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Thought I'd start this thread so we can keep all the comings and goings in one thread (mainly).

Obviously lots of attention on Liverpool/Chelsea, but also Spurs very busy in trying to get some new signings.  Also rumours that every taxi driver in the country has picked up one player or another from an airport and is taking them to one of the clubs around the country.

Konchesky to Forest was doing the rounds in Nottingham yesterday. 3 month loan i think

Nottingham Forest's quest for a full-back is over. They have signed Paul Konchesky on loan from Liverpool.
(beeb)

The Editor:
Twitter has proved a fascinating source of transfer news and rumour this window. First reports are now surfacing from Mirror football correspondent Darren Lewis that Liverpool have accepted a bid from Chelsea for Fernando Torres. We will be checking these reports shortly. Follow me on Twitter - @skysportsed

From: http://www.skysports.com/football/transfer_clockwatch/0,23710,14896,00.html

Looks like Aston Villa are getting closer to announcing capture of Borussia Monchengladbach's Michael Bradley. Awaiting official confirmation from Villa Park that a deal

http://www.skysports.com/football/transfer_clockwatch/0,23710,14896,00.html

Looks like he won't be part of the deal for Torres:

"Daniel Sturridge is having a medical at Bolton."

 
Reports now of Liverpool bidding £30million for Andy Carroll - more to follow..

Torres to Chelsea looking more likely no?

Yeah, got to be a done deal in all but the details.

£30m though!  He's good, but £30m!!   Liverpool panicking?

Carroll will not move imo

@JimBoardman SSN: Can exclusively reveal #NUFC have received a bid of £30m bid from an unnamed PL club for Andy Carroll. The bid was turned down.

"Exclusively" - rotflmfao

Now saying it was £25M...

Newcastle United have rejected a £30million bid from Liverpool for Andy Carroll, according to Sky Sports sources. Follow me on Twitter @graemebailey

Do wonder about the betting

Tim at Sky Bet:

Odds on Andy Carroll joining Liverpool slashed to 1/5 following a flurry of bets with Fernando Torres now 4/11 to leave. New Sky Sports customers can claim a completely free £5 bet - click here.


Comes in 10 mins after the £30m bid is rejected. 

Not so stupidly of Sky Bet, you can't bet on him staying at Newcastle.  If £30m isn't enough to sell him, I can't see him going anywhere else, £30m is way too much.

@iainmacintosh If Carroll reaches potential, then £30m is fair. Sadly, it's more likely that he'll wind up in a hot tub full of Blue WKD with Kerry Katona.

wait  $30m for carroll - zomg

wait NUFC have turned it down    rotflmfao

Stephen Ireland, the Villa midfielder, is currently at Newcastle United having a medical with a view to a loan deal and Michael Bradley, the Borussia Monchengladbach midfielder, is currently at Aston Villa undergoing a medical and may complete his move soon.

(Guardian)

good player michael bradley

Andy Carroll is certainly not a £25million player, but to Newcastle he is worth £25million+.

Young not for sale


@SkySportsLewis:
Sky Sports News understands Aston Villa have yet to receive an offer for Ashley Young and will not consider selling the winger.

Plus Carroll £30 million  lmao

Been hearing this. I don't get it though?

Logic being he has scored goals at a good rate thi season, and played well, 6-8 more goals in the last 12-15 games from him keeps them in the Prem comforatble, thus making them a wedge.  I think.

...and with £25-30M, he's irreplaceable?  Of course, if they can't sign anyone in time, the money's useless - but if they can get someone in time he's worth what it costs to replace him?

For Liverpool it could be argued that he's worth £25M - we have Suarez (assuming that's done and dusted and Torres leaves as expected) and not much else to offer up front.  Liverpool need another quality forward in this transfer window.

sigh, such a waste. a real quality left midfielder going to yet another club to play left back where he's completerly ineffective. worst thing that could've happened to him getting capped as a defender

i know what you mean about value to newcastle  but surely with 30 points bagged and 15 games to go they will be fine? They have an OK team

Id sell in a heart beat for $30m - he is by no means a proven player of £30m category - he has really bad personality tendancies - seeems like more of a duncan ferguson than a wayne rooney imo

One for gatso:

Charlton have signed Federico Bessone on loan for the remainder of the season with the option to buy the player permanently in the summer.

You can have Bentner for £20M as far as I'm concerned.

What would Rodallega cost? £15mil? Far better buy than Carroll at £25mil imo.

I'd drive him up

Actually, I think he's played quite well the last couple of games.  Prob wants to impress any potential clubs.

Straight swap for N'gog?

(I'd give you Babel too, but it's too late)

yeah, waiting til the end of the day to see if I'm happy with that one. it's either superb because it allows us to move matt fry into central defence and drop one of the old boys or it's a disaster and we've signed him because west ham are recalling fry

Woolford to Forest now apparently. Only seen him play once or twice but if you're as shrewd as BH and backed Forest for the league you've got to be quiet happy with strengething on deadline day.

