Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[ozzjim]

£50m on JWP and £15m on Dacoure would finish our window off very nicely indeed. We'd have strength in depth almost everywhere, with quality youth players pushing too.

[Stu]

Feel like El Ghazi could easily be the topic of one of the old 'Great Scapegoats of Our Time' articles in H&V.

[PeterWithe]

The next time football implodes in a financial crisis, paying £50m for JWP will be one of the deals used to highlight where ambition overtook responsibility

[edgysatsuma89]

I think it will highlight what you need to pay when someone has another 4 years left on their contract.

[sickbeggar]

The next time football implodes in a financial crisis, paying £50m for JWP a will be one of the deals used to highlight where ambition overtook responsibility

heh. init.

[villadelph]

The next time football implodes in a financial crisis, paying £50m for JWP a will be one of the deals used to highlight where ambition overtook responsibility

Football might implode, but NSWE wont.

[PeterWithe]

From what I read most of his best work is done without the ball, some players have skills you can’t really coach into them, doesn’t sound like the case here.

[Ian.]

Every year we all say the money being mentioned is too much and every year it goes up some more. Every year we all say it’s going to blow up but after what little I saw of that link regarding the shady side of football ownership I’m starting to think maybe soon it will all go tits up.

[Percy McCarthy]

The next time football implodes in a financial crisis, paying £50m for JWP a will be one of the deals used to highlight where ambition overtook responsibility

It’s the price of a cast-iron guarantee of really improving the team. And probably balanced by making a fairly valuable but inferior player in a similar position surplus to requirements.

[KRS]

Have we actually made another bid for JWP or are we just speculating that we have/might be?

[Sexual Ealing]

I've only seen him play against us, but would the lust for him be so strong if it wasn't for the free kicks against us? Obviously the free kicks are important, and would be an asset, but we have a middling midfielder who knows his way around a free kick and we seem to be rushing him out of the door.

Then again, I've not really been paying attention o JWP or Southampton.

[DrGonzo]

The Daily Star (YES AY!!) have us as 'in discussions' with Dacourre, and having been told by Southampton that JWP is 'not for sale'.  They have no quotes, or anything to back them up, any more than we do for making our predictions, it would appear.  I'd prefer Dacourre at 15m than JWP at 50.  Also if PSG are ready to throw players to the Lions (sic) then I'd still be interested in Rafinha in the same position.

[PeterWithe]

The next time football implodes in a financial crisis, paying £50m for JWP a will be one of the deals used to highlight where ambition overtook responsibility

It’s the price of a cast-iron guarantee of really improving the team. And probably balanced by making a fairly valuable but inferior player in a similar position surplus to requirements.

Why do you think he’s a guarantee of improvement?

I suppose I’m at ‘why can’t we coach an existing player’ to do that job. Or if we don’t have them, why not or why can’t we get a physically stronger player at a lower cost as we aren’t taking about a player with natural talent; we seem to be talking about an intelligent player with discipline

[ozzjim]

£42m for Odegaard would be a pretty big statement of ambition. It's what Arsenal are being quoted.

[oldtimernow]

£42m for Odegaard would be a pretty big statement of ambition. It's what Arsenal are being quoted.

go £45m for him.......almost just to piss the Gunners off again