The Summer Transfer Window Thread 2014/15

[Dan]

Have they signed Vermaelen yet?

[Jimmy]

Obviously. Did you miss the part where Brench said it was a done deal?

[Baddar]

To be fair, the Herrera one wasn't Brench. I think MJB or Johnny mentioned it, and it's been everywhere since. Bid accepted, flown over to have a medical, the lot.

[Lineker]

I'm sure that Herrera will end up at Utd eventually - just means that they will have to meet his buyout clause.

Hull City have agreed a fee with Norwich for Robert Snodgrass.

[brenchill]

Sky Sports were saying Herrera had passed a medical. I never said 'done deal'!

[Baddar]

I'm sure that Herrera will end up at Utd eventually - just means that they will have to meet his buyout clause.

BBC are saying we (get it up you, metalman) met the release clause, but they won't sanction it.

[King Ellis]

Ah, so Bilbao are pulling a Liverpool, are they?

[Baddar]

I think it goes up by a few million on the 1st July so they're obviously trying to hold out until then.

[King Ellis]

van Gaal is already falling for the same traps that Moyes did! van Gaal out!

[Lineker]

Watford have got Vydra back!

[stokeriño]

Isn't this whole 'not sanctioning a release clause' thing a distinction between...

a) The legally-enforcable kind where the clause fee has to be paid by the PLAYER to their own club (effectively buying themselves out of their contract). In practice he would receive said money from the buying club first...BUT because this would be subject to income tax - thereby costing the club as much as 50% more than the publicised figure! - no one actually ever wants to do this.

and

b) What usually happens in that the aforementioned release clause isn't *actually* activated, but the selling club simply accepts the same figure from the buying club on the basis that it makes no difference to them. Or they can choose not to accept it, of course.

[Lineker]

Sascha Reither has joined Freiburg from Fulham for an undisclosed fee.

[stokeriño]

So if Man City have Fernando and Fernandinho, I feel they are obligated to buy Torres as well for a sense of completion.

[Rich]

Of course you want to get rid of him

[Gazz]

I think they'd rather have Llorente.

[stokeriño]

As said before, I do <3 Torres in a largely inexplicable way...but if at any point his place in the squad was standing in the way of, for example, Mandzukic joining Chelsea then I'd be all like wewishyouwellinallyourfutureendeavoursthankyougoodbye.

[Nerf]

Latest rumours suggest Barcelona will offer £85m plus Alexis and Pedro for Luis Suarez. Crazy talk.

[Szumi]

I'd be all over that, despite there being no way that's happening.

Luis Alberto has completed a season long loan to Malaga.

[brenchill]

The Spanish news dude on Sky Sports is saying Barca and Real still want Suarez.

[Rafael]

Liverpool will pay up to 10m for Divock Origi, also loaning him back immediately to Lille.

Shaqiri is close to agreeing a 5-year, 95,000/week deal with Liverpool with the fee expected to be somewhere in the region of 15m.

Alexis Sanchez is close to a move to Arsenal.

Internazionale have begun talks with Barcelona over a move for Alex Song.

Liverpool, Tottenham and Man City have been alerted after Valencia's Juan Bernat refused a new contract.

Yanga-Mbiwa is a loan target for Lens.

Middlesbrough could complete the signing of Spanish starlet Juanfran this weekend.

Edited June 26, 2014 by RafaelFms