palace to Bristol R) Free Gareth Ainsworth (Wimb'don to Preston) Loan Darren Dunning (Blackburn to Blackpool) Loan Phil Clarkson (Blackpool to Bury) Loan Nathan Lowndes (Livingston to R'ham) Loan Danny Webber (Man Utd to Watford) Loan Jon McCarthy (Birmingham to Sheff W) Loan Ryan Esson (Aberdeen to Rotherham) Loan Anthony Shandran (Burnley to Stalybridge) Loan David Walsh (Rochdale to St'bridge) Loan Gareth Whalley (Bradford to Crewe) Loan Terry Cooke (Man City to Grimsby) Loan

(U/A represents unattached)

Chesterfield won't get anyone, but Jamie Burt siogned a new contract extension the other day, and that's a very good thing.

Apparently Howe is a good tackler, fast and can actually pass for central defender, and bring the ball out to midfield.

Have you seen hime play? He must be quality as a few years ago managed to play in England U21 team - how many players from the second division have managed that in the last decade for England U21?

Our manager has gone public to say he can't find another centre half to cover for the two uninjured fellows he has at his disposal. He told the local paper that everyone he spoke to 'had better places to be'. Sigh.

Can anyone whip up any interest in this at all? Martian?

transfer deadline deals
http://www.football-league.premiumtv.co.uk/today/view/breaking_news_detail/0,,10794~363415,00.html

closing date today !

I miss the old deadline day, it was kinda exciting, anmd exactly the sort of event that the internet was invented for.

Bristol Rovers: Rovers in Deadline Day Swoops
http://bristolrovers.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=917&p=2&stid=8301971

d-day 5pm today transfer deadline

Transfer deadline-day deals

Sean O'Hanlon [Everton - Swindon] undisclosed fee
Courtney Pitt [Portsmouth - Oxford] undisclosed fee
Isaiah Rankin [Barnsley - Grimsby] undisclosed fee

Danny Allen-Page [Brentford - Farnborough] Free
Ryan Amoo [Aston Villa - Northampton] Free
Mark Bonner* [Unattached - Oldham] Free
Ali Gibb [Stockport Co - Bristol Rovers] Free
Paul Hall [Rushden & D - Tranmere] Free
Onandi Lowe [ Rushden & D - Coventry] Free
Simon Miotto* [Unattached - WBA] Free
Mark Peters [Brentford - Farnborough] Free
Paul Reid [Bradford - Brighton] Free
Aaron Wilford [Unattached - Lincoln] Free

Steve Corrie* [Unattached - Oldham] non-contract
Dean Crowe [Luton - Oldham] non-contract
Glenn Tolley [Northwich V - Shrewsbury] non-contract

Craig Armstrong [Sheff Wed - Grimsby] Loan
Lloyd Blackman [Brentford - Cambridge City] Loan
Adam Collin [Newcastle - Doncaster] Loan
Ciaran Donnelly [Blackburn Rovers - Blackpool] Loan
Lee Elam [Yeovil - Chester] Loan
Kelvin George [Dulwich Hamlet - Lincoln] Loan
Paul Gerrard [Everton - Nottingham Forest] Loan
Gary Harkins [Blackburn - Huddersfield] Loan
Kevan Hurst [Sheffield United - Boston] Loan
Aaron Lescott [Stockport Co - Bristol Rovers] Loan
Daryl McMahon [West Ham - Torquay] Loan
Jermaine McSporran [Wycombe - Walsall] Loan
Nick Nicolau [Arsenal - Southend] Loan
Gareth Owen [Stoke - Oldham] Loan
Matthew Platt [Crewe - Runcorn] Loan
Carl Robinson [Portsmouth - Sunderland] Loan
Craig Rocastle [Chelsea - Lincoln] Loan
Dani Rodrigues [Ionikos - Yeovil] Loan
Kristian Rogers [Sheff Utd - Macclesfield] Loan

24 March 2004

Robert Betts* [Coventry C - Hereford U]
Daryl McMahon [West Ham U - Torquay U] Loan
Ryan Northmore [Woking - Yeovil] Loan
Carl Robinson [Portsmouth - Sunderland] Loan
Andy Scott* [Oxford U - Leyton Orient]
Mads Timm [Manchester Utd - Viking Stavanger]

