Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[tomd2103]

Holtby - or Dembele for that matter - from the club that collects central midfield players would be great.

I don't get the Holtby thing.  What is it that people have seen in him, what are his strengths?
All I see is an athlete that can run around a lot.  Furthermore, 'between the lines' as he does;t seem to read the play either.

I admit I haven't seen much of him at spurs but nothing has suggested he's worth the bother.

I thought he was easily the best player on the pitch when we played Fulham at our place towards the end of last season. 

[tomd2103]

Holtby - or Dembele for that matter - from the club that collects central midfield players would be great.

Getting them on a season long loan might be our best chance with either.   

[eamonn]

£8m for Fer (forfar...oh, that's the James Alexander Gordon thread) seems a bit pricey. Not that we'd be likely to pay it mind.

[Des Little]

£8m for Fer (forfar...oh, that's the James Alexander Gordon thread) seems a bit pricey. Not that we'd be likely to pay it mind.

This is QPR we are talking about. They pay twice the going rate for most of their signings

[Dr Butler]

£8m for Fer (forfar...oh, that's the James Alexander Gordon thread) seems a bit pricey. Not that we'd be likely to pay it mind.

This is QPR we are talking about. They pay twice the going rate for most of their signings

same goes for Liverpool......

[RussellC]

The Sun's reporting that Newcastle are in for Scott Sinclair. I have a feeling that we'll bring in a mystery winger that most of us will have never heard off, until there name is linked to us on Twitter.

Talking of which, does anyone know if Tonev is eligible to play for Celtic tonight?

[tomd2103]

£8m for Fer (forfar...oh, that's the James Alexander Gordon thread) seems a bit pricey. Not that we'd be likely to pay it mind.

This is QPR we are talking about. They pay twice the going rate for most of their signings

same goes for Liverpool......

The £55m "King Kenny" spent on Downing and Carroll must surely rank amongst the worst transfers in history. 

[Tony Erdington]

£8m for Fer (forfar...oh, that's the James Alexander Gordon thread) seems a bit pricey. Not that we'd be likely to pay it mind.

This is QPR we are talking about. They pay twice the going rate for most of their signings

same goes for Liverpool......

The £55m "King Kenny" spent on Downing and Carroll must surely rank amongst the worst transfers in history.

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[RussellC]

https://twitter.com/lauriewhitwell/status/502061530624831489

Joe Bennett to Brighton on loan...?

[Tony Erdington]

https://twitter.com/lauriewhitwell/status/502061530624831489

Joe Bennett to Brighton on loan...?

 i hope that happens, get some confidence back, imo he could be a very good player.

[Loxton01]

I expect Lowton to follow suit to shortly.

It seems as if the trial is over bringing young inexperienced players in. Be good for him to get a season under his belt perhaps with a recall clause in January.

The Riise link may have some legs given Bennett going

Id let Herd and possibly Baker go out on Loan too till January to local clubs too get some match practice in.

Clark to stop given he can cover a fair few positions.

Grealish and Gardner are the two id like to be given a chance this season to see if they can make it surrounded by experienced players.

[PaulWinch again]

Lowton and Bennett both need to learn how to defend properly. They have ability on the ball, but their positioning and defensive know how are non-existant.

[RussellC]

I'd be more reticent to let Lowton go than Bennett. Hutton is bound to pick-up a suspension or two over the course of the season and I think Bacuna is too much of a liability defensively to play there. He could also offer cover on the right hand side of a back 3, if we do pot to play that way at all.

I'd much rather we looked to ship-out Baker and/or Herd next, if we're looking to free up squad places.

[PaulWinch again]

Lowton isn't much better than Bacuna defensively to be honest. On Baker, I'd just sell him if at all possible. We have enough centre halves in Senderos, Vlaar, Okore and Clark and Baker is by far the worst.

[bobdylan]

Guzan (Given)
Hutton (Bacuna) Senderos (Okore) Vlaar (Clark) Cissokho (Richardson)
Westwood (KEA) Sanchez (Gardner) Delph (Cole)
Weimann (Gabby) Benteke (Kozak) N'Zogbia (Grealish)

That's 22, 23 with Bent who's covering until the big men are back, that really should be enough to run with, if you work on 3 injured on average at any one time you've still got a full complement of 18 plus two spare, even if you had a raft of say 6 injured you may have to stick one kid on the bench to make up 7 subs so it would hardly be horrific.  That means Herd, Lowton, Bennett, Stevens, Robinson and Baker can leave/be loaned out for me.  If we get 2 more in as rumoured, KEA and Bent can probably also be moved on.