Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Ricky van Wolfswinkel cost £9m.  That's all you need to know.  I honestly dont think we need strikers once Benteke and Kozak are fit.  Now creativity that is a different matter.

Is anyone even saying we do need a striker?

[kippaxvilla2]

Ricky van Wolfswinkel cost £9m.  That's all you need to know.  I honestly dont think we need strikers once Benteke and Kozak are fit.  Now creativity that is a different matter.

Is anyone even saying we do need a striker?

Now you come to mention it.  But I am sure if you look back on at least one of the 252 pages on this thread there will be a mention of one.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Surely everyone knows we don't need a striker? Why do people keep pointing it out?

[SoccerHQ]

Surely everyone knows we don't need a striker? Why do people keep pointing it out?

The "ambitious" signings you mentioned for the other clubs are both strikers so that's probably where the confusion is.

[kippaxvilla2]

Surely everyone knows we don't need a striker? Why do people keep pointing it out?

I get confused very easily.  Do I keep pointing something out?  I am in a tizz now.

[peter w]

Soccer HQ and kippax going at it is a bit like watching Arsenal v Newcastle circa 2002.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Surely everyone knows we don't need a striker? Why do people keep pointing it out?

The "ambitious" signings you mentioned for the other clubs are both strikers so that's probably where the confusion is.

Yeah, I figured. £14m is mental for Borini, but fair play to them for spending that much on one player. Why can't we spend £14m on one player?

[KevinGage]

They're buying Borini for 14 million but as he was there on loan last year that's not going to strengthen them.

I like him as a player, but £14 million is nuts. 

[KevinGage]

Everton have let Magaye Gueye leave on a free. 

Not a worldbeater by any means, but can play wide or up top and would increase our options without making a significant dent in the wage bill. Decent cover for Gabby, if nowt else. When he is injured, we lack pace to play on the counter effectively.

Looked lively when he faced us a few years ago.  Houllier recommended him to Moyes apparently.   

[PaulWinch again]

Sunderland have bought Borini for £14m. West Brom have bought Ideye Brown for £10m. My point isn't about the players, more the fact that they're showing ambition.

I think that's a valid point.

It's not so much about the specific club or players, but they're showing a willingness to spend to acquire players they feel will make them better.

We, on the other hand, look like we're not spending anything.

I find it hard to imagine us spending 10m on a player in the near future, I know that much.

Spending big money on players doesn't guarantee you'll do well, but not spending it pretty much guarantees you won't.

Completely agree, our lack of ambition pretty depressing.

[Richard E]

Poor Joleon thinks he was sold a pup...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/joleon-lescott-unsettled-west-brom-3881958?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

[pauliewalnuts]

Poor Joleon thinks he was sold a pup...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/joleon-lescott-unsettled-west-brom-3881958?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Whilst I will take every opportunity to laugh at them, this paragraph doesn't even make sense.

Albion are understood to have completed a club record £10million move for Dynamo Kiev striker Brown Ideye, but his capture is in stark contrast to the £12million signing of Enner Valencia by West Ham, another club that courted Lescott before he chose the Baggies.

[SoccerHQ]

Surely everyone knows we don't need a striker? Why do people keep pointing it out?

The "ambitious" signings you mentioned for the other clubs are both strikers so that's probably where the confusion is.

Yeah, I figured. £14m is mental for Borini, but fair play to them for spending that much on one player. Why can't we spend £14m on one player?

Cheer up N'zogbia's back!

[KevinGage]

With the cut price deals we have done so far, I think/ hope the intention is to put the bulk of any actual funds towards midfield.  One player in the centre of the park in the £8 million + bracket and things won't look so bleak.

If we overlook that area again Lambert should be sent to Highcroft.

[tomd2103]

With the cut price deals we have done so far, I think/ hope the intention is to put the bulk of any actual funds towards midfield.  One player in the centre of the park in the £8 million + bracket and things won't look so bleak.

If we overlook that area again Lambert should be sent to Highcroft.

If the Ki deal happens, I wouldn't be surprised if that will be it until others go out.