Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[villabear]

From BBC Sport:

"Aston Villa and Newcastle United are keen on a January move for Le Havre forward Tino Kadewere, with Norwich City and Tottenham also interested in the 24-year-old Zimbabwe striker. (Football Insider)"

Hope he minds the windows.

I got it. Very good sir 👏👏👏 One of the top sledges.

[Dante Lavelli]

From BBC Sport:

"Aston Villa and Newcastle United are keen on a January move for Le Havre forward Tino Kadewere, with Norwich City and Tottenham also interested in the 24-year-old Zimbabwe striker. (Football Insider)"

Hope he minds the windows.

Looks and plays a bit like Tammy. £15m might be worth a punt but I thought we had already got Zimbabwe’s best player?!?

Small thing but looks comfortable with both his right and left foot and with his height he should be a handful in the air.

[mr underhill]

file under bullshit.

[ROBBO]

Watkins and Benrahma look no brainers. Both would suit us perfectly.

Maybe you have seen more of them than me but watching today Benrahma is no better than what we have got and Watkins has great positioning but would be one for later on, please tell me I'm wrong.

[JJ-AV]

I hope we sign Benteke. Maybe re-asses with Batshuayi later in the window as the price may drop when Chelsea's replacements in, he realises he's third choice and needs football. Suppose a loan somewhere is more likely then and he won't come here.

Similarly, getting to the final and 6 points from Brighton and Watford puts us in a stronger negotiating position. Which is also funny, and shows how reactionary and precarious football is.

Saying that, plenty of players on here that could help us kick on next season if we stay up: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/endendevertraege

Matic, Lallana and Fraser would be good in the 3-4-3 I think.

[Perthvillan]

We are still being linked with Gayle but I was watching highlights of Wolves v Newcastle and Gayle did a hamstring so he won't be going anywhere any time soon.

[mr underhill]

we're not signing anyone from the French second division for 15m, or Watkins and/or Benrahma from Brentford for a piss taking fee - not that they will sell now anyway. I also don't think for a moment that Benteke is on  our radar.

[Clampy]

You can see now why we removed the motto, "Prepared" from the club badge

In fairness, I don't think the club saw two long term injuries happening on the same day.

  I appreciate that Clampy but we've been short of forwards from the start of the season hence the lack of preparedness Cheers UTV

That's a fair point. I wonder if their targets changed when they knew the extent of Wesley's injury. What I mean is, maybe they were looking for a back up striker and now we need someone to come in and replace him. I don't know, I'm just guessing.

[Steve67]

we're not signing anyone from the French second division for 15m, or Watkins and/or Benrahma from Brentford for a piss taking fee - not that they will sell now anyway. I also don't think for a moment that Benteke is on  our radar.

I can't see us taking Benteke either.  I hope the owners push the boat out and 'do a Bent'.  This is becoming the most important signing of a generation due to where we are in the league.  I don't honestly know that much about Batshuayi but if he's any good, paying the money might just turn out to be the most important money they will spend whilst at Villa.

[john e]

I don’t mind Benteke but if he’s injured there’s no point

we need a striker to start playing straight away

[frank black]

I think we will get an experienced player (Just a loan) and maybe a cheaper younger “Punt” as the backup. I can’t imagine the Barca youngster is going to be the back up striker. So perhaps the Zimbabwe player is the extra one. We do not know what FFP restrictions we are working within.

[ozzjim]

We need 2 centre forwards and a winger. Benteke is apparently injured for a few weeks so utterly pointless. Talk in France that we are in for Slamini from Leicester as he isn't happy on loan at Monaco. As the experienced option on loan he might be a last resort. If the French lad is a long term target he might be worth bringing him in alongside a more experienced loan.

[andyh]

From BBC Sport:

"Aston Villa and Newcastle United are keen on a January move for Le Havre forward Tino Kadewere, with Norwich City and Tottenham also interested in the 24-year-old Zimbabwe striker. (Football Insider)"

Hope he minds the windows.

Looks and plays a bit like Tammy. £15m might be worth a punt but I thought we had already got Zimbabwe’s best player?!?

£15m is a punt??

Feckin hell....I’d have thought £1.5m might be considered a ‘punt’.
£15m is a considerable investment.

[Drummond]

Don't be so patronising.

ha ha I’m laughing by bollocks of reading that

Drumond calling someone else out for being patronising lots of kettles and pots come to mind
I do love you Drum bit that’s got to be a contender for ironic post of the year so far

Fuck off John

How about you both knock it off before we do it for you, you've both been here long enough to know this isn't tolerated, you can both consider it a final warning.

Final Warning. Crikey.

Please accept my humblest apologies. It won't happen again. Hopefully. If it does I'll consider myself banned.

[Stu]

Alan Nixon saying Milan are trying to generate an auction for that Piatek. Apparently we've bid €28m euros already (according to another tweeter, which I don't believe), but Milan want more than that.

Can't see this one happening tbh. Out of our league at this point.