Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Martin O'Neill has signed Sammy Ameobi. I'm pretty sure that that was the last piece of the Armageddon jigsaw.

Google his name and it comes up with the headline 'Nottingham Forest Fans React To Sammy Ameobi signing'. I reckon you can guess what that reaction is. For some reason they seem somewhat underwhelmed by the signing of a striker who has scored 14 goals in nine seasons and 183 games.

Classic O'Neill.  Next trick, sell Joe Lolley for 5m and replace him with Aiden McGeady.

I was sat next to a Forest fan on the flight to Porto the other week. I was surprised at how unpopular MON is with their fan base already. I thought they’d cut him some slack, having been a legend as a player but this guy really disliked him.

He actually said to me; “You got rid of your dinosaur, we’re stuck with ours”.

[kippaxvilla2]

It’s astonishing he still manages to get these gigs on a model of playing and transfer philosophy ten years passed its best. 

[paul_e]

It’s astonishing he still manages to get these gigs on a model of playing and transfer philosophy ten years passed its best. 

It's more than that, his out of date approach is why we hit a ceiling of 6th and that 11-12 years ago.

[Monty]

Buffon's been linked with Leeds this week.

Giovanni,
Leeds è un buco di merda, vorrai andare a casa.

Giovanni,
No al fascismo.

Guys who the hell is Giovanni Buffon.

[Sexual Ealing]

Buffon's been linked with Leeds this week.

Giovanni,
Leeds è un buco di merda, vorrai andare a casa.

Giovanni,
No al fascismo.

Guys who the hell is Giovanni Buffon.

I'm Giovanni Buffon.

[kippaxvilla2]

Anyone getting a bit worried?  Lots of players apparently being priced out.  £30m being quoted for someone I have never heard of from Bristol City now. 

[cdbearsfan]

You could buy their entire team for that. Tell them to get fucked.

[Duncan Shaw]

Man U just paid £50m for Wan Bissaka (SP)....£50m!!!!

[cdbearsfan]

Who?

[Ads]

Loads better value out there.

[ktvillan]

We've signed more players than any other PL club so far.  Quite a few haven't made a single signing yet. There's a lot more activity to come for all clubs.  Admittedly we need more rebuilding than most but we have a head start.  There are a lot of piss take fees being bandied around at the moment by selling clubs and a lot of other bluff and bluster.   When buyers refuse to bite or go elsewhere I suspect some better value will be available later in the window. 

[wolfman999]

We've signed more players than any other PL club so far.  Quite a few haven't made a single signing yet. There's a lot more activity to come for all clubs.  Admittedly we need more rebuilding than most but we have a head start.  There are a lot of piss take fees being bandied around at the moment by selling clubs and a lot of other bluff and bluster.   When buyers refuse to bite or go elsewhere I suspect some better value will be available later in the window. 

I hope you're right because we look weak as piss at the moment. Hopefully, things are happening behind the scenes.

[OzVilla]

I’m not worried yet, the market and the domino effect has barely started up. Let’s see where we are in another 2/3  weeks.

I’m sure both Butland and Mings are agitating like mad their end to get things moving.

[OCD]

Anyone getting a bit worried?  Lots of players apparently being priced out.  £30m being quoted for someone I have never heard of from Bristol City now. 

I get the feeling that's how it always is each year and as pre-season/season approach, clubs realise they have players who want to move and that they could buy several players for the money they would get for them so there's progression over negotiations. We seem to be a lot further down the track this year than we normally are (admittedly we need to be). Just remember when O'Neill manager and how much business was done at the last minute.

[fbriai]

Buffon's been linked with Leeds this week.

Giovanni,
Leeds è un buco di merda, vorrai andare a casa.

Giovanni,
No al fascismo.

Guys who the hell is Giovanni Buffon.

I'm Giovanni Buffon.

I don't know about Giovanni, but Gigi Buffon is being heavily linked with a return to Juve here. The idea being that he will be the back-up keeper for a year before taking a boardroom-level role at the end of the season.