Official Transfer Thread

[Rob]

But.... you won the league

[Cory]

DeAndre Yedlin from Seattle to Spurs
Shane Long from Hull to Southampton
Florin Gardoş from Steau to Southampton
Javi García from Man City to Zenit
Diafra Sakho from Metz to West Ham
Stephen Ward from Wolves to Burnley
Nicklas Bendtner from  Arsenal to Wolfsburg
Carlos Sanchez from Elich to Aston Villa [Love this signing, was such a beast in La Liga]
Victor Moses from Chelsea to Stoke [Loan]
Alberto Moreno from Sevilla to Liverpool
Marko Marin from  Chelsea to Fiorentina [Loan]
Julio César from QPR to Benfica
Jonathan De Guzmán  from Villareal to Napoli
Leroy Fer from Norwich to QPR
Marcos Rojo from Sporting to Man U
Eduardo Vargas from Napoli to QPR [Loan]

[Cory]

Mario Balotelli from Milan to Liverpool

looks like Angel Di Maria from Real Madrid to Man U too...perhaps the best signing since Rooney

[Kirk]

perhaps the best signing since Rooney

Only if he switches the formation.

[Rob]

Wilfried Zaha joins CPFC on a season-long loan.



Ian Wright and Geoff Thomas potentially joining the coaching staff. Just need Jose Fonte, Victor Moses and Nathanial Clyne back now

[Adam Wrong]

Big moves for man utd, Hull and palace. Arsenal got welbeck... Thoughts Guys?

[Kirk]

It seems Utd have asked a 10 year old to take over transfer policy this season. They've just selected the shiniest objects available and signed them without any though to squad balance or how they will fit in to the team's formation. Am I excited about seeing Falcao and DiMaria strutting their stuff at Old Trafford? Of course I am. Do I think they will get us into the top 4? Not a chance. Selling Kagawa was a mistake as well because he and Mata seemed to get the best out of each other when played together.

Hull have done a good job in the window and will probably find themselves in mid table at the end of the season.

Arsenal have ensured that they don't win anything again this year. Even top 4 is looking dodgy without a proper striker until 2015.

[Flins.]

Surely offloading Kagawa, Welbeck and Hernandez was them taking into account squad balance?

Van Gaal has stated multiple times that the system he is playing is due to the options he has currently, with Di Maria, Falcao, Blind, Rojo, Shaw, and Carrick returning from injury he will have players he is comfortable adapting into another style. I'm still unsure why Kagawa was never able to settle into the team, wasn't given the chance with three different managers there has to be a reason behind doors, poor attitude in training perhaps? Who knows.

Can't explain how frustrating it is to see United fans complaining about their club doing exactly what they wanted them to do, which was bring in better players and improve the squad. Then again, I'm a Burnley fan, and we get out-priced of the transfer market when the asking price is over £5mil.

Hull have done some good business throughout the summer, bit top heavy with forwards though; Jelavic, Sagbo, Aluko, Hernandez, Ramirez, Ben Arfa, and Ince.

I'm not so sure about Arsenal, I rate Welbeck but he's not the most natural of finishers in the league. I've seen Vela play in the La Liga quite a few times and I can't understand why they wouldn't take up the option to bring him back. Again though, perhaps he might not fit that out and out striker they're wanting, but I don't think Welbeck does either.

[Rob]

I would've liked a better striker than Doyle and another defender at Palace but all in all good business and happy to see what Warnock can achieve with these.

Not overly impressed with the deadline day business of anybody to be honest. Hull and QPR seemed to go mad at the last minute in trying to buy everybody going.

[Flins.]

Do you think you overpaid for McArthur, Rob? I was a little frustrated with our attempts to sign him, with Leicester barging in with an offer far exceeding ours and then backing out of it after signing Cambiasso.

[Rob]

Chairman has assured us it's not a record signing do it's less than 6m which isnt too bad for their best player.

[Kirk]

I'm pretty sick of non-United fans telling United fans how we should feel about our club. I had to put up with it last season when I said that Moyes would take us out of Europe. Looks like I was rigrabout that one. The club has not done what the  fans wanted and certainly not what I wanted. I wanted the club to finally buy players to fix our glaring problems. Instead, they went out and made statement signings and ignored the problems. Where is the replacement for Vidic and Ferdinand (Rojo and Blind are not specialist CBs)? Where is the replacement for Roy Keane? Why have they bought another starting striker when the manager has already had to change the formation to fit in the two we already have? Why did they let a good squad player go and keep Young, Anderson, Cleverly, Evans etc? Why did they spend 60million on a winger for a formation that doesn't use them? They could have used that money on Vidal or Pogba. They bought two world class players but, even if you could argue that the squad is better, the first team isn't. We've got one of the worst looking defences in the top half and brought in a Dutch John O'Shae to screen them. The transfer policy at Old Trafford was utter madness. I'm  hope I'm wrong... just as I hoped I was wrong last year.

Signing Falcao only makes sense if we'd sold Rooney (which we should have).

[Flins.]

Replace Roy Keane? You've won five league titles and the champions league since he left. I'm not having a dig or anything, just find it baffling when fans of the big clubs complain about such things. Rojo and Blind were both great during the World Cup, and unless you follow both the Portugese and Dutch leagues I'm not sure where you have formed this opinion of two players you possibly know little about.

Also, if this season has proven anything, it is that the players were the reason for last years failures, not Moyes.

[Dorling]

Arsenal have ensured that they don't win anything again this year. Even top 4 is looking dodgy without a proper striker until 2015.

Win anything again? We won something just a few months ago...

I don't think Man U should sell Rooney either, that's crazy. You're entitled to your opinion but Rooney is the only player that looked anything like a decent one for most of last season at OT. Even Van Persie was back to his usual injured self. Unfortunately, you've had his one good season that we got out of the 7 or so he gave us.

Blind is much better than John O'Shea. Although O'Shea did score that great goal against Arsenal once.

I'm pretty happy with Arsenal's dealings. If we had signed Sanchez on deadline day everyone would be saying we had a great transfer window. Chambers, Debuchy, Sanchez, Ospina and Welbeck are decent buys in my eyes. Add in a returning Theo Walcott and give Campbell a chance and I think we'll be fine.

Sanogo is the one that puzzles me. He seems to know exactly what he needs to do all of the time, great positioning with decent pace and strength - his legs just seem to lose the ability to communicate with his brain at key moments.

[Rob]

Arsenal will only get better... You're going to struggle with Giroud though. Probably not nearly as much as people suggest because the team will grow and I do think Welbeck will play well in that set-up. Any half decent striker will get the job done with supply from Sanchez, Ramsey, Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Cazorla.

At the same time I do think United will struggle defensively. I think they're weak down the wings and is Shaw really going to be a big difference?

Speaking as a fan of a club outside the top half of the table, Arsenal will be top 4 and Man U will compete with the likes of Swansea and Southampton again. Top 2 are Chelsea and Man City. Turns out money can buy you everything if you don't have SAF.