23 March 2003

Ian Fitzpatrick [Forest Green Rovers - Shrewsbury T] Loan
Jamie Fullarton* [Southend Utd - Chesterfield] NC
Dean Gordon [Coventry C - Reading] Loan
Stephen Hill [Rochdale - Morecambe] Loan
Kelvin Jack* [Unattached - Reading] Free
Jamie Lawrence [Walsall - Grimsby T] Free
Lee Lawrence [Manchester Utd - Shrewsbury T] Loan
Steve Lowe [Sheffield Wed - Halifax T]
David Noble [West Ham U - Boston Utd] Free
Gary Smith [Middlesbrough - Wimbledon] Loan
Pavel Srnicek [Portsmouth - West Ham U] Free
Gareth Williams [Crystal Pal - Colchester U] Loan

22 March 2003

Dene Cropper [Lincoln C - Boston Utd] Free
Chris Giles [Yeovil T - Aldershot] Free
Tom Jordan [Tamworth - Forest Green Rvs] Loan
Maik Taylor [Fulham - Bimingham C] £1.5m

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3528475.stm

NewsNow
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/newsfeed/?name=Transfer+News+%26+Rumours

Happy days are here again...

TODAY: Pavlyuchenko AND Corluka are both Spurs-bound. Rotherham have got a lad from Athletic Bilbao on a free (no, really).

Blimey. Signing two players by 10.30 is hardly observing the grand traditions of transfer deadline day. Society is in the gutter.

I am taking this as a sign we're going to be busy endlessly niggling over Berbatov today.

Also my mate in Wigan swears blind he saw Joey Barton stealing a house there.

1033: Expect Paul Gallagher's emergency loan move from Blackburn to Plymouth to be made a season-long loan at some point today.

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I loved the look of the spurs team - some genuinely exciting players - but the russian had better revolutionise your front line cos you were hopeless against Chelsea.

Man City sell Corluka after all! Fancy that! He wasn't definitely staying! Even though they said that he was definitely staying! Wow! Anything can happen in soccerball!

In other Man City news, their long nightmare of being owned by a possibly unpleasant man ends as they are purchased by some chaps from Abu Dhabi who appear to be arms dealers, with the promise of finishing in the top four THIS SEASON~!

death to Fletch and Cheesy and the rest of the BBC's inane sub-Fiver liveblogging gang

Will Arsene ever spend any money? Arsenal NEED a tough bollocks midfielder.

Corluka is apparently very happy because it means he can be with his best friend Luca Modric. This is how rumours start.

Ian Ashbee SPOTTED in the newsagent NEAR Holloway Road tube TRYING to decide whether he wants a Twix or a Kit Kat.

Patrick Vieira

"Kevin Prince Boateng will go to Hamburg on loan and Paul Stalteri will be sent to Crystal Palace or QPR for the rest of the season. Adel Taarabt could be joining him at Loftus Road."

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cos yknow, stalteri is a quality squad player

Considering Martin Jol refused to play Kevin Prince Boateng in any position during his tenure at White Hart Lane, signing him again for Hamburg seems odd to say the least. Still, any excuse to post this picture again:

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POMPEY MAKE THEIR MOVE - Nadir Belhad from Lens, season-long loan.

WHERE IS DJ MARTIAN

I would like to thank the good lord for granting us the comic potential of a player called Nadir at Fratton Park.

Throwing stones at Matty Taylor's window, perhaps?

Liverpool HAVE SIGNED an Italo-Brazilian teenager called Vito Flora from Botafogo on a free. Anonymous source: "This will keep Jack Hobbs on his toes, assuming he plays in the same position as Jack Hobbs."

And aside from that one guy going to Rotherham, absolutely nothing has happened in the Football League thus far.

Incidentally, that NewsNow link Martian put up the top of the thread still works.

ok man city have apparently bid 28m for berbatov. best transfer window EVER

It does? Not sure it does for me. But it's nice to know that the Martian is always with us.

At the top of the thread people are saying 'Pity about the end of deadline day - now we have a transfer window instead'. I don't get this. Surely we didn't have a deadline day until we had a transfer window?

Is that for real about City?

It does take a while to load, not sure why. We did have deadline day, it's just that it used to take place a lot nearer the end of the season.

Everywhere is reporting that Valencia have signed a Uruguayan lad called Nacho Gonzalez and immediately loaned him out to Newcastle.

Oh, THAT deadline day, yes. In March.

