Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[SashasGrandad]

st Petersburg is renowned as the Paris of the East.
It is on my bucket list, should I delete it ?

Worth going - but stay in the centre/tourist bit. Good for art/history/culture if that floats your boat. The Hermitage is one of the best museums in the world. 

I actually went to watch a ballet when I was there. Swan Lake - Russian company - it was excellent. Don't believe all the nonsense it is just a bunch of poofters! Very powerful, athletic and in parts quite erotic!

[Villa in Denmark]

Odd that a Greek club can afford to compete with Premier League clubs for wages. Even assuming we weren't in for him, surely he could've re-signed for Leicester had he so chosen?

I'd hazard a guess that it's the 2 years that have swung it, plus a slower paced league and the chance of a last hurrah in the CL.

[LeeB]

Odd that a Greek club can afford to compete with Premier League clubs for wages. Even assuming we weren't in for him, surely he could've re-signed for Leicester had he so chosen?

I'd hazard a guess that it's the 2 years that have swung it, plus a slower paced league and the chance of a last hurrah in the CL.

He's a staunch Socialist, and wishes to lead the fight against the free market fascists from the frontline streets of Athens.

[dave.woodhall]

st Petersburg is renowned as the Paris of the East.
It is on my bucket list, should I delete it ?

Worth going - but stay in the centre/tourist bit. Good for art/history/culture if that floats your boat. The Hermitage is one of the best museums in the world. 

I actually went to watch a ballet when I was there. Swan Lake - Russian company - it was excellent. Don't believe all the nonsense it is just a bunch of poofters! Very powerful, athletic and in parts quite erotic!

Hermitage, Summer Palace, Church on Spilled Blood and all the rest. It's the most fascinating city I've visited.

[ozzjim]

Not impressed that Albion are signing Rondon at all. Last I saw before boarding a 28hr ferry yesterday morning was that we were being linked with him, get home finally tonight and find Albion are close to signing him. Gutted, looks a beast of a forward.

[johnny from donny]

I visited Leningrad (as it was then) and Moscow in 1986, they were both great cities.  The Metro stations in Moscow were amazing. It cost us 2 kopeks each to stay on the Metro for as long as we wanted (on & off trains as much as you please as long as you don't go back above ground) and we stayed for ages, visiting stations  that would have passed for art galleries in this country.
Some amazing buildings in both places (St Basil's Cathedral is stunning) if you do go, see about getting a tour guide for some of your time there because the history of both places was fascinating to me as a 15 year old boy; I'm sure to an adult it would be even more so.

[UK Redsox]

A review of artwork on the Moscow Metro. I bet you don't get that over on TBAR

[Goldie.7]

TP in his interview earlier didn't seem that confident Lescott would be still there come Tuesday to me.

[SoccerHQ]

Not impressed that Albion are signing Rondon at all. Last I saw before boarding a 28hr ferry yesterday morning was that we were being linked with him, get home finally tonight and find Albion are close to signing him. Gutted, looks a beast of a forward.

He is very good. Scored 20 goals in La Liga for Malaga, scored in Champions league and Europa league for Zenit and has 1 in 3 for Venezuela.

Could've been a signing for us, I wouldn't have bothered signing Ayew as Rondon and Gestede would've replaced Benteke no problem.

Easily the best signing they've made for years, he's a bit better than Brown Ideye!

[villan from luton]

Not impressed that Albion are signing Rondon at all. Last I saw before boarding a 28hr ferry yesterday morning was that we were being linked with him, get home finally tonight and find Albion are close to signing him. Gutted, looks a beast of a forward.

He is very good. Scored 20 goals in La Liga for Malaga, scored in Champions league and Europa league for Zenit and has 1 in 3 for Venezuela.

Could've been a signing for us, I wouldn't have bothered signing Ayew as Rondon and Gestede would've replaced Benteke no problem.

Easily the best signing they've made for years, he's a bit better than Brown Ideye!

Has he signed for them? Frightful if he is a bit better than Brown Ideye lol

[Goldie.7]

Not impressed that Albion are signing Rondon at all. Last I saw before boarding a 28hr ferry yesterday morning was that we were being linked with him, get home finally tonight and find Albion are close to signing him. Gutted, looks a beast of a forward.

He is very good. Scored 20 goals in La Liga for Malaga, scored in Champions league and Europa league for Zenit and has 1 in 3 for Venezuela.

Could've been a signing for us, I wouldn't have bothered signing Ayew as Rondon and Gestede would've replaced Benteke no problem.

Easily the best signing they've made for years, he's a bit better than Brown Ideye!

Totally agree. Ayew isn't at the same level as Rondon and we're banking on goals from a player that's only had one good season in his career.

I see Gestede as an upgrade on Weimann and nothing more. I do not see Ayew as even half of the player you know who was/is. I would of preferred the free older bro if I had to choose.

[villan from luton]

Not impressed that Albion are signing Rondon at all. Last I saw before boarding a 28hr ferry yesterday morning was that we were being linked with him, get home finally tonight and find Albion are close to signing him. Gutted, looks a beast of a forward.

He is very good. Scored 20 goals in La Liga for Malaga, scored in Champions league and Europa league for Zenit and has 1 in 3 for Venezuela.

Could've been a signing for us, I wouldn't have bothered signing Ayew as Rondon and Gestede would've replaced Benteke no problem.

Easily the best signing they've made for years, he's a bit better than Brown Ideye!

Totally agree. Ayew isn't at the same level as Rondon and we're banking on goals from a player that's only had one good season in his career.

I see Gestede as an upgrade on Weimann and nothing more. I do not see Ayew as even half of the player you know who was/is. I would of preferred the free older bro if I had to choose.

I will be honest straight away and say my knowledge is fairly limited on these players. Gustede don't seem anything similar to Weimann to be fair and I don't think it is Ayew who we are banking the goals on. It is likely he will be coming from out wide by all accounts. As for Rondon, as I asked before, have the Baggies signed him?

[Goldie.7]

Not yet.

[Matt C]

Still, could be rather amusing if at the mere suggestion we might be interested Lescott comes running.

[villan from luton]

So there is as much chance of Charles Rondon coming to the Baggies as there is Villa fan Joleyn Lescott going to the Theatre of Dreams :-(