2013 Summer Transfer Window Thread ......Continued

[Kenny]

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2013 Summer Transfer Window Thread
 by Dr Gregory House MD on Mon May 27, 2013 1:46 am
Now that the season has drawn to a close, I thought I'd put up a thread to discuss possible transfer business.

Rumours, Predictions, Hopes and Actualities all welcome here

[GSC]

Odds being cut just means alot of people are sticking cash on it, tis how bookies work.

[GSC]

Bull sux

[Fernando]

Liverpool are back in the race for Mkhitaryan provided they can find a buyer for Suarez

Shaktar want 30 million euro's Dortmund offering 25 at the moment

[Guest]

Kieran Dyer is set to sign for Norwich.

I wish him well in his match there.

How does he keep getting contracts?

No idea Hampo. It's even more baffling given his age.

[ncfc_Tooze]

I would love It, Love it if bridcutt signs for palace

[GSC]

Why wouldnt Bridcutt sign for Palace?

[NickisBHAFC]

Not sure why a Norwich fan would love a Brighton player signing for Palace, seems a bit strange, but hey.

Palace have been linked with Bridcutt, but ill be a bit shocked if they signed him as they already have a class player who plays in the same role as little Liam, Miles Jedinak. However if Palace have all this dosh, wouldn't put it past them to splash the cash for little liam.

I would like to see Bridcutt move to the Prem because he does deserve it, but we will be well up sh*t creak if he leaves! (Not saying we already are not!0

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Id love it too Nick. It would be hilarious. Every time you tried to get a chomp id ask you to brid-cutt it out.

Tidy little player though, should be a target for a few Prem clubs. Stoke were my pick, help give them some new blood and change the culture of their midfield a bit, but theres a few in the bottom half (I would count us in the equation but he just wouldnt get game time that he needs and we have young centre mid cover) that could pounce for him.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Love it Chris!

Bridcutt would also be a player I'd like to see end up here. Think he could do a good job for us.

In other Norwich news we've been linked with a loan move for Nick Powell today, which is something I would be very much for. No risk involved

[Guest]

Apparently, Joe Kinnear has taken holiday leave after a week in the job. Unbelievable. I guess the stress is taking its toll and our potential signings will now be going elsewhere. Worrying times.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Pardew should sign Douglas whilst Kinnear is away

[NickisBHAFC]

Have Newcastle signed anyone yet? Ill imagine Darren Bent will be clinched soon.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

The Holt to Wigan rumor seems to be picking up pace

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Very good signing. Owen Coyle looks like he has learned a lesson. His Bolton side were good with Davies in it, when he dropped him they lost the ability to mix it up and got found out.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

*It's only a rumor

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Would be a*

Although its been going round for awhile

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

If the rumor is correct and they are paying £4m for him, then I will be happy (not to see him leave, but with what we get for him)

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

BBC Cumbria Sport ‏@bbccumbriasport
Norwich striker Grant Holt will have a medical at Championship side Wigan on Monday after the two sides agreed a fee @Grantholt31 #football

Well I hope we know what we're doing. Will need to be replaced well.

[GSC]

He sucks

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

I'm talking more in a leader/experienced way than actually on the pitch, where he wouldn't be hard to replace admittedly

[GSC]

Who will show the youngsters the way by turning up overweight

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Great critical commentary. Think that signing is excellent for Wigan, his premier league record isn't even that bad. Got 15 in his first season.

[Nakatomi Plaza]

£4 million a fantastic deal for Norwich. The Canaries have gotten Holt's best years out of him, and sold him for a decent price. Hopefully the Wolf will hit the ground running for you, though I suspect Hughton's clearing the decks for another striker, possibly Hooper?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

£4 million a fantastic deal for Norwich. The Canaries have gotten Holt's best years out of him, and sold him for a decent price. Hopefully the Wolf will hit the ground running for you, though I suspect Hughton's clearing the decks for another striker, possibly Hooper?

Well it will leave us with only The Wolf and Becchio as strikers, so definately one will be coming in, I suspect two will. Would be surprised if one wasn't Hooper tbh

[GSC]

4m for Holt is on a par with Carroll

[Nakatomi Plaza]

£4 million a fantastic deal for Norwich. The Canaries have gotten Holt's best years out of him, and sold him for a decent price. Hopefully the Wolf will hit the ground running for you, though I suspect Hughton's clearing the decks for another striker, possibly Hooper?

Well it will leave us with only The Wolf and Becchio as strikers, so definately one will be coming in, I suspect two will. Would be surprised if one wasn't Hooper tbh

I read today that Burnley are selling Charlie Austin for £4.5 miilion, looks like he's close to joining Hull. I reckon he could be a good fit for Norwich.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Guess he'd take the first team football at Hull. 

Think Holt will, if played, score 15 goals next year. Id be backing it if I can find good odds

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Easy money Chris.