I would like to thank the good lord for granting us the comic potential of a player called Nadir at Fratton Park.

I think he was linked with Celtic. Actually, I think every left back in the world has been linked with Celtic. We still haven't signed one. I don't think we're going to. So all we have is an unfit left back who wants to leave and hasn't had a decent game for over a year, and a spare right-back with disintegrating irreparable cartilages who got ripped to bits by Rangers yesterday and appears to be the only cover. Oh happy days. It almost makes you want Ross Wallace to come back. (it doesn't really)

Man City bidding for Berbatov is possibly the cheekiest bid ever. That said, if Man City's new owners really are stupid enough to think he actually wants to go there, I would happily take £35m plus a missile defence system for White Hart Lane.

STEVEN PRESSLEY HAS GONE TO RANDERS

KARLEIGH OSBOURNE HAS JOINED OXFORD ON LOAN FROM BRENTFORD

I thought that said RANGERS for a minute there and was almost slightly cheered up.

If berbatov is given the option of staying at spurs and reserve football on his current wage vs going to man city and playing on double the money, he'd have to consider a move.

it's only a direct choice between united and citeh if spurs decide to accept a united bid, and they'll have to beat citeh's bid by a nice fat penalty margin for that to happen.

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"In Kieron Dyer we are acquiring a player with proven Premiership quality and the versatility and experience necessary to put this club back in the European elite by 2011".

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"Glenn Roeder is a man I've liked and respected, both as a manager and as a human being, for a long while, but even a cursory look at his managerial track record should convince you he is the man to take Man City to the top table of European football where it belongs".

Surely we didn't have a deadline day until we had a transfer window?

We did, but I can't remember exactly how it used to work. I think transfers could be all season up to the deadline, which was...when? March? January? Then no transfers until after end of the season? Technically there was a window of course, but it wasn't referred to as such.

Of course my memory could be playing tricks here as I'm thinking back to the 70's/80's - therefore speculation always involved the likes of Stan Bowles and Rodney Marsh.

Does anyone want Milouda or Kalou? Brentford? Workington Town? Your local pub 2nd team?

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"See you in the Intertoto next season"

Does anyone want Milouda or Kalou? Brentford? Workington Town? Your local pub 2nd team?

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Hi dere!

"Any chance they could play at left back?"

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_02/CelticStrachan_468x559.jpg

Ban Matt DC

Let's see who Northampton Town spend that £700,000 we just made on the Mark Bunn transfer on then?

Right, nobody. I'll wait for our inevitable close-season loan deal for Stern John then.

"Lee, stay here! Your place in the team is assured. No-one else wants to sign for 75 quid a week and a lifetime subscription to the Celtic View"

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/07/01/article-0-066A0DE90000044D-343_468x357.jpg

Didn't you have Naylor at LB, Ailsa?

Also, Souleymane Bamba has gone to Hibs, Jason Shackell has all-but signed for Wolves.

Favourite rumour on NewsNow at the moment - Liverpool Echo reports that Everton are in for...

...

...

Carlo Nash.

will ye be having a milouda now lads?

Yes, but he's injured, and hasn't been terribly consistent for a while anyway, and he wants to go home, supposedly because his wife's decided she doesn't like Glasgow as much as Wolverhampton. We are currently playing with a right back at left back who can't go more than about three games without more bits falling off his legs, and who was taken apart by Rangers yesterday. (http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/headlines/display.var.2420716.0.Wilson_admits_hell_have_to_play_through_injury.php)

xpost to Dr C

will ye be having a milouda now lads?

-- ken c, Monday, 1 September 2008 14:03 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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Ah no, we'll be alright there

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^^^hilarious photo that i can't post

that's not megatron

Spurs have accepted £30m from Citeh for Berbatov. Whaaaa? Citeh celebrate by loaning Javan Vidal to Grimsby.

Oh, and Saha's passed his medical and is OFFICIALLY at Everton now.

Nadir Belhadj signing means that pompey could be playing a 3-5-2 formation until Kranjcar comes back. But where does this leave Armand Traoré? could he be pushed into a centre attacking midfield role?

that 3-5-2 formation took Everton by a surprise, Kaboul was given floating role at the back alongside Distin and Campbell, Armand Traore and Glen Johnson were attacking wing backs and pompey outnumbered Everton in central midfield.

Pompey still need to sign a midfielder with Pedro Mendes sold and Muntari gone to Inter Milan.

