Football Banter Archive January 24 2012

24 Jan 2012 23:21:14
The hottest rumour around is that MK Dons have no money to spend and will not be signing any players on a permanent basis during this transfer window. They may, however, sign one loan player just before the window closes, as is customary practice at the club.

24 Jan 2012 23:07:52
Van Persie unhappy with ambition of club and losing patience, handed in transfer request today, expect announcement tomorrow!
Arsenal hoping for offer of around 35-40 million and looking at Pato and/or Jordan Rhodes as replacement.
Wenger will also loan Arshavin to Everton, who are selling Bilyaletdinov, with view to 6 million in summer.

SpiderMan

24 Jan 2012 22:47:05
maynard deal is off

24 Jan 2012 22:14:30
Liverpool to bid for everyone.

24 Jan 2012 22:08:19
Arsenal target Eden hazard is in talks for personal terms as they have agreed a fee with Lille. He was spotted at the emirates game vs man utd

24 Jan 2012 21:59:47
Liverpool scouts have been watching Fernando Llorente, with a view to activating his release clause. Other targets for the reds include Jelavic of Rangers, who is rumoured to command a fee of at least £6m and Krasic, who has been offered to The Reds by Juve for a deal thought to be around £14m. Jovetic and Bent also remain on The Reds radar as they look to boost there striking ranks after a poor season in front of goal.

24 Jan 2012 21:52:39
No other players in or out at huddersfield, Morrison was an "opportunity not to be turned down" but lee clark had no intention of bringing anyone in, and is still standing firm that no one will be in or out

Source,

HTAFC.com (Lee Clark)

If GARY ROBERTS is out long term after his hernia op, HUDDS mite try bring in some cover. HTAFC.com

24 Jan 2012 21:44:14
michael owen is just a worse version of mackail-smith, brighton don't need him they need a strong striker who can hold the ball up.

Machail smith a scotch international says it all really ha ha ha

24 Jan 2012 21:36:26
No true saints fan wants to see the skates out of business? Of course we do, they were dancing in the streets when we nearly went out of business, and I and many thousands more will party like mad if they did, sod em they bought their tiny moment of success with dodgy money .
Good ridance to them they are a mickey mouse club from a small town near their bigger and better neighbours Southampton

Classy, seriously.

We dont want them out of business,. because then we wont have anyone to take the pish out of....COYRs

With fans like you, its a shame Southampton managed to survive. Bryher Pilgrim

I remember being spat at by Pilgrims, hiding behind steel bars, when we sent 'em down to league 2. Shame they survived.

24 Jan 2012 21:28:23
Reading takeover update:

• The club will go for Category One Academy status, the highest possible ranking, ensuring a bright future for our young talents.

Most Premiership clubs don't have Cat A status. Good news.

‚Ä¢ TSI said they will take 51% of the club in stage one, for £25million.

Not £40m as the papers claimed. Stage 2 buyout in a couple of years when Sir John Madejski steps down as Chairman and becomes Life President.

• TSI confirmed that their founder Anton Zingarevich went to nearby Bearwood College, and he paid to watch the Royals play at Elm Park as a youngster.

• Anton met Brian McDermott in Milan last week. Anton was there to watch the Milan derby, and stayed up with Brian until 1am talking football.

He has a genuine passion for football which bodes well.

• TSI will press ahead with the stadium expansion to 38,000 as was approved by Reading Borough Council in 2006 when Reading were in the Premier League.

The expansion of the East Stand will remain one tier, becoming the UK's largest one tier stand.

• TSI have not ruled out stadium rebranding, but at a later date.

24 Jan 2012 21:17:57
podolski to anfield 9.5m

24 Jan 2012 20:39:52
Leicester to sign all professional footballers in uk in an attempt to stay in the championship

24 Jan 2012 20:33:29
Just got my saints home top with hooper and number 10 what songs would celtic fans suggest we sing to make him feel welcome???

How about we might win a game soon

Cracker! What tune do you suggest?

Hope the shirts got green and white hoops otherwise you'll look a bit silly!

