TKIZ's impossibly brilliant all new Transfer Rumours thread

[mighty_whites]

i'd have vaughan from pool, maybe take a punt on dj campbell as well, charlie adam is quality and would love to have him but transfer fee, wages and the fact he will end up at spurs or liverpool means we don't have a chance, id bring at least 2 strikers in hope one of em will be sturridge. Have a look at city if they want Cahill i'd ask bout boyata looked decent yday.
what do you think of chances of resigning Nico Anelka as he is the boll**ks, a shake up of the defence is needed with perhaps Al habsi as no. 1!!!!
I has been a shit season since playing Stoke in the semi's and to lose around £5 mill after dropping 8 places in the league is donkey dick need a right good shake up and confidence back, think if holden had stayed fit (thanks evans manc scum) it would have been different.

[HM Murdock]

I would like to see us sign Liam Ridgewell, if BCFC decide he can move on

IMHO he is a quality player

Some decent players in the sides that went down, it will be interesting to see who stays with their club for the championship and who wants Prem footy again

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

worth a pop surely

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What was it, PW? Dead link now.

[plymouth wanderer]

worth a pop surely

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 80,00.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What was it, PW? Dead link now.

sorry don't no what happened there it was working

apparently DJ Campbell has a clause in his contract were it allows him to leave for 1.25 mil cus pool got relagated

[Bruce Rioja]

I would like to see us sign Liam Ridgewell, if BCFC decide he can move on

IMHO he is a quality player

Hmmm. Known as Special Agent Ridgewell at St Andrew's. Sent by Villa to feck things up for them!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

apparently DJ Campbell has a clause in his contract were it allows him to leave for 1.25 mil cus pool got relagated

Really? Hmmm. That's slightly less than £100,000 per Premier League goal he's scored this season. You won't get that sort of ppg(pound per goal) very often... Wouldn't surprise me to see Coyle interested but it wouldn't surprise me to see others interested too...

[Lord Kangana]

Fulham (Johnson leaving) and Sunderland (Brucie being his ex-manager) are in pole position apparently.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Fulham (Johnson leaving) and Sunderland (Brucie being his ex-manager) are in pole position apparently.

Where's AJ going? I wonder how different history might have been had we managed to sign him? No Anelka, obviously, but he might have been less likely to leave when the going got sticky... but then, we wouldn't have got the Anelka money for Megson to rebuild the squad - not so much Elmo as Steinsson/Taylor/Cahill (the latter of whom will now create his own rebuilding budget)...

[Lord Kangana]

It didn't say, though I suspect its his knees being fooked.

I really believe, with the financial climate out there (and football outside the top 6 is equally affected as everyone else) that theres as much opportunity as disadvantage in having plenty of free team/squad places this summer. It might give us the chance to realign the wage bill, perhaps including far more performance-based incentives for incoming players. A large number of clubs will be looking to trim, and there'll be more players than places on the market. IMVHO its going to be a buyers market this summer.

And just how many games have Cohen, JLo, Gardner, JOB etc started for us in the last couple of seasons? And how positive has their impact been?

The very worst that can happen is we replace them with players who play a similarly low number of games

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I really believe, with the financial climate out there (and football outside the top 6 is equally affected as everyone else) that theres as much opportunity as disadvantage in having plenty of free team/squad places this summer. It might give us the chance to realign the wage bill, perhaps including far more performance-based incentives for incoming players. A large number of clubs will be looking to trim, and there'll be more players than places on the market. IMVHO its going to be a buyers market this summer.

Have just touched on a similar theme in the Elmo->Turkey thread.

[seanworth]

It didn't say, though I suspect its his knees being fooked.

I really believe, with the financial climate out there (and football outside the top 6 is equally affected as everyone else) that theres as much opportunity as disadvantage in having plenty of free team/squad places this summer. It might give us the chance to realign the wage bill, perhaps including far more performance-based incentives for incoming players. A large number of clubs will be looking to trim, and there'll be more players than places on the market. IMVHO its going to be a buyers market this summer.

And just how many games have Cohen, JLo, Gardner, JOB etc started for us in the last couple of seasons? And how positive has their impact been?

The very worst that can happen is we replace them with players who play a similarly low number of games

I agree. That is why I am quite positive going into this summer. Also think with Coyle we will have an easier time making signings than we have with past managers. What we did with Sturridge and Wilshere will make many players at the very least give us a second look whereas in the past they might have not bothered to even concider us.

[Lord Kangana]

Absolutely. I think 1-2 high quality young loan signings will be a good way of boosting the (hopefully) 3-5 good quality permanent signings, with maybe a couple of squad players towards the end of their careers, or perhaps in need of career reinvigoration.

[Bijou Bob]

I don't want to be the party killjoy, but it doesn't seem that anyone has considered that we may get a decent bid for Holden. The likes of Villa, Everton, Toon could all guarantee him a decent hike in wages. It's unlikely we'd let him go, but once a bid is in and a player's head is turned, there's not much that can be done. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see his agent making noises in the next few months.

God forbid

[Lord Kangana]

He's not back til september, isn't that right?

So, all things being equal, if they do take a gamble, I wouldn't be unhappy about making a decent amount on an injured player.

It wouldn't be ideal, admittedly. And it would have to be an offer we couldn't refuse.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

If it happened, it would not be his doing: he seems a model professional.

And if it happened, it would earn us a lot of money, as he's just signed a contract extension.

[Loyal White]

DJ Campbell seems a bit erratic in front of goal, but at £1.25m I think he'd be a good option for us.

Ridgewell - definitely not.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Interesting to read in The Guardian that most of Blackpool's players will now be on a big wage drop due to relegation clauses.

Evatt, however, is one of a group of Blackpool players who learnt before the match that the options on their contracts are being picked up, at Championship rates of pay – about 50% of their earnings this season. Others in that position include Gary Taylor-Fletcher, the scorer of Blackpool's finely worked second goal on Sunday, and Keith Southern, who could have put them ahead within 25 seconds of the kick-off.

Ian Holloway made no bones about it. The squad with which he took Blackpool into the top flight for the first time in 40 years, and which provided English football with a great deal of entertainment during their solitary season in the spotlight, is now about to break up.

League regulations meant that he had to tell them last week who would be staying and who would be going. "Common sense should have dictated that in the week of the biggest game of my life, I should have been able to tell them afterwards," he said. Financial considerations mean that Brett Ormerod and Richard Kingson, the reserve goalkeeper, are on their way out of the club, and those who are out of contract, he said, are unlikely to be interested in offers of reduced money.

"David Vaughan, Stephen Crainey, Matthew Gilks – I don't think they'll want to stay, because I think they can get better contracts at a higher level. And what about Charlie Adam? If we'd won today, I might have been able to offer Charlie a new contract and persuade him to stay. What's going to happen with him?"

Vaughan has been suggested as the kind of energetic midfielder we need...

[TKIZ!]

Vaughan would be a good shout

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Cardiff have released Jay Bothroyd and tricky right-winger Chris Burke "following an inability for all parties to agree suitable new terms"

[Lord Kangana]

Do we join the queue?