Football Banter Archive June 12 2012

 

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12 Jun 2012 23:03:12
Kilmarnock look set to land darius vassell after his release from leicester

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12 Jun 2012 23:02:10
Michael Jacobs having a medical with Watford tomorrow.

Bradford City signing Liam Hearn.

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12 Jun 2012 22:47:41
Freddy Eastwood set to sign for shots on pay as you play basis. Club to confirm this early next week. Very reliable source

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12 Jun 2012 22:26:33
Hull city manager Steve Bruce has been in contact with assem Allam ( hull city owner) on signing heskey, Gordon, Maynard, josh king, andy Johnson, Ricardo fuller And zay knight

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12 Jun 2012 22:25:32
Tranmere after Craig Fagan to forge new striking partnership with recently signed Ben Burgess. Anthony McNamee, Gary Roberts, Lloyd Sam and Danny Cadamarteri amongst Ronnie Moore's targets to fill the winger positions ahead of the new season.

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12 Jun 2012 22:13:39
Ross McCormack to Crystal Palace. Dougie Freedman is a long term admirer. Fee around 900k.

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12 Jun 2012 22:05:39
gary jones (rochdale) will be a bradford player within next 7 days

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12 Jun 2012 21:54:22
gary jones will sign for bradford from rochdale before end or week

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12 Jun 2012 21:51:53
Barnsley set to sign Antonio from reading on season long loan deal!!!

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12 Jun 2012 21:47:48
Any wigan athletic news??

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12 Jun 2012 21:44:33
Peterborough United have offered Barnsley 400k for Keeper Luke Steele

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12 Jun 2012 21:29:40
Southampton are looking at Brightons Will Buckley and Leeds Robert Snodgrass. Lee Barnard is epected to leave st marys and join huddersfield for 750,000

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12 Jun 2012 21:26:28
Coventry City will be going into administration within the next ten days - unless the Council &/or Higgs Charity agree to sell a 50% stake in the Ricoh Arena to current football club owners SISU. SISU have tabled an improved bid of £8 million for a 50% share in the stadium having already failed with their first bid, which was closer to £5 million.

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12 Jun 2012 21:26:03
Craig Douglas Bellamy to Cardiff City for £2.5m
Also Bjorn Sigurdarsson to City for £3m

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No bbs i coming to wolves you lot dont read much he has already said id love to play for wolves n solbakken

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12 Jun 2012 21:22:28
Barnsley looking at several players. One on the radar of the reds is David Connolly released from Southampton, who Hill says could be one of those 'Hidden Gems' he has been looking for. Which would fit Hills system of play perfectly.

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Good player when he's not injured

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12 Jun 2012 21:18:45
Robert Huth has signed a 3 year contract extention keeping him at the club until the end of the 2015-16 season. Been officially posted on the stoke city oficial website so everton and sunderland can back off

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12 Jun 2012 21:09:36
James Hayter and Izale Mcleod lined up to replace James Collins at Shrewsbury Town. Whilst a Championship goalkeeper could be announced by the end of the week.

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12 Jun 2012 21:07:35
Graham Turner will continue to hold talks with free agent Izale Mcleod as he looks for a replacement for last seasons top scorer James Collins, who turned down a two year deal with Shrewsbury to join Watford

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12 Jun 2012 21:03:49
Shrewsbury Town have held discussions with the following players:
- Brian Jensen
- Chris Weale
- Nathan Clarke
- Chris Beardsley
- Izale Mcleod
- Simon Gillet

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12 Jun 2012 20:54:52
Burnley could make a move for Crewes highly rated midfielder Ashley Westwood who is valued at 1M

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12 Jun 2012 20:43:25
colchesters ashley vincent signing for ipswich

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12 Jun 2012 20:50:00
Bolton are interested in signing Magnus Okuonghae

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12 Jun 2012 20:49:51
doncaster and bradford in race to sign midfielder taiwo from carlisle who's looking for a move back to yorkshire

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12 Jun 2012 20:39:23
Saw Danny Murphy in west quay, southampton today, been hearing rumours that he want to go to a london or south english club. saints are set to offer him 25k a week on a two-year contract

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How can u even suggest that?

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12 Jun 2012 20:37:52
Zimabwean ace Kheli Dube looks set to sign from Chicago Fire as Mark Yates searches for a new striker.

