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http://www.football-oranje.com/no-newcastle-offer-for-wijnaldum/

That's just how a Dutch Football account translated it https://twitter.com/football_oranje/status/617740335096180736

No concrete offers for Wijnaldum since Zenit. Newcastle move not close. Player returns to training on Monday. Rik Elfrink @RikElfrink #Wijnaldum meldt zich morgen weer bij #PSV. Op Zenit na niks concreets. Newcastle heeft wel interesse, de markt is nog 8 weken open.

Swear Turkish clubs could be decent if they weren't ran as retirement homes

Aye but isn't it dodgy and Lim owned half the players they've bought anyway?

Matip

He's played 169 games for us That is a disgrace

Have we even been linked to any CBs? I remember Abdennour being tentatively linked, but other than that nowt.

Says he's going to us and that he was previously a target for Roma, where's that from?

It is for us when we can't create anything or score goals

Hopefully. Bored of the need for holding midfielders instead of people who can pass and shoot.

He can play CM

The stoppage time in SA football is incredulous. Sometimes there's been 3-4 minutes of stops in play and they just blow up straight away.

I can't believe Wijnaldum is only 24, he seems to have been around for absolutely ages.

Trying to distill Arsenal's last 10 years into a lack of a goalkeeper and a defensive midfielder is crazy, Parky. The main thing thats stopped Arsenal being successful over the last 10 years is financial doping. They never had the depth that Chelsea and then Man City had, and they continually lost their best players to these teams. Having a goalkeeper or a defensive midfielder doesn't make a heap of fucking difference when Man City can afford to have 4 top class forwards to switch around when they fancy. The Chelsea/City era also just happened to coincide with the financing of infrastructure and a stadium that will keep them near the top of football in this country for the forseeable future. Arsenal has a football culture now thats in tune with the demands of modern football commercially and financially. It may not be what old time Highbury matchgoers think of what Arsenal should be, but its one that will keep them competitive on the pitch and as a global international brand long after Wenger goes. Without Wenger Arsenal could have quite easily ended up a PL alsoran like Aston Villa or something. In fact if they'd continued with their culture of the 80s and early 90s I'd say they almost certainly would have done. He totally changed the culture and then the infrastructure of the club for the long term benefit. What I will say, he should have took the domestic cups far more seriously when Arsenal couldn't compete in the league. It seemed like he continually invested all the clubs playing resources in the PL and CL when they were always likely to fall short. Winning a couple of League Cups/FA Cups during the dry spell would have took a lot of the pressure off himself.

Inler to Watford? He's been woeful the last 2 seasons. Napoli are doing well to get rid.

You've obviously not watched the basketball ultras videos on youtube

Sounds like a great idea, also sounds like a recipe for war . Edit: in the Balkans I mean. The North Sea stuff was mooted a while back to include Celtic/Rangers. They have it in basketball and it works OK.

Not an awful idea though is it. Without it there's literally zero chance of Ajax or Red Star Belgrade or Malmo doing anything in Europe ever again. Which is absolutely shite. I guess for your lot its different since you've always had separate leagues.

2 wins from a possible 13 for former Yugoslavian clubs. Dreadful. There'd be nowt stopping a joint pan-Balkan league being as strong as France or Portugal at the very least considering the population and quality of players they produce. Definitely needs to happen soon because smaller leagues in Europe don't stand a chance in the age of the CL and collective TV deals. Same goes for Scandinavia, Former USSR and probably even Holland/Belgium etc. It would make European football far more competitive if they would bandy together into bigger leagues.

Udinese scouting/connection + PL TV money + London(ish) location is a recipe for comfortable survival

Napoli signing Allan from Udinese; Napoli selling Inler and Britos to Watford as part of the deal. dat divided interests

Looks like Konoplyanka is going to Sevilla. Guessing the money for Bacca helped push that through.