JoeShmoe

If we could get £10m for Ramirez and pay £9m for Benega i will lock my transfer committee thread as all will be forgiven

This x 100

Without jumping on a bandwagon I think England have messed up dropping Compton and moving Root up. Today was the perfect example of how in test cricket you see off the new ball and then bed in. Root >>Bairstow and would have been a good bet to get runs at 6. With Cook out of form at just the wrong time and Bairstow having glaring technical deficiencies you need a Compton type up top

But Flower and team England won't change it, too stubborn

I'm in, what's the code?

Fee might be accepted but whether a player wants to come here and personal terms can be agreed are other cases

These things are never easy

Was best player I saw at SMS last year but can't believe Chelsea will sell him , he is Mourinhos new Drogba

Leo Benitez @ benitez_leo 1h

Ever Banega: Valencia would be evaluating an offer from Southampton for 9.4 million euros for the midfielder tab

Please let this be true, would instantly be our best player. A mile better than Ramirez

Edgbaston all over again!

I love Cork as much as everyone else but Wanyama is a better player and will start ahead of him if we play the sane formation as last year

Where he will add more solidity is those games like Stoke away where we have a lead but get deeper and deeper and overrun in the last 30 mins. I can also see Cork coming on in those situations to give a midfield 3

We should be in for this bloke.

Definitely, at the very least enquiring. Would walk into our back 4

Targett not in that 25?

Who next for us then? And what more do we need?

 

Winger (Stoch) and striker (Damiao/Osvaldo) the priorities for me. Being greedy, I wouldn't say no to another quality CB as an upgrade on 1 of Fonte/Jos and some better cover at left & right backs.

 

Do we consider the Banega deal to be off now we've signed Wanyama?

I hope Banega isn't off, he's a tremendous player, will upgrade us hugely - he's that good

Roberto Soldado would be good maybe get a good deal for him and Banega

This

Norwich have made the best signings so far.

Agreed

.................Boruc

Clyne Lovren Yoshi Shaw

Morgan Wanyama

J Rod Banega Gaston

Damiao

Fixed it for you /-)

Have to say the tennis thee days is a mile better than that old serve volley crap

He's in Austria isn't he?

Either way sounds like the deal is bery close. Surely that rules out Banenga?

Two different players in our system i'd have thought. Wanyama would play next to Morgan with Banega the central AM

It does make sense, if Cardiff have pulled out and no-one else has come in his agents have nothing. NC for the win. Expect this to be done quickly now seeing as he's meant to play for Celtic at Cluj tomorrow and im guessing he hasn't travelled

So basically we've made bids for Damiao, Banega and Wanyama. Celtic have accepted so it's up to the player.The other two my guess the clubs/agents are sitting on them, leaking numbers to the press to drive up the price

This isnt happening. Player wont want to come

To be fair to Cortese he can only do so much, it's up to a player and his agent if they want to come and that's still a hard sell given were a bottom tier PL side

I do wonder if/why we're not in for lower tier players as well though, or if all our eggs are in the 'big signing' bracket. Hopefully we're doing both and building a better squad

So this one in, one out this week then, is it still likely :-)

Southampton are set to sign Basle duo Mohamed Salah and Valentin Stocked in a €16m deal.

 

Source: Blick

Yes please

Salah especially

After watching U20 I cant see that Bueno would be a target right now. Not in any way a finished product and wouldn´t come close to starting XI.

Indeed, everyone saying we need to buy players to improve the team, can't see this kid would even get in the first team

IF

 

We are to progress and improve then the scouting staff should be looking to buy players that are BETTER than Shaw, Cork, Morgan, SRL etc, ie players that make our EXISTING team the squad back up.

 

We bought squad quality players once before (Telfer, Delap et al) and while it got us into the top 10 for a season it left us with a load of dross when we needed more quality.

 

Oh and that means you need a plan because you cannot do that in one transfer window.

I know what you mean but we don't have the money to spend the millions that would entail. Just buying 3 or 4 better than what we have will cost £30-40m as we've seen with the 12m for Wanyama, 17m for Osvaldo, 20m for Damiao etc.

So some of these funds could be spent upgrading the second tier players like Fox who have to play because Shaw is 17-18 and wont last a season. No point having Damiao up front when Fox is costing you goals at the back because he's nowhere near good enough