Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[frank black]

Reports that Palace have agreed £16m for Bowen. 

Frustrating if true.  FFP is a bastard.

Or maybe he isn't a target?

Or maybe we are in for Benteke but it depended on Palace getting the Bowen deal done?

That would be like grabbing the shittiest end of the the shit stick.

[AsTallAsLions]

Benni McCarthy is available.

[JJ-AV]

Piatek going to Hertha Berlin is a bit of a kick in the teeth

[Drummond]

The lack of any links 48 hours out is worrying. We need a striker, centre half and wide player potentially.

Alternatively it's great that we have no leaks

[AsTallAsLions]

Apparently we're in talks for David Selke from Hertha Berlin now.

[frank black]

Apparently we're in talks for David Selke from Hertha Berlin now.

Never heard of him, his goal record looks a bit mediocre and I assume this maybe a lazy journalist busy agent type link. They get Piatek and we get their non goal scoring striker...

[KevinGage]

Was highly rated when younger, but haven't seen much of him in recent years.

Decent in the air and can hold the ball up well, so would be a good option if we persist with one up top.

Re Bowen:  Looking at it objectively, Palace won't go down this season. We might. Odd to leave the Championship at the end of Jan just to end up there again a few months later.  Palace next year minus Saha = different story, of course.

[jwarry]

His clearly had injury problems according to wiki, so could be an uncut diamond

‘The following month, Selke suffered a metatarsal injury in training which was later diagnosed to be a bone-marrow edema, and was ruled out for a number of weeks

In July 2018, Selke suffered a collapsed lung which ruled him out of the start of the 2018–19’

[pauliewalnuts]

His clearly had injury problems according to wiki, so could be an uncut diamond

‘The following month, Selke suffered a metatarsal injury in training which was later diagnosed to be a bone-marrow edema, and was ruled out for a number of weeks

In July 2018, Selke suffered a collapsed lung which ruled him out of the start of the 2018–19’

Crikey.

When he gets injured, he does it properly. Collapsed lung?

[cdbearsfan]

And yet, even with a collapsed lung, he still scored more goals than Hogan.

[PeterWithesShin]

And yet, even with a collapsed lung, he still scored more goals than Hogan.

Eat my goal!

[Dante Lavelli]

Reading between the lines, my conclusion is that we are being restricted by FFP rules/advice. 

Both Piatek and Bowen leaving for sums less than speculated and to clubs arguably of a lesser status than Villa (certainly likely to pay less).  Similarly the one in one out nature of Samatta and Kodj leaving.

On that basis we might be lucky to get a loan.

[Damo70]

Sturridge scored 50 League goals in 116 League games at Liverpool which is fantastic.

On the other side of the coin out of a possible 280 games he played in 116 and missed 164.

[Dave]

Both Piatek and Bowen leaving for sums less than speculated and to clubs arguably of a lesser status than Villa (certainly likely to pay less).

Hertha have just had massive investment (by Bundesliga standards) and are desperate to splash some money to show how serious they are.

They're pretty likely to be able to outspend us right now.

[AsTallAsLions]

Dean refused to be drawn on names today when asked about Sturridge, of course, but he did say "look, ideally you want players who have proven they can play at the top level, which is the premier league".

Right. So Sturridge - or Benteke - then.