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Rod Fanni for €3.5 million?

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Yeah......thats at you buddha

*glares at the happy chap with the belly*
 
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I can't see FFF's fanny pun.
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HAHAHAHAHA
 
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/breves2010/20101207_082811_fanni-entre-l-om-et-liverpool.html

English media picking up news from French source, saying Rennes' making decision over Fanni's future soon - apparently over next couple of days.

According to a report in L'Equipe, Ligue 1 outfit Rennes are set to part company with France international Rod Fanni. The full-back is continually being linked with a move to Liverpool and Rennes are now supposedly ready to cash in on him.

"A decision about the future of Rod Fanni will be made in the next 48 hours," Rennes' general director Pierre Dreossi was quoted as saying.

Fanni has also attracted the interest of Olympique de Marseille, but the right-back has apparently set his sights on a move to the Premier League.

Additionally, Rennes are reluctant to sell Fanni to a domestic rival, meaning that the full-back is probably on his way to the Reds.
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the old cunt hasn't even sold degen yet. this is fucking disgusting. fuck off. even benitez had the good grace to discard of his shit before buying more shit.

roy hodgson is a fucking cholera epidemic in waiting
 
Hodgson didnt buy Degen.

More importantly, Degen will be discarded in 2012 when we've finished paying off his contract, because no one is going to be stupid enough to take him off our hands.
 
I guess the 'positive' thing for Roy about Comolli's appointment is that he won't take total blame for signings? Since any additions will be upon consensus. That said, we haven't got a Chief Executive yet. Wonder who's the 3rd guy.

Meanwhile, Teamtalk's columnist thinks it'll be a signing to free Johnson up for the right midfield role. Highly doubtful though, given what Roy said previously.
Rod Fanni to Liverpool

The Rennes full-back has long been linked with a move to the Premier League - with his name often the source of much amusement among our headline writers in the Towers.

Fanni, a powerful (and all-too-rare-these-days) defensive-minded right-back would bring both strength and discipline to a Reds rearguard, which has too often been caught out this season.

The potential capture of Fanni - the regular back-up to Bacary Sagna in the France national team - would free up Glen Johnson to play on the right of midfield, with Roy Hodgson hoping he can do for Liverpool what Gareth Bale has done so impressively for Spurs.
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It is unlikely, but that does seem to be the most likely rationale if the report is true

Kuyt is getting on in age; so he might think he can use Johnson (with Maxi as backup) in that position.
 
Why do we have to waste money on another journeyman to do a job Kelly has already proven he can fulfill?
 
Fanni is a very good player. It's just that we don't really need him, I'd rather play Kelly if Johnson is injured.

Speaking of shite signings. Can't believe we nearly signed Luke Young. He had a mare last night, as usual.
 
[quote author=dubluke link=topic=42800.msg1230095#msg1230095 date=1291732093]
this smells a bit fishy to me
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Mwah.
 
Hahahaha, someone has updated his Wiki page;

Rod Fanni has not been recently linked to Liverpool.[4] because Glen Johnson is a much better player and Hodgson is just a fat twat and is a minimum compared to Liverpool so he can just kick himself along way from Liverpool and Anfield and take Christian Poulsen and Paul Konchesky with him.
 
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Fanni is a very good player. It's just that we don't really need him, I'd rather play Kelly if Johnson is injured.

Speaking of shite signings. Can't believe we nearly signed Luke Young. He had a mare last night, as usual.
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It does feel a bit odd as RB is one of the few positions I feel we don't need to strengthen. Fanni is 29 already so it would seem if we buy him Roy has other plans for Johnson (play him on the wing or sell).
 
The Guardian are reporting this story too.

Why do we want a right-back when we've got Glenjo, Carra and Kelly?
 
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the old cunt hasn't even sold degen yet. this is fucking disgusting. fuck off. even benitez had the good grace to discard of his shit before buying more shit.

roy hodgson is a fucking cholera epidemic in waiting
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How is it Hodgson's fault we haven't sold Degen?
 
As others have said we don't really need another right back. We've got Johnson, Kelly and Carragher. If for some freakish reason none of them are available then we could throw Wisdom or Flanagan in and they could maybe do a job.
 
Roy Hodgson, the club’s manager, and Damien Comolli, the newly-appointed director of football strategy, believe the 29 year-old’s versatility — he is comfortable at right-back and centre-back — makes him ideal to strengthen Liverpool’s injury-ravaged defence.

