Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Welcome Isaac.  Hopefully he's the next Bale/Walcott/Oxlade-Chamberlain/Lallana/Shaw/Wallace/Shearer/LeTissier.

And not the next Benali.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

I'd sign Berahino from the Baggies this Summer, he's raw but I think he could be a star.

I wouldn't. He's really nothing special. Meant to be quite cocky too.

[Dante Lavelli]

I'd sign Berahino from the Baggies this Summer, he's raw but I think he could be a star.

I wouldn't. He's really nothing special. Meant to be quite cocky too.

The BBC gossip column seemed to suggest that the players were supporting Morrison in the alleged punch-up which suggest that he might have become a bit too big for his boots albeit the 'gossip column' is exactly that and full of any nonsense the newspapers print.

[Ads]

Yoink!

[LeeB]

Yoink!

A Black County pig?

[Mazrim]

I'm actually recovering from Swine Flu and that's the first laugh I've had all week.

[OCD]

A Stripey mate of mine says that Berahino's attitude stinks and that the initial success he had went to his head. Might well be on the Luke Moore path.

[olaftab]

I'm actually recovering from Swine Flu and that's the first laugh I've had all week.

Swine flu? Antidote is wine flew straight into your mouth.

[Ads]

He went from £800 a week to £12000 per week, which seems part of the problem.

[LeeB]

He went from £800 a week to £12000 per week, which seems part of the problem.

Just for a moment, stop and think about that.

If that had happened to me at his age, I'd have been dead or locked up within six months.

[PaulWinch again]

I don't think Lambert saying Bent has no future at the club is particularly helpful when it comes to trying to get a good deal for him.

[DrGonzo]

  Wasn't it fairly obvious?  How many games did he play last season?  How many times did he even made the bench?  The captaincy was stripped from him almost immediately, and he was f'd off to Fulham this season.  Saying he is not in Lambert's future plans is not going to come as any great surprise to anybody in football management.  If there had been an offer for him in the last 2 transfer windows we'd have snapped their hands off.

[PaulWinch again]

It might be obvious, but completely isolating players seems counter productive to me and that's partially reflected in our inability to shift them.

[LeeB]

It might be obvious, but completely isolating players seems counter productive to me and that's partially reflected in our inability to shift them.

You may be right, but I think it's more to do with him commanding big wages and being a busted flush.

[Billy Walker]

It might be obvious, but completely isolating players seems counter productive to me and that's partially reflected in our inability to shift them.

I think it's pretty standard in football that if a player is surplus to requirements this type of thing happens - what's the point keeping a player who has no future in and around a first team squad that is being developed?  I was listening to an interview with Niall Quinn the other day and he was saying how he had to train with the injured players at Sunderland before he eventually left.  No matter how we treat Bent he is a striker approaching thirty in the final year of his contract.  I'm not too sure there's much of a position for us to bargain from?  Chances are he'll be off to a top Championship club or maybe he'll fancy a final hurrah abroad.  Good luck to him.