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I can't see Villareal letting Rossi go for any price, especially after that drubbing at the hands of Barca.

They won't for less than 40m Euros. Said it really early this morning and have rejected a bid of 35m Euros from Juventus earlier in the window.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... epted.html
Opps.

Deadline Day Deals.

Raul Meireles and Mikel Arteta swapped the city of Liverpool for London in dramatic deals on a busy transfer deadline day.

Meireles moved from Liverpool to Chelsea, while Everton's Arteta joined Arsenal along with Chelsea midfielder Yossi Benayoun.

Arsenal also signed Germany defender Per Mertesacker and left back Andre Santos from Fenerbahce for £6.2m as Arsene Wenger re-shaped his squad after Sunday's 8-2 defeat by Manchester United.

Manchester City completed the free-transfer of former Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves and allowed out-of-favour forward Craig Bellamy to rejoin former club Liverpool.

Manchester United did not make any deadline day deals, with Inter Milan's Wesley Sneijder revealing on Twitter that he would be staying in Italy.

Fulham and Stoke made major striker signings.

Fulham bought FC Twente striker Bryan Ruiz for £10.6m, beating off a late rival bid from Newcastle United.

Stoke broke their transfer record to sign Tottenham's Peter Crouch for £10m, and also bought Wilson Palacios from Spurs for a fee believed to be around £6m.

Spurs also let Jermaine Jenas and Alan Hutton move to Aston Villa, the latter opting for the West Midlands over a move to Fulham.

Tottenham winger David Bentley joined West Ham on a season-long loan.

Spurs completed the deal for West Ham United's Scott Parker, but failed to sign Bolton defender Gary Cahill.

Sunderland ended their search for a striker when Nicklas Bendtner moved from Arsenal on a year-long loan deal.

Arsenal also let young striker Joel Campbell, who only signed last week, join French side Lorient on loan, following team-mate Gilles Sunu, who made a permanent switch to the Ligue 1 outfit.

QPR added Manchester City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips to their squad and Sunderland's Anton Ferdinand. Their move for Spurs defender Sebastian Bassong fell through due to Spurs' failure to sign Bolton's Gary Cahill.

As well as keeping hold of their prized defensive asset Cahill, Bolton added new faces by sealing a permanent deal for Liverpool striker David Ngog and a loan switch for Chelsea midfielder Gael Kakuta.

Blackburn raided Goodison Park to sign striker Yakubu, and also complete moves for Birmingham defender Scott Dann and Sheffield United frontman Jordan Slew.

Everton made two loan signings: Real Madrid's Royston Drenthe on loans and striker Denis Stracqualursifrom Argentine side Tigres. The Toffees let Jermaine Beckford to join Leicester.

Wigan completed two deals, signing Celtic winger Shaun Maloney for a fee of £1m and Chelsea defender Patrick van Aanholt on loan.

Certainly made a bucket load of cash off transfers/lighter wage bill this Summer, but continue the downward trajectory... Seen some other fans speculate that Lerner may be moving the club into a better financial position to sell off in the next year or so.

fuck everton for letting arteta go. we're already low on good players, and we sell beckford too? good god. now we get a real madrid reject and an argentinean (who admittedly has a good resume on paper, lets see what he can do now). just wish we would have sold arteta sooner so we could have spent some of that money, maybe to grab scott parker? fuck me

From what I understand the board wasn't going to allow Moyes to invest much of that money anyways.

Yeah, those mother fuckers. Vucinic is a good replacement for Rossi though.

Spurs might be quite a bit stronger with the recent signings.

ARE YOU EXCITED?!

I'm always excited when it comes to football.

As for Everton - the clubs position in terms of debt is horrific. Although they have less than the likes of Spurs etc. they do not have the revenue stream to allow them to keep afloat. They are essentially forced into selling their best players. Arteta also made it clear he wanted to leave and asked to be allowed to do so. The signings that came in were very good deals. Drenthe is actually a very good player. Remember, other Real Madrid 'rejects' include van der Vaart (incredibly debut season) and Sneijder (UEFA Midfielder of the Year two seasons ago). As for Beckford - he's not a Premier League striker anyway. He's a good Championship player at best, sort of like Chopra, Tommy Smith, Bothroyd, Fryatt, etc. Not good enough for the Premiership. Getting him off the wage bill was good for the club.

And Aston VIlla - I don't quite understand how you ever got so much for Downing, but that was some great business. Hutton's a decent right back to come in. He won't be as good as Walker was for you last season, and he's somewhat shaky defensively, but he's better than what you had. So long as you can keep giving Darren Bent chances, you should finish decently mid table, and potentially a bit higher up as Given is a quality keeper.

