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Hello and welcome to the Premier League Show. | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
It's deadline day, and in a window that's seen transfer records | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
shattered, we're in Manchester, home of the Premier League's | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Spending a little time with me this evening are Shay Given - | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
the former Newcastle, Man City, Stoke and Ireland keeper. | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
COMMENTATOR: A terrific piece of goalkeeping. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
And comedian and Manchester United fan Justin Moorhouse, | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
who's gone early in his excitement for this season. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Lets start counting chickens. Let's have some knee jerk reaction. Come | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
on, let's go. Are you both well? Good to have you here, in your | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
semi-coordinated outfits. OK, coming up tonight. | :01:18. | :01:18. | |
James Brown deconstructs the modern day transfer - | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
we hear from the major players at the heart of a big deal. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Nathan Caton casts a slightly disparaging eye over the latest | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
So cringeworthy it made Alan Pardew's dad dancing look cool. | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
And we'll also get the latest update on who's going where, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
as the deadline looms, from Dan Walker in the | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
But we're going to start with our customary look back | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
on the last seven days in the Premier League. | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
COMMENTATOR: Danilova into the penalty area. It's | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
Raheem Sterling. Manchester City have won it with the last kick of | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
the game. Sterling, having had a yellow card, goes into the crowd. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
There's a second booking for Raheem Sterling, shown a red card. I don't | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
understand, I don't understand so hopefully they can call me and | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
explain. Ayew is onside, he goes around the goalkeeper and they have | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
a second goal. The start of his Crystal Palace rain is not going | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
very well at all. Onside, Mitrovic! 3-0, Newcastle. West Ham Place | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
three, lost three, conceded ten. It's off Fellaini and income 2-0 | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Manchester United and the points are safe. That's a brilliant finish from | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
Sadio Mane. They've been by far the better side. We are three games in | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
and it's already an absolute nightmare! I would like to go for | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
himself, for his own sanity. Where does he go from here? Chris Wood | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
equalises for Burnley in added time, at the end of the game, and | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Tottenham's Wembley wobbles continue. Liverpool have agreed to | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
sign a player for a club record fee. Moving from Arsenal is Kieran Gibbs, | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
who joined Arsenal for ?7 million. Hi, everyone, it's Alex here, I'm De | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Sart -- delighted to have signed for Liverpool. Let's start talking about | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Arsenal, a diabolical start the season, one of the biggest transfer | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
season stories of the week, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain moving to | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Liverpool. Klopp wanted him and that results made him go and get him. The | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
could be, imagine if Arsenal have won at Liverpool, he'd be worth ?80 | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
million. Maybe, I'm not saying Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain did it on purpose | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
but it's a good way of getting the price down, getting hammered 4-0. | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Your wages go up. I'll do that for you, boss. Arsenal have had such a | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
poor start the season, it doesn't look we'll win this, will sell some | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
players and make some money while the sun shines. Arsenal is a huge | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
football club in the Premier League and they should be signing players. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
This last week leading into the window, Arsene Wenger has come under | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
pressure, FA cups have papered over the cracks. Because of such a poor | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
start the season, the fans are restless again. They are selling | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
some of their best players and it's going to be a difficult season again | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
for Arsenal. It's going to be difficult, we are in a World Cup | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
year round players want to shine and if you're not playing Champions | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
League football, which they are not for the first time in decades, then | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
players like Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain want to shine. In terms of managers | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
under pressure already, can we talk about De Boer. You get the sense | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
he's come to Crystal Palace with this ambition to play Total Football | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
and he's looked at the players he's got and is trying perhaps to fit | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
square pegs into round holes. Yes, it's a strange appointment in the | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
first place because of Sam Allardyce, the physicality of his | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
teams and the way they play set plays, more direct, and Frank is | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
coming with the Johan Cruyff mentality from Ajax and they want to | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
play more football, play through different lines and through defence. | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
Which would be great if... You'd love to play sexy football, whatever | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
you want to call it, from Holland, but it's going to take some time. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
The only thing I'd say, Allardyce winning last year they really | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
struggle for the first five or six weeks, the results weren't turned | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
around really straightaway so fans can be patient perhaps and maybe he | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
can get his message across to the team. They've gone from boring | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
football to De Boer football. OK, this is definitely the most chaotic | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
day in the football calendar. As the clock ticks down, | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
with the window about to close, the pressure on everyone involved | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