He'll be a good acquisition for Wigan. He'll score plenty for them

[NickisBHAFC]

Wigan looking a good bet for promotion next season, means no doubt Dave Whelan will find his way onto our screens again

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

david mcnally‏@davidmcnally62
“@jacknorwich: @davidmcnally62 can you give me a sneaky secret on how close we are to another signing?” quite close

Currently nursing a semi

[Holymiky]

Wigan looking a good bet for promotion next season, means no doubt Dave Whelan will find his way onto our screens again

I agree that Wigan look a good bet for promotion next season, however i'm pretty sure there are other teams who look good for promotion also - A couple of them teams i would say straight away are Leeds and Watford.

[Fernando]

Liverpool have apparently rejected a 30m offer for Luis Suarez from Arsenal 

Id say that would be to get Real Madrid moving with Higuain since their missing out on Cavani

[NickisBHAFC]

My 6 already im thinking

Wigan, Reading, Leeds, Watford, Forest and Bolton. No particular order.

[Holymiky]

I would agree with them Nick.

However i do think, and i might be wrong, that QPR will have a good chance, it seems like Harry Redknapp knows what type of player he wants and doesn't want at the club and knows how he is going to try and get QPR promoted. I think that if he builds the squad that he wants then i think QPR could be contenders for promotion also.

[NickisBHAFC]

I have just a funny feeling things will go from bad to worse at QPR, im not saying a Wolves, but i do think maybe a Blackburn type situation this season.

[Holymiky]

I have just a funny feeling things will go from bad to worse at QPR, im not saying a Wolves, but i do think maybe a Blackburn type situation this season.

I think that QPR will at least stay in the Championship this season. What is your opinion now on Brighton this season Nick? What do you think will happen and could happen?

[NickisBHAFC]

Think - Just a standard mid table finish, more development squad players being used

Could - Its just a complete mess and we end up being relegated. Garcia sacked.

[Fernando]

As much as Cherries irritates me Bournemouth could be one to watch with their moneybags

[Holymiky]

Questions for Arsenal fans and other fans of other teams too:

What do you think of the bid for Suarez? Would you welcome him to Arsenal?

[Guest]

It's certainly adventurous so you can't argue with the ambition they're showing for once

Suarez wouldn't go though, his problem isn't Liverpool, but england

[Guest]

As an Albion fan, here are my thoughts on Suarez:

- He was stitched up on the racism thing (guilty, but the way he was treated was wrong)
- He was stitched up on the biting incident (the length of the suspension was madness)
- He doesn't help himself with his 'simulation' and style of play (taking little kicks at people, little elbows etc)
- He's Liverpool's best player since Dalglish
- Despite that, they should sell him and re-invest in someone less risky
- He'd be a terrific buy for Arsenal
- Anything less than £50m is a bargain for whoever buys him
- I wouldn't want him at Albion because I don't like soap operas, but Arsenal have been one for the last 9 years anyway.

[Bull]

The length of the bite was not madness as he had done it before and been warned and had been given a ban in the dutch league for it i think it was 7 or 8 games, second offense is worse

[Guest]

Disciplinary history in another country is not relevant to the case here. When I was 17 I stole a bag of crisps from the canteen, if I stole a tea bag from the kitchen now should I get the crisps incident held against me?

The FA bungled that suspension. Terry got 4 games for being 'racist', when a court of law proved he wasn't. Yet Suarez has a nibble on someone, and he got 10 games. They picked on him because they found an opportunity to make themselves look good for once. But they went down in my estimation for it.

Brilliant footballer, brains of a mushy pea, he needs strong management and fair discipline. At the moment he's getting neither.

[Fernando]

Id be happy if he signed for us but i very much doubt it happens still think it's just to get RM moving over Higuain, Apparently Suarez has a 40m clause that he can talk to sides if that is bidded so could be worth trying to tempt him to stay in england

[MIG]

Suarez deserved everything he got for that bite. Its completely unacceptable behaviour for a human being, especially an adult and even more so a professional footballer, during a high profile match in front of millions of people.
He is a disgrace.
Cracking football player though.

[Fernando]

Well Van Persie was a bit of **** in holland and looked to be heading the same way in England so Wenger may have a decent effect on Suarez although im pretty sure he's got a couple of screws loose in his head

[Guest]

It's far more acceptable for a footballer to bite someone than it is for a news corporation to show footage of a ranting lunatic brandishing a bloody knife at 6pm on the news. My four year old takes the occasional bite out of me, do you think he's seen Suarez play football?

Suarez has a combative style. He puts in little kicks on the back of the legs. Elbows when jostling. A bite, maybe a squeeze of something, a poke here, a smack there. He plays the game like a CF from the 1980s. The reaction to the nibble he gave Ivanovic is scandalous, compared to the reaction to actual real-life criminals. Honest to God, one bite and he's a disgrace, what happened to our beautiful game?

[MIG]

Its not one bite and he's a disgrace. Its two bites, racism, constant dirty and coniving play on the pitch, including a handball on the line stopping a goal, getting sent off and then celebrating the resulting penalty miss like he's done something heroic and he's a disgrace.

[MIG]

Not sure why you would compare the bite to the knife attack on the news.
If I stabbed someone would my defence in court be, yes but judge stabbing someone is far more acceptable than raping, shooting and then eating someone so lets just forget it?

[Fernando]

He'd go well at Arsenal then everyone hates us anyway

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