Summer 2010 Transfer Thread: B*llsh*t, Rumours & Wishes

[olaftab]

Have you got a big car? They want Luke Young too... If we can persuade them to take Heskey too you can get all three up to Liverpool.

Watch your hubcaps!

I have no intention of stopping. Push them out as wheels keep rolling and pick up the money  bag!

[Gregorys Boy]

It might be time to move Petrov on, his lack of pace is now going to become more of a problem, and we have seen his best years, so Liverpool can have him for about seven or five mill, but not Young as he's worth a place in the squad at least.

I predict we will get Parker, Mcgeady and Keane, and at least two of them will get bought in at the last minute.  Wether this will be enough for another strong season I don't know.

[TimTheVillain]

No way, I'd be keeping Perov for one more season and no-one would pay £7 mill for him even in the 'current climate'.

[TheSandman]

Grauniad reckons that someone disagrees with Gollivan's intransigence.

Guardian

Scott Parker Scott Parker would like to consider Tottenham's offer despite West Ham's flat refusal to let him leave. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images

Scott Parker would like to consider Tottenham Hotspur's proposal to take him across London to White Hart Lane and has been left frustrated at West Ham United's refusal to countenance the deal.

Spurs have had a £7m offer rejected out of hand by the West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan, who has said the midfielder is not for sale and that Parker is to be offered a lucrative new five-year contract. The midfielder has three years to run on his current deal.

But Parker is tempted by what would be a hugely contentious switch – there is no love lost at Upton Park for Tottenham – and he is surprised at the stance that Sullivan has adopted. At the very least, Parker would welcome the chance to listen to what is on offer at White Hart Lane.

Spurs may provide Parker, who is 29, with his last shot at the Champions League – Harry Redknapp's team will enter the competition in the final qualifying round after their fourth-placed finish last season – and their offer is the same as West Ham paid Newcastle United for him in June 2007.

Parker heard Sullivan say last season that the entire West Ham squad was up for sale apart from him and his patience has been tested further by Sullivan's hard line with Spurs. There is the fear at Upton Park, though, that Tottenham will not be dissuaded in their pursuit.

West Ham confirmed on their website that Spurs had made the bid and they added that they had "informed Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy prior to him making the offer that we would not welcome any approach to unsettle the player".

Sullivan said: "I made a promise that I would not sell Scott and I will not, for any amount of money, break that promise to the West Ham supporters. Scott is not for sale at any price, to anyone. West Ham supporters, for far too long, have had owners that sell their best players and promise one thing and do another. This is a new era. We are building a bigger, better West Ham and when we make a promise, we honour it."

Sullivan's public statement, coupled with the promise of a new contract, appeared designed to back Parker into a corner but the player has experience of driving an acrimonious transfer. In 2004 he made it clear that he wanted to leave Charlton Athletic for Chelsea and he endured being banished from first-team training by the then manager, Alan Curbishley, before he got his wish.

There is no suggestion at present that he is prepared to do something similar. Parker turned down an offer from Tottenham that season, preferring the £10m move to Stamford Bridge.

Parker has been West Ham's player of the year for the past two seasons, he is the first name on the teamsheet and is revered by the club's supporters. It can be argued that West Ham have given him the platform to fight back to the fringes of the England squad after injuries marred his time at Newcastle.

West Ham's manager, Avram Grant, has appointed the former Yugoslavia international Zeljko Petrovic as his assistant. Petrovic, who played at the 1998 World Cup, completes Grant's backroom staff and will work alongside the senior coach, Paul Groves, the first-team coach, Kevin Keen, the goalkeeping coach, David Coles, and the fitness expert Eamon Swift.

[TimTheVillain]

Spurs don't need him, they have some quality midfielders already.

Ands off Arry.

[TheSandman]

Super Soaraway Sun

JOHN CAREW is a target for Besiktas.

The Aston Villa striker, 30, became a fan favourite at the Turkish club after scoring 14 goals for them in 2004-05.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3073193/John-Carew-is-a-target-for-Besiktas.html#ixzz0v1Q7T1L6

That's a bit short that article. Isn't he linked with a move to Turkey almost annually?

They are also reporting the Luke Young story and the Parker one.

[Monty]

It's just a standard trick from people like Sullivan and from clubs like West Ham - saying "not for sale at any price" is just a way of pushing the price up.

[TheSandman]

More Brevity from the sun. It's the soul of wit but is it the soul of good football rumours?

NOTTINGHAM FOREST boss Billy Davies will play a waiting game for Aston Villa full-back Nicky Shorey.

Shorey had a successful loan spell at the City Ground last season but claims he would prefer a move to a Premier League club.

Davies said: "If Nicky Shorey does not get a Premier League club and there is a possibility we can do something, then, until that door closes on us, he remains an option."

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3073103/Billy-Davies-Well-wait-for-Nicky-Shorey.html#ixzz0v1Qbmdf5

[Californian Villain]

No way west ham could sell parker after the statement made today by Sullivan- it will not happen.

he's off mate, one way or another:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/28/scott-parker-tottenham-west-ham

[TimTheVillain]

Face it, the ones we need to go are Sidwell, Davies, Beye, Heskey and Shorey.

I just don't think all of these guys will go easily, they'd rather sit on their big contracts in reality - maybe Ivanhoe is the exception.

[TheSandman]

Hmm... The rumours pre-match in Portugal was for McGeady to start... He didn't make the squad for the game because he was 'injured'.

Also the Scotsman reckons they want £12million. 'Sake.

[pauliewalnuts]

12m for McGeady?

Even Martin would walk away from that.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

At £12m I think the police would be brought in.

[TheSandman]

I hope the asking price is £12million as surely we wouldn't pay it.

I'm off to bed... Doubtlessly by the time I log back he'll have signed for £14million.

[Gregorys Boy]

The Shory one I can see happening, he really hasn't settled at Villa, and a club like Forest who could really push for promotion next season might just be his level.

Damn Spurs getting greedy now!

Carew will stay for at least another season, he seems fairly content at VP, and is still able to do a job, if he was going to leave he would have done it by now.