Many, but not all. If nothing else, a lack of activity in the transfer market in recent weeks suggests Newcastle fans will be able to give their team’s match against Burnley on Wednesday their full attention. Having missed out on Daniel Sturridge despite labouring under the delusion they had a deal wrapped up, the Magpies are now being linked with Manchester City central defender Eliaquim Mangala, who will find himself surplus to requirements at the Etihad once Aymeric Laporte arrives from Athletic Bilbao for £57m. Feyenoord striker Nicolai Jorgensen has also been linked with a move to St James’ Park, where recent disappointments mean season ticket-holders are unlikely to be holding their breath waiting for any big – or even small – announcements.
>In potentially good news for Peter Crouch, Fernando Llorente, Olivier Giroud and any other sentient male over 6ft tall who happens to be walking past Stamford Bridge at around 10.30pm (GMT) tomorrow, the mooted move of Edin Dzeko to Chelsea has fallen through after the Roma striker failed to agree personal terms on an 18-month contract. His Roma team-mate Emerson Palmieri will be flying in to cough for the Chelsea medics later today, after the two clubs agreed a fee of £17.6 plus £7m in add-ons for the left-back. Giroud remains the favourite to go to Chelsea instead of Dzeko, as Arsenal charitably bid to increase their London rivals’ chances of beating them to a Champions League qualification spot, while out-of-favour defender David Luiz could go the other way as a makeweight in any deal.
Julian Kelly
One of those players hailed as a real bargain when he was signed for £11m last summer, Swansea City flop Roque Mesa has gone to Sevilla on loan. Crystal Palace remain interested in Lille central defender Ibrahim Amadou and Getafe goalkeeper Vicente Guaita, while Burnley have made an audacious £10m bid for Nottingham Forest’s 21-year-old centre-half Joe Worrall. Relegation threatened Stoke are hoping to get their £14m deal for Galatasaray midfielder Badou Ndiaye over the line today, but will miss out on 21-year-old local lad-turned-New York City star, Jack Harrison, who is off to Manchester City and will promptly be shipped out on loan to Middlesbrough.
>And finally, in dire need of a notoriously calming influence for the many overpaid and under-achieving troublemakers in their squad, Sunderland hope to sign Norn Iron and Hearts frontman Kyle Lafferty. Sunderland boss Chris Coleman had offered Chris Martin a loan deal, but decided the dithering Derby County striker wasn’t for him when he went all Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte by asking for 48 Hours and then Another 48 Hours to think about his decision.
Jeremiah Ortiz
Thank you!
Grayson King
Reminder that the window closes tomorrow, 11pm GMT.
Jaxon Mitchell
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Jayden Hall
>chelshit
Isaiah Gomez
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Cameron Harris
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Cooper Clark
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Dominic Morgan
>you cant leave, weve signed your wife
Andrew Flores
Not a fan of these Guardian copy-pasted OPs. Stick to BBC's gossip page or don't bother.
Henry Watson
Joe Hart to Celtic will happen on deadline day. You heard it here first.
Jacob Sanders
If this happened, would he still be picked for Russia?
Ayden Diaz
always the victim
Ryan Lewis
Still don't get why Sturridge chose West Brom over Poocastle.
Charles Brown
Not a fan of Not A Fan poster
Jonathan Lee
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Blake Perez
Auba is unironically on a plane as we speak headed for London.
Blake Flores
He's been shocking for West Ham, he's been knocked down the pecking order behind Adrian and now that they're out of all the cup competitions he probably won't play another game for the rest of the season unless Adrian gets injured. He's almost certainly lost the no. 1 shirt for England unless he has some miraculous comeback but he won't get that chance at West Ham anymore.
Owen Gutierrez
Really, really difficult to predict who will get relegated this season. There's no nailed on team after Swansea's recent run of form. Also WBA signing Sturridge makes them seem far stronger.
Maybe Swansea, Stoke and Huddersfield.
I'm guessing Southampton will make a few signings tomorrow with the Van Dijk money, they'd be mad not to.
