Summer 2010 Transfer Thread: B*llsh*t, Rumours & Wishes

[barrysleftfoot]

Is that the No 4 for Uruguay?........he has been excellant.Not lightening quick, but reads the game very well and snuffs out danger very well.

  Mind you Ozil has been a delight tonight.

[Mister E]

I mentioned him a couple of weeks ago but the one who has impressed me everytime i've seen him for Uruguay is Diego Perez. Good battling midfielder in the middle who can play as well. He's 30 though, which is a downside.

Actually, I've been touting both Perez and Aravelo as an ideal central midfield partnership. Put them in the AV team, with 2 wide players and an attackig midfielder / withdrawn striker and we'd look pretty good. Both have energy and great awareness; both can pass; both can tackle (only downside - neither look like goalscorers).
Bring em in, MON.

[barrysleftfoot]

Mexico LB as well please,move Warnock inside as the holding midfielder.

[wozwebs]

NOTW saying Huntelaar has been offered to us, Heskey off to Celtic, McGeady in, Robbie Keane in, Ireland in, Milner out.

Shocked to see players actually being linked IN

[VillaZogmariner]

Both from NOTW

EMILE HESKEY is being lined up for a move to Celtic as part of an ambitious bid to take Aiden McGeady to Aston Villa.

Martin O'Neill is about to rev up his Villa Park recruitment drive for 2010/11.

And out goes England World Cup strike flop Heskey, who made 31 appearances for Villa last season mainly as a substitute, as O'Neill rebuilds his team.

Celtic chief Neil Lennon played with Heskey at Leicester and wants him to be part of his Scottish revolution.

As well as McGeady, Villa want controversial Celtic winger McGeady, who worked under O'Neill when he was Hoops boss, as part of a trade off between the two clubs.

O'Neill is convinced he will land Robbie Keane from Tottenham and Manchester City midfielder Stephen Ireland as part of the merry-go-round.

Ireland is already being dangled in front of Everton as bait for Mikel Arteta but O'Neill has asked for him as part of the £25million package for James Milner.

City chief executive Garry Cook is expected to close the £25m deal for Milner shortly Ireland could be part of the deal.

O'Neill will use the funds to pay for Keane's arrival from Spurs and he is also expecting around £3m to come in from Fulham.

Out-of-favour Villa midfielder Steven Sidwell is expected to bring in another £3m by joining Fulham.

Sidwell is desperate to return to London after two years in the Midlands and will seal his move to Craven Cottage before the start of the season.

Yes please to Mr Em and the Invisible Ginger heading out, but please not McGeady. Ireland and Keane I'd take (although instead of Keane I'd prefer the next link).

KLAAS-JAN HUNTELAAR has been offered to Aston Villa.

The AC Milan striker has been linked with a move to the Premier League since he was at Ajax and has already been made available to Manchester City and Tottenham.

Huntelaar, 26, is just 12 months into a four-year contract at the San Siro after arriving from Real Madrid for £13million last summer.

He is prepared to accept a reduction in his £70,000-a-week wages to play first team football after playing just 41 times in two years in Italy and Spain.

Huntelaar, who will be named among Holland's substitutes in the World Cup final, scored the winner against Cameroon in the group stage when he replaced Robin van Persie.

He has been told he is not in the plans of new Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri, but Villa will take their time deciding on taking up the option on him.

Boss Martin O'Neill may need a replacement for John Carew if, as expected, the Norwegian decides to leave the Midlands side.

Villa, who operated with just three senior strikers last season, scored fewer goals than any team in the top ten with the exception of Birmingham.

That's more like it!

[VillaZogmariner]

More good news from NOTW.

JERMAINE JENAS has vowed to stay at Spurs and fight for his future.

The former England midfielder is wanted by Aston Villa as a replacement for James Milner if, as expected, he joins Manchester City this summer.

But Jenas, who was plagued by a chronic groin injury last season, declared: "I want to stay at White Hart Lane and fight for my first-team place.

"I am looking forward to the new season and I am fit and ready."

Jenas, a £7million signing from Newcastle in August, 2005, made just 13 starts for Tottenham last season after struggling with groin problems.

The 27-year-old's last game for Spurs was in the 1-0 Premier League defeat against Wolves in February.

But Jenas, who has also been on Inter Milan's radar, insists his injury hell is behind him.

"I want to make up for lost time," he added.

"Manager Harry Redknapp has built a great squad, we've got the prospect of Champions League football for the first time and I think we could win something."

One of the most over rated midfielders ever.

