Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[Dante Lavelli]

has the twitter account been verified and/or has it been reported elsewhere?

[peter w]

Hendrick was alright I suppose, he reminded me of Brett Holman, but better.

betterish. Thought he looked exactly what he is to be honest - a decent Championship player. I just don't want to laden the squad with decent Championship players. Bit of a 'meh' for me but if he signed and offered more than Sanchez, Gana, Westwood, Veretout, etc etc I'd have no complaints.

[PaulWinch again]

Hendrick is potentially mid-table Premier League at the least, he's a very talented player.

[darren woolley]

I would be more than happy signing Hendrick good player.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'd be pleased too.
I was very impressed with him at the Euro's but not seen too much of him for Derby

Right sort of age as well. 24 with a couple of hundred Championship appearances behind him.

He's also a big lad, not the type to get bullied or pushed off the ball. That will we a welcomed change in our midfield.

[OCD]

He's only 24 so he has time to go from being a good Championship player to a Premier League player. It would be good to have a genuine Irish player playing for us, it seems to have been a while.

[godzvilla]

Apparently Naarwich also have a 7mil bid in for Assomba(linga)longa  at Forest, would very much have liked him at the Villa.............Godzvilla!.

[tomd2103]

He's only 24 so he has time to go from being a good Championship player to a Premier League player. It would be good to have a genuine Irish player playing for us, it seems to have been a while.

Agree and those are the type of signings we look to be going for. 

[KevinGage]

 Kept an eye on him when I could after we were linked last summer.

Must admit I wasn't hugely impressed with him at the Euros. 

Good athlete, but seems to lack composure in possession. Might be better in the Championship, when you can give the ball away more and get it back.

[sid1964]

if it is true, then lets hope that he chooses us!

[ADVILLAFAN]

Was thinking why he might choose Norwich over us.

Location wise, we're closer to Derby and Ireland. Obviously we're the bigger club. We should have more dosh than they do too.

Only things that Norwich may have is that Brady and Hoolahan may be friends with him from the Ireland team and that he may think they have a better squad and thus more likely to go up, after our hopeless season last year.

[Chris Jameson]

has the twitter account been verified and/or has it been reported elsewhere?

Looks like it was an account called Football is our Life (@soccer_not) with 597 followers who broke the news.
Definitely think this is going to happen, wonder what number shirt he'll be given.

Their recent tweets include:

Nonces chatting shit and I'm like #swfc (Gif of the Pink Panther)

Bored of middle aged nonces acting half their age

Leeds set to sign Sheffield Wednesday fans #melts #lufc #swfc

However Lewis Cook is set to join Newcastle for £4,000,000 with Papiss Cisse going the other way #lufc #nufc

[john2710]

I can't understand why we'd buy Gana for £9m but agree a release clause of £7.1m in the contract.

But then again,  we've made so many basic errors over the last few years it's not that much of a surprise.

[exigo]

I can't understand why we'd buy Gana for £9m but agree a release clause of £7.1m in the contract.

But then again,  we've made so many basic errors over the last few years it's not that much of a surprise.

It probably was a release clause of £9m. It's just that since Sterling has slipped down the shitter, it's now only worth £7.1m at today's exchange rate.

[supertom]

I can't understand why we'd buy Gana for £9m but agree a release clause of £7.1m in the contract.

But then again,  we've made so many basic errors over the last few years it's not that much of a surprise.

It probably was a release clause of £9m. It's just that since Sterling has slipped down the shitter, it's now only worth £7.1m at today's exchange rate.

Maybe a premiership release clause and a championship release clause? Who knows, Benteke may have had a second release clause below 32.5 mill in the event we'd gone done whilst he was here.