24 Jan 2012 20:27:02
As a stoke fan I want put a lot of stuff to rest
1) Defoe won't be coming (why would spurs sell us a top striker whilst they are vying for the league)
2)Stoke wont buy Tim Cahill (everton need him) nor Baines (Stoke cant afford him, nor would he come)
3) to my knowledge we havent ever done swap deals before, yet alot of you are convinced that we are going to be swapping half the squad for half of soembodys elses squad.....IT NEVER HAPPENS due to contracts, agents etc
4) Pulis has said that he will only buy if someone becomes avaiable and so far no one has. We might buy a full back and we might buy a back up winger, but in januarys inflated market do not bet on it

So i urge my fellow stokies to stop making up garbage and get real.

24 Jan 2012 20:00:13
Portsmouth have no prospective owners in discussions with them. It is believed that preparations are being made for liquidation by the end of february.

24 Jan 2012 19:57:27
Arsene Wenger had major bust up with RVP at training today! Planning to sell him for 25/30m to whoever will pay, probably Man City, Real Madrid, Tottenham or QPR.
Will bid 10m + Wilshere on loan for rest of season (to gain fitness and form) to Hudderdfield for Jordan Rhodes to replace RVP.
Arsenal also offering contract to Michael Ball, who left Leicester and now has no club, to sort out problems at left back.
Offering Sol Campbell pay as you play deal in desperate attempt to firm up the central defence.

Be better with Keown & Adams back what a load of ......

24 Jan 2012 19:38:58
breaking news my budgie has died, who was about to sign for Aston Villa

24 jan 2012 19:34:28
swindon forget about tubbs/heskey/mcdonald/the 2 non leauge lads and the lad from bournemouth.
is all total bs believe me.
there will be a striker this week that will take swindon to there spending limit.
unfortunately flint and ritchie will depart this month.is sad yet dicanno has the striker in sight so by end of this week it wil shock all swindon fans.
and yes they will win top spot by may

24 Jan 2012 19:20:23
Enough with the Crazy Reading Rumours. We will not be signing every player going. We will do what we always do buy cheap and buy smart.

24 Jan 2012 19:05:41
Saints might go in for billy sharp again sources from daily mirror

24 Jan 2012 18:53:54
my dad saw tim cahill in costa coffee at the weekend in newcastle-under-lyme and asked him what he was doing and he said he was in the process of signing for stoke. 100% certain deal

24 Jan 2012 18:15:11
torres to hand in transfer request and wants
to rejoin liverpool

24 Jan 2012 18:00:22
ha ha! I am very glad to see that alex snubbed QPR. they are a small club thinking they are big spenders, when really, their best player is joey barton ... man city wannabes

24 Jan 2012 17:34:30
Tomas Rosicky's agent, Pavel Paska, has travelled to London for talks with Arsene Wenger over the player's future. and possible deal bringing The Czech Republic international to Reading seeing as Rosicky's only started five league games for Arsenal this season and is out of contract in the summer.so Wenger has decided to cash in on the Rosicky fee is believed to be around 3.5 million

24 Jan 2012 17:12:53
Billy Sharp & Jordan Rhodes signing for everybody that they haven't already been linked with

Billy sharpe and jordan rhodes signing for west brom tomorrow,just thought i,d post this as i think they,re the only club that they have,nt been linked with yet!

24 Jan 2012 16:41:57
Ed... Any idea who the striker is in league 1 that Swindon are about to sign ?? {Ed013's Note - Sorry mate, nothing}

24 Jan 2012 16:36:04
Watford boss Sean Dyche is desperate for more attacking options, and is looking no further than another loan for Andreas Weimann. The Aston Villa youngster's second loan at Watford was cut short by Villa earlier this season, but Dyche hopes to bring him back until the end of the season, with a view to bringing him in permanently, should money for the transfer and wages allow.

I think this is quite likely, as Weimann speaks very highly of Watford and he was the one who talked Jonathan Hogg into signing for Watford.

24 Jan 2012 16:34:16
As I said some days ago Mourinho is leaving Real Madrid this summer. They still don?Ǭ¥t know who is the mole. The first name in the list for the next year is Rafa Benitez.

24 Jan 2012 16:27:34
Any Leicester news ed? {Ed013's Note - I've heard that you may be in for Ben Marshall}

They taught some club a lesson last night

Their fans have come out of hiding

...says the man who fails to tell us who he supports (i bet we can guess though, seeing as he's sulking 'n all)

LEICESTER FAN

24 Jan 2012 16:04:28
A host of scouts north and south of the border have flocked to see Aaron Sinclair of partick thistle fc, but my understanding is that Paul Cairney and Paul Paton are the players that they have left talking about. Carlisle and Hibernian keen on Cairney and I can't remember the clubs Paton was linked with. Hartlepool I think.

