Summer transfer madness thread

[Drummond]

Swap Kodija for Gabby in the 11 shirt and that's a decent starting line-up...

[tomd2103]

Club have released the squad numbers

Squad list

1. Sam Johnstone
2. Ritchie De Laet
3. Neil Taylor
4. Chris Samba
5. James Chester
6. Glenn Whelan
7. Leandro Bacuna
8. Henri Lansbury
9. Scott Hogan
10. Jack Grealish
11. Gabriel Agbonlahor
13. Jed Steer
14. Conor Hourihane
15. Mile Jedinak
16. James Bree
17. Micah Richards
19. Andre Green
20. Birkir Bjarnason
21. Alan Hutton
22. Jonathan Kodjia
23. Jordan Amavi
24. Tommy Elphick
25. Gary Gardner
26. John Terry
27. Ahmed Elmohamady
31. Mark Bunn
37. Albert Adomah
44. Ross McCormack

Still a squad of 30 senior players.  I see the five in bold as ones who are currently surplus to requirements, but we would need to trim a further five to get the squad down to the number of senior players reportedly wanted by those in charge at VP.

[Ads]

Cissokho has now gone.

[paul_e]

Club have released the squad numbers

Squad list

1. Sam Johnstone
2. Ritchie De Laet
3. Neil Taylor
4. Chris Samba
5. James Chester
6. Glenn Whelan
7. Leandro Bacuna
8. Henri Lansbury
9. Scott Hogan
10. Jack Grealish
11. Gabriel Agbonlahor
13. Jed Steer
14. Conor Hourihane
15. Mile Jedinak
16. James Bree
17. Micah Richards
19. Andre Green
20. Birkir Bjarnason
21. Alan Hutton
22. Jonathan Kodjia
23. Jordan Amavi
24. Tommy Elphick
25. Gary Gardner
26. John Terry
27. Ahmed Elmohamady
31. Mark Bunn
37. Albert Adomah
44. Ross McCormack

Still a squad of 30 senior players.  I see the five in bold as ones who are currently surplus to requirements, but we would need to trim a further five to get the squad down to the number of senior players reportedly wanted by those in charge at VP.

As I've said before I'd let Bunn go, I don't see the point of him as 3rd choice and it's clear that he still wants to sell Amavi, so that's 23.  I think you'd then have to consider that he's probably counting Green and Bree in the 'kids' so down to 21.

I personally think that would be cutting a little too deep and we'd be very short on the left so if Amavi goes he'll need replacing and I'd like a senior left winger in the squad putting us back to 23-25 (with Bree and Green) and I think that's ok.

[tomd2103]

Club have released the squad numbers

Squad list

1. Sam Johnstone
2. Ritchie De Laet
3. Neil Taylor
4. Chris Samba
5. James Chester
6. Glenn Whelan
7. Leandro Bacuna
8. Henri Lansbury
9. Scott Hogan
10. Jack Grealish
11. Gabriel Agbonlahor
13. Jed Steer
14. Conor Hourihane
15. Mile Jedinak
16. James Bree
17. Micah Richards
19. Andre Green
20. Birkir Bjarnason
21. Alan Hutton
22. Jonathan Kodjia
23. Jordan Amavi
24. Tommy Elphick
25. Gary Gardner
26. John Terry
27. Ahmed Elmohamady
31. Mark Bunn
37. Albert Adomah
44. Ross McCormack

Still a squad of 30 senior players.  I see the five in bold as ones who are currently surplus to requirements, but we would need to trim a further five to get the squad down to the number of senior players reportedly wanted by those in charge at VP.

As I've said before I'd let Bunn go, I don't see the point of him as 3rd choice and it's clear that he still wants to sell Amavi, so that's 23.  I think you'd then have to consider that he's probably counting Green and Bree in the 'kids' so down to 21.

I personally think that would be cutting a little too deep and we'd be very short on the left so if Amavi goes he'll need replacing and I'd like a senior left winger in the squad putting us back to 23-25 (with Bree and Green) and I think that's ok.

I wouldn't be selling Amavi at this point either Paul unless a replacement left winger (who might be able to cover at left back) had been lined up. 

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Disappointed Whelan wasn't given the Number 10 shirt. It very much suited him against Watford and reminded me of great former midfield players that donned the shirt.

[Gareth]

Seems the FFP thing is getting used more and more in interviews by Bruce / Wyness etc - I wonder if it's a ploy to a) generate interest in our fringe players and b) plead a bit of poverty so we can make a bit of a splash with one decent fee signing before the deadline without being held to ransom.

I would hope 5/6 more will depart with perhaps 1 permanent & 1 more loan in & then its Tommy Mooney's job to get some of these academy lads out playing proper football - some of them like RHM / Davis / Toner / Suliman spells with league one clubs and the next batch like McKirdy / Doyle-Hayes / O'Hare with league two / national league sides - 1/2/3 month loans actually playing will do those lads the world of good.

[eamonn]

Where's RHM?

[villabear]

Cissokho has now gone.

He looks happy

[in exile]

Cissokho has now gone.

He looks happy

Not as happy as me seeing the news!

[villabear]

Cissokho has now gone.

He looks happy

Not as happy as me seeing the news!
[/quot

Cissokho has now gone.

He looks happy

Not as happy as me seeing the news!

Set you up there didn't I? I'll cross it and you nod it in!

[in exile]

Cissokho has now gone.

He looks happy

Not as happy as me seeing the news!
[/quot

Cissokho has now gone.

He looks happy

Not as happy as me seeing the news!

Set you up there didn't I? I'll cross it and you nod it in!

[RussellC]

Apparently we got 1.5m euros for Cissokho. That's a pretty amazing bit of business if so.

[PaulWinch again]

So what's that make us about £8 million in credit on transfer fees now?

[ozzjim]

About 10 I reckon. 6.5 on Vertout, 4 on Baker, 1.3 on Cissokho, 2.5 on Sanchez. Must be 10 ish in the black.