2012 Transfer/Rumors Thread

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EPL

Marko Marin to Chelsea (8 €)
Podolski to Arsenal (13.5 €))

La Liga

Bundesliga

Xherdan Shaqiri to Bayern (11.6 €)
Dante to Bayern (4.7 €)
Marco Reus to Dortmund (17.5 €)
Ivica Olic to Wolfsburg (free transfer)


Serie A

Other

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Bayern linked with Higuain and Sahin. Barcelona had their eye on Alaba but Bayern stated they are buyers, not sellers.

[Nimreitz]

LOL at all those rumors. I'd absolutely adore Sahin at Bayern, but he'd go back to Dortmund instead. The other ones are absurd.

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Bayern and Giroud are talking. I believe he has a set transfer fee at 10 million euro.

[Nimreitz]

Yeah, I saw that today too. If the kid wants to sit on the bench, I'd love to have him.

[Nimreitz]

Saw someone else say the Sahin thing. Please please please!

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Where do you think Hazard finds himself this summer?

[Ben]

Any news on Kagawa to United? That excites me a lot. They should try for Sahin too.

[Nimreitz]

Originally Posted by mvP to the Wee

Where do you think Hazard finds himself this summer?

He said he will be in Blue next year, so City or Chelsea. Chelsea need him more, I mean Nasri doesn't even play all that many games for City, so that would be my guess. With Ramires playing a sort of shuttling right mid/right wing (incidentally, the position he emerged in with Brazil and Benfica) under Di Matteo I think that could make for a ridiculous line of Hazard, Mata, and Ramires. If Torres is truly back, that could be scary.

Kagawa leaving Dortmund I think is like 75% or more. Not sure if United will go for him (I actually don't think he's a good fit because he can't play in the middle of a 4-4-2), but those are the rumors. I don't think I've heard any other club is interested, but that doesn't mean much.

I think Sahin is too much of a gamble for United; he would be seen as a savior in some ways, FINALLY WE HAVE OUR MIDFIELDER TO REPLACE SCHOLES, but coming off an injury I don't know if he needs that pressure.

And why aren't United going after Christian Eriksen, seriously?

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Originally Posted by ßen

Any news on Kagawa to United? That excites me a lot. They should try for Sahin too.

I remember reading him stating he'll be with United next season. I don't think it's official though, just pretty darn likely.

[Nimreitz]

SAF was at the German Cup Final on Saturday. Of course it doesn't necessarily say much, because at least 6 of those Dortmund players would start at United. 8 if you include Gotze and Bender. But this Kagawa deal does seem inevitable. Should be reasonable too, because his contract is up at the end of next year. Only price that I've seen quoted is 15 million euros, so that's probably what it will be.

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Yaya Touré and Edin Dzeko linked with Bayern. Don't think it will happen, but it'd be simply incredible if we got both somehow. In other news, Bayern are close to inking up Claudio Pizarro on a free transfer.

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Drogba is likely leaving Chelsea for China, Torres also wants out.

[Nimreitz]

Originally Posted by mvP to the Wee

Yaya Touré and Edin Dzeko linked with Bayern. Don't think it will happen, but it'd be simply incredible if we got both somehow. In other news, Bayern are close to inking up Claudio Pizarro on a free transfer.

Pizarro deal is final. They also had a bid turned down for Robert Lewandowski. Bayern are looking to make some shit happen.

EDIT: Whoops, looks like the sources I saw jumped the gun on Pizarro. Not final yet. Probably won't sign him then if we're looking at Lewandowski and Dzeko.

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Originally Posted by Nimreitz

Pizarro deal is final. They also had a bid turned down for Robert Lewandowski. Bayern are looking to make some shit happen.

EDIT: Whoops, looks like the sources I saw jumped the gun on Pizarro. Not final yet. Probably won't sign him then if we're looking at Lewandowski and Dzeko.

Pizarro is a done deal minus the signature apparently. Verbal agreement. It seems to me we want to bring in Pizarro as a 3rd striker to a Gomez and Dzeko/Lewandowski duo in case one gets injured. Heynckes also said he wants to add one more premier midfielder to our squad. Let's get this done!!