Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[Villan For Life]

Reina signed on loan apparently

I think that’s a sensible bit of business

[SoccerHQ]

Reina deal agreed, 5 live.

Monday medical, loan for rest of the season with season's option if we stay up.

[PeterWithesShin]

Harsh on Nyland if Reina comes in and goes straight into the team. I also hope we've got deals to get rid of a few keepers as having 6 first team keepers is absolutely mental.

[enigma]

Gotta be honest, I'd be really disappointed if we bring Benteke back. He's clearly a busted flush.

We've needed another striker since the summer. All this time to work on it and this is the best they can come up with? What does Pitarch do exactly?

[JJ-AV]

Looks like Reina is coming on loan then. So any more signings will be coming in permanently.

So any centre forward we’ve spoken about is likely to come with a transfer fee and Premier League wage

[Matt C]

Kalinic will be on his way now I’d have thought.

[mcgrath_85]

I really hope the Reina deal getting secured hasn’t used up too much time and resources behind the scenes, which I suspect it has.

The number one priority should be players who can score goals to keep us in this league. 

Hopefully we can get that sorted soon too.

[PeterWithesShin]

Using up our second loan on a keeper concerns me considering our only available strikers at the moment are Indy and Cam, if we assume Kod is off.

[PaulWinch again]

Using up our second loan on a keeper concerns me considering our only available strikers at the moment are Indy and Cam, if we assume Kod is off.

Is it two loans globally or domestically?

[Lastfootstamper]

Is it only two loans permissible in total? I thought it was 2 allowed from PL clubs. My usual ignorance disclaimer applies.

[mcgrath_85]

The Reina thing is a strange one really. Seems somewhat unnecessary. It’s also concerning that in Deans Leicester post match interview, he seemed to know very little about it.

Makes we wonder how much he knew about Nakamba, Luiz and Wesley, but that’s another kettle of fish.

[tomd2103]

Harsh on Nyland if Reina comes in and goes straight into the team. I also hope we've got deals to get rid of a few keepers as having 6 first team keepers is absolutely mental.

Can't see Nyland being dropped on current form.  More like he will continue in the side, but we will have a bit of experience around if Nyland struggles at any point.

[The Edge]

Gotta be honest, I'd be really disappointed if we bring Benteke back. He's clearly a busted flush.

We've needed another striker since the summer. All this time to work on it and this is the best they can come up with? What does Pitarch do exactly?

"Benteke's clearly a busted flush"? That's harsh on the lad. He's had injuries and a loss of form but at 29 he's still fighting for a place in a very talented Belgium squad and he's looked a handfull for Palace in recent games. He's clearly struggling for goals but i think he could still be a more than useful addition to our squad right now. Especially when you look around at what a lack of options there is out there. I'd happily take him along with either Mitrovic or Bowen.
 

[Malandro]

Harsh on Nyland if Reina comes in and goes straight into the team. I also hope we've got deals to get rid of a few keepers as having 6 first team keepers is absolutely mental.

Can't see Nyland being dropped on current form.  More like he will continue in the side, but we will have a bit of experience around if Nyland struggles at any point.

I think you are mistaken.

[AsTallAsLions]

Unlike Heaton in summer - don't want Reina and don't see the point in it. We have Steer coming back from injury soon, who himself will have counted himself unlucky not to start the season as #1, Nyland who has now earned the shirt at least for the moment, Sarkic who was pulling up trees in Scotland by all accounts, and of course big experienced Tom back next year, inshallah.

They will probably all go on to prove me wrong now, but I think Nyland/Steer are good enough, and we don't need Reina.