The 2011 Summer transfer thread

ARSENAL

Carl Jenkinson Charlton Athletic Undisclosed fee.

BOLTON WANDERERS

Darren Pratley Free Agent

LIVERPOOL

Jordan Henderson from Sunderland £13m + add ons
Alberto Aquilani from Juventus Loan return

MANCHESTER UNITED

Phil Jones from Blackburn £16m.
David de Gea from Atletico Madrid £19m.
Ashley Young from Aston Villa £18m
Mame Biram Diouf from Blackburn Loan return
Danny Welbeck from Sunderland Loan return
Federico Macheda from Sampdoria Loan return

NEWCASTLE UNITED

Yohan Cabaye from Lille Undisclosed Fee
Sylvian Marveaux Free Agent
Mehdi Abeid from Lens Undisclosed fee
Demba Ba Free Agent

NORWICH CITY

Bradley Johnson Free Agent
Ritchie De Laet from Manchester United Loan
Elliott Bennett from Brighton Undisclosed fee


SUNDERLAND

Connor Wickham from Ipswich £8m rising to £12m
Craig Gardner from Birmingham £4.5m
Sebastian Larsson Free Agent
Keiren Westwood Free Agent

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR

Brad Friedel Free transfer

rafael smalling jones fabio future man utd back line smalling and jones england cbs aswel

gay, i wanted phil jones :( .... i think hes 1 of the best young defenders around, better than over priced cahill......... im still not happy spending 13m on henderson, but happy that ngogs going hopefully...

I think it would be very good for England to have Smalling and Jones at the same club.

awsome news

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benitez to villa
brown, oshe, gibson =12m sunderland
henderson to liverpol 16m (LOL)

sunderland wasting no time spending that money :D

seen Arsenal have signed a 19 year old right-back. At least the signings are getting older..

rafael and fabio are 5'8. jones is only 5'11. Smalling is 6'3 however.

That is a fucking liability at set pieces. I'm pretty sure this is the main reason Fabio and Rafael are never in the same defensive line, unless it's a mickeymousecupgame.

why? we have rafael and evra in the same team lol

you don't need to be tall when you have experience

so in the future your saying fabio wont have experience? lol

experience means shit if a 6ft3-4 dude is running and jumping at u and ur 5ftnothing = lots of opportunities in corners/free kicks/open play xD

every team has their tall and small players it won't be an issue ...

Barcelona, European champions and arguably the most complete side in history, have the smallest squad in Europe - averaging at 5ft9in.

Look at the league they're playing in though.

??

Not like they won the champions league or anything..

Well ofc, but they're such a good team it's not like they ever give the opposition a chance to get a cross in.

Doesn't change the fact that there's an inordinate amount of emphasis put on the importance of height and strength in the EPL and other UK leagues. Carles Puyol barely scrapes 5"10' and he's consistently been good enough to play in any defensive partnership anywhere in the world for the past decade.

It's the same problem we have all the way through to youth level in this country.

aint jones failed the medical, not really looked into it, just seen it a few places on twitter..