One player that would be an ideal replacement would be Birmingham City's Sebastian Larsson

And Tyrone Mears is now officially the property of Champions League side Olympique Marseille.

Olympique Marseille's manager was a right back in his heyday

who's he?

meanwhile let us welcome DJ MARTIAN

Eric Gerets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gerets

37 millions pounds is the reported fee for berbatov from city. astonishing.

this morning, i didn't care if he went to united or not, 25 million would have been better than having him in the reserves. now i'm absolutely terrified he'll turn city down and force us into a last minute deal with united for considerably less than even that.

i'm still holding out for diarra from pompey.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11670_4078202,00.html

Arsene Wenger in "I saw the incident" shocker

no way will diarra be leaving today, pompey need to sign a midfielder ! not let one go

Diarra exit ruled out
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12876_4078686,00.html

we'll just throw 20m at it. hopefully.

25m and zokora, alternatively.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44976000/jpg/_44976374_deal226.jpg

this is funny

Abu Dhabi United - should be - Abu Dhabi City

I don't get it

BBC - Transfer deadline day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7590492.stm

Jon Stead's off to Ipswich, Gaby Zakuani's been loaned to Peterborough, and Grimsby favourite Straight Peter Bore has been loaned to York City for a month.

apparently Andrew Surman and Nathan Dyer travelling up the m3 to sign for london clubs

"eh, boss, i'm not sure that left back's coming, you know"

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Why aren't premier league clubs trying to sign Real Madrid's Roysten Drenthe?

BBC is now claiming City are trying to sign Berbatov AND David Villa. Haha, best transfer deadline day ever.

I can only assume Louis Saha was given the least strenuous medical of all time.

well, he signed on a free initially, so given moyes' other options he wasn't going to be too picky.

yakubu is 47.

triple whammy:

Sean Davis of Pompey apparently turned down a move to Celtic in the Summer

Celtic transfer target Nadir Belhadj moves to Pompey

Pedro the destroyer Mendes sinks Celtic

:-(

Abu Dhabi United - should be - Abu Dhabi City
-- djmartian, Monday, 1 September 2008

Pedro the destroyer Mendes sinks Celtic
-- djmartian, Monday, 1 September 2008

aah, the Martian who makes ilx worthwhile.

Is it true that Berbatov might go to City? I really can't see it. In fact, I can't see it at all. That wouldn't be his DREAM, would it?

Going to City is a surefire way of ensuring you spend the rest of the career sulking through stints at Bolton and Sunderland before finally securing that late doors dream move to Liverpool aged 33.

it depends, PF, on whether or not spurs allow him to talk to united i guess.

1542: "My 10-year-old has just come home with a football tattoo on his face and I am struggling to remove it before school tomorrow. That's my transfer news."
Darrell via text on 81111

Biggest lol of the day so far.

if you've had a good season at Spurs and you've not already been bought by a decent side, chances are the original reason you joined Spurs has backfired, so you might as well consider a move to a club like Man City.

Rich Ragheads want Manchester City to be England's biggest club, and break into the top 4 this season - get with it

Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim:

“Our goal is very simple - to make Manchester City the biggest club in the Premier League, and to begin with, to finish in the top four this season.”

does anybody actually know anything about these Abu Dhabi guys? Are they as rich as terrified people are saying?

Martian brings the racial sensitivity

get with it

Arabian Business broke the news, all the info
http://tinyurl.com/6qjdp5

they are rolling in money

i like the simplicity of their 2-point plan. they're not going to get bogged down in details.

They have literally thrown all their money on the floor and are rolling around in it. If they're not careful they'll roll straight into the gutter with society.

A Mission Statement and a Statement of Intent

Abu Dhabi United - should be - Abu Dhabi City

-- djmartian, Monday, 1 September 2008 14:41 (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Abu Dhabi County, surely?

Ken that would be Stockport County

No it wouldn't.

Steve Finnan is Barcelona Bound

Liverpool full-back Steve Finnan has signed for Spanish side Espanyol on a two-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

another good bit of business by benitez, that.

united arab amirites

xxpost

WE'VE LOANED SOME BLOKE FROM STRASBOURG!!!

In further Liverpool dead wood news - Andrei Voronin has gone to Hertha Berlin on loan. Don't all die of excitement at once.