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12 Jun 2012 20:31:35
Middlesbrough to sign Francois Zoko free agent after leaving Carlisle & Mustapha Carayol shown interest in move to Riverside. Mowbray to move on Stephen McManus to either Bristol City or Peterborough for a nominal fee to free up wages for more potential bargains. Robins are leading the chase for Big Mick

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12 Jun 2012 20:31:08
Cheltenham are looking to swoop for 19-year old free agent Joe McKee who has recently been released by Championship club Burnley.

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12 Jun 2012 20:30:28
Eddie Howe looks to have burned his bridges at Swansea. It was "make your mind up time" this morning and an official approach was due at lunchtime today but his phone has been off! Oh dear oh dear Eddie boy, squeaky bum time was it?

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12 Jun 2012 20:29:49
Watford will turn there attentions to Crewe striker Ajay Leitch-smith for 450k after collins bid failed

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12 Jun 2012 20:09:20
Barnsley look set to win the race to bring in Man United's new signing Chris Powell on a season long loan.

Barnsley have taken pole position after agreeing to Man United's demand of guaranteeing first team football.

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12 Jun 2012 20:00:36
JORDAN RHODES picked in 35 man squad for GB olympic team, will be cut to 18 man squad early july.

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I've been saying this would happen for weeks! just hope he can get down to last 18 now

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12 Jun 2012 19:34:42
ed if you know any west ham rumours please could you tell me thanks :)

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12 Jun 2012 19:34:26
Norwich interested in york's highly rated winger/striker Ash Chambers on afree as his contract is out and norwich need another pacey front man. source daily star. heard it here first

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You just said it was in the daily star,then the very next thing you wrote was heard it here first hhaha how does that work?

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12 Jun 2012 19:36:31
Marc Pugh joins Burnley!

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12 Jun 2012 19:32:29
Ohara to wba 3mill, flectcher to sunderland 5mill, jarvis to stoke 3.2 mill. Pilkinghton to newcastle 6mill,

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12 Jun 2012 19:32:17
Burnley to replace Jay Rod with Leeds Forward Becchio for 2M

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12 Jun 2012 19:29:33
Caridiff city has lost out in trying to lure Bjorn bergmann sigurdarson from llilestrom, the iclandic striker will/has agreed personal terms with wolves after the club met the £3mil price tag:FACT!

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12 Jun 2012 19:22:12
Bristol City are in negotiations with
Danish club FC Midtjylland about the
possible signing of midfielder
Mads Winther Albaek. The Danish under
21 player has impressed this season and is highly rated by City boss McInnes.

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Player wants permanent deal , his club wants loan deal. Sources from Denmark confident deal will go ahead.

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12 Jun 2012 19:20:15
Sam Baldock will join CPFC for 2m once Clyne leaves the club for upwards of 3m. Palace will also add George Boyd (750k) from Posh, Greg Halford (250k) from Portsmouth, Dumbuya on a free from Doncaster Rovers and possibly Luke Freeman from Stevenage although Palace are way off Stevenage's valuation of the player at the current time.

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12 Jun 2012 19:17:18
Peterborough United Playmaker Dan Lawlor is set to sign for luton town on a season loan to make room for nick powell coming on loan from Man united following his transfer from crewe alexandra!

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Posh season ticket holder and never heard of Dan Lawlor and Nick Powell is not coming to Posh re Darren Fergie in local paper

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12 Jun 2012 19:16:08
Andy Gray has signed a one-year-deal and Roman Nunez from Leeds is going to sign a three-year-deal. for bradford city

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12 jun 2012 19:15:24
lee barnard on his way to huddersfield from southampton for 750k, him
& rhodes will make a great
partnership :-)

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12 Jun 2012 19:12:18
Robert Huth after 4 months of negotiating has put pen to paper on a 3 year deal. (Doubt we'll see the Everton fan on here with his inside info that they had signed him :-) )

Michael Owen has returned from holiday and will meet Tony Pulis on Thursday and remains an option for the Potters.

Stoke looking at a right and a left full back. One with a Premiership team and the other recently relegated.

4 players set to leave in the next 2 or 3 weeks as the Potters look to improve on last season's lack of goals. Two big name signings in the pipeline that will please Potters fans. 2 foreign players due for more talks. One a very exciting prospect

Will have some concrete news on Thursday afternoon

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Thats great news for u stoke fans

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12 Jun 2012 19:03:35
Huddersfield towns jordan rhodes aint going nowhere, he wants to stay at the club, and we want him to stay... so any celtic fans just stop now, he's not dropping down in standards to the SPL... and Newcastle possibly in the future but not now, he wants to stay put for now, find his feet in the championship and prove himself...