@skybet_tim:
We're seeing most of the money for Fernando Torres not to leave and have reacted by cutting odds on him staying to 5/6.

The Editor:
Latest report on Fernando Torres is he's left Liverpool's Melwood training ground by helicopter. Destination unknown but watch this space

@danroan Torres is not a done deal. Not yet. I promise.

I still think it's a matter of when, rather than if though.

Thankfully, H&G aren't still the owners - if they were, the £50M (or whatever it is) would vanish into their pockets and Carlton Cole would be our target.

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helicopter shot down over merseyside by a bunch of 15-19 year olds..............more to follow

Graeme Bailey:
Blackburn are hoping to tie up a deal for Barcelona starlet Ruben Rochina before Monday's transfer deadline, skysports.com understands

Ever news group is now reporting that he has left by helicopter

 ;applause;

Reports surfacing in Spain that Spurs have come back in for Atletico Madrid's Diego Forlan. Marca say an offer is on the table. Watch this space. Follow me on Twitter - @skysportsed


good signing if you asked me

@rorysmith_tel: Torres is still at Melwood, and has not left by helicopter, catamaran or Back to the Future-style hoverboard.

In other news, former England international Gareth Southgate has been confirmed as the FA's new Head of Elite Development. He will start right away.
(Beeb)

mmmm

TBF getting Carroll for 30mill is not much better business than setting fire to the money. 30mill is simply ridic.

He was a walking disaster. Cost us a few goals, got took off vs Barnsley and never played again.

TRANSFER DEADLINE DAY - BREAKING NEWS:

Man Utd have issued a 'hands off' warning to all clubs interested in Howard Webb.

I hope Liverpool dont sell torres, Chelsea could be a bit tasty with him up front aswell.

£30 mil for Carroll and Newcastle say no??? WTF I dont know who is more stupid Liverpool for offering £30mil or NUFC for turning it down.

Spurs are trying to sign every striker in La Liga....goodluck you will still finish 5th.

Deadline day fucking sucks being an Arsenal fan...we never buy anyone get your chequebook out Wenger FFS !!!!

Torres deal done bar finalising image rights (@danroan - BBC).  £175K a week his reported salary. 

He left Melwood in an Audi (I think they make cars, not helicopters).

Torres and Drogba up front - would not like to be a defender facing that pair.

I love the Andy Reid signing by Holloway. Perfect replacement for Adam I reckon.

Please let liverpool pay £35m for carrol!

Is there a likelihood that Liverpool are just trying to back to back these deals? Therefore there is a possibility Torres won't go if the carrol deal can't be agreed?

How long does a medical take?

Would a club buy an injured player and is that injury their risk?

Has that gone through?  Like you say, a good replacement - but not heard anything on Adam today?

£35 million lol

Newcastle need to stay in the PL. Our league placing is good, and barring complete disaster we should be safe this season. But what about next season? We want to build a team. Yeah, £30m is obv a lot, but what's the point of selling your best players. Also, our squad is thin enough as it is. We'd really struggle if we got another couple of strikers injured.

I also like it in the sense that the "top 4" think they can just throw money around to get whoever they want. GTFO.

Emile Heskey has arrived at Newcastle. He was aiming for Middlesboro.

£35m? Jesus...

Good job you put "Top 4" in speechmarks.  We'd love to be Top 4 :D

Heard that earlier - made me giggle more than it should have!

I'd say Liverpool are still part of the "top 4". Perhaps not in terms of ability. But for me the "top 4" are still Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea. And if you can afford to spend £35m on Andy Carroll...

First time we've been splashing the cash for a while!  Guess the new owners are backing up what they said about being committed to spending on the squad.

Some people are quick:

@mapsadaisical Newcastle, realising they have a lot of money to spend and that they need a big target man, have just bid £36m for Liverpool's Andy Carroll.

Apparently Emile Heskey has just had a sex and name change.

She now goes by with the name Mrs A. Lott.

Sandy

Charlie Adam to Man Utd?

yeah knocked into 1/4 skybet.

edit back out to 1/2 now!

Sky sports news just said carrol deal  is in excess of  £35m PLUS add ons

BREAKING* Liverpool have a SECOND bid for Andy Carroll rejected by Newcastle.

Absolutely made up....

Konchesky to Forest is big news for us (honest)

Delighted!

Those skybet prices are a disgrace.

For example evs Ashley Young to join Liverpool.

Can I have 8/11 he stays at Villa? And skybet can have all the others running for them too.

Go on then, I'll take 1/2.

Andy Carroll on twitter. @andycarroll9

Not going anywhere! #nufc #lfc

This tweet was up for like 10 seconds then got deleted.

not happening is the word from manchester.

