Closing the Transfer Window
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
http://www.football365.com/transfer-blog/8457402/Follow-The-Fun-Games-On-The-Live-Blog
Lakenheath Old Boys
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As usual, it's been a slow start to the day. The deals so far:
Paul Scharner has returned to Wigan.
Luciano Becchio has completed his move to Norwich (sigh). We're apparently getting Steve Morison in return
Ale Faurlin is coming to QPR from Palermo
Chris Samba is also on his way to QPR - lots of biz going on at Loftus Road
Randy Lerner has actually open the purse strings!
Yacouba Sylia is on the move from French club Clermont Foot for £2 million.
Now it looks like Crouchy is on his way to QPR - crikey!
Boro have picked up former England international Kieron Dyer on a free
Nothing doing so far at the Emirates and the Arsenal fans aren't terribly happy about it.
I can't quite bear to look at the pic of Becchio holding up his new Norwich shirt.
Sunderland have picked up Danny Graham from Swansea for £5 million. Good business, I reckon.
Meanwhile Woy has interrupted proceedings by announcing his squad for the Brazil friendly next week:
Butland, Hart, Baines, Cahill, Cole, Jagielka, G Johnson, Lescott, Smalling, Walker; Carrick, Cleverley, Gerrard, Lampard, Lennon, Milner, Osman, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Walcott, Wilshere, Defoe, Rooney, Sturridge, Welbeck.
Super Kevin Phillips is on his way to Palace from Blackpool.
Warnock has also shopped Danny Pugh and Paul Rachubka.
Not surprisingly, David Beckham has signed for Paris St. Germain. Undisclosed sum.
Hey Bob,
Sorry about the loss of Becchio
Apparently Steve Morison score quite a lot of goals for Norwich in the Championship
This is a comment from the BBC
DONE DEAL- Steve Morison - Norwich to Leeds (swap)
It is 29-year-old Wales striker Steve Morison who is heading in the opposite direction to Becchio. Not a bad deal from Leeds' point of view, because Morison has scored a lot of goals in the Championship before now.
Leeds fans not happy with Norwich trying to be the Leeds side of a few years back
Rory Delap and his long throw have both gone to Barnsley
Norwich are now officially Leeds United South.
Rumors are going around that Danny Welbeck
GET INVOLVED
Swansea fan, via text: "Danny Welbeck on route Wales to finalise a deal to the Swans. Are the rumours actually true?"
Bails, via text: "Just seen Danny Welbeck outside the Britannia. Bye bye Crouch to QPR - Welbeck's here."
Ah, you've got to love the transfer deadline rumour mill. Perhaps the Manchester United striker stopped outside the Britannia on his way to the Liberty...
The saga of the day is Leandro Damaio to Spurs.
Stoke are still working on a work visa for Brek Shea from FC Dallas.
Arsenal fans - read it and weep - here are the January deals so far:
Chamakh (loan to West Ham); Djourou (loan to Hannover).
That's it.
Chris Samba is being transferred for £12.5 million? Bloody hell - what am I worth?
Another quick check at the 2pm EST/7pm GMT hour - not a lot going on.
Jack Butland appears to be ready to sign for Stoke.
Apparently Martin Steklenberg has caught a flight to Heathrow ahead of a possible move to Fulham. He better be on a bloody Concorde then.
Stoke insist that their twin beanpole attack Kenwyne Jones and Peter Crouch are going nowhere.
Peter Odemwinge is still hoping that the QPR deal with go through - probably because his teammates have said that he's not welcome back in the dressing room. Cor!
I am home and have Sky Sports News on FSC.. pretty classy of Becks to play for nothing! Donating to a Paris children's charity
West Ham have had a bid to trigger the clause for Diame
Leicester City beating Wolves 1-0
LEEDS LATEST
New Leeds United signing Stephen Warnock insists he and fellow newcomer Steve Morison have not arrived at Elland Road to settle for Championship football.
"Leeds offered me a contract and at first it was a shorter term contract, but I was on my way to West Ham earlier in the week and Leeds came back in and really made me feel wanted," said the ex-England international.
"When you see the size of Leeds and the magnitude of the club there's only one choice, and once I'd spoken to the manager I knew I wanted to come. I haven't come here to be a Championship player and I'm sure Steve Morison is the same."
ASTON VILLA LATEST
News in from Villa Park! The club say that they are looking to do a loan deal with a promising player who has recently done well in the MLS. No names as yet, not that I could offer any...
Uh oh...just seering Becchio brush off a reporter in his car arriving at Carrow Road... just saying... very happy
Best of luck to Luciano - no anger, no regrets. He ended up being one of the Top Ten Goalscorers in Leeds United history!
