Following on from the Gossip Column thread below and with countless rumours flying around already (if they ever stopped), it's about time we got the usual transfer rumours thread up and running.
I'll get the ball rolling with a few of our transfer rumours going around:
Carson looks set to make his move to Villa permenant, Villa will be paying another £8m on top of the £2m they paid for his loan fee which will make him Britains most expensive keeper. Would have rather he stayed but he needs to be playing reguarly and it isn't likely that he'll get in the side ahead of Reina any time soon and considering he only cost us around £700k its a great bit of business.
As well as Carson there are also rumours that Riise, Sissoko and Crouch could also be heading out the door (rumoured to be around £7m, £10m, £12m respectively). Similar to the Carson situation, in an ideal world I'd like them to stay but in the case of Riise and Sissoko we have several players ahead of them in the pecking order (Riise - Arbeloa and Aurelio, Sissoko - Gerrard, Alonso, Mascherano and possible Lucas too) and the money raised could be used better elsewhere. As for Crouch, you could make arguements for him to be starting alongside Torres but like the others the money we could get from him could buy us a more than capable replacement, also his performances this season have been pretty poor on the whole.
As for players coming in, we desperately need another CB and winger and have recently been linked with Argentinian defender Ezequiel Garay for somewhere in the region of £10m and if the players i've mentioned above where to go then im sure we'd be after another striker and left-back.
I'll get the ball rolling with a few of our transfer rumours going around:
Carson looks set to make his move to Villa permenant, Villa will be paying another £8m on top of the £2m they paid for his loan fee which will make him Britains most expensive keeper. Would have rather he stayed but he needs to be playing reguarly and it isn't likely that he'll get in the side ahead of Reina any time soon and considering he only cost us around £700k its a great bit of business.
As well as Carson there are also rumours that Riise, Sissoko and Crouch could also be heading out the door (rumoured to be around £7m, £10m, £12m respectively). Similar to the Carson situation, in an ideal world I'd like them to stay but in the case of Riise and Sissoko we have several players ahead of them in the pecking order (Riise - Arbeloa and Aurelio, Sissoko - Gerrard, Alonso, Mascherano and possible Lucas too) and the money raised could be used better elsewhere. As for Crouch, you could make arguements for him to be starting alongside Torres but like the others the money we could get from him could buy us a more than capable replacement, also his performances this season have been pretty poor on the whole.
As for players coming in, we desperately need another CB and winger and have recently been linked with Argentinian defender Ezequiel Garay for somewhere in the region of £10m and if the players i've mentioned above where to go then im sure we'd be after another striker and left-back.
, who's going to pay that exactly?
. I'm happy defensively but would like a left mid for when Rosicky is injured which seems to be quite a lot and another striker. With RvP a bit of a sicknote too i'm not filled with confidence relying on Adebayor and Eduardo.