24 Jan 2012 15:56:15
My mate's uncle, whose best mate lives near Old Trafford said he saw Cristiano Ronaldo's former House Cleaner driving by Old Trafford. Ronaldo return?

24 Jan 2012 15:43:26
Finally Nicky Maynard has a chance to leave and join another championship club (in 6 months time). I hope he realises now he is not as good as he thinks he is and should not have turned on us after paying his wages for a year whilst injured. My worry is, he will not join Wigan as lets face it their a smaller club than us anyway.

Is this a Bristol City fan pretending to be a fan of a big club? HILARIOUS!

24 Jan 2012 15:11:57
saints to sign heskey for 10 million

Heskey not worth 10 million











He's worth 100million

Hes worth 150 Million,ide put it 155 hes slightly better than Bale

Wouldnt pay 10 pence for heskey

24 Jan 2012 14:43:42
you all want Pearce, but you aint gonna get him because we will be ok..we will have new owners in place soon..though he will play in the prem at some point and i wish him well

24 Jan 2012 14:23:29
Aston Villa's interest in Clint Dempsey is only at a formal stage but it all depends on if they Fulham receive a good offer along with if Fulham can get a suitable replacement.

Aston Villa will sell Emile Heskey to either Blackburn, Leicester, Wigan and Reading all chasing him.

James Collins will leave to join Sunderland.

Incoming to Villa will be

Steven Davis of Glasgow Rangers
Vagner Love of CSKA
Scott Dann of Blackburn
Nathan Dyer of Swansea

24 Jan 2012 14:21:48
I don't normally post on here, but love a good rumour. I have no source for this but no –one else seems to have mentioned that Adam Lallana did not play for Saints yesterday for no communicated reason. I his place was the loanee from Tottenham. Now it may be 2+2=5 but in the past Spurs have expressed an interest in Adam, so I for one would not be surprised if Adam Lallana didn't go to Spurs.

Groin injury. Saints never communicate injuries before games.

Erm, they communicated that injury on SKY long before kickoff, but other than that, you were spot on.

It was actually on a Saints banter site a few days ago but if Sky communicated it 'long before' it wasn't from an official Saints source

24 Jan 2012 14:09:48
I have heard Arsenal are interested in Blackburns LB Olsson. Wenger has considered a bid for the player at the end of the month depending on the recovery time for Santos and Gibbs. This will also be a possible summer transfer if Blackburn are relegated.

24 Jan 2012 14:08:29
ive just seen emile heskey coming out of the leeds united thorpe arch training centre with shaun harvey hopefully he wont have signed, im a leeds fan and want him nowhere near our beloved club!

Maybe he was trying to get to aston villa and missed...

Ha! I remember that joke being mildly amusing when it was first told, but that was 10yrs ago which makes your effort, basically, s**te.

24 Jan 2012 13:59:43
I was at the Newcastle training ground today and strong rumours are eminating about the toon making offers for a central defender from the conference league and another from division 2 come on ashley-splash some real cash or will will slide

As a season ticket holder at the Sports direct arena itwould not suprise me in the least if this were true --disgruntled mag.

Ashley just spent 9m on a striker for you lot, never satisfied mags are they? but to make his money back with interest Tiote,Krul and Ba will be sold to the highest bidder

24 Jan 2012 13:24:50
Billy Sharp has actually had a trial at Watford.

Only thing is, it was about 18 months ago.

Still, it's more than some of the other rubbish on here.

24 Jan 2012 13:21:58
Apart from michael tonge is there any news on Barnsley, i heard rumours of korey smith from Norwich but not as yet been confirmed. Any other news or anything at all.... Vaz Te will be staying also, talks ongoing regarding 2 year contract extension.