Tim Whelan in Guildford, via text: "Yippee! My glass overfloweth! Warnock and Morison good signings for Leeds. Wembley here we come!"
Hey Bob
I am surprised Buttland landed at Stoke
I am too; yesterday, he was saying how he turned down a move to Pool because he wanted to stay at Brum and play first team football. Will he start for Stoke?
Not convinced yet about the Warnock and Morison moves. We've lost a proven goalscorer for us and got two players that will need to be integrated into a new system. Jury's out for me.
Brett Shay(?) joins Stoke from the MLS
Fairly slow day, really. I expect a flurry of 11th hour deals, though.
That's Brek Shea. He's a winger who's played for Columbus Crew and more recently FC Dallas. I don't really rate him. And he's had several recent surgeries. Not sure what Tony Pulis is thinking with that one.
That's impressive... I GOT BOTH NAMES WRONG!!
They did say he hadn't played since August
Odemwingie going to Loftus Road and the teams haven't made a deal...bad form by him and QPR... if I was WBA... I wouldn't sell him just for spite
The Buttland deal is completed yet.. if it does... he will go back on loan to St. Andrews
Well - if the Baggies don't sell Odemwinge, then he's just an out of sorts prima donna having a sulk in training every day. They need to get rid. I don't know how QPR are affording all these idiots! They're in real trouble if they go down.
Really - why would Stoke buy him just to loan him out again. Scratching my head on that one.
Wolves have tied it up at Leicester
Stop other teams getting him
Bring him in next year
Is the resident Stoke keeper wanted by United or some other big clubs?
Lost the TV controls. I now have FIve Live on
2114:
Robbie Savage, BBC Radio 5 live
"From a player's perspective. Peter Odemwingie must have a huge pair. To get in your car and drive to a club when you have not had permission to do so is the craziest thing I have ever heard. I have put in a transfer request and told a few lies to get away from a club during my career, but I would never have had the nerve to do that."
Leicester City retake the lead
The Foxes look to go three points clear of Hull in second. They are undefeated in '13
Isn't this unfair that Leicester and Wolves are playing right now.. they can't get last minute deals done
Only an hour and 45 minutes before the window slams shut... good thing... it's really windy and cold outside!
DJ Campbell is going to Blackburn from QPR
Leeds have picked up a loan signing from Belgium
Some bloke with a weird name!
I'll type it when I see it on the website
Leicester City have beaten Wolves 2-1
With just less than an hour to go.. I am off to college
Remember, I will be a miss on Saturday. Looks like Bob will go alone or just skip it
TTFN
Cheerio, mate. I'll keep the home fires burning on Saturday.
Just a quick review of the Premiership deals today:
Arsenal - nought
Aston Villa - Yacoub Sylia from Clermont Foot; Simon Dawkins on loan from Spurs
Chelski - Wallace from Fluminense
Everton - John Stones from Barnsley
Fulham - Urby Emanuelson on loan from Milan; Stanislav Manolev on loan from PSV
Liverpool - Nought
Citeh - Godsway Donyoh - from Ghana Right to Dream Academy
United - Nought
NouveauChateau - Nothing today but six Frenchman in this January.
Norwich - Luciano Becchio from Leeds (sigh)
QPR - Chris Samba from Anzhi; Jermaine Jenas from Spurs
Reading - Nought
Soton - Nought; but three players loaned out.
Stoke - Brek Shea from FC Dallas
Sunderland - Danny Graham from Sunderland
Swansea - Nought
Spurs - Nought
WBA - Nought
West Ham - Nought
Wigan - Paul Scharner on loan from Hamburg
The Peter Odemwinge deal is dead, so he's buggered.
Andros Townsend loan deal with QPR has finally gone through.
From Matthew Stanger on Twitter: "Harry Redknapp has just burst into his local Tesco, grabbing shoppers and asking how much they want a week."
LOL!
Nacho! Gooner is getting his Nacho. 8point something mil long-term contract from Malaga. Tall strong quick left back that Sid Lowe likes and Raphael Honigstein doesn't. I guess Andy Two-Saints is being put on the Squillachi chair.
Leeds pick up Steven Warnock too.
Interesting to hear the transfer news. Steve Morison actually scored lots of goals in the Championship for Millwall and scored a few in the Prem for Norwich last season. He did not feature under Chris Hughton.
Lots of transfer activity for QPR. They are only five points from safety and these signings may be just enough to keep them up.I could see Villa, Wigan going down with the third team being relegated on goal difference.
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