Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[Rudy Can't Fail]

How good is Butland? For £20m you could with one or two exceptions, sign almost any goalkeeper in the world.

[RussellC]

Stoke City have signed a new goalkeeper. Butland heading to either us or B'mouth. No disrespect but he is unlikely to choose  the Seasiders however I think we should not pay £20 m. Best to do a deal with  them and stand off Butland if they agree to transfer Mings for £1M in double quick time.

must be a few players we can throw in to get the cash side down?  Tishbola Lansbury or Green on loan

Bjarnason and Bree look to be surplus to requirements too.  Wonder if Smith will look to use either of those as part-exchanges in another deal...

[RussellC]

How good is Butland? For £20m you could with one or two exceptions, sign almost any goalkeeper in the world.

I think, in this day-and-age, it's about the market-rate for a 26 year old England squad regular. Given that the move also comes with certain guarantees (eg, we know he'll settle in the area, has Premiership experience, etc) it does seem about right.

[PaulWinch again]

How good is Butland? For £20m you could with one or two exceptions, sign almost any goalkeeper in the world.

I would doubt that, as insane as it is.

[LeeB]

How good is Butland? For £20m you could with one or two exceptions, sign almost any goalkeeper in the world.

I would doubt that, as insane as it is.

Yeah, Liverpool and Chelsea both paid £60m plus for babbiesp last summer

[LukeJames]

The fees have gone crazy since we have been gone, watching SSN and in the past 5 minutes the storys have been Rodri to Man City for £62m, N'Dombele to Spurs for £60m, Issa Diop to Man Utd for £60m.

I remember when Van Der Sar went to Fulham  for £7m and even  back then I thought it was too much for a goalkeeper, even though he was superb.

[ozzjim]

I think it is about the going rate. The bigger question for me is whether it is 20 million we should spend, or whether actually another holding mid/ winger/ left back/ striker would be a better way of splashing that kind of money

[ozzjim]

The fees have gone crazy since we have been gone, watching SSN and in the past 5 minutes the storys have been Rodri to Man City for £62m, N'Dombele to Spurs for £60m, Issa Diop to Man Utd for £60m.

I remember when Van Der Sar went to Fulham  for £7m and even  back then I thought it was too much for a goalkeeper, even though he was superb.

I thought Tim Flowers was over priced.

[KevinGage]

How good is Butland? For £20m you could with one or two exceptions, sign almost any goalkeeper in the world.

I've never been overly impressed, I must admit.

The English premium - for anyone even vaguely near the national squad.

Johnstone, Heaton or Pope, if we must go the Ingerland route.

[Ads]

He's better than all of them.

[ktvillan]

The Phillips is staying at Leeds comes from one of those Jackanory TeamTalk Twitter accounts, ran by a Leeds fan.

If we make an acceptable bid, he'll leave. Jack never had a choice to make as Spurs made a bid of £3m plus Onomah and then £25m post take over, both of which were obviously rejected.

Phillips has a chance to;

Play for a bigger club
Premier League football
Significantly increase his wages
Push for an England spot in a tournament year in a position England are weak in

Make a bid that Leeds accept and he will come.

My feelings exactly.

There's also the incentive of not having to play for a bunch of snarling Neanderthals in a tin pot shack of a stadium.

My mate is a Leeds fan and reckons Bielsa only agreed to stay on if assurances were given that certain players would not be sold - Phillips was the main one apparently. So I don't think he'll be coming here.

[Sexual Ealing]

The fees have gone crazy since we have been gone, watching SSN and in the past 5 minutes the storys have been Rodri to Man City for £62m , N'Dombele to Spurs for £60m, Issa Diop to Man Utd for £60m.

I remember when Van Der Sar went to Fulham  for £7m and even  back then I thought it was too much for a goalkeeper, even though he was superb.

Must be the second-most expensive Welshman ever after Bale.

[KevinGage]

The fees have gone crazy since we have been gone, watching SSN and in the past 5 minutes the storys have been Rodri to Man City for £62m

The ultimate Paddy Power marketing ploy.

[RussellC]

I think it is about the going rate. The bigger question for me is whether it is 20 million we should spend, or whether actually another holding mid/ winger/ left back/ striker would be a better way of splashing that kind of money

I might be wrong, but I get that impression that it won't be a case of either / or here. All the noises coming from the club (and media) suggest that the spending spree won't stop with Butland.

[OCD]

I think it is about the going rate. The bigger question for me is whether it is 20 million we should spend, or whether actually another holding mid/ winger/ left back/ striker would be a better way of splashing that kind of money

I might be wrong, but I get that impression that it won't be a case of either / or here. All the noises coming from the club (and media) suggest that the spending spree won't stop with Butland.

I imagine if money was tight, we would be happy with Steer as number 1.