increases. Getting the deal done | :05:59. | :05:59. | |
is far from simple. James Brown - no, not | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
that one - has more. # Moving, just keep moving #. | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
They call it the transfer window, but it's more like a transfer | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
revolving door. A high-speed flurry of players in and out of clubs, | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
broken deals, last-minute medicals, Twitter speculation, tabloid | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
rumours, but what's it like to be sold? What's it like to have to find | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
a 30 goalie striker? We've been talking to the people inside these | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
deals. Its total madness. So addictive, the pressure is | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
unbearable to get it right. Everything is transfer window, it's | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
crazy. Will hear their stories shortly but first, here's Nick | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Harris of sporting intelligence and the Mail on Sunday, who's been | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
crunching some numbers. We are talking with a full day of trading | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
left, but we've already more than doubled the amount was spent four | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
years ago, we are looking at ?1.5 billion feasibly for this summer. In | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
2004, all the 20 clubs combined spend ?250 million, whereas this | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
summer, Manchester City by themselves have already spent more | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
than that. So basically if you're not spending 40 million quid on a | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
fullback it looks like you're not interested in winning the title. As | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
for 10 million that's the equivalent of a car-boot sale. What's it like | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
to write those checks and bank that money? Steve Parish is Crystal | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Palace chairman and he found Yannick Bolasie, for ?350,000, but sold him | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
for ?25 million. That is somebody who knows his business. It's a very, | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
very difficult market to work in, because it's a closed market. | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
There's a lack of information. We don't really ever know what players | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
went for. That's exactly why bought him. Unfortunately, football works | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
on the basis of the most profligate person kind of sets the market, | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
really, than everything else follows. Trying to find out whether | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
money is going, trying to find out if you're getting value for money, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
you're just paying an enormous amount of middlemen is very, very | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
difficult. Sometimes agents are working both ends of the deal. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
There's nothing to stop them doing that, particularly in Europe. You | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
don't know if you are helping -- if they are helping new or getting you | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
to pay more. You will get on the list and it will say, ex-player, the | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
fee might be 5-10,000,000. You make the phone call and they won 35 for | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
him. OK, we're not going to pay 35. They are saying ten, they are | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
telling me 15, 20 million euros. Everybody is trying to win at the | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
game. We want to buy low and sell high, don't we? Sometimes it takes a | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
whole transfer window for us to come to terms with the value might get | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
for a player we sell and what we have to pay to get somebody in. | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
People say, why do so much of it happen at the end? Because that's | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
when the reality dawns, this is the most I'm going to get for this | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
player. I had a situation last season, where an agent told me a | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
number. I asked the club and they said because if you are paying a | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
player more salary than it can impact on the transfer fee you can | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
get, so in this instance I said to the club, he said he's not on that. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
It's very difficult to deal with people if they tell you straight out | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
lies. He's a good player, no question over his brilliance, he | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
fit. Coutinho said we've all got too much money and we all have. We're | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
not in the context of the world game, it's spreading it wisely. It's | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
not just because of the internal escalation, it's also because we | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
need a certain type of player with certain attributes for this league, | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
and that is the player that gets a higher valuation. If you then take | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
them and put them into a passing team in Europe, they probably don't | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
look like they are worth it, but they don't need those attributes in | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
that league. They need different physical attributes in our league. I | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
don't think there's any convincing case that the clubs are getting | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
better value for money now. Four years ago that was the summer of | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
Willian, Lovren, 88 players move for cash and cost 7 million Tupe dashed | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
after they cost ?7.2 million each. On average. The cost is now ?14 | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
million on average. That doubling. Place these occupations in order of | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
popularity. Bankers, bailiffs, traffic wardens, football agents. | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Maybe it's unfair, somebody has to do the deals, but last year, English | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
clubs spent over ?220 million on agents. What do you get for that? We | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
spoke to an agent, to find out. I think the transfer window, if you | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
think about it, is pure madness if you think about it. Football is a | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
unique model to have all your business done in two times of the | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
year, it's quite difficult but it makes it very exciting and | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
entertaining. That is the finish of a man who is brimming with | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
confidence. My job as an agent in the windows to keep the player calm | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
and to keep him focused as what he does best, which is to play | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