[VillaZogmariner]

From The Mirror

Aston Villa are ready to rescue David Bentley from another season on the sidelines at Tottenham.

Villa boss Martin O’Neill is plotting a third attempt to sign the 25-year-old as he looks at midfield options if he can’t keep World Cup star James Milner.

Bentley, once considered the natural England heir to David Beckham, has lost his way at White Hart Lane since a £16million move two years ago.

He fell out with boss Harry Redknapp and, though he forced his way back into the team at the end of the season, sources say he didn’t help himself by pouring a bucket of water over the Tottenham manager live on TV during celebrations for the club reaching the Champions League.

Redknapp cracked a joke while working as a World Cup pundit that he might be tempted to swap Bentley for Japan’s Honda, and word is that was only half in jest.

Bentley himself said recently: “I’m at Tottenham at the minute, but let’s see what happens.”

O’Neill was outbid by Spurs when they bought Bentley from Blackburn two years ago, and backed away from a second deal last summer because Tottenham wanted their money back.

But this summer Spurs would take a cut-price £8m and O’Neill believes he could promise a player who started only 11 Premier League games this term the chance to recover his form.

Birmingham and Stoke will also watch the situation, but can’t compete for wages – or the attraction of Europa League football – if O’Neill follows up his interest.

Bentley won his seven international caps wide on the right, but Villa remember how Mark Hughes used him successfully in central midfield at Blackburn and believe they could help him make the same impact by switching again – as Milner did last season.

Manchester City target Milner was given extra time off after the World Cup where he was one of the few England players to enhance his reputation, and his future will not be sorted until after he returns to training on July 25.

I'd be happy to sign him for £8m

[supertom]

Rather Bentley than McGeady. There's a quality player in Bentley, given the right backing and games. He was superb at Blackburn. Play him just behind a striker and he'd excel, either him or Ash, or perhaps rotate them as both are capable of brilliant delivery from wide.

[KevinGage]

More good news from NOTW.

JERMAINE JENAS has vowed to stay at Spurs and fight for his future.

The former England midfielder is wanted by Aston Villa as a replacement for James Milner if, as expected, he joins Manchester City this summer.

But Jenas, who was plagued by a chronic groin injury last season, declared: "I want to stay at White Hart Lane and fight for my first-team place.

"I am looking forward to the new season and I am fit and ready."

Jenas, a £7million signing from Newcastle in August, 2005, made just 13 starts for Tottenham last season after struggling with groin problems.

The 27-year-old's last game for Spurs was in the 1-0 Premier League defeat against Wolves in February.

But Jenas, who has also been on Inter Milan's radar, insists his injury hell is behind him.

"I want to make up for lost time," he added.

"Manager Harry Redknapp has built a great squad, we've got the prospect of Champions League football for the first time and I think we could win something."

One of the most over rated midfielders ever.

Please, please let him stay at Tottingham.

[tepavilla]

Huntelaar - yes!
Keane - why not
McGeady - why not, but not with that price
Bentley - £8m too much, if something like £5m then yes
Jenas - no!!
Some spanish playmaker (no matter who :D) - yes!

[BannedUserIAT]

I think for every reason you can give 'why' to Keane/McGeady, there are three 'why not's.

[Chris Smith]

I think for every reason you can give 'why' to Keane/McGeady, there are three 'why not's.

There's no obvious reason to link the 2 together though.

Keane is a proven, quality PL player who offers exactly the qualities that our side needs.

McGeady is an unknown quantity at PL level, he's highly rated by some while others think he's not much good. Although like me I doubt you've seen enough of him to have been able to form a definitive view.

[VillaZogmariner]

I think Keane would be a good signing for us. I think Huntelaar would be a better signing, but can't see it happening to be honest.

McGeady I have only seen a couple of times on TV, and from that and what people I know that have seen a fair bit of him, I don't want. The common consensus between us is that he is a poorer version of Maloney.

[paul_e]

If Mcgeady was good enough for the top end of the premier league he'd be absolutely dominating that league and that doesn't seem to be the case.  There's 2 possible causes:

1.  He's not that good
2.  He thinks he deserves to be playing somewhere better and isn't putting the effort in.

Either of those doesn't inspire confidence, especially for the cost involved.

Great to see us linked with huntelaar, he will come to england at some point soon and I think he'll do brilliantly over here, particularly in a side that gets crosses in like us.

Final note, did anyone see the story linking Liverpool to Dzeko (who's being touted as 45-50m).  That's got to be the worst piece of fiction ever printed in a transfer window.

[olaftab]

Bentley no thank you. Honda yes plese.