Yes, roo, but you are describing practically 99% of players, and IMO, when it comes to football, I say, let the feet talk :)

Newcastle trying to bring back Charlie Inzomnia, been rejected due to lack of time.

 

Spurs fail in attempt to sign Charlie Adam from Blackpool.

 

Wigan sign Connor Sammon from Kilmarnock on 3 1/2 year deal.

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I just know he'll score, the twat.

 

Can't understand why he's moved to Chelsea now. At the beginning of the season maybe, but they're a team going nowhere. At least with Liverpool now there's clear intent that there is going to be investment into the squad to push us up to qualifying for the Champions League again.

 

Chelsea have been experiencing a pretty dire run of form for apparent title contenders for months, and are still sitting nine points ahead of Liverpool with a game in hand. If Luiz and Torres managed to sign in time, Champions League qualification shouldn't be a problem as they'll have the firepower to outgun Arsenal, let alone Spurs. Liverpool... well paying £35 million for Andy Carroll, this stuff just writes itself really... even if I am a Manc :lol:

If Torres wants to win anything in club football he's right to leave. He's been there for 3 1/2 years and won nothing so far, isn't likely to win anything this season and probably not next season either. For a player of his quality he needs to be playing Champions League, he's given Liverpool one season but it's clearly not going to happen so he's moved.

The whole Suarez/Carroll/Torres row is STILL raging on everywhere i look on the internet. One bites people, one's a thug, one hasn't been the same since the world cup, 81 goals in 110, 11 goals in 19, 65 goals in 102.

 

MAKE THE MADNESS CEASE WE WILL FIND OUT SOON ENOUGH RAHH

If Torres wants to win anything in club football he's right to leave. He's been there for 3 1/2 years and won nothing so far, isn't likely to win anything this season and probably not next season either. For a player of his quality he needs to be playing Champions League, he's given Liverpool one season but it's clearly not going to happen so he's moved.

 

He signed a five year contract when he signed? Sure he has won nothing, but what does he expect to win with Chelsea? They have a chance of winning the champions league and the FA Cup but thats it this season. And next? Well their squad needs an entire re-haul. I wouldn't have been bothered if all this Torres stuff came but, but a few bloody days before the transfer window shuts? Get real. Anyway, I trust Kenny Dalglish more than I trust anyone associated with Liverpool football club.

 

At the end of the day Liverpool have only spent £35m because out main striker has spit his dummy out. It could turn out to be a disaster, or it could turn out to be a masterstroke. Is Torres honestly worth £50m considering his recent form and injury record? No of course not. Torres is as much a brand as anything, but we've essentially traded Torres and Babel for Suarez and Carroll. Both of those players will offer considerable amounts to our squad.

 

And the best part is we'll have money to strengthen properly in the summer aswell. A left back, centre back, top class winger and a creative midfielder must be top on the agenda. Still massively pleased with Carroll and Suarez though.

Carroll now claiming he was forced out of Newcastle, lol.

Carroll now claiming he was forced out of Newcastle, lol.

 

HAHA. Odds on Pardew saying he "tried to keep him there but was forced to sell him"? Evens.

 

Ah well, I for one have quite enjoyed this transfer window and the stupidity of teams like Liverpool. It's made me realise that being a Sunderland supporter isn't so bad after all ^_^

I don't think it's really stupidity. We NEEDED a striker. Liverpool couldn't afford to not buy a replacement. No bargining power either, cos the whole world knew we were selling Torres for £50m! Winning the Europa League is our aim, as it is likely to be the best chance we have of getting back into Europe next season. Suarez cannot play, so that would have left us with two strikers. At least now we have three. At the end of the day Liverpool have spent something like £1m in net terms, and made a £30m profit on Torres. It's a lot of money for one, but I don't think many defenders will want to play against Carroll and Suarez up front...

 

Deadly excited for the summer transfer window now, as I know there will be a huge amount of money for Liverpool to spend and strengthen in the other areas where we are significantly weak at the moment.

£35m on somebody who's done nothing in the Prem and had a decent season in the Championship is stupidity. The fact he's nothing more than an average-at-best head on a stick just makes the fee more baffling. It's all very Man City-esque.

 

I just think Liverpool could have spent the money so much more wisely on somebody better than Carroll, even if a physical thug was the sort of player they were going for. I heard Ricardo Fuller was available olol.

£35m on somebody who's done nothing in the Prem and had a decent season in the Championship is stupidity. The fact he's nothing more than an average-at-best head on a stick just makes the fee more baffling. It's all very Man City-esque.

 

I just think Liverpool could have spent the money so much more wisely on somebody better than Carroll, even if a physical thug was the sort of player they were going for. I heard Ricardo Fuller was available olol.

