Summer Transfer Window Thread 15/16

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 10 Jul 2015 - 14:18

First topic message reminder :

Haha I dont worry, if hes any good he'll be gone in a season and if hes not he'll throw a strop when you're 16th and Steve has lost the plot.

by Guest Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 1:32

Apparently united have an agreement in place for pedro but can gaal wont sign off on the deal until the situation with di maria is resolved

by westisbest Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 8:31

Think Adebayor will do well.

We had a dire side with Benteke and he managed to do well.

Good thing about Adebayor is he has prem experience, so can help out the new signings.

Ok only pre season, but hearing good things about Amavi and Gueye.

Anyway lets hope we can beat Bournemouth in 10 days or i will never hear the end of it.

When the fixtures came out, we would have been one of the teams they would have been hoping to play.

Still cant believe they are in the prem.

Considering where they were six years ago.

by GSC Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 9:22

In other news, Mourinho called Benitez a crap manager and fat

by Guest Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 10:26

GSC wrote:In other news, Mourinho called Benitez a crap manager and fat

Not transfer related

Vlad Chiriches is joining Napoli, meanwhile Jordan Veretout of Nantes is flying to England to decide between joining Aston Villa or Leicester, as the Cambiasso replacement. Fee rumoured to be around £10m

by GSC Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 10:30

Stop being miserable, its entertaining.

by Azzy Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 11:21

Chiriches for £4.5m or James Chester for £8m? Rolling Eyes

I have had it with Jeremy Peace. Every summer he outprices the club to deter bidders, then splashes money on needless signings while ignoring our actual team needs. He needs to go, right now.

by Liam Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 12:51

On Chester, 8m is extremely overpriced but as a Welsh fan who's watched him over the last year or two, he's been a consistently good player for club and country. He reads the game well, is decent on the ball and a good age. Think you'll be surprised how well he'll do at west brom, but yes, 8m is incredibly overpriced. Hull have got 15m for Chester and Brady, not bad business there.

Hopeful we'll have pedro wrapped up at the end of the week. I'll be amazed and angry if we don't go for otamendi, who's top class and exactly the type of cb we need. Blind is nowhere near good enough to be a cb other than he's left footed, so it's easier to play lcb when In possession. He'll get torn in the prem against good strikers. Dot understand why we aren't playing jones and smelling together. They did well at the back end of the season.

by Guest Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 14:06

Steven Caulker joins Southampton on loan. Oh dear Ronald!

by Soldier_Of_Fortune Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 15:09

Caulker would walk straight into Newcastle's back line.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 15:14

Caulker isnt awful. Theres definitely a good player in there.

by NickisBHAFC Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 15:32

Good signing. He was mustard at Cardiff. QPR anyone would be awful for them.

by Guest Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 15:40

Caulker was abysmal last season, slow & ponderous. Massive drop in quality to Alderweireld

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 15:49

Solid defender, decent age, will benefit hugely from the settled company of someone like Fonte.

by Guest Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 20:43

and what we all knew was up from the get-go, Ramos has signed a new deal at Madrid. it was essentially dani alves take 2.

two interesting free transfers up for grabs in Yoann Gourcuff & Tranquillo Barnetta.

by Hammersmith harrier Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 20:44

All I can say is thank god for that, would have been an awful signing.

by Guest Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 22:25

LiamB wrote:two interesting free transfers up for grabs in Yoann Gourcuff & Tranquillo Barnetta.

He's just signed for Philadelphia Union in the MLS

by GSC Wed 29 Jul 2015 - 22:48

Must be why its interesting

by monty junior Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 10:15

Barnetta peaked young and hasn't done much for years!

Gourcuff was supposed to be the next Zidane when Lyon paid a fortune for him, completely stagnated! Probably end up in Turkey.

Talking of which Mario Gomez has moved to Besiktas, Fiorentina really haven't had much luck with injury prone strikers. He was a flop and Rossi is ruined.

by Roller_Coaster Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 11:08

Soldier_Of_Fortune wrote:Caulker would walk straight ~~into~~ through Newcastle's back line.

Fixed that for you.

Only a joke! Very Happy

by Fernando Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 11:41

Rudy Gestede having a medical at Villa after agreeing a 6m deal for the Blackburn Forward.

by westisbest Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 12:27

If so, thats him, Kozak, Ayew and possibly Adebayor as our forwards for this season.

Least there are numbers.

Wonder if that mans Robinson going to Ewood on season long loan.

by westisbest Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 12:29

Just read that we are linked with Berbatov.