Saints Sign A Sick Note

that bloke has a broken metatarsal !

http://tinyurl.com/5cfp32

"However, Gasmi, who hasn't started a match for Strasbourg this season in the French second division, is not expected in Southampton for another four to six weeks as he has a broken fifth metatarsal in his foot."

Total football more like a total farce

Apparently Our Bloke From Strasbourg (not Morgan Schneiderlin) is "an attacking midfielder, but can play in a more forward role". Which means that he can play as a striker. The Southampton official site is talking in those kind of terms an awful lot these days.

Total football more like a total farce
-- djmartian, Monday, 1 September 2008

Swygart, any news on Surman and Dyer signing for a london club?

they have be linked with this club: http://tinyurl.com/5rczea

It strikes me that the Berbatov Saga has obscured the fact that he hasn't really done much for Tottenham. If he moves to City I wouldn't even be very scared of coming up against him next season. (United are different: he'd be more dangerous with them.)

I dunno, he's scored a goal or 46.

he hasn't? wow.

or do you just mean this season, because that's true, but for reasons outside of his control to be fair.

xpost

Reasons like him throwing a big sulk?

he's also added about 13m to robbie keane's value just by playing alongside him, which Liverpool are finding out.

xpost- no reasons like he put in a transfer bid, same as keane?

Nathan Dyer has no interest in clubs that have anything less than three official launch nights.

And Drew Surman fucking hates Carl Cox.

Apparently Nathan Dyer seen in Portsmouth today, signing on for
a community service order

West Brom officially put a Donk on it

He's missing an 'ey' on the end of his name lol amirite?

Real Madrid in for Berbatov now as well, apparently

£36.5m! Yes please.

could get two more Darren Bents for that.

Berbatov apparently has stated that his priority is to find a a club whose ground is right next to one of the world's largest Tescos - in a PR fiasco, Cov have responded with an offer of 25k and a signed photo of the '87 FA Cup winning team.

Palace have countered by offering 50k, a packet of crisps, Dougie Freedman and a map of the secret passages leading into the ice-cream aisle of the Sainsbury's that Selhurst Park is built on top of.

Also, Mark Bunn is now very definitely a Blackburn man and Collins "Not John Collins" John has gone to NEC Nijmegen for free after Fulham remembered they still had him on their books.

"...so we sold him to Man City for £34m!" hahahaha

Transfer deadline day is better than Christmas.

Apparently Berbatov has turned down a highly lucrative move to the Franchise because the fruit and veg section in Asda is shite.

I keep mishearing Corluka's first name as Brendon.

I think if I offered 50p for Berbatov my bid would be accepted, anyone can have him as long as it's not Man U.

Oh, and haha Robbie Keane left side of midfield for Liverpool.

I just saw Jimmy Bullard flying over Old Trafford

Oh yeah, and Citeh are also in for David Villa and Mario Gomez according to the lad from Abu Dhabi who may or may not actually own Citeh nowadays.

What's the betting this all ends with them signing Nathan Ellington?

1652: "I know this sounds unlikely but I swear I just saw Jimmy Bullard at Arsenal's training ground..."
Joe from Herts, via text

I wonder what will happen to berba really, there's no way he'll sign for man city. Maybe, he'll have a massive change of heart and stay at Spurs, and only sulk now and again.

Jimmy Bullard for Liverpool, he's better than Gareth Barry.

Is this Abu Dhabi fella making some kind of reality TV show? Building a top 4 side in 13 hours is a step up from the Apprentice

"Tottenham accept Man City's audacious bid of over £30m for Dimitar Berbatov, but the player is in talks with Man Utd."

the suspense is LITERALLY killing me. with hammers.

Oh, boo, Man U will get him now. Maybe Spurs can get that Frazier bloke as part of the deal. Or Wes Brown.

What happened to Benjani btw?

BIG TRANSFER COMPLETED

Man City's Albert Riera joins L'pool via Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona

West Brom have put a Donk on it

there's speculation that Shaun Wright-Phillips' 2-goal haul at the weekend has impressed Big Phil Scolari and Chelsea are contemplating a bid in the region of 20 million

lol everything

-- Just got offed, Monday, 1 September 2008 18:32 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

but especially roberto spiralli

Double Shock

http://www.wigan.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=123184

Manchester United forward Fraizer Campbell is reportedly set for a move to Wigan Athletic as replacement for Spurs bound Emile Heskey according to Sky Sports.

ok this is getting weirder

Heskey to Spurs ! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

"Tottenham accept Man City's audacious bid of over £30m for Dimitar Berbatov, but the player is in talks with Man Utd."

