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
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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
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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"

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

^otm

loltm

lolbinho

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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"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.

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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?