24 Jan 2012 12:36:37
I wish everyone would stop bulls**tting about Town, we aren't selling anyone this transfer window! or buying any one! Dean Hoyle has said we have the squad to get promotion, we dont need any new additions. want proof, watch at least his and clarks 5 interviews, Jordan ain't going nowhere and neither is anyone else! UTT

24 Jan 2012 11:49:18
Connor Roberts to play first team in the next match

24 Jan 2012 10:45:41
Jordan Rhodes 3 million 5 million 6 million your having a laugh ! He aint worth that and only a mug is gonna pay that for him !
Any one saying there isnt any difference between league 1 and the championship are obviously still in League 1 !
As a Leeds fan let me tell you the diffence is massive. There are many top class players in the Championship lots of premiership loan(ees) and ex prem players with out standing ability. The style of football is completely different and is not the Pub football thats played in league one where the midfield never touch the ball as its hoofed out of defence for strikers to run on to ! Jordan Rhodes in the eyes of the terrier fans is worth miilions to them as without him there promotion dreams would crash and burn. Reality is a lot different, he is un tried at a much higher level and for me looks short of real pace which i can testify is something that most championship teams defenders have ! So dont build this kid to be the next big thing he might not be ! See Jermaine Beckford who has fantastic pace and cant even get a first team regular shirt at Leicester. 30 goals a season div 1 f*** all everywhere else !! Dream on Terriers your deluded if you think he is worth more than 2 million untried and looks slower than steptoes horse !

Its not like we've already recieved bids of over 4 mil for him, but we ain't selling, deanos already made that very clear... Just jealous mate

There is a difference but the jump is not that much from league 1 to champ or champ to bottom half of prem hence norwich gaining bk to bk promotion with ex non league players not the norm but if the gap was as big as you suggest it would not happen
Rhodes when he goes will be worth how much a club deems he s worth not that long ago a certain fabian delph went to villa for 6m untried and untested in the premier league chamberlain 13m to the gooners and never lit up even league oneat the time. what theses players provide is a prospect to be a top top player 10m for a player which could generate double in five years is a risk but thats why clubs watch players before buying.
and as someone who watches him week in week out he is no slouch but has everything scores with both feet good header of the ball but his positional play is outstanding to compare beckford to rhodes is laughable rhodes is a better player in all departments

24 jan 2012 09:02:06
forster caskey not for sale he needs to establish himself at brighton for a season or two

24 Jan 2012 08:45:56
Funny how Cardiff fans think they better than Blackpool ye u get more fans u have bigger stadium but who was it that beat u to get to the perm :) so cum back wen u get to be a big team and no way Phillips would go Cardiff

Dont support any off them,but Cardiff are the bigger club and have the better players.Both teams have plenty off Scottish boys.Love how Craig Conway has taken to Cardiff.He set up a goal,and scored the winner on Sat.And not for the first time this season.And Miller will be up there,in the top scorers list.If he can keep him self fit.A.M

24 Jan 2012 08:15:48
very quiet on the southampton front now (we are going to buy everyone, biggest club in championship etc) the bottoms fell out of you lads

Haha! loving the comments, we lose a match and everyone thinks thats it for Saints. Wake up, still a way to go.

COYR's

We are Not going to buy everyone and we are Not the biggest club in championship but HOW LOUD would you like us to be?

People slating us now we are second, were was all you fans when we were top, didnt have much to say then did you. Unless you are a Hammers fan then none of you can say a great deal now can you. FACT is we are still second, yes we are having a poor run but we will inprove dont worry about us as touching as it is.

We're not worried about you sweetheart, we're laughing at you. Enjoy School did you?

Mr Anonymous laughing at us 'cos we are 2nd. What a strange and immature old man

24 Jan 2012 06:19:08
Dear Southampton;

Thank you so much for the 6pts this season. We're a team that has largely been in disarray and we have failed to fulfill our potential. We'll be lucky to make the playoffs now seeing as we've left it so late but there's always next season and we seem to be going in the right direction at last.

It heartens me to know that, even in these dark times, there is always at least one team who can be relied upon to make themselves, and their oh-so-arrogant fans, look stupid. Southampton ran around looking more like Div1 wannabe's than Premier League bound Champions, and you know what, that's what they are.

For all their talk about being brilliant, Southampton were taken apart by an average Leicester side. They've gone from leading the Championship by 5pts to trailing West Ham by 3pts and there's worse to come as there are some seriously good teams lining up to smash them.

Here's to Southampton missing the playoffs altogether, one win in the last four league games isn't the form of promotion chasers, it's the form of a team who have lost their bottle, although you'll never admit that. I don't care who Southampton play from now on, i'll support them... c'mon Cardiff!