Baker heavily linked with Burnley, lets concentrate on another defender Tim. my son.

by hornbloweroafc Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 12:48

We (Oldham) have signed David Dunn on a one year deal.

by Guest Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 15:21

Nando, those Llorente rumours to Arsenal true?

by Fernando Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 15:36

He was interested before he headed to Juve so wouldn't surprise me at all.

by **owen10ozzy** Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 19:08

Fernando wrote:Rudy Gestede having a medical at Villa after agreeing a 6m deal for the Blackburn Forward.

They will bloody budge for Villa but not for Boro....the buggers! May well scupper our efforts to bring in Rhodes now, unlikely they will want to shift there two top strikers in the same window...mind with crippling debt I live in hope! Come on Gibson get that cheque book out again!

by Guest Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 19:13

Yeah, I guess it's classic Wenger, should be upgrading on Giroud & instead, just signing a back-up option of a similar mould. Strange, if true.

Newcastle United confirm the sensational signing of Chancel Mbemba

Crystal Palace have agreed a fee for Connor Wickham

by westisbest Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 19:30

owen10ozzy wrote:
Fernando wrote:Rudy Gestede having a medical at Villa after agreeing a 6m deal for the Blackburn Forward.

They will bloody budge for Villa but not for Boro....the buggers! May well scupper our efforts to bring in Rhodes now, unlikely they will want to shift there two top strikers in the same window...mind with crippling debt I live in hope! Come on Gibson get that cheque book out again!

Premiership football, for him.

Although I don't actually think this is a signing we needed to make.

Assuming Adebayor does come, imagine he will be first choice, then either Ayew or Kozak.

If Berbatov does sign, think he may be a bit part player.

Think Gestede maybe down the pecking order.
Good to have numbers though.

by Fernando Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 19:37

Rudy is the closest thing to Benteke you've bought tbf scores a lot of headers.

by westisbest Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 19:55

Will be interesting to see how he makes the step up.

Player im probably most interested in seeing how he does is Kozak.
The new signings to, just that i like Kozak' hope he can stay injury free.

Done well in pre season.

by Guest Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 21:56

Westi, Jordan Veretout will have a medical at Aston Villa tomorrow.

by westisbest Thu 30 Jul 2015 - 22:27

Heard he's pertty good.

Another Jordan to join.

by jbeadlesbigrighthand Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 10:01

John wrote:Yeah, I guess it's classic Wenger, should be upgrading on Giroud & instead, just signing a back-up option of a similar mould. Strange, if true.

Newcastle United confirm the sensational signing of Chancel Mbemba

Crystal Palace have agreed a fee for Connor Wickham

Llorente really does seem an odd choice. He wouldn't give them anything Giroud doesn't already, and wouldn't be an upgrade. The only reason to buy him, then, is if Wenger feels that a Giroud-style player is indispensable to the way Arsenal play. Perhaps that so, but surely if anything, they want an alternative with a slightly better scoring record, rather than a worse one.

You also have to wonder what it would mean for the likes of Walcott and Welbeck, who would surely get less game time as a result. I would have thought that Llorente isn't a good enough player to make that worthwhile.

Incidentally, is there a single player who hasn't been linked with Arsenal this summer? So many of them seem so improbable. I think as soon as their board member mentioned the £200m every sports editor across the country rubbed their hands together and said "Right, that's the transfer window coverage sorted!"

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 14:42

Gestede done. Villa doing well this summer.

Heard Austin to Toon is all but done.

by Guest Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 15:58

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Heard Austin to Toon is all but done.

Not too bothered about Austin, seeing as already have Mitrovic & Cisse. Unless we sell Cisse for £10m to Turkey or the middle-east, I'd rather keep him & sack of signing Austin. Our priority is defensive acquisitions, so not entirely sure why we want to blow £15m on Austin & Ivan Toney.

by westisbest Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 16:18

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Gestede done. Villa doing well this summer.

Heard Austin to Toon is all but done.

And Veretout.

2 signings today.
Bid rejected from the Baggies for Lescot.

Just hope these signings settle in quick.

Forest tomorrow, give a few of them a run out again.

by **Mat** Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 17:36

Rickie Lambert now officially signed. Personally, I think this is a fantastic signing. Perfect foil for Saido. Not one for the future but for the here and now, and for around 3 million, really good business.

Looks like we're going for Marshall from Cardiff rather than Hennessey, which would suggest one of Fozzy or Myhill will be out the door come January.

