The January Sales

The January sales are on! It seems that if you can play football you are linked to Portsmouth. Pompey rang me this morning but had to inform them that my loyalties lay with Goal Pie Town FC (2004 Manchester Power League University League Division 2 Champions). They’ve just signed Davis, Mendes and Pamorot from Spurs, reducing Spurs’ squad to 253, and confirming that ‘Arry still doesn’t really know what to do when he’s got loadsamoney. Give him a fiver and he’s fine, give him £10m and he’ll sign Don Hutchinson and Tomas Repka (see West Ham’s mercurial signings using the Rio/Lampard kitty).

I can semi-definitely assure you that another one of their signings, Emanuel Olisadebe (pictured above) will do nothing. He was good a couple of years ago when he was considered Poland’s great hope for the World Cup, but has since been injured lots and not scored many goals. I actually saw him play this summer for Panithinaikos against Wisla Krakow, he did nothing. Despite filling all of Bolton’s transfer criteria (a couple of years past his peak, great signing on CM3, available for free) they weren’t even interested: he must be really crap.

Maniche (right) is a class act, and annoyingly adds to Chelsea’s ridiculously talented squad. He’s one of Mourinho’s favourites as well, was with him at Porto. By all accounts Evra is a damn good left back, and should be pretty good for United. Much more impressively, West Ham have signed another Israeli for £100,000, we really are mixing with the big boys now.

Otherwise, transfer window has been pretty uneventful so far, nothing particularly amazing has happened. Birmingham signed Chris Sutton. Wow.
transfers so far (Footy365)