I'm disappointed that we didn't manage to sign Cahill - would have been a great bit of business, but I do rate Kaboul very highly. I just hope we can avoid injuries to Dawson and him, and when King gets semi fit again we will hopefully be ok. Need our midfielders back, though. Our injury status is horrible right now, with Huddlestone having to play despite lacking fitness, and Livermore having to come in despite having no experience. It's even more makeshift than Arsenal's, which is concerning. Delighted to have Scott Parker to help out with that, and if we can get the best out of Adebeyour, we should be competing for Europe again. Only concern is lack of getting another striker.

The last day turned around what, as an Arsenal fan, would have been a very disappointing transfer window. Our absolute first 11 is clearly worse off - fabregas is one of the best at his role, and nasri had been playing well - but that was never our issue. If Arsenal had their XI available we could beat anybody, but our squad depth was atrocious, and any injuries left us with stand-ins that were just garbage. We are now starting to look like a decent defense in a long time with Chesney, Sagna, Vermaelen, Mertesacker, santos. That's experience and quality.
Arteta is no Fabregas, but hes a very capable player, and song, wilshere, arteta looks quite tasty - with ramsey, frimpong, benayoun seeming like capable backups.
Walcott still isnt there and im not sure he ever will be, but VPersie and gervinho are good, not convinced by arshavin atm or our £15m 'wonderkid' but our new signing from monaco looks experienced at least. It's not the best squad - but we aren't fucked. Confident of top 4.

I don't think Arsenal will manage top 4, but their chances of top 5 have been significantly increased by Spurs' inability to sign Cahill and a top notch striker. Liverpool are definitely my best bet with that sort of finish, despite the fact they play Downing, who is wank.

Frimpong is vastly overated and far too rash in the challenge, imo. Benayoun is good but more a mid table player. Arteta can't run a midfield and Wilshire still isn't good enough to shoulder all the responsibility there yet. Song's the best one of the 3 and will be incredibly important provided he doesn't fuck up again as he did against Newcastle.

Defensively, Mertesacker and Vermaelen are the only good options. Djourou is a decent prospect, but Koscielny doesn't cut it. Sagna's weird as he's good but then decides he isn't and goes missing. Santos isn't a left back and with an already weak back 4 I think it's far too risky putting such a player there.

Then again, much as I hate to say it Wenger's a very good manager and obviously knows more than me. I still see Arsenal's problem as the fact that they did so well at not conceeding recently despite their defence because they always had the ball. Now they won't always have the ball and because of that they'll lose/draw a lot of games that they would have drawn/won before hand. Just hope we can stop your team of dickheads getting European football. Perhaps we can if Defoe starts remembering how to score goals and Ade plays well.

Look how much Liverpool have been overpaying for English players, surprised we couldn't get more. I'm very happy we got Hutton, I know we tried to keep Walker on permanently at the end of last year. Herd had a good game against Wolves, but I don't trust him against the big boys yet. Given already won us a point we didn't deserve at Fulham and N'zogbia showed some class against Wolves. We still didn't sign a creative midfielder we could have used and overall our squad looks considerably worse than last years.

So where is little Neymar going to end up?

PSG a possible target now? They obviously have the cash to pay 40+ million in transfer fees (in the currency of your choosing) plus crazy wages to the kid.

He'll stay at Santos for another season or 2 I reckon. He did sign an extension, though it may well have been to get more money from a transfer. As for where he's going, I doubt it's anywhere other than Real Madrid or Barca.

Some of the stuff Neymar can do is scary lol. You have to wonder how much of it is down to a considerably lesser standard of opponent in the Brazilian League, would top european defences make him look a complete tit? Even Messi and Ronaldo can rarely take on 3 players and get away with it...

Hes clearly the next big thing though, I imagine when teams do start bidding he'll end up in madrid, he seems to be more their type of player (ie - showboating ball-hog) rather than the pass and move teamplayers that barcelona breed. I'd love to see him in the premiership but sadly cant see it happening, his style is just so much more suited to spain In the premiership someone like Cattermole would just get frustrated and break his leg in the first 6 months...

Regarding PSG, I cant see them signing any huge names, even if you have got money its still very difficult to attract top players who arent past their best. Unless you play in a good league, and regularly get champions league football, money only gets you so far... PSG's team isnt that outstanding, and the french league is dire...

Just look at Anzhi Makhachkala, all the money you could dream of, and only signing 30+ year old veterans (eto'o, roberto carlos etc), hardly setting the world on fire... Who were PSG chasing lately, David Beckham, age 36? says it all really.