football. You try to keep them away from the news, from Twitter, from | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
all of that. It's also balancing risk and reward, so if a player is | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
under contract now, what is the best thing? You may have on offer on the | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
table but we don't want to take it because we are hoping another deal | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
comes. Where things get interesting is when you're in the final year of | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
your contract, like Alexis Sanchez at Arsenal. Do you see out your | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
contract? You are than a free agent and any money spent on a transfer | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
fee can go towards your salary. The flip side, you get injured, as we | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
saw with Ibrahimovic and you risk having no clue about the end of the | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
year. Ultimately a decision lies with the player. We are the agents. | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
Our job is to bring them the information but it's the player who | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
decides in the end. People love to hate agents and they loved to paint | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
the players as villains that only are motivated by money. I think | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
there's two sides to every story and the clubs will do exactly what they | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
want. If they don't want a player they will make it very difficult for | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
the player to stay. The agent will be told your player is unwanted, if | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
you don't move him his career is going nowhere and you are faced with | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
a situation of having to with this player. It seems to go higher. You | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
justify because the clubs are willing to play it. Someone is only | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
worth what someone is willing to play, so as long as they do it, why | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
shouldn't they take it? Anybody watching football from the outside | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
would love to earn that money and if they were doing it they would not be | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
complaining. It's very easy to sit there and say this is ridiculous, | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
outrageous, how can you be earning this amount of money for kicking a | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
ball. Maybe you are right but the fact is the money is being offered | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
so why not take it? One interesting thing to emerge from the date is the | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
changing value by position on the pitch. Four years ago, goalkeepers | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
were the cheapest. ?3.3 million on average. Defenders not much more, ?4 | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
million. Midfielders 8.5 million and strikers ?9.3 million. This summer | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
your average goalkeeper is costing ?11 million, not massively more for | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
a defender, 13.9, and pretty much the same, ?13.4 million for a | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
midfielder, the striker is the most expensive but not massively more, | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
?18 million. The market finally appears to be acknowledging it's a | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
team game. We all know the Premier League is awash with money, but this | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
summer the transfer fees have gone through the roof. They are insane! | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
My club, the mighty Leeds United, have almost become a feeder club for | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
Burnley. The last time Burnley won the money was in Roman! We bought | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
one for ?2.5 million two years ago and he's gone for ?15 million, a | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
600% increase. Nuts! What other players make of this? Here's Tyrone | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Mings, from Bournemouth. There's always one person adjusting room who | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
will get wind of something and usually spread it around. Football | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
is such a small world, but everybody would know someone who knows | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
someone. It's a fine environment to be in a dressing room during | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
transfer day because if someone is ill for example, everybody is always | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
where he -- where is he, is the leading? Is a bit coming through? | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
It's fun, just as much as it's stressful. Deep down everybody has a | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
price, no matter who you are and no player is bigger than the club. | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
There are so many different possibilities as to why a transfer | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
could occur. You might not want to leave, but the club might have to | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
off-load you, or you might want to leave, but the club is saying no. | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
All of a sudden you have to reassess your plans and move your family and | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
move somewhere else. When you leave you will get messages of well done | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
on your move but in terms of keeping in contact, it's very difficult. | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
Football isn't there to give you loads of best friends. They are just | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
colleagues, at the end of the day. You may never speak to any of those | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
people again. What's fascinating this summer is the change in | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
spending depending on the players' age. Four years against the peak age | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
for pricing was 28, players costing ?12.3 million per player of that | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
age. Then 24, then 25. This summer, it's 24-year-olds at an average of | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
?31 million each or the most expensive, that Lukaku, Edison, then | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
23. Prices are rising, clubs are spending the biggest money on | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
younger players. She will be because they have a resale value. -- | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
presumably, because they have a resale value. It wasn't always this | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
way. There was a time when you are called into the bosses' office and | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
he said sorry, your off to Derby. Nowadays -- nowadays the players | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
have the power, but these guys remember it the other way. I'd been | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
at Everton for a year and just before the World Cup there was a | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
little bit of interest at Barcelona. I went off to play in the World Cup, | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
then everything went really quiet. We stayed in this hotel in Mexico, | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
where you couldn't really get any contact home. We were allowed one | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
phone call home a week. I got a call. Just after the game against | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