This is a bit weird. BBC are reporting that Berbatov has had a medical at Man Utd despite Tottenham not accepting any bids from them.

it's called brinkmanship

as the clock ticks to midnight, man utd will push through a deal with spurs - or the incredible bulgarian sulk goes back to white hart lane and spurs don't get their dosh

Derek Riordan joins Hibernian Celtic FC - The Official Site 19:37

Shit, no? Fuck.

1955: "Feel a bit sorry for SWP. He's just moved from the old Chelsea to the new one. Be on the bench again next season."
Danny, via text on 81111

Danny via text otm

who better than SWP - Royston Drenthe?

1957: Spanish newspapers AS and Marca are both suggesting that Manchester City have made a bid of £28.4m for Real Madrid's Chelsea target Robinho. The day gets ever more ridiculous.

4 hours to go

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"Manchester City be shopping! You cannot stop Manchester City from shopping!"

With regards to Berbatov, since when did Fergie give a shit about being given permission to speak to any player. He's probably got him locked in a basement somewhere in Old Trafford.

Bye Deek, Hibs evidently need a cocky wee bastard with a shite haircut and a huge sense of entitlement more than we do. Good luck with that "being banned from every pub in Edinburgh" thing.

He's probably got him locked in a basement somewhere in Old Trafford.

- it's broadcasting on manchester utd tv via webcam

Daniel Cousin - to Hull from Glasgow Rangers

Bruce Boy - Heskey going nowhere

Apparently Berbatov flew to Manchester to meet with City - and Ferguson met him off the plane.

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hijacked - was fergie wearing a sky blue hoodie?

Yes

and sky blue tracky bottoms?

No

Daniel Cousin - to Hull from Glasgow Rangers

Watch out for an increase in injuries caused by elbows in the face in a English Premier League ground near you.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/crewe_alexandra/7592766.stm
Crewe have completed the signing of versatile Burton Albion defender John Brayford for an undisclosed fee.

John Brayford was rated the best young defender in the Blue Square

It's gonna be so crap when the football actually starts again.

Maybe Luis Figo will join Spurs?

Danny higginbottom bounces back to stoke city

Real Madrid bid 60 million euros for Valencia's David Villa

WTF?

I think someone doesn't like us linking to their images.

I could I suppose edit my post and put another Megatron up there. But then again you never know what you're going to get when you open the thread now. I got a dude holding a fish just now! It's the thread that keeps on giving!

apparently Ibrox winger Alan Gow has gone on loan to Blackpool.

Man City have just bid £14million plua Danny Mills for Devin.com's webmaster

daniel levy and david gill - the red hot phone line

Stoke City up offer for Cardiff Joe Ledley to 6 Million

Pictures of Sir Alex shaking Berbatov's hand wearing a shit eating grin on Sky sports news.

Robinho to Man City for £32.5 mil!!!!!

Liverpool sign Charlton Lido

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44977000/jpg/_44977659_riera_saha226x170.jpg

can there be any sense made of the contradictions in the berbatov affair?

have just turned over to Sky Sports News. Best transfer window ever! (apart from lack of activity at Celtic Park)

Pretty sure there's no supermarket in walking distance of Franchise's stadium

Tony Thorpe moves from "unattached" to Woking.

robinho to man city on sky sports.

Shola Ameobi just signed for a package addressed to his next door neighbour

Just found that you can stream the poor man's Sky Sports News live online: http://www.setanta.com/en/UK/Our-channels/Setanta-Sports-News/

I think we're way ahead of them, though.

Abu Dhabi have put aside £20 million in order to resurrect Marc Vivien Foe from the grave.

Part of the Berbatov deal is that Spurs can field 14 players whenever they face Man U.

Daniel Levy also gets to punch a Mancunian orphan in the face once a season.

and if they get the ball into Utd's half it's a goal

Radio Scotland don't appear to be doing their 2 hour end-of-window special tonight, which is a shame because it is always fun to listen to Richard Gordon trying to get excited about nothing while waiting for the inevitable registration of fourteen more Lithuanians at Tynecastle at 11.59pm.

My Radio Times has 'SPL Credit Crunch special' on from 23:50-23:55.

