January Transfer Window Thread - rumours and signings here

Not sure about King for Mido swap.

Although King probably will bring some attitude that we need does he have the experience we need and is he really gonna be an asset in a relegation fight ?
 
Newcastle United are set to table a £15m bid for Atalanta striker Sergio Floccari. (Sportmediaset 1110 GMT)

I'm always honest in my football knowledge...so who?

And since when did we have £15m to splash on a striker, and oh I don't know we need a defense and a creative mid


Newcastle pair Charles N'Zogbia and Andy Carroll have been involved in a furious training-ground bust-up and had to be dragged apart. (Various)

LMAO just LMAO, le sulk v craig david, just what we need
 
I don't think he's worth £15m personally, it might seem so in this inflated market, but he's never been proven outside of a Russian league for a long, tough season so he could easily flop, and if he isn't bought soon they'll have to let him go for next to nothing, I feel they're just being stubborn for the sake of it.
 
I won't be, apparently we have other targets hence the deadline we've set for Zenit to either take it or leave it.

£12m for a player who's un-proven in the Premiership, can't play in the CL and hasn't played since Nov so won't be match fit until Feb isn't a bad offer at all. I usually moan about Wenger being tight, but in this situation I see where he's coming from.
 
B1gbeard said:
The Arshavin deal seems dead in the water. In this case I'm happy that Arsenal are sticking to their guns. At what we offered he is worth a punt but a potential waste of money paying what they want for him.

With the recent run of results in the PL, I'm not expecting any signings before the deadline comes.
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PAz said:
I'm annoyed by it. We need an older, more experienced player in the team.

I think he'd fit nicely into our team.
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Aye you both me too. It is annoying that we're one of the sides in the EPL who so blatently need some fresh blood, yet only one stagnant story keeps re-occuring.

jakeke said:
I don't think he's worth £15m personally, it might seem so in this inflated market, but he's never been proven outside of a Russian league for a long, tough season so he could easily flop, and if he isn't bought soon they'll have to let him go for next to nothing, I feel they're just being stubborn for the sake of it.
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Yeap, I agree with this. They're just trying to fleece whoever wants to buy him which I suppose is fair enough on their part in these times.

I don't think he's worth 15m. I'd say around the £8m or £9m mark, which is where Hleb and Rosicky were approxiametely.

You're right he could flop. I mean he's played in an inferiour league, is off season. So he needs to get match fit - and then he'll need Wenger's "6 month adapation" period, which would possibly render him useless for this season. On that basis, it might have been an idea to pay that much for him in the summer. But deffo not now.
 
Irrespective of how good he is, Capello would probably still overlook him, as he does for the awesome Ashley Young, as Stewart Downing is clearly a better choice ffs!
 
da_mic_1530 said:
Newcastle United are set to table a £15m bid for Atalanta striker Sergio Floccari. (Sportmediaset 1110 GMT)

I'm always honest in my football knowledge...so who?
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A cracking striker. Really started to shine since he's seen more playing time.
Cant see him going Newcastle though tbh, not when Roma are interested too.
sandy10 said:
Irrespective of how good he is, Capello would probably still overlook him, as he does for the awesome Ashley Young, as Stewart Downing is clearly a better choice ffs!
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Capello probably has his reasons as to his choices that we dont know.
But regardless of them, he hasnt done too bad with his picks thus far. ;)

andy@moFo said:
Praying for Kuyt to move to Juve for £10million.
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Hope he doesnt leave Liverpool. He's a scouser through and through that fellow. Even has the hair and everything! lol.:p.
 
Anders0n said:
No he really could have left for £1.8m in 5 months :p
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17mil now, stay in the premiership, make an extra 20-30mil minimum next year. Pay 1.8mil in summer, get relegated this year, lose 30mil being in a crap league, lost robinho to a relegation clause of 5mil etc, etc, etc. Not to mention if they do get relegated he wouldn't join City in the summer.

Its not just black and white, and City might be 11th(i think) at the moment but they are 4 points off the bottom and no team below what, 8th, is going to be out of risk without playing seriously well till the end of the season.

Its worth overspending to stay up, without question. Defensive midfield Kompany hasn't been nearly good enough and they desparately need someone else as Hamann is embarassingly bad, he'd have a tough time in League 2 right now the way he's playing.

To be fair< Bridge, Jong and Bellamy are VAST improvements on Ball, Hamann and Vassell, I mean, they are all leagues above the 3 players they are replacing and just those 3 alone will make a huge difference to the quality of the squad.

As for Wilshire, you can't predict anything about him as he's so young. He's got that slight pudgey puppy fat look, which people tend to get before a growth spurt. He's so young he could easily go through a growth spurt shooting him up 6inches, completely changing the way he works, changing his low centre of mavity, slowing him down, putting massive weight on. he might become the next peter crouch or a good SWP. Its too early to judge, though the one thing is he has the football brain, he knows when to pass and how to put a great throughball in, his timing and thinking is spot on and he won't lose that.

But also remember kids going through growth spurts get, naturally weaker at first and very much more prone to injury as bones take a while to mature so if he does start to shoot up protecting him will be very important and will delay him getting ready for first team stuff. Don't want to rush him into the England setup either as most people don't react all that well to pressure and dissappointment.
 
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