Transfers - summer 09

[TheMaraudingDog]

Danijel Pranjic joins Bayern Munich.

This is like a dream come true,
"Bayern Munich are one of the best clubs in Europe.
"They're in the same category as Barcelona, Real Madrid and Liverpool.

Tier 2 clubs then.

[bassavage]

CheLOLsea match Liverpool's bid for Glen Johnson

They sold him for £4M less than 2 years ago. Massive LOLZ if they buy him back for £18M!!!

Bigger LOLz because he apparently prefers a move to Anfield, and will reject Ch£LOLsea.

Not a great piece of business by Liverpool either, considering they didn't want to pay £8.5million for him in January.

LOLiverpooLOL

[Harry Carry]

and this is a sort of signing in the Crouch, Keane mould. A decent player, but not World Class.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

Pompey will be lucky to get £10m, a lot of money still owed from Crouch, plus Pompey will prob accept a full payment on reduced terms next summer.

Sell Arboloa for £7m, not bad business.

Stoke linked heavily with Ashton, great signing if they pull it off, Pulis has a good record with players with not so great injury records, just look at Fuller.

Why is it all other clubs can sign players like this, when we were lumbered with Fae, Cisse, Kebe, Rosenior etc?

[Harry Carry]

Pompey will be lucky to get £10m, a lot of money still owed from Crouch, plus Pompey will prob accept a full payment on reduced terms next summer.

Sell Arboloa for £7m, not bad business.

Stoke linked heavily with Ashton, great signing if they pull it off, Pulis has a good record with players with not so great injury records, just look at Fuller.

Why is it all other clubs can sign players like this, when we were lumbered with Fae, Cisse, Kebe, Rosenior etc?

one word, tight kants.

[FiNeRaIn]

Pompey will be lucky to get £10m, a lot of money still owed from Crouch, plus Pompey will prob accept a full payment on reduced terms next summer.

Sell Arboloa for £7m, not bad business.

Stoke linked heavily with Ashton, great signing if they pull it off, Pulis has a good record with players with not so great injury records, just look at Fuller.

Why is it all other clubs can sign players like this, when we were lumbered with Fae, Cisse, Kebe, Rosenior etc?

I can't believe reading fans still ask this question. Small club with no ambition, thats why.

Everyone else who has been promoted to the prem makes a go of it and tries to invest, reading didnt.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

Pompey will be lucky to get £10m, a lot of money still owed from Crouch, plus Pompey will prob accept a full payment on reduced terms next summer.

Sell Arboloa for £7m, not bad business.

Stoke linked heavily with Ashton, great signing if they pull it off, Pulis has a good record with players with not so great injury records, just look at Fuller.

Why is it all other clubs can sign players like this, when we were lumbered with Fae, Cisse, Kebe, Rosenior etc?

I can't believe reading fans still ask this question. Small club with no ambition, thats why.

Everyone else who has been promoted to the prem makes a go of it and tries to invest, reading didnt.

JM has plenty of ambition to sell a Premiership club, can't do that in the Championship. People on here justify our under spending by saying that it is good business, yet every other club does it different. It was just poor management....

[papereyes]

Everyone else who has been promoted to the prem makes a go of it and tries to invest, reading didnt.

Not *quite* true but they all end up relegated eventually. Some quicker than others.

[cmonurz]

Has every club that has been promoted to the Premier League since '92 subsequently been relegated?

With the exception of Stoke and Hull, who don't count, I can think of Wigan that haven't, have Bolton been back down since '95? Any others?

[soggy biscuit]

Fulham

[Deathy]

Has every club that has been promoted to the Premier League since '92 subsequently been relegated?

With the exception of Stoke and Hull, who don't count, I can think of Wigan that haven't, have Bolton been back down since '95? Any others?

Yes, Bolton came straight back down and went back up and down again didn't they? I certainly remember us going up there in the shiny new Reebok Stadium around the time that Big Sam and that bushy tash of his took over.

[Royalee]

Pompey will be lucky to get £10m, a lot of money still owed from Crouch, plus Pompey will prob accept a full payment on reduced terms next summer.

Sell Arboloa for £7m, not bad business.

Stoke linked heavily with Ashton, great signing if they pull it off, Pulis has a good record with players with not so great injury records, just look at Fuller.

Why is it all other clubs can sign players like this, when we were lumbered with Fae, Cisse, Kebe, Rosenior etc?

Because we had Steve Coppell as manager, HTH.

[Alan Partridge]

Has every club that has been promoted to the Premier League since '92 subsequently been relegated?

With the exception of Stoke and Hull, who don't count, I can think of Wigan that haven't, have Bolton been back down since '95? Any others?

Portsmouth

[soggy biscuit]

Real Madrid sign Raul Albiol for €15M from Valencia

[Ian Royal]

Has every club that has been promoted to the Premier League since '92 subsequently been relegated?

With the exception of Stoke and Hull, who don't count, I can think of Wigan that haven't, have Bolton been back down since '95? Any others?

That's fairly easy to check. Rule out Hull, Stok and the 3 going up and that leaves you with 15 teams to check on Soccerbase.

You can also rule out Bolton for certain. That's 14 clubs. Now take out Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs, Everton, Villa and Liverpool. That leaves 7 clubs. Will take about 10 minutes.

[Deathy]

Has every club that has been promoted to the Premier League since '92 subsequently been relegated?

With the exception of Stoke and Hull, who don't count, I can think of Wigan that haven't, have Bolton been back down since '95? Any others?

That's fairly easy to check. Rule out Hull, Stok and the 3 going up and that leaves you with 15 teams to check on Soccerbase.

You can also rule out Bolton for certain.

Bolton were relegated in 95/56.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Has every club that has been promoted to the Premier League since '92 subsequently been relegated?

With the exception of Stoke and Hull, who don't count, I can think of Wigan that haven't, have Bolton been back down since '95? Any others?

That's fairly easy to check. Rule out Hull, Stok and the 3 going up and that leaves you with 15 teams to check on Soccerbase.

You can also rule out Bolton for certain.

Bolton were relegated in 95/56.

That's what he means (otherwise he would have included them in the next group of teams).

As a slight aside, IIRC, over half of the current clubs in Tiers 1 to 4 have been in the top flight since 1992.

[Harry Carry]

Daniel Sturridge looks set to sign for Chelsea soon. Another English player in the ranks.

[winchester_royal]

Daniel Sturridge looks set to sign for Chelsea soon. Another English player in the ranks.

Another one for CheLOLsea to crush. If Sturridge had half a brain he'd be off to Villa or West Ham.

[soggy biscuit]

Daniel Sturridge looks set to sign for Chelsea soon. Another English player in the ranks.

He signed for Chelsea 3 weeks ago Harold
http://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=89341&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

LOLZ @ Harold being so on the ball with his own club