I thought i'd thank you now because i expect every Southampton fan who has been bragging like a small boy in the playground since the first week of the season, to suddenly forget where this site is once they miss the playoffs. Nice support btw, it's good to see such a huge, well supported, club filling it's stadium.

Premier League - you're having a laugh!

..can't win them all my friend, LFC played well granted, but we shall be back with our full strength team soon and hopefully the results will follow.

A 'non arrogant' saints fan

Now that is very thoughtful and well presented post. It shows just how far Saints have come that a supporter of another team takes the time and attention to bother with such detail ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú it is a big compliment to us ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú thank you so much?¢‚Ǩ¬¶?¢‚Ǩ¬¶.COYRs

Talking of support you had 592 fans at the game....great support....yes we were poor last night i admit that....Leicester thoroughly deserved to win and no honest Saints fan would deny it. Now i am not making excuses but we had 4 players missing that are very influential to our team, Lambert, Chaplow, Fonte and
Lallana and this proves to me we have not got the strength in depth needed to push on, having said that with players coming back from injury and a couple of new signings i believe we will make the play offs at least.

STID COYR

Actually, Leicester had 700 fans there, not bad at all considering it was a Monday Night, everyone had work the next day, and the game was on TV. Kind of puts the 1100 you took to Leicester into perspective eh? You couldn't even use your full allocation for a Saturday game, well done.

Woah! The arrogant Leicester fans who were gonna win the league before a ball had been kicked have come out of hiding. We won't disappear so easily. STID

We diserved to win the away match and were missing half are players yesterday, as for Leister being an average side give yourself some credit you closed us down very well yesterday but don't make stupid uninformed comments

Umm, unless something has changed in the last few minutes, a team consists of 11 players. So how does missing 4 players constitute half of your team?

Is that it fella's? The best you can muster is "we deserved to win the away leg" (shoulda woulda coulda - didn't) and 'are' (not 'our'?) players was injured... oh dear

Lambert,lallana, fonte, Chaplow, richardson, and lee would be in the side if he was ready that's 6 over half the team, not including these normal players replacements were also injured

Ahh i see, funny how your manager mentioned only two players, and your fans started by saying it was four, but now it's six, no wonder you were spanked, at home.

Mon night - 4
Tue Morn - 5
Wed Morn - 6

any advance on 6 ladies and gents? roll up roll up, the big book of crap excuses is looking for a new number to make them feel better.

24 Jan 2012 05:23:06
Right im a reading fan and yes karliegh osborne is in talks with us according to sky sports........ i also can believe billy sharp is in talks according to the daily mail but thats only paper talk ...... also with all the roumers about steven pienaar, emile heskey and andre ashavin thats rubbish we would never pay a player that much on wages....... jimmy kebe has yet to make up his mind wether he wants to leave or sign a new deal..... the roumers about jorden rhodes ate rubbish we would never pay that much for one player and last but not least mcdermett is intrested in signing jason robert but only on loan

Hello there i work for reading and been informed that big name players are on there way in

First signing under the new owners! Great news. RT @ReadingFC Jimmy Kebe signed a new contract #readingfc

24 Jan 2012 05:10:24
Good result tonight for the foxes...taken a while 2 get goin wiv so many changes at the club in short period of time...think we will push on now and at least be in the playoffs by the end of season..as 4 saints u DEF wont b goin up this year unless u add to ur squad so i wouldnt get too excited

You lot said this after beating us last time. You also pushed on last season but failed to reach playoffs. We know we can't keep putting out half a reserve team hence 2 new signings so far and more to come.

Has Hong Kong Poohey shown up yet or is he still in the Kitchen? Looks like a world beater to me, i guess that would be why there was a long queue to sign hi... oh, wait

I suppose it's expecting a bit much to expect a crisp muncher to get his geography right but check him out on YouTube Saturday afternoon whilst playing with your laptop

Can't i'll be at work, but i bet you'll be at the game, eh superfan, i bet you're not just pretending that you'll be there or anything.

24 Jan 2012 00:04:14
22 Jan 2012 20:15:17
Sammy Lee to make a surprise return to Bolton as the head of Youth Development, four years after being sacked as manager.
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Read it on bbc transfer gossip today.. Your a good source then