re: ¡¡Transferapalooza!!

Guess I was wrong. Bedoya signed on a pre. Joins up in Jan.

ETA: OT, but why is a lion breathing fire?

Celtic bringing in Grzegorz Sandomierski on trial. Young Polish GK with 3 caps. I'm thinking Pletikosa for short-term, this guy long-term.

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ETA: OT, but why is a lion breathing fire?

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to burn the Catholics


it's ok, I can say that, I'm Catholic

but really, the red lion-dragon (or is it dragon-lion? seriously, that is a messed up lion) is fired up just like the rangers because they are quite literally

Barca has become what they always despised. It's like Red Sox fans complaining that the Yankees spend too much.

Hun bid for Murray Davidson rejected.

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It's understood Gers offered £150,000 rising to £250,000 but Brown said: "It fell far short of our valuation. I am not going to say what the offer was but let's just say the time it took to respond was the time it took to type out 'no thank you'.

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That's the biggest no-lose deal ever for Barcelona.

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The Italian outfit will pay 12 million for the player and the agreement includes an obligatory repurchase clause to be exercised by FC Barcelona at the end of the 2012/13 season, for a cost of 13 million.

This purchase can be blocked by AS Roma, but in such a case the overall cost of the transfer will rise to 40 million euros.

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so barca is loaning bojan to roma for 2 years, and paying roma 1M for the transfer

if roma wants to keep him, it then will cost 40M?

so possibly a 53M (euro) transfer?

By then everyone will know if he'll ever live up to his considerable billing, so at that time he might be worth it. I don't know what happens if Barca don't exercise that option though.

Barca tried to do this with Fabregas, offering us players with a buyback option, plus 25 mil.

I've been reading about the Bojan transfer and supposedly Barca--more than a club, a cutthroat business-- tries to sell almost all youth players that show any promise this way.

If Bojan really were to blossom into one of the absolute best strikers in the world in 2 years time I guess Roma may pay the 28M remaining.

I read that they've sold a lot of players in past 10 years this way but never actually exercised their option as it would create a lot of bad blood between the clubs.

Supposedly Roma and Barca are playing nice these days cause of Pep and Enrique so I guess we'll see.

I think Bojan will be a good addition to Roma, especially since he'll be able to give Totti more off days without a huge dropoff but I'm not so sure he's gonna be seen as the type superstar that would cause Barca to burn bridges to get him back in 2 years time.

Most likely scenario here is that Bojan is good but maybe not 40M good and the teams will renegotiate if he continues at Roma.




I'm actually more excited that we seem to be on the verge of seeing the Stekelenberg and possibly Kjaer deals come through at least according to the players themselves.