Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[Toronto Villa]

As long as the third is a balls out flashy bastard that makes everybody go 'aye-aye' the Villa have turned up.

Isn’t Buendia a little like that? What I don’t want is us overspending to get a player who really wanted to play in Europe and based on the comments made by Purslow I don’t know that would be the target this season. If you look at the gap to the European spots and factor in the Grealish omission period and what we could have added in points I don’t think we need to go crazy just yet to bridge that gap.

[eamonn]

I never thought we'd see another Dwight in real claret and blue.

[Toronto Villa]

I never thought we'd see another Dwight in real claret and blue.

It would be like when we got the black Andy Gray.

[sickbeggar]

I'm seeing 50m mentioned. Madness.

[Ads]

I just don't see a 21 year old from Burnley, who may develop into a decent player, as being the sort of statement that makes Grealish want to stay. 2 goals in 36 games, one of them a poor cross against us that went in, isn't overly impressive either.

With 3 years left and Burnley probably wanting £40m, I just struggle to think that spending £80m on a maybe from Burnley and a Championship player is necessarily smart business.

[brontebilly]

Played the whole season for Cambridge, got promoted and was nominated for League Two Player Of The Year.

Not bad for 39. He seems like he was at the end of the road when we were being linked with him.

Cultured player. Would still be the only player capable of a probing forward pass in the Irish international team if he was still playing for them.

Yeah he was very good for Ireland whenever MON did play him. Brilliant goal against Sweden in the Euros that time. Pity he didn't take his career/conditioning a bit more seriously in his younger years, would have got 100 caps easy

[LeeB]

I never thought we'd see another Dwight in real claret and blue.

It would be like when we got the black Andy Gray.

I really liked him, but never in a million years did I think he'd go on to play for England after he left us.

[paul_e]

Most of the stories I can find linking us to McNeil are talking £40-50m. He's an ok player but breaking our transfer record to that degree and landing a winger with 7 goals goals in nearly 100 league games would be disappointing. For that money we really should be looking for someone who comes in as one of the best players in the team, not someone that I wouldn't see as an automatic starter.

[ChicagoLion]

Most of the stories I can find linking us to McNeil are talking £40-50m. He's an ok player but breaking our transfer record to that degree and landing a winger with 7 goals goals in nearly 100 league games would be disappointing. For that money we really should be looking for someone who comes in as one of the best players in the team, not someone that I wouldn't see as an automatic starter.

Agree, he is very one paced and I do not think he is lots better than what we have.
We need to sign players that will significantly improve the first 11.

[AV82EC]

Is he better than El Ghazi? From what I’ve seen not really a lot in it tbh. If this happens distinctly meh in my book.

[Sexual Ealing]

It seems too much of an 'obvious' signing to ring true to me. The kind of transfer that we've done countless times over the decades, with largely mediocre consequences. If we sign McNeil and Buendia, that's basically it in terms of our likely budget. My whelm would be at a low level.

[algy]

Yeah, I just can't see us spending £40m-£50m on an established-but-not-exceptional Premier League player.  We have a squad full of players like that already.

Buendia I can see as being more realistic, particularly if he's just got a year left on his contract ... you'd think we might be able to pick him up for somewhere in the £10m-£20m region.  I think that'd be a great bit of business - he's a tidy little player.

[chrisw1]

I can't see any way McNeil will go for £40m.  He's a decent player and will probably surprise a few people I think, but even so any more than £25m would feel steep to me.

I think Buendia is worth more and possibly has a higher ceiling ability wise.

@Algy - Buendia will be much more than £20m.  I would think there will be more than one club in for him and at that sort of level Norwich would probably just keep him.

[SamTheMouse]

Having read half a dozen pages of the main Norwich forum's thread on Buendia's potential transfer somewhere, it's basically identical to the Grealish thread when we got promoted. All "sell him to Atletico because I couldn't bear to see him play against us",  "he's better than anyone of his style in the Premier League" and "I feel sorry for Villa fans, being led into thinking they'd have a chance of signing him"#


Bring him in.

Norwich are the archetypal 'get promoted occasionally, act billy big bollocks' rancid second division fans.

Huh...I didn’t even know they had a football team in Norwich. Go figure

Something in those carrots that make them deluded 

I guess if you spend all your life somewhere so flat you lose perspective.

Point of order. As an alumnus of the school of hard knocks and the University of East Anglia, I can confirm that Norwich isn't flat. Like Rome, it is surrounded by seven hills. It undulates with the best of them.

I did not know this, but now I'm wondering if Death Cab For Cutie were actually singing about Norwich.

[Sexual Ealing]

Almost certainly they were.