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The not confirmed, it's really only a rumour transfer thread ;Summer 2012

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Pulis seem to like Tottenham players.

Huddlestone to SToke.

Stoke are lining up a deal to take Tottenham midfielder Tom Huddlestone to the Britannia Stadium.

The Potters have confirmed the 25-year-old is currently at the club's Clayton Wood training ground to undergo a medical. Stoke winger Jermaine Pennant leaked the news on Twitter after arriving for training on Wednesday morning.

"I walked in training & got a shock saw my friend Tom Huddlestone....on loan till end of season good signing," he wrote. "Yes it's true he's going to have a medical later if it's all good we have got him till the end of the season."

Huddlestone has not played a competitive match for almost an entire year, last featuring against Manchester City on August 28.

He has had two operations on his right ankle in the intervening period but has so far failed to impress new manager Andre Villas-Boas.

Huddlestone was not selected in the match-day squad for Spurs' season-opening defeat at Newcastle on Saturday and it now seems likely he will leave White Hart Lane, initially on loan.
 
Stoke going in for Huddlestone is a surprising move IMO. I wouldn't have thought Huddlestone's cultured brand of football was suited to Pulis' up-and-at-'em style. If he thinks he's going to get Huddlestone to do any hard graft, he'll be sorely disappointed. Given the size of him and the skill he has, Huddlestone could have been a world star by now if he had *that* in his locker as well.
 
Tottenham fans on phone-ins I've heard seem to be about 2 to 1 against what he's doing at the moment, especially over Dawson.

Tough titties, cockernees, you're stuck with him.
 
Daniel Levy may well be behind this push for change too, seeing how influential he is on transfers and given his choice of managerial appointment.

Andre Villas-Boas might have thought he had encountered some of the most stubborn figures in English football when he was manager of Chelsea last season, but then he was yet to live through a summer transfer window conducted by Daniel Levy, an experience only available to Tottenham Hotspur managers.

It is the month of August and so it follows that Levy is in the midst of tearing up his Spurs squad and rebuilding it all at the same time, as few other clubs do. Players are coming and going, although no one is certain who and for how much – just that it will probably take until midnight a week on Friday for the whole thing to be resolved, and predicting what the squad looks like on 1 September is a fraught business.

The picture is confused once again, but no one could doubt that Levy is in control. Were he still in the Spurs job, Harry Redknapp would have been complaining at every opportunity in the last few weeks at having just one striker – Jermain Defoe – at his disposal.

As it is, Villas-Boas, grateful for the opportunity to manage Spurs, has no other option but to bite his lip. He can only hope that it all comes together at the last moment. That Levy gets his £40m plus fee from Real Madrid for Luka Modric that he has held out for all summer and that there is time then to buy a new first-choice goalkeeper, a left-back as cover for Benoît Assou-Ekotto, at least one more wide player and a striker.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/villasboas-waits-for-the-music-to-stop-as-levy-calls-the-tune-on-deals-8069988.html
 
Stoke going in for Huddlestone is a surprising move IMO. I wouldn't have thought Huddlestone's cultured brand of football was suited to Pulis' up-and-at-'em style. If he thinks he's going to get Huddlestone to do any hard graft, he'll be sorely disappointed. Given the size of him and the skill he has, Huddlestone could have been a world star by now if he had *that* in his locker as well.

Totally agree, an odd fit. He looked awesome when he came through but seems to have lost a bit of hunger maybe. although, as you say, he never had much of a work ethic.
 
I agree, I saw Butland 3 times last season when he was on loan at Cheltenham and he made mistakes in each game, 2 of his mistakes led to goals. He was certainly nowhere near as impressive as Hart was at that age and at that level.
He was badly at fault for another goal last night as Birmingham lost to Sheffield Wed (and from what I've heard he also gave away a goal in the Olympics).

He makes way too many mistakes for us to contemplate spending £7m on him. I'm not going to totally write him off yet but he could be another Scott Carson.
 
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I keep positng these Sturridge links cos I liek them (from http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/s...et-to-renew-daniel-sturridge-interest?cc=5739)

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is set to make another move to bring Daniel Sturridge to Anfield - with a deal for Chelsea forward believed to be within touching distance at last.

Sources close to the Reds have told ESPN that Rodgers has been pursuing Sturridge all summer, with the glut of attacking midfield signings at Chelsea this summer pushing the Team GB Olympic star down the pecking order of Blues boss Roberto Di Matteo.
Inter Milan have also been linked with a move for Sturridge, but the promise of regular first-team football in a Liverpool side playing to the his strengths would appeal to the of the 22-year-old.
Sturridge, who recovered from meningitis earlier this summer, arrived at Chelsea from Manchester City in 2009 and after two seasons struggling to break into the starting line-up became a Stamford Bridge regular under Andre Villas-Boas last season.
However, when Villas-Boas was replaced with Di Matteo in March, the England Under-21 international found his opportunities restricted and that has continued to be the case at the start of the 2012-13 campaign.
 
the chavs have fuck all up front if Torres gets a cropper, no way will this happen
I hope it does. He seems a bit of a dick, he's quite selfish on the field but he has self-belief and scores goals.
When the rich teams are shopping in Harrods and us in Aldi hovering by the 'on the turn' shelf I think this kind of signing is probably about the best we can hope for.
 
QPR certainly arent buying for the future.
Loads of players in their late twenties coming in on high wages, this will turn out ugly in the end.

QPR are one of teams, I mentioned to a West Ham client of mine, that will be fighting them to stay above the trap-door. IF they can stay up then the salaries will be worth it, if not they probably have reciprocal clauses to permit them to leave the club / sell them on.
 
Jarvis to West Ham for 10.75 mill and Fletcher to Sunderland for 14 mill just shows how insane the market is in England.

Good piece of business by Wolves mind.
 
Do we have any sell on? Probably 50p and a packet of crisps


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Sky Sports understands Swansea have tabled a bid for Blackpool star Tom Ince.
 
Wigan statement:

The club can confirm that after four unsuccessful bids from Chelsea for Victor Moses, a fifth bid has today finally met the valuation and terms set by Wigan Athletic and been accepted. The player has been given permission to speak with Chelsea.
 
Moses is a fool to go to Chelsea. Yeah he'll get to move to a bigger club but he'll rarely play. Unless he also operates as a striker??
 
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