Summer Transfer Window

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Sunderland are apparently on for will Buckley again this weekend. Another one from Brighton.

Also after Nacer Chadli from spurs and Jonas from Valencia - along with still trying to persuade fabio borini.

GSC wrote:Bayern have now signed Benatia according to Bild

I read he's away to sign a new contract at Roma!

The scramble around Europe for centre backs is a mystery;

Firstly we're reported to have a bid accepted for Benatia and he's flying in to agree terms and have a medical then he's apparently signing for Bayern with sources from Man Utd rejecting any interest on our behalf then reports suggest Bayern are interested in Godin.

Knowing Utd's luck in the transfer market recently they'll sign Bruno Alves or something.

We can offer you Yanga-Mbiwa, would be a solid option. Also, I hear Joe Kinnear is unemployed, think he'd work well with Woodward in securing those key deals that you need

Rojo to United with Nani going on loan to Lisbon. Could be done in days

4 year contract with an option for a 5th

GSC wrote:Norwich and Celtic have bids accepted for Cameron Jerome.

How many strikers do Norwich need

Well considering we have Grabban, Lafferty and Hooper (who is fat and injured) I'd say another option is needed. Jerome not prolific, but will cause issues in this league with his pace and power. 

Cuellar not too unhappy, decent backup option and adds experience to the defence. Needed another body.

Fer in the squad for the game tomorrow. No bid accepted according to Adams. Good stuff

What about Becciho Olly?

Really wanted us to sign Jerome.

Becchio has as much chance of making an impact this season as I do of pulling mila kunis. He's gone

Swap you Nani for him.

gazzyD wrote:Rojo to United with Nani going on loan to Lisbon. Could be done in days

4 year contract with an option for a 5th

Getting rid of Nani is good, really not convinced on Rojo. The signing doesn't actually solve anything really. Good wing back, not convinced he's a left sided centre back in a three though. Where that leaves Shaw is a ?

Hes not being signed to play Full/Wingback. Especially given Shaw cost twice as much.

Shaw-----------------------Valencia
----Rojo----Evans----Smalling------

looks awful in my opinion

Jones will play over Smalling IMO, and Rafael is likely ahead of Valencia when fit (!) but I agree it doesn't look great

A Benatia esque signing would go a long way but can't see it thanks to the clowns in charge

Mail Online reporting Godin to Bayern for 27m

Seems a lot

Best CB in Europe last year

is godin only 28!! he looks about 42!!!

Well at least that's someone in the door with Rojo.

Not sure he will solve that many problems but it's a start.

Fer to qpr for 10m according to radio Norfolk

Seems they came back with what we wanted

I heard 7m

That's what we rejected last time

Godin's an upgrade on Dante defensively but not sure he's technically comfortable on the ball or a good passer. He suited playing in a deep lying Atletico defence, whereby his lack of pace wasn't an issue. At Bayern, he'd be stepping up the pitch & would be asked to involve himself, like Boateng does.

£10m is being rumoured, not worth that much is Fer, but wouldn't surprise me to see QPR bidding that much.

Nastasic to Juve

Defenders' prices are clearly inflated at the moment due to a lack of quality, any defender who is slightly decent is then worth a lot more. Hence Luiz going for £50 million, Shaw for £30 million, Lovren for £20 million etc.

Still doesn't explain Luiz's fee!

GSC wrote:Nastasic to Juve

It's an odd one. I bet most football fans thought he was the missing piece of City's team but obviously not. Does that set Vidal up for his 80th medical now?

More details on the rojo deal. Obviously Nani has gone on a year loan, during which time United will still be his wages in full.

Di Maria on bench for Madrid tonight. Khedira doesnt even make squad, guessing the latter definately wont be there come close of transfer window

Don't quite understand why we didn't just give them Nani or up our offer, we're effectively paying £5mil over the course of a year for a player we don't want, can't sell and now can't play, seems stupid to me.

Who cares? The club finally got rid of Nani. I've rarely been more pleased with regards to a transfer.

Nobody was paying his near £100k a week, just be glad he's gone. Problem is, you've signed bad players & given them ridiculous contracts. Same will happen with Fellaini, he will go out on loan but you will be fitting the bill on wages.

I doubt nani is on 150k a week.

If he does well for sporting this year well be able to sell him.

He's on 90k a week, we've signed three good players who all improve our team John, too many are too quick to write them off just we've bought them.

Fellaini will only go out on loan if somebody is willing to pay his wages, if they're not there is no benefit to letting him go unless it's a makeweight which is unlikely.

Hammersmith harrier wrote:we've signed three good players who all improve our team John, too many are too quick to write them off just we've bought them.

I was talking about Nani/Fellaini's ridiculous wages & how difficult it would prove to sell them on permanently, so you'd continue to foot the bill. I didn't say anything about your new signings, think they are good acquisitions.

As for West Ham, please tell me they aren't signing Valeri Bojinov? Terrible, terrible, terrible.   

Best bit of transfer business all summer?

The Nodge holding onto Big John #hulluvaplaar

John wrote:
As for West Ham, please tell me they aren't signing Valeri Bojinov? Terrible, terrible, terrible.   

I dont understand it either. He'll be behind every one of our strikers in the pecking order. This is gonna be like when we signed Mido on a £1k per week deal.

And what we need is a ruddy centre back as we've got one who can play next week.

Does seem we might be in for Micah Richards in some form, loan or transfer

Ent wrote:Well at least that's someone in the door with Rojo.

Not sure he will solve that many problems but it's a start.

Looks good and the Argies usually cope with the physicality.

Think MU are in a pickle. If they sign Di Maria I assume they'll revert to a back 4. Which leaves the squad very unbalanced (you can only realistically pick 3 of Mata, RVP, Rooney, Januzay, Di Maria) and still short in central midfield.

Barcas appeal rejected, they will serve 2 transfer window bans starting in january.

So convenient that they signed players before this!

Been told Leroy had failed his medical at QPR...

Olly wrote:Been told Leroy had failed his medical at QPR...

He failed a medical at Everton aswell before signing for Nodge.

Fortunately, Norwich raise the bar when it comes to genetic defects.

I have heard that.

Mackays turned the Palace job down apparently.

United will pay all 5m of Nanis annual salary while hes on loan.

Good on Malky, can't blame the bloke for not wanting to see selhurst park on a regular basis. Time running out for palace.

The Leroy Fer deal has been completed.

Won't be a surprise to see Barcelona looking to bring in another big signing before the end of the window, 18 months is quite a long time to keep the same squad, although I have a feeling it will end up being reduced.

Pathetic that the hearing was delayed so that they could sign players in this window, were it a small club it would have been done and dusted months ago.

Leroy deal 8m from QPR rising to 10m and a sell on clause (although shouldn't imagine it's much tbh). Solid stuff

Jerome and Cuellar in. Again happy with that, solid championship signings

Harry Redknapp and transfers.

Apparently QPR much like us didn't take much notice of Leroy's knee failing the medical (Everton did). Of course he missed most of the second half of last season for us...

Seen a lot of Norwich fan moaning about Jerome. Need to wake up we ain't Prem no more, he's a good signing for this league. Adams is compiling a good plethora of signings this summer

Also Nathan ake on loan to soon be done