Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[PeterWithe]

Saint-Maximin, cost them about £16m plus potential add-ons reportedly. He's an exciting player but lacks end product at the moment, similar to how Adama was. I always believe you can teach a player the end product part, harder to teach them to be exciting.

I made the same comparison at the match, he’s a talent but plays solely for himself

[paul_e]

He had some ability but I think AEG and Trez are both better players and we got them for little more than he cost.

[SoccerHQ]

Newcastle signed him for 25m.

Ah, bugger. My £2 million plus Hogan scheme might not entice them, then.

Send them Kodj instead.

Thought that Joenlinthon guy upfront was hopeless. I know Wes isn't the greatest striker around but to me he's shown much more than the Newcastle striker.

[cdbearsfan]

Yeah, I was sorry to see him go. Absolute rubbish.

[Holy Trinity]

2 names mentioned today by the same guy who told me we were looking at the aguero style striker towards the end of the window.

Dembele from Lyon

Morales from Rangers

He said he would be amazed if we didnt sign one or the other but aparently barring injuries we are only looking at strikers in january. Even if we sell sjm to Man United we wont be breaking the bank to replace him either.

I cant help think back to when city and Chelsea became rich and they went through the patch of signing footballing mercenaries before their league position started to attract better players and I think that's the more likely route we will be going down this winter/next summer.

Let's just hope whoever we sign keeps us up because at the moment I'm slightly worried and smith worries me a little too but I am seeing improvements in his management style

[OCD]

We've been linked with Morales before so there might be something in that.

[Risso]

He had some ability but I think AEG and Trez are both better players and we got them for little more than he cost.

El Ghazi has more end product, but Trezeguet has been nothing but a huge disappointment so far, in my opinion.  Not much to his game at all.

[DB]

TalkSport, Jesus wept, just said that McGinn and Grealish have been linked to a move away!!! Maybe last year they were, but we have a win on tv yesterday and they are already stirring it up.

[paul_e]

Dembele is a superb player, 100 goals before his 24th birthday shows the level he is at. He'd cost about £40m and would have quite a few offers though.

[Steve67]

TalkSport, Jesus wept, just said that McGinn and Grealish have been linked to a move away!!! Maybe last year they were, but we have a win on tv yesterday and they are already stirring it up.

Talkshite more like.  We won't get anywhere by selling our best players.  Besides, we don't have to sell and we have rich owners. 

[Three Spires Villa]

Den eke is a superb player, would love him at Villa xx

[Three Spires Villa]

Fat fingers, mobile phone don’t go well together, Dembele ha ha

[cdbearsfan]

Dembele sounds exciting. Not sure about Morales, think he would score a few goals but not sure about his link up play.

[Pete3206]

TalkSport, Jesus wept, just said that McGinn and Grealish have been linked to a move away!!! Maybe last year they were, but we have a win on tv yesterday and they are already stirring it up.

Links these days seem to be Tweets and and wishful thinking on fans forums. The asking price for these 2 will be astronomical.

[cdbearsfan]

We will likely hear a lot more of this nonsense in the run up to Sunday. Man U have always leaked these kind of "links" before their games.

Good news is that they paid nearly £300 million for Maguire, Wan-Bissaka and Pogba, so we could demand at least £8 trillion for either McGinn or Grealish. Let alone both.