Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[passitsideways]

Plus he got an early card in the final and so could hardly afford charging into contests like he'd been doing for the two months leading up to it.

[UK Redsox]

Bacuna had a 100% penalty scoring record at Groningen... not sure how many he actually took in total though.

I have never missed a penalty for Aston Villa

[mr underhill]

well, back on topic I hope something's going on.

[OCD]

Hopefully a few things. Horrible not hearing anything, even links to good players is encouraging.

[frank black]

Apparently we are still 'preparing' our bid for Adebayor.

What's to prepare? And how long does it take? A season loan please, too risky to buy.

[ozzjim]

All gone way too quiet considering our captain and to scorer have left. We need 3 by Bournemouth plus a couple of loans on top by Jim White day to be comfortable.

[mr underhill]

maybe Oulare and Embolo, plus the remaining  members of Nice's first team are 'preparing' to fly in as we post.

[RussellC]

All gone way too quiet considering our captain and to scorer have left. We need 3 by Bournemouth plus a couple of loans on top by Jim White day to be comfortable.

Yeah, I make it that we still need 5- 2 strikers, 2 midfielders and a centre-back. We don't have too many places in the squad at present though (ironically) so still need to move a few out. Would like a right-back too, but Hutton and Bacuna aren't the end of the world (plus Mason looks like he could fill-in there).

On that note, does anyone know if Amavi still qualifies as an U21, or will he need one of the 25 spaces?

[saunders_heroes]

All gone way too quiet considering our captain and to scorer have left. We need 3 by Bournemouth plus a couple of loans on top by Jim White day to be comfortable.

I'm sure we'll announce something as soon as Benteke finally leaves. We quickly signed Gueye when the club thought Delph was leaving then the same with Amavi when he finally did leave.

[OCD]

The plan seemed to be for Gueye to line up alongside Delph, not instead of i.e. he was Cleverley's replacement. Both the Amavi and Gueye deals had been going on for some time and the announcement just seemed to be a PR tactic to try and counter bad news to limit the effect on season ticket sales.

[frank black]

The plan seemed to be for Gueye to line up alongside Delph, not instead of i.e. he was Cleverley's replacement. Both the Amavi and Gueye deals had been going on for some time and the announcement just seemed to be a PR tactic to try and counter bad news to limit the effect on season ticket sales.

I disagree I think Gueye replaced Delph as they knew he was off as soon as the season ended. Tim did look a little shocked that Delph did his first U turn.

Much work to do, should be quite exciting over the next couple of weeks.

[OCD]

In interviews, Sherwood talked about Gueye and Delph playing together. Until Man City exercised the clause in his contract, he was our player and speculation would have just been considered conjecture. Whereas Cleverley was never our player and he signed up to Everton very quickly so Occam's Razor would say that he was Cleverley's replacement.

[mr underhill]

Randy's flown in then;  just a flying visit to trouser the Benteke cash?

[LeeB]

Randy's flown in then;  just a flying visit to trouser the Benteke cash?

If the next flight is to Delaware you're spot on.

[Shrek]

We've sold/released 11 players this summer, with only 5 coming in. We surely have to buy at least 4-5 more players

Given
Vlaar
Delph
Benteke (not confirmed)
Cleverley
Weimann
Luna
Bent
Lowton
Helenius
Sylla

Have all now left.