Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[Percy McCarthy]

With regard to Austin, even though it's only Gobshite Sullivan that's actually said anything, I would imagine that his knee is a genuine concern for all of his potential suitors. If he's not actually capable of passing a medical then a club could take the decision to sign him regardless, but then (I believe) would not be able to take out insurance on him, which is a huge risk if you're paying £10-£15 on a player.

I think that any clubs that are in for him, will be looking to do a cut-price deal in the final hours of the window.

Oh I don't know. I'd go as high as twenty quid, medical insurance or not.

[oldtimernow]

£25 bid here......must stop getting carried away on ebay

[AV82EC]

I just can't see the fascination with Austin, strikes me as a knee jerk reaction to our current lack of goals. That said he has scored goals in the PL with a shit team so maybe I'm doing him a disservice. Looks a meat and potatoes English player when we seem to be looking for something a bit more exotic....

[Chris Jameson]

£25 bid here......must stop getting carried away on ebay

£30.

Maximum bidding price of £76.27 set. Didn't he used to be a plasterer? Got a wall needs doing.

[ozzjim]

If the Moses link has legs I wonder if he  plans to play him as a central striker. He could do well there and a bit like Richards wanting to play centre half it could swing him coming here.

[RussellC]

Don't think Moses has the physical presence to play as a central-striker. Whoever plays there needs to be able to play with their back to goal and offer an aerial threat.

[Ron Manager]

Gestede is fine as the central striker. What he needs is a Jermaine Defoe/Kevin Phillips type next to him who would react quickly to his knock downs/flick ons. Any ideas chaps?

[RussellC]

Gestede is fine as the central striker. What he needs is a Jermaine Defoe/Kevin Phillips type next to him who would react quickly to his knock downs/flick ons. Any ideas chaps?

To be honest, Charlie Austin would probably be the most employable candidate for that role too, given his success of playing off Zamora last season.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Gestede is fine as the central striker. What he needs is a Jermaine Defoe/Kevin Phillips type next to him who would react quickly to his knock downs/flick ons. Any ideas chaps?

I'd like to see Gestede & Ayew play up front together

[Phil from the upper holte]

I said this morning that it appears Randy is still being tight because I doubt we've spent more than we've brought in

[RussellC]

In a summer when even Mike Ashley is spending like Fat Kid in McDonalds, and we've lost our 2 best player, I don't think Randy would be naive enough not to recognise the need to spend to improve.

I'm sure the only stumbling block now is squad-size. Randy will be loathe to sanction salaries to any player that's not going to be named in the squad, even if that's a Tonev or Senderos. I still think we'll make a fairly sizeable signing before the window closes, hence these links to an 18m Euro deal for Abdennour and a striker on loan (Adebayor, Wilson, etc)

[Holte L2]

I just can't see the fascination with Austin, strikes me as a knee jerk reaction to our current lack of goals. That said he has scored goals in the PL with a shit team so maybe I'm doing him a disservice. Looks a meat and potatoes English player when we seem to be looking for something a bit more exotic....

The fascination with Austin is that he's a goal scorer. Throughout his career at Swindon, Burnley and QPR is record is consistently good.  He's a scorer of all type of goals - inside the box, header, long range finishes.  We're severely lacking a natural goal scorer so I think he fits the bill.

[cyrilina]

What about loans, we still have 2. Maybe Remy from Chelsea on loan for the season. Or even Ings from Liverpool?

I can't see Liverpool loaning out Ings ten minutes after they've signed him.

They did last year with Origi

[Villa in Denmark]

I said this morning that it appears Randy is still being tight because I doubt we've spent more than we've brought in

Thing is in a summer with a huge windfall like we've just had, albeit reluctantly, with the squad turnover we've gone through (are we up to 12 out and 10 in so far?) net spend isn't really a fair measure.

Would we have done the same business if Benteke's clause was only £25 million, or we'd had to spend £0.5 - 1.0M per player more?  Then squad wise we'd be no better or worse off, but looking at a net spend of what £15M and still be approaching the point where we'd seriously be considering if we could integrate more players into the squad.

The only one I'd look at is if Amavi's got a right footed clone that's available for half sensible money.

Up front, we need to let Ayew and Gestede settle down with any combination of Grealish, Gil and Traore settling them up and Sinclair as an option either instead of Ayew or if we want to play 2 out and out wide men with Traore on the opposite side.

If we can't get some goals out of that lot then I'd look at the coaching and tactics before I looked at throwing another £10-15M at it.
Even if Gestede and co prove to be just flat track bullies, there's enough dodgy teams about to think we'll keep ourselves bobbing around lower mid table until January.

[tomd2103]

I said this morning that it appears Randy is still being tight because I doubt we've spent more than we've brought in

Thing is in a summer with a huge windfall like we've just had, albeit reluctantly, with the squad turnover we've gone through (are we up to 12 out and 10 in so far?) net spend isn't really a fair measure.

Would we have done the same business if Benteke's clause was only £25 million, or we'd had to spend £0.5 - 1.0M per player more?  Then squad wise we'd be no better or worse off, but looking at a net spend of what £15M and still be approaching the point where we'd seriously be considering if we could integrate more players into the squad.

The only one I'd look at is if Amavi's got a right footed clone that's available for half sensible money.

Up front, we need to let Ayew and Gestede settle down with any combination of Grealish, Gil and Traore settling them up and Sinclair as an option either instead of Ayew or if we want to play 2 out and out wide men with Traore on the opposite side.

If we can't get some goals out of that lot then I'd look at the coaching and tactics before I looked at throwing another £10-15M at it.
Even if Gestede and co prove to be just flat track bullies, there's enough dodgy teams about to think we'll keep ourselves bobbing around lower mid table until January.

Not been following Spurs too closely so far, but has Kyle Walker featured for them so far?