Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[cdbearsfan]

Also worth noting that they play at the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadium, so have experience playing at a venue named after a brutal dictator. This should help them perform well in front of the Doug Ellis Stand.

[Sexual Ealing]

Also worth noting that they play at the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Stadium, so have experience playing at a venue named after a brutal dictator. This should help them perform well in front of the Doug Ellis Stand.

That's a very Radio 4 joke (as long as you raise the inflection so that it reaches its highest point at 'dictator', and then descends so that the lowest note at 'Ellis Stand' (CF, a Stewart Lee  TV bit from ages ago). I like Radio 4 jokes so I don't want to fight you on a tube.

[brian green]

Deadly is not really in the same league as Erdogan as a brutal tyrant.  You are 90 degrees amiss in your choice of stand.  Sir Robert Holte split his cook from scalp to neck with his sword for being late with his dinner.  He really was a bastard.

[Tuscans]

Apparently no serious interest in Diagne

[DrGonzo]

cutting!

[ozzjim]

Benrahma is the one I really hope we get before the deadline. Wide players are going to be vital this season.

After that if we get a striker great, if not then Kodjia, Davis and Big Wes it is until Jan.

[dave.woodhall]

Deadly is not really in the same league as Erdogan as a brutal tyrant.  You are 90 degrees amiss in your choice of stand.  Sir Robert Holte split his cook from scalp to neck with his sword for being late with his dinner.  He really was a bastard.

Thomas, and he was never convicted. He was found not guilty and asked not to do it again.

[Dogtanian]

One can only wonder what his reaction would be to leaving his seat in the Holte End five minutes before half time and still finding they’ve run out of chicken balti pies before he’s even within touching distance of the counter.

[exigo]

Deadly is not really in the same league as Erdogan as a brutal tyrant.  You are 90 degrees amiss in your choice of stand.  Sir Robert Holte split his cook from scalp to neck with his sword for being late with his dinner.  He really was a bastard.

He'd be furious to know it takes best part of half an hour to get a burger in there these days.

[itbrvilla]

Deadly is not really in the same league as Erdogan as a brutal tyrant.  You are 90 degrees amiss in your choice of stand.  Sir Robert Holte split his cook from scalp to neck with his sword for being late with his dinner.  He really was a bastard.

I misread that as 'split his cock...'! Not sure which is worse...

[Clampy]

Benrahma is the one I really hope we get before the deadline. Wide players are going to be vital this season.

After that if we get a striker great, if not then Kodjia, Davis and Big Wes it is until Jan.

I agree and it wouldn't surprise if that is what happens now. I'd be happy with that considering what we've managed to get done.

[sid1964]

Why was it when we were in the Championship and we signed a Premier League side player on loan we paid all his wages (Bolaise?) and yet with Hogan potentially going to Stoke on loan we are still paying most of his wages??.

Also with regards to our Midfield we will need better than Hourihane, watched him in Leipzieg on Saturday and he gave the ball away a fair few times, for me he does not have the athleticism to play the defensive midfield role or the ability to receive the ball in tight situations and not give the ball away when under pressure.

The other issue with regards to all our new signings, how long before 1 or 2 of them start to moan about not being in the team, I would imagine the likes of Luiz have been given a guarantee of starting games (he may not have got a work permit without those guarantee's), in January we may have a few wanting away.

[Dave]

Also with regards to our Midfield we will need better than Hourihane, watched him in Leipzieg on Saturday and he gave the ball away a fair few times

Presumably you also watched him score two of our three goals?

[sid1964]

i did watch him score 2 goals (1 was a free kick), it will be interesting to see how he does?

[mike]

I think Conor is like most of our signings, a good Championship player who will hopefully make it in the Premier League.