Channel 5 have dropped Serie A :(

The transfer system has become very high school.

and if they get the ball into Utd's half it's a goal

I hope this would also expedite the construction of a huge, half a football pitch spanning goal for Utd to defend.

Arsenal have spent very wisely this transfer window.

Wenger lost his PIN number and is waiting for the bank to post him a new one.

Daniel Cousin's missus is quite pretty (and he's just completed his transfer to Hull, hooray, good riddance)

If I had 30 million, and Danny Fiszman told me I could spend it how I wanted, I'd probably put in a bid for Berbatov right now.

If he's not going to do anything else with it, it's worth having at least a 30 million pound roffle.

Berbatov almost a done deal at United according to Sky Sports News a minute now. Have Spurs actually agreed he can leave yet?

Guess they're waiting to see who's going to blink first.

Ah, it appears that Man Utd have the additional carrot of Frazer Campbell to fling in on top of their several squillion pounds. Whoo and indeed hoo.

In other news, Jim White has just read out a personal text message he received from his good mate Joey Barton saying he doesn't want to leave Newcastle because he owes the club and the fans.

Ah, we have a programme on Radio Scotland now. Unfortunately they are talking about Celtic's "fiscal prudence" (read: inability to find a screwdriver to prise the lid off the biscuit tin). Celtic have confirmed that's them done for the night, having achieved one piece of activity today in booting Derek Riordan back down the M8. I am not tremendously happy about this.

If you were Jo how would you feel that Man City apparently felt the need to bid on four strikers? I mean, besides the fact that they were never going to get all/any of them.

Haha, did Robinho confuse his shades of blue or something?

Also best of luck SWP

It's pretty funny to see Chelsea getting pwned

I applaud anything that makes it more difficult for those two clubs. I mean, it's worrying in general, but you've gotta love that sense of timing.

blueski's remaining consignment of 80s Transformers comics ebayed off to Spurs in a sensational last minute bid more than doubling the previous price

"Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon says the club have agreed to sell Robinho to Manchester City. "

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Anyone want Bobo Balde? You've got 12 minutes left to come and get him.

i want Bobo Balde but he doesn't respond to my letters any more.

I think Celtic should take a punt on him.

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Figure that's not going to happen, so not sure why he's still there costing lots of wages when other teams want him and are willing to pay for him. I'd have him in that team just now, but then I wouldn't have sold Evander Sno or bought Glen Loovens, so what do I know? I'm not a real football person like our experts at Celtic.

not sure why he's still there costing lots of wages when other teams want him and are willing to pay for him.

He wants a big fat >£1M cheque like what Tommy Gravesen got.

!!!!! Martin Cranie leaves Portsmouth to join Charlton on a season-long loan. !!!!!

this is what today has all been building up to

!!!!! Martin Cranie leaves Portsmouth to join Charlton on a season-long loan. !!!!!

-- Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 1 September 2008 23:57 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

This move is to ILX what marrying your daughter off to the neighbouring village's goat must have been in tribal India.

Aye, but his contract's going to run out and he's not going to get one.

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dj will be devastated

what he doesn't know is that i LIKE goats

oh shi

"Every time I have spoken with him he was very sad, crying and asking to leave Spain," said Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon of Robinho.

best deadline day ever, especially if Berbatov stays at WHL

TRANSFER CONFIRMED

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-- Roberto Spiralli, Monday, September 1, 2008 10:47 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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Man, football.

Man City online store already selling Robinho bottle openers.

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"wait what"

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lol kenyon

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http://www.norcalblogs.com/post_scripts/archives/money1.gif

"Big chat that Everton have signed that Marouane Felliani dude from Standard Liege."

^this is the standard of reporting that i expect for the license fee i don't pay any more

Oh, Wengerpaws. Sure you managed to sneak in at least one previously unknown prepubescent tyke?

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Big sighting at the Emirates:

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That's not the umpire

never seen that Police Squad before

Campbell on loan to Spurs. Spurs & Manu agreed Berb deal 30.7k

finally

£30.75 million, Spurs agree not to pursue their complaint against Man Utd for tapping up, and Fraizer Campbell goes on loan to Spurs for a year.

I hope he breaks his leg in his first game for lolz.

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i hope he publishes a tell-all autobiography slating Sir Alex and gets offloaded to Roma for 5m

Are him and Cristiano going to have a sulk off?

