The January 2015 Transfer Rumour Thread

[silhillvilla]

Maybe some money will exchange hands if you know what I mean.

[garyshawsknee]

This might be a biased opinion but I think Benteke is better than Bony. Bony Is a good finisher but I haven't seen him create his own goals the way Benteke has at times.

If he's £25m I'd be wanting £30m for Benteke.

Both are top quality, I think I heard that Bony was the top scorer in 2014.

[Malandro]

Perhaps city don't give a shit about fines, or have decided to fight the legality of it

[Dave]

Maybe some money will exchange hands if you know what I mean.

Not really, no.
 
How would Man City giving Swansea money help when the whole point would be for the deal to be conducted as player value rather than cash?

Unless you're suggesting that Swansea are going to give Man City money as well as Bony? Which again, doesn't sound like the best of deals for Swansea.

[aj2k77]

I think he's saying that Sinclair would be over valued to get the additional amount for Bony down officially but would also make a brown paper bag payment to make up for the shortfall in real value?

[john2710]

Delph for £3m - no chance, for a start every league place is worth £1.8m. Typical Spurs ask top price for their shite but expect us to role over.

I'm still disappointed in Delph's stance in this.

[bertlambshank]

Messi isn't happy how about a swap for Delph,with Barca chucking us a few million of course.

[Mister E]

Sinclair: can he be 'turned around' somewhat like Adam Johnson and his move to Blunderland; or is Sinclair so far up himself that he will be an expensive flop?
Johnson has not actually really found the form that made him a Citeh acquisition in the first place.
But, £3m for Swansea's Sinclair would be good business.
My view is that Lambert is not to be trusted to get the best out of him: he has a disregard for wingers and has not proved himself a real developer of players.

[OCD]

This might be a biased opinion but I think Benteke is better than Bony. Bony Is a good finisher but I haven't seen him create his own goals the way Benteke has at times.

If he's £25m I'd be wanting £30m for Benteke.

I wish we'd been a bit braver and gone for Bony ourselves that summer, I think he'd have been excellent alongside Benteke.

In the summer the common opinion seemed to be that we had enough strikers and didn't need any more. Not that we would have been likely to pay £25m for one player.

[olaftab]

Sinclair rumour could be true as a straight swap for Delph. City would take on Delph as a speculative  signing  and also stop others from getting hold of a potentially very good English player. They can keep him couple of seasons and if he doesn't step up he can be discarded like Johnson, Rodwell and now Sinclair.

[tomd2103]

that will be a good deal for both sides. Swansea will pocket the good part of 25m I imagine and Bony has proven himself in the PL. He was a very a good signing for Swansea, a bit like what people say when we sell Benteke unfortunately.

£30m was the figure I heard quoted on the radio and should be the starting price for any offers on Benteke. 

[Dante Lavelli]

BBC are saying 30m too.

[Smirker]

Don't see why it's biased to consider Benteke to be better. He is. Look at the range of his goals. Genuinely two footed, brilliant with his head, great passer, got everything.

He's better than Lukaku as well.

[tomd2103]

Delph was certainly excellent last season, however I'm struggling to think of a game this season where he's been particularly impressive. For me he's gone from indispensable to replaceable, especially now we have Sanchez. We don't really need an all action type, now we need someone with a bit more guile in the final third. As much as I like delph, he doesn't do that often enough.

Would go along with that.  I rate him as well, but he doesn't really produce that much in terms of creating chances and scoring goals.  He should be a ten goal a season midfielder and maybe he will be at another club, but I too think he is replaceable in what he actually offers the team.

What annoys me is that the England exposure came exactly at the wrong time for us.  A year or so ago and we'd probably be looking at getting £10-15m for him.  As it is we're probably going to get a fraction of that or indeed nothing for him. 

[PeterWithe]

The cynic in me thinks a Man City reserve, like Sinclair for instance, might be on his way to Swansea in a swap and be valued by both clubs at a rather unrealistic figure.

If that were to help balance Man City's books (and mean that they didn't have to give as much actual cash to Swansea), why would Swansea agree to that?

Yes, I thought about that when I was locking up and realised I was talking absolute bollocks but rather than log back on I went home and hoped no-one would notice.