lovejoy Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Manchester United will make a record-breaking offer for Lyon's French striker Karim Benzema in a deal that could top £30m. (The People) Arsenal midfielder Alexander Hleb will join Barcelona this week in a £12m deal. (Sunday Mirror) Newcastle and Manchester City are battling it out for Deportivo La Coruna's £10m-rated defender Fabricio Coloccini. (The People) Arsene Wenger is ready to raid Hamburg for midfielder Piotr Trochowski to replace the departed Matthieu Flamini. (The People) Newcastle want to hijack Portsmouth's bid to sign Liverpool's Peter Crouch and will offer £8m for the England striker. (The People) Juande Ramos is planning a summer clearout at Tottenham with Paul Robinson, Darren Bent, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Gilberto, Younnes Kaboul, Adel Taarbet and Jamie O'Hara all set to be axed by the Spaniard. (Sunday Mirror) Spurs are confident of signing 16-year-old Crystal Palace midfielder John Bostock, with the fee likely to be decided by a tribunal. (The Sunday Times) Samuel Eto'o is believed to have asked Tottenham for an annual salary of £7.8m, three times more than any other player at White Hart Lane. (The Observer) The north London club will turn to Argentina striker Diego Milito if Dimitar Berbatov leaves the club. (The People) Spurs are also hoping to hijack Liverpool's bid for Blackburn winger David Bentley and are prepared to offer £7m plus Aaron Lennon and Hossam Ghaly. (The People) Sampdoria's £4m-rated Argentine defender Hugo Campagnaro is wanted by both Tottenham and Aston Villa. (The People) Fulham manager Roy Hodgson is considering a move for Palermo midfielder Mark Bresciano. (The Sunday Times) Martin O'Neill has made a £7m bid for Newcastle's James Milner and is also keen to bring Greek right-back Giorkas Seitaridis to Aston Villa. (The People) Djbrill Cisse could return to the Premier League after being left out of France's Euro 2008 squad. Newcastle, Blackburn and West Ham are in the running. (Sunday Express) Hull want Portsmouth's David Nugent who is available for around £3m. (The People) Rangers are lining up a bid for West Brom midfielder Jonathan Greening. (The People) Newcastle are ready to snap-up highly-rated Carlisle goalkeeper Kieran Westwood and is also looking at the club's teenage striker Gary Madine. (The People) Michael Mifsud looks set to leave Coventry with Sunderland, Rangers and Birmingham all interested in the £2m-rated striker. (The People) West Ham defender Anton Ferdinand is set for a £6m move across London to join Tottenham. (Various) Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill is lining up a £3m swoop for Crystal Palace youngster Sean Scannell. (Sunday Mirror) Queens Park Rangers are targeting an ambitious move for Aston Villa striker Marlon Harewood and want to pair him with West Ham's Bobby Zamora. (Sunday Mirror) QPR are also planning to complete a Premier League hat-trick with the signing of Spurs defender Anthony Gardner. (Sunday Mirror) Championship new boys Swansea City have been told they must splash out £235,000 to sign 30-year-old Granada striker Gorka Pintado. (News of the World) Back to top OTHER GOSSIP Arsene Wenger will leave Arsenal when his contract expires in 2011 to become president of French side Paris St Germain. (Sunday Telegraph) Newcastle's players fear Kevin Keegan could quit St James' Park after being told he must trim about £10m off the club's wage bill to fund new players. (Sunday Mirror) Manchester City have made the first move to persuade Mark Hughes to quit Blackburn, offering the Welshman £3m-a-year to move to Eastlands. (Mail on Sunday) However, Brazil legend Zico has emerged as a strong favourite to replace Sven-Goran Eriksson in Manchester. (News of the World) Back to top AND FINALLY Liverpool are officially the best team in Europe. The Anfield club top the official Uefa rankings that are based on European performances over the last five years. AC Milan are a point behind in second, Chelsea make into third while European champions Manchester United only make it to seventh. (Sunday Express) Department store Selfridges is launching a crystal-studded football table to celebrate Manchester United's double winning season. Just 20 of the bespoke tables, that each boast 150,000 red and black crystals, will be available and will set you back a mere £70,000. (Sunday Mirror) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Never seen much of Fabricio Coloccini anyone know what he is like? Dont want Crouch either Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Petay Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 F-ing ace would be a very very good buy. He is a tough as nails defence leader. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 The People ffs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 The People always seem to have a duty to write something about every PL Club, even if they don't have any info (apparently). