Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[villan from luton]

Diaby on loan from Arsenal. With a clause that if he gets injured we can send him back. And spend the remainder of the transfer budget on Gary Medel from Cardiff.

Diaby, he would be on the pitch shorter than Jenas was :-) . As for Medel, think I heard on radio he is wanted by top Turkish team

[Big Dick Edwards]

If Diaby is finally fit after his long injury lay-off I reckon he'll be in Wenger's plans for Arsenal this season.

[villan from luton]

Diaby is a very good player, but unfortunately very injury prone. If we got Ki, would we have a decent middle if we play 3-5-2? You have Delph and I have hope N'Zogbia may show he actually wants to play football after his lay off.

[Matt Collins]

If we got ki I think that'd be it for central midfield. It would leave us short of a real physical presence in there but I'm not sure lambert wants one. And I think that compared to last season, adding ki, a fitter Gardner, cole, Richardson and n'zogbia as midfield options for sylla, Tonev and albrighton would be an upgrade

[Steve R]

Medel looked fairly useless against us at VP. Didn't Uruguay play him in the back 4 in Brazil? If the friendlies have been anything to go by, NZogbia hasn't really got any better for not playing last season.

We still need central midfielders. Badly.

[villan from luton]

Think he played in a back 4 all the time, he certainly did v England in a friendly and did well. Steve, sorry to hear that about N'Zogbia as has ggot talent, seems to have an attitude problem though. What a waste of talent

[Dante Lavelli]

In my opinion there are a fair few players that would be bang on what we need which may be available, either on loan or to purchase. Admittedly they're all on the ambitious side but different to previous years where it was hard to name a suitable player.  Off the top of my head from the premier league:

Midfielder - Milner, Dembele, Ki, Javi Garcia, Rodwell, Lucas, Diaby, Medel, Diame, Mbia (kind of, having just left QPR).
Flair midfielder:  Kagawa, Holtby, Kovetic, Moses

[Smirker]

Milner and Kagawa would be a dream.

[Dave]

Medel looked fairly useless against us at VP. Didn't Uruguay play him in the back 4 in Brazil?

Close. Chile play him in a back three.

[RussellC]

Medel looked fairly useless against us at VP. Didn't Uruguay play him in the back 4 in Brazil?

Close. Chile play him in a back three.

Think he's rumoured to be on his way to Inter isn't he? I quite like him. Strikes me as a poor man's Mascherano.

[placeforparks]

Diaby on loan from Arsenal. With a clause that if he gets injured we can send him back.

diaby is on £50k a week, so that won't happen.

[Dave]

Diaby on loan from Arsenal. With a clause that if he gets injured we can send him back.

diaby is on £50k a week, so that won't happen.

Habib Beye was on £40,000 per week but there's no way that Doncaster were paying more than a few grand of it.

[David_Nab]

Victor Moses linked

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/10995378/Aston-Villa-manager-Paul-Lambert-wants-to-sign-Chelsea-winger-Victor-Moses-on-loan-for-the-season.html

Seems we have gone back the MOM school of transfers , only prem experience players being looked at it seems.

[RussellC]

Yes please. Moses and Ki would make a massive difference to our squad.

[tomd2103]

Yes please. Moses and Ki would make a massive difference to our squad.

An on form Moses is just the kind of wide option we need.  Slight concern would be that he could turn out like Sinclair at the Albion last season though.