Paraguay. It was my agent, John Holmes. He said, I know I said I | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
wouldn't disturb you, he said, but Barcelona have been on to me and | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
says that he's got to sign, he's got a fine now, otherwise the deal is | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
off. I said, I'm not prepared to talk to anyone. If they want me | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
they'll still want me after the World Cup and we'll talk them. So I | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
carried on stock we got knocked out in the next round. We met in a hotel | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
in London. They took as in secretly through this basement and sneaked me | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
up into a lift, into the top floor. I ended up signing for Barcelona. It | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
was something I didn't know about at the time, but found out two or three | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
years later that when Bobby Robson came to Newcastle as manager, he | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
said to me whilst it was Barcelona manager, he tried to sign me when I | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
was leaving blackbird. Jack Byrne informed Barcelona I was in full | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
sail, so that was the end of it. He went and signed Ronaldo, so it | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
wasn't a bad decision. It turned out OK for Bobby and for Barcelona. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
COMMENTATOR: Shearer! | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
Is The Premier League is an international league, but players | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
from different countries do not all cost the same. Belgium players are | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
the most expensive. ?39 million on average. That is down to Lukaku this | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
summer. Among countries with more than two players sold, the French | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
are the Costliest as ?37 million each, bra dillian, ?21 million, | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
Spanish, ?16 million, Austria ?15 million, Dutch ?10.6 million. | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
English players are averaging only ?10 million. Scottish players, ?6 | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
million. Manchester City have spent more money on their defence than | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Norwich City. But would we have it any other way? From tomorrow morning | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
they will have to live with what they've got - until January when | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
they can do it all over again. I'm sure you sucked into the excitment, | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
the tail wagging the dog situation that seems to be Transfer Deadline | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Day. It doesn't seem to be goodbyes. How can it be that everything ends | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
up on in the few hours on the final day? A lot of the people doing the | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
deals are middle aged men, aren't they? We have seen what they are | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
like on Christmas Eve! It's getting more scrambled. Lukaku went for ?75 | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
million. Early in the window. Neymar for ?200 million. If he went on the | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
deadline day, Lukaku could be double that. ?2 million, we are heading | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
towards rapidly, potentially the first ?1 billion player? It's going | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
to happen. The Neymar clause which triggered the ?200 million. You | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
splieth written, 14 donkeys and a unicorn. No-one would ever play ?200 | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
million they thought two years ago. What would release clauses be like | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
now? ?1 billion. We will see the first contract with ?1 billion | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
release clause. Figures have gone crazy. You mentioned Neymar has set | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
a trend. To see it in black-and-white, the average player | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
has gone from ?7 million to ?14 million is ridiculous. Where are we | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
going with this? Where will it end up? The word "average" is | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
interesting. Average play remembers going for a lot of money. That is | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
why Roy Keane has scratched his head. Average players going for | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
?30-40 million. Where does the market end? Players with the | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
promise. We saw on the the film the average age is coming below. People | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
are taking a punt on players hoping it carries on growing. They want | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
resale value as well. Like buying racehorses. They are look at | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
potential. They can't afford to buy someone at the end spectrum, I | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
guess. The bubble has to burst. How many years have we been saying this? | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
I know. It feels like it each time. This time next year. We can't | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
believe Sanchez has gone to Wigan for ?1 million. As a player was it | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
exciting as the media friendsy that surrounds it? I moved to Man City on | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
transfer day. I signed before 5.00pm they had a European deadline. It | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
wasn't 12.00am. I was waiting by an old-fashioned fax machine, old | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
school. I had a medical waiting for the go-ahead from Newcastle to see | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
if Manchester City had agreed. You look at your watch, will it be done | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
or not. It's nerve-wracking. You made up your mind you want to go. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
You have to commit at something. Looking at houses, on rightmove. | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
Were you at a point when you thought you were going to move and it didn't | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
happen? Possibly, possibly. That means yes. It's not black-and-white. | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
Deals don't go through. Alan Shearer nearly went to Barcelona, who knew | :21:14. | :21:14. | |
Imagine that. There's just under 40 | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
minutes of the window left. For the very latest on who's | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
going where, let's go over to the Football Focus studio | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
and join Dan Walker, -- Trevor Sinclair. Thank you. We | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
are counting down here. It's been an eventful transfer day. Not as busy | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
as we thought it might be earlier on. Trevor will be with us on BBC | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
One later. They mentied Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Costa and | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
Barclay and Sanchez moving from Arsenal to Manchester City, they | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