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShearMagic Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Coloccini is good from the limited times I've seen him. 7m for Milner too Villa are fucking obsessed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 said it before, get crouch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nufc_geordie Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Would certainly take crouch to replace Viduka and Coloccinni alongside Faye in centre half would be an improvement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto2005 Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Crouch? No tar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_69 Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 I don't really get the anti-Crouch brigade tbh. He's scored plenty of goals in the Premier League, the Champions League and at Interntional level, and at times he's unplayable. It's a bit of a no-brainer for me this one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowndsy Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 i would have crouch, i also dont understand the anti crouch brigade. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCormick Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 I don't really get the anti-Crouch brigade tbh. He's scored plenty of goals in the Premier League, the Champions League and at Interntional level, and at times he's unplayable. It's a bit of a no-brainer for me this one. Its because he'd look abyssmal in vertical stripes. But in all seriousness i wouldnt be thrilled or devastated if signed him, hes a good target-man and for around 8 million i think he'd be a solid, if unspectacular, buy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 i would have crouch, i also dont understand the anti crouch brigade. based on his inconsistency of a few seasons ago imo in the last two he's looked sharp every time i've seen him and is good at exactly the things we need a player to do in the viduka role of 3 up top Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkwdavis2001 Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Yep, same for me - The Bean Pole would be a great signing IMO! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MagicNumber9 Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 i would have crouch, i also dont understand the anti crouch brigade. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 I'd take him. Seems to have a decent injury record as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCormick Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 The problem with signing crouch is that we know what we're getting, it's not exactly an inspirational indication of a club moving forwards, nor is it taking a calculated risk on an highly-rated youtube-tastic foreigner (which is always uber exciting imo). Basically its just boring, id much prefer we signed a player like gomis despite the fact that i've seen him play only a handful of games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 he also scores a couple of screamers a season, which, given whats happened with oba at nufc, would see him idolised instantly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 The problem with signing crouch is that we know what we're getting, it's not exactly an inspirational indication of a club moving forwards, nor is it taking a calculated risk on an highly-rated youtube-tastic foreigner (which is always uber exciting imo). Basically its just boring, id much prefer we signed a player like gomis despite the fact that i've seen him play only a handful of games. Aye, but maybe that's where we've been going wrong... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 I think he survives by hardly ever getting a game. If he played regularly he would get smashed up by premiership centre halves and spend the best part of his time injured. Leave well alone I say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 The problem with signing crouch is that we know what we're getting, it's not exactly an inspirational indication of a club moving forwards, nor is it taking a calculated risk on an highly-rated youtube-tastic foreigner (which is always uber exciting imo). Basically its just boring, id much prefer we signed a player like gomis despite the fact that i've seen him play only a handful of games. while i see the romantic sentiment of going for the unknown wonder kid, its been a good few seasons since we could afford to take that option imo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 I think he survives by hardly ever getting a game. If he played regularly he would get smashed up by premiership centre halves and spend the best part of his time injured. Leave well alone I say. have to admit this is my only concern about him, i wonder if he's benfitted from only getting a cameo role, although signing someone who still has that much desire to perform when he's constantly snubbed sounds good Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovejoy Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 sunday sun claims we are after kapo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Crouch would look farcical in vertical stripes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Crouch would look farcical in vertical stripes. he already looks farcical tbh, have you seen how long his hands are? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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