Can't help but feel everyone will stay where they are

Its a fake


http://www.nufcfans.co.uk/2011/01/official-andycarroll9-twitter-account.html

Alright Jeff, calm down.

Andy Carrol hands in transfer request

(PR exercise?)

SSN report Newcastle reluctantly accept £36m


Liverpool are nuts

Only bad thing for the sellers is Newcastle have to wait til the summer to spend it

@pauldalglish
Crazy day. Players in Helicopters and private jets. When I signed on deadline day for Hibs I drove myself to Easter Road. #iwasrubbish

When liverpool look back on this deal in the summer they will cry

£36m for an unproven striker with alcoholic tendancies is just silly!

and why the fk are the fans jumping up and down? You just lost one of the worlds top strikers (i imagine) and spent 36m on a 1 season wonder!

"A car has been sent from Anfield to Blackpool to pick up Charlie Adam and take him back to Liverpool"

Why didn't they just order him a taxi?

if you were a taxi driver from Blackpool would you drive into Liverpool after the great one has just been sold?

Liverpool have been mugged imo.

Car was there all along? Used their own driver so they can get through secuirty rather than some random taxi driver asking if he can drive Charlie Adam in?

when u are wasting £36m on a player i guess paying someone to sit in a card on blackpool beach front is pretty insignificant

1st line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Carroll

There can't be many bigger fans of Carroll's game than me, but that sort of money just can't be rejected. He'd have to be getting us into the CL single handedly to warrent rejecting that. Given his off field antics and this worrying thigh problem that only adds more weight to the decision. Think him handing in the request is, one, to speed it up but two; probably requested by the club to avoid the need to make a compensation payment and take some heat off them (not that I think there really can be any heat to put on for the decision).

It will be really interesting to see if he does go on to make the most of what he could have in front of him.

For us I hope that the money can be put back into the team wisely in the summer.

£14million for Adam according to reports. Liverpool needs new negotiators.

£50m on Carroll and Adam

Barmy

Worth considering the saving on wages with Carroll.  He's on £27K at Newcastle, so he'll be on a fair chunk more at Liverpool - but far less than Torres was.

Add to that he's only 22, and therefore has a resale value.

That said, it's a lot of cash!

never a truer word said. mental.

Crouch to Newcastle?

from 4 to 14m - and they get paid handsomly to do it

Liverpool are going to be the new Leeds Utd

Tony Kendall signs for Channel 4 from Sky for undisclosed fee.....

He will be fronting the up coming Big Brother celebrity special....

Early housemates confirmed are Davinna.....Richard Branson......and Andy Gray.....

More news to follow.......

Now, back to the football...................

Torres 6/4 to score against liverpool on sunday

What are the odds for Carragher to put in the first tackle against him?

God, please let me get the other side of that.

If he signs, will go straight into the team v Liverpool? Somehow think they would give a less high profile debut.

And even if he signs and plays, 6/4 is very skinny.

@rorysmith_tel The figure for anyone to buy Charlie Adam will not be £14m. It will be around £8m. No word from #LFC as yet, mind. Hold your horses, SSN.

Can he not play tomorrow?

@GuillemBalague Yes,all done chelsea-torres-lpl pending medical. £50m.As said earlier,Torres will leave soon for London to have medical.He hasnt had one yet

35m for Andy Carroll seems absolutely absurd.

But then swapping Torres for 2 younger quality strikers in Suarez and Carroll seems decent.

Maybe 28m would be okay.

Thought you had to be registered for a certain amount of time before being eligible to play. 48 hours?

Newcastle fans must be doing the conga up there.

They can stay up this year from here with Ameobi playing in his possie then in the summer they will have £35m!!! to build and massively improve like 4/5 areas of the team.

I know they will say yea but Ashley might not re-invest most of it, but with you doing so well and being established in the Prem by the summer i'm sure he will.

Most ridic panic buy I have ever seen if Carroll signs for circa 40 mill after half a decent season. Brit players so over priced.

Obv Carroll is far too dear, but can we not even that out a bit by saying we got £15m more for Torres than hes worth?

Well, as a Liverpool fan, this window has gone far better than I'd thought it would.  Resigned to losing Torres, it didn't look great.  Suarez softened the blow, but getting Carroll as well means we have more than one option up front - and both young so lots of potential to create a good partnership.

The fee seems huge, and I guess it is a gamble from the owners.  Makes a difference from the previous owners.

Torres deal is off, John Terry couldn't agree personal terms with Torres' girlfriend.

rofl

Liverpool in for Micah Richards too?

FFL should be fun. How many people gonna put Suarez/Torres/Carroll in their teams for this weekend?

gonna be one hell of a commute for carroll isn't it seeing as he was bailed to live with nolan

reid is one of the best I've ever seen in central midfield though will probs go on the left now if adam's staying

I am currently laughing at the michael johnson to charlton rumour while secretly crossing my fingers behind my back

though I'm a bit confused why everyone's trying to sign an injured player

Suarez deal done.