Lucas Clark
Has klopp always been this paranoid
Xavier Adams
He wants to win the FA Cup.
William Richardson
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Brody Hall
So now that the dust has settled.. Can we all agree that Klopp has been a huge dissapointment, a cry baby and a flop all together?
Jaxon Reyes
I hope Chelsea don't sell Batman
Lucas Cruz
feel like this window is just cementing city's advantage over us
everyone else is panic buying immediate first team players and they're signing depth
Jackson Myers
poor slippy
Caleb Rivera
We should all be thankful towards West Ham. I reckon that had Hart remained starter at West Ham till the end of the season, irregardless of form, he'd be England's no.1 at the WC. A blessing in the skies.
James Jackson
>Pardew >FA Cup winner Pick only one.
Jace Miller
'Orrible little orange man
Kayden James
How you holding on lads
William Nelson
>spunking £58m on ANOTHER centreback after spending £170m on defenders in the summer >panic buying pick both
Robert Reyes
winter transfers are always panic buys
Juan Ross
Striker always prefer the more attacking team.
Lucas Jenkins
Smugness, sarcams, and self deprecating irony (⌐■_■)
Bentley Reyes
City are somewhat banic buying because of the supposed new FFP rules that are coming in.
I have a feeling Laporte and Fred were planned for summer buys but they've had to get on with it just in case the new rules don't allow them to spend another gazillion.
Anthony Peterson
Kompany needs to be replaced, and Mangala will leave. I don't see the problem. In the summer they let go of 3 full backs and replaced them with 3 full backs. No other team has a defence with more potential than City. Mendy, Stones, Laporte, Walker.
Leo Davis
Apparently he's from the area Newcastle aren't that much of a big team under Mike Ashley West Brom are a win away from getting out of the relegation zone
Adrian Torres
I dare say the lack of English success in international football has been the reliance of White, Middle class managers and their mindsets of being less likely to select working class BME players, the amount who went under the radar is obscene - Andy Cole, Ian Wright, Les Ferdinand, Chris Powell. All far fewer caps than their talents warranted.
Regards,
Rt Hon Elrick Ambogou
Brayden Russell
Except now the choice's between Pickford, Butland, Forster, and maybe Pope
James Bell
>City are somewhat banic buying because of the supposed new FFP rules that are coming in. they just signed like 12 kids from new york and whatever lol
they're all gonna be sold for like £5m each and it'll offset any transfer
Nicholas Hill
Gunn should unironically start, Pickford and Butland have been shocking
Cameron Collins
>West Ham won us the World Cup in 1966 with Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters >West Ham will win us the World Cup in 2018 by ending Joe Hart's career Are they the most based club in England?
Evan Bennett
Forster is absolute shite.
Pickford gave a decent showing of himself in the last international break but he hasn't been great since then either.
Kevin Martinez
Granted I haven't watch much of either club but the impression I got is that West Brom have a pair of decent strikers that are getting no service while Newcaslte have shit strikers but a decent midfield.
Would've thought the latter would be a more appealing option where he'd be more likely to get goals.
Blake Hall
You are a fool if you believe City will remain at the top of English football for much longer. Sky sports won't allow it.
Zachary Morales
City will remain a big club until the middle east runs out of oil.
Adrian Myers
>thinking sky aren't going to be toppled by amazon who city have already cosied up to
Brody Peterson
sports television will never be this good again
Jaxson Allen
Pickford kept clean sheets against Brazil and Germany. Granted they were in friendlies, but who was the last England goalkeeper to do anything even that impressive? So he should be first choice. Unless Butland plays incredibly well until the end of the season, then maybe he should get it. I don't think the discussion should be between anyone other than those two.
Kayden Brooks
You see that 'accident' that happened to Sane? Be prepared for a lot more of them.
Kevin Rogers
Where do the shit rumours that the OP is using come from? Its written like some really cringe rip off of Squires
Colton Sullivan
>that Rodgers/Sterling BEEF THESE GUYS REALLY DONT LIKE EACH OTHER
Cooper Torres
>Forster STILL can't get respect
What the fuck does he have to do? He left Celtic (when he should have defintely have been No1) but now what? Its not his fault Southampton are never going to sell him for a ridiculous amount of money.