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He's going to fulham,very soon

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12 Jun 2012 18:37:18
Newly prompted York and Mansfield look set to lose a few influential players. York's James Meredith being one for York, and Luke O Neil also being one for Mansfield.Rumors suggest a number of League 1 and Championship clubs are interested.

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12 Jun 2012 18:30:25
Get in there Robert Huth has signed a new 3 year deal with mighty potters lets get some quality signings now like Defoe

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12 Jun 2012 18:15:47
Bradford to sign Cardiffs Farah on loan.

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12 Jun 2012 17:58:06
SOUTHAMPTON FC:
to the person who is saying about southampton signing the tunisian player. who were the 2 players in the video on saints player.

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Ade akinbiyi and some random

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12 Jun 2012 17:53:30
Oldham have offered a contract to mike grella

source he is my sisters fella

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12 Jun 2012 17:44:15
ipswich to sign colchesters ashley vincent on a bosman source the big man himself

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12 Jun 2012 17:40:23
swindons caddis ritchie connellll signing for rotherham for combine fee of 700k

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12 Jun 2012 17:39:10
Southend aven't had any bids for any of their players

Source: the echo

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12 Jun 2012 17:36:44
Robert Huth has signed a new 3 year contract

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12 Jun 2012 17:33:42
Afc bournemouth to sign brett pitman in the next 48 hours fee of 600k agreed

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12 Jun 2012 16:56:45
West Ham's marquee signing is going to be Mohamed Diame. He is in second round of talks and looks set for Upton Park. Great signing, well done Big Sam should be announced with Jussi Jaaskelinen by Sunday this week.
Source:Sly Spurts News

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12 Jun 2012 16:53:00
Salpingidis, 30, is attracting alot of interest from th premier league such as:
-Stoke
-Wigan
-Norwich
-West Ham
-Reading
are all interested in the greek star striker

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12 Jun 2012 16:51:39
Stoke city are interested in late goal scorer against Poland Dimitris Salpingidis

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12 Jun 2012 16:45:15
Pulis has enquired about the availability
of Kevin Doyle. He sees him as an ideal
player for the withdrawn striker role.
He is one of three players from Wolves
we are interested in ; Doyle, Jarvis and Kightly.

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Kites is not leaving how many times

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12 Jun 2012 16:30:23
Southampton look ready to hijack any deal for Watford's Mariappa and are ready to test the Hornet's resolve with a £3million bid

Should this fail, the Saints will turn their attention to Tottenham's Sebastien Bassong or potentially Sunderland's Michael Turner

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12 Jun 2012 16:27:13
West Brom to launch bids for Forster (£4.5m plus player) Bolton player Chung-Young (£3m) but are also interested in Leeds Ross McCormack / C Palace's Wilfried Zaha / Yann M'Vila / Anthony Knockaert

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12 Jun 2012 16:26:57
Shrewsbury Town goalkeeper Chris Neal has rejected the offer of a 1 year contract & will sign for Scunthorpe Utd on a 2 year deal. This leaves Graham Turner searching for 2 keepers.

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12 Jun 2012 16:13:31
Charlton have expressed interest in signing Gonzalo Castellani after Villareal CF finished 18th in La Liga and were relegated.

The player has expressed interest in moving to a London club and Charlton are highly regarded by his agent as the team best suited for him.

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12 Jun 2012 16:07:54
people who are saying that on southampton fc player it showed 2 players with rodriguez. who are the 2 players?

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12 Jun 2012 16:04:21
Whilst I do sympathise with Pompey's
plight, I do think your FA cup final win
over CCFC should be overturned
given that you most of your players
were not yours to play in the game.

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12 Jun 2012 16:04:09
anyone heard any more news on transfers ? all very quiet for me liking

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12 Jun 2012 16:03:02
Ben Foster to snub interest from Q.P.R. and Tottenham and sign for West Brom as he wants himself and his family to stay in The Midlands.

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12 Jun 2012 15:52:45
Shrewsbury to make a ambitious bid for joe murphy from Coventry with Christ Neal expected to confirm his departure in the next 2 weeks.

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12 Jun 2012 15:50:46
Just spoke with a Charlton scout, and he seems to think they are after Billy Kee?

