Summer Transfer Gossip

mickman · 22-07-2011 9:36pm

positivenote wrote: »

just been hearing the same about Mirko Vucinic... 13m + add ons[/Quote

Yep. Fee seems to be agreed. Id say we will get our two strikers in , get rid of a few midfielders and crouch/ defoe and keane, sign Parker on deadline day and we r done

2nd Row Donkey · 22-07-2011 9:43pm

If you could get Adeboyour to play the way he played against us last season in every game then he'd be the signing of the season and worth every bit of the 170K.

Good to see Naughton going to a PL team, and one that he will get his hopefully getting a starting place in it too. Apparently HR said we had 15 different enquiries about him. You never know for sure if a good loan spell in the championship it proof that the same player has what it takes for the EPL.

mushykeogh · 22-07-2011 9:58pm

How much do we get if Tarabt goes for the 8 mill thats being bandied about?

T-b0n3 · 22-07-2011 9:59pm

mushykeogh wrote: »

How much do we get if Tarabt goes for the 8 mill thats being bandied about?

I read we we're getting like 30/40% of the fee.

Not sure how true or accurate that is though.

wellboys · 22-07-2011 10:59pm

I think the only stumbling block regards Adebayor will be the wages. If we took him on loan we'd be asking City to pay part of his wages. Our top earners earn around the 80k mark, so about 45% of his current weekly wage. If he takes the pay cut to get first team football, fair play.

BERBA · 22-07-2011 11:05pm

wellboys wrote: »

I think the only stumbling block regards Adebayor will be the wages. If we took him on loan we'd be asking City to pay part of his wages. Our top earners earn around the 80k mark, so about 45% of his current weekly wage. If he takes the pay cut to get first team football, fair play.

No way will City give us any of their players .Remember Bellamy ? he's now playing with city development squad at present , they wouldnt give us him last season , what chance do we have in getting Adebayor? .No chance.

wellboys · 22-07-2011 11:28pm

BERBA wrote: »

No way will City give us any of their players .Remember Bellamy ? he's now playing with city development squad at present , they wouldnt give us him last season , what chance do we have in getting Adebayor? .No chance.

He has come out and said he was all set to join us in January but Real came in last minute and thats an offer ya cant really turn down. I think Bellamy publicly said he wanted to play in Wales last season, thats why we didnt get him.

coola · 23-07-2011 12:34pm

BERBA wrote: »

No way will City give us any of their players .Remember Bellamy ? he's now playing with city development squad at present , they wouldnt give us him last season , what chance do we have in getting Adebayor? .No chance.

city dont see us as a threat anymore so they will deal with us.

T-b0n3 · 23-07-2011 12:35pm

Looks like Adel is staying at QPR so wont be getting any money from that deal anyway.

Deep Thought · 25-07-2011 10:39am

Am a bit annoyed when I hear that Ben Foster could be going on loan to WBA and Shay Given gone to Villa

Why are we not actively looking at these folks for ourselves?

We need a very good keeper very badly, its one thing to get strikers and score 3 goals a game, but when we are flapping at the back and letting is as many then we need to shore up defense

/rant

2nd Row Donkey · 25-07-2011 11:11am

Deep Thought wrote: »

Am a bit annoyed when I hear that Ben Foster could be going on loan to WBA and Shay Given gone to Villa

Why are we not actively looking at these folks for ourselves?

We need a very good keeper very badly, its one thing to get strikers and score 3 goals a game, but when we are flapping at the back and letting is as many then we need to shore up defense

/rant

Agreed. Like someone else mentioned above, i dont think city see us as a threat and we could have done something in a deal for Given if we really serious about it.

I think there's a serious issue around cash/funds.
We've only signed a few lads for loose change so far and have'nt put in any concrete bids of note for anyone as far as I'm aware.

Kiith · 25-07-2011 12:26pm

I can't understand us not trying to get Given either. It would have fixed our GK problems straight away.

If we don't get a quality striker in this week, then i don't see us getting anyone of worth at all. It's been too quiet for my liking.

Deep Thought · 25-07-2011 1:02pm

Kiith wrote: »

I can't understand us not trying to get Given either. It would have fixed our GK problems straight away.

