Non-Chelsea Transfer Pub

[Muzchap 8,966]

Apparently Southampton are about to sign Long for £12 million

He's not a bad player for that money - he works hard, has decent pace and scores some cracking goals...

[Epikur 34]

An on form Rooney and RVP are just as good as SAS IMO.

Well there lies their problem, they're not in form and form is extremely hard to come by. It doesn't happen by the flick of the switch. RvP is cooked. He couldn't even run out the World Cup and he's not getting any younger.

Liverpool are doing exactly what the spurs did to replace bale.....Replace their star man with uncertainties.

Completely different to Spurs. Lallana, who is proven in PL, is the only new signee that has a guaranteed starting position in their XI. They've focussed on buying depth, the one area they were severely lacking in last season. I think they've addressed all their problems except for buying another striker, but when you look at our strike force, theirs doesn't seem too bad...

We need a f***ing striker

[The Skipper 20,593]

Moreno - Lovren - Sakho/Skrtel - Johnson is definitely an improvement, but still not amazing though.

[Fernando 6,376]

Madrid are apparently willing to listen to offers for Alonso.

[Reddish-Blue 2,221]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/marcos-rojo-profile-who-is-the-15m-manchester-united-target-9664886.html

United to sign Rojo for 15 million

[didierforever 7,349]

Ridiculously overpriced though. Porto just announced to the stock exchange to have received €30.5m for 56.7% of Mangala's rights so in total City paid around €54m for Mangala.

That equals almost 43 million pounds.

any link? its 32mil pounds everywhere!!

[sherry33 234]

Well watching the picture on facebook with all our squad i guess there will be no more coming..

[ulvhedin 473]

So do we need to sell/loan one more player?

[Jype 6,398]

any link? its 32mil pounds everywhere!!

http://web3.cmvm.pt/sdi2004/emitentes/docs/FR51732.pdf

This is Porto's statement to the Portuguese stock exchange on the transfer, it confirms they owned just 56.67% of Mangala and received a total of €30.5m for their part. The rest of the player was owned by Jorge Mendes and I'm having a really hard time believing he would have valued his share low enough to sell the 43% for just €9.5m.

Some media outlets, at least Independent, say the total amount was £42.9m which would mean that Mendes' share was valued the same as Porto's but without an official statement to support either of the claims I suppose we'll never get to know the truth.

[Namika 922]

French Media say it's 54M€ which is £42.9M.

[didierforever 7,349]

So do we need to sell/loan one more player?

probably not register mark as the 3rd GK. that would be the plan. i mean with cech and courtois as no.1 and 2, dont see why we should waste a squad position on mark when we can fill it with blackman/beeney.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Probably why they're after Rojo.

[DanishBlue 426]

I really hope it's true!

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

https://twitter.com/skyfootball/status/499594133959606272

Probably why they're after Rojo.

Rojo is a CB mate, only played LB for the national team. And why buy a replacment for 17 million pounds for a player who is injured for 1 month?

[The Skipper 20,593]

Rojo is a CB mate, only played LB for the national team. And why buy a replacment for 17 million pounds for a player who is injured for 1 month?

A player who can cover both the CB and LB spot since they are very weak in both areas. The only natural left back they have is Shaw after all.

[Hamilton 2,118]

Steven Defour signed a contract for 5 years @ Anderlecht today, Anderlecht payed Porto around €5,5m. Defour is now the most expensive incoming transfer in Belgium ever.

[LAM09 6,547]

Steven Defour signed a contract for 5 years @ Anderlecht today, Anderlecht payed Porto around €5,5m. Defour is now the most expensive incoming transfer in Belgium ever.

Surprising news. I thought he was off to PSV.

[stroey 2,525]

Official: Raúl Jiménez joins @Atleti on a 11m euro, 6-year deal from Club América. He's due to arrive in Madrid tomorrow at 14:30 local time

[emoji17] Means they won't buy Torres