Transfer window nearly upon us

[Frogfish]

 

[StevieM]

I'm all for this plan of signing as many attacking players as possible to score so many goals it doesn't matter how many Mingey let's in.

 

[737Max]

Meanwhile, Varane is apparently available for 20m...

We'd ruin him inside of a month as well.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Oh, Muriel.

 

[tombrown]

Oh, Muriel.

The writing's on the wall.

 

[ILD]

You're terrible Muriel.

 

[ILD]

-Pretty sure that joke has been made before-

 

[Hansern]

Meanwhile, Varane is apparently available for 20m...

That sounds like BS mate. Real would be mad to sell him, but they did sell Di Maria so you never know..

 

[Jack D Rips]

Rumours that Origi is having an MRI scan on a groin injury in Lille today. Looks like he he's on his way to us.

 

[Halmeister]

We will do very little activity. I'd even be surprised if Origi comes back. Plus I'd be against that. Extremely unfair to pin our hopes on him.

 

[Roopy]

Yippee - this sounds like just the sort of thing to get us challenging for the title - a defender from New Zealand.

Does he play on the left hand side?

We could do with Shane Smeltz right now 😉

 

[LeTallecWiz]

The Daily Express: Borussia Dortmund preparing to let Ilkay Gundogan join Man Utd in £16m deal rather than lose on a free

The Guardian: Chelsea are ready to make an offer to Micah Richards, who is out of contract with Manchester City this summer..

Daily Star: MUFC target Varane wants to make Prem move.

Kramaric to sign for Leicester City today

Bordeaux president says that Yaya Sanogo will join the club on loan by Wednesday.

 

[Mystic]

The Guardian: Chelsea are ready to make an offer to Micah Richards, who is out of contract with Manchester City this summer..

If this is revenge for Frank Lampard, I don't think it'll work as planned.

 

[Hansern]

Roma close to signing Cech according to the Italian media.
If true, we should be all over that!

 

[ILD]

Roma close to signing Cech according to the Italian media.
If true, we should be all over that!

Back off Roma.
Some of our Fenway boys own a stake in Roma yeah? We should have called dibs.

 

[Mors]

Roma close to signing Cech according to the Italian media.
If true, we should be all over that!

Leaving Chelsea with 1 senior keeper? Can't see cech going anywhere now schwarzer has gone.

 

[Hansern]

Bony could be on his way to City for close to 30 mill £.

Should have signed him.

 

[Judge Jules]

Agreed. When the idea first surfaced, a number of posters said he wasn't good enough for us. I couldn't see it that way at all, and it would be interesting to know whether that's still their view.

 

[C/O]

Right lads, we have a lot of dams to check for poor @cloggypop.. There's no way he's taken this well

 

[Buddha]

I still don't think Bony would suit our style of play. He's not mobile enough.

 

[Mors]

Bony is a bit lazy this season from what I've seen of him, not sure he'd be much more of a fit than balotelli is currently, and 30mill is waaaaay over the odds for him, 20 was a stretch.

 

[rurikbird]

I still don't think Bony would suit our style of play. He's not mobile enough.

That's why we went and got Lambert and Balotelli.

 

[Hansern]

Had we offered the Balotelli money for Lacazette before the season started, Lyon would surley have sold him.
Shame.

 

[Buddha]

That's why we went and got Lambert and Balotelli.

I don't see your point. That's why they're not playing.

 

[Hansern]

Palace keen on Lambert acc to the Guardian

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Palace keen on Lambert acc to the Guardian

Makes a change from underage girls I suppose.

 

[ILD]

-Pretty sure that joke has been made before-

-Pretty sure that Gene has liked it before-

 

[refugee]

I still don't think Bony would suit our style of play. He's not mobile enough.

This was my argument at the time, and I still agree with it. However I was under the impression we might try and sign someone decent to replace Suarez and with the benefit of hindsight....

 

[Judge Jules]

I don't see your point. That's why they're not playing.

I think Rurik's point (with which I agree in part) is that, if we were going to go for a less mobile striker anyway, we might as well have gone for Bony and given ourselves more of a chance of getting something out of him. I'd add that he's a sight more mobile than either Balotelli or Lambert and TBH I'm no more convinced now than I was then that he wouldn't have suited us. Were he *that* static I couldn't really see Citeh being interested.

 

[i_rushie]

If Rodgers is intent on populating the squad with mobile attackers who can play through the middle or on the wings, then we should be looking again at Konoplyanka, whose contract expires in June.