If we don't get a quality striker in this week, then i don't see us getting anyone of worth at all. It's been too quiet for my liking.

agreed...Very quiet

Maybe lining up something spectacular ???

T-b0n3 · 25-07-2011 1:30pm

Deep Thought wrote: »

agreed...Very quiet

Maybe lining up something spectacular ???

I really hope that's true anyway!

It has been extremely quiet, not good.

2nd Row Donkey · 25-07-2011 4:44pm

How bad would it be if we didnt sign anyone of any significance thou?

If we could get Defoe back to the player he was the season before last and either PAV/Crouch chipped in with 10-15 goals, surely we'd still be there or there abouts in terms of a top 4 challenge.

...thats assuming we dont have any major injuries to Daws/Modric or Bale and that Friedel is the answer to our GK problems (for 1 season at least).

Kiith · 25-07-2011 4:56pm

That's a big 'if' though, and we saw nothing last year to suggest that we'll ever see the good Defoe again. I'd love it if Pav and Defoe actually stepped up and really gave it everything. Knock in 40 goals between them and i'd be happy (at least happier then 20 between 3 of them).

If we don't get anyone this year, we'll be lucky to get a top 6 finish i'd say. Liverpool will definitely improve, as will City.

Kold · 25-07-2011 5:48pm

Khumalo gone on loan to Reading. Wtf?

Deep Thought · 25-07-2011 7:41pm

jeeze....

We seem more intent at stopping Modric leaving than we are at being pro active in getting in some players

2nd Row Donkey · 25-07-2011 8:28pm

Kold wrote: »

Khumalo gone on loan to Reading. Wtf?

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whats wrong with that? It'll be good for the lad to get some experience in the CL with a team that only missed out on the playoff's

mushykeogh · 26-07-2011 8:35am

What happened to us signing this Mirko Vucinic chap from Roma? Rubbish? The Sun (i know) says we slapped a 9 mill price tag on Crouch! 9 mill!, looks like we will have crouchie for a while so!

SuprSi · 26-07-2011 12:49pm

Apparently there is interest in Vucinic from other clubs, so the price we'd agreed is going up. This means Levy will have to pay more or look for someone else. All rumour of course, much like the original one.

We need a striker. Out of all the positions we're linked with, we need someone up front. We cannot work under the assumption that just because Defoe had a bad last season he'll have a good one this time around. He may very well do, but the reason we didn't compete for 4th last season was simply because we didn't score enough goals, especially against the lower ranked teams, which is where Defoe normally does the business. And Crouch will never score more than a handful of goals a season either. As for Pav, what a shame he can't produce the goods consistently.

We need someone who will at least offer something of a physical presence up front, even if they don't score 20 goals themselves they will cause enough of a disruption in the box that the ball may fall to someone else who can put it away.

SuprSi · 26-07-2011 2:33pm

From another forum, very well made

Deep Thought · 26-07-2011 4:07pm

a lot of loans and "deadwood" moving on

Surely something must be on the way in...Please

2nd Row Donkey · 26-07-2011 10:35pm

LMAO @ loves pointing, shouting and running.

Jenas for 8.5M... pleeeeease.. If we got 2.5M I'd take it and run... run far away.

Deisler · 26-07-2011 10:53pm

Just over 2 weeks before start of season and no changes. We are in serious trouble..

everdead.ie · 26-07-2011 11:28pm

I'm begining to wonder if Harry Kane could do a job up front for us? Wouldn't mind seeing him in a friendly with the first team for us.

2nd Row Donkey · 26-07-2011 11:29pm

Oh we'll sign someone alright .. a' la Grzegorz Rasiak.:rolleyes: 4 mins before the deadline

tippspur · 26-07-2011 11:36pm

Yep,another day gone and not a sign of any new strikers:(

Deep Thought · 27-07-2011 7:56am

tippspur wrote: »

Yep,another day gone and not a sign of any new strikers:(

Strikers.....Give me a keeper and couple of Centre halfs...please

Hatch99 · 27-07-2011 8:38am

Patients lads. Judge our business at the end of the deadline. Doesn't look good at the minute, but lets wait and see what happens.

Llorente, Cahill & Diarra could sign and all could be rosy

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