 

But the same logic can be applied to anybody. Charlie Adam as well. 25 years old, half decent season at Blackpool, flopped compeltely at Rangers, yet Manchester United, Liverpool and Spurs all apparently wanted/were very close to signing him. We could have spent the money much wisely but on who? Young strikers are hard to come by. We couldn't have signed anyone from abroad as the paper work takes far too long to come through. Llorente was the player I would ideally have liked, but there was no chance he would come to Liverpool as he'll move to Real Madrid in the summer. Then Benzema would have been my second choice, but no chance he will leave with Real Madrid's striker crisis at the moment. Liverpool had no chance but to pay over the odds, because we'd be completely f***ed if we didn't have another striker.

 

Like I've already said in this thread before I trust Kenny's judgement over anyones, just because he is an absolute legend. If he identified Carroll as Torres' #1 replacement, then I'm glad we've got him.

I am also a Buzzjack footie fanatic but support the very unglamorous Scunthorpe United so tend to keep quiet about it :lol:

 

Obviously all the big drama was the Torres/Carroll madness, and I literally had Sky Sports News on all day (he's in a helicopter/he's not in a helicopter/he's in Liverpool still/ he's on his way to Chelsea/ A WHITE PEOPLE CARRIER JUST SPED PAST!) keeping track of it all.

 

But Scunthorpe had their own dramatic day, in the morning in our desperate search for a half decent striker we signed Joe Garner on loan from Forest. Not too sure about him, his record for Carlisle was good and he scored a few Forest goals but Forest fans I've spoken too say he's not really an out and out striker and he dives around a fair bit add that to an unproductive loan spell at Huddersfield and I'm not TOO convinced he'll be the answers to our prayers but he has to be better than what we had previously.

 

Then we have the outs, Wooly :cry: Was bracing myself for Woolford to go but it's still sad, he was a bit of a hero for us, always had the happy knack of scoring in the really big games and got our late winner at Wembley, a moment I'll cherish forever. Not that there's anything wrong with Bristol City but thought he might have gone to a bigger Championship club/lower league prem club, if I'm honest, he's a very good old fashioned winger and we'll miss him, no replacement either yet!

 

Shockingly our old manager came in for our hardly goal laden striker Jonathan Forte, everyone's stunned we got money for him. Then our name cropped up again later with defender Rob Jones linked away to Sheff Utd and then finally another signing for us in the final hour in the shape of another defender Norwich's Michael Nelson. Busy deadline day for us, normally you won't see the name Scunthorpe crop up at all, but we had a busy January with 9 signings altogether, hopefully they can help us stay up but our home record has to start improving like now!

 

So that was my own personal deadline day but I have more than a passing interest in the big stories as my boyfriend is a proud scouser and Liverpool as such, have become almost a second team. Naturally it's gutting to lose Torres but it does almost feel like a brave new era ushered in at Anfield. Carroll's fee seems ridiculous but at 22, the potential is certainly there and I think he will turn out to be a good signing. Carroll and Suarez is a delicious prospect up front. There's a lot of anger in Liverpool today, not that Torres has gone but the manner he has gone, I never thought Torres would be one for making little digs but his 'I'm finally at a top club' comment has got to hurt. My boyfriend and his family at first were sorry to see him go but he went with some kind of best wishes, now he has destroyed any lingering respect they had for him.

 

No doubt Torres will be in sparkling form at Chelsea and all those half hearted performances really were just because his heart was no longer in the club, absolutely odds on he will score on Sunday too.

I think you're being harsh on Adam. He's a key player for Blackpool, he makes them tick and unlike Carroll he actually has footballing talent. It's still a risk of course, for him to go to the likes of Man Utd or Spurs but if you asked me who has more chance of success out of Carroll at Liverpool and Adam at Spurs i'd say Adam. Hands down. Another thing you've got to consider with Carroll is that Newcastle were playing a very direct style of football with him in the team, hoofing balls up to the front men which suited him down to the ground. I can't see Dalglish playing that sort of tepid, long-ball rubbish but who knows.

 

Meh, it's Liverpool's money at the end of the day, they're free to waste it as they see fit. Like I said earlier, none of this even affects me in the slightest, I just think it's hilarious that a player like Carroll can be sold for such an amount of money when players with ten times the capability have gone for less. Football really has gone mad.

Don't worry Nic, another football fanatic here from the lower leagues. I am a supporter of Carlisle United, and yes Garner was very good for us. There are other players I recognise as they score, primarily because they once played for Carlisle (Danny Graham is one for example).

 

Carlisle got a player from Rangers called Rory Loy and one from Manchester United called Joe Dudgeon as additions to their squad. There's another player from Bohemians called Paddy Madden but we're awaiting international clearance before he is able to play. All the others were from what I recall already with us on loan and some left and some were extended. Marc Bridge-Wilkinson (one of our best players a few years ago) was let go and he has since signed for Darlington.

 

I see you have games in hand on other teams at the wrong end of the table Nic, all the best with staying up.

Wooly :wub: I am a York fan, and I cannot speak highly of him enough. He is a proper winger, the type that are a dying breed. Do you know if York had a sell-on fee? Cos we somehow managed to sign the Lincon City captain on a free transfer for some reason. I dunno whether Wooly would play in the Premier League, I always saw him as a bit of a lightweight, he was pushed off the ball quite easily in the conference.