Though Rennes would like around £4 million for one of their prize assets, the Premier League club will pay no more than £2.5 million, in accordance with the belief of Fenway Sports Group, Liverpool’s owners, that premium prices should only be agreed for players with substantial sell-on value.

Hodgson and Comolli may face competition from Marseille for the defender’s signature, but it is believed Fanni, despite supporting the French champions as a child, is prepared to resist the lure of Champions League football to secure a move to England.

His arrival, though, would suggest Liverpool, controlled by a regime wary of overpaying squad players, are ready to consider selling both Johnson and Agger.

The former Chelsea full-back has failed to settle on Merseyside since his £17 million move from Portsmouth last year, with Hodgson admitting earlier this season that he had not produced anything like the sort of performances under his tenure that he would expect from an England international.

Though Liverpool would struggle to recoup Johnson’s inflated price, the Anfield side would expect to receive around £12 million for the player, who is being tracked by both Tottenham and Bayern Munich. Juventus are also thought to be monitoring Johnson, though Gregory van der Wiel, the Ajax and Holland right-back, remains the Italian side’s priority.

Agger, too, has not had the easiest of times adapting to Hodgson’s regime, seemingly intimating that the 63-year-old preferred central defenders not to pass the ball out from the back and admitting this week that, should the Liverpool manager wish to sell him, he would hope he was “man enough†to inform him in person.

The Danish international has struggled with injury for much of his Anfield career — though he does hope to return from a calf problem for the Boxing Day fixture with Blackpool — but a number of German clubs, including Bayer Leverkusen, harbour an interest in his services.

Meanwhile, Hodgson may be able to call on captain Steven Gerrard for Saturday’s trip to Newcastle, though the 30-year-old is likely only to be fit for a place on the bench.
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http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/breves2010/20101213_093346_fanni-s-eloigne-de-l-om.html

“Today, we cannot be optimistic,†Dassier explained to RMC, echoing the comments of Rennes general manager Pierre Dreossi, who had indicated over the weekend that the deal was “strangely complicatedâ€.

“The financial requirements named by Rod Fanni’s agent are unreasonable,†the OM official continued. “There’s a pessimistic prognosis.

“I do not see the point of making a meeting unless the player takes his affairs and deals with us in a reasonable manner. For the moment, we are in the unreasonable.â€
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http://www.ligue1.com/ligue1/article/fanni-chooses-marseille-over-reds.htm

Marseille have confirmed that an agreement has been reached with Rennes for the transfer of France international right-back Rod Fanni, who had also been a target for English outfit Liverpool.

The defending champions revealed the news on their official website on Wednesday afternoon. However, the 29 year-old must pass a medical - due to take place on Wednesday evening - before he can put pen to a paper on a two-and-a-half year deal.

Fanni, who had also been attracting interest from English Premier League giants Liverpool, was born in Martigues, just along the coast from Marseille, and made his name with another south coast side in Nice before moving to Brittany in 2007.

He arrives as much-needed cover in a position where Marseille have been short since losing César Azpilicueta to a serious knee injury last month. Despite being signed prior to the opening of the January transfer window, the fact that Fanni - who has made 114 league appearances for Rennes - is being signed to replace an injured player means he would be eligible to come straight into the side for Sunday's game against Lyon.
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Thought the transfer window only opens on 1st Jan? How is he able to play for Marseille before that?
 
I presume he'll sign a contract which starts on the 1st January, and will continue to play for his current club?
 
Yeah, that's what I thought too, mate. But the last sentence about him being available for this wk's match got me confused. And its the official French Ligue 1 website. Weird.
 
French clubs can sign one player from another French team outside the transfer window. I think, blame FM..
 
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French clubs can sign one player from another French team outside the transfer window. I think, blame FM..
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Cheers, Hansern. About time I start a new game in Ligue 1. >_<

You're right. Sounds interesting.

"A period known as the "Joker" transfer window, runs after the summer transfer window closes, until the start of the winter transfer window. Clubs are allowed to loan or sign one player from another french club during this window."
 
So to clarify. A five page thread about a player i never heard of named after a sex act who has signed for a club in a different country?

Is MY finger not on the pulse...
 
[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=42800.msg1233820#msg1233820 date=1292434908]
Teach me how to read.
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Start by turning off the telly.

*Nothing good every happens after that sentence*
 
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