Evan Kelly
You have 10 seconds to explain why England's starting XI at the WC should be anything other than this.
- 3 CBs so there's less chance of getting beat when we eventually face a big team - no wingers because we have no one for the left side, but the wing-backs are solid and good at attacking
Liam Clark
>Cahill >Rose >Alli >Wilshere
James Martin
Thought the same. Squires is awful in its own right as well
Brody Smith
Didn't he have the lowest save % in the league last season or something? Face it, he's finished. He was good a while back and should have started for England at the last WC but he's past his prime and plays for a side near the bottom of the table.
Isaiah Gutierrez
what are the preferred meme arrow names for aubameyang? no doubt there will be plenty of chances to use them.
John Richardson
>Alli in midfield >Rose, despite him barely playing >Cahill
Aiden Evans
Pretty sure >Obamayang is fairly used
Hudson Kelly
I know people seem to hate him (probably ABUs) but Philbert Jones has been fantastic this season. Would take him over either of those.
Brody Parker
>obama
Benjamin Baker
It's basically a budget Man City. Wilshere = Silva. Alli = KDB. Dier = Fernandinho. Sterling = Sterling. Kane and Vardy = Aguero and Jesus.
Now we just need Pep to become part-time manager..
Jordan Barnes
Squires is the epitomy of neo-Sup Forums
Carter Baker
>Orangutan
Alexander Carter
>€60M Defunct Euros for the Sub Saharan Maroune Chamakh
Jack Davis
Sane's out for 6 weeks.
Julian Ward
Back for this weekend then
Jason Myers
>Implying City are that good
Kayden Diaz
Bertrand is a no. Shaw doesn't offer enough in attack, don't think he's ever got an assist in his life.
Cahill is the most experienced and still pretty good. I'm a Chelsea fan and he's underrated. Yeah he may not be good enough to start consistently for Chelsea, but England is a different matter. Stones is the future so he should start, even if he isn't the finished product yet.
Chase Edwards
Cardiff subhumans
Anthony Johnson
magically recover in 3 weeks
Joshua Walker
Are you allowed in Britain to randomly show up to a Man City training session and drug text the squad? Or is there a law against that?
Xavier Butler
It was an unfortuantely timed tackle la' nothing more
Mason Perry
England's back 5 shall be
Bertrand - Jones - Dier - Stones - Walker
Henry Lewis
>Dier in defence bad meme
Luke Kelly
Just part and parcel of the English game La
Jace Stewart
It's a good way to make some fast cash.
Easton Wright
Couldn't agree more.
Michael Edwards
IS doggo dead?
Chase Bailey
hell be fine
Asher Phillips
Based husky testing out a new chew toy
Easton Evans
yeah but it'll be fine
Isaiah Edwards
Pep has only used Aguero and Jesus as strikers in a 3-5-2 early in the season which didn't work very well. Most of the time he uses 3 up front and prefers those 3 to be able to play across the entirety of the front line (hence why he prefers Jesus over Aguero). The only way England could do something like that would be with Sterling-Vardy-Rashford and that takes out their best striker in Kane.
As for the defence, I'd take out Cahill and put in Jones and replace Stones with Maguire if Pebbles doesn't get back to his pre-injury form.
Brayden Kelly
The tactical nuances of such a game are too advanced for ur non world cup having brain to comprehend
Jace Butler
I hope they shot that dog dead
Brayden Morris
Not enough darkies to satisfy the FA
Landon Jackson
out for 6 weeks
Jace Anderson
Why is Turkey so good on paper and so bad on the field?
Carson Cox
The grauniad
Adrian Clark
not even good on paper
Nolan Harris
Turkey are only good on toilet paper lmao
Benjamin Walker
Yeah because those tackles never happen, right? Retard
Leo Price
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Henry Martin
I think they probably fried it up and fed it to the husky