 

I think Kenny's trying to set up 4-3-3, although we still play the long ball technique quite a lot cos that's all Carragher and Skrtel can do really. Carroll will help massively in set-pieces though. We literally have no-one who can attack corners apart from THE GREEK. At the end of the day it's probably a good thing Torres has gone. We were relied on him far too much, and he really has been $h!t for a good season now. Onwards and upwards. If Liverpool manage to sign Eden Hazard in the summer though, I might get a little too over-excited.

 

The Sky Sports stuff was brilliant though. They really had no clue about what was going on. Torres arrived via car I think, but a lot of people associated with Liverpool spread rumours about Torres in a helicopter because that's how Babel got to Germany. Babelcopter :D

But Scunthorpe had their own dramatic day, in the morning in our desperate search for a half decent striker we signed Joe Garner on loan from Forest. Not too sure about him, his record for Carlisle was good and he scored a few Forest goals but Forest fans I've spoken too say he's not really an out and out striker and he dives around a fair bit add that to an unproductive loan spell at Huddersfield and I'm not TOO convinced he'll be the answers to our prayers but he has to be better than what we had previously.

 

As a Forest fan, I'd say that Joe Garner is a decent striker but doesn't have a very good attitude. He had a good first season but didn't develop in his second season where he was often played on the right, rather than up front. He gets booked a lot too, and he's not the type of character that a manager like Billy Davies wants around. He had only just turned 20 when he joined us from Carlisle and he'd already got 3 kids from 2 different women then...

 

His record in his first season when we were a Championship relegation contenders he got 7 in 28 appearences (not all starts) which isn't too bad really. He can score good goals...

 

 

Thanks for the best wishes Flatcap and your views on Garner, our strikers of recent years do usually do very well when with us - Steven Maclean, Paul Hayes, Billy Sharp, Andy Keogh, Martin Paterson, Jermaine Beckford and Gary Hooper so hope he'll be another good un for us.

 

I'm feeling a little more optimistic than of late anyway, we're at Middlesboro tonight and could really do with three points, had a few good away wins this season, need another.

Our games in hand are against Forest (Home), Pompey (Away) and we still have to play PNE @ home after the game was inexplicably called off on Saturday for a bloody frozen pitch! I was travelling down from Liverpool with the PNE fans on the train and was just as peeved as them!

 

Rooney, not sure on Wooly, you might well have a sell on fee, the deal is undisclosed but rumoured to be somewhere in the region of 300 - 350k.

 

Can't believe I spent literally the whole day watching Sky Sports News, it was fitting Jim White was on duty for the biggies, no one gets more excited than him though his shouting did my head in.

Looks like I'll be glued to Sky Sports News again tonight, for the Soccer Special - can't miss what Thommo has to say not to mention Merse, Le Tiss and Charlie Nic! Pity it's Ed and not Jeff though!

 

 

As a Forest fan, I'd say that Joe Garner is a decent striker but doesn't have a very good attitude. He had a good first season but didn't develop in his second season where he was often played on the right, rather than up front. He gets booked a lot too, and he's not the type of character that a manager like Billy Davies wants around. He had only just turned 20 when he joined us from Carlisle and he'd already got 3 kids from 2 different women then...

 

His record in his first season when we were a Championship relegation contenders he got 7 in 28 appearences (not all starts) which isn't too bad really. He can score good goals...

 

Thanks for that, appreciated :) Yeah I was getting the feeling he was a bit of a bad egg attitude wise from what I was hearing, interesting one, generally we are a small close knit club and don't tolerate players with bad attitudes, Adkins never did anyway, and yet Garner and the other chap we've signed Lee Miller are both 'characters' perhaps we are hoping to tame them. Adkins got the best out of players and whipped into shape, not sure Baraclough quite has that mettle yet. Our goal scoring record this year is abysmal so providing Garner and Miller can chip in with some goals, they'll be decent additions.

 

Chelsea's Fernando Torres wants goal against Liverpool

 

Chelsea's new £50m signing Fernando Torres has said it would be "destiny" to score against former club Liverpool when the teams meet on Sunday.

 

By coincidence, the Spaniard could make his debut for the Blues against the side he left on Monday.

 

The 26-year-old striker has not asked to be left out of the Premier League clash and stated: "It is like destiny."

 

He admitted: "It is not perfect but if I have the chance to play, I will do my best and hopefully I can score."

 

 

LOL. What an actual bellend.

Wooly :wub: I am a York fan, and I cannot speak highly of him enough. He is a proper winger, the type that are a dying breed. Do you know if York had a sell-on fee?

On the subject of sell-on fees, Eddie Howe did his former neighbours at Poole Town a big favour this week by buying Charlie Austin. A sell-on fee clause was part of his move to Swindon and Poole are thought to be due at least £100K. Great news for a club at level 5 in the non-league set-up desperate to get a new ground so they can win promotion. They regularly win the league but can't go up because of their current ground.