Here's the first genuine one this season. Richard Brodie to Fleetwood on a season long loan. I mentioned it in the Conference thread but thought I'd bring it up to the wider football forum, because I'm surprised a bigger club didn't make a move for him. One factor that may have swung it for Fleetwood is the fact that they have stumped up the whole loan payment up front. Not that Crawley need the money either, though.
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Going, gone or just gossip - summer 2011 transfers
Nuri Sahin has already joined Real Madrid for €12m, the fool. I hope the rest of the Dortmund team stays together and manages to have a good crack at the Champions League.
Celtic are almost certain to lose at least one and maybe two of Gary Hooper, Beram Kayal and Emilio Izaguirre. I could see Izaguirre in particular being a huge success in a big league. He has everything -- pace, concentration, skill and courage.
Efrain Juarez has been a marginal figure for most of the season and it'll be no surprise if he leaves. O'Dea and Loovens will probably also go, as will the pointless Ljungberg, who most people now assume was signed only to model the new kit catalogue. Samaras has to be sold too -- his three or four good performances per season don't remotely compensate for the fact that he never actually scores.
The ongoing Lennon situation will surely make it difficult to attract new players. But a couple of centre-halves and a target-man are badly needed, and that's if nobody else of importance gets sold.
Lennon made a profit on his transfer dealings last year due to the sale of Aiden McGeady, so there should be a bit of cash available, though that doesn't necessarily mean the board will give it to him.
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Sahin is just cashing in on being the latest sparkly player to catch real madrid's eye. There's no shame in going there and getting a lot of money, for a couple of seasons, and then moving onto another club having pushed up his wage level.
Sure he might have a good stab at the CL with dortmund, but but he might also break his leg, or more likely, he might lose some of his lustre and real madrid might be interested in someone else.
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The Awesome Berbaslug!!! wrote:
There's no shame in going there and getting a lot of money, for a couple of seasons, and then moving onto another club having pushed up his wage level.
Altintop's a decent enough player, but Real Madrid? He's not even a regular for Bayern.
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Not sure why it seems to be universally assumed that Sahin is making a mistake going to RM. Neither Khedira or Diarra are better than decent, so he's got every chance of playing alongside Alonso - and with Xabi being 30 possibly becoming a long term replacement.
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The line I've heard spun by AS is that Mourinho is going for 'winners' rather than galácticos, and apparently Altintop is part of that. He has the same agent as Özil and Sahin, too, it appears.
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Wednesday are being linked with Vance Sikov, a Macedonian centre back. This makes me childishly excited.
He's probably not all that, but it's certainly a sight better than Calamity Claude Davis.
In other riveting news, Miller and Hinds have been released and new contracts have been offered to J Johnston, Buxton and O'Connor. I'd like Buxton to stay but find it hard to get enthusiastic about any of the others.
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I've been on the bench at the Bernabéu, actually, and indeed they are very comfortable seats.
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Etienne wrote:
Not sure why it seems to be universally assumed that Sahin is making a mistake going to RM. Neither Khedira or Diarra are better than decent
The pity of it is that it weakens a good young team who have the potential to make a serious impression on the 2011/12 Champions League. Instead, one of their best players jumps ship to a club that recently spent the guts of €85 million on two people who do more or less the same thing as he does (a creative role behind the forwards), and Dortmund don't even get a big transfer fee in any case.
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garcia wrote:
sahin plays deeper than that. he's not a dribbler like ozil. he's a stocky powerful midfielder who passes and shoots very well. they could complement each other. kaka doesn't even come into it.
In the end, Sahin might take Khadira's spot at first, but a couple times looking fragile in the midfield from a defensive standpoint and Jose will be back to a more defensively gifted player and Sahin will be like the 18 year old rising starlet (Ganero? or is it someone else who had been captain of his side--maybe Zaragoza) whose career was stalled by Real money.
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The vast majority of the games they play RM don't need Diarra or Khedira's defensive qualities, but do need the passing ability to prise open 10 man defences, which is where Sahin can contribute. Alonso and Ozil are the only decent passers in the club, so there's easily space he can find to play in.
Even if he was a similar player to Kaka, it's by the by as Kaka is off.
I fully agree with ABII that it's a shame for Dortmund and that it would be better for world football if he hadn't, but for him personally I don't think it's a bad move.
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It's interesting that Sahin is assumed to be a tricky attacking-midfielder, isn't it? I guess it's because a lot of the prominent Turkish-German players that have come through lately have been: Ozil, Basturk, etc. A slight sterotype, albeit a fairly innocent one.
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