Transfer Deadline Day Round-Up:

Winners
Everybody
NEC Nijmegen

Losers
Nobody
Chelsea

i'll take that.

no word on diarra there's always a few that were done in the last minutes but nobody will find out about til tomorrow, so i'm holding out hope til then

Would have taken Veloso over Diarra but it looks like we'll make do with neither. We'll all be pointing and laughing at Chelsea until normal service resumes and we remember they're comfortably favourites to win the league.

I'm a bit annoyed by the Robinho deal as it means we don't get the record transfer fee. I'll be even more annoyed when Mark Hughes gets sacked in November. Although the prospect of Shaun Wright-Phillips dropping down the pecking order behind a load of ludicrously expensive wingers is amusing to say the least.

Also one of the more entertaining moments that was totally overlooked in th midst of yesterday's craziness was that Portsmouth tried to sign Joey Barton. Brilliant.

Secretly quite pleased Berbatov didn't actually sign for Man City, although it must have been difficult with Fergie turning up at the airport and handcuffing himself to him.

what prospect the premier league hitting united with a charge anyway? do spurs have to make a complaint?

portsmouth were going to sign barton as a replacement for diarra, when he wouldn't move the diarra deal stalled, i think.

nothing says 'panic buy' like spending 15mil on a 20yo Belgian who's cup-tied in Europe. i am assuming that Everton had exactly 15mil and not a penny more and that's why they couldn't stump up a bit extra for Moutinho.

lol how many pissed up City fans did I have to explain to last night that no fucking way was they gonna buy Campbell for 7 mill.

Is Frazier Campbell actually any good then? I sort of think 'lol fifth choice Man Utd striker' but he's probably still better than Emile Heskey/Carlton Cole/whichever other loser we were trying to panic buy yesterday evening.

(Not that he'll ever play but still)

What I saw of him at the KC last season I feel like he might be good enough to make ManYoo's first team in a couple of years, maybe. Regular, like.

nothing says 'panic buy' like spending 15mil on a 20yo Belgian who's cup-tied in Europe.

To be fair, he had just shut down Steven Gerrard totally in a competitive fixture, and was no doubt in danger of doing it to them too and preventing them reaching the group stages of the UEFA cup. How much is that worth?

Not a lot.

Two home gates plus about £0.3M from UEFA, I think.

I think that Tottenham's transfer policy has often been silly at best, and I think the team is likely to remain seriously flawed. But perhaps it would be fair to say that in one sense this is a victory for the maligned Daniel Levy. He has been criticized for his misjudgement in holding out for £30m rather than £20m from United. He has been sniped at by various other people, like Alex Ferguson. But in holding out till deadline day (and helped I suppose by City's bid) he did indeed make *over* £30m for this moody 27-year-old, and get an agreement for a highly-rated replacement striker on loan instead. Nobody thought that Levy could stare down Ferguson and United and come out the winner in any deal, but I think he has just done so.

The transfer window seems like so long ago now.

I would probably give up on supporting Spurs if they became too successful.

THINK YOU'RE SAFE THEN DUDE

Yeah, I know!

I think that Tottenham's transfer policy has often been silly at best, and I think the team is likely to remain seriously flawed. But perhaps it would be fair to say that in one sense this is a victory for the maligned Daniel Levy. He has been criticized for his misjudgement in holding out for £30m rather than £20m from United. He has been sniped at by various other people, like Alex Ferguson. But in holding out till deadline day (and helped I suppose by City's bid) he did indeed make *over* £30m for this moody 27-year-old, and get an agreement for a highly-rated replacement striker on loan instead. Nobody thought that Levy could stare down Ferguson and United and come out the winner in any deal, but I think he has just done so.

That has virtually nothing to do with Levy, and virtually everything to do with the last-minute City takeover (which there is no way Levy could have foreseen). If the bizarre events at City hadn't occurred, then United would have had the stronger bargaining position: if the deal didn't go through they could go without Berbatov and be mildly annoyed (OK, they'd sold Saha, but he was hardly going to be missed as he was only fit for two games a year), but still have a team that had just won the European Cup; Spurs, on the other hand, would have been left paying the wages of a non-playing sulky misfit and wouldn't have had any money to pay for their new Russian signing.

That's probably a correct assessment, but I wonder if Real Madrid might have made a firmer enquiry if it hadn't been for Man City thundering in there?