Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[brian green]

We are close to the point where the mag should run a feature in every edition.  "French Letter."

[Diablo]

Richards is playing centre-half.

We have five centre-halves which is enough.

Yes, the injury prone Richards. Besides the other players I mentioned hardly fill me with confidence what with their ongoing habit of screwing up on the pitch.

Richards doesnt convince me at centre half. I think he would be excellent at right back, therefore I would like to see us sign another centre half.

What position did Richards play when Man City won the league? Was it Rb or CH?

He was back up to Zabaleta at right back. He started the season at right back, got injured and Zabaleta took his place.

Thanks Holte L2. Looking at that title winning 2011-2012 season he played 29 league games 37 including cups/Europe. Certainly not a bit part player that season which is reassuring. He's proven he can perform with quality around him.

[Toronto Villa]

I'll be honest about not knowing much about Ntep but he looks very talented indeed. Him and Ayew would be an exciting pairing.

[silhillvilla]

I'll be honest about not knowing much about Ntep but he looks very talented indeed. Him and Ayew would be an exciting pairing.

Arsenal were after N'Tep in 2014 . Not sure why it didn't happen.

[Mister E]

We are close to the point where the mag should run a feature in every edition.  "French Letter."

Come again?

[mr underhill]

Ntep's currently crook with hamstring and shin splint problems.

[Holte L2]

Richards is playing centre-half.

We have five centre-halves which is enough.

Yes, the injury prone Richards. Besides the other players I mentioned hardly fill me with confidence what with their ongoing habit of screwing up on the pitch.

Richards doesnt convince me at centre half. I think he would be excellent at right back, therefore I would like to see us sign another centre half.

What position did Richards play when Man City won the league? Was it Rb or CH?

He was back up to Zabaleta at right back. He started the season at right back, got injured and Zabaleta took his place.

Thanks Holte L2. Looking at that title winning 2011-2012 season he played 29 league games 37 including cups/Europe. Certainly not a bit part player that season which is reassuring. He's proven he can perform with quality around him.

The Citeh fans I work with love him. But they stress he's much better at right back. He said he can be rather shakey at Centre back. He does look a lot more comfortable at right back, but fancies himself as a centre back though, and I'm guessing Sherwood signed him to play in that position.

[wozwebs]

@whispers_listen on Twitter seems quite reliable and also appears to be someone non-English writing in English. Latest one is

baker, tonev, cissokho and senderos told look for fresh starts away. avfc. hutton and guzan touted. robinson and baker loan hopeful soon.

then also today

ron vlaar has contract offer still available to him at avfc until he belong to another club. offer though is only per game he plays.

carroll appear third choice midfielder. avfc talks with cambiasso and one more midfielder. If abandon, carroll loan to buy immediate attempt

avfc to sign two more mids. one will be to hold, one will be to attack more. bid went in today for one but hold position depend on cambiasso

If the first one is true wouldn't be a surprise apart from Baker perhaps to have as a backup but place needs a clean sweep and certainly getting that at the moment.

[OCD]

@whispers_listen on Twitter seems quite reliable and also appears to be someone non-English writing in English. Latest one is

baker, tonev, cissokho and senderos told look for fresh starts away. avfc. hutton and guzan touted. robinson and baker loan hopeful soon.

then also today

ron vlaar has contract offer still available to him at avfc until he belong to another club. offer though is only per game he plays.

carroll appear third choice midfielder. avfc talks with cambiasso and one more midfielder. If abandon, carroll loan to buy immediate attempt

avfc to sign two more mids. one will be to hold, one will be to attack more. bid went in today for one but hold position depend on cambiasso

If the first one is true wouldn't be a surprise apart from Baker perhaps to have as a backup but place needs a clean sweep and certainly getting that at the moment.

He doesn't seem to know whether we're selling or loaning Baker out though. Otherwise plausible.

[wozwebs]

He's deleted that one and put this one up instead:

n'zogbia, hutton and guzan touted. baker, tonev, cissokho and senderos told look for fresh starts. avfc.  robinson and baker loan hopeful.

so added Charlie (phew!), thinks looking to sell Baker if bid comes in, otherwise, loan him out.

[eamonn]

I like the cut of this whisper character's jib.

[Monty]

I'd like to keep Hutton and Guzan, to be honest, but if Baker IS leaving that would hopefully mean a more prominent role for Clark, which I'd welcome.

[brontebilly]

Why don't you cut out the threatening expletives and constant berating and follow an educated and reasoned debate ?

In the nicest possible way, you wouldn't know an educated debate if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "educated debates are here again".

This is the thing, it's only possible to have an educated debate if there's a chance that at some point both sides will accept the value of the other sides argument.  When one side of an argument is to go out of their way to make everything sound as shit as possible it's really difficult to see any value in that.  You could be right but who wants to be right when doing so means you're going to be even more miserable?

There are many on here who believe we are only a player or two away from having a decent side. Claret and Blue tinted glasses to put it mildy and every bit as wrong as the everything is sh*t brigade.

Nothing wrong with silhill putting forward the contrarian view imo

On Baker, if we are offered 3-4m then couldnt blame the club for accepting. May go on to have a decent career but it will be decent ala Liam Ridgewell rather than Gary Cahill.

Our biggest priority this summer was to replace Vlaar with a top right sided centre half that has consistently played 30+ league games per season for the last 3-4 years. Instead we brought in Micah richards and gave him a four year deal on crazy money. That Richards deal beggars belief

Even though we have five senior centre halves on the books (including Richards as per his likely position), here are their combined league starts over the past two seasons. Okore is already out injured until September and Clark doesnt seem to have got over his knee injury yet this summer nor signed a new deal.

Okore 26
Senderos 27
Richards 12
Baker 30
Clark 52

[OCD]

I'd like to keep Hutton and Guzan, to be honest, but if Baker IS leaving that would hopefully mean a more prominent role for Clark, which I'd welcome.

I would be quite happy to see Hutton go as it would create a gap for us to hopefully get someone better, or someone who could develop into a better player. Same with Baker.

Going by the pre-season games, it looks like Richards-Clark is the first choice, even if Richards is being written off before he's even played a competitive game for us.

[KRS]

Well we still need another CB of decent quality so moving on Baker and Senderos makes sense...of the 5 currently at the club, the 3 we should be keeping are Okore, Clark and obviously Richards.