Don't know who he is personally but they seemed to think he was a good attacking option. expect a deal soon

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12 Jun 2012 15:49:19
According to my mate who is heavily involved in management at Valley parade, Andy O'Brien back to Bradford by the weekend, happy days.

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12 Jun 2012 15:10:41
So what if we switch to red. At least
we will play in blue away from home.
I believe that all clubs should play in
their true colours when playing away.
This time next year I want to look
forward to seeing Newcastle in black
& white stripes, S'land in red & white
and Everton in blue if you get my drift.

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12 Jun 2012 15:05:16
No chance norwich will do fine .wolves wont go up crowds drop like a brick. Just think had u spent that money on a new player instead of a big new stand that will stay emptey u may of stayed in top div. I do like your ground, nice place to pick up pts dingle.

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As A Cardiff City fan, I am puzzled at the
feuding between norwich and wolves fans.
To me, they are both good clubs.

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12 Jun 2012 14:32:43
RIP Colin Henderson, former Boro chairman. Helped save the club from liquidation in 1986.

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12 Jun 2012 14:26:08
Doncaster Rovers star Kyle Bennet is on his way to Bristol City after a fee of around £200,000 has been accepted. Personal terms still to be agreed and talks will begin tommorow

200K? .. Have you actually seen him play? Bennett is one of the most exciting young players in League one now. Try 2 million and we might consider

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12 Jun 2012 14:08:50
I'm surprised at the way France played. Benzema seemed more like a midfielder than a striker as he was playing so deep. Their formation looked similar to Spain's and they didn't even have a striker in their line-up. Does Benzema usually play that deep for RM?

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Not usualy but i think france were scared of england and wanted to defend more than attack!

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12 Jun 2012 13:39:20
Burnley would want a good fee as if sold Swindon collect a sell on fee,however why would he want to leave Burnley

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12 Jun 2012 13:24:45
Why would any player join pfc at the moment? They are not able to pay the players/staff they already have so how can they bring people in untill the administration and ownership is sorted out

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And they beat us in the Cup final under
false pretences with players they hadn't
paid for!

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12 Jun 2012 12:07:32
rangers football club is to sell all players and all assets of the club and the name rangers fc will be disovled

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Although I am a Cardiff City fan, I think
this is tragic.

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12 Jun 2012 08:19:11
Norwich wont be buying anying champ players from wolves becuse after your best 3 leave there will be none worth buying. only top 6 scored more goals than so know problem there, only thing you can take from last season is that after mick left you took on the worst manager in prem l history. He will be just as poor as ever next season dingle. Could be chesterfield for u season after.

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Norwich will be relegated next season. One season wonders and back to the championship. hardly a big club but deserve the occasional run in the prem!

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Norwich will never be as big as Wolves.1 season in the prem and all of a sudden you,re Barcelona.

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12 Jun 2012 01:02:45
Southampton are set to test the resolve of Leeds United to keep hold of wing wizard Robert Snodgrass with a starting bid of £4million.

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12 Jun 2012 00:38:54
Shrewsbury strker Collins to Watford end of the week.

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Who are ya?
Anybody know if he's any cop??

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12 Jun 2012 00:33:12
QPR's Tommy Smith set to return for a third spell at Watford, deal to be tired up on his return from holiday next week. {Ed003's Note - Did he get a puncture ? }

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If you watford fans love Tommy so much
why did you flog him? Anyway Malky
fancies him so there's no contest!

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Tommy is a Watford fan his friends & family support us... The reason he left was that he & we knew we wouldn't get to the prem for a least a few years.. Tommy is good enough... We always knew he'd come home...

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12 Jun 2012 00:30:19
Shrewsbury star striker James Collins is set to sign for Watford on his return from international duty for an initial fee of 300K plus add-ons. James has been rtalking with Watford supremo Sean Murray also in the Ireland squad and is now excited about the step up to Championship football.

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11 Jun 2012 23:56:53
Suthampton to sign A. Mariappa also J. Butland after the euro's !

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11 Jun 2012 23:46:46
Peterborough utd are set to sign Freddie Sears , Lee Tomlin and Paul Taylor could go to Cardiff City in a swap plus cash deal which will be Tomlin and Taylor +1.8m for Kenny Miller

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Taylors worth more than Kenny Miller anyday! Dream on!

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I reckon we will keep miller and get taylor. So there!

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