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I like Gelson. Gets all over the pitch like you couldn't imagine breaking stuff up. In posession he distributes the ball well with short simple passes, nothing too overcomplicated. Very good player who is easy to overlook because he doesn't do anything too flash.

This man is just ridiculous. Flat out ridiculous. What a corosive irritant he is. Look slike they are going to resign Keane! Quite comedic

Pennant got it What a shame. Would have been awesome that.

I'm expecting to see a pig fly past my window any second now ... or at the very least a slice of bacon.

It's funny watching what is happening at Tottenham. It pretty much proves that they have potentially got rid of a class manager in Ramos for no reason as Harry's moves so far have pretty much confirmed that the problem was the players as many on here knew anyway. The number of times Berbatov and Keane, an outstanding pairing, bailed them out and papered over some serious cracks were too many to count. No surprise that they bombed immediately the two were sold.

Yikes!

I'll be surprised if we still get Onuoha having moved for Ebondo. If anything I think he would have been more of a right back option for us. If we get another CB I think it will be someone with a bit more experience.

If we go for him rather than Berra I would imagine it would be because we could do with another experienced CB. We've been very fortunate that Bassong has been so solid as we might have been in a far worse position had he not been. Bassong and Taylor are two young CBs we have on the books and so we could do with another older head in the ranks aside from Colo. Cacapa has pretty much been written off at this point.

Fred reminds me of Mido when he was younger. Really? Sounds good to me.

Exactly. 32 and coming of a pretty bad injury it seems. Habib's got another couple of years at right back at the very most. Besides Ebondo is still relatively young and just emerging onto the scene and so won't be demanding to start everygame right away I shouldn't think. It's a good balance.

What kind of striker is Fred? Haven't seen enough of him. Is it worth swapping Zoggy for him? I think we could do with another tallish striker. Ameobi is our only option right now. Smith will be going at some pointas he is pointless and Viduka is a blob of incompetence. Fred's goal scoring record is impressive, especially as he hasn't been played in the first team consistently at Lyon.

Its up there with the most needed seeing as Beye's out for another few months. Ah didn't realise he was going to be out for months. Not sure what will happen when Beye returns though. Squad depth will happen. We've been so starved of this phenomenon we can no longer fathom it it seems.

Not sure about the Robbie Keane link tbh. His wages would be pretty high and he is getting on a bit. Not sure he fits Mike Ashley's criteria for the young and sexy.

Kinnear looking for another Irish homey? Keane and Owen swap?

We've just been negotiating I think and exploring all options. We can't just go in and pay what is demanded right off the bat. It just doesn't work like that. It's the last week and so now we will hopefully move for the best deals we have found so far. Painstaking for us the fans but good for the club overall. I understand the problems with signing players. We've known the issues with the first team since before the season kicked off, we could have been a bit more pro active between the windows. Hence, leaving it late. True. However, the chaos that ensued between this window and the last probably interrupted the kind of preparation we should have had. At one point we had no manager and pretty much no owner.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Barton go also, with Meireles coming in.

We've just been negotiating I think and exploring all options. We can't just go in and pay what is demanded right off the bat. It just doesn't work like that. It's the last week and so now we will hopefully move for the best deals we have found so far. Painstaking for us the fans but good for the club overall.

:yikes: :yikes: 10m is not enough. I would have insisted on the original 14m. He's that valuable to us, and we know shitty can pay it. Nee fucker else is able to sell them their first choice keeper, as nee fucker else has a deputy as able as Harper. We could probably have squeezed more than £10 million out of them but there's one week to go in the window. If we have to get that money in to move for our own players then so be it. All in all £10 million for a keeper of his age is in no way a disaster, particularly as we have a very able deputy in place already and so won't need to go out and buy another one.

Johnson would be okay as one for further down the road. Basically, we should still sign a couple of other central midfielders if he is part of the deal.

We have some movement at last! Thank God.

I guess when nothing happens you'll be telling people to shut up and wait for the summer. Nope. Afraid not. No excuse if the team isn't improved upon by next week.

It is if they are being brought in for the first team and you want a bit of experience. Basically I don't see us going for some of the 28 - 30 year olds we have been linked with unless they are on free transfers.

Seems like the sort we would go for at the moment. Young and up and coming from a smaller league and so lower transfer fee and wages.

Things have been so quiet you just have to believe something is about to happen out of nowhere right? Big week for the club. Either way we will all no for sure where things stand with the current regime. Can't wait for this next week to be over tbh.

He's been linked with Arsenal too. Think that was Jan 2008. Maybe Kinnear had a look at him while scouting for Arsenal.