Can't see Lescott going, seems we are in the market for another left-sided centre half come full back so wouldn't be at all surprised if that meant Olsson leaving. I imagine we're looking for two more wingers, one of them likely to be Sako I guess, a central midfielder and another forward if we can bin off Anichebe or Brown to someone desperate/stupid/blind.

by Liam Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 17:45

Ramos saga takes another turn. Cadena SR reporting nothing has been agreed in terms of a new contract and Ramos still wants the move to utd. Perez has apparently said if ramos goes then he has to go. Crazy story. Just going to have to wait and see. I seriously can't see us keeping De Gea as he's clearly desperate for the move.

by Guest Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 19:25

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Gestede done. Villa doing well this summer.

Not entirely sure. Amavi, Ayew, Gueye, Veretout all from Ligue 1, if this was Newcastle, pretty sure we'd be getting slated. Gestede unproven in the PL, Crespo relegated with Cordoba & Adebayor is just completely unpredictable. Be interesting to see how Sherwood can gel this team together, want him to do well & for Westi's sake, just not totally convinced.

Think Lambert will do a good job for WBA & offer something different to Saido. Surprised we haven't heard LiamB offer up his damning view of this acquisition.

by **Crimey** Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 19:31

Sad to Lambert go, but obvious he wasn't in plans for this season and not sure he was for last year either. Glad he got the move to Liverpool to complete the childhood dream, sure in the future he'll always be glad he did make the move. Think he'll be a good signing for WBA, he was underrated I feel by some last season considering his successes with Southampton.

Aston Villa are going to be a real unknown quantity next year and that can be in both the bad and the good way. They've lost their two key players and have signed a lot of unproven talent to replace them. That's always a risk but Sherwood has known to be a good motivator so maybe he can make it work. Still expect them to be in and around the relegation area though.

by westisbest Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 19:35

Cheers John.

Yeah I'm not getting carried away.
Its going to be a big step up for these guys.

The Crespo signing doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence.

Hopefully they will gel asap and we do well.
Who knows they even surprise us.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 20:54

Im really intrigued by them, and I'm happy to see they're spending the Benteke money and not banking it. Whatever happens, I think they'll be entirely more entertaining and the signings will be huge for positivity.

by westisbest Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 21:34

Hope your right Dolph.

I'm gonna be positive and say if not all, then most of them will do well.

Certainly exciting to see how they get on.

by **Hero** Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 21:47

Apart from Adebayour I reckon Villa have done some half decent business, lot of people think they're gonna struggle once more but I think they may well surprise a few.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 21:56

They've sold the core of their squad (which is hardly strong anyways) and replaced them with a bunch of unproven foreign signings.

Hardly a recipe for success in my eyes. A little similar to what we did the season we went down. I foresee another relegation battle on the horizon

by westisbest Fri 31 Jul 2015 - 22:10

We shall see. They need to settle in well fast.

Definitely don't see us going down.

If Sherwood can get them going like he did with Tekkers towards the end of the season and players like Cleverly than they should do well.

by Guest Sat 1 Aug 2015 - 8:40

GSC wrote:Must be why its interesting

I was just informing people of the availability of two well known free agents, if it didn't interest you, then you move on, but certainly don't give an antagonising response, in trying to belittle one's post, which you try & do on numerous occasions. At least my posts are transfer transfer related, unlike your boring & predictable one lined posts.

As for WBA, I was in the Bristol area & went to the Rovers friendly, Lambert looked decent & scored twice. Never said he was a poor player, just his age & the fact he's a short term fix, were my concerns.

Looks like Yann M'Vila is heading to Sunderland

by Guest Sat 1 Aug 2015 - 10:14

Liamb wrote:Looks like Yann M'Vila is heading to Sunderland

Apparently he's trashed some house he was renting & was reported to the police by the owner. He's also now bought an axe to protect himself from club staff, who are after him for not paying club fines, or something along those lines.

M'Vila has the talent, but he just seems another head case really.

by Guest Sat 1 Aug 2015 - 15:23

Roberto Soldado to Villareal

Leicester agree fee for Charles Aranguiz. Impressive player. They also have agreed a fee for Gokhan Inler from Napoli. That's good strengthening in central midfield.

by Hammersmith harrier Sun 2 Aug 2015 - 14:39

Di Maria set for his PSG medical today or tomorrow so can only assume we're fairly advanced in signing a replacement, most reports suggesting we want Pedro as well as one other.

Aranguiz looks set to snub Leicester in favour of Bayer Leverkusen which seems a more logical choice for a player of his proven international quality.

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