Transfers - summer 09

[Royal Lady]

LOL - soz just catching up - suppose Little to Sheff Utd on a free has been bandied about all morning too.

[Bill Oddie's Beard]

Sonko to Hull on loan

[Row Z Royal]

Sonko to Hull on loan

LOL@Hull

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Sonko to Hull on loan

Good signing.

[rg6royal]

Dom on his BlackBerry, via text on 81111: "David Bentley has gone to Liverpool on a one-year loan, heard from an inside source..."

Not true. Totttenham have said he's going nowhwere

[Ian Royal]

Sonko to Hull on loan

LOL@Hull

+1

[LoyalRoyalFan]

BBC :

1633: Popular news service Reuters are suggesting that Martin Petrov will not be joining Spurs, even though he wanted to move, because Man City boss Mark Hughes is unwilling to let him leave.

[leww_rfc]

Benjani to Notts County??

it can only be a loan apparently because of work permits..

[leww_rfc]

portsmouth and nicky shorey could not come to an agreement

[Row Z Royal]

Sonko to Hull on loan

Good signing.

Yeah, for Sonko.

[Bill Oddie's Beard]

portsmouth and nicky shorey could not come to an agreement

Nothing to do with money as well, bit of a weird one...

[TBM]

portsmouth and nicky shorey could not come to an agreement

Nothing to do with money as well, bit of a weird one...

paying for travel/hotel etc whilst he was on loan there???

[TBM]

Most boring transfer deadline day ever

James Collins, West Ham to Villa @ £5m is the MOST EXCITING deal done today

[Gordons Cumming]

Shorey will become Portsmouth's 12th summer signing, they have signed an entire team. Niemi-Finnan-Vanden Borre-Mokoena-Shorey-Yebda-Boateng-Brown-O'Hara-Dindane-Piquionne. Sub: Smith. What do you think of that motley crue, Pompey fans?

And the Nicky Shorey deal has moved a step closer with Pompey agreeing terms with the full-back.

[leww_rfc]

Shorey will become Portsmouth's 12th summer signing, they have signed an entire team. Niemi-Finnan-Vanden Borre-Mokoena-Shorey-Yebda-Boateng-Brown-O'Hara-Dindane-Piquionne. Sub: Smith. What do you think of that motley crue, Pompey fans?

And the Nicky Shorey deal has not moved a step closer with Pompey not agreeing terms with the full-back.

wrong, Shorey and Pompey couldnt agree terms..

[exileinleeds]

It is interesting that so many deals done are loans. Makes you wonder how tough financiers are being with capital purchases for football clubs.

[papereyes]

Dunne rejects Villa, so they don't sell Shorey?

Or has Dunne gone to Villa?

[Starfish]

Dunne rejects Villa, so they don't sell Shorey?

Or has Dunne gone to Villa?

Irish news say that he was holding out for a pay-off from City because he still has four years left on his contract or something. They'll be allowed to go through with it as they had already begun formal proceedings. Or something.

He had a bad year last year but wasn't he consistently City's player of the year in the seasons before? I like him because he has saved Ireland from some (even more) serious defeats over the past few years.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

It is interesting that so many deals done are loans. Makes you wonder how tough financiers are being with capital purchases for football clubs.

It's easier to get loan deals done as well. Lot less paper work and registration involved.

[exileinleeds]

It is interesting that so many deals done are loans. Makes you wonder how tough financiers are being with capital purchases for football clubs.

It's easier to get loan deals done as well. Lot less paper work and registration involved.

I don't really know what loan deals involve, but I imagine the club pays the players wages/insurance premiums. By loaning a player out a club (like Celtic to us for example) can maintain a bigger squad of players than their realistic finances might permit. They know they can call them back in an emergency. They also continue to write off the initial purchase price against tax. A win/win situation.

I cannot believe that banks are treating a football club any differently to any other business right now- overdrafts are being cut back- or a lot more expensive. Any fool will know that pretty much all football clubs will have a drop in income. Supporters have less disposable income to buy shirts, spend in the bars, even buy a programme. Local business has the same problems and are less likely to be in a position to buy advertising/sponsorship. Small things perhaps, but when something like 90% of league clubs are operating at a loss- not a risk banks are going to want to take.

Even Abramovich has had huge losses of his wealth, our own chairman has lost more than 20% of his net worth in the last 2 years. That is not only going to make him a lot less liquid, but his longer term projects like Station Hill are not going to be bringing the expected returns.
He had invested about £16m, undoubtedly expecting quite a substantial profit, perhaps in 2011 or 12. That is not now going to happen - maybe the percieved or planned profits from that one project might have been the £20m investment he intended for a sustainable stint in the Prem.

I am just glad he didn't borrow in anticipation.