haven't gone through. Is that City bidding too late? I I think. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Brinkmanship, leaving it to the last-minute. Trying to get the | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
player as cheap as possible may have backfired. Then you look at the | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
player. He is desperate to leave Arsenal. He looks at Arsenal as a | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
club that has not matched his ambitions. Could be uncomfortable? | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Very uncomfortable. Not just with the supporters, but his team-mates | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
in the changing room. You can imagine that. He will be upset that | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
has not gone through. A bit of a blow for Manchester City. They have | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
a young and up coming player at Manchester City who might get an | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
opportunity now. We were at the Euros last summer lots of talk about | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
Sanchez from Portugal. He will go to Swansea on-loan from Bayern Munich? | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
I think it's great for both players. He didn't play football for Bayern | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
Munich. A lot of big name players in that dressing room. He struggled a | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
little bit. Going to work with Paul Clement, who he knows from his | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Munich days, in a smaller dressing room I think that will suit him down | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
to the ground. He will use it as a trial. He will play in the Premier | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
League. He will put his name out there. He's in the shop window. If | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
he can do well for Swansea, put himself about in Premier League he | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
may get another move to a Premier League Crystal Palace happy club. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
They have a permanent day for Sakho, less than the ?30 million Liverpool | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
rated him at? This is where it can sometimes go in your favour. Frank | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
needed someone in there. They conceded six goals in three Premier | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
League games. I think he will do well there. Transfer Deadline Day | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
special with trefon alongside Stoke's Charlie Adam. Thank you. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
The rush to make that last-minute signing keeps | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
everyone on their toes, and sends the social | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
But at this late stage, there won't be time for the clubs | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
to make their dramatic signing announcement videos. | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
Nathan Caton, for one, won't miss them. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
So, when it came to transfer this is summer the fees weren't the only | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
thing that Werritty over the top. A new trend started where clubs used | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
social media to announce new standings. They were so cringe | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
worthy it made Alan Pardew's dad dancing look cool! Swansea announced | :24:13. | :24:28. | |
the sign of Messa with one of their players playing an English teacher. | :24:29. | :24:29. | |
My name is. My name is... I mean, I left there trying to con | :24:30. | :24:46. | |
the ref. Apging isn't something that comes naturally to football players. | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
Sorry this isn't the number for PPI How are you? Bru, I've got a | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
question. What is eight inches long and hangs up? They say there's no | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
such thing as bad publicity, try telling Chelsea that. Right, Sam, | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
what name do you want on the back then? Rudd. I'm a Chelsea player | :25:11. | :25:23. | |
now. You could have Hazard, Fabregas, and | :25:24. | :25:35. | |
you want ruder. We hired two actors who will kidnap you from a hotel. | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
One will have a clown mask and the other will be dressed like a woman. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Does that sound OK to you? No. If you are going to tweet an | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
announcement, make sure it's legit or it could get messy. It wasn't | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
just players getting involved. Check out Bob Bradley. | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
# Who do you think you are... # I think football clubs should only | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
be allowed to make cheesy videos if the player in question is that good. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Yeovil Town announcing someone on-loan. Save your mobile data. Come | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
on the Glovers. Is the one good video announcement of the summer has | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
to be Aston Villa announcing John Terry. It hasn't quite gone to plan | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
so far. Talk about hero to villain. I would love to see the fee now. | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
So I guess my point is, you don't need to be over the top with these | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
videos. We don't need players acting. It's not the Oscars, it's | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
football. Just make a simple statement. You don't want to look | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
stupid! This is a new thing, isn't it, this | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
social media announcement of a signing. I imagine some players are | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
more keen on it than others? Some players will love it and some | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
players will hate it. It's the modern trend that all clubs are | :27:10. | :27:11. | |
trying to do something different than the previous club. The younger | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
again rashgs my son who is 12, he loves all this, the unveiling and | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
different things players are asked to do. If you ask Alan Shearer or | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
Roy Keane, can you jump through a hoop and smile at the end they would | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
would say - good one. He would announce it on snap chat. We will | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
have a chat and I'll snap. That is what would happen. There was a scarf | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
and a picture on the pitch. In Barcelona they let 30,000 people in. | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
Dembele. Alan Shearer was like that at Newcastle. 10,000 at St James' | :27:49. | :27:57. | |
Park. Ahead of his time. They will come underneath the turf, come up | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
like a mole in the ground. Or drop out of the sky like the Queen at the | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
Opening Ceremony in the Olympics. It's different. It certainly is. | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
Don't forget that Football Focus is over on BBC One in 15 minutes, | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
to guide you through all the deals as the transfer window shuts. | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
We'll be back at the same time next week. | :28:22. | :28:23. | |
As the Premier League takes a break for the World Cup qualifiers, | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
we are going to leave you with a little reminder | :28:27. | :28:28. | |
of all the football we have for you this season. | :28:29. | :28:32. |