I think they missed a beat with not selling Adam.  Not sure about the auction in the summer.  Won't he have 1 year left on his contract in the summer? (Not sure)
Can't see his value will be any higher in the summer, the bigger clubs will have a chance to scout out cheaper options elsewhere, no need for panic buys or to be held hostage over price.




Diouf gtfo finally.  I thought only Big Sam signed him.

Deffo class in the middle of the park. If Adam had gone, not sure you'd of noticed.

Have you seen Beattie play this season,utter gash.

Spurs now in for Charlie Adam...

The is friggin nuts!!..

The money bubble must burst soon.

Someone just emailed Sky to suggest transfer deadline day is made a bank holiday. LOL.

Sick day. Think Chelsea have got a steal for 50m with torres esp. with Liverpool forking out 35m for Carroll

Torres: £50m

Carroll: £35m

Szczesny
Clichy
Djourou
Vermaelen
Sagna
Fabregas
Song
Wilshere
Nasri
Van Persie
Walcott
-----------
£44m

thats why all arsenal fans should love the arsen.. awsome that line up is for that price

Is Diouf to Rangers the worst deal ever? (Unless you're a Blackburn fan of course) Guy's an absolute scumbag.

Still, I suppose he'll make Kyle Laugherty look like a decent young fellow.

Beattie has been pretty useless this season.  To be fair, he joined just before the 1st game of the season and apparently wasnt fit and got a couple of injuries, so he was never fully fit....but usually you can see glimpses from players not match fit that they will contribute when they are fit, Beattie showed absolutely nothing.  Comparable in uselessness to Franny Jeffers stint at Rangers.

this...although I despise Laugherty

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3318374/LIVERPOOL-fan-Shaun-McCormack-has-changed-his-name-to-Fernando-Torres.html

lol, what a tool

Do clubs pay VAT on transfers?

I believe they do for UK to UK transfers. 

Went to search on google, and stumbled over this:  http://www.premiershipnews.org/abramovich-days-of-multi-million-pound-transfers-are-over-376 
Not relevant to your question, but interesting anyway.

This looks a fun read:

http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/RulesandRegulations/FARegulations/~/media/Files/PDF/TheFA/FAU_VATFootball.ashx

(PDF file)

Summarise this please Boshi.

It means they pay VAT.

Are players classed as assets?

Yes.

It's why football clubs remain solvent.

Tough to say when Babel was involved.

Don't worry he'll fit right in there. Laughatme and Binman Mcculloch can teach him how to get away with murder.

Sandy

Did ask a couple of Rangers fans (who didn't know the exciting news) to name the Premiership player they'd least like to see in a Rangers shirt and Diouf was the unanimous choice. Their faces when told he'd signed would've made a great picture.  ;D

Take it no Celtic fans are worried at all about Diouf signing then?

More worried about the medical bills although he can play a bit more than Laughatme and the binman.

Sandy

so what's happening about this? anyone know?

Does that mean we have to take Nolan as well?  Maybe that's why Carroll was so expensive?  BOGOF offer?

Suarez is gonna be better then carrol imo

Com buy for 35 mill
I think anything over 16 mill for him is way over priced

The case has been dropped, so the bail condition expired.

aha, that makes sense. shame really, it would've been com if they'd made nolan move too

Would have been better if they made him live with Gerrard and exposed him to Stevie G's drug dealing mates!

Allegedly.

Stevie G must be really annoyed that the drug dealers let Torres join Chelsea when they wouldn't let him.

FWIW I wouldn't have wanted us to sell Carroll for less than 30 million. 30mill was a tough decision, 35 I would have sold him as well. Interesting to hear that Carroll didn't seem to want to go but did want his contract renewed yesterday, the board said he had to wait until the summer so he asked to speak to Liverpool, this is according to Pardew. Carroll supposedly sent multiple txts to the editor of a fans magazine who Carroll is friends with, saying he's being pushed out and he's gutted to leave. The txts will be published in the magazine. Has it not been announced when he will do a press conference ? Interested to hear what he has to say about it all.

BS. If he didnt want to go he doesnt agree terms. Simples

Yeah some extracts of emails from him have been discussed in the press. him saying he was forced out sounds like a PR excersise in the same way that Ashley saying that he wanted to leave is.

Carroll wanted more cash (after he'd just signed a new contract), Ashley realised they would never get such a ridic offer again...job done.

The rest is all spin from both parties.

I'm just saying what has been said by both parties. I think Carroll thought quadrupling his wages was too good an offer to refuse so left. I haven't thought about it long enough to have my own opinion yet. I don't blame Carroll for going though and I don't blame Ashley for selling.

£14m for Adam would have been ok at least.....

Heh very good.